BIOCHEMICAL
Vol. 21, No. 6, 1965
DEMONSTRATION
OF A DPNH: EMBRYONIC
a-KETOGLUTARATE
CHICK
BERTRUM INSTITUTE
OF
COL~~MBIA
AND BIOPHYSICAL
LIVER
SHEID
CANCER
RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY,
November
IN OF
HIS
AND
WITH
WITH AN
THE
PH
ACID
TRACTABLE PROMPTED
A
I D IN
HI
THE
ACTIVITY
AT
WERE
CHICK ENZYME
WERE
OPTIMUM
CONDITIONS
ASSAY
SIDERED
A
* SERVICE NATIONAL
TO
GLUTAMIC
SUCROSE
MAMMALIAN
LIVER
DIGITONIN IN
ACTIVITY
FRACTION.
MITOCHONDRIA,
PH
A
(GDH)
GDH
ADDITION,
ONE
-ET
DEVELOPING
WITH
FRACTIONS
DEHYDROGENASE
(HIRSCHBERG
THE
BOTH
FRACTION, 5.2.
AND
EACH
AL -a*
CHICK
OPTIMUM
AND
THIS INVESTIGATION TRAINING GRANT
FRACTION
OF
EX-
1964), Two
LIVER.
7.5
8.2
-
ACTIVITIES AT
OF
VARIOUS
OF AND
THE
COMPONENT
(DE
DUVE
WAS CA
SUPPORTED AND
5011
INSTITUTE
601
IN
METHODS
FACT -ET
CONTAINED
GLUTAMIC-
A
IN
VIEW
THAT AL ,a*
BY UNITED RESEARCH
(GOT)
THREE THE
ENZYMES
FOR
SUBSTRATE
GDH
1962)
OF
ALL
TO THE
IS
AT
DEVELOPMENT
USED
AS
DPNH.
RESULTS,
ALL
POINTS
a-KETOGLUTARATE
OXIDATION
No.
ALSO
DEMONSTRATED
TRANSAMJNASE
SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC
THE
GDH
FOR
GLUTAMIC-OXALOACETIC
OTHER
EMPLOYED
MEASURED
ASSAYS
THIS
SPECIFIC
STANDARD
MITOCHONDRIAL
CANCER
THE
ENZYME
OBSERVED,
THE
DETERMINATIONS
THE
THIS
OBSERVED
SUPERNATANT
WITH
OF
PH.
THE
AND
SUBCELLULAR
IN
OTHER
SUPERNATANT
(GPT)
THIS
REACTIONS
THE
IN
IN
THE
IN
1965).
COMPARABLE
EMBRYO.
SURGEONS
MITOCHONDRIA.
ISOZYMES
OF
RSCHBERG,
PH
IN
REPORTED
GDH
AND
TRANSAMINASE
MEASURABLE
5.2
WATER
A
BIOCHEMISTRY,
AND
YORK
ENZYMES
(1959)
7.6
AT WAS
TWO
SUCROSE
WITH
PYRUVIC
OPTIMUM
ISOZYMES
AND
OF
PHYSICIANS
OF
SOLOMON
RE-EXAMINATION
MITOCHONDRIAL
HIRSCHBERG
NEW
DISTRIBUTION
OPTIMUM OF
WITH
THE
LIVER,
PH
A
RECOGNITION
(SHE
OF
CHICK
ACTIVITY
YORK,
IN
FRACTION*
DEPARTMENT
OF
ACTIVITY
17, 1965
STUDY
EMBRYONIC
ERICH
COLLEGE
NEW
Received
OXIDOREDUCTASE
SUPERNATANT
AND
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
STATES PUELIC GRANT No. CA
OF
THE
THREE
INITIATE
SIMILARITY
GENERALLY
MOST
PH
ACTIVE
OF CONAT
HEALTH FROM
02332
THE
PH
THE
Vol. 21, No. 6, 1965
VALUES
ABOVE
FURTHER
NEUTRALITY,
THE
AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
NATURE
OF
THIS
ENZYME
ACTIVITY
APPEARED
WORTHY
THIS
COMMUNICATION,
DEHYDROGENATION
MATE
IN
THE
DIRECT PRESENCE
EVIDENCE
OR
CHICK
IS
TRANSAMINATION
LIVER
ENZYMATIC
OF
AGAINST
PATHWAYS
THE
FROM
THE
PARTICIPATION
a-KETOGLUTARATE
5.2
FRArTION
AT
PH
SUBSTRATE
TO
a-HVDROXYGLUTARATE
SUPERNATANT
CONVERSION
PRESENTED
BUT,
OF
TO
INSTEAD,
GLUTA-
FOR IN
THE
THE
DPNH.
