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Six and 18 months after neonatal administration of 6-hydroxy-dopamine or surgical sympathetic denervation the submaxillary gland of the rat showed a marked depletion of noradrenaline stores. Six months afer removal of the superior cervical ganglion the gland's endogenous noradrenaline was lowered to 0.032 +/- 0.004 mug/g while after neonatal 6-hydroxydopamine the values were 0.228 +/- 0.023 mug/g (controls 2.145 +/- 0.382 mug/g). Eighteen months after either type of sympathetic denervation the neurotransmitter was still depleted. In rats treated with 6-hydroxydopamine the sailagogue effect of injected noradrenaline was potentiated 2.7-fold while the potentiation of the effect of noradrenaline was 3.6 times after surgical denervation. The magnitude of the supersensitivity developed to isoprenaline did not differ between both types of denervation. No supersensitivity to the cholinomimetic agent, methacholine, was observed. Cocaine administration or removal of the superior cervical ganglion slightly increased the supersensivity to noradrenaline in rats treated with 6-hydroxydopamine. Eighteen months after surgical or chemical denervation, the activity of choline-acetyl-transferase in the submaxillary gland was increased by about 50%. Of the respiratory enzymes studied, sussinic dehydrogenase, fumarase and cytochrome oxidase, the activity of only the latter was markedly reduced by a chronic sympathetic denervation. From the results obtained it is concluded that neonatal treatment with 6-hydroxy-dopamine causes a permanent and almost complete sympathectomy of the submaxillary gland of the rat.
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PMID:Effects of 6-hydroxydopamine Treatment at birth on the submaxillary gland of the rat. 16 85

Two groups (n = 5) of male weanling Wistar rats were housed individually and fed copper (Cu)-deficient (0.5 mg Cu/kg) diets either with or without methionine supplementation (18 g/kg) for 49 days. Plasma caeruloplasmin (EC 1.16.3.1) and erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (EC 1.15.1.1, CuSOD) activities were measured in blood. Tissue Cu levels and the activities of cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1, CCO) and CuSOD were measured in the heart and liver. Hepatic activities of the sulfhydryl-sensitive enzymes, creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2), fumarase (EC 4.2.1.2) glutathione S-transferase (EC 2.5.1.18) and lipoamide dehydrogenase (EC 1.6.4.3) were also measured. Apart from cardiac CCO activity all of the measured indices of Cu status were found to be significantly (p less than 0.05) decreased in the methionine supplemented rats. Although fumarase activity was significantly (p less than 0.05) decreased in the methionine-supplemented animals compared with controls, the activities of the other sulfhydryl-sensitive enzymes were not significantly decreased. These results suggest that some of the toxic effects of excess dietary methionine may be mediated through interference with copper metabolism rather than through the previously postulated inhibition of sulfhydryl-sensitive enzymes by metabolites of methionine.
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PMID:Excess dietary methionine decreases indices of copper status in the rat. 216 46

Aerobic growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the presence of CuSO4 (between 0.1 and 1 mM) caused a generalized induction of major enzyme activities involved in 'housekeeping' routes of oxygen metabolism (cytochrome oxidase, glutathione peroxidases and catalase) which were comparable to or higher than that observed with Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase. Fumarase and glutathione transferase, tested as controls for oxygen-unrelated activities, were found to decrease under the same conditions. In the absence of oxygen, copper addition to yeast resulted in significant increases of Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidases and a slight increase of cytochrome oxidase, with catalase remaining undetectable irrespective of whether or not copper was present. Other metal ions tested (Mn2+, Co2+) were unable to produce such effects. It is concluded that copper has a general inducing effect on enzymes related to metabolism of oxygen and oxygen derivatives, which is mediated neither by formation of O2-. and H2O2 nor by interaction with copper-specific apoproteins. These results point to a general role of copper as regulator of the expression of major enzyme activities involved in biological oxygen activation.
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PMID:Oxygen-independent induction of enzyme activities related to oxygen metabolism in yeast by copper. 283 94

