Disease relevance of Harden-Young-Ester

• A full-length clone of pig kidney fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.11) was isolated by screening a cDNA library for complementation of an Escherichia coli fbp deletion mutation [1].
• Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase A (fructose-bisphosphate aldolase; EC 4.1.2.13) deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with hereditary hemolytic anemia [2].
• The proband with lifelong hemolytic anemia has a high K0.5s phosphoenolypyruvate (PEP) erythrocyte pyruvate kinase (PK) variant substantially but incompletely normalized by the allosteric modifier fructose-1,6-diphosphate (F-1,6-P2) with conversion of sigmoidal to hyperbolic kinetics [3].
• The inhibitory effect on the onset of biochemical modification typical of early subchronic doxorubicin cardiotoxicity may be related to stimulation of ATP synthesis by fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and is therapeutically promising in view of the lack of toxicity of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate as a drug [4].
• Induced fit movements and metal cofactor selectivity of class II aldolases: structure of Thermus aquaticus fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase [5].

High impact information on Harden-Young-Ester

• The cooperative binding of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to yeast pyruvate kinase [6].
• It has been proposed recently that translation of fructose-1,6-diphosphate aldolase of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is initiated at a UAG codon, both in the parasite and in a rabbit reticulocyte cell-free translation system [7].
• Mixed-charge clusters are prominent at interchain contacts where they stabilize quaternary protein formation [e.g., glutathione S-transferase (2gst), catalase (8act), and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (1fba)] [8].
• Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (Fru-1,6-Pase; D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.11) requires two divalent metal ions to hydrolyze alpha-D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate [9].
• Cycling between fructose-6-phosphate and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate is < 2%, most likely due to the very strong inhibition of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Harden-Young-Ester

• Influence of anoxia on glucose metabolism in pancreatic islets: lack of correlation between fructose-1,6-diphosphate and apparent glycolytic flux [11].
• Characterization of the molecular mechanisms involved in the differential production of erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase, 3-phosphoglycerate kinase and class II fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase in Escherichia coli [12].
• CONCLUSIONS: Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate supports adenosine triphosphate production via stimulation of glycolysis and results in the maintenance of normal [Ca2+]i during hypoxia or hypoglycemia [13].
• The fructose-1,6-diphosphate-dependent lactate dehydrogenase from Streptococcus mutans JH1000 was purified by a modification of published methods [14].
• A comprehensive equation, upsilon = VM/[1 + (A0.5/Fru-P2)n] [ 1 + (Glc-6-P/I0.5)], has been proposed to represent the quantitative interrelationships between the rate of glucose utilization and the levels of glucose-6-phosphate and fructose-1,6-diphosphate in the intact Escherichia coli cell [15].

Biological context of Harden-Young-Ester

• Administration of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate strongly reduced the increase of plasma lactate dehydrogenase, heart lipid peroxidation, and heart catalase while no effect on the diagnostically irrelevant increase of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was observed [4].
• Glu-187 is a conserved amino acid that is located in the mammalian fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase active site [16].
• In the direction of MgADP phosphorylation, inhibition by anhydromannitol 1,6-bisphosphate is noncompetitive versus MgADP, while Mg-adenosine 5'(beta, gamma-methylene)triphosphate is noncompetitive versus FBP [17].
• Microsequence analysis of a fragment of R40,000 revealed a 15-residue amino acid sequence which shows a high degree of homology to the amino acid sequence of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase from rabbit muscle and rat liver [18].
• Sequence homology among nonconserved residues 357-362 of the COOH-terminal region in fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolases correlates with isozyme classification of aldolases [19].

Anatomical context of Harden-Young-Ester

• The molecular architecture of the rabbit skeletal muscle aldolase (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-lyase, EC 4.1.2.13) tetramer has been determined to 2.7-A resolution [20].
• Three lysosomal proteinases capable of catalyzing a limited modification of the gluconeogenic enzyme fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.11) have been purified from extracts of rabbit liver lysosomes [21].
• Pyruvate kinase isozyme (PK-Greenville) with defective allosteric activation by fructose-1,6-diphosphate: the role of F-1,6-P modulation in normal erythrocyte metabolism [22].
• The interactions of both enzymes with microtubules are modulated by their common intermediate, fructose-1,6-bisphosphate [23].
• However, of the three PFK subunit isoforms (M-[muscle], L-[liver], and C-type, predominant in fibroblasts), only M-type is activated by micromolar F16BP at near-physiological conditions [24].

Associations of Harden-Young-Ester with other chemical compounds

• Aldolase (E.C. 4.1.2.13), a homotetrameric protein encoded by the ALDOA gene, converts fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate [25].
• Disulfides (glutathione disulfide, cystine, cystamine) caused a first-order inactivation of rabbit-muscle fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase at pH values of 7.4 and above [26].
• But in the permeabilized beta cells made by exposure to a low concentration (0.02 U/ml) of streptolysin O (open cell-attached configuration), SNP reopens KATP channels which have been eliminated by fructose-6-phosphate, while this effect was not observed in the KATP channels inhibited by fructose-1,6-bisphosphate [27].
• Iodoacetate (a specific inhibitor of glycolysis) elevated [Ca2+]i and partially prevented these actions of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate [13].
• Proton transport in maize tonoplasts supported by fructose-1,6-bisphosphate cleavage. Pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase as a pyrophosphate-regenerating system [28].

Gene context of Harden-Young-Ester

• Three proteins recognized by these antibodies were identified by partial amino acid sequencing to be glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, and the regulator of chromatin condensation 1 [29].
• The enzymatic assay showed that the MJ0490 protein possesses the fructose-1,6-bisphosphate-activated LDH activity (reduction) [30].
• The Calvin cycle intermediates fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate exerted an inhibitory effect on PGM activity, supporting its proposed involvement in controlling photosynthetic carbon flow [31].
• Characterization of a glucose-repressed pyruvate kinase (Pyk2p) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is catalytically insensitive to fructose-1,6-bisphosphate [32].
• Pyk2p is active without fructose-1,6-bisphosphate [32].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Harden-Young-Ester

• The cooperative binding of the allosteric activator fructose-1,6-bisphosphate [Fru(1,6)P2] to yeast pyruvate kinase was investigated by equilibrium dialysis and fluorescence quench titration [6].
• The fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13) homotetramer has been destabilized by site-directed mutagenesis at the two different subunit interfaces [33].
• 3) By Western blot analysis, this antiserum recognized a maize fructose-1,6-diphosphate aldolase purified to homogeneity [34].
• Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic data for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase from Drosophila melanogaster [35].
• Immunoprecipitation of hybrid-selected translation polypeptides has determined the identity of the cDNA clone for fructose-1,6-diphosphate aldolase mRNA [36].

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