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1. Disaccharidase activities of the small-intestinal brush border membrane were studied in six laboratory lines of the house musk shrew, Suncus murinus. 2. Sucrase activity was detected in all shrews of one line, but not in any shrew of three lines. In the other two lines it was found in some shrews, but not in the others. 3. Maltase, isomaltase, trehalase and lactase activities were found in all shrews of all the lines examined. 4. Sucrase was normally associated with isomaltase to form an enzyme complex. 5. Detergent-solubilized isomaltase, whether associated with sucrase or not, was inhibited by antibodies against rabbit sucrase-isomaltase to almost the same extent as the rabbit one, suggesting that isomaltase is not affected by a mutation(s) in sucrase.
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PMID:Intestinal disaccharidases in the house musk shrew, Suncus murinus: occurrence of sucrase deficiency. 145 37

The expression and inducibility of cytochrome P450IA1 isozyme was investigated in the human carcinoma cell line Caco-2 cultured between days 7 and 35 in the absence or the presence of various enzyme inducers such as 3-methylcholanthrene, beta-naphthoflavone (beta NF), dioxin, isosafrole, rifampycin, dexamethasone or phenobarbital. 7-Ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activity (EROD) was maximal at day 25 when the differentiation of Caco-2 cells, characterized by the level of the brush border associated enzymes such as sucrase isomaltase and alkaline phosphatase, was higher. The inducibility of this enzyme activity was found to be maximal when cells were treated between days 7 and 10. After a 3-day treatment of Caco-2 cells with 50 microM beta NF, EROD achieved 36.6 +/- 14.6 pmol/min/mg compared to 2.5 +/- 1.1 pmol/min/mg in untreated cells. This enzyme activity appeared to be supported only by P450IA1 isozyme because: 1) EROD was quantitatively inhibited by alpha-naphthoflavone, a P450IA1-specific inhibitor; otherwise, phenacetin O-deethylation was completely abolished in the presence of alpha-naphthoflavone and not by furafylline, a P450IA2-specific inhibitor; 2) EROD was induced after treatment with 3-methylcholanthrene, beta NF and dioxin, which are P450IA1 inducers, but not by isosafrole, a P450IA2-specific inducer; 3) cytochrome P450IA1 apoprotein could be immunodetected by antibodies directed against rabbit cytochrome P450-LM6, orthologous to P450IA1, in polycyclic hydrocarbon-treated cells; 4) under the latter conditions, P450IA1 mRNA accumulation was specifically detected, but not P450IA2 mRNA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Regulation of cytochrome P450IA1 gene expression in a human intestinal cell line, Caco-2. 146 46

The differentiation status of epithelial cells in intestinal adaptation remains unclear. To determine whether enterocytes reach optimum maturity following adaptation after 85% shortening of the rat gut by jejunoileal bypass surgery, activities of two brush border enzymatic markers of differentiation, alkaline phosphatase and sucrase, were examined in subpopulations of epithelial cells isolated sequentially from the villus/crypt axis of normal (sham operated) and hyperplastic mucosa. In jejunal villi, adaptational hyperplasia was associated with an increase in total epithelial alkaline phosphatase, but not total sucrase, activity; alkaline phosphatase activity increased most obviously in cells at the 11-50% position (from the tip) on villi. In hyperplastic ileal villi, total alkaline phosphatase activity fell, although sucrase activity did not change significantly. Specific activity (per mg protein) of sucrase on jejunal villus epithelium was reduced by the adaptational changes to bypass; alkaline phosphatase specific activity remained unchanged. In the ileum, despite adaptational changes to bypass, there was no increase in the normally low specific activities of sucrase and alkaline phosphatase. Bypass surgery did not change the major site of expression of either enzyme on jejunal or ileal villi. In conclusion, enzymatic markers of functional differentiation are not all equally affected by adaptational hyperplasia. Hypertrophy of villi and increased cell proliferation seen in jejunum remaining exposed to luminal contents resulted in an increase in the alkaline phosphatase but not the sucrase content. This is not, therefore, the result of a simple immaturity of villus cells. Morphological adaptation in the ileum, however, is not accompanied by adaptation of brush border enzyme markers of differentiation, confirming a functional immaturity of these cells. Strategies for increasing the expression of these markers may have clinical value.
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PMID:Differentiation status of rat enterocytes after intestinal adaptation to jejunoileal bypass. 148 65