It has been reported that the mitochondrial cytochromes and citrate cycle enzymes occur in constant proportions to each other and increase or decrease roughly in parallel in response to various stimuli. The purpose of this study was to determine whether this proportionality is an obligatory consequence of the way in which mitochondria are assembled. Severe iron deficiency was used to bring about decreases of the iron-containing constituents of the mitochondrial respiratory chain in skeletal muscle. Cytochrome c concentration and cytochrome oxidase activity were decreased approximately 50%, while succinate dehydrogenase and NADH dehydrogenase activities were decreased by 78% in iron-deficient muscle. On electron microscopic examination, mitochondria in iron-deficient muscles had relatively sparse numbers of cristae. The iron deficiency had little or no effect on the levels of a range of mitochondrial matrix enzymes, including citrate synthase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, fumarase, aspartate aminotransferase, 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, 3-ketoacid-CoA transferase, and acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase. These results show that the usual constant proportions between the constituents of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and matrix enzymes are not obligatory; they provide evidence that mitochondrial matrix enzymes and respiratory chain constituents can be incorporated into mitochondria independently and that the ratios between them can vary within wide limits.
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PMID:Perturbation of mitochondrial composition in muscle by iron deficiency. Implications regarding regulation of mitochondrial assembly. 302 53

Manganous (Mn) and copper zinc (CuZn) superoxide dismutase (SOD) concentrations and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and catalase (CAT) activities were measured in cultured bovine pulmonary endothelial cells with and without exposure to Escherichia coli endotoxin (10(-1) micrograms/ml) over intervals of 0.5-24 h. The activities of two mitochondrial marker enzymes, fumarase and cytochrome-c oxidase, were also measured. Endotoxin exposure caused a marked increase (9-fold) in endothelial cell Mn SOD content without significant effects on GSH-Px, CAT, fumarase, or cytochrome-c oxidase activities. Endotoxin induced a slight decrease in CuZn SOD content over 24 h. This is the first report of a selective effect of endotoxin on Mn SOD in pulmonary endothelial cells. The response appears to be independent of an increase in mitochondrial activity (no change was observed in cytochrome-c oxidase or fumarase activities). These findings support the notion that endotoxin increases generation of toxic oxygen metabolites within pulmonary endothelial cells. An endotoxin-induced increase in Mn SOD could contribute to the reported protective effect of endotoxin against oxygen toxicity in these cells.
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PMID:Endotoxin increases superoxide dismutase in cultured bovine pulmonary endothelial cells. 303 89

The series introduced by this paper reports the results of a detailed analysis of the microsomal fraction from rat liver by density gradient centrifugation. The biochemical methods used throughout this work for the determination of monoamine oxidase, NADH cytochrome c reductase, NADPH cytochrome c reductase, cytochrome oxidase, catalase, aminopyrine demethylase, cytochromes b(5) and P 450, glucuronyltransferase, galactosyltransferase, esterase, alkaline and acid phosphatases, 5'-nucleotidase, glucose 6-phosphatase, alkaline phosphodiesterase I, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, beta-glucuronidase, nucleoside diphosphatase, aldolase, fumarase, glutamine synthetase, protein, phospholipid, cholesterol, and RNA are described and justified when necessary.
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PMID:Analytical study of microsomes and isolated subcellular membranes from rat liver. I. Biochemical methods. 415 Apr 88

Van Etten, James L. (University of Illinois, Urbana), H. Peter Molitoris, and David Gottlieb. Changes in fungi with age. II. Respiration and respiratory enzymes of Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotium bataticola. J. Bacteriol. 91:169-175. 1966.-The rate of respiration of Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotium bataticola decreased with age. This decrease in respiratory rate might be produced by a decrease in the specific activity of one or more enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism. Specific activities in cell-free extracts were measured for most of the enzymes in the hexose monophosphate shunt, Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, tricarboxylic acid cycle, and terminal electron-transport system. In addition, glucose oxidase, isocitritase, and malic enzyme were measured. In R. solani, increases in activity with age occurred for hexokinase, alpha-glycerolphosphate dehydrogenase, malic dehydrogenase, and cytochrome oxidase. Decreases occurred for phosphohexokinase, aconitase, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-specific isocitric dehydrogenase, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidase, and at least one of the enzymes between 3-phosphoglycerate and pyruvate. In S. bataticola, increases in activity with age were observed for phosphohexokinase, pyruvic dehydrogenase, fumarase, malic dehydrogenase, and malic enzyme, whereas none of the enzymes decreased. The specific activities of the remaining enzymes did not change with age in either fungus.
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PMID:Changes in fungi with age. II. Respiration and respiratory enzymes of Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotium bataticola. 428 29

