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Energy metabolism in the developing larval stages of Ancylostoma tubaeforme and Haemonchus contortus: glycolytic and tncarboxylic acid cycle enzymes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

C. O. E. Onwuliri
C. O. E. Onwuliri
Affiliation:
Parasitic Nematodes Research Project, Department of Zoology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
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The activities of glycolytic and related enzymes and the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes were measured in freshly isolated 1st- (Li), 2nd- (L2) and 3rd-stage (L3) larvae of both Ancylostoma tubaeforme and Haemonchus contortus. All enzymes of the glycolytic pathway were present in all developmental stages of both strongylid nematodes although higher levels of activities were obtained in the pre-infective 1st- and 2nd-stage larvae than in the infective 3rd stage. However, the pre-infective larvae contained lower levels of pyruvate kinase (PK) than the infective larvae. Consequently, the pyruvate kinase to phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) ratios were 0·23 and 0·26 for the L1s and L2s for A. tubaeforme and 0·36 and 0·21 for those of H. contortus respectively. High levels of activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase obtained in the bacteriophagous pre-infective larvae were consistent with high rates of morphogenesis and substrate synthesis characteristic of the pre-infective stages. All the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes were present in the infective larvae of both nematodes while in the pre-infective Li and L2 stages, the enzymes at the beginning of the cycle, namely aconitate hydratase and NAD-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase, were not detected. A scheme was proposed for the energy metabolism of these developing larvae. In this scheme, the pre-infective larvae were shown to operate an anaerobic metabolic pathway involving the carboxylation of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) by phosphoenolpyru vate carboxykinase (PEPCK) to form oxaloacetate (OAA), whereas in the infective larvae the metabolic pathway favouring the direct dephosphorylation of PEP, as in vertebrate tissues, was followed.

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Parasitology , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 169 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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