Abstract:
:(1) Subcutaneous or intra-abdominal injections of 8 mg of HgCl2/100 g body weight markedly depressed hepatic fatty acid synthetase activity of chicks at 1 h post-injection. The depression occurred despite the fact that the chicks continued to eat up until the time they were killed. Under these same conditions, the hepatic activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.2) was not affected by HgCl2, while the activity of the mitochondrial system of fatty acid elongation was stimulated. (2) When 2-mercaptoethanol was included in the incubation medium for a highly purified preparation of fatty acid synthetase, 500 muM HgCl2 was required to show definite inhibition of the enzyme. When 2-mercaptoethanol was omitted, 50 muM HgCl2 was inhibitory and 100 muM HgCl2 abolished enzyme activity. (3) 2 mM dithiothreitol completely protected the purified fatty acid synthetase preparation from inhibition by 100 muM HgCl2. When dithiothreitol was added after the addition of enzyme to the mercury-containing medium, protection of the enzyme was not complete. (4) Dialysis of cytosol fractions from chicks injected with HgCl2 against 500 vol. of 0.2 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) containing 1 mM EDTA and 10 mM dithiothreitol for 4 h at 4 degrees stimulated the fatty acid synthetase activity of the fractions. Dialysis of cytosol fractions from noninjected chicks under the same conditions was without effect on fatty acid synthetase activity. (5) These data support the hypothesis that the inhibitory effect of HgCl2 administered in vivo on hepatic fatty acid synthetase activity in chicks is mediated through the interaction of mercury with the sulfhydryl groups of the enzyme.
journal_name
Chem Biol Interactjournal_title
Chemico-biological interactionsauthors
Donaldson WEdoi
10.1016/0009-2797(75)90003-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1975-11-01 00:00:00pages
343-50issue
5eissn
0009-2797issn
1872-7786pii
0009-2797(75)90003-4journal_volume
11pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Andrographolide (Andro), a diterpenoid lactone isolated from a traditional herbal medicine Andrographis paniculata, is known to possess multiple pharmacological activities. In our previous study, Andro had been shown to have potent anti-cancer activity against human colorectal carcinoma Lovo cells by inhibiting cell-c...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2009.04.011
更新日期:2009-08-14 00:00:00
abstract::Thiol oxidation by diphenyl ditelluride is a favorable reaction and may be responsible for alteration in regulatory or signaling pathways. We have measured rate constants for reactions of diphenyl ditelluride with cysteine, dimercaptosuccinic acid, glutathione and dithiothreitol in phosphate buffer. The relative react...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2008.12.013
更新日期:2009-06-15 00:00:00
abstract::Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent degenerative joint diseases, and the risk of developing OA significantly increases with age as well as with concomitant diseases, such as diabetes. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) accumulate in the body over time and are associated with increased expression of va...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2020.108968
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have studied the effect of muscular dystrophy by merosin deficiency on mouse thymus acetyl- (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE). The organ contains AChE and BuChE activities. Merosin deficiency causes an important decrease (46%) in AChE specific activity. Thymus produces dimers, monomers and tetramers of AChE,...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2005.10.092
更新日期:2005-12-15 00:00:00
abstract::Covalent modification of NTE, a neuronal protein with serine esterase activity, by certain organophosphates (OP) initiates degeneration of long axons in the peripheral and central nervous system. Simple inhibition of NTE esterase activity does not initiate neuropathy; the latter requires aging of the OP bound to the c...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0009-2797(99)00065-4
更新日期:1999-05-14 00:00:00
abstract::Two types of cholinesterases (ChEs) are present in mammalian blood and tissues: acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE). While AChE regulates neurotransmission by hydrolyzing acetylcholine at the postsynaptic membranes and neuromuscular junctions, BChE in plasma has been suggested to be involved i...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2020.109225
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The kinetics of time- and concentration-dependent covalent organophosphorus inhibition of carboxylesterase isoenzymes (EC 3.1.1.1) and cholinesterase isoenzymes (EC 3.1.1.7 and EC 3.1.1.8) were investigated using a wide range of organophosphate inhibitor concentrations (10(-10)-10(-3) mol/l) and different inhibition t...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(93)90048-4
