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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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1. Homogenates of the mucosa of the small intestine of the guinea pig were separated by fractional sedimentation into seven different fractions. The enzymic properties of some of these subcellular fractions were compared with those obtained from the mucosa of the small intestine of the rabbit and cat. 2. The enzymic properties of the low-speed sediment (15000g-min.) were investigated and it was shown that invertase and alkaline ribonuclease were predominantly located in this subcellular fraction, whereas alkaline phosphatase, aryl-amidase, acid phosphatase, acid ribonuclease and phosphoprotein phosphatase, though true constituents of this fraction, occurred to varying degrees in other subcellular structures also. 3. It was shown that the most probable source of the enzymic activities observed in the low-speed sediment was the brush border. Electron micrographs of the purified brush-border fraction indicated vesicles derived from the brush-border membrane. 4. A method is described for the fractionation of mucosal homogenates into a brush border-plus-nuclei fraction, a mitochondrial fraction, a microsomal fraction and a particle-free supernatant. The fractions were shown to be relatively pure, as indicated by the distribution of invertase, DNA, succinate dehydrogenase, glucose 6-phosphatase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase. 5. Most of the activity of four lysosomal enzymes present in the nuclei-free homogenate was sedimented at 375000g-min., suggesting the occurrence of lysosomal particles in mucosal homogenates. 6. Further fractionation of the microsomal membranes into three fractions is described. The enzymic composition of the membrane fractions is given and discussed in relation to their structure as seen in electron micrographs.
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PMID:Studies on the fractionation of mucosal homogenates from the small intestine. 428 74

1. The action of beryllium on the following enzymes has been examined: alkaline phosphatase (Escherichia coli and kidney), acid phosphatase, phosphoprotein phosphatase, apyrase (potato), adenosine triphosphatase (liver nuclei, liver mitochondria, brain microsomes), glucose 6-phosphatase, polysaccharide phosphorylases a and b, phosphoglucomutase, hexokinase, phosphoglyceromutase, ribonuclease, A-esterase (rabbit serum), cholinesterase (horse serum), chymotrypsin. Alkaline phosphatase and phosphoglucomutase are inhibited by 1mum-beryllium sulphate whereas the other enzymes are largely unaffected by 1mm-beryllium sulphate. 2. Possible mechanisms for the inhibition of phosphoglucomutase and alkaline phosphatase are discussed.
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PMID:The inhibition of enzymes by beryllium. 428 87

Xenopus laevis oocytes were microinjected with low molecular weight phosphoesters such as 2-glycerophosphate, phosphotyrosine, phosphoserine, phosphothreonine, 4-nitrophenyl phosphate, and orthophosphate. These compounds were able to induce a considerable reduction in the time course of progesterone-induced maturation, with 2-glycerophosphate being the most effective. The basal level of cAMP and its drop during maturation were not affected by the microinjection of 2-glycerophosphate. The injection of alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1.) from calf intestine at a low concentration (10 ng per oocyte) was able to decrease or abolish the effect of 2-glycerophosphate. At higher concentration (25 ng per oocyte) this enzyme totally blocked progesterone- or maturation-promoting factor-induced maturation. Alkaline phosphatase might behave in vivo as a phosphoprotein phosphatase active towards phosphotyrosine-containing proteins. In addition, our results indicate that phosphate or phosphoester-containing buffers should be avoided in the course of maturation-promoting factor purification.
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PMID:In vivo effects of microinjected alkaline phosphatase and its low molecular weight substrates on the first meiotic cell division in Xenopus laevis oocytes. 608 79

Phosphorylation of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase by cyclic AMP-independent synthase kinase 1 results in the incorporation of 4 mol of PO4/subunit. Incubation of the phosphorylated synthase with rabbit muscle phosphoprotein phosphatase brings about the hydrolysis of phosphates from all four major tryptic peptides and an increase in the synthase activity ratio from 0.01 to 0.85. Incubation of the phosphorylated synthase with calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase brings about the preferential hydrolysis of phosphates from three of the four major tryptic peptides and a slight increase in the four major tryptic peptides and a slight increase in the synthase activity ratio from 0.01 to 0.1. The phosphorylation site which is resistant to hydrolysis by calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase can be dephosphorylated by subsequent incubation with rabbit muscle phosphoprotein phosphatase. This dephosphorylation is accompanied by an increase in the synthase activity ratio to approximately 0.9. Measurements of the changes in the kinetic properties of the synthase samples dephosphorylated by alkaline phosphatase reveal that the phosphorylation sites susceptible to hydrolysis by alkaline phosphatase mainly affect the binding of glucose-6-P to the synthase. Comparison of the kinetic properties of the synthase samples dephosphorylated by alkaline phosphatase and by phosphoprotein phosphatase we find that the phosphorylation site resistant to hydrolysis by alkaline phosphatase affects both the binding of UDP-glucose and glucose-6-P to the synthase.
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PMID:Dephosphorylation of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase (phosphorylated by cyclic AMP-independent synthase kinase 1) by phosphatases. 625 66

