|
July 2014 Vol. 3 Issue
7
Other viewing option
Abstract
•
Full
text
•Reprint
(PDF) (144 KB)
Search Pubmed for articles by:
Flores-Encarnacion M
Cabrera-Maldonado C
Other links:
PubMed Citation
Related articles in PubMed
|
|
Global Advanced Research Journal
of Medicine and Medical Sciences (GARJMMS) ISSN: 2315-5159
July 2014 Vol. 3(7), pp.
132-138
Copyright © 2014 Global Advanced
Research Journals
Review
|
A
bacterial novel
quinone participating in multiple functions in
higher organisms
Marcos Flores-Encarnación1*,
Jennifer Yanine González-Gutiérrez1,
Daniela Amador-Bravo1, Luis Alejandro
Bravo-Juárez1, and
Carlos Cabrera-Maldonado2
1Laboratorio
de Microbiología Molecular y Celular. Facultad de
Medicina. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
2Dpto.
de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas,
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
*Corresponding Author E-mail:
mflores31@hotmail.com; Phone:
+52222 5530754
Accepted 07 July, 2014
|
|
Abstract |
|
The
quinoproteins are a group
of enzymes that
use as
cofactor to a quinone novel,
pyrroloquinoline quinone
(PQQ). The
most widely enzymes studied
are the bacterial
periplasmic
dehydrogenases
that oxidize
sugars, alcohols,
aldehydes and some decarboxylases
and oxidases
containing
PQQ have been studied also.
In higher
organisms have been
reported multiple functions
that involved the
PQQ, such as
free radical scavenger,
inhibitor of cataracts, as
promoter of animal and plant
growth and development. Also
It increases the cognitive capacity and favors the
energy metabolism on having increased the number of
mitocondrias in the tissues,
among others.
The present review trying to approach some of the
most relevant aspects of
the role
of a novel
quinone (PQQ)
in higher organisms.
Keywords: PQQ,
Quinoprotein, Quinone, Enzymes.
|
| |
|
