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Query: EC:2.3.3.1 (citrate synthase)
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2-Methylcitrate was tested in vitro on enzymes which interact with citrate and isocitrate. It was found to inhibit citrate synthase, aconitase, the NAD+- and NADP+-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase. This inhibition was competitive in nature except in the case of aconitase, and the Ki for all the enzymes was in the range of 1.5-7.6 mM. Phosphofructokinase was also inhibited by 2-methylcitrate with 50% inhibition achieved at 1 mM. ATP-citrate lyase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase were not inhibited by this compound. 2-Methylcitrate was not a substrate for ATP-citrate lyase. Acetyl-CoA carboxylase was activated by 2-methylcitrate with a Ka of 2.8 mM. The apparent Km (3.3 mM) for 2-methylcitrate for the mitochondrial citrate transporter was about 10-fold higher than the apparent Km (0.26 mM) for citrate. The tricarboxylase carrier can also be inhibited by low concentrations (0.2 mM) of 2-methylcitrate when the concentration of citrate is close to the apparent Km. Accumulation of 2-methylcitrate inside the mitochondrion, therefore, might lead to inhibition of enzymes in the citric acid cycle and thereby contribute to the ketogenesis and hypoglycemia seen under these conditions.
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PMID:Effect of 2-methylcitrate on citrate metabolism: implications for the management of patients with propionic acidemia and methylmalonic aciduria. 12 73

The rate of utilization of pyruvate (at various concentrations) was measured in lymphocytes prepared from rat mesenteric lymph nodes. The quantitative contribution of pyruvate to CO2, lactate, aspartate, alanine, citrate, acetate, acetyl-CoA and ketone bodies accounted for the pyruvate metabolized. Pyruvate utilization was depressed by increasing concentrations of pyruvate. The maximum catalytic activities and selected intracellular distributions of the following enzymes of pyruvate, citrate and acetyl-CoA metabolism were measured: citrate synthase, ATP-citrate lyase, lactate dehydrogenase, acetyl-CoA hydrolase, acetylcarnitine transferase, NAD+- and NADP+- isocitrate dehydrogenases, HMG-CoA lyase, HMG-CoA synthase, Pyruvate dehydrogenase, acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase, 3-oxoacid-CoA transferase, 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase. Acetyl-CoA formed from pyruvate did not contribute to the respiratory energy metabolism of resting lymphocytes. Instead acetyl-CoA was converted to acetoacetate by reactions which may favour the pathway catalyzed by acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase and 3-oxoacid-CoA transferase. Acetate, acetyl- and palmitoyl-carnitine inhibited the decarboxylation of [1-14C] pyruvate. These observations may be connected with the suppression of pyruvate utilization by increased pyruvate substrate concentration. Only very small amounts of either pyruvate or acetate were incorporated into lipids in resting lymphocytes. The amounts incorporated were partitioned in approximately the same pattern into FFA, T.G., cholesterol and cholesterol esters. Taken together the data show that pyruvate metabolism is directed inter alia at the formation of acetoacetate which may serve as a lipid synthesis precursor. When pyruvate utilization and metabolism was enhanced by concanavalin A, then acetoacetate formation was not favoured and from this it is proposed that the acetyl units may then be directed into lipid synthesis and may also make a contribution to the energy metabolism of the activated lymphocyte.
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PMID:Pyruvate metabolism by lymphocytes: evidence for an additional ketogenic tissue. 261 47

ATP:citrate lyase [ATP citrate (pro-3S)-lyase; EC 4.1.3.8] was purified and characterized from the cells of Hydrogenobacter thermophilus, an aerobic, thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium which fixes carbon dioxide by a reductive carboxylic acid cycle. The enzyme was quite stable, even in the absence of sulfhydryl reagents. Optimum pH for reaction was 6.7 to 6.9, and optimum temperature was around 80 degrees C. The molecular weight of native enzyme was estimated to be 260,000 by gel filtration analysis, and that of a subunit was estimated to be 43,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel analysis. Km values for reaction components were as follows: citrate, 6.25 mM; ATP, 650 microM; coenzyme A, 40.8 microM; and Mg2+, 8 mM. The enzyme showed citrate synthase activity in the presence of Mg2+, but the reaction rate was very low (less than 1/200 of the lyase activity).
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PMID:Purification and characterization of ATP:citrate lyase from Hydrogenobacter thermophilus TK-6. 270 59

Simulation of reparative osteogenesis in diaphysis fracture of rat femur showed that liver tissue citrate synthase was a key enzyme in metabolism of citrate under conditions of organic matrix development in regenerating tissue. The liver enzyme as well as the callus citrate synthase were responsible for high rate of lipogenesis (activation of ATP-citrate lyase) and for an increase in content of citric acid within the initial period of consolidation. At the late steps of reparation callus citrate synthase, involved in citrate metabolism, promoted activation of energy-dependent reactions of calcification (stimulation of NAD-isocitrate dehydrogenase) and determined the dynamics of the metabolite concentration.
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PMID:[Citrate metabolism during the consolidation of experimental fractures]. 377 17

