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Query: EC:2.3.3.1 (citrate synthase)
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1. Citrate synthase (EC 4.1.3.7) was purified 750-fold from rat liver. 2. Measurements of the Michaelis constants for the substrates of citrate synthase gave values of 16mum for acetyl-CoA and 2mum for oxaloacetate. Each value is independent of the concentration of the other substrate. 3. The inhibition of citrate synthase by ATP, ADP and AMP is competitive with respect to acetyl-CoA. With respect to oxaloacetate the inhibition by AMP is competitive, but the inhibition by ADP and ATP is mixed, being partially competitive. 4. At low concentrations of both substrates the inhibition by ATP is sigmoidal and a Hill plot exhibits a slope of 2.5. 5. The pH optimum of the enzyme is 8.7, and is not significantly affected by ATP. 6. Mg(2+) inhibits citrate synthase slightly, but relieves the inhibition caused by ATP in a complex manner. 7. At constant total adenine nucleotide concentration made up of various proportions of ATP, ADP and AMP, the activity of citrate synthase is governed by the concentration of the sum of the energy-rich phosphate bonds of ADP and ATP. 8. The sedimentation coefficient of the enzyme, as measured by activity sedimentation, is 6.3s, equivalent to molecular weight 95000.
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PMID:The kinetic properties of citrate synthase from rat liver mitochondria. 582 Jun 45

Dibutyryl cyclic AMP and butyrate inhibited growth of S-20 (cholinergic) and NIE-115 (adrenergic) neuroblastoma clones. Both these drugs resulted in a parallel increase of choline acetyltransferase and ATP-citrate lyase activities in S-20 neuroblastoma cells. On the other hand, the increase in tyrosine hydroxylase activity in NIE-115 caused by these drugs was not accompanied by a significant change in ATP-citrate lyase activity. Both dibutyryl cyclic AMP and butyrate caused a decrease in fatty acid synthetase activity in both cell lines. The activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, choline acetyltransferase, and lactate dehydrogenase in both S-20 and NIE-115 cells were not significantly influenced by the drugs. ATP-citrate lyases from S-20 and NIE-115 had similar kinetic and immunological properties, and their subunits had the same molecular weight as the rat liver enzyme. These data indicate that the differential regulation of ATP-citrate lyase activity in cholinergic and adrenergic cells does not result from the existence of different molecular forms of the enzyme in these cell lines. They also provide further evidence to support the hypothesis that ATP-citrate lyase activity increases during maturation of normal cholinergic neurons and decreases in noncholinergic cells of the brain.
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PMID:The enzymes of acetyl-CoA metabolism in differentiating cholinergic (s-20) and noncholinergic (NIE-115) neuroblastoma cells. 630 53

Citrate synthase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus was subjected to proteolysis with subtilisin. Although the enzyme proved relatively resistant to inactivation by this treatment, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis clearly revealed breakdown of the citrate synthase to smaller fragments. The regulatory responses of the native enzyme to inhibition by NADH and re-activation by AMP were retained on proteolysis, indicating that the fragments bind tightly to each other and preserve the overall cooperative molecular interactions.
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PMID:Proteolysis of acinetobacter citrate synthase by subtilisin. 633 74

The nucleotide sequence of a 3614 base-pair segment of DNA containing the sdhA gene, encoding the flavoprotein subunit of succinate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli, and two genes sdhC and sdhD, encoding small hydrophobic subunits, has been determined. Together with the iron-sulphur protein gene (sdhB) these genes form an operon (sdhCDAB) situated between the citrate synthase gene (gltA) and the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex genes (sucAB): gltA-sdhCDAB-sucAB. Transcription of the gltA and sdhCDAB gene appears to diverge from a single intergenic region that contains two pairs of potential promoter sequences and two putative CRP (cyclic AMP receptor protein)-binding sites. The sdhA structural gene comprises 1761 base-pairs (587 codons, excluding the initiation codon, AUG) and it encodes a polypeptide of Mr 64268 that is strikingly homologous with the flavoprotein subunit of fumarate reductase (frdA gene product). The FAD-binding region, including the histidine residue at the FAD-attachment site, has been identified by its homology with other flavoproteins and with the flavopeptide of the bovine heart mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase. Potential active-site cysteine and histidine residues have also been indicated by the comparisons. The sdhC (384 base-pairs) and sdhD (342 base-pairs) structural genes encode two strongly hydrophobic proteins of Mr 14167 and 12792 respectively. These proteins resemble in size and composition, but not sequence, the membrane anchor proteins of fumarate reductase (the frdC and frdD gene products).
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PMID:Nucleotide sequence encoding the flavoprotein and hydrophobic subunits of the succinate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli. 638 59

