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Query: EC:3.1.3.9 (glucose-6-phosphatase)
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Iodoacetamide, N-ethylmaleimide, p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (p-MB) and HgCl2 were tested as inhibitors of microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase. Iodoacetamide had no effect at 2 mM. N-ethylmaleimide inhibited only crude, but not purified microsomal preparations (M2) or crude microsomes exposed to deoxycholate. 14C-labelled N-ethylmaleimide was not bound by the M2 protein fraction. p-MB inhibited all types of preparations and the inhibition was not counteracted by detergent. A more detailed study was carried out with the purified M2 fraction (specific activity: 2-4 mumoles Pi/min/mg protein). Glucose-6-phosphate hydrolysis was inhibited 50% by 5 X 10(-5) M p-MB. The inhibition was completely reversible by dithiothreitol except when the enzyme was pre-incubated with p-MB in the absence of substrate. Then p-MB accelerated the temperature-dependent inactivation of glucose-6-phosphatase. Binding studies showed that around 3 mumoles 14C-p-MB were incorporated into 100 mg M2 protein regardless of the concentration of mercurial in the incubation mixture. That is, over a 25 fold range of p-MB concentration, causing up to 80% inhibition of enzyme activity, no difference was seen in the amount of labelled p-MB which was irreversibly bound to M2 protein. Kinetically p-MB behaved like a reversible inhibitor and this was confirmed by dilution experiments. Several compounds, including some amino acids, antagonized the inhibition by p-MB. The order of effectiveness was EDTA greater than barbital greater than tryptophan greater than histidine greater than lysine greater than other amino acids. Glycine, Tris and urea were ineffective competitors of p-MB inhibition. Double reciprocal plots showed that the Km for glucose-6-phosphate was increased and the Vmax reduced in the presence of p-MB. HgCl2 was a more effective inhibitor than p-MB with a Ki of 6 X 10(-6) M. We conclude that a reaction of p-MB with M2 sulfhydryls does not play a part in the inhibition of enzyme activity. It is suggested that p-MB may interact with one or more amino acid side chains in such a way that enzyme conformation is altered.
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PMID:The effect of p-hydroxymercuribenzoate and congeners on microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase. 18 75

Methylthioadenosine sulfoxide (MTAS), an oxidized derivative of the cell toxic metabolite methylthioadenosine has been used in elucidating the relevance of an interrelationship between the catalytic behavior and the conformational state of hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase and in characterizing the transmembrane orientation of the integral unit in the microsomal membrane. The following results were obtained: (1) Glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis at 37 degrees C is progressively inhibited when native microsomes are treated with MTAS at 37 degrees C. In contrast, glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis of the same MTAS-treated microsomes assayed at 0 degrees C is not inhibited. (2) Subsequent modification of the MTAS-treated microsomes with Triton X-114 reveals that glucose-6-phosphatase assayed at 37 degrees C as well as at 0 degrees C is inhibited. (3) Although excess reagent is separated by centrifugation and the MTAS-treated microsomes diluted with buffer before being modified with Triton the temperature-dependent effect of MTAS on microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase is not reversed at all. (4) In native microsomes MTAS is shown to inhibit glucose-6-phosphatase noncompetitively. The subsequent Triton-modification of the MTAS-treated microsomes, however, generates an uncompetitive type of inhibition. (5) Preincubation of native microsomes with MTAS completely prevents the inhibitory effect of 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene 2,2'-disulfonate (DIDS) as well as 4,4'-diazidostilbene 2,2'-disulfonate (DASS) on glucose-6-phosphatase. (6) Low molecular weight thiols and tocopherol protect the microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase against MTAS-induced inhibition. (7) Glucose-6-phosphatase solubilized and partially purified from rat liver microsomes is also affected by MTAS in demonstrating the same temperature-dependent behavior as the enzyme of MTAS-treated and Triton-modified microsomes. From these results we conclude that MTAS modulates the enzyme catalytic properties of hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase by covalent modification of reactive groups of the integral protein accessible from the cytoplasmic surface of the microsomal membrane. The temperature-dependent kinetic behavior of MTAS-modulated glucose-6-phosphatase is interpreted by the existence of distinct catalytically active enzyme conformation forms. Detergent-induced modification of the adjacent hydrophobic microenvironment additionally generates alterations of the conformational state leading to changes of the kinetic characteristics of the integral enzyme.
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PMID:Modulation of the activity of hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase by methylthioadenosine sulfoxide. 165 32

