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Query: EC:3.1.3.5 (5'-nucleotidase)
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1. Plasma membranes were isolated from crude nuclear sediments from mouse and rat liver by a rate-dependent centrifugation through a sucrose density gradient contained in the ;A' type zonal rotor. 2. The membranes were further purified by isopycnic centrifugation, and characterized enzymically, chemically and morphologically. 3. When the plasma-membrane fraction of sucrose density 1.17g/cm(3) was dispersed in a tight-fitting homogenizer, two subfractions of densities 1.12 and 1.18 were obtained by isopycnic centrifugation. 4. The light subfraction contained 5'-nucleotidase, nucleoside diphosphatase, leucine naphthylamidase and Mg(2+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activities at higher specific activities than unfractionated membranes. The heavy subfraction was deficient in the above enzymes but contained higher Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity. 5. The light subfraction contained twice as much phospholipid and cholesterol, and three times as much N-acetylneuraminic acid relative to unit protein weight as the heavy subfraction. Polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis indicated differences in protein composition. 6. Electron microscopy showed the light subfraction to be vesicular. The heavy subfraction contained membrane strips with junctional complexes in addition to vesicles.
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PMID:Fractionation of liver plasma membranes prepared by zonal centrifugation. 431 49

Plasma membranes were isolated from the ameba Acanthamoeba castellanii by low-speed velocity centrifugation followed by equilibrium centrifugation in a sucrose gradient. The isolated membranes had a high ratio of sterol to phospholipid (0.98 moles/mole) and of phospholipid to protein (0.43 mg/mg). The plasma membranes had very low concentrations of DNA, RNA, lipid inositol, and glycerides. Glycolipids and glycoproteins were enriched in the plasma membranes relative to their concentrations in the whole cell. The plasma membranes were also judged to be of high purity by the absence, or very low level, of enzymatic activities considered to be indicative of other cell membranes, and by electron microscope examination. Alkaline phosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase activities were enriched in the plasma membranes 13-fold relative to the whole homogenate and had higher specific activities in the plasma membranes than in any other cell fractions. A Mg(++) adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) was enriched sixfold in the plasma membranes relative to the whole homogenate. The phospholipids of the plasma membranes contained more phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserine and less phosphatidylcholine than did the phospholipids of the whole cells. There were differences in the fatty acid compositions of corresponding phospholipids in the plasma membranes and whole cells but no difference in the ratios of total saturated to unsaturated fatty acids. The membranes of phagosomes isolated from amebae that had ingested polystyrene latex had essentially the same phospholipid, sterol, and enzymatic composition as plasma membranes.
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PMID:Plasma and phagosome membranes of Acanthamoeba castellanii. 432 20

The relationship between net tubular reabsorption of sodium and renal microsomal sodium- and potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase (Na-K-ATPase) was evaluated in hypothyroid and hyperthyroid rats and in age-matched euthyroid controls. Tubular sodium reabsorption per gram of kidney was lower in thyroidectomized rats than in controls (186+/-14 vs. 246+/-12 mueq/min; P < 0.005) and was accompanied by a quantitatively similar reduction in Na-K-ATPase specific activity (49.4+/-2.4 vs. 65.8+/-2.3 mumol inorganic phosphate (P(t))/mg protein per h; P < 0.001). This decrement was present in both cortex and outer medulla, and was limited to Na-K-ATPase since other representative enzymes not involved in sodium transport (magnesium-dependent adenosine triphosphatase [Mg-ATPase], glucose-6-phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase) remained unchanged or increased in the hypothyroid animals. Conversely, Na-K-ATPase rose when sodium reabsorption increased in euthyroid rats treated with triiodothyronine. Subsequent experiments were performed to determine to what extent the decrease in Na-K-ATPase is due to lack of thyroid hormone per se or to an adaptive response to decreased reabsorptive sodium load. Triiodothyronine in concentrations of 10(-12) to 10(-5) M had no effect in vitro on microsomal Na-K-ATPase of either thyroidectomized or euthyroid rats. When hypothyroid rats were uninephrectomized or treated with methylprednisolone, sodium reabsorption per gram kidney increased markedly and was similar to that of intact controls. Despite persistence of the hypothyroid state, Na-K-ATPase specific activity also increased to levels not significantly different from euthyroid animals. These data suggest that decreased tubular sodium transport is a major determinant of the reduction in renal Na-K-ATPase in thyroid deficiency since the latter can be reversed by increasing sodium reabsorption during continuing hypothyroidism. Furthermore, the modest sodium leak of hypothyroid animals does not appear to be due to decreased Na-K-ATPase since it was not corrected by uninephrectomy despite restoration of both cortical and medullary Na-K-ATPase activity to normal by this maneuver. The close correlation between net sodium reabsorption and Na-K-ATPase in all the experimental situations described here demonstrates that renal Na-K-ATPase changes adaptively in hyper- or hypothyroidism as it does in numerous situations in the normal animal, in accord with its postulated role in the active transport of sodium across the renal tubule.
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PMID:Renal sodium- and potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase and sodium reabsorption in the hypothyroid rat. 434 43

