Inhibitory effects of histidine and their reversal. The roles of pyruvate carboxylase and N10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase

1. N10-Formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase was purified to homogeneity from rat liver with a specific activity of 0.7–0.8 unit/mg at 25 degrees C. The enzyme is a tetramer (Mw = 413,000) composed of four similar, if not identical, substrate addition and give the Km values as 4.5 micron [(-)-N10-formyltetrahydrofolate] and 0.92 micron (NADP+) at pH 7.0. Tetrahydrofolate acts as a potent product inhibitor [Ki = 7 micron for the (-)-isomer] which is competitive with respect to N10-formyltetrahydrofolate and non-competitive with respect to NADP+. 3. Product inhibition by NADPH could not be demonstrated. This coenzyme activates N10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase when added at concentrations, and in a ratio with NADP+, consistent with those present in rat liver in vivo. No effect of methionine, ethionine or their S-adenosyl derivatives could be demonstrated on the activity of the enzyme. 4. Hydrolysis of N10-formyltetrahydrofolate is catalysed by rat liver N10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase at 21% of the rate of CO2 formation based on comparison of apparent Vmax. values. The Km for (-)-N10-folate is a non-competitive inhibitor of this reaction with respect to N10-formyltetrahydrofolate, with a mean Ki of 21.5 micron for the (-)-isomer. NAD+ increases the maximal rate of N10-formyltetrahydrofolate hydrolysis without affecting the Km for this substrate and decreases inhibition by tetrahydrofolate. The activator constant for NAD+ is obtained as 0.35 mM. 5. Formiminoglutamate, a product of liver histidine metabolism which accumulates in conditions of excess histidine load, is a potent inhibitor of rat liver pyruvate carboxylase, with 50% inhibition being observed at a concentration of 2.8 mM, but has no detectable effect on the activity of rat liver cytosol phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase measured in the direction of oxaloacetate synthesis. We propose that the observed inhibition of pyruvate carboxylase by formiminoglutamate may account in part for the toxic effect of excess histidine.

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A Monoacylglycerol Lipase from Mycobacterium smegmatis Involved in Bacterial Cell Interaction

Journal of Bacteriology ◽

10.1128/jb.00261-10 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 192 (18) ◽

pp. 4776-4785 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Rabeb Dhouib ◽

Françoise Laval ◽

Frédéric Carrière ◽

Mamadou Daffé ◽

Stéphane Canaan

Keyword(s):

Mycobacterium Smegmatis ◽

Wild Type Strain ◽

Specific Activity ◽

Cell Interaction ◽

Monoacylglycerol Lipase ◽

Homologous Proteins ◽

Dependent Activity ◽

Hydrolysis Of

ABSTRACT MSMEG_0220 from Mycobacterium smegmatis, the ortholog of the Rv0183 gene from M. tuberculosis, recently identified and characterized as encoding a monoacylglycerol lipase, was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein (rMSMEG_0220), which exhibits 68% amino acid sequence identity with Rv0183, showed the same substrate specificity and similar patterns of pH-dependent activity and stability as the M. tuberculosis enzyme. rMSMEG_0220 was found to hydrolyze long-chain monoacylglycerol with a specific activity of 143 ± 6 U mg−1. Like Rv0183 in M. tuberculosis, MSMEG_0220 was found to be located in the cell wall. To assess the in vivo role of the homologous proteins, an MSMEG_0220 disrupted mutant of M. smegmatis (MsΔ0220) was produced. An intriguing change in the colony morphology and in the cell interaction, which were partly restored in the complemented mutant containing either an active (ComMsΔ0220) or an inactive (ComMsΔ0220S111A) enzyme, was observed. Growth studies performed in media supplemented with monoolein showed that the ability of both MsΔ0220 and ComMsΔ0220S111A to grow in the presence of this lipid was impaired. Moreover, studies of the antimicrobial susceptibility of the MsΔ0220 strain showed that this mutant is more sensitive to rifampin and more resistant to isoniazid than the wild-type strain, pointing to a critical structural role of this enzyme in mycobacterial physiology, in addition to its function in the hydrolysis of exogenous lipids.

