Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: EC:1.4.1.2 (glutamate dehydrogenase)
 4,380 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

In the presence of Mg2+, pure glutamate dehydrogenase is more reactive with NADPH than with NADH and is markedly activated by elevations in the ADP/ATP ratio or the addition of leucine. Because these are properties of glutamate dehydrogenase in mitochondria but not properties of the pure enzyme studied in the absence of Mg2+, Mg2+ could be a ligand that confers upon glutamate dehydrogenase the regulatory properties of this enzyme found in situ. In the absence of the allosteric activators ADP, leucine, or succinyl-CoA, Mg2+ is an inhibitor and increases product inhibition by alpha-ketoglutarate in the forward reaction and substrate inhibition by alpha-ketoglutarate in the reverse reaction. However, the allosteric activators convert Mg2+ from an inhibitor into an activator of the forward reaction. In the reverse reaction, ADP also converts Mg2+ from an inhibitor into an activator and leucine eliminates inhibition by Mg2+. Because Mg2+ is an inhibitor in the absence of activator that also increases inhibition by alpha-ketoglutarate, whereas in the presence of activator Mg2+ has no effect or is itself an activator, Mg2+ magnifies the effect of the activator, and magnification increases with increases in the concentration of alpha-ketoglutarate. Leucine and its analog 2-aminobicyclo (2.2.1) heptane 2-carboxylic acid (BCH) have almost identical effects on both human and bovine glutamate dehydrogenase in both the presence and absence of Mg2+. However, advantages of BCH over leucine as a potential pharmacological activator of glutamate dehydrogenase are that BCH is not metabolized and, unlike leucine, BCH does not inhibit ornithine transcarbamylase. Isoleucine and valine alone have little effect on human glutamate dehydrogenase, but isoleucine slightly inhibits the enzyme in the presence of leucine.
 ...
PMID:Regulation of glutamate dehydrogenase by Mg2+ and magnification of leucine activation by Mg2+. 235 6

The interrelation of palmitate oxidation with amino acid formation in rat brain mitochondria has been investigated in purified mitochondria of nonsynaptic origin by measuring the formation of aspartate, alpha-ketoglutarate, and glutamate during palmitate oxidation, and also by assaying 14C-products of [1-14C]palmitate oxidation. Oxidation of palmitate (or [1-14C]palmitate) resulted in the formation of aspartate (or 14C-aspartate), and the oxidation was inhibited by aminooxyacetate (an inhibitor of transaminase). Palmitate oxidation also resulted in alpha-ketoglutarate formation, which was sensitive to the effect of aminooxyacetate. Addition of NH4Cl was found to increase 14C-products and formation of alpha-ketoglutarate, whereas glutamate formation was not increased unless the rate of palmitate oxidation was reduced by 50% by aminooxyacetate or alpha-ketoglutarate was added exogenously. Exogenous alpha-ketoglutarate was found to decrease 14C-products, but not aspartate formation. These results indicated that palmitate oxidation was closely related to aspartate formation via aspartate aminotransferase. During palmitate oxidation without aminooxyacetate or added alpha-ketoglutarate, however, alpha-ketoglutarate was not available for glutamate formation via glutamate dehydrogenase. We discuss the possibility that this was because (a) oxidative decarboxylation of alpha-ketoglutarate to form succinyl-CoA was favored over glutamate formation for the competition for alpha-ketoglutarate in the same pool, and (b) the pool of alpha-ketoglutarate produced in the aspartate aminotransferase reaction did not serve as substrate for glutamate formation.
 ...
PMID:Study of amino acid formation during palmitate oxidation in rat brain mitochondria. 256 41

The effect of long-chain acyl-CoA on glutamate dehydrogenase activity was studied in uncoupled rabbit kidney cortex mitochondria incubated with glutamate and palmitoylcarnitine in the presence of arsenite. The mitochondrial long-chain acyl-CoA (about 2 nmol/mg of protein) accumulated in the presence of arsenite resulted in an inhibition of ammonia production from 4.1 to 1.2 nmol/min per mg of protein. Leucine and ADP, activators of glutamate dehydrogenase, did not release the inhibitory effect of long-chain acyl-CoA on glutamate deamination. In view of the presented data it seems that inhibitory effect of long-chain acyl-CoA on glutamate dehydrogenase activity may have a physiological significance.
 ...
PMID:The relationship between the rate of glutamate deamination and long-chain acyl-CoA accumulation in kidney cortex mitochondria of rabbit. 359 79

