组织型转谷氨酰胺酶与肾脏纤维化

组织型转谷氨酰胺酶(tTG)是一个Ca2 依赖的具有转酰胺基作用的酶,它分布广泛,在许多生理和病理条件下发挥重要作用。近年来它参与组织纤维化的作用逐渐引起重视。tTG分泌到细胞外能够使很多细胞外基质蛋白成分之间发生交联,形成牢固结构,抵抗降解,从而促使细胞外基质沉积,促进组织纤维化发展。本文简要叙述tTG的分子特征和生理及病理学意义,并着重介绍tTG和肾脏纤维化的联系。     

海藻糖对微生物谷氨酰氨转胺酶热稳定性研究

本实验目的是研究海藻糖对微生物谷氨酰胺转胺酶（TGase）热稳定性的作用。糖类对TGase的保护作用根据糖种类不同有所差异,海藻糖和蔗糖的保护作用优于葡萄糖对TGase的保护作用。在45℃、50℃、55℃、60℃、65℃下研究了海藻糖对TG酶的保护作用。结果表明,在50～65℃下海藻糖使谷氨酰胺转胺酶受热时的稳定性提高了约20％。海藻糖与酶复合的最合适浓度约为14％,浓度低时保护作用不明显,加入过高浓度的糖对酶的活性维持不利。50℃下处理一段时间内,海藻糖对酶的保护作用随时问变化很小。     

体外培养的哺乳动物细胞的葡萄糖和谷氨酰胺代谢

综述体外培养哺乳动物细胞的葡萄糖和谷氨酰胺代谢。大部分的葡萄糖通过糖酵解途径为细胞提供中间代谢物质和能量 ,最终生成乳酸 ,只有很少部分进入TCA循环和磷酸戊糖途径。谷氨酰胺通过谷氨酰胺酶生成谷氨酸 ,并进一步通过谷氨酸脱氢酶或转氨酶生成α -酮戊二酸进入TCA循环 ,为细胞提供中间代谢物质和能量。糖酵解和谷氨酰胺代谢 (glutaminolysis)受葡萄糖和谷氨酰胺的影响而相互调节。     

南瓜种子萌发及子叶发育时谷氨酰胺合成酶和其它氨同化酶的变化

在发育的新生组织中 ,来自种子胚乳储存蛋白的降解和氨基酸分解代谢产生的氨由谷氨酰胺合成酶 ( Glutamine synthetase,GS)重新同化 ,生成的谷氨酰胺 ( Gln)被转运到正在生长着的部分。GS是高等植物氮素代谢的关键酶 [1] ,这个酶能同化不同来源的氨。 GS有多种同工酶 ,存在于植物的各种组织和器官中。它们是由一小的同源但分离的核基因家族编码的 [2 3 ] ,这些不同的 GS在植物氮素同化中起着非重叠的作用 [4] ,它们的表达受到环境、发育进程以及组织或细胞类型等许多因素的影响。在大多数已研究过的植物叶片中存在两种 GS,即胞液型GS(…     

谷氨酰胺高效酶法转化条件研究

谷氨酰胺合成酶是生物体氮代谢的中心酶之一,在消耗ATP的情况下,谷氨酰胺合成酶催化由谷氨酸和NH4+向谷氨酰胺的转化,Toch ikura提出了将酵母发酵与纯化酶结合生产谷氨酰胺(G ln)的方法,本实验通过建立酶法合成L-G ln与酵母酒精发酵的能量偶联体系,研究了在此偶联体系中各因素对谷氨酰胺酶转化效率的影响,为工业上利用酶法生产G ln提供理论依据。     

