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Query: EC:1.6.99.3 (diaphorase)
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The His-44 and Met-164 residues of yeast cytochrome c1 are evolutionally conserved and regarded as heme axial ligands bonding to the fifth and sixth coordination sites of the heme iron, which is directly involved in the electron transfer mechanism. Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to generate mutant forms of cytochrome c1 of yeast having amino acid replacements of the putative axial ligands of the heme iron. When a cytochrome c1-deficiency yeast strain was transformed with a gene encoding the Phe-44, Tyr-44, Leu-164, or Lys-164 protein, none of these transformants could grow on the non-fermentable carbon source. These results suggest that the His-44 and Met-164 residues have a critical role in the function of cytochrome c1 in vivo, most probably as axial ligands of the heme iron. Further analysis revealed that the mutant yeast cells with the Phe-44, Tyr-44, or Leu-164 protein lacked the characteristic difference spectroscopic signal of cytochrome c1. However, in the Lys-164 mutant cells, partial recovery of the cytochrome c1 signal was observed. Moreover, the Lys-164 protein retained a low but significant level of succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity in vitro. The possibility that the nitrogen of Lys-164 served as the sixth heme ligand is discussed in comparison with cytochrome f of a photosynthetic electron-transfer complex, in which lysine has been proposed to be the sixth ligand.
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PMID:Replacement of putative axial ligands of heme iron in yeast cytochrome c1 by site-directed mutagenesis. 196 56

Heart lipoamide dehydrogenase (LADH) catalyzed redox-cycling and O2-. production by (5-nitro-2-furfurylidene)amino derivatives using NADH as electron donor. NADH was a much more effective electron donor than NADPH for the nitroreductase activity. O2-. production was demonstrated by cytochrome c reduction, adrenochrome formation and the effect of superoxide dismutase. Under optimum conditions, nitroreductase activity was about 1% of LADH activity. One electron oxygen reduction and NADH oxidation correlated in 2:1 stoichiometry. The nitroreductase kinetics was in accordance with an ordered bi-bi mechanism. Nitrofuran derivatives bearing unsaturated five- or six-membered nitrogen heterocycles were more effective substrates than those bearing other groups, namely nifurtimox, nitrofurazone, nitrofurantoin and 5-nitro-2-furoic acid. Other nitro compounds (chloramphenicol, benznidazole, 2-nitroimidazole and 5-nitroindole) were ineffective. With the triazole, traizine and imidazole nitrofuran derivatives, the nitroreductase pH curve showed a maximum at pH 8.8, different from the pH optimum for the lipoamide reductase and diaphorase activities. Spectroscopic observations demonstrated pH-dependent structural changes in the triazole(I) and triazine derivatives which would affect their behavior as nitroreductase substrates. The nitroreductase activity was inhibited by p-chloromercuribenzoate and enhanced by cadmium and arsenite, whereas the NADH-induced LADH inactivation failed to affect the nitroreductase activity. In the absence of oxygen. LADH catalyzed nitrofuran reduction to products more reduced than the nitroanion, which were not reoxidized by oxygen. The anaerobic nitrofuran reduction was inhibited by cadmium and arsenite. The assayed nitrofuran compounds did not inhibit LADH lipoamide reductase activity, at variance with their action on glutathione reductase (Grinblat et al., Biochem Pharmacol 38: 767-772, 1989).
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PMID:Catalysis of nitrofuran redox-cycling and superoxide anion production by heart lipoamide dehydrogenase. 217 92

Oxidation of diethyldithiocarbamate (DTC) to disulfiram (DS) by liver microsomes was tested in vitro by using a copper-DTC chelate formation reaction after the conversion of DS to DTC by glutathione (GSH). In the presence of NADPH, microsomes produced DS from DTC in both the free and microsome-bound forms, the former being greater than the latter. DS production was dependent on NADPH and DTC concentrations, and incubation time. Increases in microsomal concentrations, up to a certain level, also increased the free and total DS production. NADH was only somewhat effective, both the exposure to a nitrogen atmosphere and heat-denaturation of the microsomes suppressed the reaction. Preincubation of microsomes with both DTC and NADPH markedly decreased aniline hydroxylase, p-nitroanisole O-demethylase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities, and moderately decreased NADH-ferricyanide and NADH-cytochrome c reductase, but NADPH-cytochrome c reductase was minimally affected. DTC alone had only slight effects on the activities. DS also decreased these enzyme activities, particularly glucose-6-phosphatase; the loss of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity being protected in the presence of NADPH. GSH almost completely prevented the loss of microsomal enzyme activities induced by DTC and NADPH except for the drug metabolizing activities, in which protection was incomplete. The microsomal oxidation of DTC to DS could play a role in the action of DS in the liver, since DS is rapidly degradated to DTC in vivo.
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PMID:Oxidation of diethyldithiocarbamate to disulfiram by liver microsomes in the presence of NADPH and subsequent loss of microsomal enzyme activity in vitro. 285 81

