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The effects of the convulsant methionine sulfoximine (MSO) on the glucose pathway have been investigated in mouse and rat brain. The key gluconeogenic enzyme fructose-1,6-biphosphatase (FBPase) (EC 3.1.3.11) was immunostained by rat anti-FBPase antibody. The rat cortex slices were very lightly stained, almost unstained in controls. After MSO injection, there was a marked staining only in astrocytes (perikarya, processes, and end feet). The activity of this enzyme also increased. MSO induced an increase of 63% in the stability at heating (47 degrees C) and of 36% in the stability at proteolysis (trypsin, 10 micrograms/ml) of FBPase. The convulsant had no effect on the concentrations of the metabolites related to the FBPase-phosphofructokinase step, i.e., fructose-1,6-biphosphate, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, and dihydroxyacetone phosphate, before, during, or after the convulsions. These results show that the cellular site of glucose pathway impairment induced by MSO in rodent brain is presumably the astroglial cells and that one mechanism of glycogenesis could be the reinforcement of the molecules of FBPase, which enhances gluconeogenesis. A hypothetical diagram of glucose metabolism under the effect of MSO has been proposed.
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PMID:Glycogen synthesis and immunocytochemical study of fructose-1,6-biphosphatase in methionine sulfoximine epileptogenic rodent brain. 301 27

We have tested rat liver fructose-bisphosphatase (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.11) and three other gluconeogenic fructose-bisphosphatases as substrates for the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. In contrast to the rat liver enzyme, homogeneous preparations of mouse liver, rabbit liver, and pig kidney fructose-bisphosphatase could not be phosphorylated by the kinase. Comparative sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the four above fructose-bisphosphatases revealed that the subunit molecular weight of the isolated rat liver enzyme (ca. 40,000-42,000) was greater than that of mouse liver, rabbit liver, and pig kidney fructose-bisphosphatases (ca. 36,000-37,000). Treatment of 32P-labeled rat liver fructose-bisphosphatase with trypsin resulted in the conversion of the rat liver enzyme to an active species with a subunit molecular weight identical to that of the three other enzymes, with complete loss of the 32P-labeled site. Identical trypsin treatment of pig kidney fructose-bisphosphatase caused no change in the molecular weight of the enzyme. The results suggest that the purified mouse liver, rabbit liver, and pig kidney fructose-bisphosphatases are not substrates for the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in vitro because they lack the phosphorylation-site peptide.
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PMID:Fructose-bisphosphatase as a substrate of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. 626 56

Phosphorylation of fructose-bisphosphatase (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.11) by the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase from pig muscle decreased the K0.5 for fructose-bisphosphate from 21 to 11 microM. When the phosphorylated fructose-bisphosphatase was treated with trypsin the K0.5 increased to 22 microM. The K0.5 also increased when the phosphoenzyme was treated with a partially purified phosphatase from rat liver. There was no difference between the unphosphorylated and phosphorylated enzyme with respect to pH dependence, the pH optimum being about 7.0 for both. Limited treatment of fructose-bis-phosphatase with subtilisin, which cleaves the enzyme at its unphosphorylatable N-terminal part, increased the pH optimum more than limited treatment with trypsin, which releases the phosphorylated peptide at the C-terminal part of fructose-bisphosphatase. The phosphorylated site on the phosphorylated fructose-bisphosphatase was more easily split off by trypsin treatment than the corresponding unphosphorylated site. The results suggest in addition to the glucagon-induced phosphorylation of fructose-bisphosphatase described by Claus et al. [1] that the phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of fructose-bisphosphatase could be of importance for the hormonal regulation of the enzyme in vivo.
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PMID:The kinetics of unphosphorylated, phosphorylated and proteolytically modified fructose bisphosphatase from fat liver. 627 12