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Three high-performance cows in lactation were tested each for the effects of two kinds of infusion each, 500 ml of Tetamag-2 solution (60 g of calcium gluconate and 60 g of magnesium adipate) and 500 ml of Calcimag (100 g of calcium gluconate and 20 g of magnesium adipate), upon the levels of calcium, magnesium, Pa, potassium, and sodium as well as upon the activities of aspartate-aminotransferase, leucine-aminopeptidase, and alkaline phosphatase in blood serum and upon glucose levels in blood plasma. Migration of calcium out of blood plasma was found to take place at much higher rate than that of magnesium. Infusion of Pa and glucose was followed soon by some temporary drop of values. No directional effects were recordable from potassium and sodium. Aspartate-aminotransferase activity did not change in response to transfusion. Intravenous infusion of Tetamag-2 solution caused strong temporary rise in magnesium concentration and, consequently, activation of leucine-aminopeptidase.
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PMID:[Modification of blood serum mineral levels and aspartate aminotransferase, leucine aminopeptidase and alkaline phosphatase activity and plasma in glucose levels in healthy cattle by Ca-Mg-containing solutions]. 722 93

The levels of various compounds in blood serum and blood plasma were tested in 14 heads of cattle with hypomagnesiaemia (x = 0.76 +/- 0.29 mg/100 ml), prior to and following infusion of 500 ml of a calcium-magnesium solution (containing 60 g of magnesium adipate and 60 g of calcium gluconate). Concomitant hypocalcaemia (6.1 mg/100 ml) was recordable only from one animal. Most of the potassium as well as all Pa and protein values in blood serum were physiologically normal, while sodium ws somewhat reduced. The glucose level in blood plasma was increased in the animal with concomitant hypocalcaemia and in one animal with poor recovery potential. The drops in magnesium and calcium levels in blood serum, following infusion, in cattle with hypomagnesiaemia was very similar to that in clinically intact cattle. Aspartate-aminotransferase and creatinine-phosphokinase activities of the serum were increased in all cattle, but leucine-aminopeptidase activity in only some of them. The activity of alkaline phosphatase of the blood serum was physiologically normal.
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PMID:[Blood mineral (Ca, Mg, Na K, Pa) levels and aspartate aminotransferase, leucine aminopeptidase, creatine phosphokinase and alkaline phosphatase activity and blood glucose levels in cattle with hypomagnesemia prior to and following infusion of a 500 ml solution containing 60 g of Mg adipate and 60 g of Ca gluconate]. 722 94

Placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) is initially synthesized as a precursor (proPLAP) with a C-terminal extension. We constructed a recombinant cDNA which encodes a chimeric protein (alpha GL-PLAP) comprising rat alpha 2u-globulin (alpha GL) and the C-terminal extension of PLAP. Two molecular species (25 kDa and 22 kDa) were expressed in the COS-1 cell transfected with the cDNA for alpha GL-PLAP. Only the 22 kDa form was labelled with both [3H]stearic acid and [3H]ethanolamine. Upon digestion with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C the 22 kDa form was released into the medium, indicating that this form is anchored on the cell surface via glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI). A specific IgG raised against a C-terminal nonapeptide of proPLAP precipitated the 25 kDa form but not the 22 kDa form, suggesting that the 25 kDa form is a precursor retaining the C-terminal propeptide. When a mutant alpha GL-PLAP, in which the aspartic acid residue is replaced with tryptophan at a putative cleavage/attachment site, was expressed in COS-1 cells, the 25 kDa precursor was the only form found inside the cell and retained in the endoplasmic reticulum, as judged by immunofluorescence microscopy. In vitro translation programmed with mRNAs coding for the wild-type and mutant forms of alpha GL-PLAP demonstrated that the C-terminal propeptide was cleaved from the wild-type chimeric protein, but not from the mutant one. This gave rise to the 22 kDa form attached with a GPI anchor, suggesting that GPI is covalently linked to the aspartic acid residue (Asp159) of alpha GL-PLAP. Taken together, these results indicate that the C-terminal propeptide of PLAP functions as a signal to render alpha GL a GPI-linked membrane protein in vitro and in vivo in cultured cells, and that the chimeric protein constructed in this study may be useful for elucidating the mechanism underlying the cleavage of the propeptide and attachment of GPI, which occur in the endoplasmic reticulum.
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PMID:Conversion of secretory proteins into membrane proteins by fusing with a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor signal of alkaline phosphatase. 751 12

