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The rate of [2-14C]glucose uptake has been used as an indication of the status of energy consumption by the rat brain, but the cost of this radiolabel can be prohibitive and the surgical manipulation involved in published methods is extensive. A method for measuring glucose utilization in vivo in mouse brain with [U-14C]glucose is described in this article. Glucose consumption in whole mouse brain obtained with [U-14C]glucose or [2-14C]glucose was 0.650±0.022 and 0.716±0.36 nmol/mg/min, respectively. In all instances the rate obtained with the uniformly labeled isotope was somewhat lower than that found with [2-14C]glucose. The rate of glucose utilization measured with either isotope was significantly depressed in sodium pentobarbital anesthetized mice. The method described here is advantageous because [U-14C]glucose is substantially less expensive than [2-14C]glucose and surgical intervention is avoided.  相似文献   

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β-[U-14C]Alanine can be synthesized in >95% yield from l-[U-14C]aspartic acid using the aspartate 1-decarboxylase of Escherichia coli and converted to d-[1,2,3-14C]pantothenate in a 10–20% yield using the pantothenate synthetase of E. coli. Sufficiently pure preparations of both enzymes are readily obtained.  相似文献   

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—1. Effects of the administration of phenylalanine to rats on incorporation in vivo or in vitro of [U-14C]glucose into cerebral lipids were studied during the first 5–10 days of postnatal development. In addition, the effects of added phenylalanine and its deaminated metabolites on incorporation of [U-14C]glucose by homogenates into lipids of developing rat brain were investigated. Hyperphenylalaninaemia reduced incorporation both in vivo and in vitro of [U-14C]glucose into cerebral lipids. 2. Phenylalanine or tyrosine added in vitro at concentrations equivalent to those in the brain of the hyperphenylalaninaemic rat (0-1 μmole/ml incubation medium) did not inhibit incorporation of [U-14C)glucose into lipids, although at much higher concentrations of phenylalanine (36 μumoles/ml incubation medium) slight inhibition (10 per cent) of incorporation of [U-14C]glucose into lipids was observed. 3. In contrast, the deaminated metabolites in general exerted greater inhibitory effects at lower concentrations. Phenyllactic acid, in comparison to phenylpyruvic and phenyl-acetic acid, was the most potent inhibitor of the incorporation in vitro of [U-14C]glucose into cerebral lipids. These results indicated that these metabolites of phenylalanine were the more potent inhibitors of cerebral lipid metabolism in immature animals.  相似文献   

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—(1) The effects of aminooxyacetic acid, ouabain and Ca2+ on the compartmentation of amino acid metabolism have been studied in slices of brain incubated with sodium-[1-14C]acetate, l-[U-14C]glutamate and l-[U-14C]aspartate as tracer metabolites. (2) Aminooxyacetic acid (10-3 m) inhibited the labelling of aspartate from [14C]acetate and [14C]glutamate, as well as the incorporation of label from [14C]aspartate into glutamate and glutamine. It also inhibited the labelling of GABA from all three radioactive precursors, as would be anticipated if there was inhibition of several transaminases as well as glutamate decarboxylase. The RSA of glutamine labelled from [1-14C]acetate was increased. This finding indicated that the glutamate pool which is utilized for glutamine formation is associated with glutamate dehydrogenase, and this enzyme appears to be related to the ‘synthetic tricarboxylic acid cycle’. AOAA exerted its major inhibitory effects on the citric acid‘energy cycle’with which transaminases are associated. (3) Ouabain (10-5 m) inhibited the labelling of glutamine to a much greater extent than the labelling of glutamate from [1-14C]acetate. It also caused leakage of amino acids from the tissue into the medium. Its effect on the glutamate–glutamine system was interpreted to be a selective inhibition of the 'synthetic’citric acid cycle. (4) The omission of Ca2+ from the incubation medium was associated with formation of glutamine with RSA less than 1·0 when labelled from [U-14C]glutamate, [U-14C]aspartate and lower than normal when labelled from [1-14C]acetate.  相似文献   

