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Polymorphism at the G6pd and 6Pgd loci in Drosophila melanogaster. III. Developmental and biochemical aspects.

The electrophoretic variants of G6PD and 6PGD isolated from the Bogota Drosophila melanogaster population were characterized developmentally and biochemically. Changes in in vitro enzyme activity during development were comparable to those found for other dehydrogenases: an increase in the larval and adult stage and a decrease in the pupal stage. During the whole life cycle the "S" enzyme of both loci showed a higher activity than the "F" enzyme. MgCl2 had a stimulating effect on the activity of both enzymes whereas their heat stability was decreased. The allozymes of 6PGD had different Vmax's but were comparable with respect to Km values, pH optimum, and stability at 45 C. the allozymes of G6PD showed different Vmax's and differed in stability at 35 C, but had similar Km values and pH optima. As the difference in stability was probably due to differences in molecular structure of the allozymes, the differences in activity found at high pH and high MgCl2 concentration were most probably due to this difference in stability.

Animals

6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in the housefly, Musca domestica L.:evidence for inheritable 6PGD polymorphism.

Two electrophoretic variants of the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6 PGD) enzyme have been found in the WHO/IN/Musca domestica/l housefly laboratory strain. The patterns shown by Cellogel zone electrophoresis can be fully explained by the hypothesis of two codominant autosomal alleles. On this hypothesis, a specific Pgd locus has been postulated and the symbols PgdA and PgdB have been assigned to the two alleles causing the PGD-A and PGD-B phenotypes. The bands corresponding to the homozygous phenotypes PGD-A and PGD-B have different electrophoretic mobility and staining intensity; they can be described, respectively, as "fast-weak" and "slow-thick." The heterozygous phenotype PGD-AB gives a three-banded pattern, indicative of a dimeric structure for this enzyme; this pattern is asymmetrical. Heterozygous flies have been found both among wild-type strains of recent colonization and among old established laboratory colonies. Most strains are PgdB monomorphic; up to now only three strains have been PgdA monomorphic, all of them being multimarker strains. The Pgd locus has been traced to the housefly linkage group III.

Alleles

Effects in the rat of environmental temperature, diet dilution, and treadmill running on liver and adipose enzymes and metabolism of 14C-glucose: a multiple regression analysis.

The effects of two environmental temperatures (T; 16 degrees and 31 degrees), five diet dilutions (D; 0%, 12.5%, 25%, 37.5% and 50%), and five daily treadmill running periods (E; 10 minutes, 40 minutes, 70 minutes, 100 minutes, and 130 minutes) upon enzyme activities of liver and adipose tissue of male rats were observed. Liver enzymes studied were glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase), 6-P-gluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), fructose diphosphatase (FDPase), NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH), and malic enzyme (ME). Adipose tissue (epididymal fat) enzymes (6PGD, G6PD, and ME) were studied as well as the in vitro incorporation of the 14C of [U-14C] glucose into liberated 14CO2 and into the triglycerides, free fatty acids, and total lipids by adipose tissue slices. Equations describing regression surfaces for these responses (expressed as units/100 g body weight) could contain significant linear coefficients of the independent variables (T, D, and E), their first order interactions, and quadratic coefficients for D and E. Significnat regression coefficients for activities of liver enzymes associated with increased lipogenesis (6PGD, G6PD, and ME) produced response surfaces with conformations generally concave downward. All enzymes possessed positive and negative linear and quadratic coefficients for D which caused response surfaces to be concave downward with respect to that variable. Also, 6PGD and G6PD (positive linear and negative quadratic coefficients for E) exhibited response surfaces concave downward with respect to E. Additionally, 6PGD showed greater activity at 31 degrees than at 16 degrees while G6PD showed no effect of temperature on activity. Liver ICDH, probably important in supplying reducing equivalents for fatty acid synthesis, evidenced response surfaces almost identical to those for 6PGD. Significant regression coefficients for activity of liver enzymes associated with increased gluconeogenesis (FDPase and G6Pase) produced for FDPase a response surface concave downward with respect to both D and E with greater values at 31 degrees than at 16 degrees; but for G6Pase non-concave surfaces with lesser values at 31 degrees than at 16 degrees. Significant regression coefficients for activities of adipose enzymes associated with increased lipogenesis produced for 6PGD a response surface concave upward due to negative linear and positive quadratic coefficients for both D and E. For G6PD and ME regression surfaces were concave upward with respect to E, but these were modified by positive and negative linear coefficients, respectively, for D. Significant regression coefficients for incorporation of the 14C of glucose into triglycerides and free fatty acids of adipose tissue slices and their production of 14CO2 yielded response surfaces concave upward with respect to E (negative linear and positive quadratic coefficients). In addition, the surface for free fatty acids was concave upward with respect to D. The 14CO2 production was greater at 16 degrees than at 31 degrees...

