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Query: EC:1.8.1.4 (diaphorase)
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1. Female albino rats were treated with a total of 28 mg of chlormadinone acetate (CMA) for 28 days. In the adrenal cortex, the ovary, the vagina, and the uterus the activities of 3-beta-ol-steroiddehydrogenase, of dl-beta-OH-butric acid dehydrogenase, of alcaline and acid phosphatases, of DPN-diaphorase, of ATP-ase, and of non-specific esterases do not differ from untreated controls. 2. In the external muscle layer of the myometrium strong cholinesterase (ChE) activity was induced by C.M.A. A corresponding high ChE activity is normally found in immature rats or in estrus. 3. Furthermore, by treatment with CMA, ChE activity was induced in the tubular glands of the endometrium. This activity is found in the small parts of glomerate glandular terminals only but not in the rest of the glandular epithelium, nor in the epithelium of the cavum. It could be demonstrated that a corresponding ChE activity normally appears in the second third of pregnancy. The ChE activity induced by CMA was considerably higher and more widespread than during normal pregnancy. 4. It is concluded that in the endometrial glands a development similar to pregnancy is initiated by CMA. But development stops at the stage of ChE activity, thus leading to accumulation of ChE active cells.
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PMID:[Enzyme histochemical studies on the rat adrenal cortex, ovary, uterus and vagina following chlormadinone acetate administration, especially cholinesterase activity in myometrium and endometrium]. 5 Feb 31

Muscle fiber composition and oxidative and glycolytic enzymatic activity have been studied with complete traumatic transection of the spinal cord and spastic paralysis of the lower extremities. Muscle sample were taken by means of needle biopsy from the vastus lateralis, gastrocnemius, and soleus muscles. Biopsies were also taken for comparison from the deltoid muscle. Fibers staining darkly for alkaline stable myofibrillar ATP-ase (type II) dominated or were the only fibers identified in the paralysed muscles. The deltoid muscles of the same patients had a rather even mixture of type I and II fibers. Staining pattern was reversed after acid preincubation (pH 4.3). Mean diameters in the paralysed muscles were reduced for both fiber types. All fibers stained relatively weakly for NADH-diaphorase. Succinyldehydrogenase activity was low and phosphofructokinase activity usually moderately reduced. The findings imply that neuronal influence on the muscular fibers had led to a change in the staining characteristics of the muscle fibers. Such a change migh indicate altered contractile characteristics, though the detailed nature of the observed findings in still unclear.
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PMID:Muscle fiber composition in patients with traumatic cord lesion. 13

Biopsies from vastus lateralis muscle of male patients suffering from chronic ethanol abuse were studied with regard to histochemical reactions of ATPase and NADH-diaphorase; enzymatic activities of triosephosphate dehydrogenase (TPD), lactate dehydrogenase (LD), and cytochrome c oxidase (cytox); content of ATP, creatine phosphate, and glycogen; and volume fractions of fat, mitochondria, and fibrillar and extrafibrillar space. The results were compared with those from controls without known abuse of ethanol. The relative numbers of fibers were the same in two groups, but the size of the fast-twitch-glycolytic (white) fibers was diminished in the alcoholic group. The activities of TPD and LD were diminished in skeletal muscle of the alcoholics. This is most probably caused by the reduced amount of fast-twitch-glycolytic tissue, as there was a good correlation between this amount and the activity of the two enzymes. The activity of cytox was slightly lower in muscle of the alcoholics than in that of the controls. The volume fraction of mitochondria was lower in the alcoholic group than in the control group. Volume fractions of fat and fibrillar and extrafibrillar space were equal in the two groups. No significant differences were found in the amount of glycogen and ATP in the muscle of the two groups. However, the content of creatine phosphate is higher in the alcoholic group than in the control group.
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PMID:Effects of chronic ethanol abuse on structure and enzyme activities of skeletal muscle in man. 17 13

