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A 23 kDa GTP-binding protein was purified from pig heart sarcolemma. This protein was not ADP-ribosylated by cholera, pertussis and botulinum C3 toxins. In pig heart sarcolemma pertussis toxin ADP-ribosylated 40 kDa subunit of Gi-protein, cholera toxin--45 kDa subunit of Gs-protein, botulinum C3 toxin ADP-ribosylated a group of proteins with Mr 22, 26 and 29 kDa. Antiserum generated against the peptide common for all alpha-subunits of G-proteins did not react with purified 23 kDa protein. Trypsin cleaved the 23 kDa protein in the presence of guanyl nucleotides into a 22 kDa fragment. Proteolysis of the 39 kDa alpha 0-subunit from bovine brain plasma membranes and ADP-ribosylated 40 kDa alpha i-subunit from pig heart sarcolemma in the presence of GTP gamma S yielded the 37 and 38 kDa fragments, respectively. In the presence of GTP and GDP the proteolysis of alpha 0 yielded the 24 and 15 kDa fragments, while the proteolysis of ADP-ribosylated alpha i-subunit yielded a labelled 16 kDa peptide. Irrespective of nucleotides trypsin cleaved the ADP-ribosylated 26 kDa substrate of botulinum C3 toxin into two labelled peptides with Mr 24 and 17 kDa. The data obtained indicate the existence in pig heart sarcolemma of a new 23 kDa GTP-binding protein with partial homology to the alpha-subunits of "classical" G-proteins.
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PMID:[Identification and purification of GTP-binding regulatory proteins from plasma membranes of swine heart]. 211 90

Bordetella pertussis, the etiological agent of whooping cough, synthesizes a calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase that is suspected to play a major role in the virulence of this bacterium. We show that adenylate cyclase synthesized as a 200-kilodalton protein is the product of the cyaA gene and that various virulent Bordetella species secrete this high-molecular-weight polypeptide without apparent proteolytic processing. When submitted to trypsin digestion, the 200-kilodalton protein was converted to a stable 45- to 50-kilodalton species. This corresponds to the size of the enzyme previously purified from a culture supernatant. The molecular heterogeneity reported for the various identified forms of adenylate cyclase could therefore result in part from proteolytic degradation or molecular aggregation of the major 200-kilodalton form of the enzyme.
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PMID:Synthesis and secretion of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase as a 200-kilodalton protein. 232 14

We have recently purified two proteins, alpha 39 and alpha 41, from bovine cerebral cortex which are substrates for ADP-ribosylation by pertussis toxin (Neer, E. J., Lok, J. M., and Wolf, L. G. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 14222-14229). Both proteins bind guanine nucleotides and interact with beta.gamma units. We have used limited proteolysis by trypsin to probe the structure and the conformational states of these proteins. The guanosine 5'-O-(thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S)-liganded alpha 41 protein is cleaved into stable 39- and 24/25-kDa products which appear at the same rate. In addition, an 18-kDa peptide is seen. These products are also formed from GDP- or GTP-liganded alpha 41 but are less stable. Cleavage of alpha 39 is different. With GTP gamma S stable 37-kDa product predominates while with GTP or GDP the 37-kDa fragment appears transiently, followed by 24/25-kDa fragments which are stable in the presence of guanine nucleotides but rapidly cleaved without ligand. A 17-kDa peptide is also formed with GTP or GDP. The beta.gamma unit is cleaved by trypsin to stable peptides, a 26/27-kDa doublet and a 14-kDa peptide. Addition of beta.gamma slows tryptic cleavage of alpha 41 but not alpha 39. ADP-ribosylation of alpha 39 and alpha 41 by pertussis toxin affects their conformation in distinct ways which are clearly brought out by the GTP-liganded state. In contrast to unmodified alpha 41, ADP-ribosylated and GTP-liganded alpha 41 is proteolyzed very slowly and without formation of a 39-kDa intermediate. GTP gamma S seems to override the effect of ADP-ribosylation so that cleavage is more rapid and goes via the 39-kDa product. ADP-ribosylation affects alpha 39 more subtly. The GTP-liganded protein is first cleaved to the 37-kDa product and then degraded without forming the 24/25-kDa fragment. These results suggest that ADP-ribosylation might affect the conformation and function of these related proteins differently. The site of [32P]ADP-ribosylation is on the 18-kDa product of alpha 41 and on the 17-kDa product of alpha 39. We have raised polyclonal antibodies against alpha 39 and beta in rabbits and used the antibodies to examine antigenic sites on alpha 39 and beta. The antigenic determinants of alpha 39 are located over most of the native tryptic peptides. Tryptic cleavage of alpha 41 leads to rapid loss of cross-reactivity with anti-alpha 39 antibody.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Conformations of the alpha 39, alpha 41, and beta.gamma components of brain guanine nucleotide-binding proteins. Analysis by limited proteolysis. 242 23