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Glutamate metabolism was studied in co-cultures of mouse cerebellar neurons (predominantly glutamatergic) and astrocytes. One set of cultures was superfused (90 min) in the presence of either [U-13C]glucose (2.5 mM) and lactate (1 mM) or [U-13C]lactate (1 mM) and glucose (2.5 mM). Other sets of cultures were incubated in medium containing [U-13C]lactate (1 mM) and glucose (2.5 mM) for 4 h. Regardless of the experimental conditions cell extracts were analyzed using mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. 13C labeling of glutamate was much higher than that of glutamine under all experimental conditions indicating that acetyl-CoA from both lactate and glucose was preferentially metabolized in the neurons. Aspartate labeling was similar to that of glutamate, especially when [U-13C]glucose was the substrate. Labeling of glutamate, aspartate and glutamine was lower in the cells incubated with [U-13C]lactate. The first part of the pyruvate recycling pathway, pyruvate formation, was detected in singlet and doublet labeling of alanine under all experimental conditions. However, full recycling, detectable in singlet labeling of glutamate in the C-4 position was only quantifiable in the superfused cells both from [U-13C]glucose and [U-13C]lactate. Lactate and alanine were mostly uniformly labeled and labeling of alanine was the same regardless of the labeled substrate present and higher than that of lactate when superfused in the presence of [U-13C]glucose. These results show that metabolism of pyruvate, the precursor for lactate, alanine and acetyl-CoA is highly compartmentalized. Special issue dedicated to John P. Blass.  相似文献   

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Specifically radiolabeled [14C-lignin]lignocelluloses were prepared from the aquatic macrophytes Spartina alterniflora, Juncus roemerianus, Rhizophora mangle, and Carex walteriana by using [14C]phenylalanine, [14C]tyrosine, and [14C]cinnamic acid as precursors. Specifically radiolabeled [14C-polysaccharide]lignocelluloses were prepared by using [14C]glucose as precursor. The rates of microbial degradation varied among [14C-lignin]lignocelluloses labeled with different lignin precursors within the same plant species. To determine the causes of these differential rates, [14C-lignin]lignocelluloses were thoroughly characterized for the distribution of radioactivity in nonlignin contaminants and within the lignin macromolecule. In herbaceous plants, significant amounts (8 to 24%) of radioactivity from [14C]phenylalanine and [14C]tyrosine were found associated with protein, although very little (3%) radioactivity from [14C]cinnamic acid was associated with protein. Microbial degradation of radiolabeled protein resulted in overestimation of lignin degradation rates in lignocelluloses derived from herbaceous aquatic plants. Other differences in degradation rates among [14C-lignin]lignocelluloses from the same plant species were attributable to differences in the amount of label being associated with ester-linked subunits of peripheral lignin. After acid hydrolysis of [14C-polysaccharide]lignocelluloses, radioactivity was detected in several sugars, although most of the radioactivity was distributed between glucose and xylose. After 576 h of incubation with salt marsh sediments, 38% of the polysaccharide component and between 6 and 16% of the lignin component (depending on the precursor) of J. roemerianus lignocellulose was mineralized to 14CO2; during the same incubation period, 30% of the polysaccharide component and between 12 and 18% of the lignin component of S. alterniflora lignocellulose was mineralized.  相似文献   

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Radioactive polysaccharide was synthesized when uridine 5′-(α-d-[U-14C]apio-d-furanosyl pyrophosphate) (containing some uridine 5′-(α-d-[U-14C]xylopyranosyl pyrophosphate)) was incubated with a particulate enzyme preparation from Lemna minor. Characterization experiments established that the product: (i) was insoluble in methanol and water, (ii) contained d-[U-14C]apiose (75%) and d-[U-14C]xylose (25%), and (iii) was soluble in 1% ammonium oxalate. The material solubilized by ammonium oxalate (solubilized product): (i) was separated into five fractions by column chromatography with diethylaminoethyl-Sephadex (DEAE-Sephadex), (ii) contained [U-14C]apiobiose side chains that were removed by hydrolysis at pH 4, and (iii) was degraded by fungal pectinase. Both d-[U-14C]apiose residues of the [U-14C]apiobiose side chains were synthesized in vivo since radioactivity was distributed equally between the two residues. The presence of uridine 5′-(α-d-galactopyranosyluronic acid pyrophosphate) during synthesis of radioactive polysaccharide resulted in: (i) an increase in the incorporation of radioactive d-[U-14C]apiose into solubilized product, (ii) an increase in the ratio of d-[U-14C]apiose to d-[U-14C]xylose present in solubilized product, (iii) an increase in the amount of [U-14C]apiobiose plus d-[U-14C]apiose released from the solubilized product by hydrolysis at pH 4, and (iv) a tighter binding of the solubilized product to DEAE-Sephadex. These results show that apiogalacturonans similar to or the same as those synthesized by the intact plant were synthesized in the particulate enzyme preparation isolated from L. minor. [14C]Apiogalacturonans completely free of d-[U-l4C]xylose were not isolated. The [14C]apiogalacturonan with the least d-[U-14C]xylose still had 4.8% of its radioactivity present in d-[U-14C]xylose. The possibility remains that d-xylose is a normal constituent of the apiogalacturonans of the cell wall of L. minor.  相似文献   

