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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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The effect of a single oral dose of pp'DDT (100 mg/kg body wt.) has been studied on the intestinal uptake of certain nutrients and on brush border enzymes in rats. Intestinal uptake of leucine, and phenylalanine was considerably increased but there was no change in the absorption of glucose and alanine in DDT fed rats, compared to controls. The activities of brush border sucrase, alkaline phosphatase and Na+, K+-ATPase were significantly depressed in pesticide treated animals, but leucine aminopeptidase levels remained unaffected under these conditions. Analysis of the chemical composition of the microvillus membranes revealed a considerable enhancement in total lipids, phospholipids and triglyceride contents of the membranes in DDT exposed rats, but membrane protein, sialic acid and cholesterol fractions did not record any change. 1-14C-acetate incorporation into various lipid classes was studied to explain the observed increase in membrane lipids in DDT exposed animals.
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PMID:Effect of a single oral dose of pp'DDT on the absorption of nutrients in vitro and on brush border enzymes in rat intestine. 627 79

The effect of the growth of the Walker 256 carcinoma on the level of 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase in the whole liver and in an isolated hepatocyte membrane preparation of its host was investigated. Alkaline phosphatase activities of whole liver and plasma membrane were increased approximately 5-fold by tumor growth. A 50% decrease in whole liver 5'-nucleotidase activity was observed in tumor-bearing rats while the 5'-nucleotidase activity per milligram membrane protein was unaltered. Tumor growth would therefore appear to affect a pool of 5'-nucleotidase which is not associated with the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Alterations in hepatic 5'-nucleotidase in the tumor-bearing rat. 627 89

A new major outer membrane protein, P, was induced in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 upon growth in medium containing 0.2 mM or less inorganic phosphate. Studies with media containing different levels of phosphate and with mutants of PAO1 suggested that protein P was coregulated with alkaline phosphatase and phospholipase C. Protein P was substantially purified and shown to form sodium dodecyl sulfate-resistant oligomers on polyacrylamide gels. The incorporation of purified protein P into artificial lipid bilayers resulted in an increase of the membrane conductance by many orders of magnitude. Single-channel experiments demonstrated that protein P channels were substantially smaller than all previously studied porins from P. aeruginosa and enteric bacteria, with an average single-channel conductance in 1 M NaCl of 0.25 nS. The protein P channel was apparently not voltage induced or regulated. The results of single-channel conductance experiments, using a variety of different salts, allowed a minimum channel diameter estimate of 0.7 nm. Furthermore, from these results it was concluded that the protein P channel was highly specific for anions. Zero-current potential measurements confirmed that protein P was at least 30-fold more permeable for Cl- than for K+ ions. The possible biological role of the small, anion-specific protein P channels in phosphate uptake from the medium is discussed.
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PMID:Outer membrane protein P of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: regulation by phosphate deficiency and formation of small anion-specific channels in lipid bilayer membranes. 627 69

Purified microvillous membranes prepared from normal term human placenta were studied for their ability to bind specifically low-density lipoprotein (LDL). Electron microscopic examination of the membrane preparations revealed essentially microvilli-like structures, and the enzyme analyses a 14-17-fold enrichment in the membrane markers 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase. The binding of [125I]LDL was dependent on time, temperature, pH and protein concentration; it was saturable with a low capacity (130.4 +/- 22.2 ng/mg of membrane protein) and presented a high affinity (apparent Ka 6.12 +/- 1.32 micrograms protein per ml). These high-affinity binding sites were specific for LDL (high-density lipoprotein induced less competition than unlabelled LDL) and were sensitive to pronase digestion. Unlike the binding of LDL to other tissues, the [125I]LDL binding to microvillous membranes did not require divalent cations. The presence of specific LDL receptors on the placental microvillous membranes, located at the effective site of exchange between the maternal blood and the placental tissue, supports the concept that human placenta utilizes LDL-cholesterol for its progesterone synthesis.
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PMID:Characterization of specific low-density lipoprotein binding sites in human term placental microvillous membranes. 629 42

