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1. Homogenates of bovine splenic nerves were subjected to differential and sucrose density gradient centrifugation. From the low-speed supernatant a high-speed sediment (mitochondria, lysosomes, microsomes and noradrenaline (NA) vesicles) was obtained. By density gradient centrifugation of this sediment it was shown that NA vesicles are slightly less dense than mitochondria, but denser than microsomes.2. In further experiments a mitochondrial and a microsomal sediment were obtained. The mitochondrial sediment was fractionated with a short centrifugation time over a density gradient ranging from 0.6 to 1.2 M sucrose. Mitochondria (fumarase and succinate-dehydrogenase) and lysosomes (acid ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease) sedimented to the bottom of the tube. The highest concentration of NA vesicles was found in a medium position. There was only a small amount of microsomes (glucose-6-phosphatase) present.3. The microsomal sediment was centrifuged for 150 min over a density gradient ranging from 0.8 to 1.4 M sucrose. The microsomes remained on the top of the gradient. There were also some mitochondria and lysosomes present. The NA vesicles were found in highest concentration in the middle of the gradient (at about 1.2 M sucrose).4. With the use of these two density gradients, the subcellular distribution of dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, monoamine oxidase and ATPase was studied. Dopamine-beta-hydroxylase was found to be localized in the NA vesicles. Monoamine oxidase was mainly recovered in mitochondria; a small part of the enzyme appeared to be microsomal. ATPase was present in microsomal elements.
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PMID:Bovine splenic nerve: characterization of noradrenaline-containing vesicles and other cell organelles by density gradient centrifugation. 431 May 9

The contractile proteins actin and myosin have been isolated from the soluble phase of guinea-pig polymorphonuclear leucocytes and partially characterised. Two forms of actin have been identified, designated 'Mg-actin' and 'KCl-actin'. They have different polymerising properties but their propensity to form synthetic homologous and heterologous actomyosins and to inhibit DNAase-1 does not significantly differ. Both show beta and gamma isoelectric forms in focusing gels and the Mg-actin accounts for about 5% of the soluble-phase protein and te KCl-actin around 2%. Leucocyte myosin has been isolated by affinity chromatography on N6-ADP-Sepharose with a good enrichment of both Ca2+-ATPase and the ATPase activity measured in the absence of Ca2+ or Mg2+ and in the presence of EDTA. This protein, too, has the capacity to form synthetic homologous and hybrid actomyosins with enhancement of the basal Mg2+-ATPase activity. The ratio of actin to myosin in the leucocyte calculated on a molar basis is well in excess of 100, a figure consistent with the findings from other non-muscle cells.
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PMID:The isolation and characterisation of guinea-pig polymorphonuclear leucocyte actin and myosin. 610 49

A low-molecular-weight protein, isolated from bovine brain, inhibits the actin-stimulated Mg-ATPase activity of myosin from striated muscle. This inhibition is probably related to its ability to cause actin to revert from its polymerized to its depolymerized state and to prevent the polymerization of actin. Its effect on the polymeric state of the actin has been demonstrated by viscosity studies. DNase inhibition assay, and electron microscopy. Heavy meromyosin can overcome the effect of the brain protein and stimulate the polymerization of actin. The inhibition of ATPase activity is in part dependent upon the relative amounts of brain protein, actin, and myosin. The apparent molecular weight of the brain protein is approximately 20,000 daltons. It appears to be a heat-labile glycoprotein containing 5-6% carbohydrate.
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PMID:Actin-stimulated myosin Mg2+-ATPase inhibition by brain protein. 613 41

The purification of ATP-dependent DNase from Bacillus cereus led to the isolation and characterization of a third DNA-dependent ATPase. The enzyme called ATPase III has been purified free of nuclease activity. None of the expected ATPases proved to be identical with ATP-dependent DNase-DNA-dependent ATPase. Separation of ATPase I, II and III and a DNase specific for single-stranded DNA from the same source excludes the possibility of ATP-dependent DNase being the action of a single enzyme molecule.
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PMID:A third DNA-dependent ATPase from Bacillus cereus free of ATP-dependent DNase activity. 613 44