Adipose Tissue

[Purification and various biochemical and immunological properties of wild and mutant forms of Drosophila melanogaster 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase].

A 1500--2000-fold purification procedure using substrate elution from phosphocellulose is described for two isozymes of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) coded for by the corresponding allelic genes. Taking into account the data of gel filtration and of SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis both isozymes are shown to be dimers containing identical polypeptides of mol. weight 50 000. Antisera against the highly purified sample of 6PGD, inactivated by lyophilization completely inhibited the enzyme activity. Antigens reacting to antisera were revealed by Ouchterlony immunodiffusion tests in extracts of flies carrying the wild type or mutant Pgd allele, coding for 6PGD. In addition to 6PGD antigen (antigen 1) another protein (antigen 2) which shared no common antigenic precipitative determinants with the antigen 1 was revealed in extracts of the normal flies. Antigen 2 was demonstrated also in the six different mutants which expressed zero level of 6PGD activity and had no antigen 1. Mol weight of a 6PGD subunit and of antigen 2 purified by immobilized antibodies were shown to be identical by SDS-polyacrilamide gel electrophoresis. A transformation of "antigen 2" to "antigen 1" was performed by treatment of the former in 2% SDS-mercaptoethanol solution. As a result of SDS treatment no changes of antigenic properties of the inactivated and dissociated 6PGD dimers were observed in immunodiffusion tests.

Animals

Investigations on the organization of genetic loci in Drosophila melanogaster: lethal mutations affecting 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and their suppression.

The molecular nature of lethal and semilethal mutations in the Pgd locus of D. melanogaster coding for 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) was studied. All the 11 mutations affect the structural gene of the Pgd locus: 3 semilethal mutations resulted in altered 6PGD molecules with decreased catalytic activities; the rest 8 lethals were "null" alleles characterized by mutant polypeptides capable of reacting with antisera against highly purified 6PGD. "Null" or low activity alleles for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase induced by ethyl methanesulfonate were shown to be suppressores for the lethal mutations in the Pgd locus. A monocistronic type of organization of the Pgd locus is suggested taking into account the biochemical mechanism of suppression of the Pgd-lethals and their location in the structural gene coding for 6PGD.

Animals

Effect of dietary fat and sucrose on the activities of several rat hepatic enzymes and their diurnal response to a meal.

Regulation of the cytoplasmic enzymes, pyruvate kinase (PK), glucokinase (GK), phosphoenolpy ruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), fructose-1,6-diphosphatase (FDP), ATP citrate-lyase (ATP-CL), NAD-malate dehydrogenase (NAD-MD), NADP-malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MD), glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), in rat liver by dietary fat (F diet) and dietary sucrose (S diet) was investigated. Mealfeeding the S diet to adult rats for 5 and 9 months resulted in a diurnal dietary response (i.e., food response) variation of FDP, GK, ATP-CL, 6PGD, and PK, while meal-feeding the S diet to young rats resulted in diurnal dietary response variation of ATP-CL, G6PD, NADP-MD, 6PGD, GPT, and PK. Meal-feeding the fat diet results in essentially no diurnal variation in enzyme activity. The overall effect of meal-feeding, as compared with ad libitum feeding, of the S diet was to increase the levels of G6PD, ATP-CL, and NADP-MD and to decrease the level of PEck in the meal-fed rats. Young rats meal-fed the two diets have higher enzyme activities than meal-fed adult rats for the observed enzymes (except for GPT and NAD-MD). In general, hepatic levels of the enzymes studied are low in the F diet-fed animals and markedly higher for the S diet-fed animals. These results suggest that dietary carbohydrate specifically induces those enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism, whereas dietary fat does not affect their levels. On the basis of prior evidence for an early requirement of RNA synthesis for sucrose induction of G6PD, this widespread induction of liver enzymes by carbohydrate must indicate either increased synthesis of ribosomal RNA with later regulation of synthesis specifically of these enzymes or increased synthesis of a rather large group of specific messenger RNAs i.e., coordinate genetic control of a number of these enzyme messenger RNAs.

Age Factors

Response of rat hepatic fatty acid synthesis and activities of related enzymes to changes in level of dietary fat.

The rate of in vivo fatty acid synthesis as well as the levels of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), malic enzyme (ME), citrate cleavage enzyme (CCE), acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACX) and fatty acid synthetase (FAS) activities, have been studied in the liver of rats fed a fat-free diet for 7 days, followed by diets containing different amounts of soybean oil (0 to 24.79 kcal%) for 7 days. The dietary fat depressed activities of G6PD, 6PGD, ME, CCE, and FAS significantly at 1.24 or 2.48 kcal%. On the other hand, AC activity and the rate of fatty acid synthesis were decreased when the level of dietary fat was 12.39 kcal% or greater. These findings, as well as the pattern of decrement of enzyme activities and of lipogenesis, suggest a close correlation of fat feeding to ACX activity and fatty acid synthesis. The results also suggest that changes of G6PD, 6PGD, ME, CCE, and FAS activities may be largely independent of those modifications which occur in the substrate flux, concomitantly with the decrease of lipogenesis caused by the inclusion of fat in the diet.

ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase

[Aspects of the decrease of some enzyme activities in erythrocytes of subjects with beta-thalassemia].

G6PD, GSH-Px and 6PGD activity was found to be elevated in beta-thalassemia heterozygous erythrocytes. Estimates of the activities of the three enzymes in red cell fractions of differing mean age separated by centrifugation through a density gradient of Ficoll-Triosil layers, showed that the rate of in vivo decline was normal for G6PD and GSH-Px, and decreased for 6PGD. The increased enzyme activity results from increased rate of synthesis for G6PD and GSH-Px, and from higher in vivo stability for 6PGD.

Erythrocytes

Cellular function of the GndA microprotein during heat shock.

Over the past 15 years, hundreds of previously undiscovered bacterial small open reading frames (sORFs) encoding microproteins of fewer than fifty amino acids have been identified. Biological functions have been ascribed to an increasing number of microproteins from intergenic regions and small RNAs, and many play integral roles in bacterial stress responses. However, despite numbering in the dozens in Escherichia coli, and hundreds in humans, same-strand frameshifted sORFs that internally overlap protein coding sequences remain understudied. To provide insight into nested genes, we characterized GndA, a frameshifted 36-amino acid microprotein nested within the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) coding sequence. Using precise genome editing, we demonstrate independent contributions of GndA and 6PGD to cell growth at high temperature. GndA associates with membrane-associated complexes associated with electron transport and ATP generation, and supports ATP homeostasis during heat shock. Functional characterization of GndA thus adds to the catalog of bacterial microproteins that function in stress responses, while providing clear genetic evidence for the importance of an overlapping gene to cellular fitness.

6PGD

Isoenzyme characterization of Leishmania species from Iraq.

Leishmaniasis in Iraq takes both the visceral and cutaneous forms. The causative organisms are identified according to the electrophoretic variation of the enzymes MDH, GPI, 6PGD, PGM and IDH. The 37 visceral stocks investigated fall into two groups which differ only with respect to GPI. The six cutaneous stocks were divided into three groups. Group 3 represents Leishmania major, while groups 4 and 5 refer to L. tropica showing intraspecific variation with regard to 6PGD.

Animals

Demonstration of a specific metabolic effect of dietary disaccharides in the rat.

