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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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The sensitivity of acetylcholinesterases (AChEs) from Musca domestica and from Drosophila melanogaster to the phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus and to the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from Trypanosoma brucei was investigated. B. cereus phospholipase C solubilizes membrane-bound AChE, and both phospholipases convert amphiphilic AChEs into hydrophilic forms of the enzyme. The lipases uncover an immunological determinant that is found on other glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored membrane proteins after the same treatment. This immunological determinant is also present on the native hydrophilic form of AChE. The polypeptide bearing the active site of the membrane-bound enzyme migrates faster during sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis than the same polypeptide from the soluble enzyme. We conclude that AChE from insect brain is attached to membranes via a glycophospholipid anchor. This anchor is covalently linked to the polypeptide bearing the active esterase site of the enzyme and can be cleaved by an endogenous lipase.
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PMID:Acetylcholinesterases from Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster brain are linked to membranes by a glycophospholipid anchor sensitive to an endogenous phospholipase. 283 Dec 98

Platelet responses to agonists are believed to be mediated by at least two pertussis toxin-sensitive guanine nucleotide-binding (G) proteins: Gi which inhibits adenylyl cyclase and Gp, which stimulates phospholipase C. The present studies compare the properties of Gi and Gp and examine their interactions with the receptors for various platelet agonists. In permeabilized platelets and platelet membranes, pertussis toxin [32P]ADP-ribosylated a protein(s) (alpha 41) which migrated on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis fractionally below rabbit and bovine alpha i (Mr = 41,000). Prior exposure of the platelets to an agonist inhibited the [32P]ADP-ribosylation of alpha 41 to an extent which correlated with the pattern of responses to that agonist. Thrombin, which elicited responses that were mediated by both Gi and Gp, decreased radiolabeling by greater than 90%. Epinephrine, which was functionally coupled only to Gi, decreased radiolabeling by 50%, as did vasopressin and platelet-activating factor (PAF), which were coupled only to Gp. U46619, a thromboxane analog which neither inhibited cAMP formation nor caused pertussis toxin-sensitive phosphoinositide hydrolysis, had no effect on 32P-ADP-ribosylation. These results suggest that either G alpha 41 regulates more than one enzyme or that alpha subunits from more than one G protein comigrate within alpha 41. Two-dimensional electrophoresis was used to test the latter possibility. Upon isoelectric focusing, alpha 41 resolved into two distinct subspecies. However, these appear to be minor variants rather than functionally distinct alpha subunits since: 1) both proteins produced the same proteolytic fragments after digestion with chymotrypsin or Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease and 2) preincubation of the platelets with agonists, including those which appear to interact in intact platelets solely with Gp (PAF and vasopressin) or solely with Gi (epinephrine), inhibited the [32P]ADP-ribosylation of both proteins to the same extent. The pattern of functional responses produced by some of the agonists was found to depend upon the conditions used for the assay. Although unable to inhibit cAMP formation in intact platelets, both PAF and vasopressin caused pertussis toxin-sensitive inhibition of adenylyl cyclase in isolated membranes. Collectively, these observations suggest that 1) in platelets a single pertussis toxin-sensitive, alpha 41-containing G protein may be involved in the regulation of both adenylyl cyclase and phospholipase C and 2) additional constraints which are altered during membrane isolation may help to determine which enzyme is coupled to which agonist.
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PMID:Interactions in platelets between G proteins and the agonists that stimulate phospholipase C and inhibit adenylyl cyclase. 283 6

Membranous and soluble forms of rat liver alkaline phosphatase were selectively prepared by extracting microsomes with n-butanol at pH 8.5 and 5.5, respectively, and purified in homogeneous forms by the method previously established (Miki et al. (1986) Eur. J. Biochem. 160, 41-48). When subjected to polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the two forms migrated to the same position in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, while the membranous form remained at the top of gels in the absence of the detergent. Treatment of the membranous form with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C resulted in its conversion to a soluble form with the same electrophoretic mobility even in the absence of the detergent as that of the soluble form extracted at pH 5.5. Automated Edman degradation analysis showed that the two forms have the same N-terminal amino acid sequence up to the 30th residue determined. Chemical analyses of hydrolysates of the two forms by gas-liquid chromatography demonstrated that the membranous form contains palmitic acid, stearic acid, and inositol, while the soluble form contains inositol but is devoid of the fatty acids. Taken together, these results suggest that rat liver alkaline phosphatase is covalently attached to phosphatidylinositol acylated with palmitic acid and stearic acid, which functions as the membrane-anchoring domain of the enzyme molecule.
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PMID:Chemical identification of lipid components in the membranous form of rat liver alkaline phosphatase. 283 51

