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Query: EC:4.1.2.13 (aldolase)
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The immunologic relatedness of various cofactor-binding sites of enzymes requiring different nucleotide cofactors was examined. Chicken antibodies specific for NADPH- or CoA-binding domains were raised using an NADPH- or CoA-requiring enzyme as an immunogen. Antibodies specific for either NADPH- or CoA-binding domains were isolated by immunoaffinity chromatography of the respective antisera using unrelated NADPH- or CoA-requiring enzymes as affinity ligands. The reactivities of the NADPH- and CoA-binding-site-specific antibodies with a variety of enzymes that required different cofactors was shown on Western blots of SDS-PAGE of the enzymes. Variable cross-reactivities were observed among all nucleotide-cofactor requiring enzymes with each specific cofactor-domain-antibody population. Numerous proteins not physiologically associated with nucleotide cofactors, including acyl carrier protein, were completely unreactive. Proteins that bound phosphoryl compounds either as substrates or cofactors showed varying degrees of reactivity with each population of specific antibodies. These included aldolase, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, ribonuclease A, carbonic anhydrase and triosephosphate isomerase. The immunologic cross-reactivity suggested that these proteins share a common structural feature, probably a primary structure epitope, since the proteins had been subjected to denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A candidate for this common structural feature is a glycine-rich sequence comprising a phosphate binding loop.
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PMID:Nucleotide cofactor-binding-domain-specific antibodies show immunologic relatedness among unrelated proteins that bind phosphoryl compounds. 845 96

The objective of this study was to determine whether the concentration of pyridine nucleotides in muscle and liver tissue of quail affected the heat stability of aldolase and selected enzymes involved in the oxidation-reduction of these cofactors. The thermal stability of malic enzyme, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase, and aldolase in liver, and in pectoral muscle of quail was studied at incubation temperatures ranging from 27 to 60 degrees C. The concentrations of liver NAD, NADP, NADPH and the thermal inactivation of liver malic enzyme, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase, and aldolase were not affected by niacin deficiency. In contrast, pectoral muscle glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the niacin deficient quail compared to that of the controls had a markedly reduced thermal stability. This was associated with a corresponding decrease in the concentration of NAD and possibly NADPH. However, lactic dehydrogenase and aldolase activities were not affected. A similar pattern of heat inactivation was obtained when dialysed muscle and liver extracts were spiked with NAD or NADP. In these studies, NAD(P) protected muscle glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase against heat inactivation to a much greater degree than that obtained with the other enzymes from muscle or liver tissue. These results suggest a causative relationship between the thermal stability of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and coenzyme status in pectoral muscle tissue. This effect of niacin deficiency on the thermal stability of enzymes appears to be quite selective and specific.
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PMID:Effect of niacin deficiency on the thermal stability of NAD- and NADP-dependent dehydrogenases in liver and pectoral muscle of Japanese quail. 893 Jan 42

This study uses microsomal membranes from rat testis tissue, including the cytochrome P450c17 (steroid 17 alpha-monooxygenase/17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone aldolase, catalyzing the conversion of progesterone to androstenedione), to decipher the possible relation of NADPH-induced (no exogenous iron added) lipid peroxidation and cytochrome P450 inactivation and the protective effect of certain steroids. NADPH (300 microM) causes a 3.6-fold stimulation of malondialdehyde formation (thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances) and a 29% cytochrome P450c17 loss within 1 h at 37 degrees C, but has no effect on lipid peroxidation in the presence of the iron chelator desferrioxamine. Hydrogen peroxide has only marginal effects. The antioxidant efficiency of estradiol (IC50 = 13.9 microM) is higher than its cytochrome P450c17 protective efficiency (IC50 = 33.0 microM), whereas androstenedione does not inhibit lipid peroxidation but protects cytochrome P450c17 completely. The human choriogonadotropin-induced degradation of cytochrome P450c17 in incubated decapsulated testes can not be correlated with a stimulation of lipid peroxidation, and it is partially inhibited by estradiol but completely abolished by androstenedione. It is concluded (I) that NADPH stimulates iron-dependent generation of reactive oxygen species by the monooxygenase system even in the presence of certain P450 ligands in the physiological membrane environment, (II) that membrane lipid peroxidation may be suppressed by hydrophobic steroids acting as antioxidants such as estradiol, (III) that steroid ligands stabilize cytochrome P450c17 against inactivation in the presence of NADPH even if they do not act as substrates and do not possess antioxidant activity, and (IV) that the choriogonadotropin-induced down-regulation of cytochrome P450c17 is not due to accumulating steroids acting as "pseudosubstrates" as occasionally supposed.
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PMID:Novel connections between NADPH-induced lipid peroxidation and cytochrome P450 inactivation, and antioxidant and enzyme protective properties of estradiol in gonadal membranes. 925 24

