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Query: EC:1.16.3.1 (ceruloplasmin)
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The purification of the pregnancy zone protein by means of immunoadsorbents is described. The pregnancy zone protein antibody was isolated from an absorbed rabbit antiserum and coupled with CNBr-activated sepharose. The pregnancy zone protein was isolated from pregnancy serum by the specific antibody cross-linked with sepharose. Contaminating serum proteins were eliminated by "inverse" immunoadsorption using antibodies against these proteins coupled with sepharose. An immunoelectrophoretically pure pregnancy zone protein was obtained. By means of a combination of immunoprecipitation and enzyme reaction in agar gel could be excluded that the pregnancy zone protein possesses activities of the following 11 enzymes: ceruloplasmin, leucine amino peptidase, alkaline phosphatase, carboxylic esterase, lactate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphat-dehydrogenase, cholinesterase, acetyl cholinesterase and oxytocinase.
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PMID:[Isolation of "pregnancy-zone" proteins using immuno absorbents and study of possible enzyme activities]. 17 12

Three stages can be distinguished in the evolution of HA titer during Sendai virus multiplication in chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) fragments in relation to the age of CAM and conditions of inoculation and maintenance. Ceruloplasmin has an inhibitory effect on virus multiplication, more marked in the case of stationarily maintained CAM fragments and dependent on the relationship between the moment of ceruloplasmin addition and of virus inoculation. Maximum inhibition is achieved by inoculation of Sendai virus (1 Ha u) after 4 1/2-hour preincubation with ceruloplasmin (5 x 10(-7)M). The experimental data plead for the formation of a virus-ceruloplasmin complex able to inhibit both penetration and release of virus synthesized in the cell.
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PMID:Effect of ceruloplasmin on Sendai virus multiplication in chorioallantoic membrane fragments. 17 90

Binuclear cupric ion clusters have been established in: human ceruloplasmin, hemocyanin, and mushroom tyrosinase. Substantial evidence makes it very probable that fungal laccase and zucchini ascorbate oxidase contain this cluster. Some evidence makes it possible that copper clusters function in the catalytic cycles of cytochrome oxidase (mammalian) and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase. These studies throw light on the criteria which must be employed to establish the existence of functional binuclear copper clusters in enzymes: (1) Stoichiometric Criteria: binding of O2 and CO with Cu/ligand = 2; redox titrations with n = 2; (2) Physical and Chemical Criteria: magnetic evidence of diminished paramagnetism of cupric centers, EPR evidence of broadened or absent absorptions, EPR evidence of magnetic dipolar interactions among cupric ions; absorption bands characteristic of Cu(II)-Cu(II) complexes; laser resonance raman scattering characteristic of peroxidic dioxygen in the oxyforms.
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PMID:Binuclear copper clusters as active sites for oxidases. 18 78

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy was used to examine changes in the concentration of paramagnetic metal ions in Yoshida tumours carried by female Wistar rats. Blood, spleen and lymph nodes from these animals were also examined by ESR. A decrease in the concentration of a paramagnetic species associated with mitochondrial activity, and marked increases in those thought to be associated with inflammatory or immune reactions and cell lysis, were observed in the tumours within one day of implantation. During development of the tumour, and during its regression after treatment with methylene dimethane sulphonate (MDMS), further changes were observed in the concentration of the species. These were dependent on the region of the tumour examined. In blood, development of the tumour produced an increase in ceruloplasmin and a decrease in iron-transferrin. An increase in spleen weight, as the tumour developed, was accompanied by a small decrease in the concentration of species with g-values of 6-0 and 4-3, which was reversed on regression of the treated tumour. The presence of metastases in the regional lymph nodes produced distinguishable changes in the ESR spectra.
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PMID:Electron spin resonance study of changes during development of solid yoshida tumour. II. Paramagnetic metal ions. 18 10

The evidence that the acute phase glycoproteins of plasma are synthesized by the liver parenchymal cells is critically examined, and is found to be inconclusive. Some evidence is cited which favors the reticulo-endothelial system (RES) in general, and Kupffer cells in particular, as the site of synthesis of these proteins: 1. The entire RES contains non-glycogenic periodic acid Schiff-positive substances. 2. The diseases which affect glycoprotein levels are also known to affect the function of the RES. 3. When the animal is subjected to stress, the RES function is initially depressed and then stimulated. A similar biphasic behavior is shown by plasma glycoprotein levels. 4. Adrenal cortico-steriods are the major regulators of the RES function and of the synthesis of acute phase proteins. Moreover, both are stimulated at low concentrations, and depressed at high concentrations of the hormone. Some of the glycoproteins of the acute phase (prothrombin, the third component of complement, haptoglobin, transferrin and ceruloplasmin) have defense-related functions. The others seem to participate in phenomena like detoxification, promotion of phagocytosis, wound healing, prevention of tissue injury by lysosomal enzymes, prevention of trauma and recovery from inflammation. It is proposed that the acute phase proteins, together with antibodies, form major components of the definse system, and the RES attempts to deal with injury by mobilization of increased amounts of these substances.
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PMID:The site of synthesis and functions of acute phase plasma proteins: close relationship with the reticulo-endothelial system. 19 83

Electron spin-echo decay envelopes for types I and II copper of Rhus vernicifera laccase and for type II copper of procine ceruloplasmin have been studied. Nuclear modulation patterns show that imidazole is a ligand for all of them. The linear electric field effect (LEFE) in EPR was studied for type I copper in a laccase preparation from which type II had been removed. The symmetry of the site is near tetrahedral and the magnitude of the LEFE is correlated with the intensity of blue color.
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PMID:Pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance studies of types I and II coper of Rhus vernicifera laccase and porcine ceruloplasmin. 19 89

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) analysis of frozen serum from myocardial infarction patients has been conducted. Signal at g=4.3 was found definitively attributable to iron(III)-transferrin complex. Imcrease of serum ceruloplasmin as compared to normal was confirmed, with a concomitant decrease of iron-transferrin content. A mechanism for such correlated variation is hypothesized.
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PMID:EPR study of serum ceruloplasmin and iron transferrin in myocardial infarction. 20 79

Alpha-1-antitrypsin was demonstrated both by immunofluorescence and immunoperoxidase techniques in the peripheral islet cells of 15 normal human pancreases, processed freshly and after embedding in paraffin. Normal human liver obtained from the same patients was negative. The immunohistochemical reactions were stronger in frozen sections than in paraffin material. However, immunoperoxidase staining on paraffin sections permitted a more precise localization of positive cells. The specificity of the immunohistochemical reactions was confirmed by applying various control tests including a absorption of the specific antisera with purified alpha-1-antitrypsin, inhibition and blocking tests. Further examination of pancreatic tissue for the presence of various immunoglobulins, alpha-1-lipoproteins, alpha-1-acid glycoproteins and ceruloplasmin were negative. These findings suggest that the pancreatic islets may be an extra source of alpha-1-antitrypsin.
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PMID:Immunohistochemical demonstration of alpha-1-antitrypsin in the islet cells of human pancreas. 20 15

The results obtained by immunization of rabbits with different Sendai virus antigens (whole virus, envelope fragments and partially purified nucleoprotein) previously incubated with homologous ceruloplasmin confirm the hypothesis of a common protein support for both hemagglutinin and neuraminidase activities, demonstrate the participation of ceruloplasmin in the immune mechanism and reveal the role of the carbohydrate moiety of the glycoprotein in immune response. The probable mechanism of interaction between ceruloplasmin and Sendai virus envelope glycoprotein is discussed.
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PMID:Interaction between ceruloplasmin and Sendai virus envelope components. Note VI. Effect of ceruloplasmin on the antigenicity of Sendai virus and subviral fractions. 20 45

Study of the interactions of homogenous human ceruloplasmin preparations with histamine show that the rate of p-phenylene diamine oxidation by ceruloplasmin is increased in the presence of histamine; the increase in the enzyme activity is independent of histamine concentration. The dependence of the reaction rate on substrate concentration is S-shaped, both in the presence and in the absence of histamine. The respective values of the Hill coefficient and Rs for the enzyme in the presence and in the absence of histamine are 2.5 and 2.0 and 8.0 and 10.4. Histamine does not change ceruloplasmin-specific absorption at 610 nm. Evidence from EPR studies show that histamine does not interact with Cu of the enzyme active center. During interaction with histamine the antigenic properties of the enzyme are changed. Histamine increases the oxidase activity of the enzyme in human and rat blood sera and exerts multifold effects on the enzyme activity in patients with hepatolenticular degeneration. After injection of histamine to rats the enzyme activity is increased without a simultaneous increase in Cu concentration in the blood serum, i.e. without de novo synthesis of ceruloplasmin. The data obtained suggest that ceruloplasmin is probably an allosteric enzyme, which histamine is its positive allosteric effector.
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PMID:[Allosteric regulation of ceruloplasmin activity]. 20 63


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