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Forkasiewicz A, Dorociak M, Stach K, Szelachowski P, Tabola R, Augoff K. The usefulness of lactate dehydrogenase measurements in current oncological practice. Cell Mol Biol Lett 2020; 25:35. [PMID: 32528540 PMCID: PMC7285607 DOI: 10.1186/s11658-020-00228-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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One of the hallmarks of cancer cells is increased energy requirements associated with the higher rate of cellular proliferative activity. Metabolic changes in rapidly dividing cancer cells are closely associated with increased uptake of glucose and abnormal activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), which regulates the processing of glucose to lactic acid. As serum LDH levels were found to be commonly increased in cancer patients and correlated with poor clinical outcome and resistance to therapy, the determination of LDH has become a standard supportive tool in diagnosing cancers or monitoring the effects of cancer treatment. The aim of this review is to summarize the current knowledge about methods and the practical utility for measuring both the total LDH and LDH isoenzymatic activities in the diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of cancer diseases.
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- Agata Forkasiewicz
- Department of Surgical Education, Wroclaw Medical University, ul. Sklodowskiej-Curie 66, 50-369 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Surgical Education, Wroclaw Medical University, ul. Sklodowskiej-Curie 66, 50-369 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Surgical Education, Wroclaw Medical University, ul. Sklodowskiej-Curie 66, 50-369 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Second Department and Clinic of General and Oncological Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Surgical Education, Wroclaw Medical University, ul. Sklodowskiej-Curie 66, 50-369 Wroclaw, Poland
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Kopperschläger G, Kirchberger J. Methods for the separation of lactate dehydrogenases and clinical significance of the enzyme. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS 1996; 684:25-49. [PMID: 8906464 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(96)00133-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), an ubiquitous enzyme among vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and microbes was discovered in the early period of enzymology. The enzyme has been dissolved in several distinguishable molecular forms. In mammals, three types of subunits encoded by the genes Ldh-A, Ldh-B and Ldh-C give rise to a selected number of tetrameric isoenzymes. LDH-A4, LDH-B4 and the mixed hybrid forms of the A- and B-subunits are present in many tissues but with certain distribution patterns. LDH-C4 is confined in mammals to testes and sperm. Numerous techniques have been employed to purify, characterize and separate the different forms of the enzyme. This report deals with the main protocols and procedures of purification of LDH and its isoenzymes including chromatographic and electrophoretic methods, partitioning in aqueous two-phase systems and precipitation approaches. In particular, affinity separation techniques based on natural and pseudo-biospecific ligands are described in detail. In addition, basic physico-chemical and kinetic properties of the enzyme from different sources are summarized in a second part, the clinical significance of the determination of LDH in diverse body fluids in respect to the total activity and the isoenzyme distribution in different organs is discussed.
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- G Kopperschläger
- Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty University of Leipzig, Germany
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Reisser T, Langgut W, Kersten H. The nutrient factor queuine protects HeLa cells from hypoxic stress and improves metabolic adaptation to oxygen availability. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 221:979-86. [PMID: 8181481 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18814.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Queuine (q), a cyclopentendiol derivative of 7-aminomethyl-7-deazaguanine, is a nutrient factor for lower and higher eukaryotes, except yeast; it is synthesized in eubacteria partly at the level of tRNA. In eukaryotes q is preferentially inserted into the wobble position of specific tRNAs in differentiated and adult tissues, but occurs mainly free in embryonic and fast proliferating cells. HeLa cells grow to a higher cell density under aerobic than under hypoxic conditions only when supplemented with q. Here we show that in hypoxically grown HeLa cells, sufficiently supplied with q, free q accumulated when serum factors become limiting while the respective tRNAs remained completely q deficient. In these cells the levels of lactate dehydrogenase A (LDH A) mRNA and of LDH A protein were at least twofold higher than in aerobically grown cells, independent of the absence or presence of q. In response to q the LDH A4 isoenzyme was further activated by a post-translational mechanism. In q-deficient HeLa cells the activity of the major anoxic stress protein, LDHk, increased as a result of hypoxia; this increase was suppressed by q. In aerobically grown, q-deficient cells significant activities of LDH A4 and LDHk were present; both activities were markedly lowered by q, while the mitochondrial electron flow was improved. The results show that free q is essential for relieving hypoxic stress in HeLa cells that results from oxygen limitation.
