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Control of the rate of cardiac cell division by oxygen occurs most probably by altering the redox state of a control substance, e.g. NAD(+)right harpoon over left harpoonNADH. NAD(+) (and not NADH) forms poly(ADP-ribose), an inhibitor of DNA synthesis, in a reaction catalysed by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. Lower partial pressure of oxygen, which increases the rate of division, would shift NAD(+)-->NADH, decrease poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis, and increase DNA synthesis. Chick-embryo heart cells grown in culture in 20% O(2) (in which they divide more slowly than in 5% O(2)) did exhibit greater poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activity (+83%, P<0.001) than when grown in 5% O(2). Reaction product was identified as poly(ADP-ribose) by its insensitivity to deoxyribonuclease,
ribonuclease
, NAD glycohydrolase,
Pronase
, trypsin and micrococcal nuclease, and by its complete digestion with snake-venom phosphodiesterase to phosphoribosyl-AMP and AMP. Isolation of these digestion products by Dowex 1 (formate form) column chromatography and paper chromatography allowed calculation of average poly(ADP-ribose) chain length, which was 15-26% greater in 20% than in 5% O(2). Thus in 20% O(2) the increase in poly(ADP-ribose) formation results from chain elongation. Formation of new chains also occurs, probably to an even greater degree than chain elongation. Additionally, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase has very different K(m) and V(max.) values and pH optima in 20% and 5% O(2). These data suggest that poly(ADP-ribose) metabolism participates in the regulation of heart-cell division by O(2), probably by several different mechanisms.
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PMID:Poly(adenosine dephosphate ribose) metabolism and regulation of myocardial cell growth by oxygen. 2 65
HeLa (substrain Ho) grown in serum free medium showed an increase in the specific activity of alkaline phosphatase when fetal calf serum (10%) was added to the medium (9.7 nmoles/sec/mg protein to 86.8). Under the same conditions, eight intracellular enzymes showed no increase in activity. Similar results were obtained using a different serum or medium, and with a second strain of HeLa (substrain ATC). For a given set of growth conditions, the effect of serum was dependent on its concentration and required one or more culture generations to develop. The type of isozyme expressed did not change. Neither zinc nor a total serum lipid extract would substitute for serum. The enzyme expressed by HeLaHo was not induced by prednisolone, while that in HeLaATC was. However, for cells grown in excess prednisolone without serum, the specific activity was 25% of that found for cells grown with prednisolone and serum. Cortexolone, an antagonist of prednisolone, was without effect for HeLaHo grown in A3 medium with or without serum. The serum factor had the following characteristics. It was not lost on dialysis, treatment with DNase and
RNase
, or removal of lipoproteins. It was reduced after heating by 65% and after treatment with
Pronase
by 82%. The data are interpreted to indicate the presence of a factor (s) in serum, probably a protein, which is involved in stimulating alkaline phosphatase specific activity.
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PMID:Evidence for a high molecular weight factor(s) in serum which increases alkaline phosphatase specific activity in HeLa. 3 90
Binding sites for prolactin were identified in a plasma-membrane-enriched fraction isolated from livers of mature female rats. 125I-labelled sheep prolactin prepared by the lactoperoxidase procedure retained the same molecular integrity and binding affinity as the native hormone at physiological pH. The receptors bound prolactin from different species, whereas non-lactogenic hormones were not bound. The binding of 125I-labelled sheep prolactin was activated equally by bivalent and univalent cations, bivalent cations exerting their maximal effect at much lower concentrations. The association of 125I-labelled sheep prolactin with the receptor was a time- and temperature-dependent process. Partial dissociation was detected. The binding of 125I-labelled sheep prolactin was strongly influenced by pH, with an optimum observed at pH 6.5. Receptor activity was destroyed by
Pronase
and phospholipase C, whereas neuraminidase increased binding. Treatment of the membranes by
ribonuclease
and deoxyribonuclease did not affect the binding. Binding of 125I-labelled sheep prolactin was inhibited by p-chloromercuribenzoic acid, dithiothreitol and by brief exposure to high temperatures. Scatchard analysis of the binding of 125I-labelled sheep prolactin to receptors indicated that prolactin has a high affinity for its receptor. Binding of prolactin to liver membranes showed some properties different from those observed with mammary cells. Binding by these tissues differed in pH optimum, in effects of ions, and in response to neuraminidase.