Staphylococus aureus, ATCC 6538P, was fractionated into protoplast membranes, mesosomal vesicles, periplasm, and cytoplasm. These fractions and the culture fluid were then assayed for various degradative enzyme activities. They were not restricted to a single fraction nor dispersed homogeneously, but were distributed predominantly (on the basis of specific activity) as follows: nuclease in the culture fluid; alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, and acid phosphatase in the periplasm; adenosine triphosphatase in the protoplast membrane; and protease (low levels) in mesosomal vesicles. No significant esterase nor cell wall hydrolytic activity was found in any fraction. S. aureus 80/81 was studied for penicillinase activity after induction with benzyl penicillin; this enzyme was localized in the mesosomal vesicles. Electron microscopy did not reveal any ultrastructural changes associated with secretion of the extracellular fraction. Overall, these studies demonstrate that degradative enzymes are located in several surface compartments and that, therefore, the mesosome does not function as a prototype lysosome in S. aureus.
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PMID:Cellular location of degradative enzymes in Staphylococcus aureus. 437 33

A technique is described for the isolation of a plasma-membrane fraction from the rat intestinal epithelial cell which is distinct from the microvillus membrane of that cell. The isolated fraction contains only about 0.2% of the sucrase activity in the original homogenate and negligible quantities of nuclear and mitochondrial membrane markers. It contains 12% of the total Na(+),K(+)-dependent adenosine triphosphatase and 7% of the alkaline phosphatase, with significant increments in specific activity of these enzymes. Multiple membrane preparations were highly reproducible with respect to the specific activities of the markers studied. The small intestine of one rat yields material containing about 1.3mg of protein. In addition an assay is described suitable for determining 5'-nucleotidase in the small intestine.
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PMID:Preparation and characterization of the lateral and basal plasma membranes of the rat intestinal epithelial cell. 456 93

Diethylnitrosamine was injected to Sprague-Dawley rats after a partial hepatectomy, and enzyme histochemistry analysis was made after 35 weeks in the preneoplastic liver. The areas and volumes of the induced enzyme-deficient islands were calculated for glucose-6-triphosphatase, adenosine triphosphatase, and 5'-nucleotidase. The preneoplastic enzyme-deficient zones showed also an increased incorporation of tritiated thymidine.
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PMID:[Enzymatic phenotype of preneoplastic islands induced in the rat liver by diethylnitrosamine]. 610 Sep 68

Purified plasma membranes were obtained from five transplantable human tumors, a grade IV astrocytoma, an oat cell carcinoma, and three melanomas. Plasma membrane fractions were isolated from tumor homogenates by differential and discontinuous sucrose gradient centrifugation. Determination of enzyme activities indicated that the plasma membranes were enriched 10- to 20-fold with respect to 5'-nucleotidase, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide glycohydrolase, Mg2+-activated nucleoside triphosphatase, and sialic acid. Specific activities of nearly all the enzymes varied with the individual tumors, even among tumors of the same type, i.e., the melanomas. Electron micrographs of the plasma membrane fractions showed smooth single-membrane vesicles with slight contamination by lysosomes. Therefore, these membranes are suitable for comparative biochemical studies and for the preparation of tumor-specific monoclonal antibodies. Plasma membranes from all five tumors contained very high Mg2+-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activities. The Na+-K+-ATPase was a minor component of the total ATPase of these membranes (less than 30%). The major component was an ATPase exhibiting similar activity toward several nucleoside triphosphates. The activity of such a nucleoside triphosphatase has been correlated with tumorigenicity in cultured liver epithelial cells. The nucleoside triphosphatase of the plasma membranes of astrocytoma and oat cell carcinoma was stimulated from 50 to 1005 by concanavalin A, whereas ATPase of the melanoma plasma membranes was not or only slightly stimulated. The different response to concanavalin A could be due to differences in the ATPase molecules of the individual tumors or to the different environment of the ATPase.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of plasma membranes from transplantable human astrocytoma, oat cell carcinoma, and melanomas. 611 38

