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Query: EC:2.6.1.2 (alanine aminotransferase)
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The effects of a high fat diet (30% (w/w) corn oil) on chronic streptozotocin-diabetic rats were investigated at the whole body level and at the enzyme level. The diet caused significant decreases in the extent of polydipsia (66% decrease), polyphagia (49%), polyuria (67%) and glycosuria (70%). The activities of selected hepatic enzymes from the glycolytic, gluconeogenic, ureogenic and lipogenic clusters were determined. The fat diet caused significant decreases (range: 47 to 54%) in the activity of the ureogenic enzymes carbamyl phosphate synthetase, ornithine transcarbamylase and arginase; had no effect on the glycolytic enzymes glucokinase, hexokinase and pyruvate kinase; partially decreased the diabetes-induced elevated activities of the gluconeogenic enzymes phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (63% decrease), serine dehydratase (90%), alanine aminotransferase (31%) and aspartate aminotransferase (65%), and partially reversed the activity of one lipogenic enzyme, ATP citrate lyase.
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PMID:The effects of a high fat diet on chronic streptozotocin-diabetic rats. 692 68

Liver and muscle amino acid enzyme activities and plasma proteins, urea, amino acids, glucose, lactate, 3-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate concentrations were studied in growing rats undergoing adaptation to high-fat, high-energy diet and glucose gavage. Liver and muscle were used for the estimation of alanine transaminase (GPT, EC 2.6.1.1.), adenylate deaminase (AMD, EC 3.5.4.6.), glutamine synthetase (GST, EC 6.3.1.2) and serine dehydratase (SDH, EC 4.2.1.13) activities, the latter only in liver samples. The most important modifications produced in muscle enzyme activities by glucose gavage were observed in rats fed a cafeteria diet. Glucose gavage affects liver enzyme activities in the same sense than cafeteria diet. Energy plasma components were affected in opposite way by glucose gavage according to diet administered.
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PMID:Changes induced in amino acid-enzymes of developing rats by a high-energy diet and glucose gavage. 768 82

The metabolism of pyruvate by Helicobacter pylori was investigated employing one- and two-dimensional 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Generation of pyruvate from L-serine in incubations with whole cell lysates indicated the presence of serine dehydratase activity in the bacterium. Pyruvate was formed also in cell suspensions and lysates from phosphoenol pyruvate. Metabolically competent cells incubated aerobically with pyruvate yielded alanine, lactate, acetate, formate, and succinate. The production of alanine and lactate indicated the presence of alanine transaminase and lactate dehydrogenase activities, respectively. Accumulation of acetate and formate as metabolic products provided evidence for the existence of a mixed-acid fermentation pathway in the microorganism. Formation of succinate suggested the incorporation of the pyruvate carbon skeleton into the Kreb's cycle. Addition of pyruvate to various liquid culture media did not affect bacterial growth or loss of viability. The variety of products formed using pyruvate as the sole substrate showed the important role of this metabolite in the energy metabolism of H. pylori.
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PMID:Pyruvate metabolism in Helicobacter pylori. 797 73

The metabolism of pyruvate by Campylobacter spp. was investigated employing one- and two-dimensional 1H, 13C and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Metabolically competent cells incubated aerobically with pyruvate yielded acetate, acetolactate, alanine, formate, lactate, and succinate. The production of acetolactate, alanine and lactate indicated the presence of acetohydroxy acid synthase, alanine transaminase and lactate dehydrogenase activities, respectively. Accumulation of acetate and formate as metabolic products provided evidence for the existence of a mixed acid fermentation pathway in the microorganism. Formation of succinate suggested the incorporation of the pyruvate carbon skeleton to the Kreb's cycle, and the observation of pyruvate dehydrogenase activities in bacterial lysates supported this interpretation. Generation of pyruvate from L-serine in incubations with intact cells and lysates indicated the presence of serine dehydratase activity in the bacterium. Pyruvate was also formed in cell suspensions and lysates from phosphoenol pyruvate. The existence of anaplerotic sequences involving phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase and a malic enzyme were established in bacterial lysates. The activities of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of isoleucine and valine were measured. Addition of pyruvate to different solid culture media inhibited bacterial growth, and the inhibition was attributed to the accumulation of acetate and formate. The variety of products formed using pyruvate as the sole substrate and the existence of anaplerotic sequences and anabolic pathways which employ pyruvate, showed the important role of this metabolite in the energy and biosynthesis metabolism of Campylobacter spp.
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PMID:Pyruvate metabolism in Campylobacter spp. 910 25

This study was designed to assess the effects of long-term adaptation to a high protein diet on energy intake, body weight gain, body composition and splanchnic metabolic indicators in rats. For this purpose, adult male Wistar rats were fed either a 50 g/100 g dry matter (DM) protein diet (P50 group) or a 14 g/100 g DM protein diet (P14 group) for 21 d. These two groups were compared with a P14 pair-fed (P14-pf) group that consumed the same daily energy as the P50 group. The energy intake of the P50 group was 16 +/- 1% less than that of the P14 group (P < 0.05), and the P50 group had significantly lower body weight. The P50 group had significantly less adipose tissue compared with both P14 and P14-pf rats. The activities of the brush border membrane enzymes, neutral aminopeptidase and gamma-glutamyl transferase, were significantly higher in the P50 group than in the P14 rats. Similarly, the activities of alanine aminotransferase, arginase and serine dehydratase were significantly higher in the liver of P50 rats compared with P14 rats. Both amino acid transporter system A and X(A,G-) activities, measured in freshly isolated hepatocytes, were significantly higher in the P50 group (8- and 1.5-fold, P < 0.05, respectively) compared with the P14 group. The 1.5-fold increase in the steady-state activity of X(A,G-) was accompanied by a doubling of EAAT2 mRNA, involved in the system X(A,G-). This study provides confirmation that specific biochemical and molecular adaptive processes of the splanchnic area are involved in the response to variations in the protein content of the diet.
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PMID:Metabolic evidence for adaptation to a high protein diet in rats. 1120 43

The activity of the enzymes involved in aminoacid metabolism (tyrosine aminotransferase, TAT, tryptophan pyrrolase TP, serine dehydratase, SD) with rapid response to glucocorticoids and enzymes requiring for activity increase repeated administration of corticosterone (alanine aminotransferase, ALT, aspartate aminotransferase, AST) in liver, the changes of lipolysis in adipose tissue and the plasma corticosterone levels were studied in rats subjected to space flight (F), in animals from synchron model experiments (SM, simulated conditions of space flight in laboratory) and in intact controls (C). The increase of plasma corticosterone concentration and of the activity of rapidly (TAT, TP, SD) and slowly activating enzymes (ALT, AST) was found in F group 6-10 hr after space flight (18.5 days on biosatellite COSMOS 1129). This suggested the presence of acute-stress (associated primarily with the landing) and chronic stress induced hypercorticosteronemia during the flight. After the short 6-day period of recovery the plasma corticosterone concentrations and the activities of liver enzymes returned to control levels. The exposition of animals to repeated immobilization stress showed higher response of corticosterone levels in flight rats as compared to intact controls. No changes in basal lipolysis were observed in flight rats in comparison to intact controls, however the stimulation of lipolysis by norepinephrine was lower in animals from F and SM groups. This lower response of lipolytic processes to norepinephrine was found in flight animals also after six days period of recovery. These results showed that there are important changes in the regulation of lipolytic processes in adipose tissue of rats after space flight and in the conditions of model experiments.
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PMID:Metabolic changes in the animals subjected to space flight. 1154 92


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