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Query: EC:1.6.99.5 (NADH dehydrogenase)
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While gustation in the hamster has been extensively studied at the behavioral and physiological level, very little is known about the central anatomy of the taste system. The purpose of this study was to trace the connections of the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) in the golden Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) using wheat germ agglutinin-conjugated horseradish peroxidase. The PBN is the site of the second central synapse for the ascending gustatory system and receives taste afferents from the nucleus of the solitary tract. Following large injections into the PBN, anterogradely transported label was seen in the lateral hypothalamus, dorsal thalamus, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and amygdala. The anatomy of the two primary targets, the ventral posteromedial thalamus and central nucleus of the amygdala, is described based on Nissl-stained material, and acetylcholinesterase and NADH dehydrogenase histochemistry. Injections into these two regions revealed different patterns of efferents within the PBN. Following injections into the thalamus, retrogradely labelled cell bodies were distributed throughout the PBN subdivisions bilaterally, but concentrated in the central medial (CM) and external lateral (EL) subdivisions. Following injections into the amygdala, retrogradely labelled cell bodies were primarily in the ipsilateral PBN EL, while anterogradely transported label was distributed throughout much of the ipsilateral PBN. The majority of CM efferents projecting to the thalamus were elongate cells, whereas the majority of CM efferents to the amygdala were round-oval cells. These results indicate that the ascending central gustatory system changes from a serial pathway (nucleus of the solitary tract-PBN) to a parallel organization consisting of two major projections, the parabrachio-thalamo-cortical and parabrachio-amygdaloid pathways.
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PMID:Organization of parabrachial nucleus efferents to the thalamus and amygdala in the golden hamster. 137 87

Quantitative cytochemical, immunocytochemical, autoradiographic and electron cytochemical investigations have been used to compare osteoclasts with multinucleate giant cells that had been freshly obtained from the same animal. The levels of beta-acid galactosidase activity, the DNA in individual nuclei and the cellular protein content were similar in both cell types. However, osteoclasts generally possessed greater acid phosphatase and NADH dehydrogenase activity but lower levels of fluoride-inhibited non-specific esterase activity than multinucleate giant cells. The acid phosphatase activity in multinucleate giant cells was completely inhibited by 100 mM tartrate, but in osteoclasts only a 20% reduction in activity was observed. Formation of multinucleate giant cells in a "bone microenvironment" (thin bone slices) did not increase their content of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase activity. Moreover, in osteoclasts, endogenous peroxidase activity was undetectable but present in several granules within the cytoplasm of multinucleate giant cells. Osteoclasts and multinucleate giant cells displayed a similar microtubules distribution, but calcitonin, which induced rearrangement of microtubules and cellular contraction in osteoclasts, had no effect on multinucleate giant cells. Thus, these investigations reveal both similarities and differences between these two syncytia and support the hypothesis that osteoclasts and multinucleate giant cells are related. Possibly osteoclasts arise from monocyte progenitors before commitment to a macrophage lineage has occurred.
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PMID:A quantitative cytochemical investigation of osteoclasts and multinucleate giant cells. 174 63

The production of H2O2 by brain mitochondria was monitored employing a new technique based on the horseradish peroxidase dependent oxidation of acetylated ferrocytochrome c. It was shown that brain mitochondria release H2O2 by an intermediate autooxidation at the QH2-cytochrome c oxidoreductase level (induced by antimycin A and inhibited by myxothiazol). With both succinate and pyruvate plus malate this H2O2 release is inhibited at high substrate concentrations. With pyruvate plus malate a second source of H2O2 could be detected, apparently from autoxidation at the NADH dehydrogenase level. With alpha-glycerophosphate some H2O2 derives from autooxidation at the alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase. The NADH dehydrogenase dependent, but not the QH2-cytochrome c oxidoreductase dependent H2O2 was significantly stimulated upon depletion of the mitochondrial glutathione.
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PMID:Pathways of hydrogen peroxide generation in guinea pig cerebral cortex mitochondria. 340 Dec 32