(1) The features of MgATP-dependent Ca2+ accumulation under stimulation with glucose 6-phosphate were studied in rat kidney microsomes. (2) Ca2+ accumulated in the presence of MgATP alone does not exceed approx. 2 nmol/mg protein. (3) Glucose 6-phosphate markedly stimulates Ca2+ accumulation, up to steady-state levels approx. 15-fold higher than in its absence. (4) The hydrolysis of glucose 6-phosphate by glucose-6-phosphatase is essential for the stimulation, as shown by inhibiting the glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis with adequate concentrations of vanadate. Inorganic phosphate is accumulated in microsomal vesicles during glucose 6-phosphate-stimulated Ca2+ uptake in equimolar amounts with respects to Ca2+. (5) Increasing concentrations of glucose 6-phosphate result in increasing stimulations of Ca2+ uptake, until a maximal Ca2(+)-loading capacity of approx. 27 nmol/mg microsomal protein is reached. It is suggested that the enlargement of the kidney microsomal Ca2+ pool induced by glucose 6-phosphate (an important metabolite in kidney) might play a role in the regulation of Ca2+ homeostasis in kidney tubular cells.
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PMID:Glucose 6-phosphate stimulation of MgATP-dependent Ca2+ uptake by rat kidney microsomes. 230 99

The effect of the photoactivated reagent 4,4'-diazidostilbene 2,2'-disulfonic acid (DASS) on rat liver microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase has been investigated in order to analyze the accessibility and the chemical nature of functional sites of the integral enzyme protein. The following results were obtained. (i) When native rat liver microsomes are irradiated with the photoactive reagent, the activity of glucose-6-phosphatase is progressively inhibited. However, complete reactivation is obtained by modification of the DASS-labeled microsomes with Triton X-114. (ii) Inhibition of glucose-6-phosphatase is also reversed when the DASS-labeled microsomes are treated with p-mercuribenzoate or dithiothreitol. (iii) When native microsomes are labeled with DASS an intensely fluorescent adduct is formed whose emission and excitation maximum corresponds with those obtained when cysteine or 3-mercaptopropionic acid are irradiated in the presence of the photolabile reagent. (iv) The data from fluorescence measurements show that p-mercuribenzoate and dithiothreitol reduce fluorescence labeling of the microsomes whereas Triton modification of the DASS-labeled membranes does not affect the DASS-induced fluorescence. (v) Glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis of the partially purified glucose-6-phosphatase is also inhibited as observed with native microsomes. The DASS-induced inhibition is reversed and prevented by p-mercuribenzoate; however, the partially purified enzyme cannot be reactivated by Triton X-114. (vi) When glucose-6-phosphatase is partially purified from the DASS-labeled microsomes this enzyme preparation is fluorescence labeled and inhibited. From these results we conclude that DASS directly reacts with the integral phosphohydrolase mainly by chemical modification of essential sulfhydryl groups of the enzyme protein accessible from the cytoplasmic surface of the native microsomal membrane. The Triton-induced reactivation of the glucose-6-phosphatase of DASS-labeled microsomes is explained in terms of conformational changes of the integral protein elicited during modification of the surrounding membrane by detergent.
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PMID:Topographical localization and characterization of microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase binding sites accessible to 4,4'-diazidostilbene 2,2'-disulfonic acid. 255 5

