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Query: EC:3.1.3.5 (5'-nucleotidase)
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The isolation and characterization of plasma membranes from a cell wall-less mutant of Neurospora crassa are described. The plasma membranes are stabilized against fragmentation and vesiculation by treatment of intact cells with concanavalin A just prior to lysis. After lysis, the concanavalin A-stabilized plasma membrane ghosts are isolated by low speed centrifugation techniques and the purified ghosts subsequently converted to vesicles by removal of the bulk of the concanavalin A. The yield of ghosts is about 50% whereas the yield of vesicles is about 20%. The isolated plasma membrane vesicles have a characteristically high sterol to phospholipid ratio, Mg2+-dependent ATPase activity and (Na+ plus K+)-stimulated Mg2+ATPase activity. Only traces of succinate dehydrogenase and 5'-nucleotidase are present in the plasma membrane preparations.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of Neurospora crassa plasma membranes. 12 76

Plasma membranes isolated from HeLa cells on discontinuous sucrose gradients were assayed for their capacity to elute and uncoat coxsackievirus B3 at 37 C. Because the viral receptors are limited to the surface of HeLa cells, the addition of radioactively labeled virus to the cells prior to cell homogenization provided a useful marker for locating the plasma membranes during the fractionation procedure. Four bands were formed on the discontinuous sucrose gradients with approximately 70% or more of the membrane-associated viral label being recovered in the most dense bands, designated as bands 3 and 4. Bands 3 and 4 also possessed the plasma membrane marker enzymes, Na+, K+ adenosine triphosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase and revealed typical structures characteristic of plasma membranes as revealed by electron microscopy. Pelleted and washed membranes from band 3 both eluted and uncoated B3 32P-labeled virus, whereas membranes from band 4 eluted virus but failed to uncoat it. The membranes from band 4 were shown to inhibit the viral uncoating activity when mixed with membranes of band 3. Characteristically, unfractionated homogenates of cell membranes eluted but did not uncoat virus. The finding of a naturally occurring inhibitor of virus uncoating provides for the first time a way to distinguish between the membrane activities of virus elution and virus uncoating. The inhibitor remains to be characterized.
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PMID:Elution and uncoating of Coxsackievirus B3 by isolated HeLa cell plasma membranes. 12 11

Membrane glycoproteins have been studied in the normal lactating mammary gland and R3230 AC mammary tumor of the rat. Plasma membrane-enriched fractions were obtained from these tissues by discontinuous sucrose gradient centrifugation of a microsomal preparation from the tissue homogenates. The lightest membrane fractions (F-1 and F-2) have the greatest enrichment of plasma membrane markers, with a 14- to 20-fold purification of 5'-nucleotidase and Na+-K+ -adenosine triphosphatase over the homogenate values in both tumor and normal tissues for F-1. Electron microscopy shows smooth membrane vesicles for these fractions. Polypeptide analysis by acrylamide gel electrophoresis shows essentially the same patterns for F-1 and F-2 and only relatively minor differences between membrane components of tumor and normal tissues. Glycoprotein analysis of the polyacrylamide gels by periodate-Schiff staining indicates more dramatic differences. Membrane Fraction F-1 from normal tissue contains two major glycoproteins, GP-II and GP-III, while Fractions F-2 and F-3 contain an additional glycoprotein, GP-I, with a higher apparent molecular weight. In the tumor, the component corresponding to GP-III is decreased or absent and a new component GP-IV is seen at a lower apparent molecular weight.
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PMID:Membrane glycoprotein differences between normal lactating mammary tissue and the R3230 AC mammary tumor. 12 79

The ionic influence and ouabain sensitivity of lymphocyte mg-2+-atpase and Mg-2+-(Na+ +K+)-activated ATPase were studied in intact cells, microsomal fraction and isolated plasma membranes. The active site of 5'-nucleotidase and Mg2+-ATPase seemed to be localized on the external side of the plasma membrane whereas the ATP binding site of (Na+ +K+)-ATPase was located inside the membrane. Concanavalin A induced an early stimulation of Mg2+-APTase and (Na+ +K+)-ATPase both on intact cells and purified plasma membranes. In contrast, 5'-nucleotidase activity was not affected by the mitogen. Although the thymocyte Mg2+-ATPase activity was 3-5 times lower than in spleen lymphocytes, it was much more stimulated in the former cells (about 40 versus 20%). (Na+ +K+)-ATPase activity was undectectable in thymocytes. However, in spleen lymphocytes (Na+ +K+)-ATPase activity can be detected and was 30% increased by concanavalin A. Several aspects of this enzymic stimulation had also characteristic features of blast transformation induced by concanavalin A, suggesting a possible role of these enzymes, especially Mg2+-ATPase, in lymphocyte stimulation.
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PMID:Effect of concanavalin A on membrane-bound enzymes from mouse lymphocytes. 12 86