The irreversible oxidation of cysteine residues can be prevented by protein S-thiolation, a process by which protein SH groups form mixed disulphides with low-molecular-mass thiols such as glutathione. We report here the target proteins which are modified in yeast cells in response to H(2)O(2). In particular, a range of glycolytic and related enzymes (Tdh3, Eno2, Adh1, Tpi1, Ald6 and Fba1), as well as translation factors (Tef2, Tef5, Nip1 and Rps5) are identified. The oxidative stress conditions used to induce S-thiolation are shown to inhibit GAPDH (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase), enolase and alcohol dehydrogenase activities, whereas they have no effect on aldolase, triose phosphate isomerase or aldehyde dehydrogenase activities. The inhibition of GAPDH, enolase and alcohol dehydrogenase is readily reversible once the oxidant is removed. In addition, we show that peroxide stress has little or no effect on glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase or 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, the enzymes that catalyse NADPH production via the pentose phosphate pathway. Thus the inhibition of glycolytic flux is proposed to result in glucose equivalents entering the pentose phosphate pathway for the generation of NADPH. Radiolabelling is used to confirm that peroxide stress results in a rapid and reversible inhibition of protein synthesis. Furthermore, we show that glycolytic enzyme activities and protein synthesis are irreversibly inhibited in a mutant that lacks glutathione, and hence cannot modify proteins by S-thiolation. In summary, protein S-thiolation appears to serve an adaptive function during exposure to an oxidative stress by reprogramming metabolism and protecting protein synthesis against irreversible oxidation.
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PMID:Protein S-thiolation targets glycolysis and protein synthesis in response to oxidative stress in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 1275 85

The intracellular glutathione redox state and the rate of glucose formation were studied in rabbit kidney-cortex tubules. In the presence of substrates effectively utilized for glucose formation, ie, aspartate + glycerol + octanoate, alanine + glycerol + octanoate, malate, or pyruvate, the intracellular reduced glutathione/oxidized glutathione (GSH/GSSG) ratios were significantly higher than those under conditions of negligible glucose production. Changes in the intracellular GSH/GSSG ratio corresponded to those in glucose-6-phosphate content and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate/oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH/NADP(+)) ratio obtained from malate/pyruvate measurements. Gluconeogenesis stimulation by extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or inosine caused an elevation of the intracellular GSH/GSSG and NADPH/NADP(+) ratios, as well as glucose-6-phosphate level. Surprisingly, in the presence of 5 mmol/L glucose, both the intracellular GSH/GSSG and NADPH/NADP(+) ratios and glucose-6-phosphate content were almost as low as under conditions of negligible glucose synthesis. L-buthionine sulfoximine (BSO)-induced decline in both the intracellular glutathione level and redox state resulted in inhibition of gluconeogenesis accompanied by accumulation of phosphotrioses and a decrease in fructose-1,6-bisphosphate content, while cysteine precursors altered neither GSH redox state nor the rate of glucose formation. In view of the data, it seems likely that: (1) intensive gluconeogenesis rather than extracellular glucose is responsible for maintaining a high intracellular GSH/GSSG ratio due to effective glucose-6-phosphate delivery for NADPH generation via the pentose phosphate pathway; (2) a decline in the intracellular glutathione level and/or redox state causes a decrease in glucose synthesis resulting from a diminished flux through aldolase; (3) induced by cysteine precursors, elevation of the intracellular GSH level does not affect the rate of glucose formation, probably due to no changes in the intracellular GSH/GSSG ratio.
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PMID:Relationship between gluconeogenesis and glutathione redox state in rabbit kidney-cortex tubules. 1280 Jan 1

The distribution of the glycolytic enzymes, phosphofructokinase, aldolase, triosephosphate isomerase, phosphoglycerate kinase, pyruvate kinase, and the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway enzymes, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, was determined in the leaf tissues of two C(3)-plants, pea and leek, and two C(4)-plants, maize and sorghum. All enzymes examined were found in epidermal tissue. In pea, maize, and sorghum leaves, the specific activities of these enzymes were usually higher in the nonphotosynthetic epidermal tissue than in the photosynthetic tissues of the leaves. In leek leaves, which were etiolated, specific activities were similar in both epidermal and mesophyll tissue. The distribution of the rate limiting enzymes of glycolysis and the oxidative pentose phosphate pathways probably reflects the capacity of each tissue to generate NADH, NADPH, and ATP from the oxidation of glucose. This capacity appears to be greater in leaf tissues unable to generate reducing equivalents and ATP by photosynthesis, that is, in epidermal tissues and etiolated mesophyll tissue.
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PMID:Enzymes of Glucose Oxidation in Leaf Tissues : The Distribution of the Enzymes of Glycolysis and the Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway between Epidermal and Mesophyll Tissues of C(3)-Plants and Epidermal, Mesophyll, and Bundle Sheath Tissues of C(4)-Plants. 1666 59