Receptors for the 29-amino-acid peptide, galanin, in membranes from the rat ventral hippocampus were examined using chloramine-T-iodinated porcine galanin as ligand. The equilibrium binding of 125I-galanin showed the presence of a high-affinity binding site (Kd = 1.91 +/- 0.40 nM). The concentration of the high-affinity-binding sites was 107 +/- 15 fmol/mg membrane protein. The on rate constant was estimated to be 2.6 +/- 0.1 M-1 min-1 at 37 degrees C. The affinity of rat galanin (differing in three amino acid residues from the porcine protein) was equal to that of porcine galanin. The 125I--galanin-binding site is a trypsin-sensitive membrane protein, which is heat-denaturated at 60 degrees C within 5 min. The effect of GTP and its analogs and of pertussis-toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation on the binding of 125I-galanin suggest that the galanin receptor is coupled to an inhibitory G protein (Gi protein). 127I-galanin was shown to be a ligand with affinity equal to that of galanin in displacing 125I-galanin. The 125I-galanin-binding site in the ventral hippocampus recognizes as a ligand the tryptic fragments 1-20 and 21-29 of rat galanin and the synthetic fragments 12-29, 18-29 and 21-29 of porcine galanin. None of these afforded full inhibition of the binding of fragment 1-29 of 125I-galanin at a concentration of 1 microM.
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PMID:Galanin receptor and its ligands in the rat hippocampus. 246 77

Adenylate cyclase (AC) toxins produced by Bacillus anthracis and Bordetella pertussis were compared for their ability to interact with and intoxicate Chinese hamster ovary cells. At 30 degrees C, anthrax AC toxin exhibited a lag of 10 min for measurable cAMP accumulation that was not seen with pertussis AC toxin. This finding is consistent with previous data showing inhibition of anthrax AC toxin but not pertussis AC toxin entry by inhibitors of receptor-mediated endocytosis (Gordon, V. M., Leppla, S. H., and Hewlett, E. L. (1988) Infect. Immun. 56, 1066-1069). Treatment of target Chinese hamster ovary cells with trypsin or cycloheximide reduced anthrax AC toxin-induced cAMP accumulation by greater than 90%, but was without effect on pertussis AC toxin. In contrast, incubation of the AC toxins with gangliosides prior to addition to target cells inhibited cAMP accumulation by pertussis AC toxin, but not anthrax AC toxin. To evaluate the role of lipids in the interaction of pertussis AC toxin with membranes, multicompartmental liposomes were loaded with a fluorescent marker and exposed to toxin. Pertussis AC toxin elicited marker release in a time- and concentration-dependent manner and required a minimal calcium concentration of 0.2 mM. These data demonstrate that the requirements for intoxication by the AC toxins from B. anthracis and B. pertussis are fundamentally different and provide a perspective for new approaches to study the entry processes.
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PMID:Adenylate cyclase toxins from Bacillus anthracis and Bordetella pertussis. Different processes for interaction with and entry into target cells. 250 10

A 40-kDa protein, in addition to the alpha-subunits of Gs (a GTP-binding protein involved in adenylate cyclase stimulation), was [32P]ADP-ribosylated by cholera toxin (CT) in the membranes of neutrophil-like HL-60 cells, only if formyl Met-Leu-Phe (fMLP) was added to the ADP-ribosylation mixture. The 40-kDa protein proved to be the alpha-subunit of Gi serving as the substrate of pertussis toxin, islet-activating protein (IAP). No radioactivity was incorporated into this protein in membranes isolated from HL-60 cells that had been exposed to IAP. Gi-alpha purified from bovine brain and reconstituted into IAP-treated cell membranes was ADP-ribosylated by CT plus fMLP. Gi-alpha was ADP-ribosylated by IAP, but not by CT plus fMLP, in membranes from cells that had been pretreated with CT plus fMLP. When membrane Gi-alpha [32P]ADP-ribosylated by CT plus fMLP or IAP was digested with trypsin, the radiolabeled fragments arising from the two proteins were different from each other. These results suggest that CT ADP-ribosylates Gi-alpha in intact cells when coupled fMLP receptors are stimulated and that the sites modified by two toxins are not identical. CT-induced and fMLP-supported ADP-ribosylation of Gi-alpha was favored by Mg2+ and allow concentrations of GTP or its analogues but suppressed by GDP. The ADP-ribosylation did not occur at all, even in the presence of ADP-ribosylation factor that supported CT-induced modification of Gs, in phospholipid vesicles containing crude membrane extract in which Gi was functionally coupled to stimulated fMLP receptors. Thus, Gi activated via coupled receptors is the real substrate of CT-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation. This reaction may depend on additional factor(s) that are too labile to survive the process of membrane extraction.
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PMID:Chemotactic peptide receptor-supported ADP-ribosylation of a pertussis toxin substrate GTP-binding protein by cholera toxin in neutrophil-type HL-60 cells. 251 94

