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Query: EC:1.3.5.1 (succinate dehydrogenase)
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The oxidation of formaldehyde by rat liver mitochondria in the presence of 50 mM phosphate was enhanced 2-fold by exogenous NAD+. Absolute requirement of NAD+ for formaldehyde oxidation was demonstrated by depleting the mitochondria of their NAD+ content (4.6 nmol/mg of protein), followed by reincorporation of the NAD+ into the depleted mitochondria. Aldehyde (formaldehyde) dehydrogenase activity was completely abolished in the depleted mitochondria, but the enzyme activity was restored to control levels following reincorporation of the pyridine nucleotide. Phosphate stimulation of formaldehyde oxidation could not be explained fully by the phosphate-induced swelling which enhances membrane permeability to NAD+, since stimulation of the enzyme activity by increased phosphate concentrations was still observed in the absence of exogenous NAD+. The Km for formaldehyde oxidation by the mitochondria was found to be 0.38 nM, a value similar to that obtained with varying concentrations of NAD+; both Vmax values were very similar, giving a value of 70 to 80 nmol/min/mg of protein. The pH optimum for the mitochondrial enzyme was 8.0. Inhibition of the enzyme activity by anaerobiosis was apparently due to the inability of the respiratory chain to oxidize the generated NADH. The inhibition of mitochondrial formaldehyde oxidation by succinate was found to be due to a lowering of the NAD+ level in the mitochondria. Succinate also inhibited acetaldehyde oxidation by the mitochondria. Malonate, a competitive inhibitor of succinic dehydrogenase, blocked the inhibitory effect of succinate. The respiratory chain inhibitors, rotenone, and antimycin A plus succinate, strongly inhibited formaldehyde oxidation by apparently the same mechanism, although the crude enzyme preparation (freed from the membrane) was slightly sensitive to rotenone. The mitochondria were subfractionated, and 85% of the enzyme activity was found in the inner membrane fraction (mitoplast). Furthermore, separation into inner membrane and matrix components indicated a distribution of aldehyde dehydrogenase activity similar to malic dehydrogenase.
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PMID:Biochemical properties of rat liver mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase with respect to oxidation of formaldehyde. 17 56

Various mutant strains of Bacillus subtilis were used to study the induction and regulation of the transport of tricarboxylic acid cycle C4-dicarboxylates. L-Malate was the only physiological inducer and bromosuccinate was a gratuitous inducer of dicarboxylic acid transport in a succinic dehydrogenase deficient mutant. Several mutants were isolated with alterations in the ability to transport dicarboxylic acids. One of these (WK6) was defective in the ability to take up succinate when grown on glutamate minimal medium, whereas another (WK1) was inducible to high levels by extremely low levels of L-malate. Alpha-Ketoglutarate dehydrogenase mutants were unable to take up dicarboxylates because of repression of transport by glutamate and (or) alpha-ketoglutarate. A mutation which resulted in increased levels of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase partially overcame this inhibition. Glutamate did not prevent the induction of dicarboxylic acid transport by L-malate in succinic dehydrogenase mutants but was markedly inhibitory in alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase mutants.
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PMID:Regulation of C4-dicarboxylic acid transport in Bacillus subtilis. 80 42

Malonic acid showed a protective action on rats in acute hypoxic hypoxia. The antihypoxic effect of this compound is unassociated with its action on succinate dehydrogenase and may be mediated through the changes in hormonal metabolic regulation.
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PMID:[The antihypoxic action of malonic acid]. 130 81

Medium chain length dicarboxylic acids (DA) from C8 to C13 are competitive inhibitors of tyrosinase in vitro. The introduction of electron acceptor groups or electron donor groups into the 2 and/or the 8 position of the molecule enhances or reduces respectively the inhibitory effects of DA. In addition to tyrosinase, DA can reversibly inhibit thioredoxin reductase, NADPH cytochrome P450 reductase, NADH dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase and H2CoQ-Cytochrome C oxidoreductase. Among DA, azelaic acid (AA, C9 dicarboxylic acid) is extensively used because: 1) it is much cheaper than other DA; 2) it has no apparent toxic or teratogenic or mutagenic effect; 3) when administered perorally to humans, at the same concentrations as the other DA, it reaches much higher serum and urinary concentrations. Serum concentrations and urinary excretion obtained with intravenous or intra-arterial infusions of AA are significantly higher than those achievable by oral administration. Together with AA, variable amounts of its catabolites, mainly pimelic acid, are found in serum and urine, indicating an involvement of mitochondrial beta-oxidative enzymes. Short-lived serum levels of AA follow a single 1 h intravenous infusion, but prolonging the period of infusion with successive doses of similar concentration produces sustained higher levels during the period of administration. These levels are consistent with the concentrations of AA capable of producing a cytotoxic effect on tumoral cells in vitro. AA is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier: its concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid is normally in the range of 2-5% of the values in the serum.
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PMID:Azelaic acid--biochemistry and metabolism. 250 63

