We describe the mechanisms underlying the vascular contraction induced by succinate. The data presented here are related to the article entitled "Pharmacological characterization of the mechanisms underlying the vascular effects of succinate" (L.N. Leite, N.A. Gonzaga, J.A. Simplicio, G.T. Vale, J.M. Carballido, J.C. Alves-Filho, C.R. Tirapelli, 2016) [1]. Succinate acts as a signaling molecule...

Membrane vesicles prepared from a strain of Escherichia coli which lacks membrane-bound succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate reductase activity are capable of accumulating succinate in the presence of D( -)lactate or reduced phenazine methosulfate as electron donors. The steady state, intramembranal concentration of succinate reaches 30to 50-fold of the external concentration. Both the initial ...

Succinate dehydrogenase has been isolated in a highly purified form from succinate-coenzyme Q reductase preparations. The enzyme contains 1 mole of covalently bound flavin, 8 g atoms of iron, and 8 moles of acid-labile sulfide per 150,000 g of protein. It catalyzes succinate oxidation in the presence of phenazine methosulfate as electron acceptor at a rate of 26 to 32 pmoles per min X mg of pro...

was found to be an additional growth factor in that this compound can replace the requirement for heme in the presence of vitamin K, allowing good growth of the organism, and succinate can also partially replace the requirement for vitamin K in the presence of heme. The addition of succinate to a medium supplemented with both vitamin K and heme increases the growth rate of the culture. This abi...

Membrane vesicles prepared from a strain of Escherichia coli which lacks membrane-bound succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate reductase activity are capable of accumulating succinate in the presence of D( -)lactate or reduced phenazine methosulfate as electron donors. The steady state, intramembranal concentration of succinate reaches 30to 50-fold of the external concentration. Both the initial ...

The potential to produce succinate aerobically in Escherichia coli would offer great advantages over anaerobic fermentation in terms of faster biomass generation, carbon throughput, and product formation. Genetic manipulations were performed on two aerobic succinate production systems to increase their succinate yield and productivity. One of the aerobic succinate production systems developed e...

Succinate produced by microorganisms can replace currently used petroleum-based succinate but typically requires mono- or poly-saccharides as a feedstock. The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 can produce organic acids such as succinate from CO2 not supplemented with sugars under dark anoxic conditions using an unknown metabolic pathway. The TCA cycle in cyanobacteria branches into oxida...

Corynebacterium glutamicum lacking the succinate dehydrogenase complex can produce succinate aerobically with acetate representing the major byproduct. Efforts to increase succinate production involved deletion of acetate formation pathways and overexpression of anaplerotic pathways, but acetate formation could not be completely eliminated. To address this issue, we constructed a pathway for re...

The venous pole of the mammalian heart is a structurally and electrically complex region, yet the lineage and molecular mechanisms underlying its formation have remained largely unexplored. In contrast to classical studies that attribute the origin of the myocardial sinus horns to the embryonic venous pole, we find that the sinus horns form only after heart looping by differentiation of mesench...

Fructose uptake and catabolism in Azospirillum brasilense is dependent on three fructose-inducible enzymes (fru-enzymes): (i) enzyme I and (ii) enzyme II of the phosphoenolpyruvate:fructose phosphotransferase system and (iii) 1-phosphofructokinase. In minimal medium containing 3.7 mM succinate and 22 mM fructose as sources of carbon, growth of A. brasilense was diauxic, succinate being utilized...