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Query: EC:2.4.2.30 (PARP)
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Pertussis toxin is an ADP-ribosyltransferase which alters the function of some of the GTP-binding proteins and inhibits some actions of insulin. In vivo, pertussis toxin (2 micrograms/ml/2h) inhibited insulin-stimulated tyrosyl autophosphorylation of the insulin receptor by 50% in FaO cells, and nearly completely inhibited phosphorylation of the cellular insulin receptor substrate pp185. Similarly, insulin-stimulated autophosphorylation and kinase activity of the insulin receptor purified on wheat germ agglutinin-agarose from pertussis toxin-treated FaO cells was diminished 50%; however, treatment of cells with the catalytically inactive B-oligomer of the toxin had no effect on receptor tyrosine kinase activity in vitro. Pertussis toxin did not alter insulin binding or the cellular levels of ATP, cAMP, and cGMP. Furthermore, immunoprecipitation of the insulin receptor from intact cells with anti-insulin receptor antibodies showed that pertussis toxin did not increase the phosphorylation of serine or threonine residues in the insulin receptor. These results suggest that pertussis toxin can modulate signal transduction of insulin at the level of the insulin receptor kinase.
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PMID:Pertussis toxin inhibits autophosphorylation and activation of the insulin receptor kinase. 172 5

the introduction of two amino acid substitutions within the enzymatically active subunit S1 of pertussis toxin (PT) abolishes its ADP-ribosyltransferase activity and toxicity on CHO cells (Pizza et al., Science 246:497-500, 1989). These genetically inactivated molecules are also devoid of other in vivo adverse reactions typical of PT, such as induction of leukocytosis, potentiation of anaphylaxis, stimulation of insulin secretion, and histamine sensitivity. However, the mutant PT molecules are indistinguishable from wild-type PT in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and maintain all the physical and chemical properties of PT, including affinity for toxin-neutralizing poly- and monoclonal antibodies. Either alone or stabilized with formaldehyde, PT mutants are able to induce high levels of neutralizing antibodies and to protect mice in a dose-dependent fashion against intracerebral challenge with virulent B. pertussis. These results clearly show that these genetically inactivated PT molecules are nontoxic but still immunogenic and justify their development as a component of a new, safer acellular vaccine against whooping cough.
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PMID:Characterization of genetically inactivated pertussis toxin mutants: candidates for a new vaccine against whooping cough. 232 18

To analyze a possible involvement of ADP-ribosylation reactions in 3T3-L1 pre-adipocyte differentiation. ADP-ribosyltransferase activities is permeabilized cells as well as endogenous amounts of protein-bound mono- and poly(ADP-ribose) residues were determined. Also, in vivo labeling with [3H]adenosine of ADP-ribose residues linked to high-mobility-group (HMG) proteins was performed. As an additional probe, the effects of ADP-ribosylation inhibitors and non-inhibitory analogs were studied. Basal and total poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activities markedly increased prior to the appearance of the differentiation marker glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Despite these apparent changes in activity, however, neither protein-bound poly(ADP-ribose) residue nor mono(ADP-ribosyl) groups in histones, nor the NAD content, changed significantly under these conditions. Furthermore, although HMG protein-associated [3H]ADP-ribose was reduced in differentiating [3H]adenosine-labeled cells, the data suggest altered precursor pool labeling rather than a specific decrease in ADP-ribosylated HMG proteins. Non-participation of ADP-ribosylation reactions in 3T3-L1 differentiation is further supported by experiments with inhibitors and non-inhibitory analogs. Benzamide at 0.3-3 mM per se without effect on differentiation, was able to induce specific gene expression when combined with insulin (10(-12)-10(-7) M). Similar effects were seen with benzoate as well as with nicotinamide, 3-aminobenzamide and their corresponding acids. The data indicate that benzamide and analogs have profound effects on chromatin functions that are not mediated by ADP-ribosylation reactions.
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PMID:Differentiation of 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes induced by inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and by related noninhibitory acids. 252 99

