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Query: EC:3.1.3.9 (glucose-6-phosphatase)
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In 28 dogs the distal articular cartilage of the femur was removed and the regenerating articular surface on the 70th postoperative day was studied histochemically for hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphatase, phosphohexose-isomerase, fructose-1, 6-diphosphatase, aldolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes, phosphoglucomutase, phosphorylase, glycogen synthetase, UDP--glucose dehydrogenase, and UDP-glucuronic acid-4-epimerase. The articular surface consisted of fibrous tissue and of cartilage islets. The latter contained cells differentiating into cartilage and young chondrocytes. The glycolytic enzymes reacted positively in the regenerative articular surface. Enzyme activities were higher in the cells (particularly the chondroblasts and young chondrocytes) of the cartilage islets than in the connective tissue. In the cells differentiations into cartilage, beside the LDH isoenzymes characteristic of glycolysis, a significant LDH1 and LDH2 activity was observed. At the same site the presence of fructose-1, 6-diphosphatase-activity could be assumed, but there was no glucose-6-phosphatase activity. Glycogen synthesis proceeded in the cells of the cartilage islets and UDP-glucuronic acid-4-epimerase activity was observed in the differentiated cells. UDP-glucose dehydrogenase activity was positive in every section of the articular surface.
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PMID:Studies on cartilage formation. XX. Histochemical investigation of some enzymes of glycogen metabolsim in regenerative articular surfaces. 18 10

Approximately the same levels of six of the seven enzymes catalyzing reactions of the pentose phosphate pathway are in the cisternae of washed microsomes from rat heart, spleen, lung, and brain. Renal and hepatic microsomes also have detectable levels of these enzymes except ribulose-5-phosphate epimerase and ribose-5-phosphate isomerase. Their location in the cisternae is indicated by their latencies, i.e. requirement for disruption of the membrane for activity. In addition, transketolase, transaldolase, and glucose-6-phosphatase, a known cisternal enzyme, are inactivated by chymotrypsin and subtilisin only in disrupted hepatic microsomes under conditions in which NADPH-cytochrome c reductase, an enzyme on the external surface, is inactivated equally in intact and disrupted microsomes. The failure to detect the epimerase and isomerase in hepatic microsomes is due to inhibition of their assays by ketopentose-5-phosphatase. Xylulose 5-phosphate is hydrolyzed faster than ribulose 5-phosphate. A mild heat treatment destroys hepatic xylulose-5-phosphatase and glucose-6-phosphatase without affecting acid phosphatase. These results plus the established wide distribution of glucose dehydrogenase, the microsomal glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and its localization to the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum suggest that most mammalian cells have two sets of enzymes of the pentose phosphate pathway: one is cytoplasmic and the other is in the endoplasmic reticulum. The activity of the microsomal pentose phosphate pathway is estimated to be about 1.5% that of the cytoplasmic pathway.
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PMID:The pentose phosphate pathway in the endoplasmic reticulum. 284

We present a method to determine glucose 6-phosphate activity. This assay measures the rate of glucose released in the glucose-6-phosphatase reaction. The glucose is oxidized to beta-D-gluconolactone by glucose dehydrogenase in a coupled reaction that uses NAD(P)+. The determination is rapid, reproducible, and does not require withdrawal, precipitation, centrifugation, or neutralization steps. This method provides a simple resolution to the problem of the nonspecific appearance of Pi, which is especially important in studies of regulation of glucose-6-phosphatase performed in the presence of ATP.
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PMID:Determination of glucose-6-phosphatase activity using the glucose dehydrogenase-coupled reaction. 284 88

The permeability of rat liver microsomes to glucose was investigated in relation to the hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase system (EC 1.1.1.47). It was found that glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity could be assayed with NADP as coenzyme in both untreated and detergent-treated microsomes. However, when glucose was used as substrate, activity was only measurable in detergent-treated microsomes. Moreover, radioactive glucose added to microsomes in a variety of experimental conditions was never taken up by the vesicles. Our results indicate that NADP (or NAD) availability is probably not the reason for the absence of glucose dehydrogenase activity in untreated microsomes but rather membrane impermeability to glucose would account for the complete latency observed. This finding calls for a reevaluation of glucose transport in relation to other enzymes of the endoplasmic reticulum, such as glucose-6-phosphatase.
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PMID:Absence of glucose uptake by liver microsomes: an explanation for the complete latency of glucose dehydrogenase. 818 4

An improved method has been developed for the assay of hexokinase (EC 2.7.1.1) levels in human tissue homogenates. The enzyme is quantitated by the spectrophotometric measurement, at 340 nm, of NADPH formed according to the reaction scheme: [formula: see text] In tissue homogenates a number of enzymes are present which can interfere with the assay by reacting with substrates or products of the assay reactions. In the described procedure hexokinase is assayed directly in homogenates under conditions in which the effect of possible contaminating enzymes (glucose dehydrogenase, EC 1.1.1.47; glucose 6-phosphatase, EC 3.1.3.9; glucose phosphate isomerase, EC 5.3.1.9; 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase EC 1.1.1.44; and NADP-reducing enzymes) are eliminated. Precision studies on the assay gave within-day reproducibility of 4.3% (CV) on a tissue having a mean activity of 1.68 U/g of tissue, and day-to-day variability of 15% (CV) for a tissue averaging 1.83 U/g of tissue.
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PMID:An improved assay for hexokinase activity in human tissue homogenates. 976 31