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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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An enzyme (L-glycerol 3-phosphate: CMP phosphatidyltransferase) catalyzing the synthesis of phosphatidyl glycerophosphate from CDP-diglyceride and L-glycerol 3-phosphate has been rendered soluble by treatment of the particulate, membrane-containing fraction of E. coli with Triton X-100 and has been partially purified. The enzyme, devoid of phosphatidyl glycerophosphatase activity, is specific for L-glycerol 3-phosphate and is completely dependent upon added Mg(++) or Mn(++) for activity. It has high affinity for CDP-diglyceride and can be used for the assay of this nucleotide. Other properties of the enzyme are also described.
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PMID:Biosynthesis of phosphatidyl glycerophosphate in Escherichia coli. 486 May 77

Teichoic acid-like material extracted by cold trichloroacetic acid from lyophilized whole cells of streptococci from groups A,D,E,O, and T was shown to give a positive precipitin reaction with group antisera. Similar material from cells of groups B,C,F,G,H,K,L,M,N,P,Q,R, and S did not give a positive reaction with group antisera. The group A material also reacted with anti-E serum; however, the opposite did not occur. A similar result was also obtained on the group T material and anti-O serum. The group A teichoic acid was purified by Sephadex column chromatography, and was shown to be free of cell wall peptidoglycan and polysaccharide, and ribitol teichoic acid. It was composed of glycerol, phosphate, alanine, and glucosamine. Alkaline hydrolysis showed the presence of ester-linked alanine and glucosaminylglycerol. Phosphorus was released from ester linkage by alkaline phosphatase. N-acetylglucosamine produced a 72% inhibition of the precipitin test at a level of 10 mumoles, and d-alanine methyl ester was significantly stronger than the l-alanine ester. A single precipitin band was seen with group A serum. The data indicate that teichoic acid of group A streptococci is a polymer composed of glycerol phosphate and containing N-acetylglucosamine and alanine. Antisera to these streptococci contain antibodies specific for the alanine and the glucosamine linkages. The use of serum containing antibodies to alanine-polyglycerophosphate shows that the occurrence of this type of teichoic acid is widespread among the streptococci.
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PMID:Composition and properties of a group A streptococcal teichoic acid. 498 40

Cardiolipin (CL) synthetase from Staphylococcus aureus catalyzes the complete conversion of two molecules of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) to one molecule of CL and one molecule of glycerol. The fatty acids and phosphates of the two PG molecules can be quantitatively recovered in the CL. The enzyme is membrane-bound, shows a linear relationship with the product formed between 10 and 125 mug of membrane protein, has a pH optimum at 4.4, a temperature optimum between 37 and 45 C, a K(m) for PG of 2.1 x 10(-4)m, a V(max) of 200 nmoles of CL per min per mg of membrane protein, and does not require monovalent or divalent metals for activity. The enzyme has no nucleotide requirement and is not affected by prolonged dialysis, and treatment of the enzyme with charcoal has no effect on its activity. The enzyme has no phosphomonoesterase or phosphodiesterase activity, does not act on CL, is specific for PG, and CL and glycerol are the sole products of its activity. Other lipids do not stimulate or inhibit its activity. The enzyme is inhibited by organic solvents and some detergents. There is sufficient CL synthetase activity to account for CL synthesis during exponential growth. Inhibition of CL hydrolysis during growth results in an increase in CL that is balanced by a loss of PG. The activity of CL synthetase is not affected by cytidine diphosphate diglyceride but is inhibited competitively by the product, CL.
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PMID:Biosynthesis of cardiolipin from phosphatidylglycerol in Staphylococcus aureus. 505 54