A mathematical model is proposed to describe the interaction between glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and 3-oxidation (beta OX). The model incorporates the activations of phosphofructokinase by AMP and of isocitrate dehydrogenase by ADP as well as the inhibitions of citrate synthase by citrate, of acyl CoA synthase by excess CoAsAcyl, of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and the beta OX helix by the products CoAsAc and NADH. These regulations have been shown to provide consecutive triggering of the fatty acid and glucose oxidation systems with an increase in the ATPase load, the beta OX of fatty acids being a major source of energy at small loads. The steady state rates of glycolysis and PDH-reaction begin to increase at larger loads when the rate of beta OX is close to its maximum value. At maximum ATPase loads, the glucose oxidation accounts for more than 80% of the total energy production. Under limited fatty acid supply, the transfer to glucose oxidation gives rise to a region of the ATPase loads, where in the steady state levels of NADH and CoAsAc increase with load.
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PMID:[Ratio between carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in muscle cell energy metabolism during ATPase loading. Mathematical model]. 645 74

Citrate synthase has been purified to homogeneity from a strain of the Gram-negative aerobic bacterium Acinetobacter anitratum in a form which retains its sensitivity to the allosteric inhibitor NADH. In subunit size, amino acid composition, and antigenic reactivity the enzyme shows a marked structural resemblance to the citrate synthase of the Gram-negative facultative anaerobe Escherichia coli. Whereas the E. coli enzyme is subject to a strong, hyperbolic inhibition by NADH (Hill's number n = 1.0, Ki = 2 microM), the A. anitratum enzyme shows a weak, sigmoid response (n = 1.6, I0.5 = 140 microM) to this nucleotide. With E. coli, NADH inhibition is competitive with acetyl-CoA, and noncompetitive with oxaloacetate; with A. anitratum, NADH is noncompetitive with both substrates. Acinetobacter anitratum citrate synthase shows hyperbolic saturation with acetyl-CoA (n = 1.8). The finding of Weitzman and Jones (Nature (London) 219, 270 (1968) that NADH inhibition of the enzyme from Acinetobacter spp. is reversible by AMP, while that from E. coli is not, is explained by the much greater affinity of the E. coli enzyme for NADH. Unlike E. coli citrate synthase, the A. anitratum enzyme does not react with the sulfhydryl reagent 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) in the absence of denaturation. With a second sulfhydryl reagent, 4,4'-dithiodipyridine (4,4'-PDS), the A. anitratum enzyme reacts with 1 equiv. of subunit; this modification induces a partial activity loss (attributable to a arise in the Km for acetyl-CoA) and an increase in the sensitivity to NADH. With the E. coli enzyme, 4,4'-PDS causes complete inactivation. Acinetobacter anitratum citrate synthase is much more resistant to urea denaturation than the E. coli enzyme is; the resistance of both enzymes to urea is greatly improved in the presence of 1 M KCl. It is suggested that the amino acid sequences of the subunits of the citrate synthases of these two bacteria are about 90% homologous, and that the 10% differences are in key residues, perhaps largely in the subunit contact regions, which account for the differences in allosteric properties.
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PMID:A comparison of the citrate synthases of Escherichia coli and Acinetobacter anitratum. 678 Jan 70

Citrate synthase [citrate (si)-synthase] (EC 4.1.3.7) was partially purified from extracts of highly purified typhus rickettsiae (Rickettsia prowazekii). Molecular exclusion and affinity column chromatography were used to prepare 200-fold-purified citrate synthase that contained no detectable malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.37) activity. Rickettsial malate dehydrogenase also was partially purified (200-fold) via this purification procedure. Catalytically active citrate synthase exhibited a relative molecular weight of approximately 62,000 after elution from a calibrated Sephacryl S-200 column. Acetyl coenzyme A saturation of partially purified enzyme was sensitive to strong competitive inhibition with adenylates (ATP greater than ADP much greater than AMP). [beta,gamma-methylene]ATP, dATP, and dADP also caused strong inhibition, but guanosine and cytosine nucleotides were significantly less inhibitory. Adenylates had no effect on oxalacetate saturation kinetics when acetyl coenzyme A was present in high concentration (greater than or equal to 50 microM). Neither NADH nor alpha-ketoglutarate affected the saturation kinetics of rickettsial citrate synthase. Thus, citrate synthase from R. prowazekii exhibits greater similarity to the eucaryotic and gram-positive procaryotic enzymes than to citrate synthase from free-living gram-negative bacteria. These results represent the first characterization of a highly purified key regulatory enzyme from these obligate intracellular parasitic bacteria.
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PMID:Regulatory properties of citrate synthase from Rickettsia prowazekii. 679 96

