Electrophoretic analysis of extracts of 12 bumblebee species revealed complex patterns of extramitochondrial diphosphopyridine nucleotide-dependent glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.8) variants. Most Bombus species show one pattern, while Bombus nevadensis has a second and Bombus occidentalis a third pattern. All three Psithyrus (i.e. parasitic bumblebee) species tested have a fourth...

The rates of activity of the dehydrogenase systems in Tetrahymena, which are concerned with carbohydrate oxidation, in descending order of activity are: lactic > isocitric > succinic = glucose > glucose-6-phosphate = 6-phosphogluconic = malic > glutamic = cytochrome linked alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase. No evidence was obtained to indicate the presence of DPN linked alpha-glycerophosphat...

1. The effect of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate on the activity of ox liver glutamate dehydrogenase towards different amino acid substrates was investigated. 2. Both alanine and glutamate activities decreased steadily in the presence of pyridoxal 5'phosphate. 3. The alanine/glutamate activity ratio increased as a function of inactivation by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, indicating that glutamate activity is ...

Preparations of TPN-linked nonreversible d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.9), free of TPN-linked reversible d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, have been obtained from green shoots, etiolated shoots, and cotyledons of pea (Pisum sativum), cotyledons of peanut (Arachis hypogea), and leaves of maize (Zea mays). The properties of the enzyme were similar from each of the...

Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (H6PDH) is a microsomal enzyme that is able to catalyze the first two reactions of an endoluminal pentose phosphate pathway, thereby generating reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) within the endoplasmic reticulum. It is distinct from the cytosolic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), using a separate pool of NAD(P)+ and capa...