When membrane-bound human liver alkaline phosphatase was treated with a phosphatidylinositol (PI) phospholipase C obtained from Bacillus cereus, or with the proteases ficin and bromelain, the enzyme released was dimeric. Butanol extraction of the plasma membranes at pH 7.6 yielded a water-soluble, aggregated form that PI phospholipase C could also convert to dimers. When the membrane-bound enzyme was solubilized with a non-ionic detergent (Nonidet P-40), it had the Mr of a tetramer; this, too, was convertible to dimers with PI phospholipase C or a protease. Butanol extraction of whole liver tissue at pH 6.6 and subsequent purification yielded a dimeric enzyme on electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions, whereas butanol extraction at pH values of 7.6 or above and subsequent purification by immunoaffinity chromatography yielded an enzyme with a native Mr twice that of the dimeric form. This high molecular weight form showed a single Coomassie-stained band (Mr = 83,000) on electrophoresis under denaturing conditions in sodium dodecyl sulfate, as did its PI phospholipase C cleaved product; this Mr was the same as that obtained with the enzyme purified from whole liver using butanol extraction at pH 6.6. These results are highly suggestive of the presence of a butanol-activated endogenous enzyme activity (possibly a phospholipase) that is optimally active at an acidic pH. Inhibition of this activity by maintaining an alkaline pH during extraction and purification results in a tetrameric enzyme. Alkaline phosphatase, whether released by phosphatidylinositol (PI) phospholipase C or protease treatment of intact plasma membranes, or purified in a dimeric form, would not adsorb to a hydrophobic medium. PI phospholipase C treatment of alkaline phosphatase solubilized from plasma membranes by either detergent or butanol at pH 7.6 yielded a dimeric enzyme that did not absorb to the hydrophobic medium, whereas the untreated preparations did. This adsorbed activity was readily released by detergent. Likewise, alkaline phosphatase solubilized from plasma membranes by butanol extraction at pH 7.6 would incorporate into phosphatidylcholine liposomes, whereas the enzyme released from the membranes by PI phospholipase C would not incorporate. The dimeric enzyme purified from a butanol extract of whole liver tissue carried out at pH 6.6 did not incorporate. We conclude that PI phospholipase C converts a hydrophobic tetramer of alkaline phosphatase into hydrophilic dimers through removal of the 1,2-diacylglycerol moiety of phosphatidylinositol. Based on these and others' findings, we devised a model of alkaline phosphatase's conversion into its various forms.
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PMID:The solubilization of tetrameric alkaline phosphatase from human liver and its conversion into various forms by phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C or proteolysis. 284 68

A soluble phospholipase C from rat liver was purified to homogeneity using phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) as substrate. After ammonium sulfate fractionation, the purification involved chromatography on phosphocellulose, DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, hydroxylapatite, Reactive Blue 2 dye-linked agarose, and Mono S cation exchanger. Under the conditions of the assay, the pure enzyme had a specific activity of 407 mumol/mg protein/min. It migrated as a single band with a molecular mass of 87 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The water-soluble product formed during the hydrolysis of PIP2 by the purified enzyme was inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate. The enzyme shows one-half of maximum velocity at 2 microM Ca2+ with PIP2 as substrate. Between 0 and 100 microM Ca2+, the enzyme shows approximately the same activity with phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) as it does with PIP2, and very low activity with phosphatidylinositol. The enzyme is activated by low concentrations of basic proteins; for example, with PIP2 as substrate, 1 microgram/ml histone activates the enzyme 3.6-fold. The enzyme shows an almost absolute requirement for monovalent salts which can be met by different alkali metal halides. A second, minor peak of PIP2-hydrolyzing phospholipase C activity was resolved during chromatography of the enzyme on hydroxylapatite. The substrate specificity suggests that PIP and PIP2 are normal substrates of this enzyme. Under physiological conditions of activation, the enzyme may therefore generate inositol 1,4-bisphosphate and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in amounts determined by the ratio of PIP and PIP2 present in the cellular membranes.
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PMID:Purification of a phospholipase C from rat liver cytosol that acts on phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate. 284 77

Proteins on the outer surface of cultured human and murine lymphoblastoid T cells were labelled with 125I. The labelled cells were incubated with the enzyme phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC). Proteins cleaved from the cell membrane by the enzyme were immunoprecipitated with anti-Thy-1 antibodies, separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and identified by autoradiography. A doublet of Thy-1 bands of approximately 16,000 daltons were detected. The result suggests that: Thy-1 is present on the human and murine T cells which we tested, and Thy-1 is attached to the cell membrane via a phosphatidylinositol domain.
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PMID:Release of Thy-1 from human and murine T-cell lines by a specific phospholipase. 288 64

