A flavoprotein (FAD). A component of the multienzyme 2-oxo-acid dehydrogenase complexes. In the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, it binds to the core of EC 2.3.1.12, dihydrolipoyllysine-residue acetyltransferase, and catalyses oxidation of its dihydrolipoyl groups. It plays a similar role in the oxoglutarate and 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate dehydrogenase complexes. Another substrate is the dihydrolipoyl group in the H-protein of the glycine-cleavage system ({AminoAcid/GlyCleave} for diagram), in which it acts, together with EC 1.4.4.2, glycine dehydrogenase (decarboxylating), and EC 2.1.2.10, aminomethyltransferase, to break down glycine. It can also use free dihydrolipoate, dihydrolipoamide or dihydrolipoyllysine as substrate. This enzyme was first shown to catalyse the oxidation of NADH by methylene blue; this activity was called diaphorase. The glycine cleavage system is composed of four components that only loosely associate: the P protein (EC 1.4.4.2), the T protein (EC 2.1.2.10), the L protein (EC 1.8.1.4) and the lipoyl-bearing H protein .
A flavoprotein (FAD). A component of the multienzyme 2-oxo-acid dehydrogenase complexes. In the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, it binds to the core of EC 2.3.1.12, dihydrolipoyllysine-residue acetyltransferase, and catalyses oxidation of its dihydrolipoyl groups. It plays a similar role in the oxoglutarate and 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate dehydrogenase complexes. Another substrate is the dihydrolipoyl group in the H-protein of the glycine-cleavage system ({AminoAcid/GlyCleave} for diagram), in which it acts, together with EC 1.4.4.2, glycine dehydrogenase (decarboxylating), and EC 2.1.2.10, aminomethyltransferase, to break down glycine. It can also use free dihydrolipoate, dihydrolipoamide or dihydrolipoyllysine as substrate. This enzyme was first shown to catalyse the oxidation of NADH by methylene blue; this activity was called diaphorase. The glycine cleavage system is composed of four components that only loosely associate: the P protein (EC 1.4.4.2), the T protein (EC 2.1.2.10), the L protein (EC 1.8.1.4) and the lipoyl-bearing H protein [6].
enzyme is inactivated by complex III- but not complex I-derived reactive oxygen species, and the accompanying loss of activity due to the inactivation can be restored by cysteine and glutathione. H2O2 instead of superoxide anion is responsible for the inactivation, and protein sulfenic acid formation is associated with the loss of enzymatic activity
no age-related decline in DLDH activity or expression is evident in rats over the period from 5 to 30 months of age. Lower DLDH dehydrogenase activity observed in pups may be due to NADH inhibition
activity of DLDH dehydrogenase increases in rats between 10 and 20 days of age. Dehydrogenase activity of DLDH shows a further, progressive increase in rats from 20 days to adulthood, in the absence of any further change in DLDH expression or diaphorase activity
30% increase in DLDH expression in rats between 10 and 20 days of age, whereas there is no further increase during the period from 20 to 60 days. Diaphorase activity shows a 46% increase in rats between 10 and 20 days of age, but there is also no further increase between 20 and 60 days. DLDH dehydrogenase activity increases progressively over the period from 10 to 60 days of age (63% between 10 and 20 days, 30% between 20 and 30 days, and 25% between 30 and 60 days of age)
enzyme is inactivated by complex III- but not complex I-derived reactive oxygen species, and the accompanying loss of activity due to the inactivation can be restored by cysteine and glutathione. H2O2 instead of superoxide anion is responsible for the inactivation, and protein sulfenic acid formation is associated with the loss of enzymatic activity
effects of insulin treatment on HuC/HuD myoenteric neurons, NADH diaphorase, and nNOS-positive myoenteric neurons of the duodenum of adult rats with acute diabetes is investigated: The density of NADH diaphorase-positive neurons in animals from the diabetic group and in the insulin treated diabetic group is greater than in the control group, indicating that short-term diabetes increases the activity of respiratory chain enzymes
development of a blue native-PAGE-based method for isolation of enzymatically active DLDH from animal tissues and visualization as well as quantification of its diaphorase activity using the NADH/nitroblue tetrazolium detection system
decreased activity of DLDH induced by valproic acid metabolites may, at least in part, account for the impaired rate of oxygen consumption and ATP synthesis in mitochondria if 2-oxoglutarate or glutamate are used as respiratory substrates, thus limiting the flux of these substrates through the citric acid cycle
brain DLDH expression and activity undergo independent postnatal maturational increases. Senescence does not confer any detectable change in the activity of DLDH or its susceptibility to inactivation by mitochondrial oxidative stress