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Query: EC:3.2.1.23 (beta-galactosidase)
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Two mouse monoclonal antibodies were raised against adenosine and guanosine coupled to bovine serum albumin (BSA) by periodate oxidation. They were named A-16 and G-K21 respectively and selected for their ability to recognize single-stranded DNA. Their epitope specificities were assessed and their dissociation constants determined by an indirect ELISA method. The KD values for adenosine and guanosine coupled to BSA were 9.9 X 10(-7) M and 1.1 X 10(-10) M for G-K21 respectively, and 2.5 X 10(-8) M and 1.0 X 10(-6) M for A-16. These monoclonal anti-nucleoside antibodies were used to develop a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for single-stranded DNA. The purified IgG antibodies were coupled to beta-galactosidase and alkaline phosphatase by the one-step glutaraldehyde method and used in a test optimized for pH, saturating proteins, coating antibody, nature of the conjugate and protein concentrations. Less than 100 pg/well of single-stranded DNA could be detected, and the detection was linear over a DNA concentration ranging from 0.34 to 34 ng/ml. The assay could quantitate single-stranded DNAs of differing origin, but not RNAs. The test was compared to another titration method, and used to calibrate target DNA amounts in non-radioactive hybridization experiments.
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PMID:Monoclonal anti-nucleoside antibodies. Characterization and application in an enzyme immunoassay of single-stranded DNA. 247 62

Daily s.c. injection of gentamicin at either 100 mg/kg for 4 days or 60 mg/kg for 2 weeks produced nephrotoxicity in the adult rat as judged by an increase in urinary excretion of beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase and beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase. The observed enzymuria was associated with significant elevation in total renal phospholipid, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine. In addition, gentamicin decreased the activities of renal cortical Na+-K+-adenosine triphosphatase, alkaline phosphatase as well as phospholipase C. Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (250 mg/kg/day) administered i.p. for 4 or 14 days did not markedly alter the metabolic markers of kidney function. In rats simultaneously given pyridoxal-5'-phosphate and gentamicin for 4 days the vitamin failed to prevent either the antibiotic-induced decrease in renal phospholipase C and alkaline phosphatase or the increase in total renal phospholipid, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine. However, simultaneous pyridoxal-5'-phosphate and aminoglycoside treatment for 2 weeks proved effective in blockade of the gentamicin-induced kidney phospholipidosis, elevation in urinary beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase and beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase, as well as reduction in renal phospholipase C and alkaline phosphatase. The gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicity was associated with a decrease in renal pyridoxal-5'-phosphate levels. In the simultaneous 4-day-treated rat the renal concentration of pyridoxal-5'-phosphate returned to approximate control values, whereas after 2 weeks the level of vitamin B6 was approximately 2-fold higher than control. Although pyridoxal-5'-phosphate in the simultaneous group lowered kidney gentamicin content by 40% after 4 or 14 days, protection from aminoglycoside-induced nephrotoxicity was apparent only after 2 weeks in our study.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Inhibition of gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicity by pyridoxal-5'-phosphate in the rat. 249 42

A general method is presented for the determination of the KM and Vmax for a nonchromogenic substrate in an experimental system where a chromogenic and a nonchromogenic substrate compete for the active site of a single enzyme. Entire progress curves of absorbance versus time for the transformation of the chromogenic substrate must be obtained in the absence and presence of the nonchromgenic substrate. Two quantities may then be extracted from the entire kinetic curves: the value of a delta Area, the area bounded by the kinetic traces of absorbance versus time in the presence and absence of the nonchromogenic substrate; and the value of delta t(5%), the time required to transform 5% of the chromogenic substrate in the presence of the nonchromogenic substrate minus the corresponding time required in its absence. The values of KM and Vmax for the nonchromogenic substrate may be obtained from the dependencies of delta Area and delta t(5%) upon the concentration of the nonchromogenic substrate. The ability of this procedure to yield the correct values of KM and Vmax was demonstrated using beta-lactamase, beta-galactosidase, alkaline phosphatase, and 19 chromogenic/nonchromogenic substrate pairs. This method is equally valid in the absence or presence of competitive product inhibition and should be applicable to any enzyme-catalyzed, strongly exergonic reaction.
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PMID:The Michaelis constants of a nonchromogenic substrate may be determined using a chromogenic substrate. 250 64

