两种切片方法检测肝糖原染色效果的比较

目的比较石蜡和冰冻两种不同切片用于检测牛蛙肝糖原的效果。方法采用石蜡和冰冻两种切片方法制作牛蛙肝脏切片,高碘酸希夫氏（periodicacid-Schiff＇s,PAS）染色法对肝糖原进行组织化学染色,光密度分析糖原含量。结果PAS染色显示肝糖原为紫红色或红色颗粒,冰冻切片中糖原颗粒明显大于石蜡切片,光密度分析显示,石蜡切片中糖原流失明显,与冰冻切片相比,糖原流失了约28％。结论两种切片均可用于糖原检测,冰冻切片制作环节较少、耗时短且染色过程中糖原不易流失。     

饱食与饥饿对小鼠肝糖原含量影响的实验方法改良

把分别以定性或定量两种方式来比较饱食和饥饿对小鼠肝糖原含量影响的实验进行互补。采用三氯醋酸沉淀组织蛋白质，乙醇提取肝糖原后，以碘呈色法对其鉴定，再以葸酮法进行定量，最后提出对相关物质检测的实验设计要求。实验结果表明，饱食和饥饿状态对小鼠肝糖原含量影响在连续性的实验过程中变化都很明显。经过此番实验方法改良，使实验的整体性得到提高，对学生的综合能力训练得到强化。     

脑内糖原减少是疲劳的原因之一

日本一个研究团队在新一期英国《生理学杂志》上发表成果说,他们发现了长时间运动导致疲劳的一个新因素．即运动时脑内储存能量的物质糖原减少。     

子宫内膜糖原代谢在胚胎着床中的作用研究进展

糖原的合成与分解可动态调节体内葡萄糖含量以维持细胞内变化的能量需求。胰岛素作为体内唯一降血糖的激素,通过作用于磷脂酰肌醇3-激酶(phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, PI3K)/蛋白激酶B (Akt)信号通路,促进葡萄糖转运体转位以促进糖原合成,也可抑制糖异生以降低血糖。而子宫内膜糖代谢有其特殊性,不发生糖异生,尚未被利用的葡萄糖均以糖原形式储存。子宫内膜的糖原代谢除受经典糖代谢激素调控外,还受卵巢激素调控。子宫内膜在着床窗口期发生的与着床有关的功能活动都需要葡萄糖供给能量。着床前子宫内膜上皮细胞内大量葡萄糖合成糖原,在着床窗口期分解为葡萄糖,以满足增加的能量需求,保证胚胎着床的顺利进行。糖尿病时子宫内膜糖原代谢受损,糖原合成或分解异常可导致胚胎着床失败、早期流产。本文就子宫内膜的糖原代谢及其在胚胎着床中的作用等方面进行综述,以期为胚胎着床的研究及不孕诊断和治疗提供新思路。     

