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Query: EC:4.1.2.13 (aldolase)
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Rats were injected with 1 mg of Zn2+ as zinc sulfate or 2 mg of Cd2+ as cadmium sulfate per kg of body weight on a daily basis. After seven injections, ferritin and metallothionein were isolated from the livers of the rats. Significant amounts of zinc were associated with ferritin. Incubation of such ferritin with apoenzymes of calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase, yeast phosphoglucomutase, and yeast aldolase restored their enzymic activity. The amount of zinc injected was insufficient to stimulate significant synthesis of metallothionein, but similar experiments with injection of cadmium did stimulate the synthesis of metallothionein. The amount of Zn2+ in ferritin of Cd-injected rats was greater than that in ferritin in Zn-injected rats, which was greater than that in ferritin of normal rats. Thus at comparable protein concentration ferritin from Cd-injected rats was a better Zn2+ donor than was ferritin from Zn-injected or normal animals. Ferritin is a normal constituent of several tissues, whereas metallothionein is synthesized under metabolic stress. Thus ferritin may function as a "metal storage and transferring agent" for iron and for zinc. It is suggested that ferritin probably serves as the initial chelator for Zn2+ and perhaps other metal ions as well and that under very high toxic levels of metal ions the synthesis of metallothionein is initiated as the second line of defense.
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PMID:Ferritin: a zinc detoxicant and a zinc ion donor. 621 27

The activities of phosphofructokinase, aldolase and pyruvate kinase were diminished in extracts from skeletal muscle of streptozotocin diabetic rats, whereas the activities of glucose phosphate isomerase and phosphoglucomutase were not changed. Treatment of diabetic rats with insulin restored the activity of phosphofructokinase to normal. A kinetic study of the partially purified enzyme from normal and diabetic rats showed identical Michaelis constants for ATP and equal sensitivity to inhibition by excess of this substrate. Extracts of quick frozen muscle from diabetic rats had higher levels of citrate (an inhibitor of phosphofructokinase) and lower levels of D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and D-glucose-1,6-bisphosphate (activators of this enzyme). The levels of D-fructose-6-phosphate, D-glucose-6-phosphate, ATP, ADP and AMP were the same for the two groups. Our data suggest that the in vivo decrease of phosphofructokinase activity in skeletal muscle of diabetic rats is due to a decrease in the level of the enzymatically active protein as well as to an unfavorable change in the level of several of its allosteric modulators.
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PMID:Decreased phosphofructokinase activity in skeletal muscle of diabetic rats. 623 37

The content of glycogen and glucose, as well as aldolase, phosphofructokinase, phosphoglucomutase, glucose-6-phosphatase and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase activities in liver tissue and the same activities in skeletal muscle of sheep were determined under the influence of prolonged addition of carboxyline separately and in combination with methionine, diammonium phosphate and potassium iodine to their diet. It is established that under the influence of carboxyline the glycogen content as well as aldolase and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase activities rise significantly in the liver of the tested animals. In the skeletal muscle only aldolase activity increases.
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PMID:[Carbohydrate metabolism in sheep when adding carboxyline to their diet]. 624 96

The electrophoretic mobilities of seven enzymes from eight theileria-infected bovine lymphoblastoid cell lines originating in Kenya and Iran were compared. The isoenzyme patterns of phosphoglucomutase, malate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were the same for all cell lines infected with any of the three Theileria species. Theileria annulata could be clearly differentiated from T parva and T lawrencei on the basis of three enzymes: glucose phosphate isomerase, glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase and aldolase. T parva and T lawrencei isoenzyme patterns were alike except for glucose phosphate isomerase, where two sets of isoenzyme mobility were shown which, however, did not separate the two species.
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PMID:Preliminary investigations on isoenzyme variants of lymphoblastoid cell lines infected wih Theileria species. 678 78

