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Query: EC:3.1.4.1 (phosphodiesterase)
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An alkaline 5'-phosphodiesterase (5'-PDE) from barley (Hordeum distichum) malt sprouts was partially purified by thermal treatment and acetone precipitation to diminish phosphomonoesterase (PME) activity. 5'-PDE was purified 40-fold to a specific activity of 30 U mg(-1) protein with a final yield of about 32%. With synthetic substrate, the enzyme had an optimum pH of 8.9, maximum activity at 70 degrees C over 10 min, and a Km of 0.26 mM. The partially purified enzyme was activated by 10 mM Mg2+ up to 168% of the original activity, while Zn2+, Mn2+ and Cu2+ ions, chelating agent (EDTA) and NaN3 (1-10 mM), and 5'-ribonucleotides (1-5 mM) were inhibitory. Final enzyme preparation was stable over 8 d at 4 degrees C), at 70 degrees C for up to 120 min and without loss of activity over 90 d at -18 degrees C.
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PMID:Partial purification and biochemical characterization of alkaline 5'-phosphodiesterase from barley malt sprouts. 1288 21

The nucleoside content of 32 elapid and viperid venoms was examined. Free purines, principally adenosine (ADO), inosine (INO), and guanosine (GUA), comprised as much as 8.7% of the solid components of some venoms. Thus, purines are far more abundant in some venoms than many proteinaceous toxins. Hypoxanthine (HYP) was found in about half of elapid and viperine venoms, in which it is a relatively minor constituent (<60 microg/g). Adenosine monophosphate (AMP) was tentatively identified in only three elapid and two viperid venoms. The pyrimidines, uridine (URI) and cytidine (CYT), were also found in most elapid and viperine venoms. In most of these, the amount of uridine was substantially greater than that of cytidine. Thymidine (THY) was not found in any venom, indicating that DNA from disintegration of glandular cells is not the source of venom nucleosides. In contrast to elapid and viperine venoms, most crotaline venoms are devoid of free nucleosides. Elapid and viperine venoms also contained other minor, low molecular weight constituents that could not be positively identified. Some had spectra identical to those of adenosine, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), inosine, xanthosine (XAN), and guanosine, while others had unique spectra. There is no apparent correlation between quantities of venom nucleosides and literature values for the three dominant venom enzymes that release endogenous nucleosides, 5'-nucleotidase (5NUC), phosphodiesterase (PDE), and alkaline phosphomonoesterase (PME).
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PMID:Taxonomic distribution and quantitative analysis of free purine and pyrimidine nucleosides in snake venoms. 1562 16

Several extracellular DNases were detected after cultivation of Streptomyces aureofaciens B96 under submerged conditions. These DNases are nutritionally regulated and high content of amino acid nitrogen in cultivation medium repress their production. By varying cultivation conditions, there remained only two extracellular nuclease activities. The major one, extracellular endodeoxyribonuclease SaD I, was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipitation, adsorption on Spheron, chromatography on Superose-12P followed by FPLC on MonoQ and final purification on HiTrapQ. The molecular weight of the purified SaD I determined by SDS-PAGE was 31 kDa. The DNase hydrolyses endonucleolytically both double-stranded and single-stranded circular and linear DNA. It does not cleave RNA and does not exhibit phosphodiesterase nor phosphomonoesterase activity. It requires a divalent cation (Zn2+, Co2+, Mn2+, Mg2+) and its activity optimum is at neutral pH (pH 7.2). The optimal temperature for DNA cleavage was 40 degrees C. Activity was strongly inhibited in the presence of phosphate, Hg2+, chelating agents or iodoacetate, but it was stimulated by addition of dimethyl sulphoxide.
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PMID:An extracellular endodeoxyribonuclease from Streptomyces aureofaciens. 1565 86

Phosphatase enzymes regulate organic phosphorus (P) turnover in soil, but a clear understanding remains elusive. To investigate this, phosphomonoesterase and phosphodiesterase activities were determined by using para-nitrophenol (pNP) analogue substrates in a range of temperate pasture soils from England and Wales. Substrate-induced phosphatase activity ranged between 2.62 and 12.19 micromol pNP g-1 soil h-1 for phosphomonoesterase and between 0.25 and 2.24 micromol pNP g-1 soil h-1 for phosphodiesterase. Activities were correlated strongly with soil pH and labile organic P extracted in sodium bicarbonate, although the relationships differed markedly for the two enzymes. Acidic soils contained high phosphomonoesterase activity, low phosphodiesterase activity, and high concentrations of labile organic P, whereas the reverse was true in more neutral soils. As most of the organic P inputs to soil are phosphate diesters, it therefore seems likely that phosphodiesterase activity regulates labile organic P turnover in pasture soils. The low phosphodiesterase activity in acidic soils may be linked to the dominance of fungi or an effect of sorption on the enzyme. These results suggest that greater emphasis should be placed on understanding the role of phosphodiesterase activity in the cycling of soil organic P.
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PMID:Phosphatase activity in temperate pasture soils: Potential regulation of labile organic phosphorus turnover by phosphodiesterase activity. 1590 8

