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Nakamura M, Nagase K, Yoshimitsu M, Magara T, Nojiri Y, Kato H, Kobayashi T, Teramoto Y, Yasuda M, Wada H, Ozawa T, Umemori Y, Ogata D, Morita A. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase correlates with tumor immune activity and programmed death ligand-1 expression in Merkel cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2020; 8:jitc-2020-001679. [PMID: 33361404 PMCID: PMC7759960 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2020-001679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and highly malignant skin cancer. Some cases have a good prognosis and spontaneous regression can occur. Reported prognostic markers, such as Merkel cell polyoma virus infection or programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression, remain insufficient for precisely estimating the vastly different patient outcomes. We performed RNA sequencing to evaluate the immune response and comprehensively estimate prognostic values of immunogenic factors in patients with MCC. Methods We collected 90 specimens from 71 patients and 53 blood serum samples from 21 patients with MCC at 10 facilities. The mRNA was extracted from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Next-generation sequencing, immunohistochemical staining and blood serum tests were performed. Results Next-generation sequencing results classified MCC samples into two types: the ‘immune active type’ was associated with better clinical outcomes than the ‘cell division type’. Expression of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) gene was highly significantly upregulated in the ‘cell division type’. Among 395 genes, G6PD expression correlated with the presence of lymph node or distant metastases during the disease course and significantly negatively correlated with PD-L1 expression. Immunohistochemical staining of G6PD also correlated with disease-specific survival and exhibited less heterogeneity compared with PD-L1 expression. G6PD activity could be measured by a blood serum test. The detection values significantly increased as the cancer stage progressed and significantly decreased after treatment. Conclusions G6PD expression was an immunohistochemically and serum-detectable prognostic marker that negatively correlated with immune activity and PD-L1 levels, and could be used to predict the immunotherapy response.
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- Motoki Nakamura
- Departments of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
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- Departments of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Departments of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Departments of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Departments of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pathology of Skin, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Skin Oncology/Dermatology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan
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- Environmental Immuno-Dermatology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital, Nagaoka, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Saitama Medical University, Iruma-gun, Japan
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- Departments of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Kim B, Park EY, Lee YT, Lee JH, Lee SH. Development of homogeneous enzyme immunoassay for the organophosphorus insecticide fenthion. J Microbiol Biotechnol 2007; 17:1002-1009. [PMID: 18050919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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A rapid, convenient homogeneous competitive enzyme immunoassay for estimating the amount of fenthion is described. The assay utilizes glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-hapten conjugates that are inhibited in solution by antibodies obtained from bovine serum albumin-hapten conjugates. In order to investigate the effects of bridging group recognition on the sensitivity of dose response characteristics, the bridging groups of varying alkyl chain length were attached at the phosphate position of fenthion. Among the antibodies used, the one obtained from the use of hapten (fenthion analog) with the same bridging group structure that was used in preparing the enzyme-fenthion conjugates showed maximum inhibition (up to 51.8%) in the absence of fenthion. In the presence of fenthion, the activity of the enzyme-hapten conjugate is regained in an amount proportional to the fenthion concentration. Under the optimized condition, the ED50 value for fenthion was 0.809 microg/ml. The assay developed in this study is a rapid effective screening method for fenthion prior to precise analysis.
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- Bokhee Kim
- Regional Innovation Center Seowon University, 23 Mochungdong Heungdukgu, Cheongiu 361-741, Korea
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Peters IR, Helps CR, Hall EJ, Day MJ. Real-time RT-PCR: considerations for efficient and sensitive assay design. J Immunol Methods 2004; 286:203-17. [PMID: 15087233 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2004.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2003] [Revised: 01/05/2004] [Accepted: 01/12/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Real-time RT-PCR has been recognised as an accurate and sensitive method of quantifying mRNA transcripts. Absence of post amplification procedures allows rapid analysis with a greater sample throughput, yet with less risk of amplicon carry-over as reaction tubes are not opened. In order to maximise sensitivity, careful reaction design and optimisation is essential. Several aspects of assay design for real-time RT-PCR are discussed in this paper. We demonstrate the effect of amplicon secondary structure on reaction efficiency and its importance for primer design. Taq-man probes with a deoxyguanosine base at the 5' end fluoresce weakly when labelled with FAM, although weak fluorescence is not a problem when probes are labelled with Texas Red. DNA contamination of RNA samples purified using silica membrane columns is a significant problem but DNase digestion can be used to reduce this, particularly in-solution. MMLV and AMV enzyme systems using a variety of RT priming methods are compared and the problem of primer-dimer formation associated with RT enzymes is described.
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- I R Peters
- School of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol BS40 5DU, UK.
