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In the subcommissural organ (SCO) of the guinea pig, rat, golden hamster, and mouse the activity and distribution of enzymes related to the energy-supplying metabolism and of some marker enzymes of different cell organelles have been investigated by means of mostly modified histochemical methods. The results were compared with findings in the ciliated ependyma of the ventricular wall and with those in the ependyma of the choroid plexus of the third ventricle. In the ependymal part of the SCO only a moderate activity of hexokinase is observed in its specialized columnar cells whereas a high activity is present both in the ciliated ependyma and the choroid plexus. - The staining pattern of glucose-6-phosphatase is similar to that of hexokinase but this enzyme is found is the SCO only. - Likewise hexokinase, glycogen granules and enzymes related to glycogen metabolism (phosphoglucomutase, uridine-diphosphoglucose pyrophosphorylase, glycogen synthetase and phosphorylase) are regularly found most numerous and active in the nuclear and supra-nuclear area of the ependymal part. These enzymes are less active in both the other ependymal regions. - Uridine-diphosphoglucose dehydrogenase could not be demonstrated in the SCO. The NADP-linked enzymes of the pentose phosphate shunt, glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, show a moderate activity which decreases also from the nuclear towards the apical area of the ependymal cells of the SCO. Enzymes of the glycolytic pathway, such as glucosephosphate isomerase, fructose-6-phosphate kinase, fructose-I,6-diphosphate aldolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and lactate dehydrogenase, are highly active in the SCO and are located mainly in the supranuclear area, too. Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase could not be demonstrated thus indicating that in the SCO the pathway is most probably only glycolytic but not gluconeogenetic. Compared to the ependyma of the ventricular wall and of the choroid plexus, in the SCO the M type subunits of lactate dehydrogenase predominate. Glycolytic enzymes are also very active in the choroid plexus but less in the ciliated ependyma. Compared to the ciliated ependyma and especially to the ependyma of the choroid plexus, the activities of enzymes which are only present in mitochondria (NAD-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, NAD-linked malate dehydrogenase after preextraction, cytochrome oxidase, 3-hydroxybutyrate and glycerolphosphate and glutamate dehydrogenase) are relatively low. Mitochondria are accumulated near the superior pole of the nuclei as well as in the most apical part of the ependymal cells. - The staining pattern of NADP-linked isocitrate and malate dehydrogenase as well as of NADH dehydrogenase suggests that these enzymes are localized both in and out of mitochondria. The extramitochondrial activity of the first two enzymes might be localized in the cytosol. The extramitochondrial activity of NADH dehydrogenase might be localized in the endoplasmic reticulum...
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PMID:Enzymatic organization of the subcommissural organ. 123 49

Exposure of rats to magnetic fields of 10(-3) and 10(-2) T for 1 hr daily generated structural changes in hepatocytes mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and ribosomes. Simultaneously there was an increase in the activities of the mitochrondrial respiratory enzymes: NADH dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, and cytochrome oxidase. The extent of the changes in liver cell properties following exposure depend on the duration of exposure to and the strength of the applied magnetic fields. Ultrastructural studies did not reveal any changes in external membranes of hepatocytes or in the membranes of cell nuclei. An increase in the amount of glycogen in hepatocytes of rats exposed to both 10(-3) and 10(-2) T was noted. The high level of cortisol in serum of exposed rats suggests that magnetic field may be a stress generating factor.
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PMID:Structural and functional changes in organelles of liver cells in rats exposed to magnetic fields. 165 Dec 25

In order to determine the site of PAF synthesis via the remodeling pathway in undifferentiated HL-60 cells, a subcellular fractionation procedure (Ribbes et al., 1985) was adapted to separate various membrane fractions and cellular organelles of HL-60 cells across a Percoll gradient. The profile of alkyllyso-GPC:acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase activity closely paralleled the subcellular distribution of the endoplasmic reticulum marker, NADH dehydrogenase. These data indicate the acetyltransferase in the remodeling pathway of PAF synthesis is located at the same cellular site as the acyltransferase(s) that catalyze the transfer of long-chain acyl moieties from acyl-CoAs to lyso-phospholipids. Also the acetyltransferase in undifferentiated HL-60 cells appears to have a similar intracellular distribution as reported for human neutrophils.
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PMID:Intracellular location of acetyltransferase in the remodeling pathway of PAF biosynthesis in undifferentiated human leukemic cells (HL-60). 213 65