Ericoid endomycorrhizal fungi (two isolates of Hymenoscyphus ericae obtained from unpolluted heathlands and two H. ericae-type endophytes isolated from Calluna vulgaris growing on Cu-contaminated mine spoil) were grown for 14 d on 10% Rorison's solution containing sodium phytate as the sole P source and either trace (0.16 microM) or elevated (0.25 mM) concentrations of Cu. The elevated levels of Cu in the medium had no effect on the growth of the two H. ericae-type endophytes from mine spoil sites but caused a significant reduction in growth of the two H. ericae isolates from unpolluted sites. Wall, cytoplasmic and extracellular fractions were assayed for phosphomonoesterase (PMEase) and phosphodiesterase (PDEase) activity. K(m) and V(max) values varied between the different endophytes and both were highest in the wall fractions. Wall-bound phosphatase activity, excluding PDEase of one H. ericae-type endophyte, was generally unaffected after the isolates had been grown on medium containing 0.25 mM Cu. Extracellular PDEase of the two H. ericae-type endophytes from mine spoil sites was stimulated by 0.25 mM Cu in the growth medium. Cu concentrations up to 5.0 mM in the assay medium did not inhibit wall-bound phosphatase activity whereas three of the isolates showed a stimulation of extracellular activity with increasing Cu. The results are discussed in relation to phosphatase activity of ericoid endophytes on Cu-contaminated substrates.
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PMID:Phosphatases of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi: kinetic properties and the effect of copper on activity. 1591 36

This study is aimed to investigate the activities of phosphomonoesterase (acid-, neutral-, and alkaline-), phosphodiesterase and phosphotriesterase in a rice-planting meadow brown soil at the lower reach of Liao River, and their responses to different fertilization treatments. The results showed that there was no significant difference in soil total P and organic P contents among all treatments, but soil available P content was significantly higher in treatment OM than in other treatments. Soil acid-and neutral phosphomonoesterase had a higher activity than alkaline phosphomonoesterase and phosphodiesterase, while phosphotriesterase had the lowest activity. No significant difference was found in phosphatase activities between different fertilization treatments. Soil acid phosphomonoesterase activity had a significant correlation with soil total P and available P contents, while soil phosphodiesterase activity significantly correlated with soil organic P content.
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PMID:[Phosphatase activities in rice-planting meadow brown soil and their responses to fertilization]. 1594 82

DNA ligase D (LigD) catalyzes end-healing and end-sealing steps during nonhomologous end joining in bacteria. Pseudomonas aeruginosa LigD consists of a central ATP-dependent ligase domain fused to a C-terminal polymerase domain and an N-terminal 3'-phosphoesterase (PE) module. The PE domain catalyzes manganese-dependent phosphodiesterase and phosphomonoesterase reactions at a duplex primer-template with a short 3'-ribonucleotide tract. The phosphodiesterase, which cleaves a 3'-terminal diribonucleotide to yield a primer strand with a ribonucleoside 3'-PO4 terminus, requires the vicinal 2'-OH of the penultimate ribose. The phosphomonoesterase converts the terminal ribonucleoside 3'-PO4 to a 3'-OH. Here we show that the PE domain has a 3'-phosphatase activity on an all-DNA primer-template, signifying that the phosphomonoesterase reaction does not depend on a 2'-OH. The distinctions between the phosphodiesterase and phosphomonoesterase activities are underscored by the results of alanine-scanning, limited proteolysis, and deletion analysis, which show that the two reactions depend on overlapping but nonidentical ensembles of protein functional groups, including: (i) side chains essential for both ribonuclease and phosphatase activity (His-42, His-48, Asp-50, Arg-52, His-84, and Tyr-88); (ii) side chains important for 3'-phosphatase activity but not for 3' ribonucleoside removal (Arg-14, Asp-15, Glu-21, Gln-40, and Glu-82); and (iii) side chains required selectively for the 3'-ribonuclease (Lys-66 and Arg-76). These constellations of critical residues are unique to LigD-like proteins, which we propose comprise a new bifunctional phosphoesterase family.
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PMID:Essential constituents of the 3'-phosphoesterase domain of bacterial DNA ligase D, a nonhomologous end-joining enzyme. 1604 7