The effects of variation in dietary protein content have been investigated on brush border glycosylation and enzyme activities in mice small intestine. The comparison of different parameters was made between the mice fed 30% (high protein, HP) and 18% protein (pair-fed, PF, and ad libitum-fed) for 21 days. The activities of brush border sucrase, lactase, p-nitrophenyl (PNP)-beta-D-glucosidase and PNP-beta-D-galactosidase were reduced in the HP diet-fed mice compared to PF and ad libitum-fed controls. Alkaline phosphatase and leucine amino-peptidase activities were significantly enhanced while gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity was unaltered under these conditions. Total hexoses and sialic acid content in the brush borders were reduced significantly in the test group compared to the controls while hexosamine and fucose contents remained essentially similar in different groups. The results on the binding of wheat germ agglutinin and Ulex europaeus agglutininI to microvillus membranes corroborated the chemical analysis data on sialic acid and fucose contents of the membranes. Peanut agglutinin binding was enhanced in mice from the HP group. Incorporation of (14C)-mannose into membranes was significantly less in HP diet-fed mice. These results indicate that the feeding of HP diet to mice brings about marked alterations in small intestinal epithelial cell surface glycosylation and enzyme functions.
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PMID:Intestinal epithelial cell surface glycosylation in mice. I. Effect of high-protein diet. 149 56

Mice fed on an 8% protein (low-protein; LP) diet for 21 days exhibited a significant (p less than 0.001) decrease in their body weights compared with the pair-fed controls (18% protein). Brush border enzyme analysis revealed a 56% increase in sucrase activity and a significant decrease in alkaline phosphatase (p less than 0.05), beta-D-glucosidase (p less than 0.001) and beta-D-galactosidase (p less than 0.05) activities in protein-deficient mice. Lactase activity was unaltered in these conditions. Hexose and hexosamine contents of the brush border membranes (BBM) decreased considerably as a result of the LP diet. Protein deprivation significantly enhanced (p less than 0.01) brush border sialic acid and reduced (p less than 0.05) fucose content compared to the controls. The binding of 125I-labelled wheat germ agglutinin and Ulex europaeus agglutinin I to BBM was in agreement with the data on sialic acid and fucose levels of the membranes. The binding of peanut agglutinin to BBM was 38% higher in LP-diet-fed animals. The incorporation of [14C]mannose and [14C]glucosamine into BBM was markedly reduced (25%), while that of [3H]fucose was apparently unaffected. These results suggest that the feeding of an LP diet to mice results in marked alterations in the intestinal epithelial cell surface glycosylation.
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PMID:Intestinal epithelial cell surface glycosylation in mice. 1. Effect of low-protein diet. 151 Mar 49

Fed and fasted (18 h) adult male rats received a primed constant infusion of [3H]leucine for 15 to 180 min. Prosucrase-isomaltase (pro-SI) and sucrase were isolated from mixed jejunal mucosal membranes by immunoprecipitation and separated from one another by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under denaturing and reducing conditions. The rate at which pro-SI was processed to sucrase was calculated on the assumption that the steady-state specific radioactivity of leucine in pro-SI defined the pool of amino acids used in the formation of brush border sucrase. At isotopic steady state, pro-SI achieved a specific radioactivity that was higher than that of mucosal free leucine in both feeding groups. The relationship between the isotopic equilibrium of the free amino acid pools and pro-SI was sensitive to feeding status; the specific radioactivity of pro-SI was 25 and 55% (P less than 0.05) of the blood specific radioactivity in fed and fasted animals, respectively. The fractional rate of pro-SI processing tended to be higher (P less than 0.07) in fed (407%/d) than in fasted animals (274%/d). We conclude that the general mucosal free amino acid pool is not the amino acid pool from which pro-SI is synthesized and that the rate of pro-SI processing from the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi membranes to the brush border membrane is sensitive to the feeding status of the animal.
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PMID:Feeding status affects in vivo prosucrase.isomaltase processing in rat jejunum. 154 10

The effect of total parenteral nutrition on nutrients absorption and glycoprotein changes of brush border membrane was examined in rat small intestine. In total parenteral nutrition rats, a marked decrease in activity of brush border enzymes was observed mainly in the proximal and middle segments of the intestine. Galactose perfusion of jejunal segment showed that hexose absorption was significantly inhibited, while intestinal absorption of glycine or dipeptide, glycylglycine was not significantly affected by total parenteral nutrition treatment. When brush border membrane glycoprotein profile was examined by [3H]-glucosamine or [3H]-fucose incorporation into jejunal loops, significant changes were observed in the glycoprotein pattern of brush border membrane especially in the high molecular weight range over 120 kDa after total parenteral nutrition treatment, suggesting strong dependency of glycoprotein synthesis on luminal substances. Molecular weight of sucrase isomaltase in brush border membrane detected by specific antibody showed no significant difference, however, in total parenteral nutrition and control rats. Also, molecular weight of specific sodium glucose cotransporter of intestinal brush border membrane detected by selective photoaffinity labelling was not altered in total parenteral nutrition rats. It may be that prolonged absence of oral food intake may produce significant biochemical changes in brush border membrane glycoprotein and absorptive capacity of small intestine, but these changes were not observed in all brush border membrane glycoproteins.
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PMID:Changes in intestinal absorption of nutrients and brush border glycoproteins after total parenteral nutrition in rats. 158 92

