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Query: EC:3.1.3.5 (5'-nucleotidase)
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Purified preparations of lymphocyte plasma membrane were extracted exhaustively with Nonidet P-40 in Dulbecco's phosphate-buffered saline medium. The insoluble fraction, as defined by sedimentation at 10(6) g-min, contained about 10% of the membrane protein as well as cholesterol and phospholipid. The lipid/protein ratio, cholesterol/phospholipid ratio and sphingomyelin content were increased in the residue. Density-gradient centrifugation suggested that the lipid and protein form a common entity. As judged by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, the Nonidet P-40-insoluble fractions of the plasma membranes of human B lymphoblastoid cells and pig mesenteric lymph-node lymphocytes possessed similar qualitative polypeptide compositions but differed quantitatively. Both residues comprised major polypeptides of Mr 28 000, 33 000, 45 000 and 68 000, together with a prominent band of Mr 120 000 in the human and of Mr 200 000 in the pig. The polypeptides of Mr 28 000, 33 000, 68 000 and 120 000 were probably located exclusively in the Nonidet P-40-insoluble residue, which also possessed a 4-fold increase in 5'-nucleotidase specific activity. The results indicate that a reproducible fraction of lymphocyte plasma membrane is insoluble in non-ionic detergents and that this fraction possesses a unique polypeptide composition. By analogy with similar studies with erythrocyte ghosts, it appears likely that the polypeptides are located on the plasma membrane's cytoplasmic face.
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PMID:Nonidet P-40 extraction of lymphocyte plasma membrane. Characterization of the insoluble residue. 672 59

Plasma membrane vesicles purified from pig mesenteric lymph nodes were solubilized using the mild, readily-dialyzable detergent dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide, and lentil lectin receptor glycoproteins were isolated by affinity chromatography. The receptor fraction showed 12 major bands on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis representing 8-9% of the membrane protein. 5'-Nucleotidase (EC 3.1.3.5) was very effectively solubilized by the detergent and was recovered in high yield in the receptor fraction. Receptor glycoproteins were reassembled into large unilamellar vesicles of phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylserine (mean diameter 0.235 microm) using a detergent dialysis technique. Sixty to seventy percent of the glycoprotein and most of the 5'-nucleotidase activity is associated with the phospholipid vesicles. 5'-Nucleotidase is reassembled in a symmetrical fashion and is inhibited by binding of concanavalin A, lentil lectin and pea lectin but not by succinyl-concanavalin A. Measured values for Ki and maximal inhibition are similar to those observed with intact plasma membrane vesicles. Hemagglutination inhibition studies showed that the reassembled receptors effectively bind lentil lectin. Thus lymphocyte membrane glycoproteins reassembled into phospholipid vesicles seem to retain at least part of their function in that enzyme activities such as 5'-nucleotidase remain intact and the receptors effectively bind lentil lectin.
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PMID:Functional reassembly of lymphocyte lentil lectin receptor glycoproteins into lipid bilayer vesicles. 683 Jul 99

Expansion of the bile salt pool size in rats increases maximum excretory capacity for taurocholate. We examined whether increased bile salt transport is due to recruitment of centrolobular transport units or rather to adaptive changes in the hepatocyte. Daily sodium cholate (100 mg/100 g body wt) was administered orally to rats. This treatment was well tolerated for at least 4 d and produced an 8.2-fold expansion of the bile salt pool. This expanded pool consisted predominently (99%) of cholic and deoxycholic acids. Significantly increased bile salt transport was not observed until 16 h after bile acid loading, and maximum elevations of transport capacity to 2.3-fold of control required approximately 2 d. In contrast, maximum sulfobromophthalein excretion rates increased 2.2-fold as early as 4 h and actually fell to 1.5-fold increase at 4 d. We studied the possibility that this adaptive increase in bile salt secretory transport was due to changes in canalicular surface membrane area, lipid composition, or increased number of putative carriers. Canalicular membrane protein recovery and the specific activities of leucine aminopeptidase, Mg(++)-ATPase and 5'-nucleotidase activities were unaltered by bile salt pool expansion. The content of free and esterified cholesterol and total phospholipids was unchanged in liver surface membrane fractions compared with control values. In contrast, sodium cholate administration selectively increased specific [(14)C]cholic acid binding sites twofold in liver surface membrane fractions. Increased numbers of [(14)C]cholic acid receptors (a) was associated with the time-dependent increase in bile salt transport, and (b) was selective for the taurine conjugate of cholate and (c) was reduced by chenodeoxycholate. Changes in bile acid binding sites 16 h following taurocholate and chenodeoxycholate and the lack of change with glycocholate was associated with comparable changes in bile salt transport. In conclusion, selective bile salts increase bile salt transport in the liver through an adaptive increase in the density of putative bile acid carriers in liver surface membrane.
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PMID:Regulation of bile salt transport in rat liver. Evidence that increased maximum bile salt secretory capacity is due to increased cholic acid receptors. 709 71