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Monoacylglycerol lipase activity in cardiac myocytes

Biochemistry and Cell Biology ◽

10.1139/o88-116 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 66 (9) ◽

pp. 1013-1018 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

David L. Severson ◽

Mariette Hee-Cheong

Keyword(s):

Lipase Activity ◽

Competitive Inhibitor ◽

Product Inhibition ◽

Fatty Acyl ◽

Supernatant Fraction ◽

Monoacylglycerol Lipase ◽

Pellet Fraction ◽

Rat Hearts ◽

Triton X ◽

Hydrolysis Of

Monoacylglycerol lipase activity in homogenates of isolated myocardial cells (myocytes) from rat hearts was recovered in both particulate and soluble subcellular fractions. The activity present in the microsomal (100 000 × g pellet) fraction was solubilized by treatment with Triton X-100 and combined with the 100 000 × g supernatant fraction; the properties of monoacylglycerol lipase were investigated with this soluble enzyme preparation. The Km for the hydrolysis of a 2-monoolein substrate was 16 μM. The rates of hydrolysis of 1-monoolein and 2-monoolein were identical, and 1-monoolein was a competitive inhibitor (Ki = 20 μM) of the hydrolysis of 2-monoolein. Monoacylglycerol lipase activity was regulated by product inhibition according to the following order of potency: fatty acyl CoA > free fatty acids > fatty acyl carnitine.

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Incorporation in vivo of [32P]orthophosphate and [Me-3H]choline into rough microsomal, Golgi, and plasma membranes of rat liver

Canadian Journal of Biochemistry ◽

10.1139/o77-129 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 55 (8) ◽

pp. 876-885 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Patricia L. Chang ◽

John R. Riordan ◽

Mario A. Moscarello ◽

Jennifer M. Sturgess

Keyword(s):

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Plasma Membrane ◽

Rat Liver ◽

Plasma Membranes ◽

Specific Activity ◽

Specific Radioactivity ◽

Marker Enzyme ◽

Golgi Membranes ◽

Endomembrane Flow

To study membrane biogenesis and to test the validity of the endomembrane flow hypothesis, incorporation of 32P and [Me-3H]choline in vivo into membranes of the rat liver was followed. Rough microsomal, Golgi-rich, and plasma membrane fractions were monitored with marker enzyme assays and shown with morphometric analysis to contain 82% rough microsomes, at least 70% Golgi complexes, and 88% plasma membranes, respectively. Membrane subfractions from the rough microsomal and Golgi-rich fractions were prepared by sonic disruption.At 5 to 30 min after 32P injection, the specific radioactivity of phosphatidylcholine was higher in the rough microsomal membranes than in the Golgi membranes. From 1 to 3 h, the specific activity of phosphatidylcholine in Golgi membranes became higher and reached the maximum at about 3 h. Although the plasma membrane had the lowest specific radioactivity throughout 0.25–3 h, it increased rapidly thereafter to attain the highest specific activity at 5 h. Both rough microsomal and plasma membranes reached their maxima at 5 h.The specific radioactivity of [32P]phosphatidylethanolamine in the three membrane fractions was similar to that of [32P]phosphatidylcholine except from 5 to 30 min, when the specific radioactivity of phosphatidylethanolamine in the Golgi membranes was similar to the rough microsomal membranes.At 15 min to 5 h after [Me-3H]choline injection, more than 90% of the radioactivity in all the membranes was acid-precipitable. The specific radioactivities of the acid-precipitated membranes, expressed as dpm per milligram protein, reached the maximum at 3 h. After [Me-3H]choline injection, the specific radioactivity of phosphatidylcholine separated from the lipid extract of the acid-precipitated membranes (dpm per micromole phosphorus) did not differ significantly in the three membrane fractions. The results indicated rapid incorporation of choline into membrane phosphatidylcholine by the rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and plasma membranes simultaneously.The data with both 32P and [Me-3H]choline precursors did not support the endomembrane flow hypothesis. The Golgi complexes apparently synthesized phosphatidylethanolamine and incorporated choline into phosphatidylcholine as well as the endoplasmic reticulum. The results are discussed with relevance to current hypotheses on the biogenesis and transfer of membrane phospholipids.

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S-Adenosylhomocysteine Metabolism in Various Species

Canadian Journal of Biochemistry ◽

10.1139/o75-044 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 53 (3) ◽

pp. 312-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 106

Author(s):

R. D. Walker ◽

J. A. Duerre

Keyword(s):

Rat Liver ◽

Condensation Reaction ◽

Substrate Inhibition ◽

Product Inhibition ◽

Kinetic Properties ◽

Adenosylhomocysteine Hydrolase ◽

In Vivo Experiments ◽

Cleavage Enzyme

Eleven microorganisms, four plants, and major organs from the chicken, dog, rat, and rabbit were assayed for the presence of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase, S-adenosyl-homocysteine nucleosidase, and S-ribosylhomocysteine-cleavage enzyme. All bacteria (procaryotes) were found to possess S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase and S-ribosylhomocysteine-cleavage enzyme but not S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase. All eucaryotes tested, including yeasts, plants, birds, and mammals, possessed S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase but not S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase or S-ribosylhomocysteine-cleavage enzyme. Of all the organs assayed in the vertebrates, the level of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase was highest in liver, pancreas, and kidney, lower in spleen and testis, and very low in brain and heart. In all systems tested, equilibrium of the hydrolase reaction always favored synthesis over hydrolysis. We studied some of the kinetic properties of the hydrolase from rat liver. In the direction of synthesis, the Km value was 1.5 mM for adenosine and 4.5 mM for L-homocysteine, whereas marked substrate inhibition was observed with L-homocysteine. The condensation reaction is subject to product inhibition, and was inhibited by adenine. Results from in-vivo experiments revealed that the cells of the various organs of the dog are impermeable to the exogenously administered S-adenosylhomocysteine.

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The development of gluconeogenesis in rat liver. Effects of glucagon and ether

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj1200385 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 120 (2) ◽

pp. 385-392 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Helen Philippidis ◽

F. J. Ballard

Keyword(s):

Rat Liver ◽

Redox State ◽

Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase ◽

Fold Increase ◽

Similar Increase ◽

Ether Anaesthesia ◽

Foetal Liver ◽

Foetal Rat ◽

Newborn Animals

1. Administration of glucagon to foetal rats produced a 10–15-fold increase in hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity together with a similar increase in the overall pathway of pyruvate conversion into glycogen in liver slices. 2. Glucagon was without effect on gluconeogenesis in vivo, which remained at approx. 0.1% of the incorporation as measured in newborn animals. 3. The apparent discrepancy between these results was due to the ether anaesthesia that was required for experimentation in vivo. Under conditions when minimal ether was used, the rates of labelling of glycogen from [3-14C]pyruvate in vivo were increased 10–20-fold and there was an additional stimulus by glucagon. 4. Ether anaesthesia produced a more reduced redox state of the foetal liver cytosol and lowered the ATP/ADP concentration ratio. 5. It is proposed that these effects are significant in the limitation of gluconeogenesis in the foetal rat liver, so that only with high phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity, high ATP concentration and a relatively oxidized cytosol redox state will a functional gluconeogenic pathway be present.

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Immunochemical studies with soluble and mitochondrial pyruvate carboxylase activities from rat tissues

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj1190735 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 119 (4) ◽

pp. 735-742 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

F. J. Ballard ◽

R. W. Hanson ◽

Lea Reshef

Keyword(s):

Adipose Tissue ◽

Mammary Gland ◽

Brown Adipose Tissue ◽

Rat Liver ◽

White Adipose Tissue ◽

Pyruvate Carboxylase ◽

Specific Activity ◽

Rat Liver Mitochondria ◽

Rat Tissues ◽

Brown Adipose

1. Pyruvate carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.1), purified from rat liver mitochondria to a specific activity of 14 units/mg, was used for the preparation of antibodies in rabbits. 2. Tissue distribution studies showed that pyruvate carboxylase was present in all rat tissues that were tested, with considerable activities both in gluconeogenic tissues such as liver and kidney and in tissues with high rates of lipogenesis such as white adipose tissue, brown adipose tissue, adrenal gland and lactating mammary gland. 3. Immunochemical titration experiments with the specific antibodies showed no differences between the inactivation of pyruvate carboxylase from mitochondrial or soluble fractions of liver, kidney, mammary gland, brown adipose tissue or white adipose tissue. 4. The antibodies were relatively less effective in reactions against pyruvate carboxylase from sheep liver than against the enzyme from rat tissues. 5. Pyruvate carboxylase antibodies did not inactivate either propionyl-CoA carboxylase or acetyl-CoA carboxylase from rat liver. 6. It is concluded that pyruvate carboxylase in lipogenic tissues is similar antigenically to the enzyme in gluconeogenic tissues and that the soluble activities of pyruvate carboxylase detected in many rat tissues do not represent discrete enzymes but are the result of mitochondrial damage during tissue homogenization.