Nitrate reductase catalyzes the initial step in the conversion of nitrate to organic nitrogen and is thought to be repressed by ammonia and induced by nitrate. Induction by nitrate and repression by ammonia were studied by following changes in NADH:nitrate reductase and the associated partial activities NADH:cytochrome c reductase and methylviologenr:nitrate reductase. Immunoreactive protein was assessed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunoblotting. Molybdenum cofactor levels were investigated using the nit-1 complementation assay as well as fluorescence of the oxidized cofactor. The results indicate that the NADH:cytochrome c reductase activity is "induced" faster than the nitrate-reducing activity and suggest that incorporation of the molybdo-pterin cofactor may be rate limiting in the expression of activity. Molybdenum cofactor levels are significantly elevated in nitrate-treated cells. Under "repressing" conditions all activities decreased at approximately the same rate. A more rapid conversion of the enzyme to a reversibly inactive form also occurred under these conditions. Changes in immunoreactive protein levels correlated most closely with NADH:cytochrome c reductase activity but appeared to increase faster during induction and decrease slightly slower during repression than the enzyme activities. Removal of exogenous ammonia results in the appearance of nitrate reducing activity, as well as immunoreactive protein (derepression). Studies using protein and RNA synthesis inhibitors indicated that de novo synthesis is required for nitrate reductase induction and were in agreement with the results of the immunoreactive studies.
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PMID:Regulation of Chlorella nitrate reductase: control of enzyme activity and immunoreactive protein levels by ammonia. 291 47

NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase is the predominant NADH-diaphorase found in the human neutrophil (Blood 62:152, 1983). Although this reductase segregates with the light membranes of nitrogen-cavitated neutrophils separated on Percoll gradients (which include the plasma membrane markers alkaline phosphatase and NADPH-oxidase), it is approximately 95% excluded from plasma membrane-enriched phagocytic vacuoles. The reductase constitutes approximately 5% of the light membrane fraction FAD-flavoprotein (14.8 +/- 5.5 pmol/mg protein) and was found in equimolar concentration with a high potential b cytochrome also present in this light membrane fraction and tentatively identified as cytochrome b5. Isolation of the reductase from human neutrophils was accomplished by Triton X-114 solubilization of the light Percoll gradient membranes, followed by temperature-dependent phase separation and then affinity chromatography on AMP-Sepharose. The active preparation contained 1.3 mol FAD/mol protein, migrated on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels as a single band corresponding to an apparent mol wt of 45,000 daltons, exhibited a pl of 5.7 on chromatofocusing and was obtained in greater than 70% yield, with an overall purification of almost 900-fold. The purified enzyme was characterized by a high specificity for NADH as electron donor (Km = 6.4 mumol/L v Km greater than 1.6 mmol/L for NADPH) and exhibited a maximal turnover of ca. 30,000 min-1 at 22 degrees C with either ferricyanide or cytochrome b5 (Km = 10 nmol/L) as electron acceptor. Although the physical characterization and biochemical properties described here demonstrate that this neutrophil NADH b5 reductase is similar to the corresponding liver and erythrocyte enzymes, its unique function in the neutrophil has yet to be determined.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of the human neutrophil NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase. 299 39

The effect of freeze-thawing on the yeast respiratory system was studied at rapid rates of cooling. Freezing of whole cells with liquid nitrogen induced decrease of respiratory activity to under 20% of that of original cells. Mitochondria harvested from freeze-thawed cells have markedly decreased succinate oxidizing activity. Activity of succinate cytochrome c reductase was reduced significantly after freeze-thawing of whole cells while activities of succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome c oxidase were reduced slightly. By spectrophotometric analysis it was found that about one-half the amount of cytochrome c + c1 was eluted from mitochondria to cytosol after freeze-thawing of cells. The activities of succinate oxidation in mitochondria from freeze-thawed cells were restored to normal levels by the addition of cytochrome c. Freeze-thawing of isolated mitochondria did not induce deactivation of succinate oxidizing activities and succinate cytochrome c reductase, and no elution of cytochrome c was observed. It was concluded that the decreased respiratory activities of yeast cells by freezing of cells with liquid nitrogen can be attributed primarily to the elution of cytochrome c from mitochondria.
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PMID:Freezing injury in the yeast respiratory system. 300 28