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A procedure is described for the isolation from the phototrophic procaryole Anacystis nidulans of [U-14C]-labelled glycogen, with high specific radioactivity,formed when NaH14CO3 was added to non-dividing cells that continued to photoassimilate CO2. [U-14C]-Labelled glycogen was then treated with isoamylase (EC 3.2.1.68), isoamylase plus beta-amylase (EC 3.2.1.2), or glucoamylase (EC 3.2.1.3) to give [U-14C]-labelled maltosaccharides, maltose-U-14C, or d-glucose-U-14C, respectively.  相似文献   

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A sensitive and simple radiochemical assay is described to measure argininosuccinase activity in crude tissue homogenates and cultured cells. The method depends on the use of argininosuccinate labeled uniformly with 14C in the six carbons of the arginine moiety. On incubation in the presence of excess arginase, the [U-14C]arginine formed is measured as the sum of radioactivity in [U-14C]ornithine and [14C]urea. Separation from the substrate is accomplished on a small Domex 1-acetate column eluted with 25 mm acetic acid; ornithine and urea emerge in the first few milliliters while unutilized substrate remains on the column. [14C]Argininosuccinate was synthesized enzymatically from l-[U-14C]arginine and fumarate and isolated and purified as the barium salt. Development of a new purification step has brought the amino acid to a purity of 97% as judged by chromatographic and barium analysis. With the present specific radioactivity, as little as 5 to 10 nmol of product can be accurately measured under kinetically optimum conditions.  相似文献   

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Specific radioactivities of molecular species of phosphatidyl choline(PC), phosphatidyl ethanolamine(PE) and 1,2-diacylglycerol were determined in rabbit brain 15 and 30 min after intraventricular injection of 10OpCi of either [U-14C]glucose or [U-14C]glycerol. The rate of de nouo synthesis of glycerophospholipids and their molecular species could be determined after glycerol labelling, since 94.0–99.7% of 14C activity was recovered in glyceryl moieties of brain lipids. After injection of glucose radioactivity was measured in both glyccrol and acyl residues of lipids. High incorporation rates were measured in species of PC, PE and 1,2-diacylglycerol with oleic acid in position 2 and with palmitic, stearic or oleic acids in position 1. The conclusion may therefore be drawn that these molecular species were preferably synthesized de novo by selective acylation of glycerol 3-phosphate. The lowest specific activities were observed for 1,2-dipalmitoyl- and l-stearoyl-2- arachidonoyl-glycerol, -PC and -PE. These turnover rates point to incorporation of arachidonate, and probably also of palmitate in dipalmitoyl-PC, amounting to 20% of total PC, via deacylation-acylation- cycle.  相似文献   

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The distribution of [14C]-labelled material into subcellular fractions of 15-day-old rat brain was studied at 2 and 24 h following intraperitoneal and intracerebral injection of [2-14C]sodium acetate, [U-14C]glucose and [2-14C]mevalonic acid respectively. The total quantity of labelled isoprenoids in the brain was, except for glucose, greater when the precursor was administered intracerebrally. The intraperitoneal route was more advantageous in the case of [U-14C]glucose. The subcellular distribution of both labelled total isoprenoid material and sterol was distinct for each labelled precursor. Intracerebrally injected [U-14C]glucose at both time periods studied suggested no dominance of labelling in any fraction. After intraperitoneal injection of [U-14C]glucose the microsomes were more prominently labelled. Both methods of administration of sodium [2-14C]acetate resulted in heavy labelling of the myelin fraction after 24 h. The total labelled isoprenoids resided mainly in the microsomes 24 h after injection of [2-14C]mevalonic acid. Labelled sterol was found to be localized more in the myelin and microsomal fractions for all three precursors than was the labelled total isoprenoids. Depending on the type of experiment to be conducted, each of these precursors can give different results, which must be interpreted accordingly.  相似文献   