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Rutkowski B, Szolkiewicz M, Korczynska J, Sucajtys E, Stelmanska E, Nieweglowski T, Swierczynski J. The role of lipogenesis in the development of uremic hyperlipidemia. Am J Kidney Dis 2003; 41:S84-8. [PMID: 12612960 DOI: 10.1053/ajkd.2003.50092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND It is well documented that hypertriglyceridemia in renal failure mostly is a result of impaired plasma triglyceride (TG) removal. However, the role of TG production in its development is obscure. Therefore, our attention was given to the gene expression of lipogenic enzymes participating in TG biosynthesis. METHODS We measured some lipogenic enzyme activities, protein abundance (Western blot analysis), and messenger RNA level (Northern blot analysis) in liver and epididymal white adipose tissue (WAT) of rats with surgically induced renal failure (two-stage subtotal nephrectomy). Simultaneously, plasma TG and very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) concentrations in uremic animals were determined. RESULTS An increase in plasma TG and VLDL concentrations in rats with renal failure was observed. It was associated with an increase in fatty acid synthase and adenosine triphosphate-citrate lyase (ACL) gene expression in liver and WAT. Moreover, increased activities of malic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase were found. CONCLUSION Results of the present study provide some evidence that the accumulation of TG-rich lipoproteins in renal insufficiency could be related in part to increased lipogenic enzyme gene expression and, consequently, TG overproduction.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase/genetics
- ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase/immunology
- ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase/metabolism
- Adipose Tissue/chemistry
- Adipose Tissue/enzymology
- Adipose Tissue/metabolism
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern/methods
- Blotting, Northern/statistics & numerical data
- Blotting, Western/methods
- Blotting, Western/statistics & numerical data
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/physiology
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase/genetics
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase/immunology
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase/metabolism
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase/physiology
- Hyperlipidemias/blood
- Hyperlipidemias/enzymology
- Hyperlipidemias/metabolism
- Hyperlipidemias/physiopathology
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/blood
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/enzymology
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/pathology
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/physiopathology
- Lipid Metabolism
- Lipids/blood
- Liver/chemistry
- Liver/enzymology
- Liver/metabolism
- Malate Dehydrogenase/genetics
- Malate Dehydrogenase/immunology
- Malate Dehydrogenase/metabolism
- Malate Dehydrogenase/physiology
- Nephrectomy
- Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase/genetics
- Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase/immunology
- Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase/metabolism
- Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase/physiology
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
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To validate potential application of phage display-antibody arrays for high-throughput screening on a novel proteomics biochip, we examined the epitopes versus the full protein of glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) from yeast. In a predictive approach, we used the Hopp-Woods method and compared the results with antibodies directed against the entire enzyme. In total, 16 peptides of a length of 11 amino acids each fulfilling the desired criteria were identified and synthesized. Subsequently, antibodies against G6PD were raised using a phage display library. Selective interaction of the antibodies with certain peptides facilitated the identification of epitopes predicted by the hydropathic profile. The setup was adapted to a novel biochip system based on surface-enhanced absorption for direct CCD-camera based screening.
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- N Stich
- Kluyver Laboratory for biotechnology, TU-Delft, Julianalaan 67, 2628BC Delft, The Netherlands
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Mulligan-Kehoe MJ, Russo A. Inhibition of cytoplasmic antigen, glucose- 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, by VH-CH1, an intracellular Fd fragment antibody derived from a semisynthetic Fd fragment phage display library. J Mol Biol 1999; 289:41-55. [PMID: 10339404 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A library of Fd fragment antibody binding proteins was created by random mutation of 15 nucleotides within the CDRIII region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene and displayed as Fd coat protein fusion constructs of M13 phage. The library was screened for those VHbinding sites that bound glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). One isolate (DH27bp) inhibited G6PD activity by 85 %. The DH27bpgene was re-engineered, placed in a eukaryotic expression vector having an isopropyl-beta-delta-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) inducible promoter, and transfected and then expressed in Chinese hamster V79 cells. G6PD activity was completely inhibited. Removal of IPTG reverted the cell to full G6PD activity. The intracellular dynamics of the G6PD/DH27bpcomplex showed that when the proteasomes of cells expressing DH27bpwere inhibited (N -acetyl-Leu-Leu-norleucinal or lactacystin) G6PD activity increased. Metabolic labelling of newly synthesized IPTG-induced proteins during/absence of proteasomal inhibitors showed that both G6PD and DH27bpare signaled for degradation when the intracellular complex is formed. Furthermore, semi-quantitative RT/PCR demonstrated that G6PD mRNA is upregulated over the time course of G6PD inactivation by DH27bpFd binding protein. These effects were not observed in those cells expressing a non-mutated Fd (UMHC) or in IPTG-treated non-transduced V79 cells. Our results demonstrate that an Fd-based intracellular binding protein can find and disable the function of a specific intracellular target and once the Fd expression is repressed the activity of intracellular targeted protein can revert to normal.