Islet-activating protein (IAP), pertussis toxin, is an oligomeric protein (Tamura, M., Nogimori, K., Murai, S., Yajima, M., Ito, K., Katada, T., Ui, M., and Ishii, S. (1982) Biochemistry 21, 5516-5522), the biggest subunit (Mr = 28,000, referred to as the A-protomer) of which catalyzes transfer of the ADP-ribose moiety of NAD to the membrane Mr = 41,000 protein. The pentamer, termed the B-oligomer, consisting of the residual subunits was the moiety of IAP that was responsible for binding to the cell surface, as revealed by competitive inhibition of the development of the IAP actions on intact rat C6 glioma cells and rat adipocytes. The binding of the B-oligomer to its receptor proteins was divalent via the constituent two dimers; it stimulated mitosis of lymphocytes and caused an insulin-like action to enhance glucose oxidation in adipocytes, just as did concanavalin A, presumably as a result of cross-linking or aggregation of the membrane proteins. The A-promoter displayed its biological action on adipocytes only when the B-oligomer had been bound to the cells. Thus, IAP is a typical A-B toxin in which the B-oligomer is first bound to the cell surface proteins to enable the A-protomer to reach to the site of its action within the cell. Diverse biological actions of pertussis toxin may be accounted for by the mitogenic action of the B-oligomer as well as ADP-ribosyltransferase activity of the A-promoter.
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PMID:A role of the B-oligomer moiety of islet-activating protein, pertussis toxin, in development of the biological effects on intact cells. 634 81

Chemical modification of amino groups in the molecule of islet-activating protein (IAP), pertussis toxin, resulted in differential modification of biological activities of the toxin estimated in vivo with rats. Acetamidination of epsilon-amino groups of 50% (or more) of lysine residues in the IAP molecule totally abolished the lymphocytosis-promoting activity, but exerted no effects on the epinephrine-hyperglycemia inhibitory activity, of the toxin. Both activities were abolished by acylation of 50% or more of the amino groups probably due to the destruction of the toxin's quarternary structure. In contrast, the subunit assembly of IAP was maintained after exhaustive acetamidination of its lysine residues. The ADP-ribosyltransferase (or NAD-glycohydrolase) activity of the A-promoter (the biggest subunit) of IAP, which is responsible for the principal action of the toxin, enhancing insulin secretory responses and thereby inhibiting epinephrine hyperglycemia, was not affected by acetamindination of lysine residues. Thus, the A-protomer moiety of IAP is not directly involved in, but the amino groups of lysine residues in other subunits are selectively essential for, the development of the toxin-induced lymphocytosis.
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PMID:Chemical modification of islet-activating protein, pertussis toxin. Essential role of free amino groups in its lymphocytosis-promoting activity. 654 Oct 59

Activation of the nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is an early response of cells exposed to DNA-damaging compounds such as nitric oxide (NO) or reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI). Excessive poly-(ADP-ribose) formation by PARP has been assumed to deplete cellular NAD+ pools and to induce the death of several cell types, including the loss of insulin-producing islet cells in type I diabetes. In the present study we used cells from mice with a disrupted and thus inactivated PARP gene to provide direct evidence for a causal relationship between PARP activation, NAD+ depletion, and cell death. We found that mutant islet cells do not show NAD+ depletion after exposure to DNA-damaging radicals and are more resistant to the toxicity of both NO and ROI. These findings directly prove that PARP activation is responsible for most of the loss of NAD+ following such treatment. The ADP-ribosylation inhibitor 3-aminobenzamide partially protected islet cells with intact PARP gene but not mutant cells from lysis following either NO or ROI treatment. Hence the protective action of 3-aminobenzamide must be due to inhibition of PARP and does not result from its other pharmacological properties such as oxygen radical scavenging. Finally, the use of mutant cells an alternative pathway of cell death was discovered which does not require PARP activation and NAD+ depletion. In conclusion, the data prove the causal relationship of PARP activation and subsequent islet cell death and demonstrate the existence of an alternative pathway of cell death independent of PARP activation and NAD+ depletion.
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PMID:Inactivation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase gene affects oxygen radical and nitric oxide toxicity in islet cells. 774 49