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PMID:Characterization of prolactin binding by membrane preparations from rat liver. 3 84
Intracisternal A particles from the FLOPC-1 line of BALB/c myeloma have been shown to contain high-molecular-weight RNA (60 to 70S) that is sensitive to
RNase
, alkali degradation, and heat but resistant to
Pronase
treatment. The intracisternal A-particle RNA contains tract of poly (A) approximately 180 nucleotides long. As shown in a reconstitution experiment, by antigenic analysis of A-particle preparation and the SC cytopathogenicity assay, the 70S RNA was not due to contamination by type C virus particles. The FLOPC-1 intracisternal A particles also possess an endogenous RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. The enzyme required Mn2+ or Mg2+, dithiothreitol, detergent, and four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates for maximum activity. Enzymatic activity was maximally stimuated by poly (rC)-oligo (dG)12-18 and less with poly (rG)-oligo (dC)10 or poly (rA)-oligo (dT)12-18 as compare with synthetic DNA/DNA duplex templates such as poly (dA)-oligo (dT)12-18. The enzyme can utilize the A-particle endogenous RNA as template as shown by analysis of the early and late DNA products of the endogenous reaction by CsSO4 isopycnic gradient centrifuation and hybridization of purified 70S or 35S A-particle RNA with the purified complementary DNA product. Approximately 50% of the A-particle complementary DNA also hybridized with oncornavirus RNA.
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PMID:Intracisternal A particles from FLOPC-1 BALB/c myeloma: presence of high-molecular-weight RNA and RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. 5 76
Dialyzable Lawrence-type transfer factor was prepared from the spleen cells of CF1 mice inoculated with Coccidioides immitis- and Candida albicans-killed vaccines and with live Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine (BCG). These preparations were shown to transfer antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity to naive mice, as measured by the delayed skin test and footpad-swelling methods. Reactivity could be demonstrated when the test antigens were given 24 h after the transfer factor, but not when they were given simultaneously. Coccidioides-specific transfer factor was shown to be sensitive to
Pronase
and resistant to trypsin and
ribonuclease
. A preparation of BCG transfer factor was sensitive to snake venom phosphodiesterase.
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PMID:Transfer of delayed hypersensitivity in mice to microbial antigens with dialyzable transfer factor. 6 30
Immunosuppressor T cells (IST),6 capable of inhibiting the rejection of a methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma (S1509a) in A/Jax mice immune to this tumor, produced soluble factors with similar suppressive activity. The immunosuppressive factor(s) (ISF) has been shown to be immunologically specific, as demonstrated by the complete loss of suppressive activity after absorption with S1509a cells, but not with cells of an unrelated syngeneic tumor. From its behavior on gel filtration, the size of ISF was deduced to be less than 70,000 daltons. The ISF was not removed by passage through a rabbit anti-mouse F(ab')2 reverse immunosorbent and, hence, it was concluded that ISF was not likely to be an immunoglobulin. The (immunosuppressive) activity of ISF was destroyed by treatment with
Pronase
, but not with
RNase
. The ISF was found to share the antigenic determinant(s) of the product(s) of the K end of the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse. Moreover, antibodies to ISF were induced by immunization with ISF-tumor cell complexes. Thus, IST and their factor(s) appear to play an important role in the regulation of the immune response to tumor antigens.
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PMID:Regulation of the immune response to tumor antigens. III. Characterization of thymic suppressor factor(s) produced by tumor-bearing hosts. 6 67
An extract made from the supernatant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Gc2 strain 1291 degraded the Gc2 polysaccharide antigen. Chemical analysis of this polysaccharide indicated it contains glucose, galactose, glucosamine, galactosamine, glucosamine-6-phosphate, heptose, 2-keto-3-deoxyotonate, and ethanolamine and is the polysaccharide component of gonococcal lipopolysaccharide. Degradation of the polysaccharide by sonic extracts resulted either in complete loss of antigenicity and immunogenicity or in partial degradation to subunits that could inhibit the Gc2-specific hemagglutination inhibition. The factors responsible for degradation were destroyed by heating at 100 degrees C for 5 min or by
Pronase
digestion, but were unaffected by
ribonuclease
, deoxyribonuclease, Mg2+, Ca2+, or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. The process was pH dependent, with optimal activity occurring at pH 7. Sonic extract supernatants from group B and C meningococcal strains contained degrading properties, whereas similar extracts produced from Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae type II failed to degrade the Gc2 polysaccharide.