1. Acute transient catabolite repression of beta-galactosidase synthesis, observed when glucose is added to glycerol-grown cells of Escherichia coli (Moses & Prevost, 1966), requires the presence of a functional operator gene (o) in the lactose operon. Total deletion of the operator gene abolished acute transient repression, even in the presence of a functional regulator gene (i). 2. Regulator constitutives (i(-)) also show transient repression provided that the operator gene is functional. Regulator deletion mutants (i(del)), with which to test specifically the role of the i gene, have not so far been available. 3. The above mutants, showing various changes in the lactose operon, show no alteration in the effect of glucose on induced tryptophanase synthesis. Glucose metabolism, as measured in terms of the release of (14)CO(2) from [1-(14)C]glucose and [6-(14)C]glucose, also showed no differences between strains exhibiting or not exhibiting transient repression. This suggests no change in the operation of the pentose phosphate cycle, a metabolic activity known to be of paramount importance for glucose repression of beta-galactosidase synthesis (Prevost & Moses, 1967). 4. Chronic permanent repression by glucose of beta-galactosidase synthesis (less severe in degree than acute transient repression) persists in strains in which transient repression has been genetically abolished. Constitutive alkaline-phosphatase synthesis, which shows no transient repression, also demonstrates chronic permanent repression by glucose. 5. Chloramphenicol repression also persists in mutants with no transient repression, and also affects alkaline phosphatase. It is suggested that chronic permanent repression and chloramphenicol repression are non-specific, and that they do not influence beta-galactosidase synthesis via the regulatory system of the lactose operon.
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PMID:Involvement of the lac regulatory genes in catabolite repression in Escherichia coli. 534 Mar 65

1. The purification of a nuclease from rat-liver mitochondria is described. The mitochondria are rendered soluble by treatment with Triton X-100 and, after fractionation with ammonium sulphate and acetone, the active fraction is further purified by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and Sephadex G-75 to give a purification of over 700-fold. 2. The purified enzyme was only very slightly contaminated with deoxyribonuclease II, phosphodiesterase and phosphomonoesterase. The individual activities of these enzymes did not exceed 0.1% of the activity of the liver nuclease. 3. The purified enzyme attacked RNA more rapidly than denatured DNA and hydrolysed native DNA more slowly than denatured DNA. 4. There is some evidence to suggest that the nucleolytic activity of the purified preparation towards native DNA, denatured DNA and RNA is associated with a single protein. 5. The enzyme is relatively labile but is stabilized in the presence of 20% (w/v) glycerol or 10mm-2-mercaptoethanol.
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PMID:The purification from rat liver of a nuclease hydrolysing ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid. 591 28

An alpha-amylase gene from Bacillus coagulans has previously been cloned in Escherichia coli and shown to direct the synthesis of an enzymically active protein of 60,000 Dal (Cornelis et al., 1982). In one particular E. coli host, strain HB101, amylase was found to accumulate in the periplasmic space. To study the processing and the location of the amylase, plasmid pAMY2 was introduced into E. coli 188 which is a strain constitutive for alkaline phosphatase, a periplasmic marker, and for beta-galactosidase, a cytoplasmic marker. Abnormally large amounts of both alpha-amylase and beta-galactosidase were found in the culture fluid of cells grown in rich medium. Furthermore a severe growth defect was found when cells containing pAMY2 were grown in maltose and glycerol media, while the ability to grow on glucose remained normal. This defect could be reversed by two types of spontaneous mutations. Mutations in the first class are located on the plasmid and correspond to the insertional inactivation of the amylase gene by IS1. Mutations in the second class are located on the host chromosome. These results suggest that the synthesis and export of B. coagulans alpha-amylase is deleterious to E. coli, especially in media containing maltose or glycerol as sole carbon source.
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PMID:Growth defects of Escherichia coli cells which contain the gene of an alpha-amylase from Bacillus coagulans on a multicopy plasmid. 618 99

1,2-Diacyl-sn-glycerol : CDPcholine cholinephosphotransferase (EC 2.7.8.2) and acyl-CoA : 1-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine acyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.23) activities of rat liver microsomes can be inhibited by centrophenoxine (N,N-dimethylaminoethyl p-chlorophenoxyacetate). This inhibition is brought about by the intact centrophenoxine molecule rather than by the products of hydrolysis. A nonhydrolyzable ether analog of centrophenoxine was synthesized (neophenoxine; N,N-dimethylaminoethyl p-chlorophenoxyethyl ether) and proved most effective in inhibiting the two routes of phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. While 50% inhibition of the cholinephosphotransferase was attained at 5 mM neophenoxine, 50% inhibition of the acyltransferase required 0.6 mM neophenoxine levels only. Inhibition of the cholinephosphotransferase (Ki approximately 1.5 mM) and the acyltransferase (Ki approximately 1 mM) by neophenoxine was shown to be noncompetitive. Other membrane-bound enzymes, such as glucose-6-phosphatase, monoacylglycerol lipase, alkaline phosphatase or phospholipase A2 were not affected by the inhibitors. Because of this specificity, and because of the high affinity of the microsomal membrane for such agents, centrophenoxine and neophenoxine should prove useful for controlling phosphatidylcholine synthesis and for modulating the phosphatidylcholine deacylation-reacylation cycle.
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PMID:Modulation of phosphatidylcholine synthesis in vitro. Inhibition of diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase and lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase by centrophenoxine and neophenoxine. 626 46