Soybean (Glycine max) nodules formed by inoculation with either an effective strain or an ineffective (noninvasive, nodule-forming) strain of Bradyrhizobium japonicum were assayed for changes in developmental patterns of carbon metabolic enzymes of the plant nodule cells. Of the enzyme activities measured, only sucrose synthase, glutamine synthetase, and alcohol dehydrogenase were altered in the ineffective nodules relative to the effective nodules. Sucrose synthase and glutamine synthetase activities were greatly reduced, whereas alcohol dehydrogenase activity was elevated. Dark-induced senescence severely affected sucrose synthase but had little, if any, effect on the other enzymes measured. The developmental patterns of the anaerobically induced enzymes, aldolase and alcohol dehydrogenase, were different from those expected, implying that their development is not regulated solely by oxygen deprivation. However, anaerobic treatment of nodules resulted in responses similar to those enzymes in maize. The developmental profiles of the carbon metabolic enzymes suggest that carbohydrates are metabolized via the sucrose synthase and pentose phosphate pathways. This route of carbon metabolism, compared to glycolysis, would reduce the requirement of ATP for carbohydrate catabolism, generate NADPH for biosynthetic reactions, and provide intermediates for plant secondary metabolism.
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PMID:Developmental regulation of enzymes of sucrose and hexose metabolism in effective and ineffective soybean nodules. 1666 80

This study offers proteomic elucidation of heat pretreatment-induced alleviation of UV-B toxicity in Anabaena doliolum. Heat-pretreated cells exposed to UV-B showed improved activity of PSI, PSII, whole chain, (14)C fixation, ATP and NADPH contents compared to UV-B alone. Proteomic analysis using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), MALDI-TOF MS/MS and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of UV-B and heat pretreatment followed by UV-B-treated cells exhibited significant and reproducible alterations in nine proteins homologous to phycocyanin-alpha-chain (PC-alpha-chain), phycoerythrocyanin-alpha-chain (PEC-alpha-chain), hypothetical protein alr0882, phycobilisome core component (PBS-CC), iron superoxide dismutase (Fe-SOD), fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA), nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK), phosphoribulokinase (PRK) and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCo) large chain. Except the PEC-alpha-chain, hypothetical protein alr0882 and PBS-CC, all other proteins showed upregulation at low doses of UV-B (U2) and significant downregulation at higher doses of UV-B (U5). The disruption of redox status, signaling, pentose phosphate pathway and Calvin cycle appears to be due to the downregulation of Fe-SOD, NDPK, FBA, PRK and RuBisCo thereby leading to the death of Anabaena. In contrast to this, the upregulation of all the above proteins in heat-pretreated cells, harboring different heat shock proteins (HSPs) like 60, 26 and 16.6, followed by UV-B treatment than only the UV-B-treated ones suggests a protective role of HSPs in mitigating UV-B toxicity.
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PMID:Heat pretreatment alleviates UV-B toxicity in the cyanobacterium Anabaena doliolum: A proteomic analysis of cross tolerance. 1907 3

Proteomic effect screening in zebrafish liver cells was performed to generate hypotheses regarding single and mixed exposure to the BFRs HBCD and TBBPA. Responses at sublethal exposure were analysed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis followed by MALDI-TOF and FT-ICR protein identification. Mixing of HBCD and TBBPA at sublethal doses of individual substances seemed to increase toxicity. Proteomic analyses revealed distinct exposure-specific and overlapping responses suggesting novel mechanisms with regard to HBCD and TBBPA exposure. While distinct HBCD responses were related to decreased protein metabolism, TBBPA revealed effects related to protein folding and NADPH production. Overlapping responses suggest increased gluconeogenesis (GAPDH and aldolase) while distinct mixture effects suggest a pronounced NADPH production and changes in proteins related to cell cycle control (prohibitin and crk-like oncogene). We conclude that mixtures containing HBCD and TBBPA may result in unexpected effects highlighting proteomics as a sensitive tool for detecting and hypothesis generation of mixture effects.
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PMID:Proteomic studies in zebrafish liver cells exposed to the brominated flame retardants HBCD and TBBPA. 1947 7

A transient in chlorophyll fluorescence after cessation of actinic light illumination, which has been ascribed to electron donation from stromal reductants to plastoquinone (PQ) by the NAD(P)H-dehydrogenase (NDH) complex, was investigated in Arabidopsis thaliana. The transient was absent in air in a mutant lacking the NDH complex (ndhM). However, in ndhM, the transient was detected in CO(2)-free air containing 2% O(2). To investigate the reason, ndhM was crossed with a pgr5 mutant impaired in ferredoxin (Fd)-dependent electron donation from NADPH to PQ, which is known to be redundant for NDH-dependent PQ reduction in the cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (PSI). In ndhM pgr5, the transient was absent even in CO(2)-free air with 2% O(2), demonstrating that the post-illumination transient can also be induced by the Fd- (or PGR5)-dependent PQ reduction. On the other hand, the transient increase in chlorophyll fluorescence was found to be enhanced in normal air in a mutant impaired in plastid fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA) activity. The mutant, termed fba3-1, offers unique opportunities to examine the relative contribution of the two paths, i.e., the NDH- and Fd- (or PGR5)-dependent paths, on the PSI cyclic electron flow. Crossing fba3-1 with either ndhM or pgr5 and assessing the transient suggested that the main route for the PSI cyclic electron flow shifts from the NDH-dependent path to the Fd-dependent path in response to sink limitation of linear electron flow.
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PMID:A qualitative analysis of the regulation of cyclic electron flow around photosystem I from the post-illumination chlorophyll fluorescence transient in Arabidopsis: a new platform for the in vivo investigation of the chloroplast redox state. 2005 11


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