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- M J Mulligan-Kehoe
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Ritter D, Brown W, Nahm MH, Ladenson JH, Scott MG. Endogenous serum antibodies that interfere with a common thyroid hormone uptake assay: characterization and prevalence. Clin Chem 1994; 40:1940-3. [PMID: 7923776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We identified individuals whose serum contained a substance that produced falsely decreased thyroid hormone (T)-uptake values determined by the Emit (Syva) procedure. Investigation of this interference was prompted by identification of a patient with T-uptake values inconsistent with clinical assessment. IgG depletion and supplementation studies with this patient's serum suggested that the interference was due to endogenous antibodies with specificity for the thyroxine-glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase conjugate in the Emit T-uptake assay. The prevalence of the interference was examined by prospectively comparing routine Emit T-uptake values of 1710 patients' samples to T-uptake values obtained by another method. Discrepant samples were also assayed by a radioactive binding triiodothyronine-uptake assay. We identified eight samples that had falsely decreased T-uptake values by Emit, for an overall prevalence of 0.46%. Among 45 consecutive patients with a T-uptake value < 20%, five patients, or 11%, were falsely decreased by Emit and three of these were clearly due to an interfering IgG. We suggest that samples with abnormally low T-uptake values determined by the Emit method be confirmed by an alternative method.
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- D Ritter
- Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Maeda M, Constantoulakis P, Chen CS, Stamatoyannopoulos G, Yoshida A. Molecular abnormalities of a human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant associated with undetectable enzyme activity and immunologically cross-reacting material. Am J Hum Genet 1992; 51:386-95. [PMID: 1353664 PMCID: PMC1682676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2023] Open
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Among a large number of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) variants associated with different severity of clinical manifestations, enzyme deficiency, and kinetic abnormalities found in humans, only one variant exhibits no measurable activity and lacks an immunologically cross-reacting material in blood cells and other tissues. The mRNA content of the patient's lymphoblastoid cells was found to be normal, and the size of mRNA was also normal (i.e., approximately 2.4 kb). Western blot hybridization indicated that the patient's cells did not produce cross-reacting material. The variant mRNA was reverse transcribed and amplified by PCR. Nucleotide sequencing of the variant cDNA showed the existence of three nucleotide base changes, i.e., a C----G at nucleotide 317 (counting from adenine of the initiation codon), which should cause Ser----Cys substitution at the 106th position (counting from the initiation Met); a C----T at nucleotide 544, which induces the Arg----Trp at the 182d position; and a C----T at nucleotide 592, which induces Arg----Cys at the 198th position of the protein. The existence of three mutation sites was confirmed by sequencing of selected regions of the variant gene. No base deletion or frameshift mutation was found in the variant cDNA. No nucleotide change was detected in the extended 5' region, which included the most distal cap site. When the variant cDNA was expressed in Escherichia coli, the G6PD activity was approximately 2% of that expressed by the normal cDNA, and cross-reacting material was undetectable. However, when the variant mRNA was expressed in the in vitro translation system of rabbit reticulocytes, the variant protein was produced. These results suggest that extremely rapid in vivo degradation or precipitation of the variant enzyme induced by the three amino acid substitutions could be the major cause of the molecular deficiency.
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- M Maeda
- Department of Biochemical Genetics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010
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Baronciani L, Rapa S, Mannello F, Benedetti C, Ninfali P. [Purification from goat antiserum of immunoglobulins against G6PD from rabbits]. Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper 1991; 67:881-4. [PMID: 1810344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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DEAE Affi-Gel Blue (Bio-Rad) provides an efficient and rapid fractionation of human serum proteins by a single chromatographic step. When goat serum is applied to the matrix and chromatography is performed following the procedure utilized for the human serum proteins, the elution pattern changes and the Ig purification is not satisfactory. We achieved a better Ig purification from goat serum by the following improved procedure. We performed first an AS-40 fractionation followed by extensive dialysis in 50 mM Na-citrate pH 5.7. The sample was then loaded onto a P11 column equilibrated in the same buffer. The fraction eluted at Vo contained total IgG and the other serum proteins, except beta-globulins which were eluted with 0.24 M phosphate. Peak 1 concentrated and dialyzed in 20 mM phosphate buffer pH 8 was then applied to a DEAE Affi-Gel Blue column, equilibrated in the same buffer. Two protein peaks were eluted from this column and electrophoretically characterized as: peak 1, containing a pure Ig fraction (70% yield), peak 2 with albumin and other contaminating serum proteins. When goat antiserum is obtained against a specific protein, our technique may be suitably employed to purify polyclonal antibodies for immunoprecipitation studies.
