Formation of metabolic intermediate (MI) complexes was studied with the enantiomers of amphetamine, 1-phenyl-2-pentanamine, N-hydroxyamphetamine, and 2-nitroso-1-phenylpropane (the C-nitroso analogue of amphetamine). Three different enzyme systems were used; liver microsomes from phenobarbital pretreated rats and two reconstituted systems containing the P450 2B1 and P450 2C11 forms of cytochrome P-450. Enantioselective complex formation in microsomes was shown for the amines and the nitroso compound, but not for the hydroxylamine. The highly purified P450 2B1 system formed the MI complex with all substrates tested, and the enantioselectivity observed with the microsomal system was reproduced. In the P450 2C11 system the nitroso compounds were completely inactive, whereas the enantiomers of N-hydroxyamphetamine still produced the complex at a high rate. Changes in temperature were shown to affect (R)-2-nitroso-1-phenylpropane more than its enantiomer. Both enantiomers showed biphasic Arrhenius plots for MI complex formation in microsomes (breaks around 22 degrees C), but the activation energies of the (R)-isomer were about five times higher than those of the (S)-isomer. A theory is presented which suggests different modes of interaction with the active site of P-450 to account for the different behaviour of the various substrates. 相似文献
Abstract. Studies of the isoprene emission rate in response to changes in photon-flux density and CO2 partial pressure were conducted using a recently developed on-line isoprene analyser combined with a gas exchange system and chlorophyll fluorometer. Upon darkening, the isoprene emission rate from leaves of aspen ( Populus tremuloides Michaux.) began to decline immediately, demonstrating that the internal pool of isoprene, or its precursors, is small and that the instantaneous emission rate is tightly coupled to the rate of synthesis. A post-illumination burst of isoprene was observed within 5 min after darkening and lasted for 15–20 min in four isoprene-emitting species that were examined. In leaves of eucalyptus ( Eucalyptus globulus Labill.), the magnitude of the post-illumination burst was dependent on the photon-flux density that existed before darkening, but not on ambient CO2 partial pressure. The dependence of the post-illumination burst on photon-flux density paralleled that for the steady-state rate of isoprene emission. A step-wise increase in intercellular CO2 partial pressure from 24.5 to 60 Pa resulted in an immediate decrease in isoprene emission rate and non-photochemical fluorescence quenching, but an increase in CO2 assimilation rate. Given the several recent studies that link isoprene emission to chloroplastic processes, the results of this study indicate that the linkage is not dependent on the rate of CO2 flux through the reductive pentose phosphate pathway, but rather on more complex relationships involving metabolites not appreciably influenced by CO2 partial pressure. 相似文献
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
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- 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