Thy-1 is a developmentally regulated cell surface glycoprotein in nervous tissue. An inositol-containing glycolipid structure is covalently attached to its carboxyl terminus, which anchors the protein to the cell membrane. In the present paper we report the characterization of a water-soluble form of Thy-1, purified from human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). In contrast to the membrane-bound form of Thy-1 (M-Thy-1) isolated from human brain cerebral cortex, CSF-Thy-1 behaved like a completely hydrophilic glycoprotein, as analyzed by charge-shift electrophoresis in the presence of detergents and by liposome incorporation experiments. CSF-Thy-1 displayed a slightly higher apparent molecular weight in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis than M-Thy-1. Digestions with endoglycosidases demonstrated that this difference in size was correlated to different processing of the three N-linked oligosaccharides, and the mobilities of the deglycosylated molecules were indistinguishable in sodium dodecyl sulfate gels. A Pronase-resistant carboxyl-terminal fragment was isolated from the CSF-Thy-1 after trypsin digestion and compared with the corresponding structure of M-Thy-1, obtained by treatment either with bacterial phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C or with human serum (as a source of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase D). The major fragment from CSF-Thy-1 behaved identically, with respect to size and charge, to the carboxyl-terminal fragment from M-Thy-1 solubilized by phospholipase D. These findings suggest an in vivo release of phosphatidylinositol-anchored Thy-1 glycoprotein from brain cells by the action of an endogenous phospholipase D.
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PMID:Characterization of a hydrophilic form of Thy-1 purified from human cerebrospinal fluid. 290 Aug 38

The presence of a glycoinositol phospholipid anchor in Drosophila acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was shown by several criteria. Chemical analysis of highly purified Drosophila AChE demonstrated approximately one residue of inositol per enzyme subunit. Selective cleavage by Staphylococcus aureus phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) was tested with Drosophila AChE radiolabeled by the photoactivatable affinity probe 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)diazirine [( 125I]TID), a reagent that specifically labels the lipid moiety of glycoinositol phospholipid-anchored proteins. Digestion with PI-PLC released 75% of this radiolabel from the protein. Gel electrophoresis of Drosophila AChE in sodium dodecyl sulfate indicated prominent 55- and 16-kDa bands and a faint 70-kDa band. The [125I]TID label was localized on the 55-kDa fragment, suggesting that this fragment is the C-terminal portion of the protein. In support of this conclusion, a sensitive microsequencing procedure that involved manual Edman degradation combined with radiomethylation was used to determine residues 2-5 of the 16-kDa fragment. Comparison with the Drosophila AChE cDNA sequence [Hall, L.M.C., & Spierer, P. (1986) EMBO J. 5, 2949-2954] confirmed that the 16-kDa fragment includes the N-terminus of AChE. Furthermore, the position of the N-terminal amino acid of the mature Drosophila AChE is closely homologous to that of Torpedo AChE. The presence of radiomethylatable ethanolamine in both 16- and 55-kDa fragments was also confirmed. Thus, Drosophila AChE may include a second posttranslational modification involving ethanolamine.
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PMID:Drosophila acetylcholinesterase: demonstration of a glycoinositol phospholipid anchor and an endogenous proteolytic cleavage. 297 7

Earlier reports suggested that the adenosine monophosphate (AMP)- and the p-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP)-hydrolyzing activities of Dictyostelium discoideum membrane preparations are due to different proteins. These results have been apparently contradicted by the recent purification to homogeneity of the two activities from culmination phase cells as a single protein [D. R. Armant and C. L. Rutherford (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 12710-12718]. Results presented here from studies on the activities of vegetative cells support the concept of a single protein. Nondenaturing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of Triton X-100 extracts of cell membrane preparations of D. discoideum showed identical migration of pNPPase and AMPase activities. Furthermore, the previously reported different pH optima of the two activities was due to the fact that pH optima are dependent upon the substrate concentration, and the selective solubilization of AMPase from membrane preparations by phospholipase C can probably be accounted for by the finding that phospholipase C preparations from the same commercial source contain 5'-nucleotidase activity. Moreover, there are alterations in the Km and the stability of both AMPase and pNPPase in a strain with a mutationally altered alkaline phosphatase, further supporting the concept that the two activities are due to a single protein. Both substrates serve as transphosphorylation donors demonstrating that the enzyme activity is mechanistically an alkaline phosphatase.
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PMID:The membrane-bound alkaline phosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase activities of vegetative cells of Dictyostelium discoideum. 298 13

A soluble phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) was purified 58,000-fold from bovine brain. The enzyme, one of six distinct PLC activities detected in brain, accounted for approximately 15% of the soluble phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate-phospholipase C (PIP2-PLC) activity in this tissue. The purification scheme included hydrophobic chromatography on phenyl-Sepharose and affinity chromatography on phosphatidylinositol-Sepharose (PI-Sepharose). The enzyme was specifically eluted from the PI-Sepharose with PI, calcium, and detergent. The purified PLC had an estimated molecular weight of 88,000 on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and behaved as a monomeric protein during sedimentation on glycerol gradients. The enzyme required calcium for activity, exhibited a pH optimum of 6.5, and cleaved only phosphoinositides. The rates of PIP2 and phosphatidyl-4-monophosphate hydrolysis exceeded the rate of PI hydrolysis under all conditions tested. These properties are consistent with a potential role for this PLC in the early events involved in cellular calcium mobilization.
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PMID:Purification of a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C from bovine brain. 304 Jul 54


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