Male Wistar rats were starved and refed diets containing either 40% carbohydrate as monosaccharides (glucose, fructose, invert sugar) or disaccharides (maltose, sucrose), or 42.2% carbohydrate as glucose. Induction of various liver enzymes and changes in total liver lipid levels by the different dietary sugars were studied. Liver enzymes measured included glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), malic enzyme (ME), phosphofructokinase (PFK), L-alpha-glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase (LalphaGPD), pyruvate kinase (PK), citrate cleavage enzyme (CCE), acetyl CoA carboxylase (AcCoAC), and fatty acid synthetase (FAS). The responses in enzyme activity to diets containing glucose or invert sugar were used as the basal response. Enzyme responses to refeeding the carbohydrate diets fell into three categories: (1) enzyme activity increased both by the disaccharide configuration of the carbohydrate and by fructose (G6PD, PK, CCE, AcCoAC, FAS); (2) enzyme activity increased only by the disaccharide configuration of the carbohydrate (6PGD, ME); and (3) enzyme activity increased only by fructose (PFK, LalphaGPD). Total liver lipid level was increased both by the disaccharide configuration of the carbohydrate and by fructose. Refeeding diets containing equal molar amounts of glucose or maltose did not abolish the disaccharide effect. The data indicate that the disaccharide configuration of maltose and sucrose may have an effect at the gastrointestinal level, which causes an increased induction of certain enzymes in the liver.

ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase

Undifferentiated patterns of key glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes in epithelial cell lines derived from rat liver.

Established epithelial cell lines derived from livers of 7-day (B, B-R, B-3-4-7, J-C-1, J-C-13, J-5-2-1, E-C-4 and E-C-7) and adult (AL-2, AL-3, AL-4, AL-5 and AL-6) rats were analyzed for hexokinase (HK), pyruvate kinase (PK), glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), glucose 6-phosphatase (G6Pase) and fructose 1,6-diphosphatase (FDPase). None of the cell lines showed appreciable activities of adult type liver enzymes (HK Type IVs (glucokinase), PK Type L, G6Pase and FDPase). On the contrary, the activities of fetal type liver enzymes (HK Types I and II, PK Type M2 and G6PD) increased markedly as compared with dispersed cells or tissues of adult liver. 6PGD gave minimum changes in activity, and the 6PGD/G6PD ratio decreased consistently. HK Type III was found only in J-C-13, AL-5 and AL-6, while HK Type IVf (high Km) was present in all the cell lines examined. Possible explanations for the undifferentiated patterns of carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes in the established cell lines, which have several evidence of hepatocyte origin, are presented.

Alcohol Oxidoreductases

[Nature of mutations disrupting the formation of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster, and their suppression].

Molecular nature of lethal and semilethal mutations in the Pgd locus of D. melanogaster coding for 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6tpgd) was studied. All these mutations affect the structural gene of the Pgd locus: 3 semilethal mutations resulted in altered 6PGD molecules with the decreased catalytic activity; the remaining 8 lethals were "zero" alleles possessing mutant polypeptides inactive but capable to react with antisera against highly purified 6PGD. "Zero" or low activity alleles for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase induced by ethyl methansulfonate were shown to be supressors for the lethal mutations in the Pgd locus. A monocistronic type of organization of the Pgd locus is suggested taking into account the biochemical mechanism of supression of the Pgd-lethals and their location in the structural gene coding for 6GPD.

Alleles

Increased HK1 activity levels in the red cells of a patient with a de novo trisomy 10p: t(Y;10)(p11;p12).

A male patient with mental retardation and typical clinical features of 10p trisomy syndrome was found to have a duplication of the short arm of chromosome 10 attached to the short arm of the Y chromosome. Quantitative evaluation of nine red cell enzymes showed significantly increased activity levels of HK1 and, to a lesser extent, of PK, PGI, 6PGD, and G6PD. It is suggested that the HK1 locus may be in the 10pter leads to p12 region. The increased levels of HK1 could affect other erythrocyte metabolic pathways slowing down the physiological rate of cellular senescence and result in increased activity levels of other cell-age-dependent enzymes.

Cell Survival