Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase reaction catalyzed

FMN was first identified as the coenzyme of an enzyme system that catalyzes the oxidation of the reduced nicotinamide coenzyme, NADPH (reduced NADP), to NADP (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate). NADP is an essential coenzyme for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase which catalyzes the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconrc acid. This reaction initiates the metabolism of glucose by a pathway other than the TCA cycle (citric acid cycle). The alternative route is known as the phosphoglneonate oxidative pathway, or the hexose monophosphate shunt. The first step is ... 

En mes that use NADPVNADPH Glucose phosphate dehydrogenase Catalyzes reactions in the pentose phosphate pathway... 

Many dehydrogenase enzymes catalyze oxidation/reduction reactions with the aid of nicotinamide cofactors. The electrochemical oxidation of nicotinamide adeniiw dinucleotide, NADH, has been studied in depthThe direct oxidation of NADH has been used to determine concentration of ethanol i s-isv, i62) lactate 157,160,162,163) pyTuvate 1 ), glucose-6-phosphate lactate dehydrogenase 159,161) alanine The direct oxidation often entails such complications as electrode surface pretreatment, interferences due to electrode operation at very positive potentials, and electrode fouling due to adsorption. Subsequent reaction of the NADH with peroxidase allows quantitation via the well established Clark electrode. 

CL reaction can be catalyzed by enzymes other than HRP (e.g., microperoxidase and catalase) and by other substances [hemoglobin, cytochrome c, Fe(III), and other metal complexes]. The presence of suitable molecules such as phenols (p-iodophenol), naphthols (l-bromo-2-naphthol), or amines (p-anisidine) increases the light production deriving from the HRP-catalyzed oxidation of luminol and produces glow-type kinetics [6, 7], The use of other enzymes, such as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase [38-41], P-galactosidase [42], and xanthine oxidase [43-46], as CL labels has been reported. 

Reaction Mechanism and Kinetic Constants for a Reaction Catalyzed by Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase... 

The transketolase and transaldolase reactions are reversible and so allow either the conversion of ribose 5-phosphate into glycolytic intermediates when it is not needed for other cellular reactions, or the generation of ribose 5-phosphate from glycolytic intermediates when more is required. The rate of the pentose phosphate pathway is controlled by NADP+ regulation of the first step, catalyzed by glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. 

Hermes JD, Cleland WW. Evidence from multiple isotope effect determinations for coupled hydrogen motion and tunneling in the reaction catalyzed by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1984 106 7263-7264. 

The direct detection of electrochemical labels entails problems with sensitivity. For this reason the majority of electrochemical immimoassay development has focused on the measurement of enzyme labels by detection of eiectroactive products arising from enzyme catalyzed reactions. A wide variety of enzyme labels have been used for electrochemical immunoassays. These include glucose oxidase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase. ... 

A related oxidation reaction is catalyzed by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, the enzyme that originally attracted Warburg s attention and led to the discovery of NADP. The subsfrafe, the hemiacetal ring form of glucose, is oxidized fo a lactone which is then hydrolyzed to 6-phosphogluconate (Eq. 15-10). This oxidation of an aldehyde to a carboxylic acid is not linked directly to ATP synthesis as in Fig. 15-6. 

As discussed above, an enzymatic reaction is usually found to be more rapid in one direction than the other so that the reaction is virtually irreversible.If the product of the reaction in one direction is removed as it is formed (Le., because it is the substrate of a second enzyme present in the reaction mixture), the equilibrium of the first enzymatic process is displaced so that the reaction may continue to completion in that direction. Reaction sequences in which the product of one enzyme-catalyzed reaction becomes the substrate of another enzyme, often through many stages, are characteristic of metabolic processes. Analytically, several enzymatic reactions also may be Unked together to provide a means of measuring the activity of the first enzyme or the concentration of the initial substrate in the chain. For example, the activity of creatine kinase is usually measured by a series of linked reactions, and glucose can be determined by consecutive reactions catalyzed by hexokinase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. 

Red cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (Chapter 15) can be specifically assayed in a red cell hemolysate. The enzyme catalyzes the reaction... 

The first reaction in this phase is the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phosphoglucono-5-lactone and reduction of NADP+ to NADPH, catalyzed by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) ... 

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