The activity of the enzyme responsible for the conversion of norsolorinic acid to averantin was studied in two strains of Aspergillus parasiticus. Cell-free extracts of the enzyme were purified from different aged mycelia and little activity was found prior to 24 hours after inoculation but this quickly reached a maximum at 48 hours and declined thereafter. Both strains of A. parasiticus, one in aflatoxin producing strain, the other a versicolorin A accumulating mutant, showed this trend. It was concluded that the enzyme responsible for this conversion was a secondary metabolic enzyme and was distinct from alcohol and mannitol dehydrogenases. 相似文献
1. 1.|Changes in tissue metabolite concentrations and enzyme activities in the pedipalpal (PM) and heart (HM) muscles of the tropical scorpion Heterometrus fulvipes show that the metabolism in PM and HM is fundamentally reorganized following low (18°C) and high (38°C) temperature acclimation.
2. 2.|Changes in metabolite concentrations show that metabolite biosynthesis showed increases after cold acclimation but decreases after warm acclimation.
3. 3.|Similarly, changes in enzyme activities show a preponderance of glycolysis and HMP shunt activity after cold acclimation, while after warm acclimation glycogenolysis, oxidative metabolism and gluconeogenesis predominated.
4. 4.|Higher metabolite concentrations and enzyme activities both before and after thermal acclimation in HM reflect its greater compensatory abilities.
Abstract Multiple antibiotic-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 isolates from a recent epidemic in West Bengal (India) showed identical plasmid patterns. All isolates were resistant to ampicillin (Am), chloramphenicol (Cm), tetracycline (Tc), streptomycin (Sm) and trimethoprim (Tp) and contained 6 plasmids, ranging from 2.5–120 kb. The Am resistance determinant was located on the 120 kb plasmid. This plasmid was unstable when the S. dysenteriae strains were grown above 37°C. The Bangladesh strains of S. dysenteriae type 1 showed identical plasmid patterns, except that many isolates were Am-sensitive and lacked the 120 kb plasmid. In strains from both Bangladesh and West Bengal, predominantly group-B plasmids conferred resistance to Cm and Tc. Comparisons of Eco R1 fragments generated from the total plasmid DNA content of each strain support the view that the plasmids present in the S. dysenteriae type 1 strains isolated from all recent epidemics in India and Bangladesh were identical. 相似文献
The effect of phorbol myristate acetate, phorbol dibutyrate, ethanol, dimethylsulfoxide, phenol, and seven metabolites of phenol on metabolic cooperation were assessed as a function of mutant cell recovery from populations of cocultivated hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase-deficient mutant (HGPRT–) and wild-type (HGPRT+) Chinese hamster V79 lung fibroblasts. Phorbol myristate acetate and phorbol diputyrate, two established tumor promoters, were potent inhibitors of metabolic cooperation. Ethanol and dimethylsulfoxide, solvents commonly used to prepare chemicals for testing, weakly inhibited metabolic cooperation. Phenol and phenylglucuronide had no effect on metabolic cooperation. Four oxidative metabolites (1,4-benzoquinone, catechol, hydroxyquinol and quinol) inhibited metabolic cooperation. Phenylsulfate weakly inhibited metabolic cooperation. Conversely, 2-methoxyphenol, a methylated derivative of catechol, appeared to enhance metabolic cooperation. These results generallyAbbreviations CAS
Chemical Abstracts Service
- DMSO
dimethylsulfoxide
- ETOH
ethanol
- HGPRT
hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase
- HGPRT+
HGPRT-competent
- HGPRT–
HGPRT-te]deficient
- MC
metabolic cooperation
- MC+
metabolic cooperation-competent
- MC–
metabolic cooperation-deficient
- MEM
minimum essential medium
- PDBu
phorbol dibutyrate
- PMA
phorbol myristate acetate
- 6TG
6-thioguanine
- 6TGr
6-thioguanine-resistant
- 6TGs
6-thioguanine-sensitive
- V79/MC assay
Chinese hamster V79 lung fibroblast assay for metabolic cooperation 相似文献
Summary The effects of metabolic poisons on the ATP content of cultured human skin fibroblasts at selected in vitro and in vivo ages
