The effectiveness of sodium citrate and sodium citrate/ranitidine were compared in two randomised groups of elective caesarean patients during the various phases of anaesthesia. The mean pH values (3.5, 3.3, 3.6) were lower in the citrate group compared to the citrate/ranitidine group (6.1, 6.3, 5.9). The percentage of patients with pH values less than 2.5 was 40% in the citrate group compared ...

Carrier-mediated citrate transport has been demonstrated and characterized at 10°in mitochondria from Morris hepatomas 3924A and 16 and in normal and host liver preparations by the inhibitor-stop technique using 1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylate. We studied: (a) citrate influx in exchange for endogenous substrates; (b) citrate influx into mitochondria loaded with citrate; (c) citrate efflux from cit...

In an attempt to identify components of a ferric citrate uptake system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a mutant library of a siderophore-deficient strain (IA614) was constructed and screened for defects in citrate-promoted growth in an Fe-restricted medium. A mutant disrupted in gene PA3901, encoding a homologue of the outer-membrane ferric citrate receptor, FecA, of Escherichia coli (FecA(E.c.)), w...

When cells of Pseudomonas are grown on citrate as the sole carbon source they oxidize citrate and isocitrate rapidly. Fluorocitrate inhibits the oxidation of citrate. Fluorocitrate-treated cells accumulate [6-(14)C]citrate, as shown by a rapid Millipore-filtration technique. In the absence of fluorocitrate most of the [6-(14)C]-citrate is lost in the form of (14)CO(2). The isolation of a pseudo...

Citrate transport in Bacillus subtilis is dependent on the presence of Mgz+. Other divalent cations like MnZ+, Co2+, or Ni2+ can replace magnesium ions. 2*Mg2+ or j4Mn2+ are taken up by the cells simultaneously with the uptake of citrate. Cells which are not induced for citrate transport do not show the citrate-dependent uptake of either 64Mn2+ or 2sMg2+. Citrate transport and the citrate-depen...

Citrate is a major component of bone in all vertebrates, but its implications in bone have remained largely unknown. Recent studies identified that citrate is incorporated into the structure of the hydroxyapatite nanocrystal/collagen complex; and is essential for the important biomechanical properties of bone. This raises the important question, "What is the source of citrate for incorporation ...

In Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides 19D, citrate is transported by a secondary citrate carrier (CitP). Previous studies of the kinetics and mechanism of CitP performed in membrane vesicles of L. mesenteroides showed that CitP catalyzes divalent citrate HCit2-/H+ symport, indicative of metabolic energy generation by citrate metabolism via a secondary mechanism (C. Marty-Teysset, J....

Citrate utilization plasmids have previously been identified in atypical Escherichia coli isolates. A different citrate-utilizing (Cit+) variant of E. coli K-12 arose as a consequence of two chromosomal mutations (B. G. Hall, J. Bacteriol. 151:269-273, 1982). The processes controlling the transport of citrate in both a Cit+ chromosomal mutant and a Cit+ plasmid system were studied. Both systems...

Cytosolic citrate is proposed to play a crucial role in substrate fuel selection in the heart. However, little is known about factors regulating the transfer of citrate from the mitochondria, where it is synthesized, to the cytosol. Further to our observation that rat hearts perfused under normoxia release citrate whose (13)C labeling pattern reflects that of mitochondrial citrate (B. Comte, G....