Microvillus membrane vesicles from pig small intestine, isolated by hypotonic lysis, Mg2+ aggregation of contaminants and differential centrifugation, have been further purified by immunoadsorbent chromatography. The vesicles adhere to an immunoadsorbent prepared by coupling antibodies raised against three of the principal proteins of the brush border membrane (aminopeptidase, sucrase-isomaltase and lactase) to Sepharose 4B. After the contaminants are removed by washing, the adherent vesicles are released from the immunoabsorbent by applying shear forces. The purity of the immunoadsorbed vesicles has been established by electron microscopy and by measuring the activity of marker enzymes. The enrichment factor is 1.17 +/- 0.02 for aminopeptidase and 0.70 +/- 0.05 for 5'-nucleotidase. The contamination of the preparation before immunoadsorption constitutes 10% of the membrane protein and consists mainly of basolateral membrane fragments as judged from marker enzyme determinations and the lipid composition.
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PMID:Purification of microvillus membrane vesicles from pig small intestine by immunoadsorbent chromatography. 710 46

Plasma membranes have been isolated from hearts of 10-day embryonic and newborn chicks. The membranes obtained were highly enriched in muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, K+ -stimulated, ouabain-sensitive p-nitrophenylphosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase. There was little contamination of the membrane fractions by the mitochondrial membranes or by contractile proteins. The autophosphorylation of the isolated membrane fractions was analyzed by measuring 32P incorporation from [gamma-32P]ATP into total membrane protein and into individual membrane components. Membranes obtained from embryonic hearts contained significantly more cAMP-dependent and -independent protein kinase activities than membranes from newborn chick hearts. Treatment of the membranes with Triton X-100 or the peptide ionophore alamethicin increased phosphorylation in membranes from either newborn or embryonic hearts. Membranes from embryonic hearts contained substrates for membrane-bound cAMP-dependent and -independent protein kinases either not observed or present in low amount in membranes from newborn hearts, and vice-versa. Notably, a 38 kDa protein was markedly phosphorylated by endogenous cAMP dependent protein kinase in plasma membrane enriched fractions from embryonic hearts. This phosphoprotein was not easily detected in any fraction obtained from newborn hearts. One cAMP-dependent phosphoprotein had an Mr of 27000 or 11000, depending on the conditions used to solubilize it. This protein was present in sarcolemma-enriched membranes as well as membrane fractions containing sarcoplasmic reticulum. There was more of this phosphoprotein in newborn heart membranes than in embryonic hearts. The phosphorylation of this protein was markedly enhanced by the peptide ionophore alamethicin. A second cAMP-dependent phosphoprotein with an Mr of 27000 was also detected in the sarcolemma-enriched membranes.
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PMID:Chick heart plasma membranes. Isolation and analysis of autophosphorylation. 712 65

Rat hepatocyte plasma membranes were isolated and examined by differential scanning calorimetry and by steady state fluorescence polarization of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene, 12-anthroyl stearate, and 2-anthroyl stearate. Calorimetry of the intact membranes revealed a reversible lipid thermotropic transition with lower and upper critical temperatures of 18 degrees and 31 degrees C, respectively. The transition was also observed in lipid extracts of the membrane, both dried and rehydrated. The transition enthalpies estimated for intact membranes, dried membrane lipids, and rehydrated lipids, respectively, were approximately 0.3, 1.2 to 1.4, and 0.5 to 0.7 cal/g of lipid. The transition observed in the native membranes is broad and of low enthalpy, owing in part to the relatively high cholesterol content and to protein-lipid interactions. Fluorescence polarization studies detect the lower critical temperature of the transition in the membranes and in sonicated dispersions of the membrane lipid. Arrhenius studies of membrane 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase give two-slope plots with breakpoints, respectively, of approximately 17 degrees and 26 degrees C. These break points and others reported for a number of hepatocyte membrane protein activities cluster uniformly at either the lower or the upper critical temperature of the lipid transition observed by differential scanning calorimetry.
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PMID:Lipid dynamics and lipid-protein interactions in rat hepatocyte plasma membranes. 743 Jan 61

Monoclonal antibody RB13-6 recognizes a subset of rat brain glial precursor cells that are highly susceptible to malignant conversion by the carcinogen N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea. The corresponding cell surface antigen was identified as a membrane glycoprotein (gp130RB13-6) and purified by immunoaffinity chromatography from the tumorigenic neuroectodermal rat cell line BT4Ca. Sequencing of 5 endoproteinase-generated peptides of the purified antigen permitted the specific amplification of a cDNA fragment by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and subsequent isolation of the complete coding sequence from a fetal rat brain cDNA library. The derived amino acid sequence indicates that the RB13-6 antigen is related to the human and murine plasma cell membrane protein PC-1, a nucleotide pyrophosphatase/alkaline phosphodiesterase and ectoprotein kinase. Similarly, purified gp130RB13-6 possesses 5'-nucleotidase activity that can be inhibited with EDTA. Different from PC-1, gp130RB13-6 isolated from BT4Ca cells is not a disulfide-linked dimer and contains an RGD-tripeptide sequence which, together with other structural features, suggests a possible function in cell adhesion and its subversion in malignant phenotypes.
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PMID:Affinity purification and cDNA cloning of rat neural differentiation and tumor cell surface antigen gp130RB13-6 reveals relationship to human and murine PC-1. 773 Mar 66

