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Query: EC:2.3.3.1 (citrate synthase)
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Samples of bovine muscle (post rigor) were frozen at different temperatures between -5 degrees and -196 degrees C at different freezing rates, and thawed at room temperature. The activities of the mitochondrial enzymes lipoamide dehydrogenase, citrate synthase and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase were determined in the supernatant of the tissue homogenates in phosphate buffer (total enzyme activity), as well as in the press juice of the intact tissue (enzyme activity in the sarcoplasma). Neither the temperature nor the rate of freezing (varying from 25.5 to 0.01 min/degrees C) showed a significant influence on the total enzyme activities. Freezing at -5 degrees and -10 degrees C (at different rates but without intracellular freezing) and thawing did not result in an appreciable release of enzymes. Below -10 degrees C the release of the three enzymes from their binding to the inner membrane of the mitochondrion into the sarcoplasmic fluid increased upon rapid freezing with decreasing temperature i.e. with increasing intracellular ice formation, whereas at slow freezing (with extracellular ice formation only) freezing below -20 degrees C did not cause further enzyme release. At freezing temperatures below -20 degrees C rapid freezing resulted in a significantly stronger release of the three enzymes than slow freezing. From these results it was concluded that the damage to mitochondrial membranes upon fast freezing is primarily a result of intracellular (and perhaps also intramitochondrial) ice formation, whereas the membrane damage during slow freezing is primarily due to dehydration caused by the migration of water from the muscle fibers into the extracellular space as a result of osmotic effects. Ion concentration in the nonfreezing fraction of tissue water seems to be only of minor importance for the disintegration of mitochondrial membranes.
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PMID:[Lipoamide dehydrogenase, citrate synthase and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase in skeletal muscle. VIII. The influence of temperature and rate of freezing of bovine muscle on the activity and subcellular distribution of the enzymes in the thawed tissue]. 384 Mar 12

The interaction of a novel fluorinated analogue of citrate, 3-fluoro-3-deoxycitrate (3-fluorocitrate), with the four known citrate-processing enzymes is described in this report. Three of the citrate-processing enzymes, citrate synthase, ATP citrate lyase, and citrate lyase, catalyze reversible aldol-type condensations. The fate of 3-fluorocitrate with each enzyme is uniquely related to their mechanisms of action. For citrate synthase, 3-fluorocitrate is a competitive inhibitor. 3-Fluorocitrate is a substrate for the carboxylate activation half-reaction catalyzed by ATP citrate lyase and induces a net ATPase action during conversion to 3-fluorocitryl-S-coenzyme A. Because of the unusual mechanism of citrate cleavage catalyzed by bacterial citrate lyase, 3-fluorocitrate is a mechanism-based inhibitor, acting at two points during turnover of the acetyl enzyme. The fourth citrate-processing enzyme, aconitase, does turn over 3-fluorocitrate catalytically. This enzyme, catalyzing a dehydration and rehydration of citrate, also catalyzes the elimination of HF from 3-fluorocitrate, yielding cis-aconitate and fluoride.
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PMID:3-fluoro-3-deoxycitrate: a probe for mechanistic study of citrate-utilizing enzymes. 621 36

The fatty acid synthetase of animal tissue consists of two subunits, each containing seven catalytic centers and an acyl carrier site. Proteolytic cleavage patterns indicate that the subunit is arranged into three major domains, I, II, and III. Domain I contains the NH2-terminal end of the polypeptide and the catalytic sites of beta-ketoacyl synthetase (condensing enzyme) and the acetyl-and malonyl-transacylases. This domain, therefore, functions as a site for acetyl and malonyl substrate entry into the process of fatty acid synthesis and acts in part as the site of carbon-carbon condensation, resulting in chain elongation. Domain II is the medial domain and contains the beta-ketoacyl and enoyl reductases, probably the dehydratase, and the 4'-phosphopantetheine prosthetic group of the acyl carrier protein site. Domain II, therefore, is designated as the reduction domain where the keto carbon is reduced to methylene carbon by sequential processes of reduction, dehydration, and reduction again. Throughout these processes, the acyl group is attached to the pantetheine-SH of the acyl carrier protein. The latter site is distal to the cysteine-SH of the beta-ketoacyl synthetase, constitutes the 15000-dalton polypeptide at the COOH-terminal end of Domain II, and connects to Domain III. When the growing chain reaches C16 carbon length, the fatty acyl group is released by the thioesterase activity, which is contained in Domain III. A functional model is proposed based on the aforementioned results and the recent evidence that the synthetase subunits are arranged in a head-to-tail fashion, such that the pantetheine-SH of the acyl carrier protein of one subunit and the cysteine-SH of the beta-ketoacyl synthetase of the second subunit are juxtaposed. In this model, a palmitate synthesizing site contains Domain I of one subunit and Domains II and III of the second subunit. Therefore, even though each subunit contains all of the partial activities of the reaction sequence, the actual palmitate synthesizing unit consists of one-half of a subunit interacting with the complementary half of the other subunit.
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PMID:The architecture of the animal fatty acid synthetase complex. IV. Mapping of active centers and model for the mechanism of action. 665 14