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- L Baronciani
- Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Università di Urbino
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- A Yoshida
- Department of Biochemical Genetics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010
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Buckwitz D, Jacobasch G, Kuckelkorn U, Plonka A, Gerth C. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Plasmodium berghei: kinetic and electrophoretic characterization. Exp Parasitol 1990; 70:264-75. [PMID: 2178950 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(90)90108-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Evidence is given for the existence of a parasite-specific glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) in Plasmodium berghei by characterization of its kinetic and electrophoretic properties. From infected rat erythrocytes the parasites were isolated, washed, and lysed. G6PD was purified by affinity chromatography with 2'5'-ADP-Sepharose 4B, although the separation of the malaria-specific enzyme from that of the host cell was not complete. Malarial G6PD significantly differed from the red cell enzyme with respect to its electrophoretic properties. In cellulose acetate electrophoresis, a band with catodic mobility was observed in addition to the anodically mobile host cell enzyme at pH 7.0. The subunits of the parasite-specific G6PD have a molecular weight of 55 kDa in contrast to 59 kDa of red cell G6PD subunits. The enzyme from P. berghei shows no cross-reactivity with polyclonal antibodies against G6PD from rat erythrocytes. Thus, a close evolutionary relationship between both proteins and the presence of proteolytic modifications could be excluded. The Km value for G6P of malarial G6PD is increased by one order of magnitude compared with the host cell enzyme.
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- D Buckwitz
- Institute of Biochemistry, School of Medicine (Charité), Humboldt-University, Berlin, German Democratic Republic
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The activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) was measured in bone marrow, spleen, lung, liver, kidney, adipose tissue, brain, heart, muscle, and in the erythroid cell line of rabbit. In tissues, the activity ranged from 6.87 to 0.09 U/g wet tissue, found in bone marrow and muscles, respectively, whereas in the erythroid cell line it ranged from 14.3 to 2.4 U/g cells for erythroblasts and erythrocytes, respectively. The electrophoretic patterns of the tissue crude extracts showed an identical set of three activity bands, and the immunotitration curves obtained with rat antirabbit erythrocyte G6PD antibodies shared the same equivalence point. The enzyme, purified to homogeneity from different tissues, showed no significant differences among the Km values for NADP and G6P. The results give a picture of the variability of the G6PD activity in rabbit tissues and suggest the presence of the same enzyme molecule in each tissue.
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- P Ninfali
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, University of Urbino, Italy
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The complete coding sequence for human glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) was inserted downstream from the tac promoter of a plasmid, pJF118EH, which also carries the lacIq repressor gene. When Escherichia coli strains (that are unable to grow on glucose due to the absence of functional zwf (G6PD-) and pgi genes) were transformed with this plasmid (pAC1), they were able to grow on glucose as sole carbon source. The rate of growth on glucose was faster in the presence of the inducer of the tac promoter, isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG). Extracts of the transformed cells contained a G6PD activity that was not detectable in the parental strains and that was inducible by IPTG. The G6PD activities from normal E. coli and from pAC1-transformed cells comigrated with human G6PD when subjected to electrophoresis on agarose gels. However, when denatured, the G6PD produced by pAC1 was, like the human enzyme, distinguishable from the E. coli-encoded enzyme on the basis of its immunoreactivity with antibody specific for human G6PD. Therefore, human G6PD can be expressed in E. coli and can function to complement the bacterial enzyme deficiency.
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- M G Persico
- International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
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Schizonts of Plasmodium falciparum, grown either in normal or glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) deficient human red cells, contain an electrophoretically slow-moving form of G6PDH. The slow mobility of the G6PDH in non-dissociating polyacrylamide gels is due to its large size (Mr ca. 450,000) rather than to its charge. The activity of this enzyme was less than 10% of normal red cell G6PDH. These characteristics of the parasite-associated G6PDH were unaltered when parasites were grown in red cells from a G6PDH A+B+ heterozygote or following the introduction of a heterologous G6PDH into resealed ghosts. Differential absorption of the parasite-associated and red cell G6PDHs was demonstrated with antisera containing antibodies to red cell G6PDH. These studies show that a novel form of G6PDH is associated with P. falciparum in normal red cells without the requirements for induction by one or several cycles of multiplication in G6PDH deficient red cells.
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- I T Ling
- National Institute for Medical Research, London, U.K
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Skold C, Gibbons I, Gould D, Ullman EF. Monoclonal antibodies to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) form cyclic 1:1 complexes with G6PDH and act as regulatory subunits. J Immunol 1987; 138:3408-14. [PMID: 2437192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A number of IgG monoclonal antibodies against L. mesenteroides glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) have been prepared. Four of the antibodies form 1:1 enzyme-antibody complexes which are stabilized in the presence of glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) and have greatly reduced enzyme activity. In the absence of G6P, the 1:1 complexes convert gradually to a more active multimeric form. Reduction of the IgG inter-heavy chain disulfides partially relieves inhibition and removes the G6P requirement for stability. F(ab')2 fragments of one of the antibodies behave similarly to the intact IgG. Reduction of the disulfides in the G6PDH-F(ab')2 complex leads to complete recovery of activity. The activity of complexes of G6PDH with reduced antibodies or Fab with digoxin bound to the antibody or Fab sulfhydryl groups can be modulated with antibodies to digoxin. The anti-G6PDH antibodies bridge two identical epitopes of this two subunit enzyme and simulate the function of regulatory subunits in which anti-digoxin acts as an activator. The system can be used to provide a sensitive homogeneous immunoassay for digoxin.
