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Query: UNIPROT:P20020 (adenosine triphosphatase)
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1. Acute NH(4) (+) toxicity was studied by using a new apparatus that removes and freezes the brains of conscious rats within 1s. 2. Brains were removed and frozen 5min after intraperitoneal injection of ammonium acetate (2-3min before the onset of convulsions). Arterial [NH(4) (+)] rose from less than 0.01 to 1.74mm at 4-5min. The concentrations of all glycolytic intermediates measured, except glucose 6-phosphate, were increased by the indicated percentage above the control value as follows: glucose (by 41%), fructose 1,6-diphosphate (by 133%), dihydroxyacetone phosphate (by 164%), alpha-glycerophosphate (by 45%), phosphoenolpyruvate (by 67%) and pyruvate (by 26%). 4. Citrate and alpha-oxoglutarate concentrations were unchanged and that of malate was increased (by 17%). 5. Adenine nucleotides and P(i) concentrations were unchanged but the concentration of creatine phosphate decreased slightly (by 6%). 6. Brain [NH(4) (+)] increased from 0.2 to 1.53mm. Net glutamine synthesis occurred at an average rate of 0.33mumol/min per g. 7. The rate of brain glucose utilization was measured in vivo as 0.62mumol/min per g in controls and 0.81mumol/min per g after NH(4) (+) injection. 8. The arteriovenous difference of glucose and O(2) increased by 35%. 9. No significant arteriovenous differences of glutamate or glutamine were detected. Thus, although much NH(4) (+) was incorporated into glutamine the latter was not rapidly released from the brain to the circulation. 10. Plasma [K(+)] increased from 3.3 to 5.4mm. 11. The results indicate that NH(4) (+) stimulates oxidative metabolism but does not interfere with brain energy balance. The increased rate of oxidative metabolism could not be accounted for only on the basis of glutamine synthesis. We suggest that increased extracellular [NH(4) (+)] and [K(+)] decreased the resting transmembrane potential and stimulated Na(+),K(+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity thus accounting for the increased metabolic rate.
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PMID:The acute action of ammonia on rat brain metabolism in vivo. 476 48

1. The intracellular location and maximal activities of enzymes involved in phosphoenolpyruvate synthesis have been investigated in pigeon liver. Enolase and pyruvate kinase were cytoplasmic, and the activities were 50-60 and 180-210mumoles/min./g. dry wt. at 25 degrees respectively. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase was present exclusively, and nucleoside diphosphokinase predominantly, in the mitochondria; the particles had to be disrupted to elicit maximal activities, which were 27-33 and 400-600mumoles/min./g. dry wt. at 25 degrees respectively. The activities of all four enzymes did not change significantly during 48hr. of starvation. 2. Conditions for incubation of washed isolated mitochondria were established, to give high rates of synthesis of phosphoenolpyruvate, linear with time and proportional to mitochondrial concentration. Inorganic phosphate and added adenine nucleotides were stimulatory, whereas added Mg(2+) inhibited, partly owing to activation of contaminant pyruvate kinase. Phosphoenolpyruvate formation occurred from oxaloacetate, malate, fumarate, succinate, alpha-oxoglutarate and citrate, in decreasing order of effectiveness. 3. The steady-state ATP/ADP ratio of mitochondrial suspensions was decreased in the presence of added 2.5mm-Mg(2+) (owing to stimulation of adenylate kinase and possibly of an adenosine triphosphatase), 0.5mm-Ca(2+) or 0.4mm-dinitrophenol. In each case the rate of substrate removal and oxygen uptake was increased, whereas phosphoenolpyruvate synthesis was inhibited. Citrate formation was enhanced, owing to de-inhibition of citrate synthase. These effects were not primarily related to changes in the oxaloacetate concentration. 4. Both phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and nucleoside diphosphokinase were active within the atractylosidesensitive barrier to the mitochondrial metabolism of added adenine nucleotides. There was no correlation between the rate of substrate-level phosphorylation associated with the oxidation of alpha-oxoglutarate, and the synthesis of phosphoenolpyruvate. 5. The results suggest that phosphoenolpyruvate formation in pigeon-liver mitochondria is regulated partly by the phosphorylation state of the adenine and guanine nucleotides, and partly by variations in the oxaloacetate concentration, all in the mitochondrial matrix. 6. Phosphoenolpyruvate is assumed to be the metabolite transported from the mitochondria to the cytoplasm during gluconeogenesis from oxaloacetate in pigeon liver.
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PMID:The regulation of phosphoenolpyruvate synthesis in pigeon liver. 496 63