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[14C]bicarbonate fixation into glucose and other metabolites in the liver of the starved rat under halothane anaesthesia. Metabolic channelling of mitochondrial oxaloacetate

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj2270851 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 227 (3) ◽

pp. 851-865 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

D F Heath ◽

J G Rose

Keyword(s):

Pyruvate Carboxylase ◽

Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase ◽

Co2 Exchange ◽

Published Data ◽

Citrate Cycle ◽

Incomplete Mixing ◽

Metabolic Channelling ◽

Glucose Output

Previous attempts to account for the labelling in vivo of liver metabolites associated with the citrate cycle and gluconeogenesis have foundered because proper allowance was not made for the heterogeneity of the liver. In the basal state (anaesthetized after 24h starvation) this heterogeneity is minimal, and we show that labelling by [14C]bicarbonate can be interpreted unambiguously. [14C]Bicarbonate was infused to an isotopic steady state, and measurements were made of specific radioactivities of blood bicarbonate, alanine, glycerol and lactate, of liver alanine and lactate, and of individual carbon atoms in blood glucose and liver aspartate, citrate and malate. (Existing methods for several of these measurements were extensively modified.) The results were combined with published rates of gluconeogenesis, uptake of gluconeogenic precursors by the liver, and citrate-cycle flux, all measured under similar conditions, and with estimates of other rates made from published data. To interpret the results, three ancillary measurements were made: the rate of CO2 exchange by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK; EC 4.1.1.32) under conditions that simulated those in vivo; the 14C isotope effect in the pyruvate carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.1) reaction (14C/12C = 0.992 +/- 0.008; S.E.M., n = 8); the ratio of labelling by [2-14C]- to that by [1-14C]-pyruvate of liver glutamate 1.5 min after injection. This ratio, 3.38, is a measure of the disequilibrium in the mitochondria between malate and oxaloacetate. The data were analysed with due regard to experimental variance, uncertainties in values of fluxes measured in vitro, hepatic heterogeneity and renal glucose output. The following conclusions were reached. The results could not be explained if CO2 fixation was confined to pyruvate carboxylase and there was only one, well-mixed, pool of oxaloacetate in the mitochondria. Addition of the other carboxylation reactions, those of PEPCK, isocitrate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.42) and malic enzyme (EC 1.1.1.40), was not enough. Incomplete mixing of mitochondrial oxaloacetate had to be assumed, i.e. that there was metabolic channelling of oxaloacetate formed from pyruvate towards gluconeogenesis. There was some evidence that malate exchange across the mitochondrial membrane might also be channelled, with incomplete mixing with that in the citrate cycle. Calculated rates of exchange of CO2 by PEPCK were in agreement with those measured in vitro, with little or no activation by Fe2+ ions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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ISOLATION OF TWO DISTINCT CLASSES OF POLYSOMES FROM A NUCLEAR FRACTION OF RAT LIVER

The Journal of Cell Biology ◽

10.1083/jcb.37.1.163 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 163-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Paul D. Sadowski ◽

Janet Alcock Howden

Keyword(s):