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The specific activity of glucoso-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) in the rat lens declines as a function of animal age. G6PD activity could be found only in the cortex of the lens. Previous work showed that antibodies against the 'native' form of G6PD could not recognize any cross-reacting material (CRM) in the lens. It was speculated that this could be due either to disappearance of G6PD from the nucleus by degradation or by alterations of the molecules which resulted in the loss of their antigenic determinants. In order to investigate this question, an antibody was prepared against denatured G6PD. This antibody did not interact with 'native' (active) forms of the enzyme; it was shown, however, to recognize antigenically cross-reactive but catalytically inactive intact G6PD molecules in the nucleus of the lens. This finding suggests that altered enzyme molecules are at least partially denatured and accumulate in the lens without being further cleaved proteolytically.
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Moore MA, Nakamura T, Shirai T, Ichihara A, Ito N. Immunohistochemical demonstration of increased glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions induced by propylnitrosamines in F344 rats and Syrian hamsters. Jpn J Cancer Res 1986; 77:131-8. [PMID: 3082825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Changes in the level of expression of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) within propyl nitrosamine-induced preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions in F344 rats and Syrian golden hamsters were investigated using an immunohistochemical approach. Previously demonstrated increases in G6PD activity in rat liver and hamster pancreatic foci of altered cells were revealed as being due to elevation in the quantity of enzyme protein, suggesting an underlying change in gene expression. Furthermore, strong positive binding of G6PD antibody in thyroid, lung, urinary bladder and kidney lesions indicated that increase in this enzyme protein might be a common marker for neoplastic alteration, regardless of organ. While the function of elevated G6PD may be related to growth requirements, the finding that preneoplastic lesions in some cases bind more strongly than more malignant populations suggests additional involvement of the enzyme in other biochemical pathway(s) relevant to tumorigenesis.
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Donà V. Homogeneous colorimetric enzyme inhibition immunoassay for cortisol in human serum with Fab anti-glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase as a label modulator. J Immunol Methods 1985; 82:65-75. [PMID: 3897382 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(85)90225-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The Fab fragment of rabbit IgG antibody to bacterial glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase covalently linked to the cortisol retained the capacity to inhibit the enzyme completely. In optimal conditions the antibody to cortisol effectively bound the cortisol residues of the cortisol-Fab conjugate, making it incapable of inhibiting the enzyme. The enzyme modulatory properties of the cortisol-Fab conjugate were exploited to set up a direct competitive homogeneous enzyme immunoassay for cortisol in human serum. The procedure involved the use of the auxiliary enzyme diaphorase, specific for NADH, which converts the nitro blue tetrazolium salt to a colored formazan. The procedure detects modulated glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity by a single-point measurement without serum interference. The assay working range was between 20 and 640 micrograms/1 of cortisol and used 50 microliters of sample.
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Ohnishi K. Constant rate of evolution in the antigenicity of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase revealed by the enzyme inhibition method. Comp Biochem Physiol B 1985; 80:217-22. [PMID: 3979032 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(85)90199-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Rabbit and chicken antisera against pure and impure rat glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) samples were prepared, and their inhibition potencies (RIP) were measured against G6PDs from 26 vertebrate and invertebrate species. The results demonstrated that the -logRIP values of antisera against G6PDs from various test species neatly correlate with paleontologically estimated divergence times between rat and the test species. This suggests that the antigenicity of G6PD has evolved at a constant rate. The correlation coefficients were evidently greater with chicken antisera than with rabbit antisera, but did not markedly differ between chicken antisera elicited to pure and impure rat G6PD samples. Based on the data obtained with chicken antisera, it is estimated that lineages which separated 250-300 million years ago differ in their G6PDs by one unit of the -logRIP.
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Monoclonal antibody prepared against highly purified rat liver G6PD was used to probe the mode of regulation of this enzyme in a mammalian model system. Material cross-reacting with antibody against liver G6PD was found in similar amounts in extracts of two genetically related rat hepatoma cell lines, only one of which exhibits detectable enzymatic activity when both are cultured under identical conditions in vitro. The data suggest a post-translational event is necessary for the expression of catalytic activity for G6PD in this model system.
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Williamson JH, Bentley MM. Comparative properties of three forms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem Genet 1983; 21:1153-66. [PMID: 6422927 DOI: 10.1007/bf00488467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Three alleles of the Zw locus of Drosophila melanogaster--ZwA, ZwB, and Zwlol--apparently code for dimeric, tetrameric, and monomeric forms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), respectively. The three forms of G6PD are characterized by different apparent Km values for glucose-6-phosphate but similar apparent Km values for NAPD+. When high concentrations of NAPD+ were added to enzyme preparations, the ZwA and Zwlol forms of G6PD assumed tetrameric and dimeric properties, respectively. Although Zwlol adults exhibit little G6PD activity, they maintain levels of G6PD-antigen comparable to those in ZwA and ZwB adults. Thus the low level of G6PD activity in Zwlol individuals cannot be explained as the consequence of lack of synthesis of the G6PD subunit.
