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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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The removal of tightly bound GDP from the exchangeable nucleotide-binding site of tubulin has been performed with alkaline phosphatase under conditions which essentially retain the assembly properties of the protein. When microtubule protein is treated with alkaline phosphatase, nucleotide is selectively removed from tubulin dimer rather than from MAP (microtubule-associated protein)-containing oligomeric species. Tubulin devoid of E-site (the exchangeable nucleotide-binding site of the tubulin dimer) nucleotide shows enhanced proteolytic susceptibility of the beta-subunit to thermolysin and decreased protein stability, consistent with nucleotide removal causing changes in protein tertiary structure. Pyrophosphate ion (3 mM) is able to promote formation of normal microtubules in the complete absence of GTP by incubation at 37 degrees C either with nucleotide-depleted microtubule protein or with nucleotide-depleted tubulin dimer to which MAPs have been added. The resulting microtubules contain up to 80% of tubulin lacking E-site nucleotide. In addition to its effects on nucleation, pyrophosphate competes weakly with GDP bound at the E-site. It is deduced that binding of pyrophosphate at a vacant E-site can promote microtubule assembly. The minimum structural requirement for ligands to induce tubulin assembly apparently involves charge neutralization at the E-site by bidentate ligation, which stabilizes protein domains in a favourable orientation for promoting the supramolecular protein-protein interactions involved in microtubule formation.
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PMID:Tubulin-nucleotide interactions. Effects of removal of exchangeable guanine nucleotide on protein conformation and microtubule assembly. 303 51

Incubation in vitro of brown adipose tissue (BAT) mitochondria with divalent cations, spermine, or alkaline phosphatase led to a marked increase in the binding of [3H]GDP. The effect of Mg2+ appeared to be the most specific and led to the largest increase in GDP binding. A simplified method was developed for measuring GDP binding to purified uncoupling protein from rat BAT mitochondria. Application of this method indicates that uncoupling protein from cold-acclimated rats binds twice as much GDP as uncoupling protein from cold-acclimated rats that were briefly returned to thermoneutrality, paralleling changes in GDP binding to the mitochondria. Incubation of BAT mitochondria with Mg2+ led to a smaller increase in GDP binding to the subsequently purified uncoupling protein, suggesting that divalent cations may somehow participate in the regulation of the activity of the uncoupling protein.
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PMID:Changes in GDP binding to brown adipose tissue mitochondria and the uncoupling protein. 320 62

We have isolated from the high salt wash of rabbit reticulocyte ribosomes two forms of the polypeptide chain initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) which differ with respect to their beta-subunit, GDP content, and sensitivity to Mg2+ in ternary (eIF-2 X GTP X Met-tRNAf) and binary (eIF-2 X GDP) complex formation. The form of eIF-2 eluting first from a cation exchange (Mono S, Pharmacia) column has a beta-subunit of lower molecular weight (eIF-2(beta L] and a more acidic pI value than the form eluting at a higher salt concentration (eIF-2(beta H]. These two forms of eIF-2 beta-polypeptides are also detected in reticulocyte lysates when the proteins are resolved by two-dimensional isoelectric focusing-dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by immunoblotting. The peptide mapping of the isolated beta-subunits after limited proteolysis by papain, pancreatic protease, alpha-chymotrypsin, or Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease further demonstrates that the two forms of beta-subunits are not the product of a non-specific proteolytic action that occurred during the purification procedure, but rather reflects the existence in vivo of both forms of eIF-2. The GDP content of eIF-2(beta L) and eIF-2(beta H) is approximately 0.85 and 0.22 mol of GDP/mol of eIF-2, respectively. The KD for GDP of eIF-2(beta L) was lower (2.2 X 10(-9) M) than that of eIF-2(beta H) (6.0 X 10(-8) M). In the presence of 1 mM Mg2+, the activities of eIF-2(beta L) and eIF-2(beta H) in forming a binary and a ternary complex are inhibited 90 and 25%, respectively. The extent of Mg2+ inhibition and its reversal by the guanine nucleotide exchange factor is directly proportional to the amount of GDP bound to eIF-2. No inhibition by Mg2+ is observed when eIF-2-bound GDP is removed by alkaline phosphatase. In the presence of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor, both forms of eIF-2 are equally active in ternary complex formation, and the complex formed is quantitatively transferred to 40 S ribosomal subunits.
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PMID:The isolation and characterization from rabbit reticulocytes of two forms of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 having different beta-polypeptides. 330 29