抑制谷氨酰胺代谢减轻血管紧张素Ⅱ诱导的心肌纤维化

本文旨在探讨心脏成纤维细胞(cardiac fibroblasts, CFs)谷氨酰胺(glutamine, Gln)代谢在高血压所致心肌纤维化中的作用及机制。用微渗透泵给予C57BL/6J小鼠血管紧张素Ⅱ (angiotensin Ⅱ, Ang Ⅱ, 1.6 mg/kg per d)诱导心肌纤维化,用免疫组织化学法和Western blot检测心肌组织谷氨酰胺酶1 (glutaminase 1, GLS1)的表达。小鼠腹腔注射GLS1抑制剂BPTES (12.5 mg/kg)以抑制Gln代谢,用Masson染色法观察心肌纤维化程度,用RT-qPCR和Western blot检测心肌组织Ⅰ型和Ⅲ型胶原蛋白表达变化。Sprague-Dawley (SD)大鼠乳鼠CFs在有/无Ang Ⅱ (0.4μmol/L)刺激下接受Gln 4 mmol/L或BPTES (5μmol/L)处理。用划痕实验和CCK-8法分别检测CFs迁移和增殖,用RT-q PCR和Western blot检测CFs中GLS1、Ⅰ型和Ⅲ型胶原蛋白表达变化。在Ang Ⅱ和BPTES处理的条件下,给予CFs 2 mmol/L ...     

组织型转谷氨酰胺酶的研究进展

组织型转谷氨酰胺酶（tissue transglutaminase,tTG,TGⅡ）是转谷氨酰胺酶家族成员之一,作为一种多功能的蛋白质,具有催化蛋白质谷氨酰胺残基与赖氨酸残基交联的活性,还能结合和水解GTP,在胞内和胞外产生多种功能,最初由于tTG在细胞凋亡中所起的重要作用而受到研究者的关注,最近的研究更表明它在细胞分化,基质的稳定、伤口愈合、信号转导、动物发育等许多生理和病理过程中起着重要作用,因而受到越来越多的研究。     

谷氨酰胺转胺酶—理化性质、生产方法及其在食品工业中的应用

谷氨酰胺转胺酶(蛋白质-谷氨酸-γ谷氨酰胺转移酶EC2.3.2.13)催化体外大多数食品蛋白质的交联反应,如:酪蛋白,大豆蛋白,肌球蛋白,肌动蛋白,谷蛋白,禽蛋蛋白等等。通过催化肽键谷酰胺基残基的酰基转移反应,在各种蛋白质分子之间或之内形成ε-(γ-谷胺酰)赖氨酸键,从而改善各种蛋白质的功能性质。如:营养价值、质地结构、口感、贮存期等等。目前,商业化谷氨酰胺转胺酶主要从动物组织中提取,但由于其分离和纯化过程较复杂,且来源稀少,因而价格昂贵,近年来,人们开始转向于研究利用微生物发酵来生产谷氨酰胺转胺酶,并使之应用于食品工业,经过微生物谷氨酰胺转胺酶处理后的食品,其功能性质明显改善。本文就谷氨酰胺转胺酶的国内外研究现状作一综述,主要包括理化性质、生产及其应用。     

微生物蛋白质谷氨酰胺酶的初步分离纯化

蛋白质谷氨酰胺酶可以特异性地水解蛋白质和多肽的谷氨酰胺残基,研究了产吲哚金黄杆菌产生的微生物蛋白质谷氨酰胺酶的代谢曲线和初步的分离纯化。发酵过程中pH升高,氨浓度增加,到14 h时酶活达到最高为0.359 U/mL。发酵液离心去上清液经3 kD滤膜超滤4倍时,纯化倍数和得率都最高。超滤液加入4倍体积无水乙醇沉淀蛋白质,酶的得率最高为72.7%。沉淀用缓冲液复溶后,经过SP-Sepharose Fast Flow离子交换层析分离,得到单一峰。经过多步纯化后酶得率为31.72%,纯化倍数为124倍,经SDS-PAGE电泳鉴定为单一条带,分子量约为20 kD。     

植物转谷氨酰胺酶

植物转谷氨酰胺酶廖祥儒,朱新产,赵军（西北农业大学,陕西杨陵７１２１００）（中国科学院西北水土保持研究所）关键词转谷氨酰胺酶,蛋白质交联蛋白质交联,作为转译后蛋白质的一种修饰方式,与细胞结构形成有关,对稳定组织结构和细胞骨架有重要意义。现已发现,和Ｎ...     

Developmentally related changes in the metabolism of glucose and glutamine by cattle embryos produced and co-cultured in vitro.