The neutrophil plasma membrane has a major role in migration, phagocytosis, and destruction of microorganisms. Neutrophils isolated from blood and mammary secretions were homogenized, and the plasma membrane fraction was isolated on discontinuous sucrose gradient (20, 32, and 50%). Purity of plasma membrane preparation was determined by use of marker enzyme analysis. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of the membrane proteins was performed under reducing conditions for polypeptide characterization. The membrane proteins were also labeled with 125I externally, using 1,3,4,6-tetrachloro-3 alpha-6 alpha-diphenylglycouril, and proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and autoradiographed. Compared with whole cell homogenate, the plasma membrane fraction obtained at the 20/32% interface was enriched for the marker enzymes, 5'-nucleotidase (16-fold), alkaline phosphatase (5.5-fold), and total phosphatase (26-fold). The membrane fraction had minimal specific activity for beta-glucuronidase (0.4-fold), compared with whole cell homogenate. Plasma membrane protein yield was about 500 micrograms/10(9) bovine blood neutrophils. The SDS-PAGE of plasma membrane proteins revealed 25 protein bands, of which 13 were major bands. There were 3 distinct bands (18, 36, and 65 kd) in the plasma membrane-enriched fraction (20/32 interface) that were not seen in other fractions (30/50% and pellet). Further, 125I-labeling identified 5 distinct protein bands (205, 140, 65, 35, and 30 kd). Blood and mammary neutrophils had similar polypeptide patterns, except that 36- and 65-kd bands were more prominent for blood neutrophils than for mammary neutrophils.
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PMID:Isolation and partial polypeptide characterization of bovine neutrophil plasma membranes. 794 18

The distribution of ecto-5'-nucleotidase, a glycosyl phosphatidylinositol anchored membrane protein capable of hydrolysing extracellular nucleoside monophosphates, was investigated by immunocytochemistry in cultures of rat cerebellar cells obtained at postnatal days 6 and 8. The enzyme was expressed at the surface of granule cells including their neurites as well as on other neurons in the culture. The distribution of 5'-nucleotidase matched that of the synaptic vesicle protein 2. Oligodendroglial cells were identified by their immunoreactivity for 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase. Their entire surface was labelled for 5'-nucleotidase. In contrast, only a subset of astrocytes immunopositive for the glial fibrillary acidic protein revealed surface-located immunoreactivity for 5'-nucleotidase. Antibody-binding of the labelled-astrocytes was enhanced at restricted surface domains. Endothelial cells that avidly bind Lycopersicon esculentum lectin were the most intensely anti-5'-nucleotidase-labelled cell type of the culture. Double labelling revealed an exact match of surface-located antibody binding sites for 5'-nucleotidase and laminin. Immunoreactivity for 5'-nucleotidase was essentially absent from fibroblasts that could be identified by their immunoreactivity for fibronectin. All cell types that carried surface-bound 5'-nucleotidase also revealed a cytoplasmic pool of the enzyme. Our results provide the first immunocytochemical demonstration of the surface-location of 5'-nucleotidase in neurons. They suggest that the broad distribution of the enzyme at the surface of neurons and other cells types from neonatal brain reflects its functional importance in the differentiation of the nervous system.
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PMID:Immunocytochemical localization of ecto-5'-nucleotidase in cultures of cerebellar granule cells. 884 51

Ectonucleotidases are enzymes that degrade extracellular nucleotides. Extracellular nucleotides (especially ATP) and their degradation products (particularly adenosine) have multiple effects on cell functions by acting through purinergic receptors. Adenosine nucleotides are present in bile, which suggests that hepatocytes may release nucleotides into the canaliculus where they are promptly degraded into adenosine by ecto-ATPase and 5'-nucleotidase, which have been identified in the canalicular plasma membrane. Adenosine is then transported into hepatocytes by a Na+-dependent nucleoside transporter that is present in the canalicular plasma membrane. Purification and molecular cloning of ecto-ATPase and other canalicular proteins are complicated by an abundant canalicular plasma membrane protein, cCAM 105. However, the recent cloning of an ecto-ATPase (apyrase) from potato tubers provides a new opportunity to identify the canalicular ecto-ATPase. The canalicular Na+-dependent purine nucleoside transporter has been cloned from rat liver. Study of its expression during development and other physiological circumstances suggests that the transporter may play an important role in maintaining hepatic purine levels that are essential for the liver to serve as a major source of purines for tissues (i.e., brain, muscle) that lack pathways for de novo purine biosynthesis.
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PMID:Ectonucleotidases, purine nucleoside transporter, and function of the bile canalicular plasma membrane of the hepatocyte. 903 51


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