Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: EC:3.6.3.14 (ATP synthase)
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The effect of rhein, 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid, on oxygen consumption and the rate of aerobic and anaerobic lactate production by Ehrlich ascites tumor cells has been investigated. The rate of oxygen uptake decreases with the increase of rhein concentration. Rhein also inhibits aerobic and anaerobic glycolysis. The rate of aerobic lactate production decreases with the drug concentration and the maximal effect was observed at 0.100 mM. Anaerobic lactate production is also inhibited and the maximum effect is reached at 0.220 mM. The possibility that the lactate production decrease was secondary to an effect on mitochondrial ATPase was excluded on the basis of the data with DNP and oligomycin. Rhein reduces the intracellular level of lactate, pyruvate and glucose-6-phosphate. Glucose utilization and 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake are decreased to the same extent as the inhibition of aerobic lactate production, whereas glucose phosphorylation is unaffected. It is, therefore, concluded that the inhibition of glycolysis of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells by rhein is caused by an impairment of glucose uptake.
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PMID:Effect of rhein on the glucose metabolism of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. 237 63