The plasma membrane fraction of chicken osteoclasts was purified utilizing 20% continuous Percoll gradients. Biochemical marker enzyme analysis (ouabain-sensitive Na+,K(+)-ATPase and 5'-nucleotidase) indicated that plasma membrane enrichment was 11.87-fold and 7.25-fold, respectively, and contamination with mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and lysosomes was low as determined by succinic dehydrogenase, NADH dehydrogenase, and N-acetylglucosaminidase activities, respectively. SDS latency of Na+,K(+)-ATPase and 5'-nucleotidase activities of the isolated plasma membranes revealed that 43-50% of vesicles were sealed, with 10-16% in the inside-out orientation, depending on the membrane fraction used. Electron microscopy confirmed the vesicular nature of the plasma membrane fraction. The plasma membrane Ca2(+)-ATPase had a high-affinity (KCa = 0.22 microM; Vmax = 0.16 mumol/mg per min) and a low-affinity (KCa = 148 microM; Vmax = 0.37 mumol/mg per min) component. Calmodulin (0.12 microM) had no effect on Ca2(+)-ATPase activity. However, trifluoperazine (0.1 mM), a calmodulin antagonist, strongly inhibited especially the high-affinity component of the enzyme. Vanadate and lanthanum also caused inhibition. In the presence of CDTA, a potent Ca2+ and Mg2+ chelating agent, high-affinity Ca2(+)-ATPase activity was abolished, indicating that trace Mg2+ was essential for activity. The Ca2(+)-ATPase substrate curve using ATP showed a high-affinity (Km = 12.3 microM; Vmax = 0.022 mumol/mg per min) and a low-affinity (Km = 43.8 microM; Vmax = 0.278 mumol/mg per min) component. These results demonstrate that osteoclasts have a plasma membrane Ca2(+)-ATPase with characteristics similar to the enzyme responsible for active calcium extrusion in other cells.
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PMID:Characterization of a Ca2(+)-ATPase in osteoclast plasma membrane. 214 47

Preexposure of rats to sublethal levels of hyperoxia or ozone reduces morbidity and mortality when the animals are subsequently exposed to lethal levels of either oxidant stress. Lung homogenates and isolated type II pneumocytes from rats exposed to these oxidant stresses demonstrate enhanced antioxidant enzyme activities. Antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase are responsible for the detoxification of partially reduced oxygen species, superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, to less reactive states. Potential pulmonary cellular loci of partially reduced oxygen include mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase, endoplasmic reticulum-derived NADPH cytochrome c reductase, and cytosolic xanthine oxido reductase. Thus partially reduced oxygen species are hypothesized to mediate hyperoxia and ozone-induced pulmonary damage. This damage may be attenuated by enhanced intracellular antioxidant enzyme activities. Pharmacologic augmentation of pulmonary antioxidant enzymes may be accomplished via intratracheal or intravascular delivery of liposomes containing antioxidant enzymes. Rats pretreated with liposomes containing both superoxide dismutase and catalase, when subsequently exposed to lethal levels of hyperoxia, demonstrate enhanced survival compared with control animals or with animals treated with control liposomes or native antioxidant enzymes. Finally, knowledge obtained from in vitro investigations optimizing liposomal delivery to specific pulmonary cell types may further aid in reducing in vivo pulmonary damage to hyperoxia and ozone.
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PMID:Pulmonary metabolism of reactive oxygen species. 306 93

1. Plasma membranes were isolated from Krebs II ascite cells grown in the mouse. Cells were disrupted by nitrogen cavitation in an isotonic alkaline buffer containing magnesium and ATP. Isolation was performed in an alkaline-buffered self-generating gradient of Percoll with an angular rotor. At each step of the preparation, the pH appeared as the critical aspect of our procedure. 2. External membrane markers were concanavalin A and 5'-nucleotidase (EC 3.1.3.5). They reached a relative specific activity of 10, whereas this value was only of 0.7 for the endoplasmic reticulum marker, NADH dehydrogenase (EC 1.6.99.3). 3. Plasma membrane from 4 ml packed cells were isolated within 1 h after homogenization with good yield: 50% and 67% of total [3H]concanavalin A and 5'-nucleotidase, respectively, were recovered in the two plasma membrane fractions. 4. Electron microscopy examination showed the presence of vesicles of different sizes devoid of other structural contaminants. 5. Using the specific binding of concanavalin A to the external cell membrane, it was calculated that about 50% of the total cell phospholipid and 10% protein are located in the plasma membrane. Their sphingomyelin content is much higher than in the whole cell, in contrast to phosphatidylinositol, known as a more specific endoplasmic reticulum phospholipid.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of plasma membranes from krebs II ascite cells using Percoll gradient. 628 35