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Miura Y, Ishida Y, Kaneko T, Nakashima K, Matsumoto N. [Immunologic studies of G6PD Ube]. Rinsho Ketsueki 1983; 24:862-7. [PMID: 6632225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The results reported in this paper show the presence of a population of antibodies in rabbit polyclonal antiserum that recognize an antigenic site at the NADPH-binding region of enzymes possessing dehydrogenase activities. Antisera from rabbits immunized with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase or fatty acid synthetase were found to inactivate the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase. The inhibitory effect of this site-specific antibody is a time- and concentration-dependent reaction. This immunoinactivation is prevented by preincubation of the enzyme with NADPH.
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The effects of aging on enzyme qualities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme and acetyl-CoA carboxylase were investigated. The Ouchterlony double-diffusion pattern showed that the enzymes from livers of rats of different ages are immunologically similar to each other. In addition, immunochemical titration demonstrated that the changes in the levels of activity of rats of different age are accompanied by proportionate changes in the quantity of the enzyme protein. The Kms of the enzymes for substrates were not altered by aging. It is suggested that the age-dependent impairments of the enzyme induction (Iritani, N., Fukuda, H., and Fukuda, E. (1981) Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 665, 639) can be ascribed to decreases in the rise of enzyme protein quantities.
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Dao ML, Johnson BC, Hartman PE. Preparation of a monoclonal antibody to rat liver glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and the study of its immunoreactivity with native and inactivated enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1982; 79:2860-4. [PMID: 6953434 PMCID: PMC346306 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.79.9.2860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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A monoclonal antibody of the IgG class was prepared against rat liver glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD; D-glucose-6-phosphate:NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.49) by the hybridoma technique. This antibody does not affect the catalytic activity of the enzyme and shows crossreactivity with the palmitoyl CoA-inactivated G6PD. By solid phase radioimmunoassay, the presence of crossreacting materials in comparable amounts was determined in liver homogenate supernatants from rats that had been starved and refed a high-sucrose diet (containing a high level of G6PD activity) and from rats that had been starved and refed a high-fat diet (containing a low level of G6PD activity). These findings indicate that G6PD is present in an inactive form in rats fed a high-fat diet. The monoclonal antibody will facilitate isolation and characterization of the inactive variant G6PD.
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Dovrat A, Gershon D. Rat lens superoxide dismutase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase: studies on the catalytic activity and the fate of enzyme antigen as a function of age. Exp Eye Res 1981; 33:651-61. [PMID: 6797833 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4835(81)80105-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Donà V, Deleide G, Barbieri U, Malvano R. Purification of hapten-enzyme conjugates for enzymoimmunoassay. Clin Chim Acta 1980; 108:301-7. [PMID: 7004672 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(80)90017-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Chromatography on hydroxyapatite, including a potassium phosphate linear-gradient elution, was applied to the purification of hapten-enzyme conjugates to be used as immunoenzymatic tracers (namely, progesterone, phenobarbital, diphenylhydantoin coupled to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase). The method effectively removed unreacted enzyme and separated the conjugate classes according to the number of substitutions between enzyme linking groups and hapten derivatives. The adequacy of the chromatographic procedures in improving the analytical performance of the enzymatic tracer appears to depend on direct interdependence between the degree of substitution and the immunological properties of the conjugates.
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Damiani G, Frascio M, Benatti U, Morelli A, Zocchi E, Fabbi M, Bargellesi A, Pontremoli S, De Flora A. Monoclonal antibodies to human erythrocyte glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. FEBS Lett 1980; 119:169-73. [PMID: 6159232 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(80)81023-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Dao ML, Watson JJ, Delaney R, Johnson BC. Purification of a new high activity form of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from rat liver and the effect of enzyme inactivation on its immunochemical reactivity. J Biol Chem 1979; 254:9441-7. [PMID: 90677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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A new form of cytoplasmic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.49) was purified from rat liver by protamine sulfate precipitation, ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion exchange chromatography with diethylaminoethyl cellulose, and affinity chromatography with Cibacron blue agarose and NADP agarose. This form of the enzyme has a specific activity of over 600 units/mg of protein and gives essentially a single band by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The form of the enzyme isolated by this purification method is 3 times more active than the form purified from liver by previously reported procedures. The relative mass of this pure glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase enzyme was determined by disc gel electrophoresis to be 269,000. This high activity glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase enzyme, after inactivation by reaction with palmityl-CoA, was no longer precipitated by specific rabbit and goat antisera to this purified enzyme. Thus, the possibility still exists that starved fat-refed animals contain glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme protein in an inactivated form no longer detectable by either enzyme activity or immunoprecipitation.