Outer Membrane ◽

Rat Liver ◽

Orotic Acid ◽

Specific Activity ◽

Nuclear Fraction ◽

Differential Centrifugation ◽

Rat Liver Nuclei ◽

Liver Nuclei ◽

Triton X

Isolated rat liver nuclei were washed with Triton-X-100 in the presence of liver cell sap. This treatment liberated a fraction of polysomes which were isolated by differential centrifugation and were designated "outer membrane polysomes." The outer membrane polysomes synthesized protein in vivo. Shortly after injection of orotic acid-14C, the RNA of outer membrane polysomes had a higher specific activity than that of cytoplasmic polysomes. It was postulated that outer membrane polysomes may be an intermediate in the transfer of newly synthesized RNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. In other experiments, Triton-washed rat liver nuclei were lysed in the presence of deoxycholate and deoxyribonuclease. A ribonucleoprotein fraction was isolated from the lysate by differential centrifugation. This fraction contained "intranuclear ribosomes," which sedimented like partially degraded polysomes in sucrose gradients. This degradation could be partially prevented if intranuclear ribosomes were purified by sedimentation through heavy sucrose. The resulting pellets were termed "intranuclear polysomes" because they contained some undergraded polysomes. Intranuclear polysomes were highly radioactive after a brief pulse with orotic acid-14C, but did not appear to synthesize protein rapidly in vivo. Intranuclear polysomes may represent the initial stage of assembly of polyribosomes in the nucleus.

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A comparison of the effects of diabetes induced with either alloxan or streptozotocin and of starvation on the activities in rat liver of the key enzymes of gluconeogenesis

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj1200095 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 120 (1) ◽

pp. 95-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Janet M. Wimhurst ◽

K. L. Manchester

Keyword(s):

Rat Liver ◽

Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase ◽

Single Gene ◽

Significant Rise ◽

Liver Sample ◽

Key Enzymes ◽

Activity Unit ◽

Wet Weight ◽

Dna 2

1. Measurements of the activities in rat liver of the four key enzymes involved in gluconeogenesis, i.e. pyruvate carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.1), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (EC 4.1.1.32), fructose 1,6-diphosphatase (EC 3.1.3.11) and glucose 6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.9), have been carried out, all four enzymes being measured in the same liver sample. Changes in activities resulting from starvation and diabetes have been studied. Changes in concentration (activity/unit wet weight of tissue) were compared with changes in the hepatic cellular content (activity/unit of DNA). 2. Each enzyme was found to increase in concentration during starvation for up to 3 days, but only glucose 6-phosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase showed a significant rise in content. Fructose 1,6-diphosphatase appeared to decrease in content somewhat during the early stages of starvation. 3. There was a marked increase in the concentration of all four enzymes in non-starved rats made diabetic with alloxan or streptozotocin, for the most part similar responses being found for the two diabetogenic agents. On starvation, however, the enzyme contents in the diabetic animals tended to fall, often with streptozotocin-treated animals to values no greater than for the normal overnight-starved rat. Deprivation of food during the period after induction of diabetes with streptozotocin lessened the rise in enzyme activity. 4. The results are compared with other published values and factors such as substrate and activator concentrations likely to influence activity in vivo are considered. 5. Lack of correlation of change in fructose 1,6-diphosphatase with the other enzymes questions whether it should be included in any postulation of control of gluconeogenic enzymes by a single gene unit.

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Differential effects of tryptophan on glucose synthesis in rats and guinea pigs

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj1760817 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 176 (3) ◽

pp. 817-825 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

S A Smith ◽

K R F Elliott ◽

C I Pogson

Keyword(s):

Rat Liver ◽

Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase ◽

Glucose Production ◽

Rat Hepatocytes ◽

Liver Cells ◽

Isolated Rat Hepatocytes ◽

Rat Liver Cells ◽

Glucose Output ◽

Isolated Rat

1. Tryptophan inhibition of gluconeogenesis in isolated rat liver cells is characterized by a 20 min lag period before linear rates of glucose output are attained. 2. Half-maximal inhibition of gluconeogenesis in isolated rat hepatocytes is produced by approx. 0.1 mM-tryptophan. 3. Tryptophan inhibits gluconeogenesis from all substrates giving rise to oxaloacetate, but stimulates glycerol-fuelled glucose production. 4. Gluconeogenesis in guinea-pig hepatocytes is insensitive to tryptophan. 5. Changes in metabolite concentrations in rat liver cells are consistent with a locus of inhibition at the step catalysed by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. 6. Inhibition of gluconeogenesis persists in cells from rats pretreated with tryptophan in vivo. 7. Tryptophan has no effect on urea production from alanine, but decreases [1-14C]palmitate oxidation to 14CO2 and is associated with an increased [hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio. 8. These results are discussed with reference to the control of gluconeogenesis in various species.

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