Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts: Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound   Target Concepts: Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound

---

Query: EC:1.8.1.4 (diaphorase)
2,754 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Glutathione reductase from human erythrocytes exists predominatly as an entity of 100 000 molecular weight under various conditions of pH and ionic strength. The S20,W of 5.5 S and D20W of 50 mum2/s correlate with the molecular weight determined by sedimentation equilibrium. The homogeneity of this species is primarily dependent on the presence of thiols and secondarily on high concentrations of salt. The amino-acid composition of the enzyme shows similarities both with glutathione reductases from other sources and with lipoamide dehydrogenase. From the flavin content and dodecylsulphate-polyacrylamide electrophoresis it is inferred that the native enzyme is a dimer composed of similar subunits of 50 000 molecular weight. In the absence of thiols, glutathione reductase shows a tendency to form tetramers and larger aggregates. Although these larger species are also catalytically active, under cellular conditions the presence of its product, reduced glutathione, should maintain the enzyme as the dimeric entity.
...
PMID:Glutathione reductase from human erythrocytes. Molecular weight, subunit composition and aggregation properties. 0 Dec 74

15 ditetrazolium salts were examined to prove their qualities for histochemical techniques. The succinate dehydrogenase, the lactate dehydrogenase and the diaphorase I in hearts, muscles, livers, kidneys and brains of rats were demonstrated for it. The results show that NBT is the best allround tetrazolium salt for the histochemical demonstration of dehydrogenases. For the study of special questions it is suitable to use other tetrazolium salts, too.
...
PMID:[The qualification of different ditetrazolium salts as indicators in the oxido-reductase histochemistry (author's transl)]. 9 10

In order to reveal dehydrogenase and diaphorase in spinal ganglia neurons of 12-day-old chick embryos in cryostat sections, the following modifications of the medium were used: for dehydrogenase - sodium salt substrate 50 mM, NAD or NADPh 0.75 mM, nitro-BT 0.61 mM, phosphate buffer pH 7.2 15 mM, NaCl 50 mM, MgCL2 5 mM, for diaphorase - NAD-N2 or NADHh-N2 0.78-0.66 mM, NaCl 100 mM. To compare relative activity of the enzymes (optic density of histochemical preparations determined cytophotometrically) it is suggested to calculate the values obtained during proportional development of the staining regarding the time unit (hour). The possibility to compare the data obtained with the results of biochemical investigations is discussed, as well as an attempt is made to represent graphically metabolic peculiarities of various cell types.
...
PMID:[Comparative study of the activities of dehydrogenases and diaphorases. Basis of the technic]. 74 86

We describe a fully enzymic method for manual and continuous-flow colorimetric assay of triacylglycerols (triglycerides) in serum. Triglycerides are enzymically hydrolyzed in 10 min by lipase and microbial esterase. The resulting free glycerol is measured enzymically by glycerol kinase and glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. The NADH so formed is oxidized by coupling with a tetrazolium salt/diaphorase system. The test follows Beer's law to 8 g/L, and the final color is stable for at least 1 h for serum, 15 min for aqueous triolein standards. The manual assay requires only 25 microliter of serum and few manipulations. A specific triolein standard was developed for calibrating the manual method. For the continuous-flow method, calibration is made with four concentrations of glycerol standard. The procedure is sensitive, has good precision and accuracy, and gives results that compare well with chemical and enzymic commercial kit methods.
...
PMID:Manual and continuous-flow colorimetry of triacylglycerols by a fully enzymic method. 75 21

