ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE AND RELATED OXIDATIVE DECARBOXYLASES
ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE AND RELATED OXIDATIVE DECARBOXYLASES
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(80)80569-2
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
DALZIEL, K
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作者:
DALZIEL, K
‘The study of intermediary metabolism usually proceeds at two levels. At the first level the aim is to identify the intermediary compounds derived from the substrate molecule. When the intermediates have been discovered the second level can be approached-the study of the enzymes concerned with the activation of the intermediates.’This is the opening paragraph of an historic article on ‘The Intermediary Stages in the Biological Oxidation of Carbohydrates’ by HA Krebs [11. It was published in 1943, after a decade of dramatic advances at both levels of the study of oxidative metabolism, amongst which were the identification of flavin and nicotinamide nucleotide enzyme cofactors, the formulation of the citric acid cycle and the identification and study of new enzymes, including NADP-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase. The present article is primarily concerned with some selected ‘second level’studies of the latter enzyme (EC 1.1. 1.42), malic enzyme (EC 1. l. 1.40) and 6-phospho-gluconate dehydrogenase (EC 1. l. 1.44). These are the best known of the fi-hydroxyacid decarboxylases which catalyse reversible reactions of the general type: