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Query: EC:1.4.1.2 (glutamate dehydrogenase)
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NH4Cl-induced acidosis in rats resulted in renal enlargement and increase in activities of phosphate-dependent glutaminase and glutamic dehydrogenase. The renal enlargement was associated with protein synthesis but not deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis. In control rats histochemical activity of glutamic dehydrogenase was seen dominantly in the proximal straight tubule. In acidotic rats high activity was noted in the proximal convoluted tubule as well as in the proximal straight tubule. By electron microscopy reaction product was in mitochondria. The results suggest that urine ammonia is produced in mitochondria of epithelial cells in the proximal straight tubule in both normal and acidotic rats. Increased enzyme activity in acidotic rats is largely associated with epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubule.
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PMID:Biochemical and histocytochemical studies on response of ammonia-producing enzymes for nh4cl-induced acidosis. 1 40

Tetrahymena pyriformis Wh 14 was grown in Erlenmeyer flasks under continuous stirring at 30 degrees C for three days . After the culture had produced dry matter of about 100 mg HCB was added in acetone at a dose level of 0, 0.001, 0.1 and 1.0 ppm to the culture and incubated for another 7 days. At a dose level of 0.001 ppm the activity of delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase, hexokinase, and pyruvate kinase remained unaffected but was increased for glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, and malate dehydrogenase while 0.1 ppm HCB increased the activity of all enzymes studied, the only exception being glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, the activity of which was depressed by HCB exposure. A concentration of 1.0 ppm HCB depressed the activity of most of the enzymes below control values with the exception of the two mitochondrial enzymes, MDH and ICDH, studied here.
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PMID:Effect of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) on the activity of some enzymes from Tetrahymena pyriformis. 10 53

Continuous loss of bile in rats with a bile reservoir applied to the common bile duct caused an increase in specific activity of malic dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase, glutamic dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphoric dehydrogenase, alkaline and acid phosphatase, urokinase and histidinase in the liver homogenates by the 7th day; the specific activity decreased by the 10th day. Disruption of innervation of the liver caused a sharp decrease of the ATP content and the abovementioned specifc activity in this organ. In continuous loss of bile there were revealed oscillations in the activity of the above-mentioned enzymes and sorbitol dehydrogenase in bile from the 1st to the 10th day of the experiment. Marked changes in the oscillations in the dysinnervated liver were in favour of the fact that those oscillations coursed under the control of the nervous system.
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PMID:[Enzyme activity of the bile and liver after disruption of its innervation and bile loss]. 18 5

Probucol was effective in lowering serum total cholesterol in mice at dietary livels as low as 0.0075%. It was also effective after a single 100 mg/kg I.V. dose in mice. The incorporation of acetate-(14)C into liver lipids of rats and mice was not significantly affected by probucol, although the results, especially in mice, make it impossible to rule out such an effect. Cholesterol absorption was estimated in rats using a dual isotope technique. The observed reductions were not statistically significant. Several liver enzyme activities were determined after probucol treatment in rats, and a significant elevation (32%) was observed in only one, glutamic dehydrogenase. Serum cholesterol was lowered markedly in cholesterol-fed cynomolgus monkeys by probucol. There was no effect on the excretion of neutral steroids and the observed increase in fecal bile acids after drug treatment could not be confirmed statistically.
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PMID:An overview of the biochemical pharmacology of probucol. 18 54

Analysis of the respiratory chain of spores of Dictyostelium discoideum, which lack a cyanide-sensitive respiration, indicated that cytochromes a-a3, b, and c-c1 are present at levels identical to those found in the vegetative amoebae. The specific activities of enzymes of both the respiratory chain and the citric acid cycle in the 600 x g supernatant fraction of sonically treated spores were at least as high as in similar preparations of amoebae. The activities of glutamic dehydrogenase and oligomycin-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase were reduced in the spores 30 and 56%, respectively. Intact spores appeared to lack a cyanide-sensitive respiration as a result of inadequate quantities of respiratory substrate and, more importantly, as a result of a lack of the cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. The emergence phase of spore germination was sensitive to the antibiotic chloramphenicol, which is a specific inhibitor of mitochondrial protein synthesis. It is concluded that germination requires the early synthesis of oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and generation of respiratory substrates and one or more mitochondrially synthesized proteins.
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PMID:Respiratory competence of Dictyostelium discoideum spores. 19 71

The activities of five mitochondrial enzymes tested in liver from patients with Reye's syndrome were measured. Citrate synthase, glutamic dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, pyruvate carboxylase, and pyruvate dehydrogenase were all outside of the range shown by control samples and well below them in activity. The activity of two extramitochondrial enzymes, glucose-6-phosphatase, which is a microsomal enzyme, and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase, which is a soluble enzyme, were in the normal range in samples from Reye's syndrome patients. In both muscle and brain the activities of the mitochondrial enzyme, citrate synthase, glutamic dehydrogenase, and succinic dehydrogenase were all within the control range. Pyruvate dehydrogenase was found to be normal in muscle from these patients.
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PMID:Reye's syndrome: preservation of mitochondrial enzymes in brain and muscle compared with liver. 21 43

