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Stimulation of glutamine metabolism by 3-aminopicolinate in isolated dog kidney-cortex tubules.
Published Feb 15, 1983 ยท D. Durozard, G. Baverel
The Biochemical journal
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Abstract
1. The effects of 3-aminopicolinate, a known hyperglycaemic agent in the rat, on glutamine metabolism were studied in isolated dog kidney tubules. 2. 3-Aminopicolinate greatly stimulated glutamine (but not glutamate) removal and glutamate accumulation from glutamine as well as formation of ammonia, aspartate, lactate, alanine and glucose. 3. The increased accumulation of aspartate from glutamine and glutamate, and the inhibition of glucose synthesis from various non-nitrogenous gluconeogenic substrates, as well as the increased accumulation of malate from succinate, support the proposal that 3-aminopicolinate is an inhibitor rather than a stimulator of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (EC 4.1.1.32) in dog kidney tubules. 4. With glutamine as substrate, the increase in flux through glutamate dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.1.3) could not explain the large increase in glutamine removal caused by 3-aminopicolinate. 5. Inhibition by amino-oxyacetate of accumulation of aspartate and alanine from glutamine caused by 3-aminopicolinate did not prevent the acceleration of glutamine utilization. 6. These data are consistent with a direct stimulation of glutaminase (EC 3.5.1.2) by 3-aminopicolinate in dog kidney tubules.
In Vitro Study3-aminopicolinate stimulates glutamine metabolism in dog kidney tubules, resulting in increased glutamate removal and formation of various compounds.
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