1. Intestinal structure, lactase (beta-galactosidase; EC 3.2.1.23) activity and alkaline phosphatase activity have been determined in mouse jejunal and ileal tissues before and during infection with the intestinal parasite Nematospiroides dubius. 2. Oral infection with small numbers of N. dubius larvae caused villus height, crypt depth and enterocyte migration rate to increase in the mouse jejunum. None of these effects occurred in ileal tissue. 3. Lactase activity also increased in jejunal, but not ileal, tissue of infected mice. This increase was associated with a doubling of the rate at which activity appeared in the brush-border membrane of enterocytes during migration over the basal regions of jejunal villi. Alkaline phosphatase activity in jejunal tissue remained unchanged in infected mice. 4. Attention is drawn to the fact that this is the first occasion when crypt cell hyperplasia has been found to be positively correlated with an increase in lactase activity and a decrease in cytotoxic/suppressor T-cells. Further work is needed to establish the primary cause of these effects.
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PMID:Intestinal infection with Nematospiroides dubius selectively increases lactase expression by mouse jejunal enterocytes. 250 31

Assays for alkaline phospatase, beta-galactosidase, penicillinase and peroxidase were optimised for quantitation in microtitre plate wells. Their value as labels in microtitre plate enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for progesterone was assessed following coupling with 11 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone 11-glucuronide using an active ester procedure. Bridge-heterologous antiserum (11 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone 11-hemisuccinate-bovine serum albumin as immunogen) was used to minimize bridge recognition. The limits of detection of the enzymes were in the order penicillinase greater than peroxidase greater than alkaline phosphatase greater than beta-galactosidase. Under appropriate conditions it was possible to achieve greater than 50% displacement of label with 50 pg of progesterone for all four labels.
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PMID:A comparison of alkaline phosphatase, beta-galactosidase, penicillinase and peroxidase used as labels for progesterone determination in milk by heterologous microtitre plate enzymeimmunoassay. 250 94

The SOS chromotest is a simple quantitative short-term bacterial assay for the detection of genotoxic activity of pure compounds or complex samples. On the basis of consecutive experiments aimed at demonstrating the relationship between the inoculum size and the outcome of the test using 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4-NQO) as model genotoxin. It is shown that within the suitable range of the cell number there is a negative correlation between the number of tester cells and test sensitivity. Moreover, it could be demonstrated that the peak of the dose response curve, i.e., the maximal induction factor, is systematically influenced by the actual value of the ratio of beta-galactosidase to alkaline phosphatase enzyme activities at a 4-NQO concentration of zero. Last but not least, some simple statistical data describing the performance of the automated version of the SOS chromotest are also given.
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PMID:Quantitation of the relationship between tester cell number inoculated and SOS-inducing potency of 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4-NQO) in an automated version of the SOS chromotest. 251 84

When a signal sequence is attached to beta-galactosidase, the normally cytoplasmic protein is unable to fully traverse the cytoplasmic membrane. We used a genetic approach to study those features of beta-galactosidase responsible for the block in translocation. By using both in vivo and in vitro techniques, fragments of beta-galactosidase were interposed between a signal sequence and alkaline phosphatase. The alkaline phosphatase acts as a sensor for any blocking effects of beta-galactosidase on export. From these studies, we show that multiple regions of beta-galactosidase contribute to its failure to be translocated. These results are most easily interpreted if the folding of beta-galactosidase or of domains of it is responsible for the block in export. In addition, in certain constructs, positively charged amino acids directly following the signal sequence interfered with export.
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PMID:Genetic studies on the inability of beta-galactosidase to be translocated across the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. 252 43

