Metabolites conversion rate

D-Xylulose 5-phosphate (ii-threo-2-pentulose 5-phosphate, XP) stands as an important metabolite of the pentose phosphate pathway, which plays a key fimction in the cell and provides intermediates for biosynthetic pathways. The starting compound of the pathway is glucose 6-phosphate, but XP can also be formed by direct phosphorylation of D-xylulose with li-xylulokinase. Tritsch et al. [114] developed a radiometric test system for the measurement of D-xylulose kinase (XK) activity in crude cell extracts. Aliquots were spotted onto silica plates and developed in n-propyl alcohol-ethyl acetate-water (6 1 3 (v/v) to separate o-xylose/o-xylulose from XP. Silica was scraped off and determined by liquid scintillation. The conversion rate of [ " C]o-xylose into [ " C]o-xylulose 5-phosphate was calculated. Some of the works devoted to the separation of components necessary while analyzing enzyme activity are presented in Table 9.8. 

The relevant relaxation times of a culture system are determined by the actual cell density and the specific conversion rate (capacity) of the culture, i. e. by one or more operational and state variables (for instance feed rate and the concentrations or activities of cell mass and of effectors, if relevant) and inherent characteristic properties of the biosystem which are parameters. There are metabolites with a long lifetime and other (key) metabolites with very short... 

Ethylene glycol is sometimes used in suicide attempts. It is not itself toxic, but is converted to toxic metabolites. Conversion to glycoaldehyde by alcohol dehydrogenase is the rate-limiting step, and further metabohsm jdelds gly-colate, glyoxylate, and oxalate. 

A. The antimetabolite plays the role of a substrate If the antimetabolite is capable of undergoing the enzyme-catalyzed reaction with the resulting dissociation of the enzyme-antimetabolite complex into (abnormal) produces) and the free enzyme, then it may be considered an abnormal substrate, or substitute metabolite. As such, it will competitively interfere with the transformation of the normal metabolite the extent of such interference depends on the relative affinity of the antimetabolite for the enzyme as well as on the rate of its conversion and subsequent release by the enzyme (i.e., the turn-over rate of the enzyme-antimetabolite complex). In the extreme (but important) case when the affinity is very high and the turnover rate very low, such antimetabolites act, in effect, as potent enzyme inhibitors, rather than as substitute metabolites (see B.iii) below). In the majority of cases, those classical antimetabolites which are capable of undergoing the enzyme-catalyzed reaction, having affinities and conversion rates comparable to those of the corresponding normal metabolites, exert only a partial and temporary inhibition at those steps of the metabolic pathway in which they themselves are metabolized, and therefore, their effective action as metabolic inhibitors will depend on their inhibition of other targets and on subsequent metabolic events (see Section 2.3.). 

A final test of the intracellular fluxes determined by metabolite balancing was provided through comparison with the predictions of a first-order kinetic model describing the oxidation of pulsed [ C]-indene to all detectable indene derivatives in steady state cells. Assuming Michaelis-Menten kinetics for a typical reaction depicted in Fig. 4, the rate of labeled metabolite conversion by that reaction can be expressed as... 

The primary objective functions for production of metabolites are to maximize the concentration (to minimize recovery costs) while maintaining high conversion yields of costly raw materials to the product, under conditions of high volumetric productivity (to reduce capital cost). The usual approach is to rapidly produce a high cell concentration under conditions that maximize the conversion rate of raw materials to the desired product. 

For enrofloxacin, there is an additional consideration in relation to pharmacokinetic and residue profiles, in that it is metabolized in the liver to a micro-biologically active metabolite, ciprofloxacin, by a deethylation reaction. In cattle and calf conversion rates, from enrofloxacin to ciprofloxacin, are 25% and 41%, respectively. Residues are measured as the sum of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin. In poultry, pigs, and flsh, much smaller amounts of ciprofloxacin are formed. Nevertheless, in chickens, ciprofloxacin residues were detectable 12 days after dosing with enrofloxacin. Ciprofloxacin itself is converted to minor metabolites with no antibacterial activity. Nevertheless, metabolites are of residue concern, and tissue depletion profiles were studied in broiler chickens by Anaddn et al. The data in Table 2.6 illustrate the rapid conversion of ciprofloxacin to oxociprofloxacin and desethyleneciprofloxacin (Tmax <1-0 h), the accumulation... 

The reports mentioned above provide a systematic coverage of the nonimmobi-lized enzymatic reactors used in biocatalytic reactions under continuous flow operation. Results from microreactor experiments were comparatively higher than conventionally mixed batch reactors in terms of conversion rate and improvement of product yield as demonstrated for hydrolysis [140], dehalogenation [141], oxidation [142], esteriflcation [143], synthesis of isoamyl acetate [144,145], synthesis of cyanohydrins [147,148], synthesis of chiral metabolites [153], reduction [151], and bioluminescent reaction [149]. The small volumes involved and the favorable mass transfer inherent to these devices make them particularly useful for the screening of biocatalysts and rapid characterization of bioconversion systems. The remarkable results of such studies revealed that the product yield could be enhanced significantly in comparison with the conventional batch runs. 

Plant biotransformation parallels liver biotransformation and is conceptually divided into three phases. Phase I typically consist of oxidative transformations in which polar functional groups such as OH, NH2, or SH are introduced. However, reductive reactions have been observed for certain nitroaromatic compounds. Phase II involves conjugation reactions that result in the formation of water soluble compounds such as glucosides, glutathiones, amino acids, and malonyl conjugates or water-insoluble compounds that are later incorporated or bound into cell wall biopolymers. In animals, these water-soluble Phase H metabolites would typically be excreted. In Phase III, these substances are compartmentalized in the plant vacuoles or cell walls. For additional details, the reader is referred to reviews on the subject by Komossa and Sandermann (1995), Pflugmacher and Sandermann (1998), and Burken (2003). Enzymatic conversion rates typically follow Michaelis-Menten kinetics and are temperature-dependent (Larsen et al., 2005 Yu et al., 2004,2005, 2007). 

The basic clinical tool used at the present time Is the competitive ligand binding assay for 25-OH-D. Although concentrations are low In the serum of patients with osteomalacia and v . tamln D deficiency rickets, we have recently noted the Interesting paradox that levels can be only 1/2 normal In the face of oyert bone disease (32). This had led us to propose that substrate levels of 25-OH-D3 available to the hydroxylase In kidney which Is responsible for the conversion of 25-OH-D3 to the tissue active metabolite, l,25(OH)2D3, may be rate limiting for this enzyme. 

A sex difference in the rate of conversion of DIMP to its primary metabolite was observed after intravenous administration of 14C-DIMP in rats (Bucci et al. 1992). The males appeared to convert DIMP to IMPA more actively than the females. The apparent plasma elimination half-life of DIMP was about 45 minutes in males and up to 250 minutes in females. Both the rate and total excretion of the administered dose in urine were also higher in male rats. However, this sex difference was not observed for orally-administered DIMP in minks (Bucci et al. 1992 Weiss et al. 1994). 

Also, if conversion of drug to active metabolite shows significant departure from linear pharmacokinetics, it is possible that small differences in the rate of absorption of the parent drug (even within the 80-125% range for log transformed data) could result in clinically significant differences in the concentration/ time profiles for the active metabolite. When reliable data indicate that this situation may exist, a requirement of quantification of active metabolites in a bioequivalency study would seem to be fully justified. 

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