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The four pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK) and two pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase (PDP) isoenzymes that are present in mammalian tissues regulate activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of its pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1) component. The effect of lipoic acids on the activity of PDKs and PDPs was investigated in purified proteins system. R-lipoic acid, S-lipoic acid and R-dihydrolipoic acid did not significantly affect activities of PDPs and at the same time inhibited PDKs to different extents (PDK1>PDK4 approximately PDK2>PDK3 for R-LA). Since lipoic acids inhibited PDKs activity both when reconstituted in PDC and in the presence of E1 alone, dissociation of PDK from the lipoyl domains of dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase in the presence of lipoic acids is not a likely explanation for inhibition. The activity of PDK1 towards phosphorylation sites 1, 2 and 3 of E1 was decreased to the same extent in the presence of R-lipoic acid, thus excluding protection of the E1 active site by lipoic acid from phosphorylation. R-lipoic acid inhibited autophosphorylation of PDK2 indicating that it exerted its effect on PDKs directly. Inhibition of PDK1 by R-lipoic acid was not altered by ADP but was decreased in the presence of pyruvate which itself inhibits PDKs. An inhibitory effect of lipoic acid on PDKs would result in less phosphorylation of E1 and hence increased PDC activity. This finding provides a possible mechanism for a glucose (and lactate) lowering effect of R-lipoic acid in diabetic subjects. 相似文献
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A comparative description of mitochondrial DNA differentiation in selected avian and other vertebrate genera 总被引:13,自引:1,他引:13
Levels of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence divergence between species
within each of several avian (Anas, Aythya, Dendroica, Melospiza, and
Zonotrichia) and nonavian (Lepomis and Hyla) vertebrate genera were
compared. An analysis of digestion profiles generated by 13-18 restriction
endonucleases indicates little overlap in magnitude of mtDNA divergence for
the avian versus nonavian taxa examined. In 55 interspecific comparisons
among the avian congeners, the fraction of identical fragment lengths (F)
ranged from 0.26 to 0.96 (F = 0.46), and, given certain assumptions, these
translate into estimates of nucleotide sequence divergence (p) ranging from
0.007 to 0.088; in 46 comparisons among the fish and amphibian congeners, F
values ranged from 0.00 to 0.36 (F = 0.09), yielding estimates of P greater
than 0.070. The small mtDNA distances among avian congeners are associated
with protein-electrophoretic distances (D values) less than approximately
0.2, while the mtDNA distances among assayed fish and amphibian congeners
are associated with D values usually greater than 0.4. Since the
conservative pattern of protein differentiation previously reported for
many avian versus nonavian taxa now appears to be paralleled by a
conservative pattern of mtDNA divergence, it seems increasingly likely that
many avian species have shared more recent common ancestors than have their
nonavian taxonomic counterparts. However, estimates of avian divergence
times derived from mtDNA- and protein-calibrated clocks cannot readily be
reconciled with some published dates based on limited fossil remains. If
the earlier paleontological interpretations are valid, then protein and
mtDNA evolution must be somewhat decelerated in birds. The empirical and
conceptual issues raised by these findings are highly analogous to those in
the long-standing debate about rates of molecular evolution and times of
separation of ancestral hominids from African apes.
