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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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The effect of triorthocresyl phosphate on selected glycolytic enzymes (hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase) was investigated during the development of organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy. Only phosphofructokinase activity was decreased 15 days after treatment. The effect was dose-dependent and was observed in sciatic nerve while the brain enzyme activity was not affected.
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PMID:Decreased phosphofructokinase activity during the development of triorthocresyl-phosphate-induced delayed neuropathy. 255 37

The early stages of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus are characterized by a selective inability to secrete insulin in response to glucose, coupled to a better response to nonnutrient secretagogues. The deficient glucose response may be a result of the autoimmune process directed toward the beta-cells. Interleukin-1 (IL-1) has been suggested to be one possible mediator of immunological damage of the beta-cells. In the present study we characterized the sensitivity of beta-cells to different secretagogues after human recombinant IL-1 beta (rIL-1 beta) exposure. Furthermore, experiments were performed to clarify the biochemical mechanisms behind the defective insulin response observed in these islets. Rat pancreatic islets were isolated and kept in tissue culture (medium RPMI-1640 plus 10% calf serum) for 5 days. The islets were subsequently exposed to 60 pM human recombinant IL-1 beta during 48 h in the same culture conditions as above and examined immediately after IL-1 exposure. The rIL-1 beta-treated islets showed a marked reduction of glucose-stimulated insulin release. Stimulation with arginine plus different glucose concentrations, and leucine plus glutamine partially counteracted the rIL-1 beta-induced reduction of insulin release. The activities of the glycolytic enzymes hexokinase, glucokinase, and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, were similar in control and IL-1-exposed islets. Treatment with IL-1 also did not impair the activities of NADH+- and NADPH+-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase, glutamate-aspartate transaminase, glutamate-alanine transaminase, citrate synthase, and NAD+-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase. The oxidation of D-[6-14C]glucose and L-[U-14C]leucine were decreased by 50% in IL-1-treated islets. Furthermore, there was a significant decrease in the ratios of [2-14C]pyruvate oxidation/[1-14C]pyruvate decarboxylation and L-[U-14C]leucine oxidation/L-[1-14C]leucine decarboxylation, indicating that IL-1 decreases the proportion of generated acetyl-coenzyme-A residues undergoing oxidation. However, in the presence of IL-1 there was a significant increase in L-[U-14C]glutamate oxidation. These combined observations suggest that exposure to IL-1 induces a preferential decrease in glucose-mediated insulin release and mitochondrial glucose metabolism. This mitochondrial dysfunction seems to reflect an impairment in proximal steps of the Krebs cycle. It is conceivable that the IL-1-induced suppression and shift in islet metabolism can be an explanation for the beta-cell insensitivity to glucose observed in the early phases of human and experimental insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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PMID:Differential sensitivity to beta-cell secretagogues in cultured rat pancreatic islets exposed to human interleukin-1 beta. 266 6

Chloroquine at pH 8.0 and 1mM [corrected] concentration inhibits about 30% glucose consumption and ethanol formation in yeast cells. Out of the 11 glycolytic enzymes assayed, phosphoglycerate kinase and pyruvate decarboxylase have been found to be most sensitive to chloroquine. Next sensitive are hexokinase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and pyruvate kinase. Kinetic studies with the three kinases studied revealed competitive inhibition of chloroquine with ATP (hexokinase, phosphoglycerate kinase) or ADP (pyruvate kinase).
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PMID:Sensitivity of yeast glycolytic enzymes to chloroquine. 284 78

1. A comparative study was carried out on blood glucose partition and glucose metabolism of penguin erythrocytes and somatic tissues. Pygoscelidae penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica and P. papua) were used in these experiments. 2. Blood glucose partition was established by assaying whole blood and plasma glucose in several individuals of the gentoo and chinstrap penguins. 3. It was found that almost all the whole blood sugar is compartmentalized at the plasma site, the red blood cells being ineffective in regard to glucose metabolism. 4. Levels of hexokinase, phosphoglucose isomerase, phosphofructokinase, fructose bisphosphate aldolase, glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphoglycerate kinase, phosphopyruvate hydratase (enolase), pyruvate kinase, alpha-glycerolphosphate dehydrogenase and fructose bisphosphate phosphatase were estimated in the erythrocytes of both gentoo and chinstrap penguins, the same determinations being carried out also on the somatic tissues (leg muscle, breast muscle, heart muscle, liver and brain) of the gentoo.
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PMID:Blood glucose partition and levels of glycolytic enzymes in erythrocytes and somatic tissues of penguins. 292 38

The specific activities of each of the enzymes of the classical pentose phosphate pathway have been determined in both cultured procyclic and bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei. Both forms contained glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49), 6-phosphogluconolactonase (EC 3.1.1.31), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.44), ribose-5-phosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.6) and transaldolase (EC 2.2.1.2). However, ribulose-5-phosphate 3'-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1) and transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1) activities were detectable only in procyclic forms. These results clearly demonstrate that both forms of T. brucei can metabolize glucose via the oxidative segment of the classical pentose phosphate pathway in order to produce D-ribose-5-phosphate for the synthesis of nucleic acids and reduced NADP for other synthetic reactions. However, only procyclic forms are capable of using the non-oxidative segment of the classical pentose phosphate pathway to cycle carbon between pentose and hexose phosphates in order to produce D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate as a net product of the pathway. Both forms lack the key gluconeogenic enzyme, fructose-bisphosphatase (EC 3.1.3.11). Consequently, neither form should be able to engage in gluconeogenesis nor should procyclic forms be able to return any of the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate produced in the pentose phosphate pathway to glucose 6-phosphate. This last specific metabolic arrangement and the restriction of all but the terminal steps of glycolysis to the glycosome may be the observations required to explain the presence of distinct cytosolic and glycosomal isoenzymes of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and phosphoglycerate kinase. These same observations also may provide the basis for explaining the presence of cytosolic hexokinase and phosphoglucose isomerase without the presence of any cytosolic phosphofructokinase activity. The key enzymes of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase (EC 4.2.1.12) and 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase (EC 4.1.2.14) were not detected in either procyclic or bloodstream forms of T. brucei.
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PMID:The enzymes of the classical pentose phosphate pathway display differential activities in procyclic and bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei. 292 7