Clones of 32 strains of Trichomonas vaginalis isolated from patients attending a venereal diseases clinic were compared among themselves and with authentic Pentatrichomonas hominis on the basis of their isoenzyme patterns for eight enzymes by thin-layer starch-gel electrophoresis. The enzymes examined were: glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI); phosphoglucomutase (PGM); malic enzyme (NADP+) (ME); hexokinase (HK); malate dehydrogenase (NAD+) (MDH); glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD); aldolase (ALD); and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). From the isoenzyme patterns of four enzymes (LDH, MDH, HK, and GPI) the strains of T vaginalis could be divided clearly into five groups. PGM showed differences in only one strain, while two other enzyme patterns (ME and ALD) were the same for all the strains of T vaginalis tested. All isolates were clearly distinguishable from P hominis. Although G6PD patterns were not sharp some differences were evident among T vaginalis strains.
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PMID:Isoenzyme characterisation of Trichomonas vaginalis. 698 Jun 85

Infective (L3) larvae of Strongyloides ratti (homogonic strain) were freeze-clamped (-196 degrees C) and the steady-state content of the glycolytic, Krebs tricarboxylic acid (KTA)-cycle intermediates and adenine nucleotides analysed. Comparison of the mass-action ratios (MARs) of the glycolytic enzymes with their apparent equilibrium constants (K9eq) indicate that phosphoglucomutase, glucosephosphate isomerase, triosephosphate isomerase, phosphoglyceromutase and phosphopyruvate hydratase reactions were all at or near equilibrium, whilst hexokinase, phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase were displaced from equilibrium. The S. ratti aldolase and myokinase appear to be somewhat displaced from equilibrium and thus may have pseudoregulatory roles. The adenylate energy charge (AEC), ATP/ADP ratio and the available adenylate energy (AAE) indices were 0.9 +/- 0.04, 8.76 +/- 1.5 and 397 +/- 43, respectively. The free [NAD+]/[NADH+H+] ratio of the cytoplasmic compartment of S. ratti L3 larvae calculated employing the steady-state content of the oxidised and reduced substrates of lactate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.1.1.27) and the combined glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.2.1.12)/3-phosphoglycerate kinase (E.C. 2.7.2.3) system were ca. 523 and 1200, respectively. The free[NAD+]/[NADH+H+] ratio in the mitochondrial compartment of S. ratti L3 larvae calculated using the malate dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.1.1.37) equilibrium was found to be 1962:1. The data is discussed with respect to the predominantly aerobic nature of the energy metabolism of the L3 larvae.
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PMID:Steady-state content of glycolytic/tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates, adenine nucleotide pools and the cellular redox-status in the infective (L3) larvae of (homogonic) Strongyloides ratti. 762 25

Methanococcus maripaludis, a facultatively autotrophic archaebacterium that grows with H2 or formate as the electron donor, does not assimilate sugars and other complex organic substrates. However, glycogen is biosynthesized intracellularly and commonly reaches values of 0.34% of the cellular dry weight in the early stationary phase. To determine the pathway of glycogen catabolism, specific enzymes of sugar metabolism were assayed in cell extracts. The following enzymes were found (specific activity in milliunits per milligram of protein): glycogen phosphorylase, 4.4; phosphoglucomutase, 10; glucose-6-phosphate isomerase, 9; 6-phosphofructokinase, 5.6, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, 10; fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, 4.2; triosephosphate isomerase, 44; glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, 26; phosphoglycerate kinase, 20; phosphoglycerate mutase, 78; enolase, 107; and pyruvate kinase, 4.0. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase was NADP+ dependent, and the pyruvate kinase required MnCl2. The 6-phosphofructokinase had an unusually low pH optimum of 6.0. Four nonoxidative pentose-biosynthetic enzymes were found (specific activity in milliunits per milligram of protein): transketolase, 12; transaldolase, 24; ribulose-5-phosphate-3-epimerase, 55; and ribulose-5-phosphate isomerase, 100. However, the key enzymes of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway, the reductive pentose phosphate pathway, and the classical and modified Entner-Duodoroff pathways were not detected. Thus, glycogen appears to be catabolized by the Embden-Meyerhoff-Parnas pathway. This result is in striking contrast to the nonmethanogenic archaebacteria that have been examined, among which the Entner-Doudoroff pathway is common. A dithiothreitol-specific NADP(+)-reducing activity was also found (8.5 mU/mg of protein). Other thiol compounds, such as cysteine hydrochloride, reduced glutathione, and 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid, did not replace dithiothreitol for this activity. The physiological significance of this activity is not known.
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PMID:Pathway of glycogen metabolism in Methanococcus maripaludis. 828 25