The metabolism of radiolabelled glucose and glutamine was measured in individual cattle embryos produced by in vitro maturation and fertilization of oocytes, and culture with bovine oviductal epithelial cells. Metabolism of glucose through the pentose-phosphate pathway increased almost 15 times and the total metabolism of glucose 30 times, during development from the two-cell to the expanded blastocyst stage. The first marked increase in glucose metabolism did not occur until between the eight- and 16-cell stages, the time of activation of the embryonic genome. Conversely, the metabolism of glutamine was high in two- and four-cell embryos and then decreased to reach a minimum at the compacted morula to blastocyst stage, possibly because of degradation of maternally derived enzymes. Blastocyst expansion was accompanied by significant increases in the metabolism of glucose and glutamine, presumably reflecting the increased energy demands of Na(+)-K+ ATPase necessary for formation and maintenance of the blastocoel.     

Ammonia Assimilation in Rumen Bacteria: A Review

In the rumen bacteria, ammonia as the end product of nitrogen is incorporated into carbon skeleton (α-ketoglutarate) to yield glutamine and glutamate which are important nitrogen donors in nitrogenous compounds metabolism in cells. The enzymes glutamine synthetase, glutamate synthetase, and glutamate dehydrogenase are involved in these processes. Some experimental results have proven that the global nitrogen regulation system may participate in the regulation of assimilation of ammonia in rumen bacteria. This review offers a current perspective on the pathways and key enzymes of ammonia assimilation in rumen bacteria with the possible molecular regulation strategy, while points out the further research direction.     

Effects of Light and Inhibitors on Glutamate Metabolism in Leaf Discs of Vicia faba L: Sources of ATP for Glutamine Synthesis and Photoregulation of Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Metabolism

Metabolism of [¹⁴C]glutamate was studied in leaf discs of Vicia faba L. in light and in darkness. In white light glutamine was the main labeled product. In the dark label was principally in compounds closely associated with tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolism, predominantly aspartate. Entry of label from glutamate into tricarboxylic acid metabolism appeared to be at least partially by decarboxylation of glutamate to γ-amino butyric acid, followed by conversion to succinate. 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1, 1-Dimethylurea inhibited light-enhanced synthesis of glutamine and caused reversion toward the dark pattern of metabolism. Methionine sulfoximine severely inhibited glutamine synthesis and caused accumulation of labeled malate.     

Isolation and characterization of nitrogen-deregulated mutants of Streptomyces clavuligerus

Two screening methods for isolation of mutants of Streptomyces clavuligerus with altered control of nitrogen metabolism enzymes are described. Thirty-eight prototrophic mutants with simultaneous deregulation of urease and glutamine synthetase were isolated. Nine mutants were examined in more detail and they also showed deregulated formation of arginase and ornithine aminotransferase. Different patterns of altered control of all four enzymes were observed. Inactivation of glutamine synthetase after ammonium shock took place to different extents in these nine strains, and seven of them had a thermosensitive glutamine synthetase activity. It is concluded that a system of nitrogen control, in which glutamine synthetase has a key role, is present in S. clavuligerus. Cephalosporin production was depressed by ammonium in all the mutants, irrespective of the alterations in nitrogen control of primary metabolism.     

The conversion of alanine into glutamine in guinea-pig renal cortex. Essential role of pyruvate carboxylase.

1. The metabolism of L-alanine was studied in isolated guinea-pig kidney-cortex tubules. 2. In contrast with previous conclusions of Krebs [(1935) Biochem. J. 29, 1951-1969], glutamine was found to be the main carbon and nitrogenous product of the metabolism of alanine (at 1 and 5 mM). Glutamate and ammonia were only minor products. 3. At neither concentration of alanine was there accumulation of glucose, glycogen, pyruvate, lactate, aspartate or tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates. 4. Carbon-balance calculations and the release of 14CO2 from [U-14C]alanine indicate that oxidation of the alanine carbon skeleton occurred at both substrate concentrations. 5. A pathway involving alanine aminotransferase, glutamate dehydrogenase, glutamine synthetase, pyruvate dehydrogenase, pyruvate carboxylase and enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle is proposed for the conversion of alanine into glutamine. 6. Strong evidence for this pathway was obtained by: (i) suppressing alanine removal by amino-oxyacetate, and inhibitor of transaminases, (ii) measuring the release of 14CO2 from [1-14C]alanine, (iii) the use of L-methionine DL-sulphoximine, an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase, which induced a large increase in ammonia release from alanine, and (iv) the use of fluoroacetate, an inhibitor of aconitase, which inhibited glutamine synthesis with concomitant accumulation of citrate from alanine. 7. In this pathway, the central role of pyruvate carboxylase, which explains the discrepancy between our results and those of Krebs (1935), was also demonstrated.     