OF
METHODS SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC FROM
POOLED
0.25M
1950).
MEASUREMENTS:
EMBRYONIC
A
WATER
BY
GDH
NH&*,
ENZYME,
DATION FIRST
FEW
THEN
MINUTES.
GOT
KARMEN
(1955)
METHODS
OF
GOT
WAS
ALSO
GPT
ACCORDING
ASSAYS
WAS
ESTIMATED To
WAS
A
AND
PHOSPHATE
TO
THE
PH,
WERE
ESTABLISHED
BY
WAS
ASSAYED
WROBLEWSKI
1952)
CONSISTED
AFTER
10
ADDED
WITH
(1956)~
LADUE
(1953).
THE
OBTAINED
FROM
DPNH,
OF
MIN.
AT
ACCORDING
VARYING
HOGEBOOM,
INCUBATION, MIXING.
310
THE Mp
FOR
SPECTROPHOTOMETRICALLV
AND
MCHENRV
IN
AND WERE
SPECTROPHOTOMETRICALLY
GPT
AND
(MD)
PREPARED
1965).
BUFFER.
COLORIMETRICALLY
CALDWELL
DEVELOPMENT
EXTRACT
ANFINSEN,
PROPER
FOLLOWED
AND
DURING (SCHNEIDER
HIRSCHBERG,
OR
AND
WERE
STAGES
DIGITONIN
AND
(OLSON
ADJUSTED
DPNH
OF
(SHEID
ACETATE
a-KETOGLUTARATE,
VARIOUS
FRACTIONS
CENTRIFUGATION
AND
MIXTURE
AND
AT
DIFFERENTIAL
PELLET ASSAY
SUBCELLULAR
LIVER
(Mw)
EXTRACT
MITOCHONDRIAL THE
CHICK
(1:lO)
SUCROSE
THE
TO THE
AMOUNTS
OF
SHEID
LINEARITY ENZYME
OXITHE
BY
THE
RESPECT
I VELY.
ET
(1965)
AL. OF
THE
EXTRACTS
AND
ENZYME
IN
INITIAL
EXPERIMENTS. CHROMATOGRAPHIC IN
0.1!
AND
METRIC
MANNER
105,000
CENTRIFUGED
OXIDATION
OF AS
PH 5.2.
BUFFER, AT
ASSAYS
DPNi-i
X
AT
THAT PH
THE
G
BRIEFLY
SHOWED
SUCROSE
EMBRYONIC
DETERMINATIONS:
ACETATE
CENTRIFUGATION ICE,
OF
INVESTIGATION. iN
THE
BIOCHEMICAL
WAS TO
THE 5.2
SUPERNATANT
SUPERNATANT
HEATED REMOVE
RESULTING IN
THE
CHICK
FOR
FRACTION
5
MINUTES
COAGULATED
FRACTIONS.
OF THE
602
WAS
AT
FRACTION
65Oc,
EXTRACT
BY COOLED
IN
SPECTROPHOTOCATALYZED
a-KETOGLUTARATE ENZYME
HOMOGENIZED
OBTAINED
PROTEIN.
SUPERNATANT
PRESENCE
LIVER
IN WAS
THE DILUTED
THE SAME
Vol. 21, No. 6, 1965
I:10
0.2
AND
BIOCHEMICAL
ML
PH 5.2,
BUFFER,
TABLE
1.
AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH CO~VWJN~CATIONS
WAS
INCUBATED
WITH
AND
9 pM
FOR
DPNH
THE EFFECT OF GENASE ACTIVITY
AMMONIUM IN THE
TONIN
EXTRACT
(MD))
CHICK
LIVER.*
PH
FRACTION
OF
90 6
FM
a-KETOGLUTARATE,
HOURS
IN
A
ION ON TRUE MITOCHONDRIAL
AND
VOLUME
/J,M
IV-DAY
MITOCHONDRIA
(Mw) (Mw)
MITOCHONDRIA
(Mw)
MITOCHONDRIA
(Mw)
MITOCHONDRIA
(MD) (MD) (MD) (MD)
MITOCHONDRIA MITOCHONDRIA MITOCHONDRIA
5.2
** t
THE SAMPLE
AT
EASTMAN
WATER
TWO
THIS
THE
50%
(12:3:5)
IN
ASCENDING
BY
BROMCRESOL
OF
OR
300 320 0 0
DUPLICATE
CHICK
NH4+,
I~~/MIN/MG
LIVER
ADDED
GEL
SHEET
SPOTS
ADDED,
ONS
T RIC
WAS
APPLIED PAPER,
THE
THE TO
WHATMAN
TYPE
K301R.
