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Query: EC:3.1.3.5 (5'-nucleotidase)
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1. Fragments (2-20 mg wet wt.) of closed needle-biopsy specimens from human liver were disrupted in iso-osmotic sucrose and subjected to low-speed centrifugation. The supernatant was layered on a linear sucrose-density gradient in the Beaufay small-volume automatic zonal rotor. The following organelles, with equilibrium densities (g/ml) and principal marker enzyme shown in parentheses, were resolved: plasma membrane (1.12-1.14; 5'-nucleotidase); lysosomes (1.15-1.20; N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase); mitochondria (1.20; malate dehydrogenase); endoplasmic reticulum (1.17-1.21; neutral alpha-glucosidase); peroxisomes (1.22-1.24; catalase). 2. The distribution of particulate alkaline phosphatase and, to a lesser degree, leucine 2-naphthylamidase followed that of 5'-nucleotidase. gamma-Glutamyltransferase was associated with membranes of significantly higher equilibrium density than was 5'-nucleotidase. 3. The distribution of 12 acid hydrolases was determined in the density-gradient fractions. beta-Glucosidase had a predominantly cytosolic localization, but the other enzymes showed a broad distribution of activity throughout the gradient. Evidence was presented for two populations of lysosomes with equilibrium densities of 1.15 and 1.20 g/ml, but containing differing amounts of each enzyme. Further evidence of lysosomal heterogeneity was demonstrated by studying the distribution of isoenzymes of hexosaminidase and of acid phosphatase. 4. The resolving power of the centrifugation procedure can be further enhanced with membrane perturbants. Digitonin (0.12 mM) selectively disrupted lysosomes, markedly increased the equilibrium density of plasma-membrane components and lowered the density of the endoplasmic reticulum, but did not affect the mitochondria or peroxisomes. Pyrophosphate (15 mM) selectively lowered the equilibrium density of the endoplasmic reticulum.
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PMID:Analytical subcellular fractionation of needle-biopsy specimens from human liver. 70 96

The disposition of newly synthesized sterols in cultured human fibroblasts has been examined in this study. We began by demonstrating that cholesterol mass and exogenously added [3H]cholesterol both are markers for the plasma membrane, perhaps better than 5'-nucleotidase. Cells were incubated with radioactive acetate to label their endogenous sterols biosynthetically, treated with cholesterol oxidase to convert plasma membrane cholesterol to cholestenone, and then homogenized and spun to equilibrium on sucrose gradients. The density gradient profiles of the various organelles were monitored using these markers: plasma membrane, radioactive cholestenone; smooth endoplasmic reticulum, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMG-CoA reductase); and Golgi apparatus, galactosyltransferase. The buoyant density profiles of radioactive intracellular cholesterol and lanosterol both had a peak at 1.12 g/cm3, similar to 5'-nucleotidase and galactosyltransferase but not to HMG-CoA reductase. This result suggests that cholesterol biosynthesis is not taken to completion in the endoplasmic reticulum. Digitonin treatment shifted the profiles of both plasma membrane and intracellular cholesterol to higher densities. Pretreatment of intact cells with cholesterol oxidase abolished the digitonin shift of plasma membranes but not the intracellular cholesterol, indicating that these two membrane pools are not entirely physically associated. Because intracellular cholesterol was shifted more than any of the organelle markers, it must reside in a separate membrane. Since digitonin selectively shifts the density of membranes rich in cholesterol, we infer that newly synthesized cholesterol accumulates in such membranes prior to its delivery to the plasma membrane. Taken together, these results suggest that cholesterol may be concentrated for delivery to the plasma membrane by being synthesized from a sterol precursor such as lanosterol in a discrete but undefined intracellular membrane.
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PMID:Cholesterol-rich intracellular membranes: a precursor to the plasma membrane. 299 24

Isopycnic equilibration and sedimentation rate studies of rat liver microsomes led previously to the assignment of microsomal constituents into group a1 (monoamine oxidase), group a2 (5'-nucleotidase, alkaline phosphodiesterase I, alkaline phosphatase and cholesterol), group a3 (galactosyltransferase), group b (NADH cytochrome c reductase, NADPH cytochrome c reductase, aminopyrine demethylase, cytochrome b(5) and P 450), and group c (glucose 6-phosphatase, esterase, nucleoside diphosphatase, beta-glucuronidase and glucuronyltransferase). Confirmation and extension of the assignment into groups has been obtained by studying the differential effect of the reagents digitonin, EDTA, and PPi. Digitonin specifically affected the equilibrium density only of the group a2 and (to a lesser extent) group a3, and not of groups b and c under conditions which preserved the structure-linked latency of nucleoside diphosphatase and galactosyltransferase. Within experimental error the rate of sedimentation of all microsomal constituents was unaffected. The morphological appearance under the electron microscope was indistinguishable from that of nondigitonin-treated microsomes, except that a few smooth membranes (< 10%) exhibited broken-looking profiles. Treatment of microsomes with EDTA or PPi detached a substantial part of RNA and released protein in excess over the amount accountable for by detachment of ribosome constituents. This detachment was confirmed by electron microscopy. EDTA and PPi decreased markedly the equilibrium density and the density dispersion of groups b and c, due mainly to the uncoating of rough elements. EDTA and PPi shifted slightly the distribution profiles of groups a towards lower densities, possibly as a result of the release of adsorbed proteins. The combination of EDTA and digitonin, used subsequently, rendered the average equilibrium density of group a2 higher than that of groups b and c. Dense subfractions were thus enriched in constituents of group a2 and showed mainly broken-looking vesicles under the electron microscope. The import of our results on the biochemical and enzymic properties of the subcellular components of the microsome fractions is discussed.
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PMID:Analytical study of microsomes and isolated subcellular membranes from rat liver. IV. Biochemical, physical, and morphological modifications of microsomal components induced by digitonin, EDTA, and pyrophosphate. 436 10