The phosphoprotein phosphatase activity of a commercial preparation of bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) was examined using phosvitin and dentine phosphoprotein as substrates. Over 90% and 70% of the phosphorus from dentine phosphoprotein and phosvitin were hydrolyzed in 2 h. The optimum pH of the enzyme for the dephosphorylation of phosvitin and dentine phosphoprotein was nearly 6. No protein phosphatase activity was observed when the alkaline phosphatases from bovine liver and pulp were investigated.
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PMID:Phosphoprotein phosphatase activity of bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase. 626 66

Glucocorticoid receptor in rat liver cytosol is inactivated (rendered unable to bind steroid) by incubation with calf intestine alkaline phosphatase or highly purified rabbit muscle phosphoprotein phosphatase (phosphorylase phosphate, protein phosphatase C). The receptor is inactivated by both enzymes even when 10 mM sodium molybdate is present. Receptors that are inactivated by phosphatases in the presence of molybdate can be reactivated to the steroid-binding state by addition of dithiothreitol, but receptors that are inactivated in the absence of molybdate cannot be reactivated. These observations suggest that dephosphorylation leads to oxidation of a moiety (-SH) on the receptor that is required for steroid binding. Molybdate apparently preserves the receptor in a form such that reduction returns the receptor to the steroid binding state. We would propose that molybdate may act by complexing with sulfur groups on the receptor.
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PMID:Inactivation of glucocorticoid-binding capacity by protein phosphatases in the presence of molybdate and complete reactivation of dithiothreitol. 628 38

Previous studies have shown that phosphorylase phosphatase can be isolated from rabbit liver and bovine heart as a form of Mr approximately 35,000 after an ethanol treatment of tissue extracts. This enzyme form was designated as protein phosphatase C. In the present study, reproducible methods for the isolation of two forms of protein phosphatase C from rabbit skeletal muscle to apparent homogeneity are described. Protein phosphatase C-I was obtained in yields of up to 20%, with specific activities toward phosphorylase a of 8,000-16,000 units/mg of protein. This enzyme represents the major phosphorylase phosphatase activity present in the ethanol-treated muscle extracts. The second enzyme, protein phosphatase C-II, had a much lower specific activity toward phosphorylase a (250-900 units/mg). Phosphatase C-I and phosphatase C-II had Mr = 32,000 and 33,500, respectively, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate disc gel electrophoresis. The two enzymes displayed distinct enzymatic properties. Phosphatase C-II was associated with a more active alkaline phosphatase activity toward p-nitrophenyl phosphate than was phosphatase C-I. Phosphatase C-II activities were activated by Mn2+, whereas phosphatase C-I was inhibited. Phosphatase C-I was inhibited by rabbit skeletal muscle inhibitor 2 while phosphatase C-II was not inhibited. Both enzymes dephosphorylated glycogen synthase and phosphorylase kinase, but displayed different specificities toward the alpha- and beta-subunit phosphates of phosphorylase kinase (Ganapathi, M. K., Silberman, S. R., Paris, H., and Lee, E. Y. C. (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 246, 3213-3217). The amino acid compositions of the two proteins were similar. Peptide mapping of the two proteins showed that they are distinct proteins and do not have a precursor-proteolytic product relationship.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of rabbit skeletal muscle protein phosphatases C-I and C-II. 632 85