A defined region of the viral (+) strand of phi X174 and of each strand of pBR322 DNA serves as an effector for the ATPase activity of replication factor Y from Escherichia coli. These loci can also function as complementary strand origins of DNA replication in a single-stranded circular leads to replicative form pathway whose protein requirements are characteristic of phi X174 DNA. Despite this functional similarity, these three sites possess no extensive sequence homology. To uncover a possible common structural determinant, factor Y recognition sequences were treated with pancreatic DNase or dimethyl sulfate in the presence and absence of this replication protein. When factor Y was present, the action of the nuclease was altered in a similar manner on each of the three templates, indicating that factor Y was bound to the entire length of its effector site. Factor Y-mediated modification of the dimethyl sulfate methylation patterns gave evidence of specific, tight protein-DNA contacts. Protection maps, devised by plotting the results of the methylation and footprinting experiments on duplex structures, suggest that tertiary interactions are either involved in the formation of a factor Y effector site or are induced by the binding of the protein.
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PMID:The interaction of Escherichia coli replication factor Y with complementary strand origins of DNA replication. Contact points revealed by DNase footprinting and protection from methylation. 614 45

Using affinity chromatography on DNAase I-Sepharose, an actin-like protein was isolated from rat liver mitochondria and purified 60-fold. SDS electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel revealed that the protein migrated with muscle actin and thus had the molecular weight of 42 000 Da. Evidence for the actin-like nature of the mitochondrial protein could be obtained from the fact that the protein inhibited the activity of pancreatic DNAase I which, similar to the smooth muscle protein, was less conspicuous than that of its muscle counterpart. Unlike striated muscle actin but similar to the smooth muscle protein, the mitochondrial actin weakly stimulated the Mg-ATPase activity of rabbit skeletal muscle myosin. After manyfold washing of the mitochondria with isotonic isolation media, the content of the actin-like protein remained unchanged, which indirectly points to the presence of insignificant cytoplasmic actin contaminations. During isoelectrofocusing, the mitochondrial actin-like protein yielded two forms, i. e., beta- and gamma-isoactins, whose ratio was 8:1. The pI values for the beta- and gamma-isoforms were 5.52 and 5.59, respectively. The identical position of the absorption spectra (260 nm) and fluorescence excitation spectra (around 280 nm) maxima of the actin-like protein and smooth and skeletal muscle actins testify to their homology.
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PMID:[Isolation and characteristics of actin-like proteins in liver mitochondria]. 624 Sep 91

Studies on the specificity of the ATP-dependent DNase of Bacillus subtilis 168, carried out with pure enzyme at the optimal conditions for its action, have shown that the substrate is double-stranded linear DNA. Linear single-stranded DNA (separated strands of B. subtilis DNA and linear phage fd DNA) is not attacked, neither are there any circular forms (supercoiled or nicked simian virus 40 and circular single-stranded fd DNAs). The double-stranded DNA can be completely hydrolysed, the limit products being, almost exclusively, mononucleotides. The presence of terminal phosphate residues in the substrate (either at the 3' or the 5' end) is not necessary for enzyme action. This DNase appears therefore to be an exonuclease processively liberating mononucleotides from both strands of the native linear DNA. ATP (indispensable for the DNase reaction) is also hydrolysed by the enzyme, to ADP and inorganic orthophosphate (Pi) in the presence of DNA. The apparent Km for ATP, in the ATPase reaction, is 0.15 mM. At high ATP concentrations, which inhibit the DNase activity, there is activation of the ATPase reaction. Three molecules of ATP are consumed for each DNA phosphodiester bond split, at optimal conditions for DNase activity.
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PMID:Substrate specificity and adenosine triphosphatase activity of the ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease of Bacillus subtilis. 626 14