The protective action of aspartic acid on isolated and perfused rat liver was studied. In case of D-galactosamine intoxication the GOT, GPT and SDH activity and the lactate and pyruvate concentration in the perfusion medium were less augmented and the glycogen level in hepatic tissue was less diminished in animals treated with aspartic acid, as compared to controls. The histochemical applied (PAS reaction for glycogen, nucleic acids, NADH2-diaphorase, glucose-6-phosphatase and membrane-ATP-ase), also stated a protecting effect in the treated animals. The protective action of aspartate is hypothetically considered to be exerted by its capacity to reestablish the cellular deficit of pyridine nucleotides and thus to improve the synthesis of nucleic acids, glycoprotein and glycolipids or/and by its participation in various metabolic pathways.
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PMID:Protecting action of aspartate on the hepatic changes induced by D-galactosamine. 18 87

The organic phosphate allosteric effectors of hemoglobin, inositol hexaphosphate, 2,3-diphosphoglycerate, and ATP, interact with NADH-methemoglobin reductase (NADH-diaphorase). Significant inhibitory effects on the enzyme were found when dichlorophenolindophenol, or ferricyanide were used as electron acceptors in place of methemoglobin. In contrast, apparent stimulation of enzyme activity was observed when adult human methemoglobin was used as the electroganic phosphate on the rate of reaction due to its interaction with the substrate methemoglobin to produce the favored T type of quaternary conformation. The inhibitory effect of inositol hexaphosphate on the enzyme is associated with a perturbation in the reactivity of essential sulfhydryl group(s) on the enzyme. It is suggested that the interaction of the organic phosphate with the enzyme as well as with the substrate is significant in determining the overall rate of methemoglobin reduction.
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PMID:Inhibition of NADH-methemoglobin reductase by organic phosphates. 49 34

The Pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (PDHC) purified from rat brain is phosphorylated in the presence of low concentrations of ATP and MgCl2. The phosphorylated PDHC is incapable of catalyzing the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate. In the presence of high concentrations (10 mM) of MgCl2, the phosphorylated (inactive) PDHC is converted back to the dephospho-form of PDHC which is catalytically active. The dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (LAD) component, E3, of PDHC is inactivated by pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) and the PLP-inactivated LAD can be reactivated by an amino acid, taurine. These results indicate the reversible formation of Schiff base between PLP and LAD. They also provide clear evidence for the involvement of LAD (E3) in the previously reported inactivation of PDHC by PLP.
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PMID:Lipoamide dehydrogenase regulation in rat brain. 64 84

A 20-fold induction of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, pyruvate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.4.1) plus dihydrolipoate S-acetyltransferase, (lipoyltransacetylase) (EC 2.3.1.12) plus dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase, NADH : lipoamide oxidoreductase, (EC 1.6.4.3), from a specific activity of 3.5-65.0 was observed in mitochondrial extracts during adaptation of Neurospora to glucose from acetate media. The extent of ATP-dependent, time-dependent inactivation of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex was approximately the same in both acetate- and glucose-grown cells, thereby indicating that the low pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activities in acetate-grown cells did not represent phosphorylated pyruvate dehydrogenase complex molecules. High levels of dihydrolipoyl transacetylase (EC 2.3.1.12) were observed in mitochondrial extracts from acetate-grown cells; this lipoyltransacetylase was analyzed on sucrose density gradients and found to be associated with the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Digitonin fractionation of mitochondria revealed that both the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and lipoyltransacetylase were primarily associated with the mitochondrial outer membrane.
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PMID:Alterations in the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex during adaptation to glucose by Neurospora. 72 65