We have developed a rapid screening assay that allows us to estimate the alkaline phosphatase content of mouse L-M cell colonies immobilized on polyester cloth. This permitted the identification and isolation of two mutant clones with increased constitutive alkaline phosphatase activity and six clones that fail to express this activity when treated with dibutyryl cyclic AMP. Both of the strains with increased constitutive activity have basal enzymatic activities that are 6- to 7-fold higher than the activity of the parental strain. The extents to which the cyclic nucleotide further induces alkaline phosphatase in these two strains are different, however, indicating that they represent two classes of mutants. Studies using amino acids and synthetic peptides as alkaline phosphatase inhibitors suggest that only one alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme predominates, in both the parental and the mutant cell lines, with or without induction by cyclic nucleotide. Comparison to mouse tissues indicates that our cell lines express an isozyme resembling that found in kidney and bone. The six clones that fail to express alkaline phosphatase activity when treated with dibutyryl cyclic AMP also have extremely low basal levels of the enzyme. All of these mutant strains continue to synthesize protein when treated with dibutyryl cyclic AMP and undergo growth cessation and morphological changes in the presence of this agent. Thus, the mutations all appear to affect factors specific to the expression of alkaline phosphatase activity rather than factors that affect general cellular responsiveness or permeability to dibutyryl cyclic AMP. The characterization of these strains may help elucidate mechanisms of eukaryotic membrane protein biogenesis, enzyme induction, and regulation of gene expression by cyclic nucleotides.
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PMID:Dibutyryl cAMP-inducible alkaline phosphatase in animal cell plasma membranes: fluorescence detection of mutant clones on polyester cloth. 630 51

Alkaline phosphatase has been extracted from matrix vesicles of a calcifying cartilage with 0.15 M KCl, 0.4 M guanidinium chloride and 0.05 M deoxycholate/50% butanol mixture. The catalytic properties of the three extracts have been compared. Although the highest amount of enzyme activity is extracted with the latter reagent (55%), some of it is also extracted with KCl (11%) and guanidinium (7%). By submitting isolated matrix vesicles to a short time sonication the distribution pattern of the alkaline phosphatase activity in the extracts is clearly modified, as the amount extracted with KCl increases from 14 to 50% and the portion extracted with deoxycholate decreases from 55 to 27% of the total enzyme activity of matrix vesicles. The enzymatic preparations were comparable on the basis of specific activities, affinity for the substrates (p-nitrophenylphosphate, ATP), thermostability, sensitivity to inhibitors and activators. By electrofocusing a value of pI = 4.15 was found for the alkaline phosphatase of matrix vesicles independently of the extraction medium. These results contradict the concept that alkaline phosphatase is exclusively an intrinsic membrane protein.
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PMID:Solubility properties of alkaline phosphatase from matrix vesicles. 631 47

Subcellular fractionation of human term placenta showed that the highest relative specific activity of 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase resided in the microsomal fraction; of the total 5'-nucleotidase activity present, 7 per cent was in the cytosol. 5'-Nucleotidase was reproducibly purified over 500-fold in 17 per cent yield from the insoluble component of homogenates of term placenta to give a single major glycoprotein with two minor inactive protein contaminants. Purified placental 5'-nucleotidase was free from non-specific or alkaline phosphatase, hydrolysed 12 to 22 mumol AMP/min/mg of protein at 30 degrees C, and was activated up to fivefold by Triton X-100. AMP, Km 5 to 7 microM, was the preferred substrate. The Arrhenius plot was biphasic, with activation energies of 21.7 and 49.7 kJ/mol above and below 36 degrees C, the region of the transition temperature. Nucleoside di- and triphosphates inhibited competitively; the most potent inhibitors were ADP and adenosine 5'-methylenediphosphonate, Ki slope 90 nm and 6 nm, respectively. Lectins inhibited the enzyme; concanavalin A caused time-dependent inactivation reversible by alpha-methyl-D-mannoside. EDTA inactivated the enzyme; partial reactivation was achieved with divalent cations. The pH optimum was 7.2 to 7.3; Mg2+ produced a second alkaline pH optimum. The properties of placental 5'-nucleotidase are those of an intrinsic membrane protein and, in general, resemble properties of the several 'ecto'-5'-nucleotidases which have been purified from other tissues, although certain differences in kinetic properties of the placental enzyme are apparent.
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PMID:Human placental 5'-nucleotidase: purification and properties. 632 73

