Oxidation of glucose, ribose, alanine, and glutamate by Leishmania braziliensis panamensis.
Oxidation of glucose, ribose, alanine, and glutamate by Leishmania braziliensis panamensis.
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巴西利什曼原虫巴拿马对葡萄糖、核糖、丙氨酸和谷氨酸的氧化。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1550-7408.1987.tb03156.x
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1987
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Blum,JJ
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Keegan,FP;Sansone,L;Blum,JJ
The metabolism of [1‐14C]‐ and [6‐14C]glucose, [1‐14]ribose, [1‐14C]‐ and [U‐14C]alanine, and [1‐14C]‐ and [5‐14C]glutamate by the promastigotes ofLeishmania braziliensis panamensiswas investigated in cells resuspended in Hanks' balanced salt solution supplemented with ribose, alanine, or glutamate. The ratio of14CO2produced from [1‐14C]glucose to that from [6‐14C]glucose ranged from about two to six, indicating appreciable carbon flow through the pentose phosphate pathway. A functional pentose phosphate pathway was further demonstrated by the production of14CO2from [1‐14C]ribose although the rate of ribose oxidation was much lower than the rate of glucose oxidation. The rate of14CO2production from [1‐14C]glucose was almost linear with time of incubation, whereas that of [6‐14C]glucose accelerated, consistent with an increasing rate of flux through the Embden‐Meyerhof pathway during incubation. Increasing the assay temperature from 26°C to 34°C had no appreciable effect on the rates or time courses of oxidation of either [1‐14C]‐ or [6‐14C]glucose or of [1‐14C]ribose. Both alanine and glutamate were oxidized byL. b. panamensis, and at rates comparable to or appreciably greater than the rate of oxidation of glucose. The ratios of14CO2produced from [1‐14C]‐ to [U‐14C]alanine and from [1‐14C]‐ to [5‐14C]glutamate indicated that these compounds were metabolized via a functioning tricarboxylic acid cycle and that most of the label that entered the tricarboxylic acid cycle was oxidized to carbon dioxide. Heating the cultures for 6 or 12 h at 34°C, which converts the promastigotes into an ellipsoidally shaped intermediate form, decreased the rates of oxidation of glucose, alanine, and glutamate. The oxidation of glutamate decreased by about 50% and 70% after a 6‐h or 12‐h heat treatment, respectively. Returning the heated cultures to 26°C initiated a reversion to the promastigote form and recovery of the rate of glucose oxidation, but glutamate oxidation did not return to control levels by 19 h at 26°C.