几种植物源化合物对棉铃虫海藻糖酶活性及相关碳水化合物含量的影响

碳水化合物对昆虫的能量代谢和物质合成具有重要的作用。本研究选用2种一般性生物碱（氢溴酸东莨菪碱和烟碱）以及2种β-葡萄糖苷类化合物（七叶灵和皂角苷）, 研究其在不同浓度下对棉铃虫Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner)幼虫体内海藻糖酶活性及相关碳水化合物代谢的影响。结果表明: 用饲喂法处理3龄幼虫96 h后, 皂角苷对棉铃虫幼虫的活体抑制效果明显, 且随添加物浓度增高, 棉铃虫死亡率上升, 10, 20, 40 g/L浓度下棉铃虫的均重分别是0.194, 0.089和0.034 g, 分别为对照的86.99%, 39.91%和15.24%。对海藻糖酶活性及其相关代谢酶的测定结果表明, 2种苷类化合物显著抑制中肠海藻糖酶活性, 饲喂40 g/L皂角苷的试虫中肠海藻糖酶比活力仅是对照组的54.21%; 饲喂30 g/L七叶灵的试虫中肠海藻糖酶比活力为对照组的83.73%。而2种生物碱类化合物显著抑制血淋巴和脂肪体中海藻糖酶活性, 20 g/L氢溴酸东莨菪碱对棉铃虫血淋巴和脂肪体组织的海藻糖酶活性抑制率分别为7.24%和71.43%; 而20 g/L烟碱对试虫血淋巴和脂肪体组织的海藻糖酶活性抑制率为26.29%和33.44%。用氢溴酸东莨菪碱、 烟碱和七叶灵处理试虫后, 血淋巴海藻糖含量都有所增高。4种化合物能够导致试虫糖原磷酸化酶活性变化, 其中, 皂角苷在中肠和脂肪体表现为显著抑制作用, 而随外源化合物浓度变化, 糖原含量和糖原磷酸化酶活性表现为此消彼长关系。饲喂4种植物源化合物的试虫血淋巴中葡萄糖浓度变化和其海藻糖变化一致。本研究证明β-葡萄糖苷类化合物是海藻糖酶抑制剂, 在作为先导化合物进行农药创制开发方面具有重要意义。     

青年和老年小鼠脑糖原及其代谢的差异

目的:比较青年小鼠和老年小鼠不同脑区糖原及其代谢的差异,为后续相关研究奠定基础。方法:分别取雄性C57BL/6J青年小鼠(8周龄)和老年小鼠(18月龄)皮层、海马、纹状体三个脑区脑组织,通过糖原定量试剂盒检测糖原含量,通过Western Blot检测糖原代谢相关酶(包括糖原合成、糖原分解、葡萄糖转运、乳酸转运相关酶类)的表达水平。结果:与青年小鼠相比,老年小鼠皮层、纹状体糖原含量明显上升,但海马的糖原含量无明显变化。在糖原合成代谢的关键酶中,糖原合成酶在老年小鼠皮层、纹状体的表达水平明显升高,而海马区则无明显差异;糖原分支酶在老年小鼠皮层的表达水平有所下降,在海马和纹状体则无明显变化。在糖原分解代谢的关键酶中,老年小鼠的糖原磷酸化酶在皮层、海马和纹状体均明显升高,而糖原脱支酶在上述脑区则无明显变化。葡萄糖转运体1的表达水平在老年小鼠与青年小鼠各脑区无显著差异。在单羧酸转运体中,老年小鼠单羧酸转运体1在各脑区均明显上升,单羧酸转运体4在皮层明显升高,其余脑区则无明显差异。结论:老年小鼠脑内糖原含量总体上较青年小鼠高,老年小鼠脑糖原代谢通路相关酶的表达与青年小鼠存在明显差异,且不同脑区之间存在异质性。     

基于糖原代谢调控的蓝细菌光合细胞工厂优化研究进展

蓝细菌是重要的光合自养微生物,也是最具潜力的光合微生物底盘之一,被广泛应用于光驱固碳细胞工厂的开发.糖原是蓝细菌最重要的天然碳汇物质,糖原代谢对蓝细菌光合碳流的分配和调控具有重要意义.为了优化蓝细菌光合细胞工厂的合成效能,驱动更多的光合碳流重定向至目标代谢产物的合成,已经有多种策略和方法被成功开发用于调控蓝细菌的糖原代...     

生物钟调控肝糖原代谢与葡萄糖稳态的研究进展

生物钟作为一种重要的调控系统,存在于哺乳动物大部分的细胞、组织和器官中,通过调节生物钟控制基因的节律性表达维持机体以接近24 h为周期的各种行为及生理功能变化。哺乳动物中枢生物钟下丘脑视交叉上核通过神经与体液途径协调同步外周生物钟,肝脏、胰腺、骨骼肌、脂肪组织中参与葡萄糖代谢的众多环节都受到中枢与外周生物钟的调控,如激素信号转导、限速酶基因表达以及营养信号传递等,其中生物钟对肝糖原代谢的调控是生物钟调控葡萄糖稳态的重要环节。基因突变、作息和饮食不规律引起的生物节律紊乱常诱发机体出现胰岛素抵抗、肝糖原含量下降、糖耐量受损等异常表型。该文主要综述了生物钟在肝糖原代谢与葡萄糖稳态调控中的作用,重点阐述了肝脏生物钟调控肝糖原代谢的分子机制,并探讨了轮班工作、时差因素引发的昼夜节律紊乱对人体葡萄糖稳态的影响,以期为糖代谢障碍相关疾病的防治提供新的研究思路。     

