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Activities of key carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes in biopsied human tissues of hepatocellular carcinoma and related conditions were determined by established methods. Among the enzymes analyzed, fetal-type liver enzymes (low-Km hexokinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and pyruvate kinase-M2) showed increased activities, and adult-type liver enzymes [glucose 6-phosphatase, fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase, high-Km hexokinase (or glucokinase), and pyruvate kinase-L] showed decreased activities, resulting in undifferentiated enzyme patterns not only in fetal livers and hepatocellular carcinomas but also in livers of acute and chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis with or without tumors. Hepatocellular carcinomas showed a general tendency of having greater enzyme deviations than hepatitic and cirrhotic livers. The extent of the enzyme deviation in hepatocellular carcinomas varied considerably from one enzyme to another for each tumor tissue as compared with that in the benign liver diseases. Thus, the phenotypic heterogeneity was important for discriminating between the neoplastic and inflammatory changes in differentiation markers. The enzyme patterns of tumors and their corresponding host cirrhotic livers were unrelated, suggesting that the cirrhotic liver has a significance as preneoplastic state only in terms of having a high incidence of evolving hepatocellular carcinoma.
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PMID:Profiles of carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes in human hepatocellular carcinomas and preneoplastic livers. 282 76

A cyclic pathway of NADPH generation involving interconversion of mannitol and fructose has been proposed to occur in fungi. In Aspergillus nidulans three enzymes of this proposed mannitol cycle (hexokinase, NADP-mannitol dehydrogenase and mannitol-l-phosphate phosphatase) were shown to be localized exclusively in the cytosol. Two isoenzymes of the fourth enzyme (mannitol-l-phosphate dehydrogenase) were detected and shown to be localized respectively in the mitochondrion and the cytosol. The mitochondrial isoenzyme appeared to be present on the outer face of the inner mitochondrial membrane. No evidence was found for a coordinated change in the maximal activities of the enzymes of the proposed mannitol cycle in extracts prepared from mycelia grown on six different carbon, and three different nitrogen sources nor for any increase in these activities induced by growth on NO3-. Studies of this type in which other NADP-linked dehydrogenases were measured showed that for most carbon sources tested growth on NO3- increased the maximal activity of NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase as well as that of glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenases but had little effect on the maximal activity of NADP-malate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating). Our studies provide no support for the operation of the mannitol cycle, or for the proposed role of this cycle in NADPH generation in A. nidulans.
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PMID:NADPH generation in Aspergillus nidulans: is the mannitol cycle involved? 314 71

1. The effects of burn injury (33 per cent of body surface area) on the activities of key enzymes in the metabolism of glucose, glutamine and ketone bodies in the epithelial cells of the small intestine and the rates of utilization of glucose, glutamine and ketone bodies by isolated enterocytes have been investigated. 2. Burn injury decreased the maximal activities of hexokinase and 6-phosphofructokinase and increased those of glucose 6-phosphatase plus fructose bisphosphatase (in duodenum, jejunum and ileum) over the first 5 days post-injury. 3. After injury there are decreases in the rates of glucose utilization and lactate formation by incubated enterocytes. 4. The maximal activities of citrate synthase and oxoglutarate dehydrogenase were increased during the first 5 days post-injury, whereas the ketone-body-utilizing enzymes were unchanged. 5. An increase in the maximal activity of phosphate-dependent glutaminase was observed during the whole of the post-injury period studied (20 days). 6. After burn injury there is an increased rate of glutamine utilization and increased rates of formation of glutamate and alanine by incubated enterocytes.
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PMID:Maximal activities of glutaminase and some enzymes of glycolysis and ketone body utilization and rates of utilization of glutamine, glucose and ketone bodies by intestinal mucosa after burn injury. 344 21

In general, the activities of enzymes in brown adipose tissue (BAT) are more similar to those in white adipose tissue than those in liver. Thus the activities of the glycolytic enzymes hexokinase and 6-phosphofructokinase are high but those of glucose 6-phosphatase and fructose bisphosphatase are non-detectable in the two adipose tissues. The activity of HMG-CoA synthase was non-detectable in BAT indicating that this tissue, unlike liver, cannot produce ketone bodies from fatty acid oxidation but, since the tissue possesses a high activity of HMG-CoA lyase, it might produce ketone bodies from leucine catabolism. The findings suggest that 'metabolically' brown adipose tissue can be classified better as an adipose tissue than as a peripheral liver. A high activity of 3-oxoacid CoA transferase but a non-detectable activity of 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase suggests that BAT can utilise acetoacetate but not 3-hydroxybutyrate for heat generation during cold exposure plus starvation.
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PMID:Activities of some key enzymes of carbohydrate, ketone body, adenosine and glutamine metabolism in liver, and brown and white adipose tissues of the rat. 374 27