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- T Reisser
- Institut für Biochemie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Langgut W, Reisser T, Nishimura S, Kersten H. Modulation of mammalian cell proliferation by a modified tRNA base of bacterial origin. FEBS Lett 1993; 336:137-42. [PMID: 8262197 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)81627-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Addition of the q-base to q-deficient non-transformed mammalian cells stimulated their proliferation. The q-base also improved proliferation of some cancer-derived cell lines, but inhibited proliferation of others. The proliferation of HeLa-S3 carcinoma cells was stimulated by q under aerobic conditions, but was inhibited when the cells had shifted their energy metabolism towards glycolysis as the result of oxygen limitation. Q-deficient cells could not adapt their proliferation to the respective oxygen tension. The q-base stimulated the proliferation of non-transformed fibroblasts but inhibited proliferation of the same cell line, when aerobic glycolysis was increased after transformation with the ras gene. The results suggest that the q-base permits mammalian cells to adapt their proliferation to their specific metabolic state.
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- W Langgut
- Institut für Biochemie der Medizinischen Fakultät, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Görögh T, Eickbohm JE, Ewers R, Lippert B. Lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes in squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity. J Oral Pathol Med 1990; 19:56-9. [PMID: 2341973 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1990.tb00796.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; EC 1.1.1.27) isoenzymes in human epithelial cells from squamous cell carcinomas and healthy tissues of the oral cavity of five patients were analyzed using isoelectric focussing. A new basic isoenzyme and high LDH-7 and LDH-9 activity were found in tumor cells in contrast to epithelial cells of adjoining nontumor tissue. These findings indicate that gradual changes in the percentage distribution of LDH isoenzymes may represent a useful parameter of disease activity in patients with squamous cell carcinomas.
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- T Görögh
- Department of Pathology, University of Kiel, West Germany
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The analytical procedures for LD isoenzymes include electrophoresis, chromatography, immunochemical and kinetic methods. Electrophoretic methods are generally preferred because the resulting patterns are directly observable and all five isoenzymes are resolved in a single procedure. Chromatographic methods, with the introduction of HPLC, have recently been perfected in terms of speed, resolution, precision and accuracy. Immunochemical methods and kinetic methods are attractive because of their speed and simplicity. Therefore, the latter methods are used mainly for assaying acute myocardial infarction, where generally the determination of LD-1 and LD-2 is sufficient. In all other instances, however, electrophoretic separation is currently preferred. Ion-exchange high-performance procedures are useful prospects, particularly in view of their velocity in comparison with electrophoresis. In general, the LD isoenzymes assay contributes considerably to diagnosis, but the results must be used with an adequate knowledge of biochemistry, physiology and the advantages and drawbacks of the different assay methods used.
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- M Maekawa
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Anderson GR, Farkas BK. The major anoxic stress response protein p34 is a distinct lactate dehydrogenase. Biochemistry 1988; 27:2187-93. [PMID: 3378055 DOI: 10.1021/bi00406a056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Anoxic stress is a common physiological stress, but one with unusual and significant consequences. Anoxic stress results in efficient induction of gene amplification and also plays a controlling role in the production of angiogenesis factor by macrophages. Within tumor masses, cancer cells continue to proliferate under oxygen tensions substantially lower than seen in normal tissues. The molecular basis of the anoxic stress response has not been well characterized. The major anoxic stress protein in subconfluent cell cultures is a 34-kilodalton polypeptide which has been variously reported to be either a new isozyme of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) or the conventional muscle-type lactate dehydrogenase. This protein is of particular interest since it is also found expressed at high levels in many human cancers and has been demonstrated to be an effective serum cancer marker. We have developed an affinity chromatography procedure for purification of the anoxic stress protein p34 which effectively separates this protein from LDH-5 as well as other standard LDH isozymes. Anoxic stress protein p34 was found to specifically interact with flavins and the cellular alarmone guanosine(5')tetraphospho(5')guanosine, and also to interact with certain nucleic acids. The properties of this protein suggest that its overall role in the anoxic stress response may be in the coordination of a number of cellular systems.
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- G R Anderson
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
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Li SS, Pan YE, Sharief FS, Evans MJ, Lin MF, Clinton GM, Holbrook JJ. Cancer-associated lactate dehydrogenase is a tyrosylphosphorylated form of human LDH-A, skeletal muscle isoenzyme. Cancer Invest 1988; 6:93-101. [PMID: 3365574 DOI: 10.3109/07357908809077032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cancer-associated lactate dehydrogenase is a tyrosylphosphorylated form of human skeletal muscle isoenzyme, since the partial amino acid sequences of human liver LDH-K/A protein were found to be identical with the known primary structure of human LDH-A isoenzyme and the LDH-A isoenzymes from human placenta and bovine muscle were shown to be tyrosylphosphorylated. This tyrosylphosphorylated LDH-K/A protein was also found to be complexed with 21 kD, 30 kD, and 56 kD proteins.
