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Query: EC:3.1.3.5 (5'-nucleotidase)
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Citrate levels in selected snake venoms were determined by an enzymatic assay coupled to NADP+ reduction. Citrate concentrations in different viper venoms (n = 5) varied from 95 to 150 mM, in crotalids (n = 3) from 63 to 142 mM, and in elapids (n = 4) from 17 to 163 mM. In Bothrops asper venom Ca(2+)-ion concentrations varied from 2.5 to 3.6 mM, suggesting that the high relative citrate levels may serve to chelate endogenous divalent metal cations, thereby inactivating divalent cation requiring enzymes. Control experiments with B. asper phospholipase A2 MIII in the presence of 2.5 mM Ca2+, showed that the enzyme is completely inhibited by 20 mM citrate. Crotalus adamanteus 5'-nucleotidase and phosphodiesterase are also inhibited 100 and 75%, respectively, by 100 mM citrate. By forming complexes with divalent metal ions, citrate markedly reduces the activities of selected enzymes in snake venoms. Secretion of high concentrations of citrate may represent an important mechanism by which snakes protect themselves against the toxic effects of their own venoms.
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PMID:Citrate is an endogenous inhibitor of snake venom enzymes by metal-ion chelation. 144 Jun 29

This communication presents the results obtained in tubular aggregates of 24 enzyme histochemical techniques for demonstrating activity of oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases and isomerases. The activity characteristics of the tubular aggregates in m. gluteus medius of 18 patients with diseases of the neuromuscular system were almost identical. A high activity of the mitochondrial enzymes, NADPH: tetrazolium oxidoreductase, NADH:tetrazolium oxidoreductase and cytochrome c oxidase, could be shown in the pathological structures, whereas the activity of the mitochondrial enzymes, glycerol-3-phosphate:menadione oxidoreductase, succinate:PMS oxidoreductase, malate:NAD+ oxidoreductase and isocitrate:NAD+ oxidoreductase, and the partial mitochondrial enzymes, malate:NADP+ oxidoreductase and isocitrate:NADP+ oxidoreductase, was very slight or even absent. There was a moderate to strong activity of the glycolytic enzymes lactate:NAD+ oxidoreductase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase, phosphofructokinase, phosphoglucomutase and glucose phosphate isomerase. In contrast, the activity of alpha-glucan phosphorylase was slight. The activity of phosphogluconate:NADP+ oxidoreductase, glucose-6-phosphate:NADP+ oxidoreductase and 5'-nucleotidase was slight, whereas there was no activity of myosin ATPase and mitochondrial ATPase, acid phosphatase or alkaline phosphatase. The high activity of AMP-deaminase was very striking. The activity of peroxidase was moderate. Results obtained with adsorption studies point to adsorption of some of the enzymes studied to the tubular aggregates in vivo and this phenomenon very probably determined the histochemical characteristics of these structures.
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PMID:Histochemical features of tubular aggregates in diseased human skeletal muscle fibres. 317 98

We evaluated the erythrocytes of two patients with hereditary pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase deficiency. Significant findings included an increased reduced glutathione content, increased incubated Heinz body formation, a positive ascorbate cyanide test, and decreased intraerythrocytic pH. The pentose phosphate shunt activity of the patients' red cells as measured by the release of 14CO2 from 14C-1-glucose was decreased compared to high reticulocyte controls. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity in hemolysates from control erythrocytes was inhibited 43% by 5.5 mM cytidine 5'-triphosphate (CTP) and 50% by 5.5 mM in uridine 5'-triphosphate (UTP) at pH 7.1. CTP was a competitive inhibitor for G6P (Ki = 1.7 mM) and a noncompetitive inhibitor for NADP+ (Ki = 7.8 mM). Glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase were not affected by these compounds. Pentose phosphate shunt activity in control red cell hemolysate at pH 7.1 was inhibited to a similar degree by 5.5 mM CTP or UTP. Since the intracellular concentrations of G6P and NADP+ are below their KmS for G6PD, these data suggest that high concentrations of pyrimidine 5'-nucleotides depress pentose phosphate shunt activity in pyrimidin 5'-nucleotidase deficiency. Thus, this impairment of the pentose phosphate pathway appears to contribute to the pathogenesis of hemolysis in pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase deficiency hemolytic anemia.
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PMID:Hemolytic anemia in hereditary pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase deficiency: nucleotide inhibition of G6PD and the pentose phosphate shunt. 628 44