The influence of the mode of preparation upon some of the characteristics of white adipose tissue plasma membranes and microsomes has been reported. Plasma membrane fractions prepared from mitochondrial pellet were shown to have higher specific activities of (Mg2+ + Na+ + K+)-ATPase than plasma membranes originating in crude microsomes. Isolation of fat cells by collagenase treatment was found to result in a decrease in specific activity of the plasma membrane enzymes; in plasma membranes prepared from isolated fat cells, the specific activity values obtained for (Mg2+ + Na+ +k+)-ATPase and 5'-nucleotidase were only 42% and 6.3% respectively of those obtained in plasma membranes prepared from whole adipose tissue. Purification of whole adipose tissue crude microsomes by hypotonic treatment caused extensive solubilization of the endoplasmic reticulum marker enzymes, NADH oxidase and NADPH cytochrome c reductase. The lability of endoplasmic reticulum marker enzymes, however, was found to be greatly diminished in the preparations from isolated fat cells. The possibility that NADH oxidase and NADPH cytochrome c reductase activities found in the plasma membranes are microsomal enzymes adsorbed by the plasma membranes is discussed. The peptide patterns as well as the NADH oxidase and NADPH cytochrome c reductase activity patterns of plasma membranes and purified microsomes were compared by means of sodium dodecyl sulfate or Triton X-100 polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
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PMID:Comparison of plasma membranes and endoplasmic reticulum fractions obtained from whole white adipose tissue and isolated adipocytes. 12 89

Liver plasma membranes were isolated from regenerating rat livers between 20 h and 10 days after partial hepatectomy in order to study the effect of partial hepatectomy on some membrane enzyme activities. Mg2+-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.4) activity, but not (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity, decreased slightly at 2 days, whereas leucyl beta-naphthylamidase (EC3.4.1.1) and 5'-nucleotidase (EC3.1.3.5) activities increased considerably at 1-2 and 3-5 days, respectively. These changes were not parallel to a sharp increase in mitotic activity of liver cells which occurred at 36 h.
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PMID:Changes in some marker enzyme activities of liver plasma membranes during regeneration after partial hepatectomy in rats. 13 Jan 67

Two highly lead-sensitive ATPases, Na+,K+-ATPase and adenylate cyclase, can be demonstrated cytochemically by the lead precipitation technique in briefly prefixed tissue, provided that the free Pb2+ concentration in the incubation medium is kept below 0.1 mM by a heavy metal chelator. Under conditions suitable for Na+,K+-ATPase activity precipitation of final reaction product (lead phosphate) at the sarcolemma of cardiac muscle is abolished by 0.1-1mM ouabain. In contrast, reaction product deposition at the intramuscular part of the plasma membrane and at intracellular sites is not noticeably affected by the glycoside. These findings indicate either that the sarcolemma is the exclusive location of Na+,K+-ATPase in cardiac muscle or that the presence of the enzyme at other loci is masked by active Na+,K+-independent, ouabain resistant ATPases. Under conditions favoring adenylate cyclase activity, precipitation by Pb2+ of orthophosphate derived, with the help of added cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and 5'-nucleotidase, from cyclic AMP formed from adenylyl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) is seen after prolonged incubation in myocardial cells along the entire course of the plasma membrane and also at the transverse tubules and is particularly intense at the tight junction regions of the intercalated disks. Ouabain has no effect on these reactions. Reaction product deposition is also observed at the sarcolemma in red skeletal muscle and at the terminal cisternae of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in white skeletal muscle, where the reaction is intensified by adrenaline. Sarcoplasmic reticulum of cardiac and of red skeletal muscle exhibits only relatively weak staining attributable to cyclic AMP formation. These observations are in agreement with the results of tissue fractionation studies according to which the plasma membrane is the chief site of adenylate cyclase in heart and in red, but not white skeletal muscle.
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PMID:Cytochemical studies on sarcolemma: Na+, K+-adenosine triphosphatase and adenylate cyclase. 13 Jun 56

