To date, good experimental animal models of renal anemia are not available. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish a novel approach to induce chronic kidney disease (CKD) with severe anemia by oral administration of adenine in rodents. Adenine was administered to 6-week-old male C57BL/6 mice (25 and 50 mg/kg body weight) by oral gavage daily for 28 days. Serum creatinine and BUN ...

We have investigated the stability of two-dimensional self-assembled molecular networks formed upon co-adsorption of the DNA base, adenine, with each of the amino acids, L-serine and L-tyrosine, on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface by drop-casting from a water solution. L-serine and L-tyrosine were chosen as model systems due to their different interaction with the solvent mol...

The high fluorescence of adenine-containing compounds after reaction with chloroacetaldehyde was used to measure the adenine released from rat liver and Artemia salina ribosomes by the action of ricin A chain and gelonin, two ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) that share the same mechanism of action, consisting in the hydrolysis of the N-glycosidic bond of A-4324 of 28 S rRNA. Two methods we...

Senescent erythrocytes from rabbits were previously shown to have elevated levels of adenine nucleotides. The present study documents that aged red blood cells have a normal synthetic capacity for adenine nucleotides. as mdicated by normal levels of adenosine kinase. However. senescent erythrocytes do have decreased levels of adenosine 5’-monophosphate deaminase, the critical enzyme involved in...

The preparation of flavin adenine dinucleotide-aftinity columns employing glucose oxidase and D-amino acid oxidase covalently linked to Sepharose-4B is described. Both immobilized enzymes have very good long-term stabilities, retaining at least half of their original flavin adenine dinucleotide-binding capacity over 11 months. In both cases pure flavin adenine dinucleotide is obtained readily i...

Adenine and guanine nucleotide metabolism of platelet concentrates (PCs) was studied during storage for transfusion at 22 f 2°C over a 7-day period using high-pressure liquid chromatography. There was a steady decrease in platelet adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which was balanced quantitatively by an increase in plasma hypoxanthine. As expected, ammonia accumulate...

Mitochondrial permeability transition, due to opening of the permeability transition pore (PTP), is triggered by Ca2+ in conjunction with an inducing agent such as phosphate. However, incubation of rat liver mitochondria in the presence of low micromolar concentrations of Ca2+ and millimolar concentrations of phosphate is known to also cause net efflux of matrix adenine nucleotides via the ATP-...

The flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor has an unusual bent configuration in photolyase and cryptochrome, and such a folded structure may have a functional role in initial photochemistry. Using femtosecond spectroscopy, we report here our systematic characterization of cyclic intramolecular electron transfer (ET) dynamics between the flavin and adenine moieties of flavin adenine dinucleotide i...

The effects of isoproterenol, propranolol, and compound D600 (o-isopropyl-«-[(Nmethyl-Af-homoveratryl)-Y-aminopropyl]-3,4,5-trimethoxyphenytacetonitrile) on myocardial adenine nucleotide metabolism were studied in rat hearts in situ. Isoproterenol in doses between 0.1 and 25 mg/kg induced an increase in heart rate concomitant with a significant acceleration in the de novo synthesis of adenine n...

Many bacterial mRNAs are regulated at the transcriptional or translational level by ligand-binding elements called riboswitches. Although they both bind adenine, the adenine riboswitches of Bacillus subtilis and Vibrio vulnificus differ by controlling transcription and translation, respectively. Here, we demonstrate that, beyond the obvious difference in transcriptional and translational modula...