更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Osteoporosis is a major global public health problem. Aluminum (Al) exposure inhibits osteoblast mineralization and induces osteoporosis. However, the exact mechanism is not fully understood. The transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1)/Smad pathway is a major signaling cascade in regulating osteoblast mineralization. T...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2015.11.027
更新日期:2016-01-25 00:00:00
abstract::The Toxic Oil Syndrome (TOS) was an epidemic disease appeared in central Spain in 1981, causing over 400 deaths and affecting more than 20,000 people, mainly women and children. The disease was linked to the consumption of rapeseed oil denatured with aniline, illegally refined at the ITH oil refinery in Seville, mixed...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2010.10.006
更新日期:2011-06-30 00:00:00
abstract::Disodium cromoglycate (DSCG) in equimolar concentration of 0.56 mumol/l preincubated with an asynchronous cell population decreases the inhibition of proliferation and results in a 100% elimination of inhibition of colony formation induced by benfluron (BF). DSCG protects the cells from unbalanced growth and unbalance...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(93)90002-g
更新日期:1993-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is coded by the BCHE gene that presents four exons. The non-codifying exon 1 presents two variants -116G and -116A, being -116A preferentially in cis conformation with the 539T variant (K) of exon 4 which was associated with lower BChE activity and lower body mass index (BMI) variance. Thi...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2008.04.019
更新日期:2008-09-25 00:00:00
abstract::The administration of the placental hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) to 50-day-old virgin Sprague--Dawley rats has been shown to reduce the incidence of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary cancer. We now report from studies using rat mammary epithelial cells in culture that the anti-carcin...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0009-2797(85)80117-4
更新日期:1985-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis involves significant deposition of fibrilar collagen and other extracellular matrix proteins. It is a rather dynamic process of wound healing in response to a variety of persistent liver injury caused by factors such as ethanol intake, viral infection, drugs, toxins, cholestasis, a...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2011.07.001
更新日期:2011-09-30 00:00:00
abstract::The mechanisms by which soybean- and soybean isoflavone-enriched diets inhibit carcinogenesis are not known. We found that the isoflavones genistin and daidzin, and their respective aglucone forms daidzein and genistein, block 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD; dioxin)-induced CYP1A1 enzyme activity. This inhi...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0009-2797(99)00121-0
更新日期:1999-11-15 00:00:00
abstract::Melatonin is a hormone produced in animals by the pineal gland and in plants under stress. Melatonin research has expanded rapidly, affecting an impressive enhancement in the understanding of its functions in plants and animals. However, far less focus has been directed to clarifying the nature of melatonin dose-respo...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2018.12.008
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is the leading pretreatment candidate against exposure to organophosphates (OPs), which pose an ever increasing public and military health. Since respiratory failure is the primary cause of death following acute OP poisoning, an inhaled BChE therapeutic could prove highly efficacious in pr...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2012.11.004
更新日期:2013-03-25 00:00:00
abstract::Neutrophils from asymptomatic HIV-infected patients have an increased Nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction, that is an increased production of oxygen radicals. Plasma from these patients can activate normal neutrophils to an increased NBT-reduction and the neutrophil activating factor thus seems to be mainly plasma b...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(94)90034-5
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pyridinium oximes are strong nucleophiles and many are effective reactivators of organophosphate-inhibited cholinesterase (ChE). However, the current oxime reactivators are ineffective at crossing the blood-brain barrier and reactivating brain ChE in the intact organism. Our laboratories have developed a series of sub...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2016.07.004
更新日期:2016-11-25 00:00:00
abstract::The effect of puromycin has been investigated on protein and glycoprotein synthesis and on ultrastructure of the Golgi complex from rat liver. Incorporation of [14C]leucine into protein in Golgi fractions and into serum proteins was depressed rapidly after puromycin treatment. In the serum proteins, incorporation retu...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(75)90100-3
