THE METABOLISM OF D‐α‐HYDROXY ACIDS IN ANIMAL TISSUES
THE METABOLISM OF D‐α‐HYDROXY ACIDS IN ANIMAL TISSUES
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D-α-羟基酸在动物组织中的代谢
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1965
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P. K. Tubbs
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P. K. Tubbs
By 1904 (Moriya, 1904) it was recognized that the lactate formed by various animal tissues was entirely, or almost entirely, the L-form. A few years later, however, Dakin and Dudley (1913) found that animal tissues formed D-lactate from methylglyoxal; Neuberg (1913) also discovered glyoxalase a t the same time. Dakin and Dudley (1913) also reported that phlorizin-treated dogs formed glucose from D-lactate, and proposed methylglyoxal as an intermediate between both lactate isomers and glucose. Other workers (e.g., Neuberg & Kobel, 1929) observed methylglyoxal formation from hexose diphosphate by many biological materials, and this compound became generally accepted as a glycolytic intermediate. Thus Meyerhof (1933) wrote: “. . . the whole biochemical world was seized with the idea that lactic acid formation must take place with methylglyoxal as an intermediate.” The fact that the lactate formed by glyoxalase was the D-form seems not to have discouraged these theories. That D-lactate readily formed glucose did not pass unchallenged; Cori and Cori (1928) reported that it gave rise to little glycogen in fasted rats, and was utilized a t roughly one-fourth the rate of the L-isomer. Over 30 per cent of administered D-lactate was excreted in the urine, compared with none of the L-isomer. Meyerhof and Lohmann (1926) also found that liver only formed carbohydrate readily from L-lactate, and that the respiration of various tissue preparations was barely stimulated by the D-form. In 1931-32, strong evidence was forthcoming against the idea that methylglyoxal, and hence D-lactate, was an important metabolic intermediate (see Lohmann, 1931 & 1932). I t was shown, inter alia, that glutathione was the cofactor for glyoxalase, while glycolysis by dialyzed muscle extracts required adenosine phosphates and magnesium, and was unaffected by lack of glutathione. With these findings D-lactate vanished from the biochemical scene for some 20 years. In 1951-53, Mahler and his co-workers (Huennekens et al, 1951; Mahler et al., 1952; Mahler & Huennekens, 1953) reported that liver and kidney mitochondria oxidized only D-lactate to pyruvate, and that this did not require pyridine nucleotides. Pigeon muscle particles showed opposite stereo. specificity; a “factor,” supposed to be a lactate racemase, was reported to be present in liver and kidney cytoplasmic fractions that enabled either type of mitochondria to oxidize both lactates. D-lactate was suggested as an intermediate in propionate metabolism, but later work has not supported this. While the above mitochondria1 stereospecificities have been confirmed, it is