微重力通过m6A修饰影响骨骼肌糖原代谢初探

长期航天飞行会导致骨骼肌萎缩，糖代谢紊乱可能是重要原因之一。N6-甲基腺嘌呤(N6-methyladenosine,m6A)是真核生物最常见和最保守的信使核糖核酸(messenger RNA,mRNA)修饰，通常参与关键基因表达的调控。本研究主要探究微重力对肌细胞糖原代谢的影响及微重力引起的m6A修饰改变与糖原代谢相关酶表达改变的相关性。通过蒽酮法检测骨骼肌细胞糖原含量，通过流式法检测荧光-D-葡萄糖类似物2-(N-7-硝基-2,1,3-苯并恶二唑-4-氨基)-2-脱氧-D-葡萄糖[2-N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino-2-deoxyglucose,2-NBDG]标记骨骼肌细胞的葡萄糖摄取，利用点杂交检测信使RNA m6A修饰的变化情况以及通过qPCR、Western blot检测糖原代谢相关酶和m6A修饰相关酶的表达，通过RNA甲基化免疫共沉淀(methylated RNA Immunoprecipitation,meRIP)检测肌细胞糖原代谢相关酶m6A修饰水平，同时通过GEO数据库分析临床及动物实验中糖原代谢相关酶和m6A修饰相...     

海洋氢弧菌胞内糖原生理功能的研究

在细胞高密度培养后的各种不同条件下,通过停止提供碳源和洗涤细胞培养法来观察专性化能自养海洋氢弧菌（Hydrogenovibriomarinus）胞内糖原和胞内葡萄糖碳酸酶活性变化发现：这株自养细菌胞内的糖原起能量储存的作用。最大的糖原降解为76．5％,是发生在碳源和能源饥饿的有氧状态下。     

Seasonal changes in lipid composition and glycogen storage associated with freeze-tolerance of the earthworm, Dendrobaena octaedra

The earthworm, Dendrobaena octaedra, is a common species in the uppermost soil and humus layers of coniferous forests and tundra in temperate and subarctic regions. The species is freeze-tolerant and may survive several months in a frozen state. Upon freezing, glycogen reserves are rapidly converted to glucose serving as a cryoprotectant and fuel for metabolism. In the present study we investigated the induction of freeze-tolerance under field conditions, and sought to find relationships between temperature, glycogen and fat reserves, membrane phospholipid composition and the degree of freeze-tolerance. Freeze-tolerance was induced when worms had experienced temperatures below 5°C for 2 weeks or more. Freeze-tolerance was linked to the magnitude of glycogen reserves, which also fluctuated with field temperatures being highest in autumn and winter. On the other hand fat reserves seemed not to be linked with freeze-tolerance at all. However, high glycogen alone did not confer freeze-tolerance; alterations in the membrane phospholipid fatty acid composition (PLFA) were also necessary in order to secure freeze-tolerance. The changes in PLFA composition were generally similar to changes occurring in other ectothermic animals during winter acclimation with an increased degree of unsaturation of the PLFAs.     