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Sidhu S Gangasani A Korotchkina LG Suzuki G Fallavollita JA Canty JM Patel MS 《American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology》2008,295(3):H946-H952
Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) plays an important role in energy homeostasis in the heart by catalyzing the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate derived primarily from glucose and lactate. Because various pathophysiological states can markedly alter cardiac glucose metabolism and PDC has been shown to be altered in response to chronic ischemia, cardiac physiology of a mouse model with knockout of the alpha-subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase component of PDC in heart/skeletal muscle (H/SM-PDCKO) was investigated. H/SM-PDCKO mice did not show embryonic lethality and grew normally during the preweaning period. Heart and skeletal muscle of homozygous male mice had very low PDC activity (approximately 5% of wild-type), and PDC activity in these tissues from heterozygous females was approximately 50%. Male mice did not survive for >7 days after weaning on a rodent chow diet. However, they survived on a high-fat diet and developed left ventricular hypertrophy and reduced left ventricular systolic function compared with wild-type male mice. The changes in the heterozygote female mice were of lesser severity. The deficiency of PDC in H/SM-PDCKO male mice greatly compromises the ability of the heart to oxidize glucose for the generation of energy (and hence cardiac function) and results in cardiac pathological changes. This mouse model demonstrates the importance of glucose oxidation in cardiac energetics and function under basal conditions. 相似文献
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Korotchkina LG Yang H Tirosh O Packer L Patel MS 《Free radical biology & medicine》2001,30(9):992-999
In the present study, the effects of 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE) on highly purified pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) and its catalytic components in vitro and on PDC, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDC), and the branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complex (BCKDC) activities in cultured human HepG2 cells were investigated. Among the PDC components, the activity of the dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase-E3-binding protein subcomplex (E2-E3BP) only was decreased by HNE. Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3) protected the E2-E3BP subcomplex from HNE inactivation in the absence of the substrates. In the presence of E3 and NADH, when lipoyl groups were reduced, higher inactivation of the E2-E3BP subcomplex by HNE was observed. Purified PDC was protected from HNE-induced inactivation by several thiol compounds including lipoic acid plus [LA-plus; 2-(N,N-dimethylamine)ethylamidolipoate(.)HCl]. Treatment of cultured HepG2 cells with HNE resulted in a significant reduction of PDC and KGDC activities, whereas BCKDC activity decreased to a lesser extent. Lipoyl compounds afforded protection from HNE-induced inhibition of PDC. This protection was higher in the presence of cysteine and reduced glutathione. Cysteine was able to restore PDC activity to some extent after HNE treatment. These findings show that thiols, including lipoic acid, provide protection against HNE-induced inactivation of lipoyl-containing complexes in the mitochondria. 相似文献
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We studied different genetic models and evaluation systems to select against a genetic disease with additive, recessive or polygenic inheritance in genetic conservation schemes. When using optimum contribution selection with a restriction on the rate of inbreeding (ΔF) to select against a disease allele, selection directly on DNA-genotypes is, as expected, the most efficient strategy. Selection for BLUP or segregation analysis breeding value estimates both need 1–2 generations more to halve the frequency of the disease allele, while these methods do not require knowledge of the disease mutation at the DNA level. BLUP and segregation analysis methods were equally efficient when selecting against a disease with single gene or complex polygene inheritance, i.e. knowledge about the mode of inheritance of the disease was not needed for efficient selection against the disease. Smaller schemes or schemes with a more stringent restriction on ΔF needed more generations to halve the frequency of the disease alleles or the fraction of diseased animals. Optimum contribution selection maintained ΔF at its predefined level, even when selection of females was at random. It is argued that in the investigated small conservation schemes with selection against a genetic defect, control of ΔF is very important. 相似文献
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Comparisons of the molecular evolutionary process at rbcL and ndhF in the grass family (Poaceae) 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
We examine rate heterogeneity among evolutionary lineages of the grass
family at two plasmid loci, ndhF and rbcL, and we introduce a method to
determine whether patterns of rate heterogeneity are correlated between
loci. We show both that rates of synonymous evolution are heterogeneous
among grass lineages and that are heterogeneity is correlated between loci
at synonymous sites. At nonsynonymous sites, the pattern of rate
heterogeneity is not correlated between loci, primarily due to an aberrant
pattern of rate heterogeneity at nonsynonymous sites of rbcL. We compare
patterns of synonymous rate heterogeneity to predictors based on the
generation time effect and the speciation rate hypotheses. Although there
is some evidence for generation time effects, neither generation time
effects nor speciation rates appear to be sufficient to explain patterns of
rate heterogeneity in the grass plastid sequences.
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Job B Bernheim A Beau-Faller M Camilleri-Broët S Girard P Hofman P Mazières J Toujani S Lacroix L Laffaire J Dessen P Fouret P;LG Investigators 《PloS one》2010,5(12):e15145