A new carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) was purified to homogeneity from bovine liver mitochondria which were 96% free of peroxisomal contamination, as judged by catalase and glutamate dehydrogenase activities. The enzyme is easily removed from mitochondria, without the use of detergent. It is monomeric (Mr 63,500), unlike other preparations of CPT from mitochondria, and is most active with myristoyl-CoA and palmitoyl-CoA. The Km values are between 0.8 and 4 microM for a range of substrates from hexanoyl-CoA to stearoyl-CoA; these are much lower than values reported for other purified CPT preparations. The Km for L-carnitine is 185 microM measured with palmitoyl-CoA, and does not vary greatly with the chain length. This is also lower than the values reported for other CPT preparations, but higher than those cited for the medium-chain transferases. Kinetic and inhibitor studies were consistent with a rapid-equilibrium random-order mechanism. 2-Bromopalmitoyl-CoA, which is an inhibitor of the outer CPT, inhibited the enzyme competitively with palmitoyl-CoA as the variable substrate, when added without preincubation. If the enzyme was preincubated with 2-bromopalmitoyl-CoA and carnitine, the activity did not reappear after gel filtration of the protein. The inhibitor was bound in a 1:1 stoichiometry per subunit of enzyme.
 ...
PMID:Purification and properties of the soluble carnitine palmitoyltransferase from bovine liver mitochondria. 366 21

Cell-free extracts of Rhizopus arrhizus contain exclusively cytosolic pyruvate carboxylase and NAD-glutamate dehydrogenase, a single mitochondrial isoenzyme of NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase, and both mitochondrial and cytosolic isoenzymes of NADP-malate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating). Other enzymes examined have sub-cellular localisations similar to those characteristic of mammalian liver. Purified preparations of R. arrhizus pyruvate carboxylase are subject to partial regulatory inhibition by L-aspartate and 2-oxoadipate. L-Glutamate acts as a less effective analogue of L-aspartate while 2-oxoglutarate is ineffective. Competition studies indicate the presence of separate inhibitory sites for L-aspartate and 2-oxoadipate. Under routine assay conditions R. arrhizus pyruvate carboxylase shows significant activation by acyl derivatives of coenzyme A with long chain acyl CoA being more effective than acetyl-CoA. This activation is no longer observed in the presence of high concentrations of pyruvate, MgATP2- and HCO-3. The concentrations of L-aspartate and 2-oxoadipate required to give 50% inhibition ([I]0.5), and the maximal extents of inhibition, are increased by addition of acetyl-CoA. Acetyl-CoA increases the sigmoidal character of the relationship: initial rate/[L-aspartate], but decreases this parameter for the relationship: initial rate/[2-oxoadipate]. The studies indicate that R. arrhizus possesses an entirely cytosolic pathway for the conversion of glucose to fumaric acid and that both the organisation of pyruvate metabolism and the regulation of pyruvate carboxylase differ significantly in this organism as compared to that proposed previously for Aspergillus nidulans.
 ...
PMID:The sub-cellular localisation and regulatory properties of pyruvate carboxylase from Rhizopus arrhizus. 397 71

The conversion of cyclohexanecarboxyl-CoA to hippuric acid in submitochondrial fractions from guinea pig liver was studied using a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method employing selected ion monitoring. Comparison of the activities of the cyclohexanecarboxyl-CoA to hippuric acid converting system (CCoAHC-system) and marker enzymes in the various submitochondrial fractions showed that the CCoAHC-system is localized in the mitochondrial matrix. Partial separation of the inner and outer membranes has been accomplished by treating mitochondria with digitonin in isotonic medium and fractionating the treated mitochondria by differential centrifugation. A digitonin-protein ratio of 2.6 mg of digitonin/10 mg of protein must be used in order to release significant amounts of amine oxidase activity (outer membrane marker) from low speed mitochondrial pellets. This pellet still contained most of the glutamate dehydrogenase activity and was insignificantly contaminated with adenylate kinase. Moderate concentrations of phenazine methosulfate (PMS) greatly stimulated the activity of the CCoAHC-system, even in intact mitochondria (optimal concentration of PMS: 1 mM) whilst higher concentrations (greater than 1 mM) decreased the activity. The formation of hippuric acid in these mitochondrial preparations was linear with time for at least 40 min and linear with respect to protein concentration up to approximately 2.0 mg mitochondrial protein X ml-1.
 ...
PMID:The aromatization of cyclohexanecarboxyl-CoA to hippuric acid by guinea pig liver mitochondria: submitochondrial localization. 404 29