Endogenous ADP-ribosylation of proteins was studied in retina crude extract, membrane and cytosolic fractions of control and diabetic rats. ADP-ribosyltransferase activity is present in all cellular fractions, but protein ADP-ribosylation is reduced in diabetic rat retina. At least 6 proteins are labelled in the crude extract fraction and a similar number in the membrane preparation of control animals. In these preparations from diabetic retina, only two bands were labelled, the 85 K and 36 K for the crude extract, and the 97 K and 39 K for membranes. Labelling of 36 K and 39 K proteins was much less than in controls. In the cytosolic preparations of controls, two proteins of 85 K and 39 K are ADP-ribosylated, while in diabetic rat retina cytosol, only the 85 K is labelled. Treatment of diabetic rats with insulin normalized plasma glucose levels and prevented the alterations of the extent of ADP-ribosylation for the 38 K cytosolic, 39 K membrane and 36 K crude extracts proteins, but it failed to affect the other bands. These results suggest a hyperactivity of endogenous ADP-ribosylases in diabetic rat retina, so that the protein sites for ADP-ribosylation are no longer available. Since insulin treatment prevents the onset of neuropathy and of retinal G protein impairment (Abbracchio et al., J Neurosci Res 29:196-220, 1991) in diabetic rats and, in this study, normalizes ADP-ribosylation of 39 K, 38 K and 36 K proteins, we suggest that the abnormal endogenous ADP-ribosylation of these proteins might play a role in the onset of diabetic neuropathy.
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PMID:Nitric oxide-sensitive protein ADP-ribosylation is altered in rat diabetic neuropathy. 774 37

RT6.2 is a 26-kDa alloantigen expressed only on post-thymic T cells and attached to the cell membrane through a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor. It has been reported that expression of RT6.2 in animal models may correlate with lymphopenia and genetically-induced insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Its physiological function is unclear. Since RT6.2 has significant amino acid identity with a GPI-anchored rabbit muscle NAD:arginine ADP-ribosyltransferase, RT6.2 was expressed in rat mammary adenocarcinoma cells and the ability of the expressed protein to catalyze ADP-ribose transfer reactions was examined. Cells transformed with the RT6.2 gene expressed NAD glycohydrolase activity that was released from intact cells by phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C, consistent with its presence on the cell surface. A similar activity was not detected with vector-transformed cells. RT6.2 did not ADP-ribosylate simple guanidino compounds. The molecular weight of the phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C-released NAD glycohydrolase, determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was 22,000-24,000, in good agreement with that of native RT6.2. These results strongly suggest that the rat T cell alloantigen RT6.2 is a GPI-anchored NAD glycohydrolase.
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PMID:Expression of NAD glycohydrolase activity by rat mammary adenocarcinoma cells transformed with rat T cell alloantigen RT6.2. 814 25

We have presently determined the effect of inhibition of the DNA repair enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) on the occurrence of apoptosis in insulin-producing cells. The ADP-ribosylation activities of intact cells were decreased by incubation of RINm5F cells for 16 h with the PARP inhibitors nicotinamide (NA) (20-50 mM) or 3-aminobenzamide (3-ABA) (10 mM). Exposure to 20-50 mM NA or 10 mM 3-ABA both resulted in massive apoptosis in RINm5F cells. A 24 h exposure to 50 mM nicotinamide induced apoptosis in fetal but not adult rat islet cells. In addition, exposure of RINm5F cells to 50 mM NA for 12-24 h induced the appearance of the 85 kDa proteolytic PARP fragment, indicating activation of the ICE-like protease caspase-3. Incubation with 20-50 mM NA did not induce any consistent effects upon transcription factor NF-kappaB activity, demonstrating that this pathway is not involved in induction of apoptosis by NA. It is concluded that in insulin-producing cells with a high mitotic rate, inhibition of ADP-ribosylation--and consequently of auto-modification and release of PARP bound to DNA strand breaks--leads to activation of programmed cell death.
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PMID:Nicotinamide-induced apoptosis in insulin producing cells is associated with cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. 970 78

Streptozotocin (STZ) selectively destroys insulin-producing beta islet cells of the pancreas providing a model of type I diabetes. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is a nuclear enzyme whose overactivation by DNA strand breaks depletes its substrate NAD+ and then ATP, leading to cellular death from energy depletion. We demonstrate DNA damage and a major activation of PARP in pancreatic islets of STZ-treated mice. These mice display a 500% increase in blood glucose and major pancreatic islet damage. In mice with homozygous targeted deletion of PARP (PARP -/-), blood glucose and pancreatic islet structure are normal, indicating virtually total protection from STZ diabetes. Partial protection occurs in PARP +/- animals. Thus, PARP activation may participate in the pathophysiology of type I diabetes, for which PARP inhibitors might afford therapeutic benefit.
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PMID:Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-deficient mice are protected from streptozotocin-induced diabetes. 1007 36


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