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Decomposition of lignocelluloses from Spartina alterniflora in salt-marsh sediments was measured by using 14C-labeled compounds. Rates of decomposition were fastest in the first 4 days of incubation and declined later. Lignins labeled in side chains were mineralized slightly faster than uniformly labeled lignins; 12% of the [side chain-14C]lignin-labeled lignocellulose was mineralized after 816 h of incubation, whereas only 8% of the [U-14C]lignin-labeled lignocelluloses were degraded during this period. The carbohydrate moiety within the lignocellulose complex was degraded about four times faster than the lignin moiety; after 816 h of incubation, 29 to 37% of the carbohydrate moiety had been mineralized. Changes in concentration of lignin and cellulose in litter of S. alterniflora were followed over 2 years of decay. Cellulose disappeared from litter more rapidly than lignin; 50% of the initial content of cellulose was lost after 130 days, whereas lignin required 330 to 380 days for 50% loss. The slow loss of lignin compared with other litter components resulted in a progressive enrichment of litter in lignin content. The rates of mineralization of [14C]lignocelluloses in marsh sediments were similar to the rates of lignocellulose decomposition in litter on the marsh.  相似文献   

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Thermophilic (55°C) anaerobic enrichment cultures were incubated with [14C-lignin]lignocellulose, [14C-polysaccharide]lignocellulose, and kraft [14C]lignin prepared from slash pine, Pinus elliottii, and 14C-labeled preparations of synthetic lignin and purified cellulose. Significant but low percentages (2 to 4%) of synthetic and natural pine lignin were recovered as labeled methane and carbon dioxide during 60-day incubations, whereas much greater percentages (13 to 23%) of kraft lignin were recovered as gaseous end products. Percentages of label recovered from lignin-labeled substrates as dissolved degradation products were approximately equal to percentages recovered as gaseous end products. High-pressure liquid chromatographic analyses of CuO oxidation products of sound and degraded pine lignin indicated that no substantial chemical modifications of the remaining lignin polymer, such as demethoxylation and dearomatization, occurred during biodegradation. The polysaccharide components of pine lignocellulose and purified cellulose were relatively rapidly mineralized to methane and carbon dioxide; 31 to 37% of the pine polysaccharides and 56 to 63% of the purified cellulose were recovered as labeled gaseous end products. An additional 10 to 20% of the polysaccharide substrates was recovered as dissolved degradation products. Overall, these results indicate that elevated temperatures can greatly enhance rates of anaerobic degradation of lignin and lignified substrates to methane and low-molecular-weight aromatic compounds.  相似文献   

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We examined the dose response, time course and reversibility of the effect of methyl 2-tetradecylglycidate (McN-3716, methyl palmoxirate or MEP), an inhibitor of -oxidation of fatty acids, on incorporation of radiolabeled palmitic acid ([U-14C]PA) from plasma into brain lipids of awake rats. MEP (0.1, 1 and 10 mg/kg) or vehicle was administered intravenously from 10 min to 72 hr prior to infusion of [U-14C]PA. Two hr pretreatment with MEP (0.1 to 10 mg/kg) increased brain organic radioactivity 1.2 to 1.8 fold and decreased brain aqueous radioactivity by 1.2 to 3.0 fold when compared to control values. At 10 mg/kg, MEP significantly increased brain organic fraction from 40% in controls to 85%, 30 min to 6 hr pretreatment, and resulted in a redistribution of the radiolabeled fatty acid toward triacylglycerol. MEP changed the lipid/aqueous brain ratio of incorporated [U-14C]PA from 0.67 to 5.7. The incorporation rate coefficient, k*, was significantly increased by MEP (10 mg/kg) at 2 hr (31%), 4 hr (59%) and 6 hr (34%). All effects were reversed by 72 hr, consistent with a half-life of 2 days for carnitine palmitoyl transferase I. These results indicate that intravenous MEP may be used with [1-11C]palmitic acid for studying brain lipid metabolism in vivo by positron emission tomography, as it significantly reduces the large unincorporated aqueous fraction that would result in high background radioactivity.  相似文献   

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Summary To raise the yields for the production of 14C-labelled zearalenone in Fusarium cultures the influence of growth conditions and known effectors or precursors of toxin biosynthesis was studied. Benzoic acid and 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid used as precursors decreased toxin formation; in the presence of different pesticides such as 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, however, toxin production increased up to 140%. The known pathway of zearalenone biosynthesis could be confirmed from the relative extents of 13C-incorporation into the zearalenone molecule by incubating Fusarium graminearum DSM 4529 with d-(+)-[1-13C]glucose as carbon source. When grown in the presence of d-[U-14C]glucose or [2-14C]malonic acid the strain produced [14C]zearalenone with specific activities of 0.07 and 0.09 Ci/mg, the 14C-incorporation rates being 0.34% and 0.48%, respectively.  相似文献   

