NADPH oxidase5 (Nox5) is a novel Nox isoform which has recently been recognized as having important roles in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, fetal ventricular septal defect and cancer. The activity of Nox5 and production of reactive oxygen species is regulated by intracellular calcium levels and phosphorylation. However, the kinases that phosphorylate N...

BACKGROUND Nox5 was the last member of the Nox enzyme family to be identified. Functionally distinct from the other Nox isoforms, our understanding of its physiological significance has been hampered by the absence of Nox5 in mouse and rat genomes. Nox5 is present in the genomes of other species such as the rabbit that have broad utility as models of cardiovascular disease. However, the mRNA se...

Rat liver microsomes have previously been utilized as a model biological system to study the activation of Adriamycin to the semiquinone free radical intermediate and the enhance ment by Adriamycin of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidation and oxygen consumption. Incubating rat liver microsomes with Adriamycin or other struc turally similar benzanthraquinone antic...

The mechanisms controlling the activity of NADPH oxidase 5 (Nox5) are unique in that they are independent of the protein: protein interactions that coordinate the activation of other Nox isoforms. Instead, the primary driving force for Nox5 activity is calcium. However, in a previous study we reported that the protein kinase C (PKC)-agonist PMA could induce a sustained activation of Nox5 that w...

The mitochondrial fraction of rat liver homogenate catalyzed the conversion of cholesterol into 5-cholestene-3P,25diol and 5-cholestene-30,26-diol in the presence of an NADPH-generating system and oxygen. 5-Cholestene3P,26-diol was the predominant product. 26-Hydroxylation of cholesterol was much more efficient with the NADPHgenerating system than with NADPH alone, and it was shown that the iso...

The pentose phosphate pathway is the metabolic where NADPH, reducing force in metabolism, and ribose 5-phosphate, building block of DNA RNA, are produced. In this study, vitro effects 5-fluorouracil Tamoxifen chemotherapeutic agents on glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) 6-phosphogluconate (6PGD), which key enzymes pathway, were investigated. first stage G6PD 6PGD purified from rat erythro...

NADPH oxidase is a crucial enzyme in antimicrobial host defense and in regulating inflammation. Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an inherited disorder of NADPH oxidase in which phagocytes are defective in generation of reactive oxidant intermediates. Aspergillus species are ubiquitous, filamentous fungi, which can cause invasive aspergillosis, a major cause of morbidity and mortality in C...

1. Pseudomonas N.C.I.B. 9872 grown on cyclopentanol as carbon source oxidized it at a rate of 228mul of O(2)/h per mg dry wt. and the overall consumption of 5.9mumol of O(2)/mumol of substrate. Cyclopentanone was oxidized at a similar rate with the overall consumption of 5.2mumol of O(2)mumol of substrate. Cells grown with sodium acetate as sole source of carbon were incapable of significant im...

It is known that plants contain ferredoxin (Fd)-dependent nitrite reductase (NiR) and glutamate synthase (GOGAT). The Fd-NiR reaction produces ammonia from nitrite, and the activity is usually measured by nitrite disappearance. The Fd-GOGAT reaction forms two glutamates of different origin, from glutamine and 2-oxoglutarate, and the activity is measured by the oxidation of reductant (NADPH) or ...

We previously reported that the role of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs) in NF-kappaB activation by proinflammatory cytokines was cell specific. However, the sources for ROIs in various cell types are yet to be determined and might include 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) and NADPH oxidase. 5-LOX and 5-LOX activating protein (FLAP) are coexpressed in lymphoid cells but not in monocytic or epithelial ...