TY - JOUR
T1 - Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
T2 - Distribution in rat tissues and effect of diet, age and steroids
AU - Mandula, Barbara
AU - Srivastava, Satish K.
AU - Beutler, Ernest
N1 - Funding Information:
investigat,ion was supported, Health Service Grants HE
PY - 1970/11
Y1 - 1970/11
N2 - Hexose-6-P dehydrogenase is a microsomal enzyme which oxidizes glucose-6-P, galactose-6-P, 2-deoxy-glucose-6-P, and glucose using either NAD or NADP as hydrogen acceptor. Its distribution was studied in rat tissues; the enzyme was found in liver, adrenals, spleen, kidney, heart, lungs, gluteal muscle, testes, ovaries, seminal vesicles, prostate, uterus, and intestine. No enzyme was detected in the brain and mammary gland. Hexose-6-P dehydrogenase is not inhibited by various steroids which are known to inhibit glucose-6-P dehydrogenase. Also, feeding of a diet containing 68% galactose, glucose, or fructose does not alter the activity of hexose-6-P dehydrogenase in rat liver. Liver hexose-6-P dehydrogenase activity increased rapidly before birth, and then declined gradually to adult levels. It appears possible the hexose-6-P dehydrogenase serves as a source of reduced pyridine nucleotides for mixed-function oxidase systems, but definitive evidence for its role in metabolism is lacking.
AB - Hexose-6-P dehydrogenase is a microsomal enzyme which oxidizes glucose-6-P, galactose-6-P, 2-deoxy-glucose-6-P, and glucose using either NAD or NADP as hydrogen acceptor. Its distribution was studied in rat tissues; the enzyme was found in liver, adrenals, spleen, kidney, heart, lungs, gluteal muscle, testes, ovaries, seminal vesicles, prostate, uterus, and intestine. No enzyme was detected in the brain and mammary gland. Hexose-6-P dehydrogenase is not inhibited by various steroids which are known to inhibit glucose-6-P dehydrogenase. Also, feeding of a diet containing 68% galactose, glucose, or fructose does not alter the activity of hexose-6-P dehydrogenase in rat liver. Liver hexose-6-P dehydrogenase activity increased rapidly before birth, and then declined gradually to adult levels. It appears possible the hexose-6-P dehydrogenase serves as a source of reduced pyridine nucleotides for mixed-function oxidase systems, but definitive evidence for its role in metabolism is lacking.
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U2 - 10.1016/0003-9861(70)90118-9
DO - 10.1016/0003-9861(70)90118-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 4394694
AN - SCOPUS:0014873431
SN - 0003-9861
VL - 141
SP - 155
EP - 161
JO - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
JF - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
IS - 1
ER -