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Mice bearing intramuscular Lewis lung tumor were treated with BCNU and doxorubicin (ADM) to study chemotherapy-induced changes in the uptake of 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-[U-14C]glucose (FDG). A decreased FDG uptake, tumor regression and a diminished proportion of aneuploid versus diploid cells as evaluated by DNA flow cytometry were seen after treatment with BCNU but not with ADM; HPLC indicated that most of the 14C activity in tumors was from FDG6-phosphate. The results suggest that changes in FDG uptake reflect the effectiveness of antitumor therapy. FDG may be valuable in follow-up studies of cancer treatment.  相似文献   

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To obtain evidence of the site of conversion of [U-14C]glucose into glutamate and related amino acids of the brain, a mixture of [U-14C]glucose and [3H]glutamate was injected subcutaneously into rats. [3H]Glutamate gave rise to several 3H-labelled amino acids in rat liver and blood; only 3H-labelled glutamate, glutamine or γ-aminobutyrate were found in the brain. The specific radioactivity of [3H]glutamine in the brain was higher than that of [3H]glutamate indicating the entry of [3H]glutamate mainly in the ‘small glutamate compartment’. The 14C-labelling pattern of amino acids in the brain and liver after injection of [U-14C]glucose was similar to that previously reported (Gaitonde et al., 1965). The specific radioactivity of [14C]glutamine in the blood and liver after injection of both precursors was greater than that of glutamate between 10 and 60 min after the injection of the precursors. The extent of labelling of alanine and aspartate was greater than that of other amino acids in the blood after injection of [U-14C]glucose. There was no labelling of brain protein with [3H]glutamate during the 10 min period, but significant label was found at 30 and 60 min. The highest relative incorporation of [14C]glutamate and [14C]aspartate in rat brain protein was observed at 5 min after the injection of [U-14C]glucose. The results have been discussed in the context of transport of glutamine synthesized in the brain and the site of metabolism of [U-14C]glucose in the brain.  相似文献   

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The influx of glucose into the brain and plasma glucose disappearance were estimated in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) intravenously injected (1 ml · kg−1 body weight) with a single dose (15 μCi · kg−1 body weight) of 3-O-methyl-D-[U-14C]glucose ([U-14C]-3-OMG) at different times (2–160 min), and after intravenous injection at 15 min of increased doses (10–60 μCi · kg−1 body weight) of [U-14C]-3-OMG. Brain and plasma radiotracer concentrations were measured, and several kinetic parameters were calculated. The apparent brain glucose influx showed a maximum after 15–20 min of injection then decreased to a plateau after 80 min. Brain distribution space of 3-OMG increased from 2 min to 20 min reaching equilibrium from that time onwards at a value of 0.14 ml · g−1. The unidirectional clearance of glucose from blood to brain (k1) and the fractional clearance of glucose from brain to blood (k2) were estimated to be 0.093 ml · min−1 · g−1, and 0.867 min−1, respectively. A linear increase was observed in brain and plasma radiotracer concentrations when increased doses of [U-14C]-3-OMG were used. All these findings support a facilitative transport of glucose through the blood-brain barrier of rainbow trout with characteristics similar to those observed in mammals. The injection of different doses of melatonin (0.25–1.0 mg · kg−1) significantly increased brain glucose influx suggesting a possible role for melatonin in the regulation of glucose transport into the brain. Accepted: 26 January 2000  相似文献   

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Addition of either l-[U-14C]threonine or l-[U-14C]isoleucine to 2.7-day-old shaking liquid cultures of Pseudomonas syringae pv. atropurpurea resulted in incorporation of radioactivity into coronatine, but not into N- coronafacoylvaline, another phytotoxin excreted by P.s. atropurpurea. In contrast, addition ofl-[U-14C]valine did not lead to incorporation of radioactivity into coronatine, but instead into coronafacoylvaline. Acid hydrolysis of the purified [14C] coronatine obtained after incorporation of either [14C]isoleucine or [14C]threonine demonstrated that > 94% of the radioactivity was present in the 1-amido-1-carboxy-2-ethylcyclopropyl moiety of coronatine, and < 6 % was in the coronafacoyl moiety. These findings are used to propose a biosynthetic pathway for coronatine.  相似文献   

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Suspension cultures of Glycine max were incubated for 4, 12 and 24 hr in [U-14C]glycerol in 0.2 M potassium dihydrogen phosphate, in [U-14C  相似文献   

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