P-DIMETHYLAMINOBENZALDEHYDE.
603
IDENTIFIED
0.15M. RESULTS ON
REACTION
WERE
I&DAY HATCHING.
ARE
WAS
1
STOPPED AND
FILTER
BUTANOL-ACETIC
EMPLOYED WITH
12
DAYS.
ESSENTIALLY
CENTRIFUGED, NO.
AN
SEPARATE
INDICATED
MIXTURE
(16:1:3) WERE
THE
ASSAY
OF AFTER
PERFORMED
COENZYME. ACID,
FRACTION
DAY
NI TROGEN.
SPECTROPHOTOME THE
ASSAYS ONE
WHERE
DETERMINAT
ETHANOL-AMMONIA-WATER
CHROMATOGRAPHY. GREEN
x
TRICHLORACETIC
SILICA
OR
OF E
IN
OF
DUPLICATE
SUPERNATANT
ACTIVATED
OBTAINED AND
TIME,
DISAPPEARANCE
OF
WERE LIVER
ACTIVITY: OF
2950
+
CONCENTRATION
FINAL
OF
0 0
-I-
THE
ADDITION
+
5.2 5.2 7.6 7.6
CHICK
COMPLETE
540 0
0
RESULTS
TEMPERATURE.
+
+
EMBRYONIC
AVERAGE
0
7.6 7.6
ANALOGOUS
SPECIFIC
+
;:;
SUPERNATANT
*
ACTIVITY
0
7.6 7.6
SUPERNATANT SUPERNATANT
ROOM
(AVERAGE)t
5.2
SUPERNATANT
AT
EMBRYONIC
SPECIFIC
MIXTURE
MITOCHONDRIA
ML.
GLUTAMI~ DEHYDRO (Mw) AND DIGI-
OF
ADDITION**
ACETATE
3
OF
ARTIFACTUAL (WATER EXTRACT
FRACTIONS
NH 4 +
ASSAY
FINAL
AND
SUPERNATANT
100
As VAPOR,
BY A
PAPER ACID-
SOLVENTS FOLLOWED
OR
BIOCHEMICAL
Vol. 21, No. 6, 1965
AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
RESULTS TABLE SERVED
1
SHOWS
ACTlVfTY
IN
FRACTIONS
WERE
DIFFUSION
TECHNIQUE
OR
THAT
GDH
STIMULATED
GDH
ACTIVITY
EFF-ECT
ON
CONFIRMED BUT
IN
WAS
THE
NOT
RIBOSOMAL SUPERNATANT LIVER,
RAT
HEPATOMAS.
FRACTIONS BUT
PHOTOMETRIC ISONIAZID,
THE
OF
AN
THE
HAD
ENZYME
OF
RAT
DEMONSTRABLE
7.6
BY
EITHER
EASED
ON
OF
ANTAGONIST
GPT
PYRIDOXAL
AND
ON
THE
(TOMKINS
SUPERAND
BUT HAD
A
ONE-EIGHTH
NOT
IN
THE
STIMULATORV
EMBRYONIC
NOT
(1957)
ASSAY
NOT
LIVER,
AND
THE
MITOCHONDRIAL
THE
PHOSPHATE
AT
WAS
CONDITIONS
(BRAUNSTEIN,
FOUND
AND
THE OR
NOVIKOFF
SUPERNATANT METHODS;
OXIDATION
THE
IN
MOUSE
COLORIMETRIC
FURTHER, 5.2.
MITOCHONDRIAL,
WAS
7795
INVOLVING
PH
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
EMBRYONIC
AND
PH 5.2.
ACTIVITY
OF
OR
REACTION
THE IT
MORRIS
SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC
AT
IN
LIVER.
BUT
THE
METHOD. APPEAR
CHICK
LIVER,
604
THIS
(1952) DID
OF
7.6.
PH
AT
SOLOMON’S
5.2
ACTIVITY
INDICATED DF
PH
A COUPLING
GOT
OF
ADENOSINEDIPHOSPHATE
ABOUT
FRACTION
IN THE
EFFECT
(EDTA)
ACTIVITY,
MOUSE
THAN
EXTRACT.