were studied. Potassium cyanide, iodacetemide, and Arsenate were used to inhibit ATP restoration by glycolysis and oxidative
phosphorylation. Cells treated with these metabolic poisons showed an age-dependent change in their ATP content. The decrease
in cellular ATP content after exposure to these drugs was taken as an estimate of ATP turnover. It was found that there was
a decrease in the ATP turnover with increasing population doubling level (i.e. in vitro age), and cells cultured from a 68-yr-old
donor had a lower ATP turnover than those cultured from a neonatal donor. This decreased ATP turnover correlates with a previous
finding of a decreased ability of “older” cells to be stimulated to migrate in culture and suggests that there is a metabolic
component to this age-related functional deficiency.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants 2, RO1 EY02523 and 1 RO1 1, AGO 1212 awarded to A.L. Muggleton-Harris. 相似文献
The conversion of aphid prey tissue (Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris) into predator biomass (immature life stages ofPropylaea 14-punctata L. andCoccinella 7-punctata L.) is calculated by plotting weight gain against assimilation (i.e. consumption minus egestion). This concept is added to
the metabolic pool model byGutierrezet al. (1981) that enables the simulation of growth and development of a predator on a physiological basis. Physiological time is
expressed in daydegrees above lower development thresholds for both species. Visual examination of observed and calculated
values showed that the model satisfactorily describes the growth patterns of the above predators.
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Abstract Gram-negative methylotrophs contain a high- M r'large' citrate synthase. Gram-positive methylotrophs, on the other hand, contain a 'small' citrate synthase. These differences in M r coincided partly with differences in NADH sensitivity. Citrate synthases from obligate Gram-negative and Gram-positive facultative methylotrophs were insensitive to feedback inhibition by NADH; only the enzymes from Gram-negative facultative methylotrophs were inhibited by NADH. 相似文献
To further elucidate the molecular basis of the selective damage to various brain regions by thiamin deficiency, changes in enzymatic activities were compared to carbohydrate flux through various pathways from vulnerable (mammillary bodies and inferior colliculi) and nonvulnerable (cochlear nuclei) regions after 11 or 14 days of pyrithiamin-induced thiamin deficiency. After 11 days,large decreases (–43 to –59%) in transketolase (TK) occurred in all 3 regions; 2-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (KGDHC) declined (–45%), but only in mammillary bodies; pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDHC) was unaffected. By day 14, TK remained reduced by 58%–66%; KGDHC was now reduced in all regions (–48 to –55%); PDHC was also reduced (–32%), but only in the mammillary bodies. Thus, the enzyme changes did not parallel the pathological vulnerability of these regions to thiamin deficiency.14CO2 production from14C-glucose labeled in various positions was utilized to assess metabolic flux. After 14 days, CO2 production in the vulnerable regions declined severely (–46 to 70%) and approximately twice as much as those in the cochlear nucleus. Also by day 14, the ratio of enzymatic activity to metabolic flux increased as much as 56% in the vulnerable regions, but decreased 18 to 30% in the cochlear nuclei. These differences reflect a greater decrease in flux than enzyme activities in the two vulnerable regions. Thus, selective cellular responses to thiamin deficiency can be demonstrated ex vivo, and these changes can be directly related to alterations in metabolic flux. Since they cannot be related to enzymatic alterations in the three regions, factors other than decreases in the activity of these TPP-dependent enzymes must underlie selective vulnerability in this model of thiamin deficiency.Abbreviations KGDHC
2-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex EC 1.2.4.2., EC 2.3.1.61, EC 1.6.4.3.
- PDHC
pyruvate dehydrogenase complex EC 1.2.4.2., EC 2.3.1.12, EC 1.6.4.3
- TK
transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1)
- TPP
thiamin pyrophosphate 相似文献