The reduction and the potential autoxidation of quinoid compounds may be viewed as taking place in three cell compartments. In microsomal fractions (endoplasmic reticulum) one-electron reduction by NAPDH-cytochrome P450 reductase leads to the formation of semiquinones which rapidly react with oxygen to form the parent quinone and superoxide anions. The formation of superoxide through this futile cycle leads ultimately to other damaging species (H2O2 and .OH). A similar futile cycle in mitochondria involves NADH dehydrogenase. In this instance, mitochondria initiation of such a cycle with quinones results not only in the formation of toxic radical species but also in the diversion of electrons from phosphorylating pathways. The consequent diminution of cellular ATP may have as important a consequence with respect to the toxicity of quinones as the generation of radicals. Finally, cytosolic DT diaphorase, which carries out a two-electron reduction of quinones to more stable hydroquinones, may compete with the one-electron systems and participate in the detoxification of quinones by supplying hydroquinones for conjugation reactions. The extent of quinone-induced damage may thus vary from cell to cell depending on the integration of these pathways.
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PMID:Futile redox cycling: implications for oxygen radical toxicity. 631 61

The rate of NADH oxidation with oxygen as the acceptor is very low in mouse liver plasma membrane and erythrocyte membrane. When vanadate is added, this rate is stimulated 10- to 20-fold. The absorption spectrum of vanadate does not change with the disappearance of NADH. The reaction is inhibited by superoxide dismutase, and there is no activity under an argon atmosphere. This indicates that oxygen is the electron acceptor and the reaction is mediated by superoxide. The vanadate stimulation is not limited to plasma membrane. Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum show similar increase in NADH oxidase activity when vanadate is added. The endomembranes have significant vanadate-stimulated activity with both NADH and NADPH. The vanadate-stimulated NADH oxidase in plasma membrane is inhibited by compounds, which inhibit NADH dehydrogenase activity: catechols, anthracycline drugs and manganese. This activity is stimulated by high phosphate and sulfate anion concentrations.
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PMID:Vanadate-stimulated NADH oxidation in plasma membrane. 691 71

The coat protomer complex I (COPI) family of coat proteins are involved in the assembly of membrane-associated coats thought to mediate vesicular transport between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi complex, between adjacent Golgi cisternae, and possibly in the endocytic pathway. We investigated whether this heterogeneity in the sites of COPI action might be reflected in biochemical heterogeneity of one or more COPI subunits. A simplified method was devised to purify the cytosolic COPI precursor complex, coatomer, from rat liver cytosol. The individual subunits were analyzed by high resolution two dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectroscopic analysis of tryptic peptides. Considerable charge heterogeneity was observed, particularly for the beta-COP and delta-COP subunits. The multiple species detected, however, did not appear to reflect the presence of distinct translation products but rather a significant degree of protein phosphorylation. The observed pI of beta-COP was sensitive to alkaline phosphatase digestion. Moreover, isolation of coatomer from metabolically labeled tissue culture cells demonstrated directly that both beta-COP and delta-COP, but no other coatomer subunits, were serine-phosphorylated. COPI phosphorylation may regulate coatomer assembly, membrane recruitment, or the specificity of coatomer-organelle interaction.
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PMID:Biochemical heterogeneity and phosphorylation of coatomer subunits. 863 62

Employing antisera against various subfractions of rat liver mitochondria (mitoplast, inner membrane, intermembrane, and matrix) as well as metabolically radiolabeled BRL-3A rat liver cells, we undertook a search for the presence of glycoproteins in this major cellular compartment for which little information in regard to glycoconjugates was available. Subsequent to [35S]methionine labeling of BRL-3A cells, a peptide:N-glycosidase-sensitive protein (45 kDa) was observed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the inner membrane immunoprecipitate, which was reduced to a molecular mass of 42 kDa by this enzyme. The 45-kDa protein was readily labeled with [2-3H]mannose, and indeed the radioactivity of the inner membrane immunoprecipitate was almost exclusively present in this component. Moreover, antisera directed against mitochondrial NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) or F1F0-ATPase (complex V) also precipitated a 45-kDa protein from BRL-3A cell lysates as the predominant mannose-radiolabeled constituent. Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase completely removed the radiolabel from this glycoprotein, and the released oligosaccharides were of the partially trimmed polymannose type (Glc1Man9GlcNAc to Man8GlcNAc). Cycloheximide as well as tunicamycin resulted in total inhibition of radiolabeling of the inner membrane glycoprotein, and moreover, pulse-chase studies employing metrizamide density gradient centrifugation demonstrated that the glycoprotein was initially present in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequently appeared in a mitochondrial location. Early movement of the glycoprotein to the mitochondria after synthesis in the ER was also evident from the limited processing undergone by its N-linked oligosaccharides; this stood in contrast to lysosomal glycoproteins in which we noted extensive conversion to complex oligosaccharides. Our findings suggest that the 45-kDa glycoprotein migrates from ER to mitochondria by the previously observed contact sites between the two organelles. Furthermore, the presence of this glycoprotein in at least two major mitochondrial multienzyme complexes would be consistent with a role in mitochondrial translocations.
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PMID:Identification of a glycoprotein from rat liver mitochondrial inner membrane and demonstration of its origin in the endoplasmic reticulum. 967 1


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