DUCK
OR
LESS
FRACTIONS,
OLSON-ANFINSEN AT
SUPERNATANT
ACTIVATORS
377oC
AT
OB-
CONWAY
MITOCHONDRIAL
NO
MITOCHONDRIAL
UNDER
EMBRYONIC
MEASURABLE ASSAY
GDH
THE
AND
THE
THE
I.E.
ACTIVITY.
SUPERNATANT
FRACTIONS
FORMER,
INDICATED
WITH
EXPERIMENTS
CHICK,
PH
THE
THE
MEASURABLE
READILY
AT
ONLY
DPNH,
WAS
IN
(DES)
BOTH
LOW
WITH
NUCLEAR
ADULT
ACTIVITY
MITOCHONDRIAL
PRESENT
FRACTION
RAT
GOT
IN
ACTIVITY OR
IN
REPORTED
MEASURABLE
ENZYME
THE
WITH
NEGLIGIBLE,
INHIBITORS
MITOCHONDRIAL
DIGITONIN
4.5-4.8,
PH
AT
ON
KNOWN
IN
FOR
MlTOCHONDRfAL
ASSAY
NH3
OF
WERE
BOTH
AN
ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETATE
(1959)
SOLOMON FOUND
THE
OF
PREINCUBATED
INHIBITED
FRACTION.
ONLY
WHEN
BUT
SUPERNATANT
7.6
OR
EFFECT
1961)
AMOUNTS
NH,I++
NO
CONTRAST,
NH&+.
OF
THE
PH 5.2
REQUIRED IN
ADDITION
DIETHYLSTILBESTROL
EVEN
1961).
YIELDING,
5.2.
PH
THAT
THE
FRACTIONS.
ACTIVITY
THE
AT
YIELDING,
FRACTION
AT
ESTABLISHED
AND
SUPERNATANT
(ADP)
UPON
ILLUSTRATES
(TOMKINS
NATANT
ASSAY
FRACTIONS
2
DISCUSSION
SUPERNATANT
GDH
THE
DEPENDENT
MITOCHONDRIAL
TABLE
THE
AND
ONLY
OF THE
ADDITION
1960)
SPECTROOF
AT
A
FINAL
BIOCHEMICAL
Vol. 21, No. 6, 1965
CONCENTRATION
OF
SUPERNATANT
1
&-~,
FRACTION
ADDITIONAL IS
X
RESULTED
AT
PH
EVIDENCE
PRESENTED
IN
7.6,
3.
LIVER
WAS
INCUBATED
AT
PH
TABLE
2.
RESPONSE
OF
TRUE
ACTIVITY
TO
KNOWN
THE
5.2
HAD
THE
WHEN
NO
EFFECT
THE
GDH
OF
FRACTION
a-KETDGLUTARATE
ART~FACTUAL
INHIBITORS
AND
GLUTAMIC AND
GOT
OF ON
INVOLVEMENT
PH
FRACTION
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
INHIBITION
SUPERNATANT
WITH
AND
95%
IN
BUT
AGAINST
TABLE
AND BIOPHYSICAL
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
IN
AT
OR
THE
OF
EMBRYONIC
DPNH,
NO
PH
THE
5.2.
TRANSAMINASES CHICK
GLUTAMATE
DEHYDRDGENASE
ACTIVATORS.
ADDITION
SPECIFIC
ACTIVITY
(AVERAGE)*
MITOCHONDRIA
(Mw)
MITOCHONDRIA MITOCHONDRIA
(Mw) (Mw) (Mw)
MITOCHONDRIA
MITOCHONDRIA
(MD)
MITOCHONDRIA
(MD)
MITOCHONDRIA
(MD) (MD)
MITOCHONDRIA
7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6
540 5 x 1 x 5 x
7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6
1 x 5 x
7.6
::2 5.2 ::: 5.2
SUPERNATANT
AT
37%
SUPERNATANT SUPERNATANT
*
AVERAGE RESULTS LIVER
OF DUPLICATE WERE OF THE FROM
CHICKS
SUPERNATANT
WAS
FORMED.
INDICATED
BY
SOLVENTS.
GLUTARATE IS
ENZYMATIC.
REVERSE AND
AFTER
DPN-,
WERE
REACTION PHENAZ
DAY IN
PRODUCT
METHOSULFATE,
NHL;t
HATCHING.
THESE
DETERMINATIONS
ON
SHORTER IN
THE
BOILED
TIME
WAS
NOT
ADDED
AND
TO
THE
ENZYME NO
1937),
US I NG METHYLENE
605
a-HYDROXYGLUTARATE,
TWO
SUBSTRATA
PERIODS,
BOTH
MIXTURE.