The fungicide dexon (p-dimethylaminobenzenediazosulfonate, Na-salt) inhibits the NADH oxidase activity of submitochondrial particles (ETP) from beef heart (semi-inhibition concentration 1.4 muM), while the succinate oxidase activity is unaffected. Measurements of the activity of several enzymatic partial reactions of the respiratory chain of ETP suggest that dexon acts directly on the flavine of NADH dehydrogenase. Soluble NADH-cytochrome c-oxidoreductase (MAHLER) and rotenone-insensitive NADH ubiquinone reductase are also inhibited by dexon. At low concentrations of dexon, inhibition of ETP starts slowly only after addition of NADH. Preincubation without NADH increases the amount of inhibition, but does not prevent the time delay. It is assumed that an electron flux through the respiratory chain, or reduction of flavine is prerequisite for the reaction of dexon with the action site. Furthermore, dexon inhibits the NADH dehydrogenase located at the outer surface of the inner membrane of plant mitochondria, accessible to extramitochondrial NADH and insensitive to rotenone, as has been shown on isolated mitochondria from cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L). In addition, dexon inhibits selectively the NADH dehydrogenase of the DT diaphorase (ERNSTER) from rat liver cytosol. In contrast, the dicoumarol-insensitive NADH dehydrogenase (ZINSMEYER et al.) from rat liver cytosol, the NADH-cytochrome b5-reductase (STRITTMATTER) from rat liver microsomes, the rotenone-insensitive NADH-cytochrome c-oxidoreductase of the outer membrane of rat liver mitochondria, soluble NADH-oxidase from Escherichia coli, and NADH-dehydrogenase from human erythrocytes are not inhibited. The results suggest that dexon is a group reagent to certain pyridine nucleotide-dependent flavine enzymes.
...
PMID:[Action of the systemic fungicide dexon on several NADH dehydrogenases]. 82 48

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase (NADPH-d) of the rat brain, apparently identical with nitric oxide (NO) synthase, was demonstrated at the electron microscopic level by means of the tetrazolium salt 2-(2'-benzothiazolyl)-5-styryl-3-(4'-phthalhydrazidyl)tetrazolium chloride (BSPT). BSPT is a non-osmiophilic compound that yields an insoluble, osmiophilic, and lipophobic formazan on reduction. The reaction product was deposited sharply on membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum including the nuclear envelope. Other membrane structures were, as a rule, free of reaction product, likewise mitochondria. Occasionally, however, the outer membrane of mitochondria was labeled, and their contents displayed a homogeneous, medium electron density. The findings suggest that NADPH-d, i.e. neuronal NO synthase, is a predominantly membrane-bound enzyme, which is ubiquitously distributed in cells of brain tissue, but highly concentrated in nerve cells described as 'NADPH-d-positive' at the light microscopic level.
...
PMID:Nitric oxide synthase in rat brain is predominantly located at neuronal endoplasmic reticulum: an electron microscopic demonstration of NADPH-diaphorase activity. 128 94

Laminar preparations of fixed segments of the guinea-pig intestine were examined for nitric oxide synthase activity using reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate and nitroblue tetrazolium salt as substrates. Under conditions specific for detecting nitric oxide synthase-related diaphorase activity, a subpopulation of neural elements in the myenteric plexus, deep muscular plexus and submucosa were intensely stained. Intensely stained nerve fibres were distributed throughout the meshworks of the myenteric plexus and its innervation of the circular muscle, and in the submucosa within Henle's plexus. Intensely stained nerve cells and their processes were evident in most myenteric ganglia but were rare in ganglia of Henle's plexus. Stained ganglion cells comprised types I, II and VI of the morphologically defined enteric nerve cells. Stained neural elements were increasingly prevalent within successively more caudal segments of the intestine. In addition to neuronal staining, arterioles of the submucosal vascular network displayed distinct, punctate patches of staining distributed over their surface. Perivascular nerve fibre staining was absent. These results show nitric oxide synthase activity to be present within neurons and fibres of the major enteric nerve layers and within submucosal blood vessels throughout the guinea-pig small and large intestine.
...
PMID:Histochemical localization of nitric oxide-synthesizing neurons and vascular sites in the guinea-pig intestine. 128 11