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PMID:Degradation of the polysaccharide component of gonococcal lipopolysaccharide by gonococcal and meningococcal sonic extracts. 7 94
A polysaccharide antigen was isolated from Schistosoma mansoni egg homogenates by the phenol procedure. The crude preparation (CPEA) contained at least two antigens. The more purified antigen (PEA) was isolated by sequential enzymatic treatment of CPEA with DNase,
RNase
,
Pronase
, and alpha-amylase. PEA was resistant to boiling, freezing and thawing, mild acid and alkali, and chloroform, but was destroyed with periodate. It gave a positive reaction with anthrone reagent. PEA was eluted in the wash fraction from a DEAE cellulose collumn and in the void volume of a Sephacryl 200 column. After immunoelectrophoresis and polyacrylamide electrophoresis there was little or no migration. Amino acid analysis failed to reveal ninhydrin-positive material in the a hydrolyzate of PEA. These resluts suggested that PEA is a neutral polysaccharide with a m.w. of more than 200,000 and contains no amino acids or hexosamine. Antibodies against PEA were detected in sera obtained from mice infected with S. mansoni. PEA is different from previously described antigens derived from schistosome eggs.
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PMID:Isolation of a polysaccharide antigen from Schistosoma mansoni eggs. 10 42
Incubation of Neurospora crassa conidia with
ribonuclease
(
RNase
) A reduces transport of L-phenylalanine by those cells. Under similar conditions, oxidized
RNase A
, RNase T1, and RNase T2 do not have this effect. Incubation of conidia with active
RNase
covalently attached to polyacrylamide beads reduces L-phenylalanine transport. This indicates that the site of enzymatic action is at the cell surface. At the lower concentration of enzyme used in this study, incubation with
RNase A
reduces transport of L-phenylalanine by the general (G) amino acid permease. Increasing the enzyme concentration results in reduction of transport by the neutral aromatic (N)-specific permease. The increased transport activity that accompanies onset of conidial germination is also sensitive to incubation with
RNase A
. Application of the enzyme to actively transporting cells does not release amino acid transported prior to enzyme addition. Cells cultured on media supplemented with [2-14C] uridine release isotopic activity after
RNase A
incubation. Analogous treatments with
Pronase
, RNase T1, RNase T2, or deoxyribonuclease I do not release isotope activity.
Pronase
treatment does reduce L-phenylalanine transport. Incubation of conidia with
RNase A
also inhibits germination of those conidia.
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PMID:Effects of ribonuclease A on amino acid transport in Neurospora crassa. 12 24
In order to characterize the uterine progesterone-binding proteins of oestrogen-primed and unprimed, ovariectomized immature and adult golden hamsters, cytosols were incubated with [3H]progesterone and/or other steroids and analyzed by sucrose-glycerol density gradient ultracentrifugation. Progesterone-binding components with sedimentation coefficients of 7S and 4.5S were found in the uterine cytosols, but not in the cytosols from the hypothalamus, pituitary, diaphragm, or small intestine. Oestradiol-17beta markedly elevated the level of 7S uterine receptor and this increase appeared to be due to new receptor synthesis, since actinomycin D and cycloheximide blocked this response. Fifty to 100 mug of oestradiol-17beta per kg body weight was found to promote a maximum increase in the 7S macromolecular component. The 7S receptor showed a tendency to saturate at 1 X 10(-7) M [1,2-3H]progesterone, indicating limited capacity. At a molar ratio of 100:1, unlabeled progesterone competed effectively for 7S and 4,5S [3H]progesterone binding, whereas 5alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione, oestradiol-17beta and testosterone did not. Moreover, [1,2-3H]cortisol and [1,2-3H]corticosterone did not bind to the 7S receptor, implying steroid specificity. CI-628, a non-steroid oestrogen antagonist, completely prevented [6,7-3H]oestradiol-17beta binding to its 8.5S uterine cytosol receptor, but was entirely without effect on 7S and 4.5S [3H]progesterone binding.
Pronase
, but not DNase or
RNase
, abolished 7S and 4.5S progesterone binding, suggesting that the binders are at least in part protein. Protamine sulphate and p-hydroxymercuribenzoate also obliterated 7S binding, implying that this receptor may be an acidic protein which contains sulfhydryl groups that are necessary for progesterone binding.
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PMID:Oestrogen-inducible uterine progesterone receptors. characteristics in the ovariectomized immature and adult hamster. 17 Jul 71
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