Effect of Diabetes on Glycogen Metabolism in Rat Retina

Glucose is the main fuel for energy metabolism in retina. The regulatory mechanisms that maintain glucose homeostasis in retina could include hormonal action. Retinopathy is one of the chemical manifestations of long-standing diabetes mellitus. In order to better understand the effect of hyperglycemia in retina, we studied glycogen content as well as glycogen synthase and phosphorylase activities in both normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat retina and compared them with other tissues. Glycogen levels in normal rat retina are low (46 +/- 4.0 nmol glucosyl residues/mg protein). However, high specific activity of glycogen synthase was found in retina, indicating a substantial capacity for glycogen synthesis. In diabetic rats, glycogen synthase activity increased between 50% and 100% in retina, brain cortex and liver of diabetic rats, but only retina exhibited an increase in glycogen content. Although, total and phosphorylated glycogen synthase levels were similar in normal and diabetic retina, activation of glycogen synthase by glucose-6-P was remarkable increased. Glycogen phosphorylase activity decreased 50% in the liver of diabetic animals; it was not modified in the other tissues examined. We conclude that the increase in glycogen levels in diabetic retina was due to alterations in glycogen synthase regulation.     

Stimulation of macrophage by enzymatically synthesized glycogen: the relationship between structure and biological activity

Glycogen is exclusively known as an energy and carbon reserve in animal cells and micro-organisms. We synthesized glycogens of varying molecular weight by using three enzymes, and investigated the relationship between the structure and immunostimulating activity of glycogen. These results indicated that glycogens with a molecular weight of more than 1.0×10⁷ hardly activated RAW264.7, a murine macrophage cell line, whereas glycogens of 5.0–6.5×10⁶ strongly stimulated RAW264.7 in the presence of interferon-γ, leading to augmented production of nitric oxide, tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6. Additionally, the number-average unit chain length and the exterior and interior chain lengths of the glycogens showed a minor correlation between active and less-active glycogen derivatives. On the other hand, the binding activity of glycogen toward RAW264.7 did not depend on the molecular weight of glycogen. The available evidence suggests that the macrophage-stimulating activity of glycogen is strictly related to its molecular weight rather than to fine structural properties.     

Biochemical Titration of Glycogen In vitro

Glycogen is the main energetic polymer of glucose in vertebrate animals and plays a crucial role in whole body metabolism as well as in cellular metabolism. Many methods to detect glycogen already exist but only a few are quantitative. We describe here a method using the Abcam Glycogen assay kit, which is based on specific degradation of glycogen to glucose by glucoamylase. Glucose is then specifically oxidized to a product that reacts with the OxiRed probe to produce fluorescence. Titration is accurate, sensitive and can be achieved on cell extracts or tissue sections. However, in contrast to other techniques, it does not give information about the distribution of glycogen in the cell. As an example of this technique, we describe here the titration of glycogen in two cell lines, Chinese hamster lung fibroblast CCL39 and human colon carcinoma LS174, incubated in normoxia (21% O₂) versus hypoxia (1% O₂). We hypothesized that hypoxia is a signal that prepares cells to synthesize and store glycogen in order to survive¹.     

Investigations of the influence of carbon starvation on the carbohydrate storage compounds (trehalose, glycogen), viability, adenylate pool, and adenylate energy charge in Cellulomonas sp. (DSM20108)

During conditions of energy and carbon excess Cellulomonas sp. accumulates intracellularly two different carbohydrate storage products in different relative concentrations: trehalose and glycogen. During carbon starvation these compounds are degraded at different rates and are therefore characterized metabolically by different half-life periods (glycogen 1.6 h, trehalose 34 h). Other parameters which bear some relation to viability during conditions of stress are compared with these half-life periods. The half-life period of the adenylate energy charge EC_A (52 h) is similar to the trehalose half-life period, and it is concluded that it is trehalose which is essential for long-term survival while glycogen is used in the very early stages of carbon starvation to produce energy for metabolism under these conditions. Evidence is presented that two mechanisms are active for the stabilization of the intracellular adenylate energy charge: specific excretion and adenylate degradation.     