Trypanosoma brucei procyclic trypomastigotes were made permeable by using digitonin (0-70 micrograms/mg of protein). This procedure allowed exposure of coupled mitochondria to different substrates. Only succinate and glycerol phosphate (but not NADH-dependent substrates) were capable of stimulating oxygen consumption. Fluorescence studies on intact cells indicated that addition of succinate stimulates NAD(P)H oxidation, contrary to what happens in mammalian mitochondria. Addition of malonate, an inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase, stimulated NAD(P)H reduction. Malonate also inhibited intact-cell respiration and motility, both of which were restored by further addition of succinate. Experiments carried out with isolated mitochondrial membranes showed that, although the electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c was inhibitable by antimycin, NADH-cytochrome c reductase was antimycin-insensitive. We postulate that the NADH-ubiquinone segment of the respiratory chain is replaced by NADH-fumarate reductase, which reoxidizes the mitochondrial NADH and in turn generates succinate for the respiratory chain. This hypothesis is further supported by the inhibitory effect on cell growth and respiration of 3-methoxyphenylacetic acid, an inhibitor of the NADH-fumarate reductase of T. brucei.
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PMID:The role of succinate in the respiratory chain of Trypanosoma brucei procyclic trypomastigotes. 271 53

Malonate is an effective inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase in preparations from brain and other organs. This property was reexamined in isolated rat brain mitochondria during incubation with L-glutamate. The biosynthesis of aspartate was determined by a standard spectrofluorometric method and a radiometric technique. The latter was suitable for aspartate assay after very brief incubations of mitochondria with glutamate. At a concentration of 1 mM or higher, malonate totally inhibited aspartate biosynthesis. At 0.2 mM, the inhibitory effect was still present. It is thus possible that the natural concentration of free malonate in adult rat brain of 192 nmol/g wet weight exerts an effect on citric acid cycle reactions in vivo. The inhibition of glutamate utilization by malonate was readily overcome by the addition of malate which provided oxaloacetate for the transamination of glutamate. The reaction was accompanied by the accumulation of 2-oxoglutarate. The metabolism of glutamate was also blocked by inclusion of arsenite and gamma-vinyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid but again added malate allowed transamination to resume. When arsenite and gamma-vinyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid were present, the role of malonate as an inhibitor of malate entry into the mitochondrial interior could be determined without considering the inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase. The apparent Km and Vmax values for uninhibited malate entry were 0.01 mM and 100 nmol/mg protein/min, respectively. Malonate was a competitive inhibitor of malate transport (Ki = 0.75 mM).
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PMID:Effect of free malonate on the utilization of glutamate by rat brain mitochondria. 288 82

The composition of the macrotetrolide complex was found to be strongly dependent on the conditions of the Streptomyces chrysomallus v. macrotetrolidi cultivation and could be varied by including in the medium 0.2% of organic acids, precursors of macrotetrolides, such as acetic, propionic and succinic. Acetate caused an increase of the nonactin/monactin ratio, and no other homologues were detected. On the contrary, propionate and succinate produced a drop in the nonactin synthesis, which was accompanied by a rise in the amount of the higher homologues. The composition of the macrtetrolide mixture can also be changed by introducing in the cultivation medium specific inhibitors (100-200 micrograms/ml) such as malonate, cobalamin analogue, sulfadimesin. Malonate, an inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase, increased the biosynthesis of higher ethylated homologues. Inhibition of methylmalonate mutase resulted in an increased yield of the methylated nonactin homologue and in a decreased yield of dinactin. In this case no other homologues were produced. The inhibitor of transmethylation, sulfadimesin, had no effect on the biosynthesis and composition of the macrotetralide mixture.
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PMID:[Directed synthesis of macrotetrolides]. 344 14

The transport of the tricarboxylic acid cycle C(4)-dicarboxylic acids was studied in both the wild-type strain and tricarboxylic acid cycle mutants of Bacillus subtilis. Active transport of malate, fumarate, and succinate was found to be inducible by these dicarboxylic acids or by precursors to them, whereas glucose or closely related metabolites catabolite-repressed their uptake. l-Malate was found to be the best dicarboxylic acid transport inducer in succinic dehydrogenase, fumarase, and malic dehydrogenase mutants. Succinate and fumarate are accumulated over 100-fold in succinic dehydrogenase and fumarase mutants, respectively, whereas mutants lacking malate dehydrogenase were unable to accumulate significant quantities of the C(4)-dicarboxylic acids. The stereospecificity of this transport system was studied from a comparison of the rates of competitive inhibition of both succinate uptake and efflux in a succinate dehydrogenase mutant by utilizing thirty dicarboxylic acid analogues. The system was specific for the C(4)-dicarboxylic acids of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, neither citrate nor alpha-ketoglutarate were effective competitive inhibitors. Of a wide variety of metabolic inhibitors tested, inhibiors of oxidative phosphorylation and of the formation of proton gradients were the most potent inhibitors of transport. From the kinetics of dicarboxylic acid transport (K(m) approximately 10(-4) M for succinate or fumarate in succinic acid dehydrogenase and fumarase mutants) and from the competitive inhibition studies, it was concluded that an inducible dicarboxylic acid transport system mediates the entry of malate, fumarate, or succinate into B. subtilis. Mutants devoid of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase were shown to accumulate both alpha-ketoglutarate and glutamate, and these metabolites subsequently inhibited the transport of all the C(4)-dicarboxylic acids, suggesting a regulatory role.
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PMID:Properties of an inducible C 4 -dicarboxylic acid transport system in Bacillus subtilis. 463 50

The mechanism of action of 4'-demethylepipodophyllotoxin-9-(4,6-O-ethylidene-beta-D-glucopyra noside) (VP-16), an important antitumor agent, is unclear. There is evidence that DNA may be the target of action because VP-16 causes single-strand and double-strand breaks in DNA and produces cytotoxicity over a similar dose range. We have hypothesized that an enzyme system, such as dehydrogenase, catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction involving the pendant phenolic group which forms an active metabolite that causes the DNA damage and cytotoxicity. To test our hypothesis, we investigated the effect of disulfiram, an aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor, and its metabolite, diethyldithiocarbamate, on VP-16-induced DNA damage in L1210 cells. Using the alkaline elution technique to assay DNA damage, we found that disulfiram and diethyldithiocerbamate inhibited VP-16-induced single-strand breaks. Both compounds were also capable of significantly reducing VP-16-induced cytotoxicity. Oxalic acid, pyrophosphate, and malonic acid, competitive inhibitors of succinate dehydrogenase, and the naturally occurring dehydrogenase substrates, succinic acid, beta-glycerophosphate, and isocitric acid, also blocked the effects of VP-16. Free-radical scavengers were also studied. While sodium benzoate was particularly effective in preventing drug-induced DNA damage and cytotoxicity, a number of other scavengers were not. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that VP-16 is activated by an enzyme such as a dehydrogenase which transforms it into an active intermediate resulting in DNA damage and, consequently, cell death.
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PMID:Inhibition of etoposide-induced DNA damage and cytotoxicity in L1210 cells by dehydrogenase inhibitors and other agents. 631 74

The activity of succinate dehydrogenase from bull adrenal cortex was studied as affected by malonate and oxaloacetate. The both substrate analogs without preincubation (separately and in the mixture) inhibit the enzyme by the competitive type. After a 3 min oxaloacetate preincubation of the enzyme inhibition is of a mixed character. Malonate under these conditions lowers the oxaloacetate effect without changing the type of inhibition. It is supposed that the protective effect is due to a high rate of formation and decay of the enzyme-inhibitory malonate complex.
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PMID:[Kinetics of the inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase in bull adrenal cortex by malonate and oxaloacetate]. 663 10


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