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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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Previous studies in vivo and with isolated perfused rat livers have suggested that the deleterious effect of ethanol on hepatic pyridoxal 5'-phosphate metabolism is mediated by acetaldehyde. Inasmuch as acetaldehyde has no effect on the synthesis of pyridoxal phosphate, it has also been postulated that acetaldehyde accelerates pyridoxal phosphate degradation by displacing this coenzyme from binding proteins, which protect it against hydrolysis. To test these hypotheses, studies have been performed with isolated rat hepatocytes, subcellular fractions of rat liver, and human erythrocytes. Ethanol oxidation lowered the pyridoxal phosphate content of isolated liver cells when acetaldehyde oxidation was inhibited by either disulfiram or prior treatment of rats with cyanamide. Additions of 7.5 mM acetaldehyde alone at 40-min intervals to cell suspensions decreased hepatic pyridoxal phosphate content only slightly because acetaldehyde was rapidly metabolized. However, when acetaldehyde oxidation and reduction were inhibited by cyanamide treatment and by 4-methyl-pyrazole and isobutyramide, respectively, a 40% decrease in hepatic pyridoxal phosphate content was observed in 80 min of incubation. In equilibrium dialysis experiments, acetaldehyde, 7.5 and 15 mM, displaced protein-bound pyridoxal phosphate in undialyzed hepatic cytosol and in hemolysate supernate containing added pyridoxal phosphate. In the presence of alkaline phosphatase, acetaldehyde accelerated the degradation of pyridoxal phosphate in dialyzed hemolysate supernate and hepatic cytosol with added pyridoxal phosphate. Acetaldehyde also inhibits tyrosine aminotransferase. The kinetics of inhibition were mixed competitive-noncompetitive with respect to pyridoxal phosphate. These observations support the hypothesis that the deleterious effect of ethanol oxidation on pyridoxal phosphate metabolism is mediated at least in part by acetaldehyde which displaces this coenzyme from protein binding, thereby enhancing its degradation.
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PMID:The role of acetaldehyde in mediating the deleterious effect of ethanol on pyridoxal 5'-phosphate metabolism. 2 31

The tissue content of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate is controlled principally by the protein binding of this coenzyme and its hydrolysis by a cellular phosphatase. The present study identifies this enzyme and its intracellular location in rat liver. Pyridoxal-P is not hydrolyzed by the acid phosphatase of intact lysosomes. At pH 7.4 and 9.0, the subcellular distribution of pyridoxal-P phosphatase activity is similar to the for p-nitrophenyl-P, and the major portion of both activities is found in the plasma membrane fraction. The ratio of specific activities for pyridoxal-P and p-nitrophenyl-P hydrolysis remains relatively constant during the isolation of plasma membranes. These activities also behave concordantly with respect to pH rate profile, pH-Km profile, and response to chelating agents, Zn2+, Mg2+, and inhibitors. Kinetic studies indicate that pyridoxal-P binds to same enzyme sites as beta-glycerophosphate and phosphorylcholine. The data strongly favor alkaline phosphatase as the enzyme which functions in the control of pyridoxal-P and pyridoxamine-P metabolism in rat liver. Alkaline phosphatase was solubilized from isolated plasma membranes. The kinetic properties of the enzyme are not markedly altered by its dissociation from the membrane matrix. However, there are significant differences in its behavior toward Mg2+ which suggest a structural role for Mg2+ in liver alkaline phosphatase.
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PMID:Characterization of the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate hydrolase activity in rat liver. Identity with alkaline phosphatase. 24 Aug 52

Because pyridoxal phosphate does not normally cross membranes, it was intriguing that the concentration of pyridoxal phosphate is much higher in goat milk than in human milk. We also noted that, although the total vitamin B-6 concentration of bovine milk was similar to that of caprine milk, the bovine milk had lower pyridoxal phosphate. Preliminary data from five Alpine goats, five Brown Swiss cows, five Holstein cows and three humans suggested that there was an inverse relationship between pyridoxal phosphate concentration and phosphatase activity in the goats and cows but not in the humans. This was confirmed with additional data from Nubian goats, Jersey and Guernsey cows, and crossbred sows. Combining the animal data yielded the following relationship between pyridoxal phosphate (PLP, mumol/L) and alkaline phosphatase (P'ase) activity (mmol/(min.L): PLP = 2.03e(-2.26 P'ase) + 0.03. The human milk samples were low in both pyridoxal phosphate and alkaline phosphatase. We conclude that in goats, cows and pigs a significant fraction of the vitamin B-6 appearing in the milk is secreted as pyridoxal phosphate, probably bound to protein, and varying amounts may then be hydrolyzed back to pyridoxal depending on the alkaline phosphatase activity. Human mammary tissue apparently secretes very little pyridoxal phosphate.
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PMID:Alkaline phosphatase activity and pyridoxal phosphate concentrations in the milk of various species. 145 18