We have demonstrated that the purified guanine nine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) may be isolated as a complex with NADPH. Complete inhibition of the GEF-catalyzed exchange of eukaryotic initiation factor 2-bound GDP for GTP was observed in the presence of either 0.5-0.75 mM NAD+ or NADP+. Incubation of GEF with ATP results in the phosphorylation of its Mr 82,000 polypeptide. This phosphorylation is strongly inhibited by heparin but is not affected by heme or H8 (N-[2-(methylamino)ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulfonamide dihydrochloride), an inhibitor of cAMP- and cGMP-dependent protein kinases and protein kinase C. The purification of GEF was modified to eliminate any contaminating kinase activity and the isolated protein appears to be homogeneous as judged by NaDodSO4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and silver staining. The Mr 82,000 subunit of GEF is phosphorylated only upon addition of ATP and casein kinase II. The extent of phosphorylation is approximately equal to 0.55 mol of phosphate per mol of GEF, and this results in a 2.3-fold increase in the guanine nucleotide exchange activity. Following treatment of the phosphorylated GEF with alkaline phosphatase, the activity of the protein is reduced by a factor of 5. Rephosphorylation of GEF increases its specific activity to that of the phosphorylated protein. The results of this study suggest that phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of GEF plays a role in regulating polypeptide chain initiation.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor from rabbit reticulocytes regulates its activity in polypeptide chain initiation. 342 26

The characteristics of component activities in Co-eIF-2 (where eIF is eukaryotic initiation factor) protein complex have been studied. (i) At limiting concentrations, Co-eIF-2 promoted rapid GDP binding to eIF-2 and also GDP displacement from eIF-2 X GDP during ternary complex formation in the presence of GTP and Mg2+ (Co-eIF-2C activity) but did not significantly stimulate ternary complex formation by eIF-2. (ii) At higher concentrations, Co-eIF-2 significantly enhanced ternary complex formation by eIF-2 and also rendered the complex stable to aurintricarboxylic acid presumably as Co-eIF-2 became physically bound to the ternary complex (Co-eIF-2A activity). (iii) Ternary complex preformed in the presence of Co-eIF-2 and without Mg2+ dissociated upon subsequent addition of Mg2+ (Co-eIF-2B activity). This dissociation reaction was presumably due to loss of interaction of the Co-eIF-2A component in Co-eIF-2 with the ternary complex (reversal of Co-eIF-2A activity) as the complex became increasingly sensitive to aurintricarboxylic acid with increasing Mg2+ concentration. In another study, purified eIF-2 was freed of bound GDP by treatment with alkaline phosphatase and the characteristics of native and GDP-free eIF-2 were compared. (i) One mM Mg2+ inhibited (60%) ternary complex formation by native eIF-2 but not by GDP-free eIF-2. Addition of exogenous GDP rendered GDP-free eIF-2 sensitive to Mg2+ indicating that Mg2+ inhibition is due to eIF-2-bound GDP. (ii) In the presence of Mg2+, Co-eIF-2 stimulated similarly ternary and Met-tRNAf X 40 S X AUG complex formation by both native and GDP-free eIF-2. Such stimulatory activity in each case was strongly inhibited by prior phosphorylation of eIF-2 alpha subunit by heme-regulated translational inhibitor. (iii) Ternary complexes preformed using either native and GDP-free eIF-2 and excess Co-eIF-2A80 in the absence of Mg2+ did not form Met-tRNAf X 40 S X AUG complex. They required trace amounts of Co-eIF-2 for such activity.
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PMID:Protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocytes. A study of the mechanism of Co-eIF-2 action. 385 8

Epithelial cells of the rat small intestine were collected as a gradient of villus to crypt cells. Homogenates of these cells incubated with GDP-D-[14C]mannose in the presence of MnCl2 incorporated radioactivity into dolichyl mannosyl phosphate and a mixutre of dolichyl pyrophosphate oligosaccharides varying in the size of their oligosaccharide moiety. The labeled oligosaccharides formed in villus cell homogenates appeared shorter than those formed in crypt cell homogenates. The addition of dolichyl phosphate greatly stimulated the synthesis of dolichyl mannosyl phosphate. The initial rate of synthesis of dolichyl mannosyl phosphate from GDP-D-[14C]mannose and exogenous dolichyl phosphate was highest in an intermediate cell fraction having a low specific activity of sucrase and alkaline phosphatase and an intermediate specific activity of thymidine kinase. To compare the rates of dolichyl mannosyl phosphate synthesis in the different cell fractions, it was essential to control degradation of GDP-D-[14]mannose by the addition of AMP to the incubation, since villus cells degraded GDP-D-[14C]mannose much faster than crypt cells.
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PMID:Glycoprotein biosynthesis in intestinal epithelial cells during differentiation. Incorporation of [14C]mannose from GDP-[14C]mannose into dolichol derivatives. 615 73

Using conditions to avoid the utilization of labelled precursors by intracellular glycosyltransferases, experiments are described demonstrating that intact rat-spleen lymphocytes are capable of utilizing exogenous GDP-mannose and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine to synthesize dolichyl monophosphate mannose and dolichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides. Kinetic and chase experiments show that dolichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides are either utilized for the transfer of their carbohydrate moieties to protein acceptors or further degraded. Since glycosylation of proteins is limited in resting lymphocytes, the degradation pathway appears as a major event in the fate of the dolichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides synthesized in vitro. These dolichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides are degraded into phospho-oligosaccharides and oligosaccharides which are released in the medium. This enzymatic cleavage of the phosphodiester bond is inhibited by bacitracin. The phospho-oligosaccharides are susceptible to alkaline phosphatase giving neutral oligosaccharides and they are cleaved by endo-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase H leaving N-acetylglucosamine 1-phosphate and neutral oligosaccharides. These data suggest that splitting of the phosphodiester bond of colichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides, dephosphorylation and/or endo-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase hydrolysis of the phosphorylated oligosaccharides could represent the beginning of the catabolic pathway of dolichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides.
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PMID:Fate of oligosaccharide-lipid intermediates synthesized by resting rat-spleen lymphocytes. 615 25