The common hookworm (Ancylostoma ceylanicum) infection of humans was studied in golden hamsters model system. Significant biochemical modulations were observed in hamster jejunal brush border membrane (BBM), the primary site of infection. Analysis of BBM at the peak of infection (3-weeks) revealed a marked decrease in the activities of sucrase, lactase and maltase, while activities of alkaline phosphatase, (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase were increased. Kinetic studies conducted with maltase, a superficially localised enzyme of jejunal BBM, revealed loss of enzyme active site during the infection. Among other constituents, the levels of cholesterol and triglycerides were significantly decreased with slight increase in phospholipid content in the infected animals. The hookworm infection also caused a decline in total hexose content indicating an altered membrane glycocalyx. Conversely, there was significant enhancement of hydroxyproline and sialic acid contents. SDS-PAGE analysis showed an enhancement in both low and high molecular weight proteins in jejunal BBM preparations of the infected group. Gel electrophoresis of glycoproteins further revealed the appearance of two additional peaks in the low molecular weight region and concomitant disappearance of a peak in the high molecular weight region. These results strongly support the view that the hookworm infection causes severe damage not to the site of attachment alone but also to the entire cell lining of the jejunum and therefore could influence overall digestion and absorption.
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PMID:Biochemical analysis of jejunal brush border membrane of golden hamster: pathogenic modulations due to ancylostomiasis. 159 19

Extraction of pig intestinal brush border membranes with the zwitterionic detergent 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (Chaps) in the presence of 0.5 M KCl yielded a solution which contained 60-70% of the receptor for the Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) and of the Lubrol PX-activated guanylate cyclase activity present in the membrane. When the supernatant solution was diluted fivefold with 10 mM Hepes buffer (pH 7.4) and kept at 4 degrees C overnight, a precipitate formed. Centrifugation yielded a pellet (P2) which contained 25-30% of both the cyclase and the receptor in the original membranes, with a 2.5- to 3-fold enrichment of both. The process could be repeated for further enrichment (P4). The addition of MgCl2 to the diluted extract affected both basal and STa-stimulated activity of P2; 1 mM was optimal. P2 resembled membranes with respect to competitive inhibition of 125I-STa binding by STa, and the concentration-dependent activation of cyclase by STa. Guanylate cyclase in resolubilized P2 was also activated by STa. Most of the enzymes interfering with guanylate cyclase determinations were removed, as were the brush border marker enzymes sucrase and gamma-glutamyltransferase, and a GTP-binding protein that is a pertussis toxin substrate. Specific cross-linking of 125I-STa to receptors in the membrane was preserved in P2 and P4, the three proteins showing the strongest radioactivity having relative molecular masses of 55,000-60,000, 70,000-80,000, and 135,000-140,000. P2 and P4 appear to contain a complex of membrane proteins with certain functional properties intact.
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PMID:Solubilization and reprecipitation from intestinal brush border membranes of a complex containing guanylate cyclase activatable by the heat-stable enterotoxin. 168 84

Six litters of newborn crossbred piglets were utilized to examine 1) the effects of substituting 20% of the protein of an all-milk protein liquid diet with a soy protein isolate (milk-soy diet) on small intestinal variables and 2) the effects of supplementing this milk-soy diet with 25 g of either putrescine or ethylamine per kilogram diet on small intestinal variables. Small intestinal xylose absorption tended to increase from wk 1 to wk 2 of age in pigs fed the milk, putrescine and ethylamine diets, but not in pigs fed the milk, putrescine and ethylamine diets, but not in pigs fed the unsupplemented milk-soy diet. Crypt depth in pigs fed the milk-soy diet tended to be less (9.4%; P greater than .10) than the crypt depth in pigs fed the other diets, but mitotic index was not different (P greater than .10) among diets. Mucosal protein, DNA and RNA concentrations and mucosal brush border sucrase and cytosolic dipeptidase activities tended to be least in pigs fed the putrescine and ethylamine diets. Concentration of mucosal putrescine was greatest (P less than .002) in the distal regions of the small intestine of pigs fed putrescine. Mucosal ornithine decarboxylase activity was inhibited by putrescine (P less than .02), but it was not affected by the soybean protein isolate used in this study. Supplementing soy protein isolate diets with amines may enhance intestinal absorption and enterocyte proliferation.
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PMID:Effects of dietary amines on small intestinal variables in neonatal pigs fed soy protein isolate. 169 Jan 99


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