Route of Elimination: Animal studies indicate that metabolism is the major elimination pathway for sodium oxybate, producing carbon dioxide and water via the tricarboxylic acid (Krebs) cycle and secondarily by beta-oxidation. Succinic acid enters the Krebs cycle where it is metabolized to carbon dioxide and water. Fecal and renal excretion is negligible.
5% renal elimination.
Half Life: 30 to 60 minutes
GHB reaches much higher concentrations in the brain and activates GABAB receptors, which are primarily responsible for its sedative effects. GHB receptors are densely expressed in many areas of the brain, including the cortex and hippocampus, and these are the receptors that GHB displays the highest affinity for. There has been somewhat limited research into the GHB receptor; however, there is evidence that activation of the GHB receptor in some brain areas results in the release of glutamate, the principal excitatory neurotransmitter.
Activation of both the GHB receptor and GABA(B) is responsible for the addictive profile of GHB. GHB's effect on dopamine release is biphasic,[19] low concentrations stimulate dopamine release via the GHB receptor.[20] Higher concentrations inhibit dopamine release via GABA(B) receptors as do other GABA(B) agonists such as baclofen and phenibut.[21] After an initial phase of inhibition, dopamine release is then increased via the GHB receptor. This explains the paradoxical mix of sedative and stimulatory properties of GHB, as well as the so-called "rebound" effect, experienced by individuals using GHB as a sleeping agent, wherein they awake suddenly after several hours of GHB-induced deep sleep. That is to say that, over time, the concentration of GHB in the system decreases below the threshold for significant GABAB receptor activation and activates predominantly the GHB receptor, leading to wakefulness.
来源:Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB)
毒理性
致癌物分类
对人类不具有致癌性(未被国际癌症研究机构IARC列名)。
No indication of carcinogenicity to humans (not listed by IARC).
来源:Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB)
毒理性
健康影响
长期高水平的4-羟基丁酸与称为4-羟基丁酸尿症/琥珀酸半醛脱氢酶缺乏的遗传代谢错误有关。
Chronically high levels of 4-hydroxybutyric acid are associated with the inborn errors of metabolism called: 4-Hydroxybutyric Aciduria/Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency.
COPOLYMER COMPRISING 4-HYDROXYBUTYRATE UNIT AND LACTATE UNIT AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD
申请人:Park Si-Jae
公开号:US20100222545A1
公开(公告)日:2010-09-02
The present invention relates to a copolymer comprising 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer unit and lactate monomer unit, a copolymer 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer unit, lactate monomer unit and 3-hydroxyalkanoate, or their preparing method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for preparing a copolymer comprising lactate monomer; 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer; and optionally 3-hydroxyalkanoate, wherein the method comprises culturing a cell or plant comprising the gene of enzyme converting lactate and 3-hydroxyalkanoate into lactyl-CoA and 3-hydroxyalkanoyl-CoA, respectively, phosphotransbutylase gene, butyrate kinase gene and polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase gene together, and the copolymer made by the method. The copolymer of the present invention is a biodegradable polymer being able to be usefully used instead of conventional synthetic plastic, and the copolymer can be used for medical use.
Copolymer comprising 4-hydroxybutyrate unit and lactate unit and its manufacturing method
申请人:Park Si-Jae
公开号:US08383379B2
公开(公告)日:2013-02-26
The present invention relates to a copolymer comprising 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer unit and lactate monomer unit, a copolymer 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer unit, lactate monomer unit and 3-hydroxyalkanoate, or their preparing method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for preparing a copolymer comprising lactate monomer; 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer; and optionally 3-hydroxyalkanoate, wherein the method comprises culturing a cell or plant comprising the gene of enzyme converting lactate and 3-hydroxyalkanoate into lactyl-CoA and 3-hydroxyalkanoyl-CoA, respectively, phosphotransbutylase gene, butyrate kinase gene and polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase gene together, and the copolymer made by the method. The copolymer of the present invention is a biodegradable polymer being able to be usefully used instead of conventional synthetic plastic, and the copolymer can be used for medical use.
