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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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We have previously reported the detection of a 37 kD liver protein-acetaldehyde adduct in rats fed alcohol chronically with the AIN'76 diet. It was surprising that only one liver protein-acetaldehyde adduct was found. In this report, we have tried to detect additional protein-acetaldehyde adducts by electroimmunotransblot with rabbit anti-hemocyanin-acetaldehyde adduct IgG and to further characterize the 37 kD liver protein-acetaldehyde adduct. Sensitivity of electroimmunotransblot increased 10- to 20-fold when alkaline phosphatase-linked antibody was used in place of horseradish peroxidase, but only one protein-acetaldehyde adduct band was detected in liver. Feeding rats the Lieber-DeCarli alcohol diet also did not produce more protein-acetaldehyde adduct bands in electroimmunotransblot. Addition of cyanamide, an aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor, to the AIN'76 alcohol diet greatly increased the intensity of the 37-kD protein-acetaldehyde adduct band on electroimmunotransblot but did not produce other bands. The 37 kD protein-acetaldehyde adduct decayed in vivo with a half-life of 4 days when alcohol was removed from the diet. The 37 kD protein-acetaldehyde adduct in liver is cytosolic. Its interaction with anti-hemocyanin-acetaldehyde adduct IgG was blocked by polylysine-acetaldehyde adduct and polytyrosine-acetaldehyde adduct. It could be removed by immunosorption with anti-hemocyanin-acetaldehyde adduct IgG-bound immunoresin. When immunoblotted with anti-alcohol dehydrogenase and anti-aldehyde dehydrogenase antibodies, the alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase bands in liver of alcohol-fed rats showed identical intensities before and after immunosorption.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Further studies on the 37 kD liver protein-acetaldehyde adduct that forms in vivo during chronic alcohol ingestion. 280 59

F344 Male rats weighting between 90 and 110 gm were given 90 ppm diethylnitrosamine in their drinking water for 5 weeks. Seven weeks after the administration of carcinogen was completed, the rats were sacrificed and sections of their livers were embedded in methacrylate. Serial sections 2 or 4 micron in thickness demonstrated the presence of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, acid phosphatase, adenosine triphosphatase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase, DT diaphorase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and 5'-nucleotidase activity and glycogen. The use of 4-micron sections of methacrylate-embedded tissue allows the evaluation of many more phenotypic markers in serial sections than is currently possible with frozen sections.
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PMID:Examination of enzyme-altered foci with gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and other markers in methacrylate-embedded liver. 287 68

To study the severity and degree of in utero alcohol effects in relation to the rate of maternal alcohol damage, multiparous 1-year alcohol-fed rats were used, with an appropriate pair-fed control group. During pregnancy, alcoholic dams showed relatively high acetaldehyde levels (41 +/- 19 mumol/l) and blood alcohol levels of 22.8 +/- 14 mmol/l. They also showed marked histological alterations in liver as well as high serum aspartate-aminotransferase, alanine-aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, glutamate dehydrogenase, and gamma-glutamyltransferase activities. The increase in serum enzyme levels did not correlate with an increase in hepatic enzyme levels since only glutamate dehydrogenase was enhanced in liver after 1 year of alcohol intake. In addition, except for an increase in low Km aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, there were no changes in liver alcohol metabolizing enzymes in chronic alcohol vs. pair-fed females. Alcoholic rats showed a high incidence of damage in their progeny (resorptions, immature fetuses, decrease in fetal weight, etc.), and rats with the highest serum levels of the above enzymes (especially glutamate dehydrogenase and gamma-glutamyl transferase) had severely affected progeny. Rats with minimal histological liver damage, in contrast, did not show resorptions. Thus, the results presented suggest that the stage of maternal alcohol illness, as indicated mainly by the extent of liver damage, plays an important role in the frequency and severity of in utero alcohol effects in the rat.
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PMID:The role of maternal alcohol damage on ethanol teratogenicity in the rat. 342 5

In Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood the locus for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, G6pd, was found to be in linkage group I, approximately 35 to 42 map units to the left of ocra, the locus for body color. The locus for midgut alkaline phosphatase, Alkph, was found to be in linkage group II, within 0.41 map units of the locus for xanthine oxidase, Xo. The distance from Xo to the locus for aldehyde oxidase, Ao, was confirmed to be about 42 map units. No evidence for genetical recombination was found in male G. m. morsitans.
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PMID:Genetics of Glossina morsitans morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae). VII. Location of G6pd in linkage group I, and Alkph in linkage group II. 634 Aug 5

Twenty-six inbred strains of the laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) were examined for electrophoretic variation at an estimated 97 genetic loci. In addition to previously documented markers, variation was observed for the enzymes aconitase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, and alkaline phosphatase. The genetic basis of these markers (Acon-1, Ahd-2, and Akp-1) was confirmed. Linkage analysis between 35 pairwise comparisons revealed that the markers Fh-1 and Pep-3 are linked. The strain profiles of the 25 inbred strains at 11 electrophoretic markers are given.
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PMID:Enzyme markers in inbred rat strains: genetics of new markers and strain profiles. 649 29

Beagle serum proteins were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and the electrophoretograms were examined by one- and two-dimensional analyses with a laser densitometer. In order from the anodic side of the PAGE pattern, pre-albumin, hexokinase, tyrosinase, alkaline phosphatase, urease, and aldehyde dehydrogenase were assumed to be present based on Rf and Mw. Serum albumin, lactate dehydrogenase, and catalase appeared to be present based on a comparison of their electrophoretic mobility with that of protein standards of known Mw. Verification of beagle serum protein fractions by immunofixation electrophoresis and western blotting electrophoresis, with rabbit anti-human serum, indicated alpha 1-antitrypsin, albumin, haptoglobin, ceruloplasmin, C3c complement, IgG, and IgA. Serum protein fraction values (%) obtained by one- and two-dimensional analyses were similar.
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PMID:Analysis of a polyacrylamide gel electrophoretogram of beagle serum protein by laser densitometer. 765 Sep 2

Some mutants of Agrobacterium radiobacter, defective in exopolysaccharide synthesis, were phenotypically complemented by two different regions of cloned chromosomal DNA. One of these had been shown to contain a gene termed ros, a novel class of transcriptional regulator. The other contains a gene termed exoY which encodes a glycosyltransferase that is involved in one of the early steps in exopolysaccharide synthesis. Mutations in ros reduced the expression of exoY and a model to account for the complementation of certain exo alleles by both ros and exoY is presented. TnphoA insertions into exoY which expressed alkaline phosphatase activity were isolated and mapped, confirming the membrane location of the exoY gene product. Some of these mutations were dominant, causing merodiploids to be non-mucoid. exoY is linked to two genes, one encoding an omega-aminotransferase and the other encoding an aldehyde dehydrogenase.
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PMID:Expression of the exoY gene, required for exopolysaccharide synthesis in Agrobacterium, is activated by the regulatory ros gene. 882 31

Electrophoretic variation of enzymes in five Eimeria spp. of the domestic fowl, including nine strains, ten single-sporocyst clones and two single-sporozoite clones of E. acervulina, three strains each of E. maxima and E. tenella, two strains of E. praecox and one strain of E. necatrix, were assayed using cellulose acetate electrophoresis. Ten enzymes [aldehyde oxidase (AO), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), amylase (AMY), fumarate hydratase (FUM), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI), glutamate-oxaloacetate transferase (GOT), isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH), malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and phosphoglucomutase (PGM)] were analyzed for their ability to distinguish between these species and strains. Enzymatic activity of G6PDH, GPI, IDH, MDH and PGM was detected in all the Eimeria spp. examined. Strains within each species were characterized by the same electrophoretic variant of G6PDH. Electrophoretic variants of GPI and PGM were the most valuable in the identification of inter- and intra-specific variation, particularly in the field strains of E. acervulina and E. tenella. These two enzymes were used to examine single-sporocyst and single-sporozoite clones derived from two strains of E. acervulina. The enzymes in E. maxima appeared to be conserved, showing no variation among strains with the five enzymes detected. Relative mobilities, calculated as described in this paper, were found to be consistent between different electrophoresis runs and may serve as a reference when this medium is used.
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PMID:Isoenzymes of Eimeria from the domestic fowl: electrophoretic variants among species, strains and clones. 919 94