Adenine nucleotides were tested as effectors of peroxisomal and mitochondrial citrate synthase from Agave americana leaves in the presence of different concentrations of acetyl-CoA and oxalacetate substrates. ATP inhibited both enzyme activities but with a different inhibition profile. 1.0-7.5 mM ADP did not inhibit the peroxisomal citrate synthase in the presence of high substrate concentrations, while the mitochondrial enzyme was strongly inhibited by 1.0 mM ADP in the same conditions. Likewise, a different pattern was obtained with AMP on both peroxisomal and mitochondrial activities. The rate of citrate formation as function of acetyl-CoA and oxalacetate concentration was also studied in both fractions. Maximal velocity was highest in the peroxisomal fraction, whether acetyl-CoA or oxalacetate were the variable substrates. These differences indicate that peroxisomal and mitochondrial citrate synthases seem to be two different isoenzymes.
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PMID:Properties of peroxisomal and mitochondrial citrate synthase from Agave americana. 715 52

CBL/57 strain db/db mice exhibit type II (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes. The affected mice are markedly hyperinsulinemic, hyperglycemic, and hypercholesterolemic, and their serum K+ levels are decreased. The brains of the diabetic mice are significantly smaller than those of their lean, control littermates, but the protein concentration is normal. The low brain weight is accompanied by a loss of major fatty acid components within the whole brain, nerve endings, and mitochondrial membranes. Cholesterol levels are low in whole brain but are not significantly different from normal in the synaptosomal membranes. The phospholipid concentration is significantly decreased in whole brain homogenates, crude synaptosomal membranes, and crude mitochondrial membranes of the diabetic mice. In addition, the specific activities of membrane-bound synaptosomal acetylcholinesterase, Na+,K(+)-ATPase, and Mg(2+)-ATPase are decreased in crude synaptosomal membranes of the diabetic mice. The specific activities of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I and carnitine acetyltransferase are significantly increased in the crude mitochondrial fraction isolated from the brains of the type II diabetic mice, whereas the specific activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is decreased. The specific activities of two other mitochondrial enzymes--monoamine oxidase B and citrate synthase--and a cytosolic enzyme--lactate dehydrogenase--are unaltered. The ability to synthesize cyclic AMP is markedly decreased in the brains of the diabetic mice. The concentrations of carnitine and of the amino acids, glutamate, aspartate, glutamine, and serine are unaltered, whereas glycine levels are significantly elevated in the brains of the db/db mice. The data suggest that in vivo the brains of the diabetic mice exhibit a decreased capacity for glucose oxidation and increased capacity for fatty acid oxidation. This hypothesis is supported by the finding that cerebral mitochondria isolated from the db/db mice oxidize [1-14C]palmitate to 14CO2 at a rate almost twice that of control mitochondria. The present findings emphasize the potentially serious alteration of brain metabolism in uncontrolled type II diabetes.
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PMID:Lipid metabolism and membrane composition are altered in the brains of type II diabetic mice. 772 1

The energy metabolism was evaluated in gastrocnemius muscle from 3-month-old rats subjected to either mild or severe 4-week intermittent normobaric hypoxia. Furthermore, 4-week treatment with CNS-acting drugs, namely, alpha-adrenergic (delta-yohimbine), vasodilator (papaverine, pinacidil), or oxygen-increasing (almitrine) agents was performed. The muscular concentration of the following metabolites was evaluated: glycogen, glucose, glucose 6-phosphate, pyruvate, lactate, lactate-to-pyruvate ratio; citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinate, malate; aspartate, glutamate, alanine; ammonia; ATP, ADP, AMP, creatine phosphate. Furthermore the Vmax of the following muscular enzymes was evaluated: hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase; citrate synthase, malate dehydrogenase; total NADH cytochrome c reductase; cytochrome oxidase. The adaptation to chronic intermittent normobaric mild or severe hypoxia induced alterations of the components in the anaerobic glycolytic pathway [as supported by the increased activity of lactate dehydrogenase and/or hexokinase, resulting in the decreased glycolytic substrate concentration consistent with the increased lactate production and lactate-to-pyruvate ratio] and in the mitochondrial mechanism [as supported by the decreased activity of malate dehydrogenase and/or citrate synthase resulting in the decreased concentration of some key components in the tricarboxylic acid cycle]. The effect of the concomitant pharmacological treatment suggests that the action of CNS-acting drugs could be also related to their direct influence on the muscular biochemical mechanisms linked to energy transduction.
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PMID:Modifications by chronic intermittent hypoxia and drug treatment on skeletal muscle metabolism. 778 38


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