The presence of 14 enzymes was investigated using purified spores of the microsporidian Nosema grylli from fat body of the crickets Gryllus bimaculatus. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49), phosphoglucomutase (EC 5.4.2.2), phosphoglucose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.9), fructose 6-phosphate kinase (EC 2.7.1.11), aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13), 3-phosophoglycerate kinase (EC 2.7.2.3), pyruvate kinase (EC 2.7.1.40) and glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.8) were detected with activities of 15 +/- 1, 7 +/- 1, 1,549 +/- 255, 10 +/- 1, 5 +/- 1, 16 +/- 4, 6 +/- 1 and 16 +/- 2 nmol/min mg protein, respectively. Hexokinase (EC 2.7.1.1), NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.37), malic enzyme (EC 1.1.1.40), lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.27), alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1) and succinate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.1) were not detectable. These results suggest the catabolism of carbohydrates in microsporidia occurs via the Embden-Meyerhof pathway. Glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase may reoxidize NADH which is produced by glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase in glycolysis.
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PMID:Activities of enzymes of carbohydrate and energy metabolism of the spores of the microsporidian, Nosema grylli. 918 13

Among progeny of a hybrid (Rana shqiperica x R. lessonae) x R. lessonae, 14 of 22 loci form four linkage groups (LGs): (1) mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase, carbonate dehydratase-2, esterase 4, peptidase D; (2) mannosephosphate isomerase, lactate dehydrogenase-B, sex, hexokinase-1, peptidase B; (3) albumin, fructose-biphosphatase-1, guanine deaminase; (4) mitochondrial superoxide dismutase, cytosolic malic enzyme, xanthine oxidase. Fructose-biphosphate aldolase-2 and cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase possibly form a fifth LG. Mitochondrial aconitate hydratase, alpha-glucosidase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, and phosphoglucomutase-2 are unlinked to other loci. All testable linkages (among eight loci of LGs 1, 2, 3, and 4) are shared with eastern palearctic water frogs. Including published data, 44 protein loci can be assigned to 10 of the 13 chromosomes in Holarctic Rana. Of testable pairs among 18 protein loci, agreement between Palearctic and Nearctic Rana is complete (125 unlinked, 14 linked pairs among 14 loci of five syntenies), and Holarctic Rana and Xenopus laevis are highly concordant (125 shared nonlinkages, 13 shared linkages, three differences). Several Rana syntenies occur in mammals and fish. Many syntenies apparently have persisted for 60-140 x 10(6) years (frogs), some even for 350-400 x 10(6) years (mammals and teleosts).
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PMID:Linkage groups of protein-coding genes in western palearctic water frogs reveal extensive evolutionary conservation. 928 85

Previous studies have demonstrated that the two cysteine residues in the calcium-binding protein S100B are required for its extracellular functions. In the present study, a recombinant S100B protein and mutant S100Bs containing one or no cysteine residue(s) have been used to determine the contribution of cysteine residues to S100B dimerization and interaction with the intracellular target proteins aldolase, phosphoglucomutase, and the microtubule associated tau protein. Mutation of C68 to a valine or C84 to a serine, C68 to valine and C84 to serine, or C68 to valine and C84 to alanine did not significantly alter S100B activation of aldolase. However, mutation of C84 to serine resulted in calcium-independent S100B activation of phosphoglucomutase and a loss of S100B inhibition of tau phosphorylation by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. The altered functionality of the C84S mutant with phosphoglucomutase and tau was not due to altered physical properties or dimerization state. All of the mutants exhibited heat stability and calcium dependent conformational changes which were identical to recombinant S100B. In addition, S100B proteins containing two, one or no cysteine residues behaved as dimers in size exclusion chromatography experiments in the presence or absence of calcium as well as in the presence or absence of reducing agent. Dynamic light scattering and analytical ultracentrifugation experiments confirmed that dimerization was not affected by calcium or reducing agent. Altogether these results demonstrate that S100B dimerization is not calcium- or sulfhydryl-dependent. In summary, cysteine residues are not necessary for the noncovalent dimerization of S100B, but are important in certain S100B target protein-interactions.
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PMID:The role of cysteine residues in S100B dimerization and regulation of target protein activity. 942 66


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