Inorganic pyrophosphate is a potent inhibitor of bone mineralization by preventing the seeding of calcium-phosphate complexes. Plasma cell membrane glycoprotein-1 and tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase were reported to be antagonistic regulators of mineralization toward inorganic pyrophosphate formation (by plasma cell membrane glycoprotein-1) and degradation (by tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase) under physiological conditions. In addition, they possess broad overlapping enzymatic functions. Therefore, we examined the roles of tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase within matrix vesicles isolated from femurs of 17-day-old chick embryos, under conditions where these both antagonistic and overlapping functions could be evidenced. Addition of 25 microM ATP significantly increased duration of mineralization process mediated by matrix vesicles, while supplementation of mineralization medium with levamisole, an alkaline phosphatase inhibitor, reduces the ATP-induced retardation of mineral formation. Phosphodiesterase activity of tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase for bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate was confirmed, the rate of this phosphodiesterase activity is in the same range as that of phosphomonoesterase activity for p-nitrophenyl phosphate under physiological pH. In addition, tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase at pH 7.4 can hydrolyze ADPR. On the basis of these observations, it can be concluded that tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase, acting as a phosphomonoesterase, could hydrolyze free phosphate esters such as pyrophosphate and ATP, while as phosphodiesterase could contribute, together with plasma cell membrane glycoprotein-1, in the production of pyrophosphate from ATP.
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PMID:Phosphodiesterase activity of alkaline phosphatase in ATP-initiated Ca(2+) and phosphate deposition in isolated chicken matrix vesicles. 1614 95

Phosphorus fractions could enter water body from surface runoff and leachate due to excessive irrigation of centralized farm wastewater. Organic P is more mobile than inorganic P in the soil profile and represents a significant proportion of P present in leachate from irrigated farm soils. A set of parallel experiments were conducted to compare the characteristics of organic phosphorus in leachate. The experiment was established in a complete randomized block design with nine replicates. The plots received different combinations of P fertilizer and different rates of pig slurry, i. e. 100, 200,300, 400 t x (hm2 x a)(-1), accordingly, the phosphorus was added to the plots was 6.2, 12.4, 19.2, 24.8 kg x (hm2 x a)(-1), respectively. Leachate was collected over a year period and analyzed for different P fractions. Physico-chemical fractionation of P in leachate indicated that the majority of the P loss from the irrigated soil occurred in unreactive particulate (77% - 90%) P forms. 31P nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of eight leachate samples indicated that unreactive P was mainly comprised of monoester and diester forms of organic P. The presence of phosphomonoesterase and phosphodiesterase activity in leachate resulted in hydrolysis of 9% - 29% of total unreactive P (TUP), indicating that some of the monoesters and diesters can be eventually hydrolyzed into inorganic P forms during P transport. To the treatment P45 + F200, enzyme hydrolysis showed that 33% of the TUP was present as labile monoester P (LMP), followed by 17% as inositol hexakisphosphate (IHP) and 9% as diesters (phospholipids and nucleic acids). The results suggest that LMP, IHP and diesters are an important component of organic P leaching from the irrigated soil. The identification of these organic P forms will improve our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for their release from soils, so that specific mitigation strategies can be implemented at the P source.
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PMID:[Phosphorus characteristics in leachate from soils irrigated with livestock wastewater]. 1636 99

Alkaline phosphomonoesterase, phosphodiesterase, L-amino acid oxidase, hyaluronidase, 5'-nucleotidase, arginine ester hydrolase, phospholipase A2 and proteinase activities were determined in eight snake venoms, including three from sea snake, of families Elapidae and Viperidae from Pakistan. The species includes three sea snakes Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Enhydrina schsitosa, Microcephalophis gracilis gracilis and two land snakes Naja naja naja, Bungarus caeruleus of family Elapidae while three land snakes Vipera russelli russelli, Echis carinatus and Eristocophis macmahoni of family Viperidae. The venoms of family Elapidae are characterized by low levels to traces of proteinase, L-amino acid oxidase and arginine ester hydrolase activities with the exception of Naja naja naja and a moderate to high levels of phospholipase A2 activities. The venoms of family Viperidae, on the other hand, are characterized by the presence of moderate to high levels of 5'-nucleotidase, proteinase, phosphodiesterase and phosphomonoesterase activities.
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PMID:Enzymatic activities of some snake venoms from families Elapidae and Viperidae. 1641 74


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