The activity of plasma membrane marker enzymes which are involved in purine metabolism (5'-nucleotidase, alkaline 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase), in active ion transport (Na-K-Mg-adenosine triphosphatase, ouabain-sensitive Na-K-adenosine triphosphatase), in aminoacid transport (gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase), and in basic physiologic functions (alkaline phosphomonoesterase) were assayed in mononuclear cells isolated from peripheral blood of normal donors and of patients with primary immunodeficiency. Irrespective of the clinical classification of the immunodeficiency, the cells of patients were characterized by significantly diminished 5'-nucleotidase and to a certain extent by lower alkaline phosphomonoesterase activities. Average activity levels of other enzymes were similar in cells of patients and controls, but scattering was more pronounced in the first group. Determination of substrate affinity revealed different kinetic properties of 5'-nucleotidase in cells from patients and normal donors; however, the extent of inhibition by beta-glycerophosphate or alpha, beta-adenosine-methylene diphosphate was comparable for both types of cells. The presence of inhibitory compounds in patients' serum was excluded by mixing experiments. When activities of the various plasma-membrane-associated enzymes were compared with each other, significant correlations emerged in normal lymphocytes. Most of these correlations were absent in cell membranes of immunodeficient patients. The findings indicate that the plasma membrane of lymphocytes from patients with immunodeficiency may be characterized by an altered distribution of enzymatic constituents.
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PMID:Correlations between enzymatic and immunologic properties of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. I. Ectoenzymes of normal and immunodeficient peripheral blood mononuclear cells. 612 61

Specific assays for 5'-nucleotidase, adenosine diphosphatase (ADPase) and Mg2+-dependent adenosine triphosphatase (Mg2+-ATPase) have been optimized for human lymphocytes and their subcellular localizations determined by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. 5'-Nucleotidase was localized solely to the plasma membrane of the lymphocyte. ADPase activity has been shown to have a dual localization to the plasma membrane and mitochondria, whilst Mg2+-ATPase was mainly located in the mitochondria. No [Na+,K+] activated Mg2+-dependent ATPase could be measured in these cells. We have confirmed the striking decrease in the specific activity of 5'-nucleotidase activity in lymphocytes from patients with common variable primary hypogammaglobulinaemia. In contrast, the specific activities of ADPase and Mg2+-ATPase showed no alteration in lymphocytes from the patient group when compared to controls. Thus the deficiency of ecto-5'-nucleotidase in the lymphocytes of patients with hypogammaglobulinaemia is a highly selective defect in purine metabolism.
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PMID:Studies on the kinetic properties and subcellular localization of adenine nucleotide phosphatases in peripheral blood lymphocytes from control subjects and patients with common variable primary hypogammaglobulinaemia. 612 80

To clarify the pathogenesis of protoporphyrin-induced cholestasis, liver surface membrane enzyme activities were determined after (a) isolated rat liver perfusion with protoporphyrin administered by bolus (1.0 mumol) or bolus plus constant infusion (1.0 mumol + 0.05 mumol/min) and (b) combination of liver surface membrane with protoporphyrin (0.9-53.4 nmol/ml) in vitro. The perfusion studies showed that protoporphyrin significantly inhibited Na+, K+- and Mg+2-adenosine triphosphatase activities. In vitro, these adenosine triphosphatase activities and the 5'-nucleotidase activity were inhibited linearly by protoporphyrin up to a concentration of approximately 18 mumol/ml; thereafter, enzyme activity was maintained. Greater inhibition of the adenosine triphosphatase activities occurred with protoporphyrin than was reported for chlorpromazine at similar molar concentrations. This effect was independent of the quantity of membrane protein analyzed and was not reversible with a 50:1 dilution. The inhibitory effect of protoporphyrin on surface membrane enzyme activities was also nonselective. Although the hepatotoxic effects of protoporphyrin may be more generalized, the present data underscore protoporphyrin's toxic interaction with liver surface membranes.
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PMID:Inhibition of liver surface membrane Na+, K+-adenosine triphosphatase, Mg+2-adenosine triphosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase activities by protoporphyrin. Observations in vitro and in the perfused rat liver. 613 44


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