There are two genes, fabA and fabZ, encoding beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) dehydratases that function in the dissociated, type II fatty acid synthase system of Escherichia coli. We have investigated their roles in fatty acid synthesis by purifying the two proteins and reconstituting cycles of fatty acid synthesis in vitro using five other purified proteins. FabA and FabZ exhibited broad, overlapping chain length specificities. The FabZ dehydratase efficiently catalyzed the dehydration of short chain beta-hydroxyacyl-ACPs and long chain saturated and unsaturated beta-hydroxyacyl-ACPs. FabA was most active on intermediate chain length beta-hydroxyacyl-ACPs and also possessed significant activity toward both short and long chain saturated beta-hydroxyacyl-ACPs. Significantly, FabA was virtually inactive in the dehydration of long chain unsaturated beta-hydroxyacyl-ACP. The introduction of the double bond at the 10-carbon stage of fatty acid synthesis by FabA was only detected in the presence of beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase I (FabB). A yeast two-hybrid analysis failed to detect an interaction between FabA and FabB, therefore the channeling of intermediates toward unsaturated fatty acid synthesis by FabB was attributed to the affinity of the condensing enzyme for cis-decenoyl-ACP. The broad substrate specificity of FabZ coupled with the inactivity of FabA toward a long chain unsaturated beta-hydroxyacyl-ACP provides a biochemical explanation for the phenotypes of cells with genetically altered levels of the two dehydratases.
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PMID:Roles of the FabA and FabZ beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein dehydratases in Escherichia coli fatty acid biosynthesis. 891 Mar 76

Rat brain microsomes actively dehydrate 3-hydroxyacyl-CoAs. Using chemically synthesized [1-(14)C] (R,S) 3-hydroxyeicosanoyl-CoA, we investigated the biochemical characteristics of the dehydration and reduction steps of stearoyl-CoA elongation. The reaction products, separated and identified as trans2,3-enoyl-CoAs and, in the presence of NADPH, as saturated acyl-CoAs, were released from the enzyme as thioesters which were partly hydrolysed. A kinetic analysis of the two coupled reactions showed that the 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrase catalysed a reversible reaction with kinetic constants of about 0.045 min(-1) for forward reaction (dehydration) and 0.025 min(-1) for reverse reaction (hydration); Vmax of the dehydration reached 20 nmoles/min/mg and the apparent Km was 44 microM. In the presence of NADPH, the kinetic constants for the dehydrase were unchanged and that for the trans2,3-enoyl-CoA reductase was 0.025 min(-1). The relative proportion of trans2,3-enoyl-CoA and saturated acyl-CoA depended on the protein amount. An inhibition of the reduction step was observed for substrate concentrations above 15 microM. The 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrase used (R) rather than (S) 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA. Furthermore, the elongation of (R) 3-hydroxyeicosanoyl-CoA yielded saturated very-long-chain acyl-CoA. These results demonstrated that 3-hydroxyacyl-CoAs entered the elongating complex exclusively at the level of the dehydrase and not of the condensing enzyme.
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PMID:Dehydration of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA in brain very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis. 1037 12

The developmental patterns of the overall fatty acid elongation and of the last two partial activities of microsomal elongase (dehydration and reduction of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA) were investigated in the PNS of normal and Trembler mice. Unexpectedly, Trembler microsomes synthesized normal C22-CoA amounts from 3-hydroxyeicosanoyl-CoA (3-OHC20-CoA), a C18-CoA elongation intermediate. Hydroxy- acyl-CoA dehydrase and enoyl-CoA reductase activities were found to be higher in the mutant than in the control, whatever the stage of development. Moreover, C20-CoA elongation led to normal C22-CoA and C24-CoA formation in the mutant whereas C20-CoA formation from C18-CoA was always far lower in Trembler than in control. C18-CoA condensing enzyme emerges as the only elongation step involved in the VLCFA deficit evidenced in Trembler PNS.
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PMID:High metabolism and subsequent elongation of 3-hydroxyeicosanoyl-CoA in very-long-chain fatty acid deficient PNS of Trembler mice. 1050 44

LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) proteins in both plants and animals are associated with tolerance to water stress resulting from desiccation and cold shock. However, although various functions of LEA proteins have been proposed, their precise role has not been defined. Recent bioinformatics studies suggest that LEA proteins might behave as molecular chaperones, and the current study was undertaken to test this hypothesis. Recombinant forms of AavLEA1, a group 3 LEA protein from the anhydrobiotic nematode Aphelenchus avenae, and Em, a group 1 LEA protein from wheat, have been subjected to functional analysis. Heat-stress experiments with citrate synthase, which is susceptible to aggregation at high temperatures, suggest that LEA proteins do not behave as classical molecular chaperones, but they do exhibit a protective, synergistic effect in the presence of the so-called chemical chaperone, trehalose. In contrast, both LEA proteins can independently protect citrate synthase from aggregation due to desiccation and freezing, in keeping with a role in water-stress tolerance; similar results were obtained with lactate dehydrogenase. This is the first evidence of anti-aggregation activity of LEA proteins due to water stress. Again, a synergistic effect of LEA and trehalose was observed, which is significant given that non-reducing disaccharides are known to accumulate during dehydration in plants and nematodes. A model is proposed whereby LEA proteins might act as a novel form of molecular chaperone, or 'molecular shield', to help prevent the formation of damaging protein aggregates during water stress.
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PMID:LEA proteins prevent protein aggregation due to water stress. 1563 17

ERD10 and ERD14 (for early response to dehydration) proteins are members of the dehydrin family that accumulate in response to abiotic environmental stresses, such as high salinity, drought, and low temperature, in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Whereas these proteins protect cells against the consequences of dehydration, the exact mode(s) of their action remains poorly understood. Here, detailed evidence is provided that ERD10 and ERD14 belong to the family of intrinsically disordered proteins, and it is shown in various assays that they act as chaperones in vitro. ERD10 and ERD14 are able to prevent the heat-induced aggregation and/or inactivation of various substrates, such as lysozyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, firefly luciferase, and citrate synthase. It is also demonstrated that ERD10 and ERD14 bind to acidic phospholipid vesicles without significantly affecting membrane fluidity. Membrane binding is strongly influenced by ionic strength. Our results show that these intrinsically disordered proteins have chaperone activity of rather wide substrate specificity and that they interact with phospholipid vesicles through electrostatic forces. We suggest that these findings provide the rationale for the mechanism of how these proteins avert the adverse effects of dehydration stresses.
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PMID:Chaperone activity of ERD10 and ERD14, two disordered stress-related plant proteins. 1835 42

It is well known that environmental temperature influences several biological functions of ectotherms, notably in amphibians. The high permeability of anuran skin, associated with the effect of elevated environmental temperature, potentiates the dehydration process and this combination may restrict locomotor performance. Thoropa taophora is an endemic species from the Atlantic Rainforest whose tadpoles are semiterrestrial and predominantly diurnal, and are found in rocky seashores where they are exposed to sea spray and high temperatures. In this study we investigated how temperature and salinity conditions affect the locomotor performance in Thoropa taophora tadpoles. We also assessed how different osmotic concentrations affect the activity of the metabolic pathways that support muscle function. We measured the sprint speed of tadpoles of various sizes at different temperatures and salinities in the field. We also measured the activity of the enzymes pyruvate kinase (PK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and citrate synthase (CS) in different temperatures and osmotic concentrations, and calculated the thermal sensitivity and the activity constants for each osmolality. Our results showed that, in general, sprint speed decreased with increasing temperature and salinity. However, whereas the effect of increased salinity was similar in smaller and larger tadpoles, increased temperature had a higher negative impact on sprint speed of larger tadpoles, thus indicating low thermal sensitivity of small tadpoles. PK and LDH thermal sensitivities and LDH constant of activity decreased as the osmolality increased. In conclusion, the locomotor capacity of tadpoles was decreased by temperature and salinity, which may be related to a decrease in anaerobic metabolism both in terms of sensitivity and total energy turnover through enzymatic activity. We discuss the ecological consequences, including the potential impacts on predator escape behavior promoted by changes in metabolism and locomotor performance in an early stage of development of this species.
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PMID:Thermal and salinity effects on locomotor performance of Thoropa taophora tadpoles (Anura, Cycloramphidae). 3114 73