An isolation procedure for synaptic plasma membranes from whole chick brain is reported that uses the combined flotation-sedimentation density gradient centrifugation procedure described by Jones and Matus (Jones, D. H. and Matus, A. I. (1974) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 356, 276-287) for rat brain. The particulate of the osmotically shocked and sonicated crude mitochondrial fraction was used for a flotation-sedimentation gradient step. Four fractions were recovered from the gradient after 30 min centrifugation. The fractions were identified and characterized by electron microscopy and by several markers for plasma membrane and other subcellular organelles. Fraction 2 was recovered from the 28.5-34% (w/v) sucrose interphase and contained the major part of the activities of the neuronal plasma membrane marker enzymes. The specific activities of the (Na+ +K+)-activated ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3), acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) and 5'-nucleotidase (EC 3.1.3.5) were, respectively, 4.5, 2.0 and 1.2 times higher than in the homogenate. However, Fraction 2 also contained considerable amounts of activities of putative lysosomal and microsomal markers in addition to lower amounts of mitochondrial and myelin markers. Although no prepurification of synaptosomes from the crude mitochondrial fraction was performed, the synaptic plasma membranes obtained showed many properties analogous to similar preparations from rat brain described in recent years.
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PMID:Isolation and partial characterization of chick brain synaptic plasma membranes. 13 94

The relationship between bile salt-independent canalicular flow and ATPase activity in liver plasma membranes (LPM) enriched in bile canaliculi, was studied in control, hyperthyroid, and hypothyroid rats. Canalicular bile production was significantly increased in hyperthyroid rats (3.19 +/- 0.23 mul/min per g liver) compared to controls (2.27 +/- 0.24 mul/min per g liver), while it diminished in hypothyroid animals (1.58 +/- 0.17 mul/min per g liver). Although bile salt excretion was also increased in hyperthyroid animals (62.4 +/- 13.3 vs. 41.2 +/- 8.4 nmol/min per g liver), the stimulation in canalicular secretion was primarily related to enhancement of the bile salt-independent fraction of flow (2.47 mul/min per g liver in hyperthyroid rats vs. 1.67 mul/min per g liver in controls). LPM Na+, K+-ATPase activity doubled in hyperthyroid animals (21.5 +/- 5.8 vs. 10.7 +/- 3.1 mumol Pi/mg protein per h) while Mg++-ATPase activity remained unchanged and 5'-nucleotidase activity increased to a small but significant extent. In hypothyroid rats, bile salt excretion remained unchanged from control values so that the reduced secretion was entirely secondary to an inhibition of bile salt-independent secretion (1.19 mul/min per g liver). Na+, K+-ATPase activity in the LPMs from hypothyroid animals decreased by nearly 50% (5.4 +/- 1.6 mumol Pi/mg protein per h), although comparable reductions in the specific activity of Mg++-ATPase and 5'-nucleotidase were also observed. Administration of L-thyroxine to hypothyroid animals restored both bile salt-independent canalicular secretion and membrane enzymes to control values within 2 and 4 days, respectively. Sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis demonstrated no significant changes in LPM protein fractions from any of the treatment groups. These studies indicate that thyroid hormone has a parallel effect on bile salt-independent canalicular secretion and LPM Na+, K+-ATPase activity, supporting the hypothesis that Na+ transport and Na+, K+-ATPase may be determinants of bile salt-independent canalicular flow.
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PMID:The effect of thyroid hormone on bile salt-independent bile flow and Na+, K+ -ATPase activity in liver plasma membranes enriched in bile canaliculi. 13 19

The Wachstein-Meisel ATPase histochemical method has been previously used to demonstrate the ultrastructural localization of this enzyme in both whole liver and isolated plasma membranes following fixation in glutaraldehyde. In the present study biochemical assay, of liver plasma membrane enzymes following fixation in cold 2.5% glutaraldehyde showed that approximately 40% of Mg2+-ATPase, but only 4% of (Na+-K+)-ATPase activity remained in membranes from either control or ANIT-treated rats. In addition, 5'-nucleotidase activity was almost abolished by fixation. The present results indicate that the Wachstein-Meisel method, when applied to biliary canaliculi, can reliably be used to demonstrate the ultrastructural, histochemical localization of Mg2+-ATPase but not that of (NA+-K+)-ATPase. Furthermore, the method permits a valid comparison to be made of the relative Mg2+-ATPase activity in normal and chemically damaged biliary canaliculi.
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PMID:Liver plasma membrane enzyme activities following glutaraldehyde fixation. 13 43


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