Dopamine, due to metabolism by monoamine oxidase or autoxidation, can generate toxic products such as hydrogen peroxide, oxygen-derived radicals, semiquinones, and quinones and thus exert its neurotoxic effects. Intracerebroventricular injection of dopamine into rats pretreated with the monoamine oxidase nonselective inhibitor pargyline caused mortality in a dose-dependent manner with LD50 = 90 micrograms. Norepinephrine was less effective with LD50 = 141 micrograms. The iron chelator desferrioxamine completely protected against dopamine-induced mortality. In the absence of pargyline more rats survived, indicating that the products of dopamine enzymatic metabolism are not the main contributors to dopamine-induced toxicity. Biochemical analysis of frontal cortex and striatum from rats that received a lethal dose of dopamine did not show any difference from control rats in lipid and protein peroxidation and glutathione reductase and peroxidase activities. Moreover, dopamine significantly reduced the formation of iron-induced malondialdehyde in vitro, thus suggesting that earlier events in cell damage are involved in dopamine toxicity. Indeed, dopamine inhibited mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase activity with IC50 = 8 microM, and that of norepinephrine was twice as much (IC50 = 15 microM). Dopamine-induced inhibition of NADH dehydrogenase activity was only partially reversed by desferrioxamine, which had no effect on norepinephrine-induced inhibition. These results suggest that catecholamines can cause toxicity not only by inducing an oxidative stress state but also possibly through direct interaction with the mitochondrial electron transport system. The latter was further supported by the ability of ADP to reverse dopamine-induced inhibition of NADH dehydrogenase activity in a dose-dependent manner.
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PMID:Dopamine neurotoxicity: inhibition of mitochondrial respiration. 783 65

The objective of this study was to explore the possible cause(s) underlying the previously observed, age-related increase in the rate of mitochondrial H2O2 release in the housefly. The hypothesis that an imbalance between different respiratory complexes may be a causal factor was tested. Cytochrome c oxidase activity was found to sharply decline in the latter part of the life span of the flies. Effects of different substrates and respiratory inhibitors were determined in order to ascertain if a decrease in cytochrome c oxidase activity could be responsible for the increased H2O2 release. H2O2 was measured spectrofluorometrically using horseradish peroxidase and p-hydroxphenylacetate as an indicator. Neither NADH-linked substrates nor succinate caused a stimulation of H2O2 production. H2O2 release by mitochondria, inhibited with rotenone and antimycin A, was greatly increased upon supplementation with alpha-glycerophosphate; however, the further addition of KCN or myxothiazol, to such preparations, caused a depression of H2O2 generation. In contrast, relatively low concentrations of KCN or myxothiazol were found to stimulate H2O2 release in insect mitochondria supplemented with alpha-glycerophosphate and exposed to rotenone, but not antimycin A. Results are interpreted to suggest that partial inhibition of cytochrome c oxidase activity can lead to the stimulation of mitochondrial H2O2 production in the housefly at site(s) other than NADH dehydrogenase and ubisemiquinone/cytochrome b region; a possible source may be glycerophosphate dehydrogenase.
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PMID:Aging, cytochrome oxidase activity, and hydrogen peroxide release by mitochondria. 839 19

Isoniazid is the most widely used antituberculosis drug. Genetic studies in Mycobacterium smegmatis identified the inhA-encoded, NADH-dependent enoyl acyl carrier protein reductase as the primary target for this drug. A reactive form of isoniazid inhibits InhA by reacting with the NAD(H) cofactor bound to the enzyme active site forming a covalent adduct (isonicotinic acyl NADH) that is apt to bind with high affinity. Resistance can occur by increased expression of InhA or by mutations that lower the enzyme's affinity to NADH. Both of these resistance mechanisms are observed in 30% of clinical tuberculosis isolates. Mutation in katG, which encodes catalase peroxidase, is the most common source for resistance. Another mechanism for isoniazid resistance, in M. smegmatis, occurs by defects in NADH dehydrogenase (Ndh) of the respiratory chain. Genetic data indicated that ndh mutations confer resistance by lowering the rate of NADH oxidation and increasing the intracellular NADH/NAD+ ratio. An increased amount of NADH may prevent formation of isonicotinic acyl NADH or may promote displacement of the isonicotinic acyl NADH from InhA. While our studies have identified this mechanism in M. smegmatis, results reported in early literature lead us to believe that it can occur in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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PMID:Mechanisms for isoniazid action and resistance. 994 10

In the last few years the presence in thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts of a NAD(P)H-plastoquinone oxidoreductase complex (Ndh complex) homologous to mitochondrial complex I has been well established. Herein, we report the identification of the Ndh complex in barley etioplast membranes. Two plastid DNA-encoded polypeptides of the Ndh complex (NDH-A and NDH-F) were relatively more abundant in etioplast membranes than in thylakoids from greening chloroplasts. Conversion of etioplast into chloroplast, after light exposure of barley seedlings grown in the dark, was accompanied by a decrease in the NADH dehydrogenase activity associated to plastid membranes. Using native-PAGE and immunolabelling techniques we have determined that a NADH specific dehydrogenase activity associated with plastid membranes, which was more active in etioplasts than in greening chloroplasts, contained the NDH-A and NDH-F polypeptides. These results complemented by those obtained through blue-native-PAGE indicated that NDH-A and NDH-F polypeptides are part of a 580 kDa NADH dependent dehydrogenase complex present in etioplast membranes. This finding proves that accumulation of the Ndh complex is independent of light. The decrease in the relative levels and specific activity of this complex during the transition from etioplast to chloroplasts was accompanied by a parallel decrease in the specific activity of peroxidase associated to plastid membranes. Based on the mentioned observations it is proposed that an electron transport chain from NADH to H2O2 could be active in barley etioplasts.
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PMID:Identification of the Ndh (NAD(P)H-plastoquinone-oxidoreductase) complex in etioplast membranes of barley: changes during photomorphogenesis of chloroplasts. 1075 Jul 8

The ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis is of great interest from a bioenergetic perspective because, although it has a very high respiratory capacity, the respiratory system does not appear to be primarily required for energy conservation. To investigate the regulation of respiratory genes and function of electron transport branches in Z. mobilis, several mutants of the common wild-type strain Zm6 (ATCC 29191) were constructed and analyzed. Mutant strains with a chloramphenicol-resistance determinant inserted in the genes encoding the cytochrome b subunit of the bc (1) complex (Zm6-cytB), subunit II of the cytochrome bd terminal oxidase (Zm6-cydB), and in the catalase gene (Zm6-kat) were constructed. The cytB and cydB mutants had low respiration capacity when cultivated anaerobically. Zm6-cydB lacked the cytochrome d absorbance at 630 nm, while Zm6-cytB had very low spectral signals of all cytochromes and low catalase activity. However, under aerobic growth conditions, the respiration capacity of the mutant cells was comparable to that of the parent strain. The catalase mutation did not affect aerobic growth, but rendered cells sensitive to hydrogen peroxide. Cytochrome c peroxidase activity could not be detected. An upregulation of several thiol-dependent oxidative stress-protective systems was observed in an aerobically growing ndh mutant deficient in type II NADH dehydrogenase (Zm6-ndh). It is concluded that the electron transport chain in Z. mobilis contains at least two electron pathways to oxygen and that one of its functions might be to prevent endogenous oxidative stress.
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PMID:Electron transport and oxidative stress in Zymomonas mobilis respiratory mutants. 2222 43

We previously isolated respiratory-deficient mutant (RDM) strains of Zymomonas mobilis, which exhibited greater growth and enhanced ethanol production under aerobic conditions. These RDM strains also acquired thermotolerance. Morphologically, the cells of all RDM strains were shorter compared to the wild-type strain. We investigated the respiratory chains of these RDM strains and found that some RDM strains lost NADH dehydrogenase activity, whereas others exhibited reduced cytochrome bd-type ubiquinol oxidase or ubiquinol peroxidase activities. Complementation experiments restored the wild-type phenotype. Some RDM strains seem to have certain mutations other than the corresponding respiratory chain components. RDM strains with deficient NADH dehydrogenase activity displayed the greatest amount of aerobic growth, enhanced ethanol production, and thermotolerance. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that all NADH dehydrogenase-deficient strains were mutated within the ndh gene, which includes insertion, deletion, or frameshift. These results suggested that the loss of NADH dehydrogenase activity permits the acquisition of higher aerobic growth, enhanced ethanol production, and thermotolerance in this industrially important strain.
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PMID:Respiratory chain analysis of Zymomonas mobilis mutants producing high levels of ethanol. 2266 Jul 12

Lignocellulosic biofuels are promising as sustainable alternative fuels, but lignin inhibits access of enzymes to cellulose, and by-products of lignin degradation can be toxic to cells. The fast growth, high efficiency and specificity of enzymes employed in the anaerobic litter deconstruction carried out by tropical soil bacteria make these organisms useful templates for improving biofuel production. The facultative anaerobe Enterobacter lignolyticus SCF1 was initially cultivated from Cloud Forest soils in the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico, based on anaerobic growth on lignin as sole carbon source. The source of the isolate was tropical forest soils that decompose litter rapidly with low and fluctuating redox potentials, where bacteria using oxygen-independent enzymes likely play an important role in decomposition. We have used transcriptomics and proteomics to examine the observed increased growth of SCF1 grown on media amended with lignin compared to unamended growth. Proteomics suggested accelerated xylose uptake and metabolism under lignin-amended growth, with up-regulation of proteins involved in lignin degradation via the 4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation pathway, catalase/peroxidase enzymes, and the glutathione biosynthesis and glutathione S-transferase (GST) proteins. We also observed increased production of NADH-quinone oxidoreductase, other electron transport chain proteins, and ATP synthase and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. This suggested the use of lignin as terminal electron acceptor. We detected significant lignin degradation over time by absorbance, and also used metabolomics to demonstrate moderately significant decreased xylose concentrations as well as increased metabolic products acetate and formate in stationary phase in lignin-amended compared to unamended growth conditions. Our data show the advantages of a multi-omics approach toward providing insights as to how lignin may be used in nature by microorganisms coping with poor carbon availability.
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PMID:Evidence supporting dissimilatory and assimilatory lignin degradation in Enterobacter lignolyticus SCF1. 2406 62


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