Fat-cells were prepared from rat and guinea-pig epididymal adipose tissue and compared on the basis of the intracellular distributions and activities of enzymes and with respect to their utilization of various U-(14)C-labelled substrates for lipogenesis. 1. Compared with the rat, guinea-pig extramitochondrial enzyme activities differed in that aconitate hydratase, alanine aminotransferase, ATP-citrate lyase, lactate dehydrogenase, NAD-malate dehydrogenase, NADP-malate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activities were appreciably lower, whereas aspartate aminotransferase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase activities were appreciably higher. Mitochondrial activities of citrate synthase, NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase were appreciably lower, whereas mitochondrial activities of aspartate aminotransferase, glutamate dehydrogenase, NAD-malate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase were higher in the guinea pig compared with the rat. 2. In general guinea-pig fat-cells incorporated acetate and lactate into fatty acids more readily than rat fat-cells, whereas rat fat-cells incorporated glucose and pyruvate more readily than guinea-pig fat-cells. 3. Acetate stimulated the incorporation of glucose into fatty acids in rat fat-cells, but had no appreciable effect upon this process in guinea-pig fat-cells. Acetate greatly decreased the incorporation of lactate into fatty acids in cells from both species. 4. Lactate/pyruvate ratios produced by incubation of guinea-pig cells with glucose+insulin were very low compared with those found with rat cells under the same conditions. 5. With glucose (+insulin) or with glucose+acetate (+insulin) as substrates guinea-pig cells produced enough NADPH by the hexose monophosphate pathway to satisfy the NADPH requirements of lipogenesis. In rat fat-cells under the same conditions, hexose monophosphate-pathway NADPH provision was not sufficient to meet the requirements of lipogenesis. 6. These results are discussed, particularly in relationship to the disposition of cytosolic reducing equivalents in the cells.
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PMID:Lipogenesis in rat and guinea-pig isolated epididymal fat-cells. 415 67

1. A method is described for extracting separately mitochondrial and extramitochondrial enzymes from fat-cells prepared by collagenase digestion from rat epididymal fat-pads. The following distribution of enzymes has been observed (with the total activities of the enzymes as units/mg of fat-cell DNA at 25 degrees C given in parenthesis). Exclusively mitochondrial enzymes: glutamate dehydrogenase (1.8), NAD-isocitrate dehydrogenase (0.5), citrate synthase (5.2), pyruvate carboxylase (3.0); exclusively extramitochondrial enzymes: glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (5.8), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (5.2), NADP-malate dehydrogenase (11.0), ATP-citrate lyase (5.1); enzymes present in both mitochondrial and extramitochondrial compartments: NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase (3.7), NAD-malate dehydrogenase (330), aconitate hydratase (1.1), carnitine acetyltransferase (0.4), acetyl-CoA synthetase (1.0), aspartate aminotransferase (1.7), alanine aminotransferase (6.1). The mean DNA content of eight preparations of fat-cells was 109mug/g dry weight of cells. 2. Mitochondria showing respiratory control ratios of 3-6 with pyruvate, about 3 with succinate and P/O ratios of approaching 3 and 2 respectively have been isolated from fat-cells. From studies of rates of oxygen uptake and of swelling in iso-osmotic solutions of ammonium salts, it is concluded that fat-cell mitochondria are permeable to the monocarboxylic acids, pyruvate and acetate; that in the presence of phosphate they are permeable to malate and succinate and to a lesser extent oxaloacetate but not fumarate; and that in the presence of both malate and phosphate they are permeable to citrate, isocitrate and 2-oxoglutarate. In addition, isolated fat-cell mitochondria have been found to oxidize acetyl l-carnitine and, slowly, l-glycerol 3-phosphate. 3. It is concluded that the major means of transport of acetyl units into the cytoplasm for fatty acid synthesis is as citrate. Extensive transport as glutamate, 2-oxoglutarate and isocitrate, as acetate and as acetyl l-carnitine appears to be ruled out by the low activities of mitochondrial aconitate hydratase, mitochondrial acetyl-CoA hydrolyase and carnitine acetyltransferase respectively. Pathways whereby oxaloacetate generated in the cytoplasm during fatty acid synthesis by ATP-citrate lyase may be returned to mitochondria for further citrate synthesis are discussed. 4. It is also concluded that fat-cells contain pathways that will allow the excess of reducing power formed in the cytoplasm when adipose tissue is incubated in glucose and insulin to be transferred to mitochondria as l-glycerol 3-phosphate or malate. When adipose tissue is incubated in pyruvate alone, reducing power for fatty acid, l-glycerol 3-phosphate and lactate formation may be transferred to the cytoplasm as citrate and malate.
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PMID:The intracellular localization of enzymes in white-adipose-tissue fat-cells and permeability properties of fat-cell mitochondria. Transfer of acetyl units and reducing power between mitochondria and cytoplasm. 439 82