The observations made by Sacks et al. [Neurochem. Res. 8, 661-685 (1983)] on which they based their criticisms of the deoxyglucose method have been examined and found to have no relationship to the conclusions drawn by them. (1) The observations of Sacks et al. (1983) of constant concentrations of [14C]deoxyglucose and [14C]deoxyglucose-6-phosphate, predominantly in the form of product, reflects only the postmortem phosphorylation of the precursor during the dissection of the brain in their experiments. When the brains are removed by freeze-blowing, the time courses of the [14C]deoxyglucose and [14C]deoxyglucose-6-phosphate concentrations in brain during the 45 min after the intravenous pulse are close to those predicted by the model of the deoxyglucose method. (2) Their observation of a reversal of the cerebral arteriovenous difference from positive to negative for [14C]deoxyglucose and not for [14C]glucose after an intravenous infusion of either tracer is, contrary to their conclusions, not a reflection of glucose-6-phosphatase activity in brain but the consequence of the different proportions of the rate constants for efflux and phosphorylation for these two hexoses in brain and is fully predicted by the model of the deoxyglucose method. (3) It is experimentally demonstrated that there is no significant arteriovenous difference for glucose-6-phosphate in brain, that infusion of [32P]glucose-6-phosphate results in no labeling of brain, and that the blood-brain barrier is impermeable to glucose-6-phosphate. Glucose-6-phosphate cannot, therefore, cross the blood-brain barrier, and the observation by Sacks and co-workers [J. Appl. Physiol. 24, 817-827 (1968); Neurochem. Res. 8, 661-685 (1983)] of a positive cerebral arteriovenous difference for [14C]glucose-6-phosphate and a negative arteriovenous difference for [14C]glucose cannot possibly reflect glucose-6-phosphatase activity in brain as concluded by them. Each of the criticisms raised by Sacks et al. has been demonstrated to be devoid of validity.
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PMID:Invalidity of criticisms of the deoxyglucose method based on alleged glucose-6-phosphatase activity in brain. 300 97

Cells from primary rat astrocyte cultures express a 36.5 kDa protein that cross-reacts with polyclonal antibodies to the catalytic subunit of rat hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase on Western blotting. Glucose-6-phosphate-hydrolysing activity of the order of 10 nmol/min per mg of total cellular protein can be demonstrated in cell homogenates. This activity shows latency, and is localized to the microsomal fraction. Kinetic analysis shows a Km of 15 mM and a Vmax. of 30 nmol/min per mg of microsomal protein in disrupted microsomes. Approx. 40% of the total phosphohydrolase activity is specific glucose-6-phosphatase, as judged by sensitivity to exposure to pH 5 at 37 degrees C. Previous reports that the brain microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase system does not distinguish glucose 6-phosphate and mannose 6-phosphate are confirmed in astrocyte microsomes. However, we demonstrate significant phosphomannose isomerase activity in brain microsomes, allowing for ready interconversion between mannose 6-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate (Vmax. 15 nmol/min per mg of microsomal protein; apparent Km < 1 mM; pH optimum 5-6 for the two-step conversion). This finding invalidates the past inference from the failure of brain microsomes to distinguish mannose 6-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate that the cerebral glucose-6-phosphatase system lacks a 'glucose 6-phosphate translocase' [Fishman and Karnovsky (1986) J. Neurochem. 46, 371-378]. Furthermore, light-scattering experiments confirm that a proportion of whole brain microsomes is readily permeable to glucose 6-phosphate.
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PMID:Astrocytic glucose-6-phosphatase and the permeability of brain microsomes to glucose 6-phosphate. 839 16

Glucose-6-phosphate hydrolysis was measured in a fraction obtained from rabbit fast-twitch skeletal muscle and corresponding to total sarcoplasmic reticulum, as well as in three subfractions containing longitudinal tubules, terminal cisternae or both structures. In all cases the levels of hydrolysis measured both in native and disrupted membranes were approximately 60-100 times lower than the microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activity of the corresponding livers. In contrast to liver microsomes, most (up to 80%) of the glucose-6-phosphate hydrolysing activity in muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes was not inactivated by pH 5.0 pre-incubation indicating that it was not catalysed by the specific glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme. Osmotically induced changes in light-scattering intensity of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles revealed that, in contrast to liver microsomes, sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles were not selectively permeable to glucose-6-phosphate as mannose-6-phosphate was also permeable and in addition they were poorly permeable to glucose. Immunoblot experiments using antibodies raised against the glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme, and liver endoplasmic reticulum glucose and Pi translocases, failed to detect the presence of these protein components in sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes. Southern blot analysis of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction products from rat muscle revealed that glucose-6-phosphatase mRNA is present in muscle. Quantification of Northern blot analysis of liver and muscle mRNA indicated that muscle contains less than 2% of the amount of glucose-6-phosphate mRNA found in corresponding livers. We conclude that very low levels of specific glucose-6-phosphatase (e.g. as in liver; E.C. 3.1.3.9) are present in muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum and that the muscle and liver glucose-6-phosphatase systems have several different properties.
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PMID:Low levels of glucose-6-phosphate hydrolysis in the sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle: involvement of glucose-6-phosphatase. 883 54