During nitrogen-limited growth, Escherichia coli expresses a specific ammonium or methylammonium ion transport system (Amt). Strains carrying defects in Amt have been isolated following Tn10 transposon mutagenesis. These mutants have less than 10% of the transport activity of the parental strain. Glutamate, glutamine, arginine, or high levels (20 mM) of ammonium will serve as the sole nitrogen source for growth of these strains, and glutamine synthetase is normally expressed and repressed by the nitrogen regulatory (Ntr) system. When transformed with plasmid pGln84, containing lacZ fused to an Ntr promoter (glnLp), the Amt mutants expressed a normal level of beta-galactosidase. Furthermore, P1 bacteriophage transduction of the amt mutation into an Ntr mutant, normally constitutive for Amt, gave Amt- transductants. Therefore, the mutations are unlikely to lie within genes affecting Ntr elements. Following transformation with plasmid libraries of E. coli genomic DNA constructed in pUC9, two plasmids conferring the Amt+ phenotype on the amt mutants were isolated. These plasmids were unable to complement the Amt- phenotype of Ntr- mutants. Restriction digestion of these plasmids revealed common fragments, and Southern blot analyses indicated that the Amt-complementing sequence and the site of Tn10 insertion in the genome occur in the same 3.4-kilobase HindIII-SalI fragment. Insertion of TnphoA into this fragment produced amt::phoA fusions which gave high levels of alkaline phosphatase under nitrogen-limiting conditions but low levels during ammonia excess. This suggests that the amt product contains domains which are exported to the periplasm.
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PMID:Isolation of an ammonium or methylammonium ion transport mutant of Escherichia coli and complementation by the cloned gene. 253 89

Different enzymatic activities were studied in the human pancreatic cancer cell line CAPAN-1 in order to analyze their relation to differentiation. Alkaline phosphatase (Alk Ph), acid phosphatase, aminopeptidase, dipeptidyl peptidase IV, acid and neutral alpha-glucosidases, and acid beta-galactosidase were present. Especially alkaline phosphatase, which we have found to be of the placental type isoenzyme, is being highly expressed. Spontaneous cell differentiation at confluence as well as differentiating agents: sodium butyrate and DMSO, modulated the levels of three enzymes: Alk. Ph., aminopeptidase, and acid alpha-glucosidase. The exposure of the cells to the differentiating agents amplified the modulations occurring during the spontaneous differentiation. Aminopeptidase and acid alpha-glucosidase were found to be induced by differentiation. Alk Ph specific activity was significantly increased by the spontaneous and the butyrate-induced differentiations; whereas DMSO exerted an opposite effect, probably related to its biphasic action on cell proliferation.
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PMID:Modulation of enzymatic activities during spontaneous and induced differentiation in a human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line CAPAN-1. 254 14

Seventeen monofunctional alkylmethanesulphonates of widely varying structures were investigated in the SOS Chromotest using the Escherichia coli strains PM21, PQ37 and GC4798. As a measure of the SOS-inducing activity, the beta-galactosidase enzyme units (Up/mumol) were determined. Strains PM21 and PQ37 gave similar results in spite of the presence of different genetic markers. In general, the SN1 type secondary compounds (O-alkylation) induced higher SOS repair than the SN2 type primary compounds (N-alkylation). However, methylmethanesulphonate exerted the highest SOS induction of all tested strains, presumably due to its extremely high SN2 reactivity. In general, strain GC4798, which lacks 3-alkyladenine-DNA glycosylases I and II, was more sensitive towards monofunctional alkylating compounds and in particular towards the SN2 type compounds. A good correlation was found between the SOS repair response in the E. coli strains PM21 and PQ37 and the mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium TA100. There was, however, little correspondence when comparing the two measures used for the SOS-inducing activity in this work, the SOSIP (SOS-inducing potency) and the specific beta-galactosidase activity (Up/mumol). This effect was explained by the different toxicity corrections used for the calculation of the two measures. Whereas for the SOSIP value the single constitutive enzyme alkaline phosphatase is used, for the Up/mumol the absorbance at 600 nm, which indicates the growth delay (overall toxicity), is utilized. The influence of the toxicity corrections is discussed in more detail.
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PMID:Induction of SOS repair by monofunctional methanesulphonates in various Escherichia coli strains. Structure-activity relationships in comparison with mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium. 254 87


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