Urinary ammonium excretion, in vitro ammoniagenesis and the activities of renal cortical phosphate-dependent glutaminase (PDG) and glutamic dehydrogenase (GLDH) were measured in rats with a reduced renal mass. Following contralateral nephrectomy, ammonium excretion per nephron, ammonia production and the activities of PDG and GLDH were all increased significantly in remnant kidneys of rats fed high protein diets. In rats fed low protein diets, although PDG activity increased, GLDH activity and ammonia production and excretion did not increase in remnant kidneys following contralateral nephrectomy. Ammonia production and excretion were greater in rats fed high than low protein diets, a difference that was corrected by the addition of mineral acid to the diets of low protein-fed rats. Acid supplementation to the low protein group did not result in enhanced ammonia production or GLDH activity following a reduction in renal mass. The data indicate that the increased rate of ammoniagenesis which occurs following nephron reduction is markedly influenced by dietary protein content. A lack of enhanced GLDH activity may underlie the lack of increased ammonia production of low protein-fed rats following nephron reduction.
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PMID:Effects of nephron reduction and dietary protein content on renal ammoniagenesis in the rat. 24 55

Malaria-infected red cells and free parasites have limited capabilities for the biosynthesis of amino acids. Therefore, the principal amino acid sources for parasite protein synthesis are the plasma free amino acids and host cell haemoglobin. Infected cells and plasmodia incorporate exogenously supplied amino acids into protein. However, the hypothesis that amino acid utilization (from an external source) is related to availability of that amino acid in haemoglobin is without universal support: it is true for isoleucine and for Plasmodium knowlesi and P. falciparum, but not for methionine, cysteine, and other amino acids, and it does not apply to P. lophurae. More by default than by direct evidence, haemoglobin is believed to be the main amino acid reservoir available to the intraerythrocytic plasmodium. Haemoglobin, ingested via the cytostome, is held in food vacuoles where auto-oxidation takes place. As a consequence, haem is released and accumulates in the vacuole as particulate haemozoin (= malaria pigment). Current evidence favours the view that haemozoin is mainly haematin. Acid and alkaline proteases (identified in crude extracts from mammalian and avian malarias) are presumably secreted directly into the food vacuole. They then digest the denatured globin and the resulting amino acids are incorporated into parasite protein. Cell-free protein synthesizing systems have been developed using P. knowlesi and P. lophurae ribosomes. In the main these systems are typically eukaryotic.Studies of amino acid metabolism are exceedingly limited. Arginine, lysine, methionine, and proline are incorporated into protein, whereas glutamic acid is metabolized via an NADP-specific glutamic dehydrogenase. Glutamate oxidation generates NADPH and auxiliary energy (in the form of alpha-ketoglutarate). The role of red cell glutathione in the economy of the parasite remains obscure. Important goals for future research should be: quantitative assessment of the relative importance of amino acid sources for parasite protein synthesis; purification and characterization of plasmodial proteinases; and in vitro translation of parasite messenger RNA.
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PMID:Amino acid metabolism and protein synthesis in malarial parasites. 33 83

As part of a detailed analysis of the specific enzyme metabolism in individual hypothalamic nuclei during different endocrinological and behavioral states, quantitative distribution of a group of enzymes representative of major metabolic pathways was examined. Malic dehydrogenase (MDH), representative of the citric acid cycle, lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), of glycolysis, glutamic dehydrogenase (GDH), of glutamate metabolism, and glucoseo-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH), of the pentose pathway, were measured in 11 hypothalamic nuclei, the cerebral cortex, and the cerebellum of adult female rats neonatally treated with testosterone propionate (TP). Several significant metabolic changes occurred in specific hypothalamic nuclei following neonatal TP (1 mg) treatment. MDH activity was significantly reduced in the suprachiasmatic (11%), supraoptic (13%), and anterior (9%) nuclei. No statistically significant changes occurred in nuclei of the middle or posterior hypothalamus. LDH was significantly elevated only in the lateral preoptic areas (23%). Several significant increases of G-6-PDH activity occurred in the following nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus: medial preoptic (32%), lateral preoptic (33%), supraoptic (13%), and paraventricular (23%). No statistically significant changes occurred in nuclei of the middle or posterior hypothalamus; these results were similar to those for MDH and LDH. GDH activity was generally elevated in all of the hypothalamic nuclei examined, except in the anterior nucleus. Significant increases of enzyme level were found in each of the major divisions of the hypothalamus. In the anterior hypothalamus, GDH activity in the paraventricular nucleus rose significantly (16%); in the middle hypothalamus, lateral ventromedial and arcuate nuclear levels were elevated (14 and 17%), and medial and posterior nuclear levels were higher than control values (32 and 36%) in the posterior hypothalamus.
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PMID:Quantitative histochemical studies of the hypothalamus: dehydrogenase enzymes following androgen sterilization. 41 65

Recently developed tests that measure levels of alpha-amino-n-butyric acid (AANB) and serum glutamic dehydrogenase (GDH) may improve screening for early detection of heavy drinking and liver injury, respectively. With these tests, a "three-level" approach to the problem is now possible: (1) detection of heavy drinking on the basis of a biochemical marker (such as AANB); (2) detection of liver injury (necrosis and inflammation) on the basis of serum liver tests (such as GDH); and (3) detection of alcoholics in whom cirrhosis is prone to develop by the screening of liver biopsy specimens for precirrhotic lesions (such as pericentral sclerosis).
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PMID:Alcoholism and alcoholic liver injury: new diagnostic and prognostic tests. 58 Aug 76


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