To evaluate the nutritional value of a new military operational ration, meal, ready-to-eat (MRE), 27 soldiers were fed the ration as their only food during a 34-d field exercise at an elevation of 1800 m. Thirty soldiers given hot breakfasts and dinners and MREs for lunch served as control subjects. Measurements were made of body height, weight, skinfold thickness at four sites, urine volume and concentration, urinary zinc loss, hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum alkaline phosphatase activity, serum concentrations of albumin, total protein, ascorbic acid, folate, retinol, and Zn, and plasma pyridoxal phosphate concentration. The men fed only MREs experienced significant weight loss compared with those fed hot meals. Neither group appeared to be dehydrated. Hemoglobin and hematocrit values rose in response to increased elevation. Both groups of soldiers displayed normal values, indicative of acceptable nutritional status, of serum proteins, measured vitamins, and Zn.
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PMID:Nutritional evaluation of soldiers subsisting on meal, ready-to-eat operational rations for an extended period: body measurements, hydration, and blood nutrients. 338 28

The ability of alkaline phosphatase in purified preparations from human neutrophils and liver to utilize ATP or inorganic pyrophosphate as substrate depended upon the Mg2+ concentration. With pyrophosphate present (1.0 mmol/l), activity peaked at Mg2+ concentrations of 0.25 to 0.50 mmol/l and fell sharply above this. By contrast, p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity was activated with Mg2+ concentration up to 0.75 mmol/l but above this was constant to 5.0 mmol/l. Hydrolysis was abolished by L-levamisole, a specific inhibitor of alkaline phosphatase. Testing butanol extracts of neutrophils from 50 healthy subjects showed good correlation of enzyme activity with p-nitrophenylphosphate and ADP (r = 0.90), and between p-nitrophenylphosphate and pyridoxal phosphate (r = 0.96) as substrate, consistent with hydrolysis of all three phosphoesters by one enzyme. Inhibition studies yielded no evidence of a specific pyridoxal phosphatase. Alkaline phosphatase from human neutrophils has the same broad substrate specificity as other molecular forms of the human enzyme and, like other forms, has little or no activity towards phosphoesters complexed with Mg2+.
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PMID:Substrate specificity of alkaline phosphatase from human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. 380 35

Using a novel fluorimetric assay for pyridoxal phosphate phosphatase, human polymorphonuclear leucocytes were found to exhibit both acid an alkaline activities. The neutrophils were homogenised in isotonic sucrose and subjected to analytical subcellular fractionation by sucrose density gradient centrigfugation. The alkaline pyridoxal phosphate phosphatase showed a very similar distribution to alkaline phosphatase an was located solely to the phosphasome granules. Fractionation experiments on neutrophils treated with isotonic sucrose containing digitonin and inhibitor studies with diazotised sulphanilic acid and levamisole further confirmed that both enzyme activities had similar locations and properties. Acid pyridoxal phosphate phosphatase activity was located primarily to the tertiary granule with a partial azurophil distribution. Fractionation studies on neutrophils homogenised in isotonic sucrose containing digitonin and specific inhibitor studies showed that acid pyridoxal phosphate phosphatase and acid phosphatase were not the result of a single enzyme activity, Neutrophils were isolated from control subjects, patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia and patients in the third trimester of pregnancy. The specific activities (munits/mg protein) of alkaline pyridoxal phosphate phosphatase an alkaline phosphatase varied widely in the three groups and the alterations occurred in a parallel manner. The specific activities of acid pyridoxal phosphate phosphatase and of acid phosphatase were similar in the three groups. These results, together with the fractionation experiments and inhibition studies strongly suggest that pyridoxal phosphate is a physiological substrate for neutrophil alkaline phosphatase.
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PMID:Subcellular localization and properties of pyridoxal phosphate phosphatases of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes and their relationship to acid and alkaline phosphatase. 627 Dec 21