Control of glycogen deposition

Traditionally, glycogen synthase (GS) has been considered to catalyze the key step of glycogen synthesis and to exercise most of the control over this metabolic pathway. However, recent advances have shown that other factors must be considered. Moreover, the control of glycogen deposition does not follow identical mechanisms in muscle and liver. Glucose must be phosphorylated to promote activation of GS. Glucose-6-phosphate (Glc-6-P) binds to GS, causing the allosteric activation of the enzyme probably through a conformational rearrangement that simultaneously converts it into a better substrate for protein phosphatases, which can then lead to the covalent activation of GS. The potency of Glc-6-P for activation of liver GS is determined by its source, since Glc-6-P arising from the catalytic action of glucokinase (GK) is much more effective in mediating the activation of the enzyme than the same metabolite produced by hexokinase I (HK I). As a result, hepatic glycogen deposition from glucose is subject to a system of control in which the 'controller', GS, is in turn controlled by GK. In contrast, in skeletal muscle, the control of glycogen synthesis is shared between glucose transport and GS. The characteristics of the two pairs of isoenzymes, liver GS/GK and muscle GS/HK I, and the relationships that they establish are tailored to suit specific metabolic roles of the tissues in which they are expressed. The key enzymes in glycogen metabolism change their intracellular localization in response to glucose. The changes in the intracellular distribution of liver GS and GK triggered by glucose correlate with stimulation of glycogen synthesis. The translocation of GS, which constitutes an additional mechanism of control, causes the orderly deposition of hepatic glycogen and probably represents a functional advantage in the metabolism of the polysaccharide.     

The relationship between glycogen synthesis, biofilm formation and virulence in salmonella enteritidis

Salmonella enteritidis accumulated large quantities of intracellular polysaccharide when grown in unrestricted nutrient conditions. Dense, abundant cytoplasmic granules were observed by electron microscopy in sections stained by the periodic acid-chlorite technique, indicating that the polysaccharide was of the glycogen type. When biofilm-producing S. enteritidis was pre-incubated in media containing increasing levels of glucose concentration, the levels of both cytoplasmic glycogen and biofilm rose correlatively to a point where a ceiling effect was observed. Studies carried out with activators and inhibitors of glycogen biosynthesis confirmed that biofilm was formed from glycogen cell stores. On the other hand, the virulence of the biofilm-producing strain in infected chickens increased proportionally to the amount of stored glycogen, suggesting a possible role of the glycogen depot in the virulence of S. enteritidis.     

Immunocytochemical Analysis of Glycogen Phosphorylase Isozymes in the Developing and Adult Retina of the Domestic Chicken (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Gallus domesticus</Emphasis>)

Glycogen is the major energy reserve in neural tissues including the retina. A key-enzyme in glycogen metabolism is glycogen phosphorylase (GP) which exists in three differentially regulated isoforms. By applying isozyme-specific antibodies it could be demonstrated that the GP BB (brain), but not the GP MM (muscle) isoform is expressed in the chicken retina in neuronal and glial (Müller) cells. In the embryonic chicken retina, GP showed a development-dependent expression pattern. Double-labeling experiments with cell type-specific antibodies revealed that GP is expressed in various layers of the retina some of which, e.g., the photoreceptor inner segments, are known to be sites of high energy consumption. This suggests important roles of GP BB, and therefore glycogen, in early differentiation, spontaneous wave generation and in formation and stabilization of synapses. Special issue article in honor of Dr. Frode Fonnum.     

Astrocytes and energy metabolism

Astrocytes are glial cells, which play a significant role in a number of processes, including the brain energy metabolism. Their anatomical position between blood vessels and neurons make them an interface for effective glucose uptake from blood. After entering astrocytes, glucose can be involved in different metabolic pathways, e.g. in glycogen production. Glycogen in the brain is localized mainly in astrocytes and is an important energy source in hypoxic conditions and normal brain functioning. The portion of glucose metabolized into glycogen molecules in astrocytes is as high as 40%. It is thought that the release of gliotransmitters (such as glutamate, neuroactive peptides and ATP) into the extracellular space by regulated exocytosis supports a significant part of communication between astrocytes and neurons. On the other hand, neurotransmitter action on astrocytes has a significant role in brain energy metabolism. Therefore, understanding the astrocytes energy metabolism may help understanding neuron-astrocyte interactions.