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Production and purification of Penicillium citreoviride toxin and its effect on TPP-dependent liver transketolase.

The production isolation and purification of a yellow mycotoxin from Penicillium citreoviride NRRL 2579 in different culture media was described. When injected subcutaneously to albino rats it alters the kinetic pattern of transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1) in liver in vivo in a competitive manner. In vitro, the inhibition is noncompetitive in nature. However, addition of thiamine diphosphate (TPP) to the in vitro system relieved the inhibitory effect. These findings suggested a relationship between citreoviridin-induced beriberi and the probable antithiamine effect of the toxin.

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High thiamine diphosphate concentrations in erythrocytes can be achieved in dialysis patients by oral administration of benfontiamine.

OBJECTIVE: The influence of either orally administered S-benzoylthiamine-O-monophosphate (benfotiamine) or thiamine nitrate on the thiamine status was tested in a randomised, two-group comparison study in 20 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Main outcome measures were the pharmacokinetics of thiamine diphosphate (TDP) in blood, the in vitro erythrocyte transketolase activity, its activation coefficient (alpha-ETK) and the TDP concentration in erythrocytes. METHODS: After ingestion of a single dose of either 100 mg thiamine nitrate (corresponding to 305 micromol thiamine) or 100 mg benfotiamine (corresponding to 214 micromol thiamine), the blood levels of thiamine phosphate esters were analysed by means of high-performance liquid chromatography for a 24-h period. The TDP concentration in erythrocytes was calculated using the haematocrit and TDP concentration in blood. Erythrocyte transketolase activity and alpha-ETK were measured before and 10 h after administration. The pharmacokinetics of TDP in blood were compared with healthy subjects of other studies retrieved from database query. RESULTS: Regarding the blood concentrations of TDP, the patients with ESRD had a 4.3 times higher area under the concentration time curve after benfotiamine administration than after thiamine nitrate. After benfotiamine administration, the peak plasma concentration of TDP exceeded that in healthy subjects by 51%. In the ESRD patients, after 24 h, the mean TDP concentration in erythrocytes increased from 158.7+/-30.9 ng/ml initially to 325.8+/-50.9 ng/ml after administration of benfotiamine and from 166.2+/-51.9 ng/ml to 200.5+/-50.0 ng/ml after thiamine nitrate administration. The ratio between the maximum erythrocyte TDP concentration and basal concentration was 2.66+/-0.6 in the benfotiamine group and 1.44+/-0.2 in the group receiving thiamine nitrate (P < 0.001). After 24 h, it was 2.11+/-0.4 and 1.23+/-0.2, respectively. The transketolase activity increased from 3.54+/-0.7 microkat/l initially to 3.84+/-0.6 microkat/l after benfotiamine intake (P = 0.02) and from 3.71+/-0.8 microkat/l to 4.02+/-0.7 microkat/l after thiamine nitrate intake (P = 0.08). Likewise, alpha-ETK decreased from initially 1.10+/-0.07 to 1.04+/-0.04 (P = 0.04) and from 1.12+/-0.05 to 1.08+/-0.06 (P = 0.09). After 24 h, the phosphorylation ratio in whole blood decreased from 12.9+/-6.9 initially to 5.6+/-3.2 after benfotiamine administration (P = 0.02) and from 13.5+/-7.3 to 9.0+/-4.8 (P = 0.03) after administration of thiamine nitrate. No correlation between erythrocyte TDP concentration and transketolase activity and/or alpha-ETK was observed in ESRD patients, either before or 10 h after administration. CONCLUSION: Compared with thiamine nitrate, the oral administration of benfotiamine leads to higher TDP concentrations in erythrocytes accompanied with a significant improvement of the erythrocyte transketolase activity in ESRD patients.

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Cerebrospinal fluid levels of thiamine in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Thiamine is an essential cofactor for several important enzymes involved in brain oxidative metabolism, such as the alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC), pyruvate-dehydrogenase complex (PDHC), and transketolase. Some investigators reported decreased thiamine-diphosphate levels and decreased activities of KGDHC, pyruvate-dehydrogenase complex and transketolase in the brain tissue of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. We measured cerebrospinal (CSF) levels of thiamine-diphosphate, thiamine-monophosphate, free thiamine, and total thiamine, using ion-pair reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography, in 33 patients with sporadic AD and 32 matched controls. The mean CSF levels of thiamine-derivatives did not differ significantly from those of controls, while the mean plasma levels of thiamine-diphosphate, free and total thiamine were significantly lower in the AD-patient group. CSF and plasma thiamine levels were not correlated with age, age at onset, duration of the disease, and scores of the MiniMental State Examination, with the exception of plasma thiamine-diphosphate with MiniMental State Examination (r = 0.41, p < 0.05) in the AD-patients group. CSF and plasma values did not predict dementia progression, assessed with the MiniMental State Examination scores. These results suggest that CSF thiamine levels are not related with the risk for and the progression of AD.

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Effect of transketolase substrates on holoenzyme reconstitution and stability.

The influence of transketolase substrates on the interaction of apotransketolase with its coenzyme thiamine diphosphate (TDP) and on the stability of the reconstituted holoenzyme was studied. Donor substrates increased the affinity of the coenzyme for transketolase, whereas acceptor substrate did not. In the presence of magnesium ions, the active centers of transketolase initially identical in TDP binding lose their equivalence in the presence of donor substrates. The stability of transketolase depended on the cation type used during its reconstitution--the holoenzyme reconstituted in the presence of calcium ions was more stable than the holoenzyme produced in the presence of magnesium ions. In the presence of donor substrate, the holoenzyme stability increased without depending on the cation used during the reconstitution. Donor substrate did not influence the interaction of apotransketolase with the inactive analog of the coenzyme N3'-pyridyl thiamine diphosphate and did not stabilize the transketolase complex with this analog. The findings suggest that the effect of the substrate on the interaction of the coenzyme with apotransketolase and on stability of the reconstituted holoenzyme is caused by generation of 2-(alpha,beta-dihydroxyethyl)thiamine diphosphate (an intermediate product of the transketolase reaction), which has higher affinity for apotransketolase than TDP.

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Measurement of Michaelis constant for human erythrocyte transketolase and thiamin diphosphate.

Human erythrocyte transketolase could be resolved from thiamin diphosphate (TDP) by acidification of the ammonium sulfate precipitate to pH 3.5, but not by other tested procedures. Resolution was 98% by chemical measurement of residual thiamin and 95% by residual enzyme activity. Reconstitution of the resolved preparation by incubation with TDP was dependent upon TDP concentration, duration, temperature, and the presence of dithiothreitol. At low TDP concentrations, 1 h was required for maximum activation; kinetic analysis then yielded an apparent Km value for TDP of 65 nM (SD 14 nM) from 100 erythrocyte lysates and similar values for reconstituted resolved preparations previously purified 400-fold and 10,000-fold. Velocity data obtained by transketolase assays in which the TDP was added to resolved preparations simultaneously with substrates yielded an apparent Km value for TDP of 2.3 microM (SD 1.6 microM) from 114 erythrocyte lysates and similar values for purified preparations. The recovery of activity following resolution and reconstitution ranged from 21 to 60% from lysates and 38 to 70% from purified preparations. Residual ammonium sulfate up to 4.9 mM decreased the apparent Km value for TDP, while a concentration of 11.3 mM increased the value in a manner competitive with TDP and with an apparent Ki value of 2.3 mM. The spectrophotometric assay of transketolase activity was greatly affected by storage of frozen solutions of the substrate ribose 5-phosphate.

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