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Query: EC:3.2.1.26 (invertase)
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Brush-border and basal-lateral membranes were prepared from rabbit intestinal epithelial cells by differential centrifugation and MgCl2 precipitation. The ADP-ribosylation of proteins in these fractions when incubated with [adenylate-32P]NAD+ and cholera toxin was investigated. Three proteins of molecular mass 45, 40 and 37 kDa were labelled in a toxin-dependent manner in each membrane fraction. The incorporation of 32P-labelled ADP-ribose was 18-fold greater in brush-border membranes than in basal-lateral membranes, comparable to the enrichment of sucrase (marker enzyme for the brush border) in these membranes. There was a 20% release of the 40 and 45 kDa proteins from the brush-border membrane following this ADP-ribosylation. Activation of adenylate cyclase by both cholera toxin and sodium fluoride was 2.7- and 2.3-fold greater, respectively, in basal-lateral membranes than in brush-border membranes, comparable to the enrichment of Na+/K+-ATPase (marker enzyme for the basal-lateral membrane) in these membranes. The effect of sodium fluoride on membranes pretreated with cholera toxin revealed no increase in adenylate cyclase activity above that due to the toxin. This presumably means that both toxin and fluoride activate adenylate cyclase by the same regulatory protein. The results show that cholera toxin catalyzes the ADP-ribosylation of regulatory proteins in the brush-border membrane, and these proteins then migrate to the basal-lateral membrane where they activate the catalytic component of adenylate cyclase.
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PMID:The activation of rabbit intestinal adenylate cyclase by cholera toxin. 260 57

We report the complete nucleotide sequence and characterization of a cryptic plasmid, pHLHK26, recovered from a strain of Laribacter hongkongensis isolated from a patient with community acquired gastroenteritis. pHLHK26 consists of 8700 bp, with G + C content 51.3%. The copy number (mean +/- SD) is 0.57 +/- 0.07 and it is stable after four passages (about 240 generations) in the absence of selection. There is a predicted origin of replication that consists of a DnaA box and five 22-bp direct repeats. pHLHK26 has four ORFs with two genes encoded in the sense direction and the other two in antisense direction. These four ORFs encode a putative plasmid partitioning protein of the ParA family, a putative protein that contains putative ADP-ribose 1"-phosphatase activity belonging to the Appr-1-p processing enzyme family, a putative recombinase (TniR) of the resolvase/invertase family, and a putative replication protein, respectively. We speculate that pHLHK26 is a theta, possibly Class A, replicative plasmid, as it contains an origin of replication with AT-rich region, a number of iterons and a DnaA box and a gene that encodes a replicative protein most homologous to those of other theta replicative plasmids and it shares eight of the nine positions of the consensus sequence TTAT(C/A)CA(C/A)A (TTTTCCACA in pHLHK26) in the DnaA boxes observed in other classical examples of Class A plasmids of this group.
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PMID:Characterization of a novel cryptic plasmid, pHLHK26, in Laribacter hongkongensis. 1761 58