The enzyme system glucose-6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.9) plays a major role in the homeostatic regulation of blood glucose. It is responsible for the formation of endogenous glucose originating from gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis. Recently, chlorogenic acid was identified as a specific inhibitor of the glucose-6-phosphate translocase component (Gl-6-P translocase) of this enzyme system in microsomes of rat liver. Glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis was determined in the presence of chlorogenic acid or of new synthesized derivatives in intact rat liver microsomes in order to assess the inhibitory potency of the compounds on the translocase component. Variation in the 3-position of chlorogenic acid had only poor effects on inhibitory potency. Introduction of lipophilic side chain in the 1-position led to 100-fold more potent inhibitors. Functional assays on isolated perfused rat liver with compound 29i, a representative of the more potent derivatives, showed a dose-dependent inhibition of gluconeogenesis and glycogenolyosis, suggesting glucose-6-phosphatase as the locus of interference of the compound for inhibition of hepatic glucose production also in the isolated organ model. Gl-6-P translocase inhibitors may be useful for the reduction of inappropriately high rates of hepatic glucose output often found in non-insulin-dependent diabetes.
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PMID:Chlorogenic acid and synthetic chlorogenic acid derivatives: novel inhibitors of hepatic glucose-6-phosphate translocase. 900 13

Glucose-6-phosphate transport was investigated in rat or human liver microsomal vesicles using rapid filtration and light-scattering methods. Upon addition of glucose-6-phosphate, rat liver microsomes accumulated the radioactive tracer, reaching a steady-state level of uptake. In this phase, the majority of the accumulated tracer was glucose, but a significant intraluminal glucose-6-phosphate pool could also be observed. The extent of the intravesicular glucose pool was proportional with glucose-6-phosphatase activity. The relative size of the intravesicular glucose-6-phosphate pool (irrespective of the concentration of the extravesicular concentration of added glucose-6-phosphate) expressed as the apparent intravesicular space of the hexose phosphate was inversely dependent on glucose-6-phosphatase activity. The increase of hydrolysis by elevating the extravesicular glucose-6-phosphate concentration or temperature resulted in lower apparent intravesicular glucose-6-phosphate spaces and, thus, in a higher transmembrane gradient of glucose-6-phosphate concentrations. In contrast, inhibition of glucose-6-phosphate hydrolysis by vanadate, inactivation of glucose-6-phosphatase by acidic pH, or genetically determined low or absent glucose-6-phosphatase activity in human hepatic microsomes of patients suffering from glycogen storage disease type 1a led to relatively high intravesicular glucose-6-phosphate levels. Glucose-6-phosphate transport investigated by light-scattering technique resulted in similar traces in control and vanadate-treated rat microsomes as well as in microsomes from human patients with glycogen storage disease type 1a. It is concluded that liver microsomes take up glucose-6-phosphate, constituting a pool directly accessible to intraluminal glucose-6-phosphatase activity. In addition, normal glucose-6-phosphate uptake can take place in the absence of the glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme protein, confirming the existence of separate transport proteins.
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PMID:Demonstration of a metabolically active glucose-6-phosphate pool in the lumen of liver microsomal vesicles. 915 6

The glucose-6-phosphatase system was investigated in fetal rat liver microsomal vesicles. Several observations indicate that the orientation of the catalytic subunit is different in the fetal liver in comparison with the adult form: (i) the phosphohydrolase activity was not latent using glucose-6-phosphate as substrate, and in the case of other phosphoesters it was less latent; (ii) the intravesicular accumulation of glucose upon glucose-6-phosphate hydrolysis was lower; (iii) the size of the intravesicular glucose-6-phosphate pool was independent of the glucose-6-phosphatase activities; (iv) antibody against the loop containing the proposed catalytic site of the enzyme inhibited the phosphohydrolase activity in fetal but not in adult rat liver microsomes. Glucose-6-phosphate, phosphate, and glucose uptake could be detected by both light scattering and/or rapid filtration method in fetal liver microsomes; however, the intravesicular glucose-6-phosphate and glucose accessible spaces were proportionally smaller than in adult rat liver microsomes. These data demonstrate that the components of the glucose-6-phosphatase system are already present, although to a lower extent, in fetal liver, but they are functionally uncoupled by the extravesicular orientation of the catalytic subunit.
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PMID:Conformational change of the catalytic subunit of glucose-6-phosphatase in rat liver during the fetal-to-neonatal transition. 986 18


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