Rat brain cortex, caudate nucleus and cerebellum contain one or more factors that confer Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide (VIP)-, dopamine (DA)- and norepinephrine (NE)-sensitivity to adenylate cyclase in the absence of added GTP. These factors also stimulate the basal activity of the enzyme. The activity is found in a 100 000 X g supernatant; has an apparent molecular weight greater than 450 000 daltons; is inactivated by pronase, alkaline phosphatase and ammonium sulphate, and partially degraded by trypsin; and is stable to heat and acidic treatment. The effect of the factors is additive with that of guanosine-5'-triphosphate (GTP), and is not abolished by guanosine 5'-0-(2-thiodiphosphate) (GDP-beta-S). These results suggest that stimulation of adenylate cyclase by VIP, and most likely by DA and NE, can be modulated by soluble proteins.
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PMID:Properties of cytosolic proteins that confer vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-sensitivity to rat brain adenylate cyclase. 664 95

The observation that NAD inhibits sodium-dependent phosphate (P) uptake by the luminal brush border membrane (BBM) of the proximal tubule prompted us to examine the specificity and mechanism of this process. Addition of 10(-5) M NAD to the perfusate of isolated perfused rabbit proximal straight tubules inhibited lumen-to-bath P flux by approximately 50%. ADP-ribose had an identical effect, whereas nicotinamide had no effect. ADP and 5'-AMP (10(-5) M) also inhibited P flux. Na-dependent uptake of 32P by rabbit BBM vesicles was inhibited by 0.1-0.3 mM NAD, ADP-ribose, ADP, ATP, 5'-AMP, and GDP, which were preincubated with the vesicles for 30 min. The kinetics of inhibition showed an apparent increase in the Km for P but no change in Vmax. These findings are consistent with "competitive inhibition." The nucleotides inhibited P uptake even when BBM alkaline phosphatase was inhibited by 96% with 10 mM theophylline. Evidence of nonspecific phosphatase activity was present, since incubation of BBM with 0.1 mM solution of nucleotides for 30 min resulted in an elevation of free P in the medium of approximately 0.15-0.22 mM. Correction of 32P specific activity for this change resulted in values for Km and Vmax that were not significantly different from control. The "competitive inhibition" could thus be ascribed to an isotope-dilution effect. There was no evidence to suggest that NAD caused ADP-ribosylation of the luminal membrane. These studies indicate that adenine and guanine nucleotides do not inhibit P transport by a direct action on the luminal membrane of the proximal tubule but do inhibit lumen-to-bath P flux in isolated perfused proximal tubules at concentrations of 10(-5) M. Since there is no direct inhibitory effect of these compounds at the level of the BBM, it is possible that they inhibit P transport by altering some event subsequent to the transfer of P across the luminal membrane.
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PMID:Nucleotide inhibition of phosphate transport in the renal proximal tubule. 688 41

A 100 000 X g soluble, supernatant fraction obtained from the hemolysate of rat reticulocytes was studied for its effect upon catecholamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase activity in reticulocyte membranes. The supernatant material, devoid of adenylate cyclase activity itself, amplified isoproterenol-dependent activity in responsive membranes and was an essential requirement for the expression of hormone sensitivity in membranes rendered unresponsive to isoproterenol alone. The increment in catecholamine-associated activity conferred upon reticulocyte membranes by the supernatant material was beta-adrenergic because it did not affect basal or fluoride-related activity and was completely inhibited by propranolol. Guanine nucleotides were present in the supernatant but could account for only a fraction of the total activity because the supernatant was able to cause greater stimulation than maximal concentrations of GTP and when specified concentrations of exogenous GTP were compared with equivalent nucleotide concentrations in the supernatant, the supernatant always led to greater activity. The supernatant was resolved into protein-and nucleotide-containing components by ion-exchange chromatography. Each component was approximately one-half as active in amplifying catecholamine-dependent adenylate cyclase as the unresolved, crude supernatant material. The activity eluted in the first peak of the DEAE chromatogram was resistant to alkaline phosphatase, sensitive to trypsin, not dialyzable and contained no detectable concentrations of GTP or GDP. In contrast, the activity eluted the second peak of the DEAE chromatogram was sensitive to alkaline phophatase, resistant to trypsin, completely dialyzable and contained both GTP (30 microM) and GDP (10 microM) in significant concentrations. Neither the crude supernatant nor its two active components affected the binding of [125I]-iodohydroxybenzylpindolol to reticulocyte membranes. These observations establish in rat reticulocytes the presence of protein and guanine nucleotide constituents which have independent influences upon the catecholamine-responsive adenylate cyclase of reticulocyte membranes.
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PMID:Regulation of catecholamine-responsive adenylate cyclase activity in rat reticulocyte membranes by endogenous factors: general characteristics and resolution into protein and nucleotide components. 741 6


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