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- S S Li
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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Alexander P, Senior PV. Toxicity of oxygen at atmospheric concentration for newly explanted cancer cells. Biochem Pharmacol 1986; 35:91-2. [PMID: 3940530 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(86)90562-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Saavedra RA, Cordoba C, Anderson GR. LDHk in the retina of diverse vertebrate species: a possible link to the Warburg effect. Exp Eye Res 1985; 41:365-70. [PMID: 3877642 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4835(85)80027-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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LDHk is a cancer-associated lactate dehydrogenase which is also found at high levels in normal mammalian retina. Such retinas share with most cancer tissues a dependence on aerobic glycolysis, leading to high production of lactate. However, retinas of lower vertebrate species are significantly less dependent on aerobic glycolysis. We find that retinas of species less dependent on aerobic glycolysis express significantly lower levels of an LDHk-like activity, less than or equal to the low levels seen in brains. The enzymes from lower species differ from the mammalian retinal enzyme in their pH optima and responsiveness to oxygen; but share a similar degree of inhibition by 5'-5'-dinucleoside tetraphosphates. Therefore, the expression pattern of LDHk in brain and retina of diverse vertebrate species suggests a link with the Warburg effect.
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Tsujibo H, Tiano HF, Li SS. Nucleotide sequences of the cDNA and an intronless pseudogene for human lactate dehydrogenase-A isozyme. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1985; 147:9-15. [PMID: 3838278 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1985.tb08711.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Eight cDNA clones for lactate dehydrogenase-A isozyme (LDH-A) were isolated from a human fibroblast cDNA library, characterized, and no sequence heterogeneity was found. Four cDNA clones appear to contain nearly full-length cDNA inserts and the complete nucleotide sequence of 1710 base pairs consists of the protein-coding sequence (999 base pairs), the 5' (97 base pairs) and 3' (565 base pairs) untranslated regions and poly(dA) tail (49 base pairs). The predicted amino acid sequence of the human LDH-A polypeptide shows 92% homology (27 differences out of 331 amino acids compared) with that of the pig LDH-A subunit determined by direct protein sequencing [Kiltz et al. (1977) Hoppe-Seyler's Z. Physiol. Chem. 358, 123-127]. Human genomic clones containing an LDH-A pseudogene were isolated and the nucleotide sequence of 1635 base pairs from an intronless pseudogene was determined. The presence of two termination codons, two deletions of three nucleotides each and the replacement of three arginine residues at the active site (nos 98, 105 and 168) by other amino acids renders its coding region incapable of producing a functional LDH-A protein. A comparison between human LDH-A cDNA and the pseudogene sequences reveals 12.9% differences (114 transitions, 65 transversions and 36 deletions/insertions). Further, only four out of the 25 dCpdG dinucleotides present in the cDNA sequence remain unchanged, although the sequences possess 87.1% homology.
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Markert CL. Lactate dehydrogenase. Biochemistry and function of lactate dehydrogenase. Cell Biochem Funct 1984; 2:131-4. [PMID: 6383647 DOI: 10.1002/cbf.290020302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Collins FS, Weissman SM. The molecular genetics of human hemoglobin. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1984; 31:315-462. [PMID: 6397774 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60382-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 299] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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An unusual isozyme of lactate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase k, is found in high concentrations in cultured cells transformed by the Kirsten murine sarcoma virus and in many human cancer tissues. In experiments described here high levels of a lactate dehydrogenase k activity were detected in extracts of normal rodent retina. This activity had the same key properties as the human tumor isozyme, namely, a highly cathodic electrophoretic mobility and inhibition of enzymatic activity by oxygen and 5',5'-dipurinenucleoside tetraphosphates. Expression of this activity in the retina may be related to the high aerobic glycolysis characteristic of the retina, a metabolic feature shared with many tumors.
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Clewley JP, Norton JD, Avery RJ. Biochemical characterization of a deleted Kirsten sarcoma virus genome. Brief report. Arch Virol 1983; 76:139-44. [PMID: 6307222 DOI: 10.1007/bf01311697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A Kirsten sarcoma virus transformed mouse cell line was found to contain a deleted provirus. RNA from the virus produced by these cells was characterized by hybridisation protection oligonucleotide fingerprinting and was found to be a simple deletion.
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Morin ME, Hance AJ. LDHk, the lactate dehydrogenase associated with transformation by the Kirsten sarcoma virus: a re-evaluation. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)32797-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Devouge MW, Mukherjee BB, Pena SD. Kirsten murine sarcoma virus-coded p21ras may act on multiple targets to effect pleiotropic changes in transformed cells. Virology 1982; 121:327-44. [PMID: 6289520 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(82)90172-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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