A new affinity label for ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum, 2-(4-bromoacetamido)anilino-2-deoxypentitol 1,5-bisphosphate, has been prepared, Reductive amination of ribulose-P2 with p-phenylenediamine in the presence of sodium cyanoborohydride yielded an epimeric mixture which was resolved by chromatography on quaternary aminoethyl-Sephadex. Subsequent bromoacetylation of the isolated amino bisphosphates gave reagents A and B (ribo and arabino epimers of 2-(4-bromoacetamido) anilino-2-deoxypentitol 1,5-bisphosphate) which were competitive inhibitors of the carboxylase with Ki values of 705 and 104 microM, respectively. Reagent A exhibited no time-dependent effects on the carboxylase in either the deactivated or activated state. Incubation of the enzyme with reagent B in the presence of the essential activators CO2 and Mg2+, however, resulted in an irreversible, time-dependent loss of activity, with a Kinact of 125 microM and a minimal half-time of 7.3 min. Covalent incorporation of [14C]reagent B was directly proportional to the loss of activity, with total inactivation correlating with an incorporation of 1.1 mol of reagent/mol of subunit. Inclusion of the competitive inhibitor 2-carboxyribitol 1,5-bisphosphate protected against inactivation with a concomitant reduction in incorporation. Neither reagent affected the activity of spinach carboxylase. Fractionation of [14C]reagent B-modified enzyme on DEAE-cellulose, subsequent to carboxymethylation and tryptic digestion, revealed two major radioactive peaks of approximately equal area. Digestion of each peak with alkaline phosphatase and rechromatography on DEAE-cellulose resulted in pure peptides I and II. The peptides were identical except in the site of labeling: peptide I contained a modified cysteinyl residue while peptide II contained a modified histidyl residue. Automated Edman degradation established the sequence as (sequence in text) which is located near the NH2 terminus of the enzyme. The lack of reactivity with the spinach enzyme is explained by the deletion of the histidyl residue and the replacement of cysteine by tryptophan in the eukaryotic species. Although the nonconservation of the modified residues argues against a functional role other than maintenance of structural integrity, the extensive homology in this region among seven different species of carboxylase is compatible with the region comprising a portion of the active site.
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PMID:2-(4-Bromoacetamido)anilino-2-deoxypentitol 1,5-bisphosphate, a new affinity label for ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Determination of reaction parameters and characterization of an active site peptide. 642 17

A major impasse to understanding the physiologic role(s) of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is uncertainty as to its natural substrates. Various in vitro studies have led other investigators to suggest that ALP functions as a plasma membrane phosphoprotein phosphatase, consistent with our demonstration of ecto-topography of ALP in a variety of cell types. Thus, we compared the phosphorylation of plasma membrane proteins from control fibroblasts to those from profoundly ALP-deficient fibroblasts of hypophosphatasia patients. Fibroblasts from 3 controls and 3 hypophosphatasia patients (ALP activity < 4% of control) were biosynthetically labeled with 32Pi for 2 h. 32P incorporation into total trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-precipitable material was not significantly different in control and patient cells. Plasma membranes were prepared from these cells by hypotonic shock, solubilized, and subjected to two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoretic separation. Video densitometric analysis of silver-stained 2-D gels failed to reveal any consistent difference in the protein profile between patient vs. control fibroblasts (i.e., unique species, altered pls, or increased abundance). Autoradiography of individual 2-D gels demonstrated 63 plasma membrane phosphoproteins with molecular weights ranging from 15 to 152 kDa and predominantly acidic pls. Although several of these phosphoproteins appeared to have had donor-specific labeling, none was unique or especially abundant in the hypophosphatasia group. Thus, in ALP-deficient fibroblasts, normal incorporation of 32P into total cellular protein and into all identifiable plasma membrane phosphoproteins indicates that ALP does not modulate the phosphorylation of plasma membrane proteins.
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PMID:Evidence against a role for alkaline phosphatase in the dephosphorylation of plasma membrane proteins: hypophosphatasia fibroblast study. 822 82

Microtubule-associated protein tau is known to be hyperphosphorylated in Alzheimer disease brain and this abnormal hyperphosphorylation is associated with an inability of tau to promote the assembly of microtubule in the affected neurons. Our previous studies demonstrated that abnormally phosphorylated tau could be dephosphorylated after treatment with alkaline phosphatase, thereby suggesting that the abnormal phosphorylation of tau might in part be the result of a deficiency of the phosphoprotein phosphatase system in patients with Alzheimer disease. In the present study we used 32P-labeled phosphorylase kinase and poly(Glu, Tyr) 4:1 as substrates to measure phosphoprotein phosphatase activities in Alzheimer disease and control brains. The activities of phosphoseryl/phosphothreonyl-protein phosphatase types 1, 2A, 2B, and 2C and of phosphotyrosyl-protein phosphatase in frontal gray and white matters from 13 Alzheimer brains were determined and compared with those from 12 age-matched control brains. The activities of type 1 phosphatase and phosphotyrosyl phosphatase in gray matter and of type 2A phosphatase in both gray and white matters were significantly lower in Alzheimer disease brains than in controls. These findings suggest that the hyperphosphorylation of tau in Alzheimer disease brain could result from a protein dephosphorylation defect in vivo. The decrease in the phosphatase activities in Alzheimer disease might also be involved in the formation of beta-amyloid by augmenting the amyloidogenic pathway processing of beta-amyloid precursor protein.
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PMID:Phosphoprotein phosphatase activities in Alzheimer disease brain. 839 66


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