Rapid determination of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme activities in biological samples

Clofibrate elevates enzyme activities of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in rat liver.

Activities of the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes were measured in subcellular fractions of liver from rats that had been fed clofibrate for 3 weeks. Large changes in these activities per gram tissue were found in the large particle fraction, which also showed an increase in total protein concentration of 76% under clofibrate treatment. The three regulatory enzymes of the cycle, namely citrate...

Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in

The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Dictyostelium discoideum

Some aspects of tricarboxylic acid-cycle activity during differentiation and aging in Dictyostelium discoideum were examined. The concentrations of glutamate, aspartate, alanine, citrate, 2-oxoglutarate, succinate, fumarate, malate, oxaloacetate, pyruvate and acetyl-CoA were determined at four stages over the course of differentiation. The rate of 02 utilization was also determined over differe...

Tricarboxylic acid-cycle activity in Streptomyces olivaceus.

Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa”

During the past few years scattered information has appeared which indicates that at least some bacteria probably possess a tricarboxylic acid cycle. Lockwood and Stodola found that Pseudomonas jluorescens formed considerable quantities of a-ketoglutaric acid when growing on a glucose medium under conditions of intense aeration (1). Ajl and Werkman found evidence for at least parts of the conve...