Visualization of glutamine transporter activities in living cells using genetically encoded glutamine sensors

Glutamine plays a central role in the metabolism of critical biological molecules such as amino acids, proteins, neurotransmitters, and glutathione. Since glutamine metabolism is regulated through multiple enzymes and transporters, the cellular glutamine concentration is expected to be temporally dynamic. Moreover, differentiation in glutamine metabolism between cell types in the same tissue (e.g. neuronal and glial cells) is often crucial for the proper function of the tissue as a whole, yet assessing cell-type specific activities of transporters and enzymes in such heterogenic tissue by physical fractionation is extremely challenging. Therefore, a method of reporting glutamine dynamics at the cellular level is highly desirable. Genetically encoded sensors can be targeted to a specific cell type, hence addressing this knowledge gap. Here we report the development of F?ster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) glutamine sensors based on improved cyan and yellow fluorescent proteins, monomeric Teal Fluorescent Protein (mTFP)1 and venus. These sensors were found to be specific to glutamine, and stable to pH-changes within a physiological range. Using cos7 cells expressing the human glutamine transporter ASCT2 as a model, we demonstrate that the properties of the glutamine transporter can easily be analyzed with these sensors. The range of glutamine concentration change in a given cell can also be estimated using sensors with different affinities. Moreover, the mTFP1-venus FRET pair can be duplexed with another FRET pair, mAmetrine and tdTomato, opening up the possibility for real-time imaging of another molecule. These novel glutamine sensors will be useful tools to analyze specificities of glutamine metabolism at the single-cell level.     

Metabolic thermotolerance: magnetic resonance detected protection of glutamate synthase.

Metabolism in maize meristem cultures exposed to different heat treatments has been analyzed by 13C-NMR spectroscopy of tissue extracts. The effects of a 40 degrees C permissive stress were compared with a 45 degrees C lethal stress, and the metabolism of glutamate and glutamine were markedly altered by both temperatures. Changes in the incorporation of labeled precursors, alterations due to the in vivo application of enzyme inhibitors, and differences in the activity of enzymes in cell free extracts have confirmed that glutamate synthase (GluS) is partially inactivated by the lethal thermal exposure. This enzyme is quantitatively protected by the induction of thermotolerance. The time dependence for the protection correlates with the appearance of a set of late-arising heat shock proteins (hsps). The function of these late-arising proteins is not yet known, but only one of them, a 67-kDa protein, is spatially correlated with GluS protection. Therefore, the quantitative protection of a key metabolic enzyme has been correlated with the in vivo function of a specific hsp.     

Nitrogen metabolism in the stalk tissue of maize

During ear development in maize (Zea mays L.), nitrogenous compounds are translocated from vegetative organs to the kernels. At anthesis, the stalk contains approximately 40% of the total plant N, and contributes 45% of the N remobilized to the ear. Therefore, the stalk has an important function as a temporary reservoir for N. Little is known of the metabolism of maize stalks, and this paper describes initial studies of enzymes of N metabolism. High in vitro activity of glutamine synthetase (GS) in maize stalk samples throughout ear development contrasted with a peak in activity of glutamate synthase soon after anthesis and negligible nitrate reductase. With fresh sections of stalk tissue collected at anthesis, ¹⁵N-feeding experiments confirmed high GS and low nitrate reductase activities. Two isoforms of GS were separated from extracts from stalk tissue: GS1, the cytoplasmic form, increased to maximum levels at 2 weeks postanthesis and remained fairly high thereafter; whereas the plastidic form, GS2, declined progressively during kernel development. Western blot analysis confirmed the presence of constantly high levels of GS protein after anthesis. The levels of GS proteins decreased after transfer of N-starved, hydroponically grown plants to N-rich conditions in order to restrict remobilization of N. In contrast, transfer of plants grown under abundant N conditions to N-free medium, which encourages N remobilization, resulted in a relative increase in GS protein. Because glutamine is the major form of N transported in maize, the results indicate that GS, specifically the GS1 isoform, has a central role in the remobilization on nitrogenous compounds from the stalk to the ear.     