We have used DNA-cellulose chromatography to isolate single-strand binding proteins from Tetrahymena thermophila. Three major proteins which bind to denatured DNA-cellulose were obtained. The predominant protein has a molecular weight of 20 000 in sodium dodecyl sulfate - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and possesses many of the properties of the helix destabilizing proteins isolated from prokaryotic and eukaryotic sources. The protein facilitates denaturation of the synthetic copolymer poly[d(A-T).d(A-T)], depressing the melting temperature by nearly 40 degrees C. It also permits the renaturation of poly[d(A-T)].d(A-T)] in high salt concentration. Two other binding proteins have molecular weight of 25 000 and 23 000 in sodium dodecyl sulfate - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The protein with a molecular weight of 25 000 is probably the "M protein" previously isolated from Tetrahymena thermophila which has been shown to stimulate Tetrahymena DNA polymerase. These two proteins failed to show helix destabilizing, DNA dependent ATPase, or deoxyribonuclease activities. These three proteins are abundant in the cell with approximately 1.0 x 10(6) to 10.0 x 10(6) molecules of each protein monomer per cell. One molecule of each protein monomer binds to 7 to 10 nucleotides as detected by a nitrocellulose filter binding assay. Peptide mapping of the three proteins suggests that they are all distinct. We have also found that the binding proteins can interact with Tetrahymena DNA polymerase and some other proteins to form an enzyme complex, a putative replication complex.
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PMID:DNA binding proteins from Tetrahymena thermophila. 628 24

The various catalytic activities of the ATP-dependent deoxyribonuclease (DNase) of Bacillus laterosporus have pH optima at 6.3 and 8.3. Although the pH profile of ATP-dependent DNase activity on duplex DNA is bell shaped with a maximum at about pH 8.3, ATP-dependent DNAse activity on single-stranded DNA has optima at pH 6.3 and 8.3. ATPase activities dependent on double-stranded and single-stranded DNA have a high bell-shaped peak with a maximum at pH 6.3 with a low and broad shoulder at about pH 8.3. ATP-independent DNase activity also has optima at pH 6.3 and 8.3. The ratio of the amount of ATP hydrolyzed per number of cleaved phosphodiester bonds in DNA increases with decrease in the pH value of the reaction. The ratios obtained at pH 8.3 and 6.3 were respectively about 3 and 22 with duplex DNA as substrate and 5 and 17 with single-stranded DNA as substrate. Formation of a single-stranded region of 15000-20000 nucleotides, which is linked to duplex DNA and about half of which has 3'-hydroxyl termini, was observed at about pH 6.3, but not at above pH 7.5. Furthermore, the optimum concentrations of divalent cations for the activity producing the single-stranded region and the activity hydrolyzing ATP were identical (3 mM Mn2+ or 5 mM Mg2+). Thus the two activities are closely related. These results indicate that the enzyme has two different modes of action on duplex DNA which are modulated by the pH.
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PMID:Two pH optima of adenosine 5'-triphosphate dependent deoxyribonuclease from Bacillus laterosporus. 628 73

RecA protein, which is essential for genetic recombination in Escherichia coli, was extensively purified from a strain of E. coli which contained the recA gene cloned in a plasmid (Sancar, A., and Rupp, W. D. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 76, 3144-3148). Using the DNA-dependent ATPase activity of recA protein as an assay, we obtained about 60 mg of purified recA protein from 100 g of cells. Ten micrograms or 1 microgram of the purified protein exhibited only one detectable band with Mr approximately = 40,000 upon sodium dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gel electrophoresis. More than 99% of the ATPase activity of purified recA protein was dependent on single-stranded DNA. Purified recA protein had no detectable DNase, topoisomerase, or ligase activities. The enzyme was stable for a least a year when stored at 0-4 degrees C. The half-life of the ATPase activity of 25 microM recA protein was 37 min at 51 degrees C. Purified recA protein binds to single-stranded and double-stranded DNA, unwinds duplex DNA by a mechanism that is stimulated by single-stranded DNA or oligonucleotides, and pairs homologous single strands with duplex DNA.
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PMID:Homologous pairing in genetic recombination. Purification and characterization of Escherichia coli recA protein. 645 91


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