Isopycnic centrifugation experiments using sucrose density gradients showed that in digitonin-treated microsomes the distribution of the plasma membrane (PM) marker 5'-nucleotidase was shifted to higher densities. The treatment also caused similar but less pronounced changes in the distribution of protein, the putative endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker NADPH-dependent cytochrome c reductase, and the inner mitochondrial marker cytochrome c oxidase. Similar experiments using more purified membrane fractions showed that the digitonin treatment led to a comparable increase in the densities of the fractions N1 and N2 previously described as subfractions of plasma membrane and to considerably less increase in the density of the fraction N3B which is enriched in the endoplasmic reticulum and the inner mitochondrial markers. Digitonin inhibited the ATP-dependent Ca uptake by the N1 fraction in a concentration-dependent manner (I50 = 0.3 mg/mL). Digitonin (0.5 mg/mL) inhibited the ATP-dependent azide-insensitive Ca uptake by all the fractions. The results support the hypothesis that (a) N1 and N2 are subfractions of plasma membrane, and (b) ATP-dependent azide-insensitive Ca uptake in rat myometrium is a property of plasma membranes.
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PMID:Effect of digitonin on rat myometrium subcellular membrane fractions. 627 91

Preparations enriched with plasmalemmal, outer mitochondrial, or Golgi complex membranes from rat liver were subfractionated by isopycnic centrifugation, without or after treatment with digitonin, to establish the subcellular distribution of a variety of enzymes. The typical plasmalemmal enzymes 5'-nucleotidase, alkaline phosphodiesterase I, and alkaline phosphatase were markedly shifted by digitonin toward higher densities in all three preparations. Three glycosyltransferases, highly purified in the Golgi fraction, were moderately shifted by digitonin in both this Golgi complex preparation and the microsomal fraction. The outer mitochondrial membrane marker, monoamine oxidase, was not affected by digitonin in the outer mitochondrial membrane marker, monoamine oxidase, was not affected by digitonin in the out mitochondrial membrane preparation, in agreement wit its behavior in microsomes. With the exception of NADH cytochrome c reductase (which was concentrated in the outer mitochondrial membrane preparation), typical microsomal enzymes (glucose-6-phosphatase, esterase, and NADPH cytochrome c reductase) displayed low specific activities in the three preparations; except for part of the glucose-6-phosphatase activity in the plasma membrane preparation, their density distributions were insensitive to digitonin, as they were in microsomes. The influence of digitonin on equilibrium densities was correlated with its morphological effects. Digitonin induced pseudofenestrations in plasma membranes. In Golgi and outer mitochondrial membrane preparations, a few similarly altered membranes were detected in subfractions enriched with 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphodiesterase I. The alterations of Golgi membranes were less obvious and seemingly restricted to some elements in the Golgi preparation. No morphological modification was detected in digitonin-treated outer mitochondrial membranes. These results indicate that each enzyme is associated with the same membrane entity in all membrane preparations and support the view that there is little overlap in the enzymatic equipment of the various types of cytomembranes.
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PMID:Analytical study of microsomes and isolated subcellular membranes from rat liver VIII. Subfractionation of preparations enriched with plasma membranes, outer mitochondrial membranes, or Golgi complex membranes. 725 62

The plasma membrane of the hepatoma cell line, HTC cells, has been characterized and purified by cell fractionation techniques. In the absence of true 5'-nucleotidase in HTC cells, alkaline phosphodiesterase I has been used as a marker enzyme, following conclusions gained from differential and isopycnic centrifugation studies (Lopez-Saura, P., Trouet, A. and Tulkens, P. (1978) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 543, 430-449). To confirm this localization, HTC cells were exposed to anti-plasma membrane IgG at 4 degrees C and fractionated. Alkaline phosphodiesterase I and IgG showed superimposable distribution patterns in linear sucrose gradients. Alkaline phosphodiesterase I is, however, only poorly resolved from enzyme markers of other organelles, especially NADPH-cytochrome c reductase (endoplasmic reticulum) and galactosyltransferase (Golgi complex). Maximal purification from the homogenate is only 13-fold, on a protein basis, even when using a microsomal fraction (67 and 13% of alkaline phosphodiesterase I and protein, respectively) as the starting material. Improved resolution can be obtained after the addition of small quantities of digitonin (equimolar with respect to the cholesterol content). Digitonin increases the buoyant density of alkaline phosphodiesterase I by approx. 0.05 g/cm3, whereas the buoyant densities of galactosyltransferase and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase are increased only by 0.03 and 0.015 g/cm3, respectively. Accordingly, a procedure has been designed which yields a fraction containing 22.8% of alkaline phosphodiesterase I with a purification of 21-fold on a protein basis. The content of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and galactosyltransferase is 1.2 and 2.1%, respectively. Electron microscopy shows smooth surface membrane elements and vesicles, with only occasional other recognizable elements.
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PMID:Analytical characterization and purification of plasma membrane from cultured hepatoma cells (HTC cells). 726 68