Essential differences are established between the activities in enzymes of monophosphohexoses' transformation in the Zajdela hepatoma and liver of tumour-bearing rats. So, a very low hexokinase activity is observed in the liver, the activity of phosphoglucomutase and glucose-6-phosphate being high. In hepatoma cells the activity of hexokinase is relatively high and that of phosphoglucomutase, glucose-6-phosphate phosphatase and dehydrogenases--glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate inhibiting the activity of phosphoglucomutase is considerably lower. Significant differences are also found in the ratios of the glucose, glucose-6-phosphate, fructose and fructose-6-phosphate concentrations, that evidences for changes in the regulatory mechanisms in the hepatoma cells.
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PMID:[Characteristics of hexosephosphate transformation regulation in Zajdela hepatoma and the liver of tumor-bearing rats]. 381 Aug 99

The longitudinal localization of nine enzymes of the carbohydrate metabolism was studied in rats fed standard or high fructose diets, two months after a reciprocal jejuno-ileal transposition. In the ileal segment transposed to jejunal location, an adaptive increase of mucosal mass was observed, but the functional characteristics of enterocytes remained the same in the case of triokinase, aldolase, triose phosphate isomerase, glucose-6-phosphate isomerase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities. In the case of ketohexokinase and hexokinase activities, the functional properties of cells tended to resemble that of jejunum, as revealed by a significant increase in the specific enzyme activity. In the jejunum transposed to the place of the ileum, the fundamental properties of enterocytes and the functional capacity of the gut were maintained except in the case of fructose-1.6-bis phosphatase and of glucose-6-phosphatase. The high fructose diet did not facilitate the re-establishment of the gradient in its normal, aboral, direction. Indeed except for glucose-6-phosphatase, the enzymes of the jejunum transposed to the place of the ileum kept a high sensitivity and the enzymes of transposed ileum a low sensitivity to dietary fructose. Our conclusion is that the response to the diet depends more on the original position of the intestinal segment than on the local nutritional conditions and therefore that the basal activity of the majority of the intracellular enzymes implicated in carbohydrate metabolism and also their regulatory systems, are an intrinsic characteristic of the intestinal cells.
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PMID:[Intestinal adaptation and enzymatic changes following reciprocal jejunoileal transposition in rats. Effects of a high-fructose diet]. 397 35

The storage lesion which limits the shelf life of human blood in blood banking is associated with a metabolic loss of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and ATP. This metabolic loss is driven by intracellular ATPase which are usually considered to include the ion pumps and the reactions which maintain the discoid shape of the human erythrocyte. Under the acidic conditions of blood storage, the energy-yielding reactions of the glycolytic pathway are restricted at the hexokinase and phosphofructokinase steps. We show here that under such circumstances the enzyme of the diphosphoglycerate shunt, diphosphoglycerate mutase/phosphatase and the glycolytic enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase can form a futile cycle with ATPase activity. This ATPase activity responds to 2-phosphoglycolate which is known to activate both diphosphoglycerate mutase and diphosphoglycerate phosphatase reactions. When the enzymes of the futile cycle are combined with the enzymes of the lower glycolytic pathway in a reconstitution experiment designed to represent conditions within the stored erythrocyte, the futile cycle does provide an ATPase activity which results in the metabolic loss of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate. An isotope incorporation experiment demonstrates that the futile cycle is active in glucose-depleted erythrocytes.
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PMID:A futile cycle in erythrocyte glycolysis. 406 53