Kinetics aspects of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase
作者:Esther S. Taxon、Lila P. Halbers、Stanley M. Parsons
DOI:10.1016/j.bbapap.2020.140376
日期:2020.5
metabolically related enzymes, the Group III family of Fe2+-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) and the separate subfamily of nucleoside diphosphates linked to x (nudix) hydrolases that activate Group III ADHs are under-characterized. Here we report the steady-state initial-velocity forward direction (alcohol → aldehyde) reaction of a Group III ADH, namely gamma-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (GHBDH, UniProt:
Identification of Missing Genes and Enzymes for Autotrophic Carbon Fixation in
<i>Crenarchaeota</i>
作者:W. Hugo Ramos-Vera、Michael Weiss、Eric Strittmatter、Daniel Kockelkorn、Georg Fuchs
DOI:10.1128/jb.01156-10
日期:2011.3
ABSTRACT
Two autotrophic carbon fixation cycles have been identified in
Crenarchaeota
. The dicarboxylate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle functions in anaerobic or microaerobic autotrophic members of the
Thermoproteales
and
Desulfurococcales
. The 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle occurs in aerobic autotrophic
Sulfolobales
; a similar cycle may operate in autotrophic aerobic marine
Crenarchaeota
. Both cycles form succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA) from acetyl-CoA and two molecules of inorganic carbon, but they use different means. Both cycles have in common the (re)generation of acetyl-CoA from succinyl-CoA via identical intermediates. Here, we identified several missing enzymes/genes involved in the seven-step conversion of succinyl-CoA to two molecules of acetyl-CoA in
Thermoproteus neutrophilus
(
Thermoproteales
),
Ignicoccus hospitalis
(
Desulfurococcales
), and
Metallosphaera sedula
(
Sulfolobales
). The identified enzymes/genes include succinyl-CoA reductase, succinic semialdehyde reductase, 4-hydroxybutyrate-CoA ligase, bifunctional crotonyl-CoA hydratase/(
S
)-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, and beta-ketothiolase. 4-Hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase, which catalyzes a mechanistically intriguing elimination of water, is well conserved and rightly can be considered the key enzyme of these two cycles. In contrast, several of the other enzymes evolved from quite different sources, making functional predictions based solely on genome interpretation difficult, if not questionable.
Malonic Semialdehyde Reductase, Succinic Semialdehyde Reductase, and Succinyl-Coenzyme A Reductase from
<i>Metallosphaera sedula</i>
: Enzymes of the Autotrophic 3-Hydroxypropionate/4-Hydroxybutyrate Cycle in
<i>Sulfolobales</i>
作者:Daniel Kockelkorn、Georg Fuchs
DOI:10.1128/jb.00794-09
日期:2009.10.15
ABSTRACT
A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle operates during autotrophic CO
2
fixation in various members of the
Crenarchaea
. In this cycle, as determined using
Metallosphaera sedula
, malonyl-coenzyme A (malonyl-CoA) and succinyl-CoA are reductively converted via their semialdehydes to the corresponding alcohols 3-hydroxypropionate and 4-hydroxybutyrate. Here three missing oxidoreductases of this cycle were purified from
M. sedula
and studied. Malonic semialdehyde reductase, a member of the 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase family, reduces malonic semialdehyde with NADPH to 3-hydroxypropionate. The latter compound is converted via propionyl-CoA to succinyl-CoA. Succinyl-CoA reduction to succinic semialdehyde is catalyzed by malonyl-CoA/succinyl-CoA reductase, a promiscuous NADPH-dependent enzyme that is a paralogue of aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase. Succinic semialdehyde is then reduced with NADPH to 4-hydroxybutyrate by succinic semialdehyde reductase, an enzyme belonging to the Zn-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase family. Genes highly similar to the
Metallosphaera
genes were found in other members of the
Sulfolobales
. Only distantly related genes were found in the genomes of autotrophic marine
Crenarchaeota
that may use a similar cycle in autotrophic carbon fixation.