The treatment of Caco-2 cells, a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line that closely resembles normal human small intestinal epithelial cells, with acetaldehyde resulted in significantly decreased activities of brush border enzymes sucrase, maltase, lactase, and gamma-glutamyltransferase; alkaline phosphatase activity was not affected. In the case of sucrase and maltase, the activities were also decreased by a combination of acetaldehyde and ethanol, although ethanol alone markedly increased them. The possibility that intraintestinal acetaldehyde, formed by intestinal microbes, might play a role in some small intestinal enzyme deficiencies observed earlier in alcoholics should therefore be considered. The mechanism by which acetaldehyde alters these enzyme activities remains unclear. The observation that acetaldehyde also disturbed cell polarization, an initial step in the process of differentiation in Caco-2 cells, indicates that acetaldehyde might decrease these enzyme activities by interfering with cell differentiation. Because ethanol and acetaldehyde metabolizing enzymes have not been previously studied from Caco-2 cells, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activities were also measured from these cells, and their ALDH isoenzyme pattern was characterized. Like many cancerous cell lines, Caco-2 cells were found to express no ADH. They, however, possessed ALDH activity that was comparable with normal colonic mucosal activity and also expressed the same ALDH classes (ALDHs 1 to 3) than normal human colonic mucosa.
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PMID:Effects of acetaldehyde on brush border enzyme activities in human colon adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2. 943 18

The rationale fo the development of prodrugs relies upon delivery of higher concentrations of a drug to target cells compared to administration of the drug itself. In the last decades, numerous prodrugs that are enzymatically activated into anti-cancer agents have been developed. This review describes the most important enzymes involved in prodrug activation notably with respect to tissue distribution, up-regulation in tumor cells and turnover rates. The following endogenous enzymes are discussed: aldehyde oxidase, amino acid oxidase, cytochrome P450 reductase, DT-diaphorase, cytochrome P450, tyrosinase, thymidylate synthase, thymidine phosphorylase, glutathione S-transferase, deoxycytidine kinase, carboxylesterase, alkaline phosphatase, beta-glucuronidase and cysteine conjugate beta-lyase. In relation to each of these enzymes, several prodrugs are discussed regarding organ- or tumor-selective activation of clinically relevant prodrugs of 5-fluorouracil, axazaphosphorines (cyclophosphamide, ifosfamide, and trofosfamide), paclitaxel, etoposide, anthracyclines (doxorubicin, daunorubicin, epirubicin), mercaptopurine, thioguanine, cisplatin, melphalan, and other important prodrugs such as menadione, mitomycin C, tirapazamine, 5-(aziridin-1-yl)-2,4-dinitrobenzamide, ganciclovir, irinotecan, dacarbazine, and amifostine. In addition to endogenous enzymes, a number of nonendogenous enzymes, used in antibody-, gene-, and virus-directed enzyme prodrug therapies, are described. It is concluded that the development of prodrugs has been relatively successful; however, all prodrugs lack a complete selectivity. Therefore, more work is needed to explore the differences between tumor and nontumor cells and to develop optimal substrates in terms of substrate affinity and enzyme turnover rates fo prodrug-activating enzymes resulting in more rapid and selective cleavage of the prodrug inside the tumor cells.
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PMID:Enzyme-catalyzed activation of anticancer prodrugs. 1500 63


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