The effect of the three cyclohexane-1,3-dione derivatives cycloxydim, sethoxydim and clethodim on the incorpora­ tion of l4C-labelled acetate, malonate, acetyl-CoA or malonyl-CoA into fatty acids was studied in an enzyme preparation isolated from barley chloroplasts (H ordeum vulgare L. var. “A lexis”). The herbicides cycloxydim, clethodim and sethoxydim block the de novo fatty acid biosynthesi...

Two rat liver fatty acid synthetase preparations, containing 1.6 and 2.0 mol of 4'-phosphopantetheine/mol of synthetase, showed specific activity of 2006 and 2140 nmol of NADPH oxidized/min per mg of protein respectively. The two synthetase preparations could be loaded with either 3.3-4.4 mol of [1-14] acetate or 2.9-3.7 mol of [2-14C]malonate, by incubation with either [1-14C] acetyl-CoA or [2...

In the presence of pipecolate, Pseudomonas putida P2 (ATCC 25571) converts cu-amino[6-14C]adipate to radioactive glutamate with a 14C distribution of 11% and 80 % in carbons 1 and 5, respectively. This labeling pattern, when considered with previous data, indicates that a-aminoadipate is an obligate intermediate in the metabolism of pipecolate to glutamate. Some of the 14C in carbon 1 results f...

N-(7-chloro-1-methyl-2-oxo-5-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[e][1,4]diazepin-3-yl)thiophene-2 carboxamide-[14C-carboxy] was prepared as part of a 6-step sequence from thiophene-2-carbonitrile -[cyano-14C] as a keysynthetic intermediate which has been synthesized from 2-iodothiophene and zinc [14C]-cyanide in thepresence of tetrakis (triphenylphosphine) palladium.

Cyclopropane fatty acids are readily metabolized by whole cells of Tetrahymena pyriformis when the fatty acids are presented either as components of intact Escherichia coli cells or as free fatty acids added to the medium. cis-ll,lZ[methylene-14C]Methyleneoctadecanoic acid was degraded with the production of 14COz by whole T. pyriformis cells or a particulate fraction derived from them. In the ...

In past years, malonate has been extensively used in mammalian systems in vitro as an inhibitor of the citric acid cycle with very little attention given its metabolism per se. Lifson and Stolen (1) demonstrated the conversion of V-labeled malonate to carbon dioxide in the intact mouse. Later, Lee and Lifson (2) found that the administration to rats of doses of U3-labeled malonate at an inhibit...

ABSTRACT Depending on the reaction conditions, different aluminium dialkylmalonate derivatives were obtained by reaction of aluminium alkoxides Al(OR)3 (R = Et, iPr, tBu) with dialkylmalonates, viz. Al(malonate)3 (malonate = dimethyl, diethyl, di-iso-propyl and di-tert-butyl malonate), Al2(OiPr)4(malonate)2 (malonate = di-iso-propyl and di-tert-butyl malonate), Al2(OiPr)2(di-iso-propylmalonate)...

Using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) and attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) measurements, we examined the sorption of Pb(II) to hematite in the presence of malonic acid. Pb L(III)-edge EXAFS measurements performed in the presence of malonate indicate the presence of both Fe and C neighbors, suggesting that a major fraction of surface-bound malon...

Many plants accumulate malonate, but it was shown earlier that malonate does not accumulate as a deadend product of metabolism in soybean (Glycine max v. Hodgson tissues. The metabolism of malonate in the soybean plant at the whole tissue and enzymic level was followed, and the pathway of malonate biosynthesis in young soybean root tissue was shown to be via acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase.

Mitochondrial inhibitors such as malonate are potent neurotoxins in vivo. Intrastriatal injections of malonate result in neuronal damage reminiscent of "excitotoxic" lesions produced by compounds that activate NMDA receptors. Although the mechanism of cell death produced by malonate is uncertain, overactivation of NMDA receptors may be involved; pretreatment of animals with NMDA antagonists pro...