Binding and signaling proteins based on Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (AP; EC 3.1.3.1) were designed for the detection of antibodies. Hybrid proteins were constructed by using wild-type AP and point mutants of AP [Asp-101 --> Ser (D101S) and Asp-153 --> Gly (D153G)]. The binding function of the hybrid proteins is provided by a peptide epitope inserted between amino acids 407 and 408 in AP. Binding of anti-epitope antibodies to the hybrid proteins modulates the enzyme activity of the hybrids; upon antibody binding, enzyme activity can increase to as much as 300% of the level of activity in the absence of antibody or can decrease as much as 40%, depending on the presence or absence of the point mutations in AP. The fact that modulation is altered from inhibition to activation by single amino acid changes in the active site of AP suggests that the mechanism for modulation is due to structural alterations upon antibody binding. Modulation is a general phenomenon. The properties of the system are demonstrated by using two epitopes, one from the V3 loop of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gp120 protein and one from hepatitis C virus core protein, and corresponding monoclonal antibodies. The trend of modulation is consistent for all hybrids; those in wild-type AP are inhibited by antibody, while those in the AP mutants are activated by antibody. This demonstrates that modulation of enzyme activity of the AP-epitope hybrid proteins is not specific to either a particular epitope sequence or a particular antibody-epitope combination.
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PMID:A molecular sensor system based on genetically engineered alkaline phosphatase. 754 Nov 35

Here we present the refined crystal structures of three different conformational states of the Asp153-->Gly mutant (D153G) of alkaline phosphatase (AP), a metalloenzyme from Escherichia coli. The apo state is induced in the crystal over a 3 month period by metal depletion of the holoenzyme crystals. Subsequently, the metals are reintroduced in the crystalline state in a time-dependent reversible manner without physically damaging the crystals. Two structural intermediates of the holo form based on data from a 2 week (intermediate I) and a 2 month soak (intermediate II) of the apo crystals with Mg2+ and Zn2+ have been identified. The three-dimensional crystal structures of the apo (R = 18.1%), intermediate I (R = 19.5%), and intermediate II (R = 19.9%) of the D153G enzyme have been refined and the corresponding structures analyzed and compared. Large conformational changes that extend from the mutant active site to surface loops, located 20 A away, are observed in the apo structure with respect to the holo structure. The structure of intermediate I shows the recovery of the entire enzyme to an almost native-like conformation, with the exception of residues Asp 51 and Asp 369 in the active site and the surface loop (406-410) which remains partially disordered. In the three-dimensional structure of intermediate II, both Asp 51 and Asp 369 are essentially in a native-like conformation, but the main chain of residues 406-408 within the loop is still not fully ordered. The D153G mutant protein exhibits weak, reversible, time dependent metal binding in solution and in the crystalline state.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Crystallographic analysis of reversible metal binding observed in a mutant (Asp153-->Gly) of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase. 757 93

Actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) occurs naturally in two forms, one of which contains a phosphorylated Ser and does not bind G-actin or depolymerize F-actin. Removal of this phosphate in vitro by alkaline phosphatase restores full F-actin depolymerizing activity. To identify the phosphorylation site, [32P]pADF was purified and digested with endoproteinase Lys-C. The digest contained only one 32P-labeled peptide. Further digestion with endoproteinase Asp-N and mass spectrometric analysis showed that this peptide came from the N terminus of ADF. Alkaline phosphatase treatment of one Asp-N peptide (mass 753) converted it to a peptide of mass 673, demonstrating that this peptide contains the phosphate group. Tandem mass spectrometric sequence analysis of this peptide identified the phosphorylated Ser as the encoded Ser3 (Ser2 in the processed protein). HeLa cells, transfected with either chick wild-type ADF cDNA or a cDNA mutated to code for Ala in place of Ser24 or Thr25, express and phosphorylate the exogenous ADF. Cells also expressed high levels of mutant ADF when Ser3 was deleted or converted to either Ala or Glu. However, none of these mutants was phosphorylated, confirming that Ser3 in the encoded ADF is the single in vivo regulatory site.
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PMID:Reactivation of phosphorylated actin depolymerizing factor and identification of the regulatory site. 761 64

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) containing an Arg-Gly-Asp cell-binding sequence was purified from bovine bone 4 M guanidine-HCl extract after HCl demineralization by a series of chromatographic procedures. When this protein was coated on culture dishes in the presence of type I collagen, it increased both DNA content and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity in osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells, and stimulated calcification in the cells, whereas fibronectin, another cell-binding protein, showed a marked increase in the DNA content but had little effect on the ALP activity. These findings suggest that BSP is mitogenic for preosteoblasts and differentiating the cells into osteoblasts, thereby stimulating bone calcification.
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PMID:Stimulation by bone sialoprotein of calcification in osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells. 762 49

