Disease relevance of ND2

• The antiserum raised against this purified bovine ND2 gene product cross-reacted with the approximately M(r) 39,000 polypeptide extracted from the Paracoccus denitrificans membranes with chloroform-methanol (2:1 [v/v]) [1].

High impact information on ND2

• In bovine ND2, this residue is encoded by the "universal" isoleucine codon AUA, and the sequences of human cytochrome b and bovine ND2 demonstrate that AUA also encodes methionine in the elongation step of mitochondrial protein synthesis [2].
• Principal pI values for the enzymes assayed were as follows: xanthine oxidase, 7.35--7.55; NADH2: iodonitrotetrazolium reductase, less than 4.5; 5'-nucleotidase, 7.15--7.4; alkaline phosphatase, 5.4--5.7; phosphodiesterase, 4.6--4.8; gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, 4.4--4.55 [3].
• An effect of metaphos on the nature of the distribution and kinetics of NADH2-induced death of monoradical spin probes of various chemical structures was detected in a suspension of submitochondrial particles obtained from beef heart [4].
• It has been established by methods of spectrophotometry and spin probe that the organophosphorus pesticide metaphos, widely used in practice, is an inhibitor of NADH2 oxidase of the respiratory chain of the mitochondria and exerts an influence on the structural organization of the mitochondrial membrane [4].

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