The effect of sesquiterpene lactones isolated from Geigeria was tested on three glycolytic enzymes. Phosphofructokinase was inhibited irreversibly by all of the sesquiterpene lactones, with ivalin(III) giving the highest extent of inhibition. Values for the kinetic constants Ki (1.3 mM) and kp (2.2 min-1) were established. Hexokinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase were also strongly inhibited at 1 mM and 3 mM concentrations of sesquiterpene lactones, respectively. Pre-incubation of ivalin with dithiothreitol decreased its inhibiting effect on phosphofructokinase, hexokinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activities. Phosphofructokinase and hexokinase were protected against inhibition by ivalin by their respective substrates, adenosine-5'-triphosphate and glucose.
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PMID:The effect of the sesquiterpene lactones from Geigeria on glycolytic enzymes. 293 49

The intracellular distribution of the glycolytic enzymes hexokinase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase and the pyruvate kinase isoenzymes type M1 and type M2 within unfertilized hen eggs was studied. Most of glycolytic enzyme activities were found in the yolk fraction; 8-24% of total glycolytic enzyme activities were found in the vitelline membrane fraction. However, the specific activities of these enzymes in the vitelline membrane fraction are 19-72-fold higher (U/mg protein) and 45-178-fold more concentrated (U/g wet weight) than in the yolk fraction. The study of intracellular localization of pyruvate kinase isoenzymes shows that the blastodisc, latebra and vitelline membrane contain only pyruvate kinase type M2, whereas pyruvate kinase types M1 and M2 are found in the egg yolk. The exclusive occurrence of pyruvate kinase type M2 in the blastodisc is consistent with the concept that this isoenzyme is involved in the cell proliferation. The heterogeneous distribution of the glycolytic enzymes hexokinase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase, and the heterogeneous localization of the pyruvate kinase isoenzymes types M1 and M2 indicate that glycolysis is distributed heterogeneously within the unfertilized hen egg cell.
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PMID:Demonstration of a heterogeneous distribution of glycolytic enzymes and of pyruvate kinase isoenzymes types M1 and M2 in unfertilized hen eggs. 294 22

Preincubation with Mipafox and Methamidofos as well as Paraoxon (used as control) did not cause inhibition of hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase. This is in contrast with the inhibition of glycolysis by other neurotoxic compounds (hexacarbons, acrylamide, carbon disulfide).
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PMID:Lack of inhibition of glycolytic enzymes by the neurotoxic organophosphorus compounds mipafox and methamidofos. 296 83

We recently described a preferential reduction of the secretory response to nutrient secretagogues (glucose; leucine plus glutamine) in islets maintained in culture after in vitro exposure to streptozotocin (SZ). The present study is an attempt to further clarify the biochemical mechanisms behind this defective insulin response. Mouse pancreatic islets were collagenase isolated and, after 4-5 days in culture, exposed during 30 min at 37 C to 1.8 mM SZ or vehicle alone (controls). The islets were subsequently cultured for 7 days in medium RPMI 1640 plus 10% calf serum, before the enzymatic and metabolic studies were performed. The activities of the glycolytic enzymes, hexokinase, glucokinase, and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, were similar in the control and SZ-exposed islets. The relative amount of cytosolic and mitochondria-bound hexokinase was also unaffected by SZ. However, there was a 30-40% decrease in the activity of NAD+- and NADP+-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamate-aspartate transaminase in the SZ-treated islets. This coincided with a 40% decrease in L-[U-14C]glutamine oxidation in the SZ-treated islets. The D-glucose catabolism was further examined in the presence of D-[5-3H] and D-[6-14C] glucose. There was no difference between control and SZ islets in terms of glucose utilization at either 1.7 or 16.7 mM glucose. The oxidation of D-[6-14C]glucose was nevertheless decreased by more than 50% in SZ islets incubated at 16.7 mM (but not 1.7 mM) glucose. Altogether, these converging observations suggest a perturbation of distal regulatory processes, apparently at the mitochondrial level, in the D-glucose and L-glutamine catabolism of SZ-exposed islets. Whether this reflects a primary action of SZ on the islet mitochondria, or an inhibitory effect of SZ on the synthesis of mitochondrial enzymes, as a result of nuclear DNA damage, remains to be elucidated.
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PMID:Defective catabolism of D-glucose and L-glutamine in mouse pancreatic islets maintained in culture after streptozotocin exposure. 296 23

The in vitro effect of acrylamide and its analogues on rat brain glycolytic enzymes was examined to elucidate the biochemical lesions responsible for the pathogenesis of acrylamide-induced neuropathy. All test compounds inhibited glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, irrespective of their neurotoxicity, and their inhibitory potency was a linear function of the rate constant with reduced glutathione. Phosphofructokinase was also inhibited by some of the test compounds, independently of their neurotoxicity. The rate-limiting enzymes in glycolysis, hexokinase and pyruvate kinase, were not inhibited by acrylamide.
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PMID:Effect of acrylamide and related compounds on glycolytic enzymes of rat brain. 316 Dec 19


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