Phosphate binding by rat renal brush border membranes occurs on a single protein, as visualized by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The same protein can also be specifically labelled by gamma-32P ATP at 0 degree C or in the absence of magnesium. The phosphate binding protein co-migrates with monomers of two alkaline phosphatase activity bands previously localized on acrylamide gel. Measurement of binding by TCA precipitation, ion-exchange chromatography and dialysis gave an average of 31.1 +/- 5.7 pmol phosphate bound/mg protein. Alkaline phosphatase would then represent 0.23% of total brush border membrane protein. Maximal binding activity is obtained at pH 6.5, but when membranes are phosphorylated at pH 6.5 and the pH increased to 9.4, 50% of the bound radioactivity is released. The binding of phosphate to this protein presents two different apparent Km: one at 40 microM for low and one at 390 microM for high substrate concentrations. The membrane bound phosphate is readily exchangeable with phosphate in the medium. Phosphate binding and phosphate release are complete within 5 s. Alkaline phosphatase substrates and EDTA are potent inhibitors of phosphate binding and produce over 90% inhibition. Characteristics of phosphate binding for kidney membrane bound alkaline phosphatase seem very similar to the soluble form of the enzyme from various sources.
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PMID:Characterization of phosphate binding by alkaline phosphatase in rat kidney brush border membrane. 663 81

Crude messenger ribonucleic acid fractions isolated from Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Escherichia coli were translated in an E. coli in vitro protein-synthesizing system and yielded precursors of the secreted proteins diphtheria toxin and alkaline phosphatase, respectively. Addition of inverted E. coli inner membrane vesicles to the system during the initial stages of translation resulted in the intravesicular segregation of mature diphtheria toxin and alkaline phosphatase. Outer membrane vesicles or inner membrane vesicles whose cytoplasmic surfaces had been treated with pronase could not mediate transmembrane transfer of diphtheria toxin or alkaline phosphatase. However, inner membrane vesicles isolated from E. coli spheroplasts which had been treated with pronase and inner membrane vesicles complexed with ribosomes during pronase treatment were functional in transmembrane transfer. At temperatures below the phase transition of E. coli membranes, no intravesicular segregation of alkaline phosphatase or diphtheria toxin was observed. The precursor forms of each protein accumulated free from the vesicles. These results suggest that an inner membrane protein, exposed on the cytoplasmic surface, plays an integral role in secretion.
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PMID:Cotranslational secretion of diphtheria toxin and alkaline phosphatase in vitro: involvement of membrane protein(s). 698 4

Mutants constitutive for the novel outer membrane protein Ic (e or E) contained a recently discovered binding protein for sn-glycerol-3-phosphate. The corresponding parental strains missing the outer membrane protein Ic (e, E) were negative or strongly reduced in the synthesis of the binding protein. In addition, strains that were previously isolated as mutants constitutive for the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system (ugp(+) mutants) and that produced the novel periplasmic proteins GP1 to GP4 also synthesized a new outer membrane protein with the same electrophoretic mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels as protein Ic. Screening of different ugp(+) mutants revealed the existence of three types in respect to the four novel periplasmic proteins GP1, -2, -3, and -4: (i) one containing all four proteins; (ii) one containing only proteins GP1, -2, and -3; (iii) one containing only proteins GP1, -2, and -4. In confirmation of the data presented in the accompanying paper by Tommassen and Lugtenberg (J. Bacteriol. 143:151-157, 1980), we found that purified GP1 is identical to alkaline phosphatase, whereas purified GP3 has binding activity of inorganic phosphate and is identical to the phosphate-binding protein. Moreover, growth conditions that lead in a wild-type strain to the derepression of alkaline phosphatase synthesis also derepressed the synthesis of the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate-binding protein as well as the corresponding transport system. Thus, the new sn-glycerol-3-phosphate transport system is part of the alkaline phosphatase regulatory system.
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PMID:Co-regulation in Escherichia coli of a novel transport system for sn-glycerol-3-phosphate and outer membrane protein Ic (e, E) with alkaline phosphatase and phosphate-binding protein. 699 24


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