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Kahn A, Vibert M, Cottreau D, Skala H, Dreyfus JC. Hyperanodic forms of human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Biochim Biophys Acta 1978; 526:318-27. [PMID: 31177 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2744(78)90124-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Pure glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose-6-phosphate:NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.49) is transformed into 'hyperanodic forms' when incubated at acidic pH and in the presence of NADP+ with excess of glucose-6-phosphate or with some 'NADP+ modifying proteins' purified from the same cells. The enzyme hyperanodic forms exhibit low isoelectric point, altered kinetic properties and high lability to heat, urea, and proteolysis. Differences between hyperanodic and native forms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase are also noted by microcomplement fixation analysis, ultraviolet absorbance difference spectrum and fluorescence emission spectrum. Drastic denaturation of the enzyme by urea and acid treatment did not suppress the difference of isoelectric point between native and hyperanodic forms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. From our data we suggest that the conversion into hyperanodic forms could be due to the covalent binding on the enzyme of a degradation product of the pyridine nucleotide coenzyme. This modification could constitute a physiological transient step toward the definitive degradation of the enzyme.
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Morelli A, Benatti U, Gaetani GF, De Flora A. Biochemical mechanisms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1978; 75:1979-83. [PMID: 273924 PMCID: PMC392466 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.75.4.1979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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A solid-phase radioimmunoassay for human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose-6-phosphate: NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1.49) was developed that allowed the specific activity of this enzyme protein to be measured in lysates from whole erythrocyte populations, in lysates from erythrocytes of different ages, and in purified samples. The enzyme was highly purified from erythrocytes of single donors by a simple procedure of affinity chromatography with insolubilized adenosine 2',5'-bisphosphate. These techniques were used in an attempt to elucidate the molecular mechanisms leading to deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in two genetic variants of the enzyme, i.e., the Mediterranean and the Seattle-like variants. The results indicate that the lowered activity of erythrocytes containing the Mediterranean variant of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is related to an enhanced rate of degradation of a catalytically defective protein synthesized at a nearly normal rate. Synthesis of a normally functioning protein and an increased breakdown of it are involved in the Seattle-like variant of the enzyme.
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de Flora A, Morelli A, Frascio M, Corte G, Curti B, Galliano M, Gozzer C, Minchiotti L, Mareni C, Gaetani G. Radioimmunoassay and chemical properties of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and of a specific NADP(H)-binding protein (FX) from human erythrocytes. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 1977; 500:109-23. [PMID: 72567 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(77)90051-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Nakashima K, Yoshida A. Problems of indirect immunologic assay of specific enzyme activity. J Lab Clin Med 1977; 89:446-54. [PMID: 833481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The estimation of specific activity of variant enzymes is important for understanding the mechanism of inherited enzyme deficiency. Direct determination of specific enzyme activity is often difficult. Indirect immunologic methods, i.e., the quantitative neutralization method and the electroimmunoassay method using specific antiserum, have been used for estimating the specific activity of variant enzymes. The validity of these indirect methods was examined with the use of normal and variant human glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), and three different anti-G6PD sera. The specific activities of purified normal, partially denatured normal, partially purified normal, and partially purified preparations of four different G6PD variants were estimated by the indirect methods. The values estimated by the neutralization method and that obtained by the electroimmunoassay method were substantially different, and different antisera gave different values for the given G6PD preparations. The values estimated by the indirect methods do not reconcile with the specific enzyme activity determined by the direct determination. Therefore, care should be taken in deducing the specific enzyme activity from the immunologic assay.
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Cottreau D, Kahn A, Boivin P. Human platelet glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Total purification, kinetic studies and relationship with enzyme from other blood cells. Enzyme 1976; 21:142-51. [PMID: 4299 DOI: 10.1159/000458853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Human platelet G-6-PD has been highly purified, to homogeneity, and its kinetic, electrophoretic and immunological characteristics have been studied. Platelet G-6-PD differs from erythrocyte or leukocyte enzymes by an increased Michaelis constant for G-6-P and a slow activity at the acid pHs. By electrofocusing only a main active band (band a) of platelet G-6-PD was found. The incubation at 37 degrees C in the presence of NADP+ and dithiothreitol normalize Km-G-6-P of platelet G-6-PD; the incubation with boiled and ultrafiltered leukemic granulocyte extracts led to an anodisation of G-6-PD active forms, a decrease of the molecular specific activity and a further increase of Km-G-6-P; these last modifications are the same as those undergone by G-6-PD incubated in crude extracts of normal or leukemic granulocytes.
