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Query: EC:3.2.1.36 (hyaluronidase)
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1. A method for the preparation of isolated mammary gland cells of the rat is described. 2. The procedure involves disaggregation of the tissue in a collagenase-hyaluronidase mixture and subsequent purification of the heterogeneous population of cells by centrifugation in discontinuous Ficoll-400 gradients; the preparation takes 60 minutes. The yield of cells is approximately 14%. 3. The cells as prepared have high rates of metabolism and synthetic capacity and exhibit metabolic characteristics comparable to intact tissue. 4. Measurements of the content of metabolic intermediates show cells to have, and retain, outstandingly high levels of ATP and to have an energy charge close to 0.9. Levels of other intermediates approximate to those found in the intact tissue. The level of glycolytic intermediates below the triose phosphate stage indicate the highly aerobic state of the cells. 5. The pattern and scale of glucose utilization, measured using specifically labelled glucose incorporation into 14CO2 and 14C-labelled lipid production, approximates closely in isolated cells at 5 and 20 mM glucose and in tissue slices at 20 mM glucose concentration. Mammary gland slices incubated with 5 mM glucose have a considerably lower rate of metabolism. Isolated cells exhibit a higher proportionate rate of glucose utilization by way of the pentose phosphate pathway. 6. The isolated cells are hormone responsive. Insulin increases the oxidation of glucose by the pentose phosphate pathway and stimulates lipid synthesis. Addition of progesterone and cortisone in vitro (10 muM) leads to a marked and rapid decrease in the rate of glucose oxidation and conversion to lipid.
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PMID:Regulation of mammary gland metabolism: pathways of glucose utilization, metabolite profile and hormone response of a modified mammary gland cell preparation. 67 49

Xyloside-initiated 35SO4(2-)-labelled glycosaminoglycans were isolated from the medium of cultured bovine glomeruli and covalently coupled to Sepharose 4B to construct a solid-phase substrate suitable for the detection of endoglycosidases. The substrate is rendered specific for heparitinase by prior digestion with chondroitin sulphate ABC lyase and is insensitive to proteinase, neuraminidase and hyaluronidase. Normal human mononuclear cells are shown to contain a heparitinase. This enzyme appears to be cell-associated and can be partially purified from human spleen by heparin affinity chromatography.
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PMID:Human mononuclear cells contain an endoglycosidase specific for heparan sulphate glycosaminoglycan demonstrable with the use of a specific solid-phase metabolically radiolabelled substrate. 253 99

The activities of different testicular enzymes, as a marker of development, have been determined at various gestational ages. The enzyme sorbitol dehydrogenase shows peak activity between 25 and 28 weeks of gestation, whereas the peak of hyaluronidase was observed between 14 and 16 weeks of gestation. The activities of pentose phosphate enzymes, such as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and transketolase in developing human fetus reach the highest level between 25 and 28 weeks and 21 and 24 weeks of gestation, respectively, indicating the most actively synthesizing period of the fetus for providing NADPH and ribose-5-phosphate for steroidogenesis and nucleotide and nucleic acid synthesis.
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PMID:Testicular enzymes as a marker of development in human fetus. 288 85

(1) Polysaccharides were isolated from bovine liver capsule by extraction with 2m-potassium chloride followed by precipitation from 0.8m-potassium chloride with cetylpyridinium chloride. Chondroitin sulphate was eliminated by digestion with hyaluronidase. The yield of heparin was approx. 40% of that obtained after extraction of the papain-digested tissue. (2) The macromolecular properties of the hyaluronidase-digested polysaccharide were studied by gel chromatography on Sephadex G-200 of the intact, as well as of the alkali-degraded, material. The results suggested the presence of single heparin chains in addition to a dermatan sulphate proteoglycan. (3) A purified heparin preparation was analysed for amino acids and neutral sugars. Xylose, galactose and serine were found in amounts corresponding to 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 residue/polysaccharide chain (mol.wt. 7400), respectively. It is suggested that the isolated material had been degraded by a polysaccharidase with endo-enzyme properties.
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PMID:Attempted isolation of a heparin proteoglycan from bovine liver capsule. 541 26

The myotoxic effect of the subcutaneous administration of N,N1-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine (DPPD) in rats was enhanced by the simultaneous administration of hyaluronidase. The resulting myopathy was associated with an early and dramatic increase in activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase. Administration of actinomycin D or cycloheximide prior to the combined DPPD and hyaluronidase treatment prevented the increase in activity of both pentose phosphate pathway enzymes, indicating that the increase in activity requires RNA synthesis and protein synthesis. The possibility that the increase in activity of both NADPH-regenerating enzymes results from the modification by effectors of existing less active forms of these enzymes leading to more highly active forms was refuted.
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PMID:The inhibitory effect of actinomycin D and cycloheximide on the increase in activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in experimentally induced diseased skeletal muscles. 648 Apr

Early alterations in cellular energy metabolism, reductive biosynthesis and enzymes related to cell proliferation were studied in 40 Wistar albino rats exposed to an acute level of deoxycholate (DOC), and fed different diets. The animals were divided into four equal groups and fed ad libitum either a normal diet (ND), a high-carbohydrate high-fibre (HCF) diet, or a high-protein high-fat (HPF) diet. Three times weekly intrarectal injection of 40 mg/0.2 ml DOC was given to three groups of the rats for 9 weeks. The specific activities of phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase were all significantly (p < 0.05) increased in the DOC-treated animals compared with the physiological saline-treated control. Reductive biosynthetic enzyme activities (malic enzyme, isocitrate dehydrogenase-NADP(+)-dependent, and ATP-citrate lyase) were reduced in the DOC-treated animals compared with the control. Feeding rats with the HCF diet significantly (p < 0.05) lowered the specific activities of the enzymes of glycolysis, of the pentose phosphate pathway (oxidative) and hyaluronidase and proteinase compared with those of the HPF-fed rats. These results show an altered enzymic profile in rats fed an HCF and an HPF diet compared with rats fed the ND and suggests a protective role of the HCF diet against the development of colon cancer.
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PMID:Early changes in energy metabolism in rats exposed to an acute level of deoxycholate and fed a Nigerian-like diet. 797 71