Improvements in endurance capacity by training are associated with structural and biochemical adaptations of working muscles that affect the mitochondrial compartment. We investigated whether the 1.8-fold higher mitochondrial volume density in a group of endurance-trained athletes compared with untrained subjects was reflected by higher steady-state levels of mRNAs coding for components of the oxidative phosphorylation pathway using a quantitative polymerase chain reaction approach. We found that mitochondrially encoded RNAs (cytochrome-c oxidase subunit I, NADH reductase subunit 6, 16S rRNA), as well as nuclear-encoded RNAs (cytochrome-c oxidase subunit IV, succinate dehydrogenase, fumarase) are all increased coordinately in the athletes (1.54- to 1.94-fold). In addition, mitochondrial (mt) DNA concentration was also 1.55-fold higher in the trained athletes, whereas genomic DNA was not changed. Our findings thus show similar RNA expression of mitochondrially encoded genes in sedentary and endurance-trained subjects, whereas pretranslational control mechanisms account for higher levels of nuclear-encoded RNAs in the athletes.
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PMID:mRNAs of enzymes involved in energy metabolism and mtDNA are increased in endurance-trained athletes. 757 91

Sycamore suspension cells (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) were grown in the presence of sublethal concentrations of copper (50 microM). During the first 5-6 days of treatment, growth was not affected, but cell respiration (coupled and uncoupled) declined to approximately 60% of its normal value. This decline of respiration was attributed to a progressive diminution of the number of mitochondria in copper-treated cells, based on the demonstration of the concomitant decline of (1) cardiolipin (diphosphatidylglycerol) and cytochrome aa3 (cytochrome oxidase), two specific markers of mitochondrial inner membrane, and (2) fumarase activity, a specific marker of mitochondrial matrix space. In addition, the mitochondria extracted from copper-treated cells presented the same properties as those from control cells, concerning substrate oxidation, cardiolipin and cytochrome aa3 contents, and fumarase activity. These results strongly suggest that copper triggered an arrest of mitochondrial biogenesis, which preceded cell division arrest.
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PMID:Arrest of mitochondrial biogenesis in copper-treated sycamore cells. 897 17

Severe iron deficiency results in complex systemic disorders e.g., including metabolism of energy and minerals. To investigate whether also moderate iron depletion may alter the activities of citric cycle enzymes and the cytochrome oxidase, the trace element status, and serum enzymes indicative of cell damage, this experiment was carried out with rats supplied with sub-optimal iron (9, 13 and 18 mg iron per kg diet) over a total of 5 weeks. The study included 3 pair-fed groups and an ad libitum group, fed with 50 mg iron/kg diet. All iron-restricted rats were classified as iron-deficient on the basis of reduced iron concentrations in body and iron-depending blood parameters. Body weight gain and catalase activity in kidney were lowered in rats receiving the lowest dietary iron level, exclusively. Rats fed 9 and 13 mg iron per kg diet had nearly 6- and 3-fold, respectively higher platelet counts in blood than their corresponding pair-fed controls. The activities of transaminases ASAT and ALAT, alkaline phosphatase, glutamate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase in serum which are indicative of cell damage were also markedly influenced by moderate dietary iron restriction, in which the enzyme levels in serum increased with intensifying iron depletion. Although, moderate iron restriction to young male rats was associated with marked alterations in iron status and serum enzymes, the activities of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes including malic dehydrogenase, fumarase, and isocitric dehydrogenase as well as cytochrome oxidase in liver remained largely unaffected. Only hepatic aconitase showed a somewhat reduction with iron depletion. Moreover, iron restriction was also accompanied with an accumulation of copper in liver which was significant for rats fed 9 and 13 mg iron per kg diet, whereas zinc status remained completely unaffected by moderate iron deficiency. It can be concluded, that a short-term moderate iron deficiency with ranging hemoglobin concentrations from 66 and 121 g/L, was accompanied with altered platelet counts, serum enzyme activities indicative of cell damage, and hepatic copper concentrations, but the activities of the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes and cytochrome oxidase in liver remained largely unaffected.
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PMID:Effect of different degrees of moderate iron deficiency on the activities of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes, and the cytochrome oxidase, and the iron, copper, and zinc concentrations in rat tissues. 980 Mar 17


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