The intracellular localization of pyridoxal phosphatase activity was demonstrated in human neutrophils by electron microscope cytochemistry. Under alkaline conditions, an enzyme active against pyridoxal phosphate was localized to a cytoplasmic granule population, the phosphasome. These granules have previously been shown by electron microscope cytochemical techniques and by subcellular fractionation to be rich in alkaline phosphatase. Under acidic conditions, a phosphatase activity against pyridoxal phosphate was localized to intracellular multilamellar bodies resembling secondary lysosomes. These were quite distinct from the primary, secondary and phosphasome granules and this unique localization corresponds to that previously demonstrated (tertiary granules) by subcellular fractionation studies of these cells. The similarity in the enzyme reaction requirements of alkaline pyridoxal phosphatase and alkaline phosphatase, and their localization to the same subcellular organelle, suggests that pyridoxal phosphate may be a physiological substrate for human neutrophil alkaline phosphatase.
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PMID:Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate: a possible physiological substrate for alkaline phosphatase in human neutrophils. 630 89

Neutrophil leukocytes, isolated from normal subjects and subjected to analytical subcellular fractionation by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, showed very similar cytosol distributions of pyridoxal and pyridoxal phosphate and lactate dehydrogenase. The small amounts of pyridoxal and pyridoxal phosphate associated with the dense granule fractions were not associated with the alkaline phosphatase containing granules. The levels of pyridoxal and pyridoxal phosphate were determined in neutrophils from control subjects, women in the third trimester of pregnancy and patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia. Neutrophil pyridoxal phosphate was increased in women in the third trimester of pregnancy compared to controls, but there was little variation in the level of pyridoxal between the groups. There was no consistent correlation between the pyridoxal phosphate and the neutrophil alkaline phosphatase activity in the patient groups. Although in vitro neutrophil alkaline phosphatase rapidly hydrolyses pyridoxal phosphate, it is suggested that in vivo this is unlikely to be the principal function of the enzyme.
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PMID:Levels and subcellular localisation of pyridoxal and pyridoxal phosphate in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes and their relationship to alkaline phosphatase activity. 657 87

Hydrolysis of pyridoxal phosphate in plasma was demonstrated in patients with liver disease and other conditions with raised alkaline phosphatase, and this usually closely paralleled the alkaline phosphatase level, whether of liver or bone origin. The endogenous plasma pyridoxal phosphate was inversely related to the alkaline phosphatase, and plasma hydrolysis of pyridoxal phosphate may at least in part be responsible. Very large doses of vitamin B6 may be necessary to compensate for this hydrolysis.
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PMID:Hydrolysis of pyridoxal-5'-phosphate in plasma in conditions with raised alkaline phosphate. 739 18

Synaptic vesicles isolated from bovine cerebral cortex were found to contain alkaline phosphatase activity towards p-nitrophenylphosphate and alpha-naphthyl phosphate, but not towards pyridoxal phosphate. The enzyme had an apparent molecular weight of 125,000 and co-purified with the synaptic vesicles in parallel with the specific neurotransmitter content and with the loss of contaminating components, whereas the major phosphatase which was present in the brain homogenate, with an apparent molecular weight of 140,000 purified away. The optimal pH for the enzyme activity on p-nitrophenylphosphate was 9.8. At this pH the activity was 33.4 nmol/mg protein/min, and the apparent Km value was 0.31 +/- 0.05 mM. The pH dependency of the synaptic vesicle phosphatase activity towards p-nitrophenylphosphate differed from that of the Ca2+/Mg2+-dependentt ATP hydrolysis by the synaptic vesicles. Upon mild digestion of lyzed vesicles with trypsin, phosphatase activity was reduced whereas the ATPase activity was retained suggesting that the phosphatase and the ATPase are two different enzymes. The phosphatase was reversibly inhibited by ethyleneglycol bis (aminoethyl ether) N,N'-tetracetic acid (EGTA) and activity was restored by the addition of an equimolar amount of CA2+. Magnesium ions could restore only 30% of the activity. The activity of the synaptic vesicle phosphatase was not affected by o-phenanthroline, zinc ion or by cAMP. Tetranitromethane inactivated the enzyme irreversibly, whereas phenylmethanesulfonylfluoride diisopropylfluorophosphate and p-hydroxymercurybenzoate inhibited the activity partially. The enzyme did not have a diesterase activity. Adenosine mono-, di- and triphosphate inhibited the p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity and were also hydrolyzed by the vesicle preparation. However, the different kinetic parameters obtained with the nucleotide as inhibitors or as substrates suggest that additional enzymes are involved in the hydrolysis of the adenine nucleotides in vesicle preparation.
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PMID:A calcium-stimulated alkaline phosphatase associated with synaptic vesicles. 741 49


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