31P‐NMR analysis of Entamoeba histolytica
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- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 214 (3) , 711-718
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb17972.x
Abstract
Perchloric-acid extracts of axenic Entamoeba histolytica were investigated by 31P-NMR spectroscopy. All major 31P resonances observed were assigned to specific compounds. The cells contained inorganic phosphate (1039 nmol/g wet cells), pyrophosphate (16 nmol/g wet cells), nucleoside diphosphates (91 nmol/g wet cells), nucleoside triphosphates (275 nmol/g wet cells), NAD(P) (60 nmol/g wet cells), phosphocholine (184 nmol/g wet cells), phosphoethanolamine (214 nmol/g wet cells), cytidine 5′-diphosphocholine (41 nmol/g wet cells) and cytidine 5′-diphosphoethanol-amine (55 nmol/g wet cells). The latter four compounds may act as intermediates in the salvage pathway for the synthesis of phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine. E. histolytica trophozoites also contained two inositol phosphates in large quantities, InsP3 (0.26 μmol/g wet cells) and InsP7 (0.11 μmol/g wet cells). These components were identified by 31P-NMR, using homonuclear J-resolved and two-dimensional 1H-31P correlative, analyses as myo-inositol trisphosphate, Ins(2,4,6)P3, and pentakisphospho-myo-inositol diphosphate, Ins(1,2,3,4,6)P5(5)P2.Keywords
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