Bacterial plasmids have genes that confer highly specific resistances to As, Bi, Cd, Cu, Cr, Hg, Pb, Te, Zn, and other toxic heavy metals. For each toxic cation or anion, generally a different resistance system exists, and these systems may be "linked" together on multiple resistance plasmids. For Cd2+, AsO2-, AsO4(3)-, Hg2+, and organomercurials, DNA sequence analysis has supplemented direct physiological and biochemical experiments to produce sophisticated understanding. The cadA ATPase of S. aureus plasmids is a 727 amino acid membrane ATPase that pumps Cd2+ from the cells as rapidly as it is accumulated. This polypeptide is related by sequence to other cation translocating ATPases, including the membrane K+ ATPases of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus faecalis, the H+ ATPases of yeast and Neurospora, the Na+/K+ ATPases of vertebrate animals, and the Ca2+ ATPases of rabbit muscle. The conserved residues include the aspartyl residue that is phosphorylated, the lysine involved in ATP binding, and the proline within a membrane translocating region. The arsenate and arsenite translocating ATPase consists of 3 polypeptides (from DNA sequence analysis), including a recognizable ATP binding protein (arsA), an integral membrane protein (arsB gene), and a substrate specificity subunit (arsC gene). Inorganic mercury and organomercurial degradation is carried out by a series of about 6 polypeptides, including 2 soluble intracellular enzymes (organomercurial lyase and mercuric reductase). The latter is related by sequence and function to glutathione reductase and lipoamide dehydrogenase of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. These enzymes are dimeric, FAD-containing, NAD(P)H-dependent oxidoreductases. Other recognizable polypeptides in the mer system include a DNA-binding regulatory protein from the merR gene and a Hg2+ transport system consisting of a periplasmic Hg2(+)-binding protein (merP gene) and a membrane protein (merT gene) in gram negative systems.
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PMID:DNA sequence analysis of bacterial toxic heavy metal resistances. 248 81

Various regulators of protein kinase activities were tested for their effects on the in vitro transfer of phosphate from [gamma-32P]ATP to four proteins of rat brain synaptic particulate preparations. One protein, of apparent molecular weight 44,000, accepted 32P in the presence of 8 mM EDTA and no added Mg2+. It was the major phosphoprotein of brain mitochondria. Its phosphorylation was inhibited by pyruvate and stimulated by K+, and it comigrated in electrophoretic gels with authentic alpha-subunit of pyruvate: lipoamide oxidoreductase (decarboxylating) (EC 1.2.4.1) from bovine heart. The major kinase acting on three proteins of apparent molecular weights 24,000, 21,000, and 19,000 was stimulated by Ca2+, by preincubation with phospholipase C, and by 12-tetradecanoyl 4-beta-phorbol 13-acetate. Phosphorylation of these lower-molecular-weight proteins was inhibited by ACTH1-24, by cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate, and by 50 microM trifluoperazine. The stimulatory effect of Ca2+ was antagonized by calmodulin. The kinase in question appears to be B-50 protein kinase or protein kinase C.
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PMID:Regulation of phosphate incorporation into four brain phosphoproteins that are affected by experience. 298 Dec 89

The inhibitory effects of arsenate and arsenite on binding-protein-dependent transport systems are reconsidered. It is shown that arsenate inhibits binding-protein-dependent galactose transport in proteoliposomes energized either by dihydrolipoamide and NAD+ or by a membrane potential (under conditions where ATP metabolism is not implicated); this result is in contradiction with the current interpretation of arsenate inhibition of binding-protein-dependent transport systems (which is based on ATP depletion) and can be explained by reference to the recently discovered ATP inhibition of the binding-protein-dependent galactose transport. In whole cells, the greater inhibition by arsenate of lipoamide-dependent transport than of protonmotive-force-dependent transport may be explained by a modification by arsenate of the pools of several compounds metabolized by 2-oxo-acid dehydrogenases (which have been implicated in binding-protein-dependent transport). The inhibition of binding-protein-dependent galactose transport by arsenite is probably linked to the inhibition by arsenite of the galactose-stimulated lipoamide dehydrogenase activity implicated in this transport and is reminiscent of the known arsenite inhibition of lipoamide dehydrogenases.
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PMID:A novel aspect of the inhibition by arsenicals of binding-protein-dependent galactose transport in gram-negative bacteria. 305 23


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