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A strain of diploid fibroblasts, obtained from the skin of a male infant, was cultured in vitro and cells were tested throughout their lifespan for the appearance of altered glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) detected either by thermostability studies or by immunotitration. No significant difference was found in the proportion of thermolabile enzyme in 31 young cultures (4.8 +/- 1%, S.E.), in comparison with that in 19 old cultures (4.9 +/- 1%, S.E.). Old cultures had ceased active cell division (49-60 doublings); DNA replication, measured by [3H]thymidine uptake over a period of 24 hours, was limited to less than 5% of these cells. Young cells (5-22 doublings) had a [3H]thymidine labeling index of 75-85%. Titration of G-6-PD activity in extracts of young and old cells with neutralizing antibody directes specifically against G-6-PD failed to detect an increment of enzymatically defective G-6-PD in old cells. The thermostability studies were capable of detecting altered G-6-PD in skin fibroblasts from a female heterozygous for a thermolabile mutant of G-6-PD, and in fibroblasts treated with a proline analogue, azetidine carboxylic acid. The immunotitration technique was also capable of detecting catalytically altered G-6-PD from the thermolabile mutant and G-6-PD inactivated with N-ethylameimide. These findings argue against a protein error catastrophe as the cause of in vitro clonal senescence.
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The Dama of South West Africa are a Negroid people living as a reproductive isolate in the desert and semi-desert areas of the north-west of the country. Until recent times a large proportion of them were held in bondage by the Khoikhoi (Hottentot) Nama, while the rest lived as hunter-gatherers in the mountains. This study and the work of Knussmann and Knussmann indicate that they are a Negro people, which probably has been cut off over a period from contact with other Negroes. They have received very little genetic contribution from the Khoikhoi or the San (Bushmen). The results of this investigation of 24 blood genetic marker systems in a carefully selected random sample of Dama support these conclusions.
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Ringler MB, Hilf R. Effect of estrogen on synthesis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in R3230AC mammary tumors and uteri. Biochim Biophys Acta 1975; 411:50-62. [PMID: 1182204 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(75)90284-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The effect of estrogen on synthesis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-Glucose-6-phosphate:NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.49) in the R3230AC mammary adenocarcinoma of ovariectomized Fischer rats was investigated. Enzyme synthesis was estimated by techniques using immunochemica precipitation and isolation of enzyme protein from tissues of rats that had been given radioactive leucine prior to sacrifice. The antibody-enzyme complex was dissociated and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was isolated after electrophoresis on sodium dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gels. Administration of estradiol-17beta produced a two-fold increase in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, which was preceded by a five-fold increase in specific synthesis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in R3230AC tumors. At least a 15-fold increase in enzyme synthesis was observed in the uterus. The rate of enzyme degradation (t 1/2) in the tumor was estimated at 17 h. These data indicate that the estrogen-induced increase in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was due to a de novo increase in enzyme synthesis.
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Kahn A, Cottreau D, Bernard JF, Boivin P. Post translational modifications of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in human leukemias. Biomedicine 1975; 22:539-94. [PMID: 1225385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The modifications of the electrofocusing pattern, the immunological reactivity and the kinetic properties of glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase have been studied in malignant blood cells of various leukemias and myeloproliferative disorders. 1. Granulocytic G-6PD forms with decreased isoelectric points have been found in all the acute myeloid leukemias and erythroleukemias, and in most of the chronic granulocytic leukemias and myelofibrosis. In contrast, granulocytic G-6PD from patients with polycythemia vera always was normal. On the same way leukemic lymphocyte or lymphoblast G-6PD was identical to that from normal lymphocytes. 2. The ratio of enzymatic activity to immunological reactivity (=molecular specific activity) was markedly decreased in the myeloblasts of two patients with acute myeloid leukemia, and in the erythroblast-rich cellular fraction of a patient with erythroleukemia. In these cells the decrease of molecular specific activity was parallel to the alteration of the electrofocusing pattern of G-6PD. 3. The enzymatic forms with decreased isoelectric point also exhibited an altered affinity for glucose 6 phosphate. These modifications are post translational alterations of the neosynthesized G-6PD, since this enzyme is a single molecule, coded by the same gene in all tissues; they seem to correspond to an accelerated molecular aging due to an increased concentration of "G-6PD modifying factors". The significance of such an increased concentration of these G-6PD modifying factors in malignant cells is discussed.
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Peavy DE, Hansen RJ. Immunological titration of rat liver glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from animals fed high and low carbohydrate diets. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1975; 66:1106-11. [PMID: 1191279 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(75)90471-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Smith ER, Barker KL. Effects of estradiol and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate on the rate of synthesis of uterine glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem 1974; 249:6541-7. [PMID: 4153668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Dodge AH. Fine structural, HaLV gs antigen, and reverse transcriptase study of the Syrian hamster stilbestrol-induced renal carcinoma. J Transl Med 1974; 31:250-7. [PMID: 4137667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Hizi A, Yagil G. On the mechanism of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase regulation in mouse liver. 3. The rate of enzyme synthesis and degradation. Eur J Biochem 1974; 45:211-21. [PMID: 4420747 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1974.tb03545.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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