1. The activities of 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase and 3-oxo acid CoA-transferase in rat brain at birth were found to be about two-thirds of those of adult rat brain, expressed per g wet wt. The activities rose throughout the suckling period and at the time of weaning reached values about three times higher than those for adult brain. Later they gradually declined. 2. At birth the activity of acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase in rat brain was about 60% higher than in the adult. During the suckling period there was no significant change in activity. 3. In rat kidney the activities of the three enzymes at birth were less than one-third of those at maturity. They gradually rose and after 5 weeks approached the adult value. Similar results were obtained with rat heart. 4. The activity of glutamate dehydrogenase (a mitochondrial enzyme like 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase and 3-oxo acid CoA-transferase) also rose in brain and kidney during the suckling period, but at no stage did it exceed the adult value. 5. Throughout the suckling period the total ketone-body concentration in the blood was about six times higher than in adult fed rats, and the concentration of free fatty acids in the blood was three to four times higher. 6. It is concluded that the rate of ketone-body utilization in brains of suckling rats is determined by both the greater amounts of the key enzymes in the tissue and the high concentrations of ketone bodies in the blood. In addition, the low activities of the relevant enzymes in kidney and heart of suckling rats may make available more ketone bodies for the brain.
 ...
PMID:Activities of enzymes of ketone-body utilization in brain and other tissues of suckling rats. 511 56

Effects of norepinephrine on gluconeogenesis and ureogenesis from glutamine by hepatocytes from fasted rats were assessed. Comparisons were made to asparagine metabolism and to the effects of NH4Cl and dibutyryl cyclic AMP. With asparagine as substrate, aspartate content was very high but norepinephrine, dibutyryl cyclic AMP, or NH4Cl had little effect on gluconeogenesis or ureogenesis. Metabolism of asparagine could be greatly enhanced by the combination of oleate, ornithine, and NH4Cl. However, even under these conditions, asparatate content remained high, and norepinephrine and dibutyryl cyclic AMP had little influence on glucose or urea synthesis. With glutamine as substrate, aspartate content was much lower, but was greatly elevated by norepinephrine, dibutyryl cyclic AMP, or NH4Cl. Each of these effectors strongly stimulated glucose and urea formation from glutamine. NH4Cl stimulation was accompanied by an increased glutamate and decreased alpha-ketoglutarate content. This suggests the mechanism for NH4Cl stimulation is a near-equilibrium adjustment to ammonia by glutamate dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase rather than a principal involvement of glutaminase. Although both norepinephrine and dibutyryl cyclic AMP lowered alpha-ketoglutarate to the same extent, norepinephrine more rapidly increased aspartate content and led to a smaller accumulation of glutamate than did dibutyryl cyclic AMP. Moreover, only norepinephrine led to a rapid increase in succinyl-CoA concentration. The catecholamine effect could not be explained by specific changes in cytosolic or mitochondrial redox states. The results suggest that alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase is a site of catecholamine action in rat liver. Since purified alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase is known to be Ca2+ stimulated and Ca2+ flux is involved in catecholamine action, these findings also suggest that mitochondrial Ca2+ is elevated by catecholamines.
 ...
PMID:Glutamine metabolism of isolated rat hepatocytes. Evidence for catecholamine activation of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. 609 58

The subcellular localization of glutamine synthetase, an enzyme fundamental to the compartmentation of glutamate hypothesis, was investigated using brain tissue of adult rats. The distribution of this enzyme in relation to the distribution of glucose-6-phosphatase, glutamate dehydrogenase and acetycholine esterase was studied using a fractionation scheme which had been previously extensively characterized in terms of intramitochondrial enzyme complements. Glutamine synthetase was found to be predominantly localized at the nerve terminal and a number of results suggested a possibble association with the synaptic membrane. The observations are discussed in relation to the compartmentation of glutamate metabolism. Acetate and ammonia are precursors of the 'small' pool of glutamate from which most of the synthesis of glutamine occurs. Since one population of synaptic mitochondria has previously been shown to be enriched in glutamate dehydrogenase and acetyl CoA synthetase and in view of the current observtions that synaptosomes are probably in association with a large proportion of brain glutamine synthetase, it is tentatively suggested that the synaptic complex represents at least in part the site of the 'small' glutamate pool.
 ...
PMID:The distribution of glutamine synthetase in subcellular fractions of rat brain. 610 1

1. Arteriovenous difference studies across the lactating rabbit mammary gland for glucose, acetate, triacylglycerol and non-esterified fatty acids during initiated involution are reported. 2. A significant reduction in substrate utilisation is paralleled by a decrease in the activities of fatty acid synthetase, acetyl CoA synthetase, citrate synthase and glutamate dehydrogenase in biopsy samples taken from the gland. 3. Results from the analysis of lipid fractions within the gland during this period are discussed in relation to lipid resorption.
 ...
PMID:The effect of initiated involution on enzyme activity and substrate uptake by the mammary gland of the lactating rabbit. 613 86


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next >>