1. Rates of insulin secretion, glucose utilization, lactate output, incorporation of glucose into glycogen, contents of glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-diphosphate and ATP, and maximally extractable enzyme activities of hexokinase, high-K(m) glucose-phosphorylating activity (;glucokinase'), glucose 6-phosphatase and unspecific acid phosphatase were measured in isolated pancreatic islets from fed and 48-h-starved mice. 2. In the fed state insulin secretion from isolated islets was increased five- to six-fold when the extracellular glucose concentration was raised from 2.5mm to 16.7mm; 5mm-caffeine potentiated this effect. The secretory response to glucose of islets from mice starved for 48h was diminished at all glucose concentrations from 2.5mm up to approx. 40mm. Very high glucose concentrations (60mm and above) restored the secretory response to that found in the fed state, suggesting that the K(m) value for the overall secretory process had been increased (approx. fourfold) by starvation. Addition of 5mm-caffeine to islets from starved mice also restored the insulin secretory response to 2.5-16.7mm-glucose to normal values. 3. Extractable hexokinase, ;glucokinase', glucose 6-phosphatase and unspecific phosphatase activities were not changed by starvation. 4. Glucose utilization and glycolysis (measured as the rate of formation of (3)H(2)O from [5-(3)H]glucose over a 2h period) was decreased in islets from starved mice at all glucose concentrations up to approx. 55mm. At still higher glucose concentrations up to approx. 100mm, there was no difference between the fed and starved state, suggesting that the K(m) value for the rate-limiting glucose phosphorylation had been increased (approx. twofold) by starvation. Preparation of islets omitting substrates (glucose, pyruvate, fumarate and glutamate) from the medium during collagenase treatment lowered the glucose utilization measured subsequently at 16.7mm-glucose by 38 and 30% in islets from fed and starved mice respectively. Also the 2h lactate output by the islets at 16.7mm extracellular glucose was diminished by starvation. Incorporation of glucose into glycogen was extremely low, but the rate of incorporation was more than doubled by starvation. 5. After incubation for 30min at 16.7mm-glucose the content of glucose 6-phosphate was unchanged by starvation, that of ATP was increased and the concentration of (fructose 1,6-diphosphate plus triose phosphates) was decreased. 6. Possible mechanisms behind the correlated impairment in insulin secretion and islet glucose metabolism during starvation are discussed.
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PMID:The effect of starvation on insulin secretion and glucose metabolism in mouse pancreatic islets. 415 24

1. Parenchymal cells have been prepared from mouse liver by enzymic and mechanical means. 2. The dry weights, protein and DNA contents of these cells have been determined. 3. Mouse liver ;M-' and ;L-type' pyruvate kinases have been prepared free of contamination with each other; their kinetic properties have been examined and a method has been developed for their assay in total liver homogenates. 4. Recoveries of phosphoglycerate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase and phosphofructokinase in enzymically prepared cells indicate that little, if any, cytoplasmic protein is lost during preparation. 5. Parenchymal cells exhibit a very substantial increase in the activity ratio of glucokinase to hexokinase over that in total liver homogenate; in three out of eight experiments, hexokinase activity was undetectable. 6. ;L-type' pyruvate kinase alone occurs in the parenchymal cell. Non-parenchymal cells are characterized by the presence of ;M-type' activity only. 7. Parenchymal cells contain both glucose 6-phosphatase and fructose 1,6-diphosphatase. The non-parenchymal fraction appears to contain fructose 1,6-diphosphatase, but is devoid of glucose 6-phosphatase. 8. No aldolase A was detectable in the whole liver. Aldolase B occurs in both parenchymal and non-parenchymal tissue. 9. Parenchymal cells prepared by mechanical disruption of mouse liver with 20% polyvinyl alcohol exhibit a similar enzyme profile to those prepared enzymically. 10. The methodology involved in the preparation of isolated liver cells is discussed. The importance of the measurement of several parameters as criteria for establishing the viability of parenchymal cells is stressed. 11. The metabolic implications of the results in the present study are discussed.
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PMID:Glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzyme activities in parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells from mouse liver. 426 95

1. The action of beryllium on the following enzymes has been examined: alkaline phosphatase (Escherichia coli and kidney), acid phosphatase, phosphoprotein phosphatase, apyrase (potato), adenosine triphosphatase (liver nuclei, liver mitochondria, brain microsomes), glucose 6-phosphatase, polysaccharide phosphorylases a and b, phosphoglucomutase, hexokinase, phosphoglyceromutase, ribonuclease, A-esterase (rabbit serum), cholinesterase (horse serum), chymotrypsin. Alkaline phosphatase and phosphoglucomutase are inhibited by 1mum-beryllium sulphate whereas the other enzymes are largely unaffected by 1mm-beryllium sulphate. 2. Possible mechanisms for the inhibition of phosphoglucomutase and alkaline phosphatase are discussed.
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PMID:The inhibition of enzymes by beryllium. 428 87


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