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Query: EC:4.1.1.49 (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase)
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Xenopus laevis (Daudin) adult specimens were submitted to hypophysectomy. Although the operation resulted subtotal, it served the purpose of removing the prolactin-producing cells, whereby the involvement of endogenous prolactin in osmoregulation phenomena was excluded. In the operated animals treated with ovine prolactin the following metabolic parameters, which are closely dependent upon interrenal activity, were estimated: 1) intestine alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity (E.C. 3.1.3.1); 2) liver glycogen level; 3) glucose-6-phosphatase (E.C. 3.1.3.9.) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (E.C. 4.1.1.32.) in the liver; 4) blood glucose level; 5) blood ammonia and urea levels; 6) carbamoylphosphate synthetase activity in the liver (E.C. 2.7.2.a); 7) muscle sodium and potassium levels. The above metabolic parameters were found to be pressed by subtotal hypophysectomy and after subsequent prolactin treatment showed the tendency to go back to values similar to those of control animals.
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PMID:Biochemical data on subtotally hypophysectomized Xenopus laevis (Daudin) adult specimens treated or not with prolactin. 21 25

Catabolite inactivation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase was studied in yeast spheroplasts using 0.9 M mannitol or 0.6 M potassium chloride as the osmotic support. In the presence of potassium chloride the rate of catabolite inactivation was nearly the same as that occurring in intact yeast cells under different conditions of incubation. However, in the presence of mannitol, catabolite inactivation in spheroplasts was prevented. The mannitol inhibition of catabolite inactivation was released by addition of ammonium or phosphate ions. At a concentration of 0.3 M ammonium or 0.06 M phosphate ions, the maximum rate of catabolite inactivation in spheroplasts suspended in mannitol was achieved and was comparable with that observed in spheroplasts incubated in 0.6 M potassium chloride as the osmotic stabilizer. Sodium sulfate (0.04 and 0.4 M) or potassium chloride (0.06 and 0.6 M) did not release the mannitol inhibition of catabolite inactivation in spheroplasts. In intact yeast cells, 0.9 M mannitol, 0.08 M ammonium or 0.1 M phosphate ions did not influence the rate of catabolite inactivation. The nature of the effect of mannitol, ammonium and phosphate ions on catabolite inactivation in yeast spheroplasts is discussed.
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PMID:Catabolite inactivation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in spheroplasts from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 38 59

1. A simple procedure for the isolation of morphologically intact, metabolically viable sheep liver parenchymal cells is described in detail. 2. The method is based on the initial treatment of fresh liver slices with collagenase and hyaluronidase. 3. The cell preparation was studied with respect to membrane permeability, potassium content, ATP/ADP ratio, adenylate content, and gluconeogenic capacity with respect to various substrates. 4. Data are present with respect to the distribution of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in isolated cells and whole sheep liver. 5. The results are compared, where possible, with data currently available from isolated perfused sheep liver and multi-catheterised animals.
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PMID:Preparation and biochemical characterisation of isolated parenchymal cells from adult sheep liver. 83 5

We describe a kinetic enzymic method for serum bicarbonate analysis, using wheat germ phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) coupled through oxaloacetate reduction with NADH in the presence of malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.37). Inhibition with potassium thiocyanate yielded first-order kinetics with respect to bicarbonate over the concentration range of 0-45 mmol/L. The inhibitor was chosen by evaluating reaction data in the presence of different anions, with use of a monoexponential model. Criteria for first-order kinetics included a constant reaction half-life over the concentration range and SDest for the model comparable with the magnitude of spectrophotometric noise. We compared our kinetic method (y) with an automated ion-selective electrode method (x), obtaining the regression relationship y = 0.97x + 1.2 mmol/L (r = 0.991; n = 77; mean = 25.5 mmol/L; y = 25.3 mmol/L). Within-run precision from duplicates was 3.1% (mean = 25.2 mmol/L; n = 72). Total analytical precision (n = 12) was 9.4% (mean = 15 mmol/L) for the low control and 4.3% (mean = 32 mmol/L) for the high control. We conclude that the kinetic assay allows use of large serum-to-reagent ratios (1:100) and smaller amounts of NADH than an equilibrium assay. The assay is suitable for automated kinetic analysis.
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PMID:Kinetic measurement of bicarbonate in serum by thiocyanate inhibition of wheat germ phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. 225 46