EXPERIMENTS,
OR
WAS
THE LIVER
EXPERIMENTS.
REACTION
WITH
(WEIL-MALHERBE, I NE
330 320 320 330 300
DES DES DES EDTA ADP
THE
PRESENT
PRELIMINARY
AFTER
OF
FOR
INCUBATION IN
11000
VALUES FROM TWO SEPARATE EXPERIMENTS. SAME ORDER FOR l&DAY EMBRYONIC CHICK
INCUBATION
a-HYDROXYGLUTARATE
IO-4i
1 x IO-3i
CHROMATOGRAPHIC
AFTER
0
7000
EDTA ADP
5 x IO-4"
ONE
THE
10-3;
5 x IO-5M 1 x IO-4i 1 x IO-4i
FRACTIONS
RATHER,
5; 1060
2450
SUPERNATANT SUPERNATANT
DES EDTA ADP
5 x IO-5M DES
SUPERNATANT SUPERNATANT
10-5M IO-3ii 10-4"
THE
AND
WITH
ABSENCE
OF THAT
EVIDENCE
WAS
OBTAINED
a-HYDROXYGLUTARATE ELECTRON
AND
a-HYDROXY-
SHOWS
AS
TWO
a-KETOGLUTARATE
EXTRACT
BLUE
AS
THE
REACTION FOR
AS
THE
SUBSTRATE
ACCEPTORS
AT
Vol. 21, No. 6, 1965
PH
5.2
7.6.
OR
INVOLVED
IN
TABLE
3.
THE
THE
RF
BIOCHEMICAL
EXACT
PRESENT
VALUES
LIVER
NATURE
AFTER
GLUTAMATE GLUTARATE
OR
MIXTURES
SILICA
GEL
0.36, 0.21, 0.79,
0.37 0.22 0.82 0.13 0.79 0.40
0.10,
IS~CITRATE
0.71, 0.43, 0.54, 0.32, 0.36,
LACTATE
0.64,
PY RUVATE
A) B)
MALATE
MIXTURE
0.36, 0.21.
A:
BUTANOL-ACETIC
BLANK
SOLVENT
TO
PAPER
AND
OF
BE
OXIDOREDUCTASE
ESTABLISHED.
CHROMATOGRAPHY
STANDARD
OF
SINGLE
EXPERIMENT
MORE
OF
PYRUVATE
AND,
AND
LACTATE
THE
ORIGIN
0
0.21: 0.22,
0.27 0.22
0
ARE
(12:3:5);
SOLVENT
WITH
THE
0
A.
0.49
THE
SOLVENT.
ETHANOLSILICA PATTERNS
(1960).
BOILED
THE
ENZYME
SEPARATE
0
SPOTS
INDICATES
GEL
AND
SEPARATIONS
SMITH
BY WITH
OF
B: ON
CHROMATOGRAPHIC
TWO
VALUE
0.32 0.13
SOLVENT
PRESENTED
YIELDED
RF
0.61 0.72
EXPERIMENTS EACH
MIXTURE
LACTATE
AN
TWO FOR
DATA
INCUBATION
B.
OF
GIVEN
WITH
0.30 0.30
0 0.62
0.59: 6) 0.50, A)
ACID-WATER PAPER
0.30 0.12 0.41
0.16
0.20
RESULTS
PAPER
0
0.10
SOLVENT I NG
0
0.80 0.52 0.61 0.40 0.48 0.73
0.11,
ENTIRE
FOLLOW
0.10
0.19,
PROBABLY, IN
0.22 0.08 0.29
0.28
ON
THE
0.19, 0.09, 0.25,
0.44
AGREEMENT
CONSISTED
GEL
0.36
SATISFACTORY
ESSENTIAL
SILICA
0.24.
THE
B
SOLVENT
0.45 0.27 0.88
0.35 0.36 0.68
CHICK
COMPOUNDS.
PAPER
0.51
(16:1:3).
AMMONIA-WATER
IN
REMAINS
a-KETOGLUTARATE
SOLVENT A ------------------------------------------------------
a-HYDROXYGLUTARATE a-HYDROXYBUTYRATE
WERE
DPNH:
THE
THIN-LAYER
INCUBATION
a-KETOGLUTARATE
A
OF
EXPERIMENTS
SAMPLE
INCUBATED
AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
A
ARE
BLANK
EXTRACT. IN
SOLVENT
SPOT
A
REMAINING
AT
CHROMATOGRAPHY.
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