Using site-directed mutagenesis, an aspartate side chain involved in binding metal ions in the active site of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (Asp-369) was replaced, alternately, by asparagine (D369N) and by alanine (D369A). The purified mutant enzymes showed reduced turnover rates (kcat) and increased Michaelis constants (Km). The kcat for the D369A enzyme was 5,000-fold lower than the value for the wild-type enzyme. The D369N enzyme required Zn2+ in millimolar concentrations to become fully active; even under these conditions the kcat measured for hydrolysis of p-nitrophenol phosphate was 2 orders of magnitude lower than for the wild-type enzyme. Thus the kcat/Km ratios showed that catalysis is 50 times less efficient when the carboxylate side chain of Asp-369 is replaced by the corresponding amide; and activity is reduced to near nonenzymic levels when the carboxylate is replaced by a methyl group. The crystal structure of D369N, solved to 2.5 A resolution with an R-factor of 0.189, showed vacancies at 2 of the 3 metal binding sites. On the basis of the kinetic results and the refined X-ray coordinates, a reaction mechanism is proposed for phosphate ester hydrolysis by the D369N enzyme involving only 1 metal with the possible assistance of a histidine side chain.
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PMID:Kinetics and crystal structure of a mutant Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (Asp-369-->Asn): a mechanism involving one zinc per active site. 770 48

Inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase, inositol monophosphate phosphatase, and fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase share a sequence motif, Asp-Pro-(Ile or Leu)-Asp-(Gly or Ser)-(Thr or Ser), that has been shown by crystallographic and mutagenesis studies to bind metal ions and participate in catalysis. We compared the six alpha-carbon coordinates of this motif from the crystal structures of these three phosphatases and found that they are superimposable with rms deviations ranging from 0.27 to 0.60 A. Remarkably, when these proteins were aligned by this motif a common core structure emerged, defined by five alpha-helices and 11 beta-strands comprising 155 residues having rms deviations ranging from 1.48 to 2.66 A. We used the superimposed structures to align the sequences within the common core, and a distant relationship was observed suggesting a common ancestor. The common core was used to align the sequences of several other proteins that share significant similarity to inositol monophosphate phosphatase, including proteins encoded by fungal qa-X and qutG, bacterial suhB and cysQ (identical to amtA), and yeast met22 (identical to hal2). Evolutionary comparison of the core sequences indicate that five distinct branches exist within this family. These proteins share metal-dependent/Li(+)-sensitive phosphomonoesterase activity, and each predicted tree branch exhibits unique substrate specificity. Thus, these proteins define an ancient structurally conserved family involved in diverse metabolic pathways including inositol signaling, gluconeogenesis, sulfate assimilation, and possibly quinone metabolism. Furthermore, we suggest that this protein family identifies candidate enzymes to account for both the therapeutic and toxic actions of Li+ as it is used in patients treated for manic depressive disease.
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PMID:Definition of a metal-dependent/Li(+)-inhibited phosphomonoesterase protein family based upon a conserved three-dimensional core structure. 776 65

Osteopontin is a phosphorylated sialoprotein containing a conserved sequence of contiguous aspartic acid residues. This protein is expressed at high levels in mineralized tissues and has previously been shown to inhibit the in vitro formation of hydroxyapatite (HA). In the present study, protein modification and model compound studies have been used to identify the structural features of osteopontin that are responsible for its crystal-modulating properties. Using metastable calcium phosphate solutions buffered by autotitration, osteopontin caused half-maximal inhibition of HA formation at a concentration (IC50) of 0.06 microgram/ml. The hen egg yolk phosphoprotein phosvitin was a much weaker inhibitor, while dextran sulphate had no effect. The synthetic polypeptide poly(aspartic acid) was almost as effective an inhibitor of HA formation as osteopontin (IC50 0.11 microgram/ml), whereas poly(glutamic acid) was more than a thousand times less potent (IC50 155 micrograms/ml). In a steady-state agarose gel system, much higher polypeptide concentrations were required for inhibition of HA formation, but a similar relative order of inhibitory effectiveness was observed. Treatment of osteopontin with alkaline phosphatase removed 84% of the covalently bound phosphate and reduced its HA-inhibiting activity by more than 40-fold. Treatment with glycine ethyl ester in the presence of carbodi-imide modified 86% of the carboxylate groups in osteopontin and reduced its inhibitory activity by 6-fold. These findings indicate that osteopontin is a potent inhibitor of HA formation. This activity requires phosphate and carboxylate groups, possibly including the conserved sequence of contiguous aspartic acid residues. Osteopontin may act as an inhibitor of phase separation in physiological fluids of high supersaturation.
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PMID:Modulation of crystal formation by bone phosphoproteins: structural specificity of the osteopontin-mediated inhibition of hydroxyapatite formation. 801 Sep 53


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