The in vitro metabolism of [1-13C]glucose by Ascaris suum third and fourth-stage larvae was analyzed under different gas phases using 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (13C-NMR). Third-stage larvae (L3) incubated under a gas phase of 85% N2/5% O2/10% CO2 produced trace amounts of [13C]succinate, and molted to fourth-stage larvae (L4) between days 3 and 4 in vitro. However, they appeared to arrest as L3s when incubated under air, or 85% N2/5% O2/10% CO2 in the presence of 2 mM potassium cyanide, or 95% N2/5% CO2. Day 12 L4 (eight days after molting) incubated under 85% N2/5% O2/10% CO2, or 95% N2/5% CO2, or 94% N2/1% O2/5% CO2, produced succinate, acetate, propionate and the branched-chain fatty acids 2-methylvalerate and 2-methylbutyrate by fermentative pathways characteristic of adult body wall muscle. In contrast, when Day 12 L4 were incubated under air, only trace amounts of these acids were detected in the incubation medium. Thus, L4 are capable of synthesizing end-products typical of the adult even in the presence of oxygen, as long as the CO2 tensions are above 5%. As would be predicted, activities of enzymes involved in aerobic metabolism, including citrate synthase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, and cytochrome oxidase, decreased dramatically as L4s underwent the final ecdysis and matured to the adult stage. More importantly, activities of enzymes typical of anaerobic metabolism, including phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and malic enzyme, were substantially elevated in L3s (over their levels in second-stage larvae), and appeared to have reached their adult levels in L3s prior to the third molt, even though L3s still exhibited cyanide sensitivity. Since L3s and L4s have enzymes involved in both aerobic and anaerobic pathways, it is possible that the L3s contain two populations of mitochondria, one which functions aerobically and a second which functions anaerobically.
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PMID:Effect of gas phase on carbohydrate metabolism in Ascaris suum larvae. 250 8

Chronic metabolic alkalosis was induced in rats drinking 0.3 M NaHCO3 and receiving 1 mg furosemide/100 g body weight per day intraperitoneally. Another group of animals received a potassium supplement in the form of 0.3 M KHCO3. In this group, hypokalemia did not develop and muscle potassium fell by only 18% versus 50% in those not receiving potassium. In vitro renal production of ammonia and uptake of glutamine fell by 40% with a decrease in the activity of glutaminase I and glutamate dehydrogenase. Activity of phosphofructokinase, a major enzyme of glycolysis, rose only in the kidney of animals receiving a potassium supplement. Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase fell as well as phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. Malate dehydrogenase also fell. The activity of phosphofructokinase also rose in the liver, heart, and leg muscle. The major biochemical changes in the renal cortex were the following: glutamate, alpha-ketoglutarate, malate, lactate, pyruvate, alanine, aspartate, and citrate rose as well as calculated oxaloacetate. The concentration of intermediates like 2-phosphoglycerate, 3-phosphoglycerate, and glucose-6-phosphate fell. The cytosolic redox potential (NAD+/NADH) decreased. In addition to the fall in ammoniagenesis, it could be demonstrated in vitro that the renal tubules incubated with glutamine showed decreased glucose production and increased production of lactate and pyruvate. The concentration of lactate was elevated in all tissues examined including liver, heart, and leg muscle. This study confirms in the rat that decreased renal ammoniagenesis takes place following decreased uptake of glutamine in metabolic alkalosis. All other changes are accounted for by the process of increased glycolysis, which appears to take place in all tissues in metabolic alkalosis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Renal tissue metabolism in the rat during chronic metabolic alkalosis: importance of glycolysis. 294 66