The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) from muscle of the adult parasitic nematode Ascaris suum plays a unique role in its anaerobic mitochondrial metabolism. Resolution of the intact complex in high salt dissociates the pyruvate dehydrogenase subunit but leaves the dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase subunit (E3) and two other proteins with apparent M(r)s of 45 and 43 kDa bound to the dihydrolipoyl transacetylase (E2) core. These proteins are not observable on Coomassie brilliant blue-stained gels of other eukaryotic PDCs, but the 45-kDa protein is similar in apparent M(r), pI, and sensitivity to trypsin to the Kb subunit of the bovine kidney PDH alpha kinase. Acetylation of the ascarid PDC with [2-14C]pyruvate under conditions designed to maximize the incorporation of label into protein yielded only a single radiolabeled subunit, E2. These results confirm earlier reports that the ascarid PDC lacks protein X, an integral component recently identified in other eukaryotic PDCs. About 1.6 to 1.8 mol of 14C was incorporated/mole of E2, suggesting that the ascarid E2 contained two lipoly-bearing domains. Domain mapping of the 14C-acetylated ascarid E2 by limited tryptic digestion identified two lipoyl-bearing fragments with apparent M(r)s of 50 and 34 kDa and two core fragments with apparent M(r)s of 46 and 30 kDa. The ascarid E2 domain structure appears to be similar to that of other E2s. However, it appears that the subunit-binding domain (E2B) of the ascarid E2 may be significantly larger or be flanked by larger than normal interdomain regions. An enlarged E2B domain may be necessary to accommodate the additional binding of E3 to the E2 subunit in the ascarid complex, in the absence of protein X.
...
PMID:The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum: novel subunit composition and domain structure of the dihydrolipoyl transacetylase component. 137 97

We examined the properties of neuronal NADPH-diaphorase in sections of rat striatum, using histochemical procedures. NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry stained discrete populations of central neurons and provided a Golgi-like image of the neurons exhibiting this activity. The NADPH-diaphorase reaction appeared to be enzyme catalyzed, since it was abolished by pre-treatment with proteases, heat, and acid or alkaline denaturation. Under anaerobic conditions, any tetrazolium salt with a redox potential more positive than NADPH could be reduced by the enzyme. NADPH-diaphorase activity was sensitive to inhibition by sulfhydryl reagents but was unaffected by metal chelators, superoxide dismutase, and catalase. Therefore, the enzyme is unlikely to be a metalloenzyme or to reduce tetrazoliums by producing superoxide anions or hydrogen peroxide. Various analogues of beta-NADPH could be used by the enzyme; however, beta-NADH, which can be used by DT-diaphorase, was ineffective. The enzyme was also resistant to dicumarol, an inhibitor of DT-diaphorase activity. Electron microscopy indicated that the NADPH-diaphorase reaction resulted in staining of various membranous organelles. We conclude that neuronal NADPH-diaphorase is a membrane-bound enzyme distinct from DT-diaphorase and other known enzymes with diaphorase activity. The histochemical characteristics presented here should now enable meaningful biochemical studies of neuronal NADPH-diaphorase to be undertaken.
...
PMID:Histochemical characterization of neuronal NADPH-diaphorase. 270 1

DT diaphorase [NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase] activity was measured in subcellular fractions from homogenates of striatum, frontal cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, hypothalamus and substantia nigra. This flavoprotein, which by definition oxidizes dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate at equal rates and is completely inhibited by 10(-5) M dicoumarol, was found to constitute 80-90% of the total dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide- and dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-reductase activities in all brain regions studied. Antibodies raised against purified cytosolic DT diaphorase from the rat liver cross-reacted with the brain enzyme and inhibited soluble DT diaphorase from striatum and cerebellum to 80-90%. Immunohistochemical studies with the same antibodies demonstrated the occurrence of DT diaphorase immunoreactivity in a population of neurons in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area. In some neurons there was a colocalization of DT diaphorase and tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactivity. The dense network of DT diaphorase-immunoreactive fibres in the striatum disappeared along with the dopaminergic innervation after 6-hydroxydopamine lesion. DT diaphorase immunoreactivity was also found in Bergmann glia, astrocytes and tanycytes. No correlation appeared to exist between the localization of neuronal DT diaphorase immunoreactivity and the dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase-like activity, as defined by tetrazolium salt staining, used as a marker for certain peptidergic and cholinergic neurons. However, in, for example, glial cells in the cerebellum, DT diaphorase might contribute or be responsible for the histochemical dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase activity.
...
PMID:Distribution of DT diaphorase in the rat brain: biochemical and immunohistochemical studies. 290 55


1 2 3 4 5 Next >>

---