Acetate derived from ethanol oxidation is activated by cytosolic and mitochondrial acetyl-CoA synthetases before contributing to the extra-mitochondrial processes of fatty acid and 3-beta-hydroxysterol synthesis. Mitochondrially-generated acetyl-CoA is transferred to the cytosol via citrate and ATP-citrate lyase; this transfer is blocked by (-)-hydroxycitrate. Rats were injected IV with 3.3 mmol/kg of [2-3H,2-14C] acetate and IP with either 0.5 mmol/kg hydroxycitrate or saline. After one hour, the rats were killed and the incorporation of label was measured in liver fatty acids and 3-beta-hydroxysterols. The 3H/14C ratio was increased by 12 and 13% in the fatty acids and 3-beta-hydroxysterols of the hydroxycitrate-treated group. The lower ratio in the fatty acids and 3-beta-hydroxysterols derived from mitochondrially-generated acetyl-CoA is ascribed to a loss of 3H in the citrate synthase reaction. The data showed that (1) fatty acids and 3-beta-hydroxysterols syntheses use the same pool of cytosolic acetyl-CoA; and (2) in the absence of an isotope effect in the citrate synthase reaction, mitochondrially-generated acetyl-CoA contributes about 36% to lipogenesis from acetate.
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PMID:Contributions of cytosolic and mitochondrial acetyl-CoA syntheses to the activation of lipogenic acetate in rat liver. 610 97

The activities of ATP-citrate lyase in frog, guinea pig, mouse, rat, and human brain vary from 18 to 30 mu mol/h/g of tissue, being several times higher than choline acetyltransferase activity. Activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase and acetyl coenzyme A synthetase in rat brain are 206 and 18.4 mu mol/h/g of tissue, respectively. Over 70% of the activities of both choline acetyltransferase and ATP-citrate lyase in secondary fractions are found in synaptosomes. Their preferential localization in synaptosomes and synaptoplasm is supported by RSA values above 2. Acetyl CoA synthetase activity is located mainly in whole brain mitochondria (RSA, 2.33) and its activity in synaptoplasm is low (RSA, 0.25). The activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, and carnitine acetyltransferase are present mainly in fractions C and Bp. No pyruvate dehydrogenase activity is found in synaptoplasm. Striatum, cerebral cortex, and cerebellum contain similar activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, carnitine acetyltransferase, fatty acid synthetase, and acetyl-CoA hydrolase. Activities of acetyl CoA synthetase, choline acetyltransferase and ATP-citrate lyase in cerebellum are about 10 and 4 times lower, respectively, than in other parts of the brain. These data indicate preferential localization of ATP-citrate lyase in cholinergic nerve endings, and indicate that this enzyme is not a rate limiting step in the synthesis of the acetyl moiety of ACh in brain.
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PMID:Regional and subcellular distribution of ATP-citrate lyase and other enzymes of acetyl-CoA metabolism in rat brain. 610 1

The activity of ATP-citrate lyase in homogenates of five selected rat brain regions varied from 2.93 to 6.90 nmol/min/mg of protein in the following order: cerebellum less than hippocampus less than parietal cortex less than striatum less than medulla oblongata and that of the choline acetyltransferase from 0.15 to 2.08 nmol/min/mg of protein in cerebellum less than parietal cortex less than hippocampus = medulla oblongata less than striatum. No substantial differences were found in regional activities of lactate dehydrogenase, pyruvate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase or acetyl-CoA synthase. High values of relative specific activities for both choline acetyltransferase and ATP-citrate lyase were found in synaptosomal and synaptoplasmic fractions from regions with a high content of cholinergic nerve endings. There are significant correlations between these two enzyme activities in general cytocol (S3), synaptosomal (B) and synaptoplasmic (Bs) fractions from the different regions (r = 0.92-0.99). These data indicate that activity of ATP-citrate lyase in cholinergic neurons is several times higher than that present in glial and noncholinergic neuronal cells.
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PMID:ATP citrate lyase in cholinergic nerve endings. 612 37

The activities of choline acetyltransferase and ATP-citrate lyase were significantly correlated (r = 0.995) in fractions of small and large synaptosomes isolated from rat hippocampus and cerebellum. The activities of these two enzymes did not correlate with those of pyruvate dehydrogenase, carnitine acetyltransferase, citrate synthase, acetyl-CoA synthetase, lactate dehydrogenase, or with the rate of high-affinity glutamate uptake in the synaptosomal fractions. The results provide additional evidence linking ATP-citrate lyase to the cholinergic system in the brain.
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PMID:ATP-citrate lyase and other enzymes of acetyl-CoA metabolism in fractions of small and large synaptosomes from rat brain hippocampus and cerebellum. 613 19


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