Male Wistar rats were exposed to 0.4, 1.2, and 4.0 ppm nitrogen dioxide (NO2) for up to 14 weeks to examine subacute effects of NO2 on membrane constituents of lung, liver, and kidney. In the lung, cytochrome P-450 decreased to 59% (P less than 0.01) and 57% (P less than 0.01) of the control values after 1 and 10 weeks of exposure to 4.0 ppm NO2, respectively, and remained at control levels at other exposure periods. The activity of succinate-cytochrome c reductase also decreased to 75% (P less than 0.01) of the control values after 2, 4, and 14 weeks of exposure to 4.0 ppm NO2, respectively. Exposures to 0.4 and 1.2 ppm NO2 resulted in similar patterns of alterations in these enzymes. In the liver, cytochrome P-450 decreased to 72% (P less than 0.01), 70% (P less than 0.05), and 73% (P less than 0.05) of the control values after 1, 5, and 8 weeks of exposure to 4.0 ppm NO2, respectively, and remained at control levels at other exposure periods. The activity of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase also decreased in a fashion similar to cytochrome P-450. Exposures to 0.4 and 1.2 ppm NO2 resulted in similar patterns of alterations in these enzymes. In addition, cytochrome b5 showed a reduced value between 5 and 12 weeks of exposures to 1.2 and 4.0 ppm NO2 and then recovered. In the kidney, all components of the microsomal electron-transport systems increased during 12-week exposures to 1.2 and 4.0 ppm NO2. These results show that subacute exposures to 0.4-4.0 ppm NO2 caused a periodic reduction in microsomal cytochrome P-450 and mitochondrial succinate-cytochrome c reductase in the lung and in components of the microsomal electron-transport systems in the liver, whereas exposures to 1.2 and 4.0 ppm NO2 resulted in induction of the microsomal electron-transport systems in the kidney.
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PMID:Subacute effects of nitrogen dioxide on membrane constituents of lung, liver, and kidney of rats. 301 57

The respiration chain in the membranes of whole Actinomyces roseoflavus (var. roseofungini) cells from the parent and secondary cultures is sensitive to KCN, non-sensitive to Triton X-100 treatment removing the antibiotic roseofungin from the cells, and has a very high for the bacteria respiration control. When the cells are in contact with atomic tritium at the temperature of liquid nitrogen, roseofungin is tritiated and binds to A. roseoflavus isolated membranes and whole cells, mostly to those of the parent culture as compared to the secondary culture. A fraction of membranes which lost NADH dehydrogenase in the course++ of purification was isolated from the cells disintegrated in the frozen state.
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PMID:[Comparative study of different variants of Actinomyces roseoflavus producing the polyene antibiotic roseofungin]. 321 Oct 8

To study the cryopreservation of osteoarticular allografts, a lateral femoral condyle of the rabbit was transplanted fresh, after uncontrolled freezing to -80 degrees C with 4 weeks preservation, and after freezing 1 degree C per min to -100 degrees C in 10 per cent dimethylsulphoxide medium with 4-week storage in liquid nitrogen. Autografts were used as controls. After 3 months, the incorporation of the grafted bone was good in all technically successful cases. The NADH2 diaphorase activity and 35S sulphate uptake indicated well-functioning chondrocytes in all autografts. In the allografts, areas lacking enzyme activity and lacking 35S uptake were observed in cartilages with otherwise normally functioning chondrocytes. No differences were found between the three allograft groups. We conclude that freezing permits reasonably good short-term bank preservation of cartilage. We found no difference between conventional freezing and controlled slow freezing with preservative.
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PMID:Cryopreservation of osteo-chondral grafts in rabbits. 389 7

Male Wistar rats were exposed to 4 ppm nitrogen dioxide (NO2) for 10 d, and at intervals alveolar macrophages were collected by pulmonary lavage. A metabolic enhancement of alveolar macrophages was observed on d 4 of exposure. The specific activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glutathione peroxidase of the peroxidative metabolic pathway increased to 1.29-fold (p less than 0.001) and 1.17-fold (p less than 0.05) those of the control values, respectively. The specific activities of succinate-cytochrome c reductase of the mitochondrial respiratory system and pyruvate kinase of the glycolytic pathway also increased to 1.17-fold (p less than 0.01) and 1.20-fold (p less than 0.01) those of the control values, respectively. In addition, the incorporation of [3H]leucine and [14C]thymidine into alveolar macrophages were elevated to 1.77-fold (p less than 0.001) and 1.84-fold (p less than 0.01) those of the control values, respectively. The activities of all enzymes tested decreased to control levels by d 10. The number of alveolar macrophages collected from exposed animals increased to 1.24-fold (p less than 0.01) that of the control value on d 7 and was maintained at a significantly higher level until d 10. Alveolar macrophages were heterogeneous in size (7-21 micron in diameter), and most of them were distributed between 11 and 17 micron in diameter. Exposures to 4 ppm NO2 increased significantly the cells of 9-13 micron in diameter on the seventh day. These results show that exposures to 4 ppm NO2 cause a metabolic enhancement and subsequent increase in alveolar macrophages.
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PMID:Activation and increment of alveolar macrophages induced by nitrogen dioxide. 395 12


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