更新日期:1975-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Boldine is the main alkaloid of Peumus boldus Molina, widely used in the traditional medicine for the treatment of digestive disorders. It is a compound with excellent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties already described. Despite the widespread use of P. boldus for digestive disorders treatment, the gastropr...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2020.109166
更新日期:2020-08-25 00:00:00
abstract::Copper, like iron, is an essential transition metal ion in which its redox reactivity, whilst essential for the activity of mitochondrial enzymes, can also be a source of harmful reactive oxygen species if not chelated to biomolecules. Therefore, both metals are sequestered by protein chaperones and moved across membr...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2006.05.011
更新日期:2006-10-27 00:00:00
abstract::The distribution of 203Hg after inhalation of radioactive metallic mercury (4.3 mumol 203Hg0/kg body wt. for 1 h) was studied in saline (control) and selenite (10 mumol/kg body wt. intraperitoneally, i.p.) pretreated male C57BL mice by means of whole-body autoradiography and scintillation counting. Selenite pretreatme...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(83)90014-5
更新日期:1983-09-15 00:00:00
abstract::Treatment of animals with hydrazine causes the accumulation of triglycerides in the liver but the mechanism remains unclear. Therefore, the effect of hydrazine on hepatic triglyceride synthesis and subsequent transport was studied in a hepatocyte model, in vitro in order to isolate liver cells from extrahepatic influe...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0009-2797(97)00090-2
更新日期:1997-11-28 00:00:00
abstract::Dopa was oxidized by Mn(3+)-pyrophosphate complex to the corresponding o-quinone, accompanied by the cyclization of the amino chain to form cyclized dopa ortho-quinone (cDoQ) with absorption maxima at wavelengths of 305 and 475 nm. The cyclization was found to proceed in a single step from DoQ to cDoQ without formatio...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(94)90090-6
更新日期:1994-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The present study aims to explore the effects of astaxanthin on the semen quality of diabetes mellitus (DM) KKAy mice. A total of 60 DM KKAy mice with similar body weights and initial blood glucose and serum lipid levels were assigned to four groups, namely, one control and three astaxanthin treatments (10, 50, or 100...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2020.109303
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The reaction characteristics of chlorothalonil with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH), from yeast, (EC 1.2.1.12) were studied in vitro. Enzyme inhibition was related to the amount of [14C]chlorothalonil bound to the protein. Kinetics of enzyme inhibition was non-competitive for the substrate glyceraldehy...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(75)90069-1
更新日期:1975-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE), a major reactive product of lipid peroxidation, is believed to play a central role in atherogenic actions triggered by oxidized lipoproteins. An aldo-keto reductase (AKR) 1C15 efficiently reduces HNE and is distributed in many rat tissues including endothelial cells. In this study, we invest...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2010.12.018
更新日期:2011-05-30 00:00:00
abstract::We had previously reported that the carcinogen, beta-propiolactone (BPL) reacted in vitro with histones in whole mouse skin chromatin and that among the histone classes BPL was preferentially bound to the lysine-rich histones H1 and H1 degrees. In order to determine if in vitro reaction of BPL with calf thymus histone...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0009-2797(76)90137-x
更新日期:1976-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Butadiene epidemiologic research has focused primarily on one cohort of workers in the North American styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) industry and on the largest cohort of workers in the United States butadiene monomer industry. The most recent studies of these populations are characterized by carefully enumerated stud...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0009-2797(01)00169-7
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We examined the sensitivity of AChE(+/-) mice to the amnesic effects of scopolamine and amyloid beta peptide. AChE(+/-) and AChE(+/+) littermates, tested at 5-9 weeks of age, failed to show any difference in locomotion, exploration and anxiety in the open-field test, or in-place learning in the water-maze. However, wh...
journal_title:Chemico-biological interactions
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2008.04.001
更新日期:2008-09-25 00:00:00