The aim of this work was to investigate the stereoselectivity of maize leaf phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase with E- and Z-2-phosphoenolbutyrate as inhibitors and substrates. In addition, a procedure is presented for the separation of the isomers of 2-phosphoenolbutyrate. The method is based on the different interaction of those compounds with a strong anion-exchange high-pressure liquid chromatography column using 50 mM potassium phosphate (pH 3) as elution buffer, and allows the obtention of pure E- and Z-P-enolbutyrate with high yield. The same system was used to identify Z-P-enolbutyrate as the product of the phosphorylation of 2-oxobutyrate by rabbit muscle pyruvate kinase. In the presence of 5 mM Mg2+, both isomers of P-enolbutyrate inhibited C4-plant P-enolpyruvate carboxylase; the values of Ki were 15-20 microM and 100-110 microM for Z- and E-P-enolbutyrate, respectively. With 0.5 mM Mn2+, the Z isomer was also effective as inhibitor (Ki = 35-40 microM), while the E isomer produced activation of the carboxylase probably due to its binding at an allosteric site. Both compounds were substrates of the enzyme with similar V/Km values; however, V and Km for the two isomers were significantly different (i.e. Km = 110 microM for Z-P-enolbutyrate and 220 microM for E-P-enolbutyrate). The results indicate the existence of stereoselectivity for the binding of P-enolbutyrate to the active site of P-enolpyruvate carboxylase. However, this fact does not affect the use of the isomers as substrates by the plant carboxylase.
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PMID:Stereoselectivity of the interaction of E- and Z-2-phosphoenolbutyrate with maize leaf phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. 336 12

(E)-3-Cyanophosphoenolpyruvate has been synthesized by reacting dimethyl chlorophosphate with the potassium enolate of ethyl cyanopyruvate. The resulting trialkyl ester was deesterified with bromotrimethylsilane followed by potassium hydroxide. Subsequent treatment with Dowex-50-H+ resin and cyclohexylamine afforded the tricyclohexylammonium salt; only the E geometric isomer was obtained. This compound can be photoisomerized to a 70:30 E:Z mixture. (E)-3-Cyanophosphoenolpyruvate is an excellent competitive inhibitor of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase [KI(Mn2+) = 16 microM, KI(Mg2+) = 1360 microM], pyruvate kinase [KI(Mn2+) = 0.085 microM, KI(Mg2+) = 0.76 microM], and enolase [KI(Mn2+) = 360 microM, KI(Mg2+) = 280 microM]. The compound is a substrate for pyruvate kinase (Vmax approximately 1% of phosphoenolpyruvate rate), but not for the other two enzymes. No irreversible inactivation is observed with phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase of pyruvate kinase.
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PMID:(E)-3-Cyanophosphoenolpyruvate, a new inhibitor of phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent enzymes. 409 27

Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxylase was purified over 400-fold from Plasmodium berghei. The purified enzyme was stable in 0.4 m potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) containing 0.5 m glucose, 1 mm ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), and 1 mm MgCl(2). It had a molecular weight of 280,000 determined by sucrose density gradient centrifugation in this buffer, but it aggregated and was unstable in the presence of different salts or a more dilute solution of potassium phosphate. The K(m) for PEP was 2.6 mm and that for Mg(2+) was 1.3 mm. The K(m) for bicarbonate was 2 mm. Citrate, nucleotides, and EDTA inhibited the PEP carboxylase of P. berghei by decreasing the concentration of free magnesium ions, but acetyl-coenzyme A, fructose-1,6-diphosphate, and aspartate did not influence its activity. A chloroquine concentration of 1.8 x 10(-4)m inhibited the enzyme 50%.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from Plasmodium berghei. 462 31

Ammonium ions stimulated in vitro the activity of PEP carboxylase (PEPC) extracted from dark-adapted leaves of Amaranthus hypochondriacus. Maximum stimulation of 80 to 85% occurred at 50 microM ammonium chloride. There was a marginal inhibition of PEPC at 5 mM ammonium chloride. Among several ions tested, potassium ions stimulated PEPC to a limited extent of about 30%. In presence of ammonium, there was no change either in the sensitivity of enzyme to malate or in the affinity for substrate, PEP. On the other hand, glucose-6-phosphate, an allosteric activator, which stimulated the enzyme by two-fold, could enhance PEPC activity by < 20% in the presence of ammonium. The light-activated form of PEPC from leaves of Amaranthus hypochondriacus was not stimulated, but was inhibited in the presence of ammonium. Our results demonstrate that ammonium ions stimulate PEPC by acting at the allosteric site. Ammonium ion being a component of plant metabolism could be an important regulator of PEPC, particularly in C4 plants.
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PMID:Ammonium ions stimulate in vitro the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from leaves of Amaranthus hypochondriacus, a C4 plant: evidence for allosteric activation. 795 Oct 51


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