The properties of a teichoic acid degrading enzyme (teichoicase) isolated from Bacillus subtilis Marburg are described. The purified enzyme showed phosphodiesterase activity but not phosphomonoesterase activity, and it had an absolute substrate specificity for alpha-glucosylated glycerol teichoic acid, the endogenous cell wall teichoic acid of the enzyme-producing cell. The substrate was degraded by an exo-mechanism yielding the monomer alpha-D-glucose 1 leads to 2 (sn)glycero-3-phosphate. When B. subtilis Marburg was grown in a rich medium, enzyme activity was detected in extracts from sporulating cells. Teichoicase activity was present in a mutant blocked in stage II of the sporulation process but was absent in a mutant blocked in stage O. It was concluded that teichoicase is active on enzyme-producing cells since the reaction product could be detected in their culture supernatant. Attempts to demonstrate analogous enzyme activity in other Bacillus strains failed. The enzyme could be used for the rapid detection of alpha-glucosylated glycerol teichoic acid and for the controlled alteration of native bacterial cell surfaces exhibiting the appropriate structure.
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PMID:Teichoicase from Bacillus subtilis Marburg. 630 14

Experiments were done to measure the ability of dioxygen to collisionally quench the phosphorescent and fluorescent tryptophans in alcohol dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase. In all cases, luminescence is quenched with rate constants close to 1 x 10(9) M-1 s-1. The rate of reaching the buried tryptophans is little affected by solvent viscosity due to added glycerol. Quenching by dioxygen is not due to a protein-opening reaction. It appears to be rate limited by internal protein diffusion rather than at the entry step. Dioxygen appears to enter the proteins directly, as in liquidlike diffusion, rather than through transiently forming channels that are only present a small fraction of the time. A high-pressure oxygen system is described that considerably facilitates fluorescence quenching experiments.
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PMID:Penetration of dioxygen into proteins studied by quenching of phosphorescence and fluorescence. 634 62

Incubation of rat adipocytes with 1 microM-noradrenaline caused a decrease in both the N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive (microsomal) and N-ethylmaleimide-insensitive (mitochondrial) glycerol phosphate acyltransferase activities measured in homogenates from freeze-stopped cells. The effects of noradrenaline on glycerol phosphate acyltransferase activity were apparent over a wide range of concentrations of glycerol phosphate and palmitoyl-CoA. The effect of noradrenaline was reversed within cells by the subsequent addition of insulin or propranolol. Inclusion of albumin in homogenization buffers abolished the effect of noradrenaline on the N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive activity. The effect of noradrenaline on the N-ethylmaleimide-insensitive (mitochondrial) activity was, however, not abolished by inclusion of albumin in buffers for preparation of homogenates from freeze-stopped cells. Inclusion of fluoride in homogenization buffers did not alter the observed effect of noradrenaline. The inactivating effect of noradrenaline persisted through the subcellular fractionation procedures used to isolate adipocyte microsomes (microsomal fractions). The effect of noradrenaline on mitochondrial glycerol phosphate acyltransferase did not persist through subcellular fractionation. Noradrenaline treatment of cells significantly decreased the Vmax. of glycerol phosphate acyltransferase in isolated microsomes without changing the activity of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase. Glycerol phosphate acyltransferase activity in microsomes from noradrenaline-treated cells is unstable, being rapidly lost on incubation at 30 degrees C. Bivalent metal ions (Mg2+, Ca2+) or post-microsomal supernatant protected against this inactivation. Glycerol phosphate acyltransferase activity in microsomes from noradrenaline-treated cells could not be re-activated by incubation with either alkaline phosphatase or phosphoprotein phosphatase-1. Addition of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunits to adipocyte microsomes incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP considerably increased the incorporation of 32P into microsomal protein, but did not cause inactivation of glycerol phosphate acyltransferase. These findings provide no support for the proposal that inactivation of adipocyte microsomal glycerol phosphate acyltransferase by noradrenaline is through a phosphorylation type of covalent modification.
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PMID:Regulation by noradrenaline of the mitochondrial and microsomal forms of glycerol phosphate acyltransferase in rat adipocytes. 635 49


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