The mechanism of ammonia assimilation in nitrogen fixing bacteria

Summary Enzymatic and genetic evidence are presented for a new pathway of ammonia assimilation in nitrogen fixing bacteria: ammonium glutamine glutamate. This route to the important glutamate-glutamine family of amino acids differs from the conventional pathway, ammonium glutamate glutamine, in several respects. Glutamate synthetase [(glutamine amide-2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase) (oxidoreductase)], which is clearly distinct from glutamate dehydrogenase, catalyzes the reduced pyridine nucleotide dependent amination of -ketoglutarate with glutamine as amino donor yielding two molecules of glutamate as product. The enzyme is completely inhibited by the glutamine analogue DON, whereas glutamate dehydrogenase is not affected by this inhibitor; the glutamate synthetase reaction is irreversible. Glutamate synthetase is widely distributed in bacteria; the pyridine nucleotide coenzyme specificity of the enzyme varies in many of these species.The activities of key enzymes are modulated by environmental nitrogenous sources; for example, extracts of N₂-grown cells of Klebsiella pneumoniae form glutamate almost exclusively by this new route and contain only trace amounts of glutamate dehydrogenase activity whereas NH₃-grown cells possess both pathways. Also, the biosynthetically active form of glutamine synthetase with a low K _m for ammonium predominates in the N₂-grown cell.Several mutant strains of K. pneumoniae have been isolated which fail to fix nitrogen or to grow in an ammonium limited environment. Extracts of these strains prepared from cells grown on higher levels of ammonium have low levels of glutamate synthetase activity and contain the biosynthetically inactive species of glutamine synthetase along with high levels of glutamate dehydrogenase. These mutants missing the new assimilatory pathway have serious defects in their metabolism of many inorganic and organic nitrogen sources; utilization of at least 20 different compounds is effected. We conclude that the new ammonia assimilatory route plays an important role in nitrogenous metabolism and is essential for nitrogen fixation.Abbreviation DON 6-diazo-5-oxo-l-norleucine     

Salt stress affects glutamine synthetase activity and mRNA accumulation on potato plants in an organ-dependent manner

Ammonium assimilation into glutamine and glutamate is vital for plant growth as these are precursors for almost all nitrogenous compounds. Ammonium can be assimilated onto nitrogenous organic compounds by the concerted action of two enzymes that compose the glutamine synthetase (GS, EC 6.3.1.2) – glutamate synthase (Fd-GOGAT, EC 1.4.7.1; NADH–GOGAT, EC 1.4.1.14) cycle. Ammonium may also be directly incorporated into glutamate by the glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH, EC 1.4.1.2) aminating reaction. However, as GDH reversibly deaminates glutamate, its physiological role in vivo remains controversial. Potato has been classified as moderately tolerant to salinity. Potato GS is encoded by a small multigene family which is differentially regulated in an organ and age-dependent way. In this study, the effect of increasing concentrations of salinity in the soil in GS activity and gene-specific mRNA accumulation levels were studied on potato leaves and roots, as well as the biochemical parameters protein, chlorophyll, lipid peroxidation and proline levels, in order to evaluate the severity of the imposed stress. The data obtained suggests that when potato plants are subjected to salt stress, increased ammonium assimilation occurs in roots, due to an increased GS accumulation, along with a decreased assimilation in leaves. Regarding GS gene-specific mRNA accumulation, an organ-dependent response was also observed that contributes for the detected alteration in the ammonium assimilatory metabolism. This response may be a key feature for future genetic manipulations in order to increase crop productivity in salty soils. The possible contribution of GDH for ammonia assimilation was also investigated.