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Post-translational regulation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in (pre)neoplastic lesions in rat liver.

Abstract
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD; EC 1.1.1.49) is the key regulatory enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway and produces NADPH and riboses. In this study, the kinetic properties of G6PD activity were determined in situ in chemically induced hepatocellular carcinomas, and extralesional and control parenchyma in rat livers and were directly compared with those of the second NADPH-producing enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway, phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (PGD). Distribution patterns of G6PD activity, protein, and mRNA levels were also compared to establish the regulation mechanisms of G6PD activity. In (pre)neoplastic lesions, the V(max) of G6PD was 150-fold higher and the K(m) for G6P was 10-fold higher than in control liver parenchyma, whereas in extralesional parenchyma, the V(max) was similar to that in normal parenchyma but the K(m) was fivefold lower. This means that virtual fluxes at physiological substrate concentrations are 20-fold higher in lesions and twofold higher in extralesional parenchyma than in normal parenchyma. The V(max) of PGD was fivefold higher in lesions than in normal and extralesional liver parenchyma, whereas the K(m) was not affected. Amounts of G6PD protein and mRNA were similar in lesions and in extralesional liver parenchyma. These results demonstrate that G6PD is strongly activated post-translationally in (pre)neoplastic lesions to produce NADPH.
AuthorsWilma M Frederiks, Klazina S Bosch, Jonas S S G De Jong, Cornelis J F Van Noorden
JournalThe journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society (J Histochem Cytochem) Vol. 51 Issue 1 Pg. 105-12 (Jan 2003) ISSN: 0022-1554 [Print] United States
PMID12502759 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase (biosynthesis, genetics)
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Kinetics
  • Liver (enzymology)
  • Liver Neoplasms (enzymology)
  • Male
  • Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase (metabolism)
  • Precancerous Conditions (enzymology)
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • RNA, Messenger (biosynthesis)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar

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