Bordetella pertussis produces a calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase that is associated with the whole bacteria and released into its culture media. Preparations of this enzyme invade animal cells, causing elevations in intracellular cAMP levels. Cell-associated adenylate cyclase accounted for 28% of the total adenylate cyclase activity while 72% was released into the culture supernatant. Over 90% of the cell-associated adenylate cyclase activity was sensitive to trypsin treatment of whole cells, indicating that the catalytic domain of the enzyme is localized on the outer surface of the bacterial cells. Enzyme activity was released from whole cells by treatment with SDS. This activity was resolved as a large form (Mr 215,000) by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In contrast, the culture supernatant contained only the 45,000-dalton catalytic subunit. Enzyme activity released from spheroplasts by sonication was resolved into a large form (Mr 215,000) and a small form (Mr 45,000). The appearance of the small form with spheroplast formation was probably the result of proteolytic degradation. Antibodies generated against the catalytic subunit purified from culture supernatants cross-reacted with and immunoprecipitated both the large and small forms of adenylate cyclase isolated from bacterial cells. Furthermore, incubation of the cell-associated enzyme with a crude bacterial extract resulted in a time-dependent disappearance of the 215,000-dalton form and a concomitant increase in the amount of the smaller 45,000-dalton form. There was also a parallel increase in the ability of the cell-associated preparation to elevate intracellular cAMP levels in N1E-115 mouse neuroblastoma cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Characterization of the bacterial cell associated calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase from Bordetella pertussis. 254 Jul 97

In order to identify molecular features of the calmodulin (CaM) activated adenylate cyclase of Bordetella pertussis, a truncated cya gene was fused after the 459th codon in frame with the alpha-lacZ' gene fragment and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant, 604 residue long protein was purified to homogeneity by ion-exchange and affinity chromatography. The kinetic parameters of the recombinant protein are very similar to that of adenylate cyclase purified from B.pertussis culture supernatants, i.e. a specific activity greater than 2000 mumol/min mg of protein at 30 degrees C and pH 8, a KmATP of 0.6 mM and a Kd for its activator, CaM, of 0.2 nM. Proteolysis with trypsin in the presence of CaM converted the recombinant protein to a 43 kd protein with no loss of activity; the latter corresponds to the secreted form of B.pertussis adenylate cyclase. Site-directed mutagenesis of residue Trp-242 in the recombinant protein yielded mutants expressing full catalytic activity but having altered affinity for CaM. Thus, substitution of an aspartic acid residue for Trp-242 reduced the affinity of adenylate cyclase for CaM greater than 1000-fold. Substitution of a Gln residue for Lys-58 or Lys-65 yielded mutants with a drastically reduced catalytic activity (approximately 0.1% of that of wild-type protein) but with little alteration of CaM-binding. These results substantiated, at the molecular level, our previous genetic and biochemical studies according to which the N-terminal tryptic fragment of secreted B.pertussis adenylate cyclase (residues 1-235/237) harbours the catalytic site, whereas the C-terminal tryptic fragment (residues 235/237-399) corresponds to the main CaM-binding domain of the enzyme.
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PMID:Identification of residues essential for catalysis and binding of calmodulin in Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase by site-directed mutagenesis. 254 30

Bordetella pertussis organisms secrete adenylate cyclase, at least one form of which can invade host cells and appears to be a virulence factor. Treatment of urea extracts containing invasive cyclase of B. pertussis with trypsin, chymotrypsin, or subtilisin abolishes the ability to increase intracellular cyclic AMP levels in CHO cells (invasiveness) at concentrations that have minimal or no effects on adenylate cyclase activity. Higher protease concentrations can inhibit catalytic activity, and 1 microM calmodulin protects this catalytic activity, but not invasiveness, against proteolytic inhibition. Rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG) fractions from antisera prepared against urea extracts inhibited invasiveness at 10-fold-lower concentrations than inhibited catalytic activity. One IgG from a rabbit immunized against a partially purified, noninvasive form of the B. pertussis adenylate cyclase inhibited catalytic activity but was ineffective against invasiveness. We conclude that these two properties of the adenylate cyclase are independent functions that reside on different domains of the same protein or on different proteins.
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PMID:Dissociation of catalytic and invasive activities of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase. 254 62

Bordetella pertussis, the pathogen responsible for whooping cough, releases a soluble calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase into its culture medium. Several investigators have shown that the partially purified adenylate cyclase is capable of entering animal cells and elevating intracellular cAMP levels [Confer, D. L., & Eaton, J. W. (1982) Science 217, 948-950; Shattuck, R. L., & Storm, D. R. (1985) Biochemistry 24,6323-6328]. However, the mechanism for entry of the catalytic subunit of the adenylate cyclase into animal cells is unknown. Recently, it was determined that the purified catalytic subunit of the enzyme is unable to enter animal cells [Masure, H. R., Oldenburg, D. J., Donovan, M. G., Shattuck, R. L., & Storm, D. R. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 6933-6940]. On the basis of these data and other observations, we hypothesized that the culture medium of B. pertussis contains one or more additional polypeptides which facilitate entry of the adenylate cyclase catalytic subunit into animal cells. In this study, we report that a cell-invasive preparation of B. pertussis adenylate cyclase was rendered noninvasive after passage through a wheat germ lectin-agarose column. A fraction was eluted from the wheat germ lectin-agarose column with N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. This fraction, when combined with the noninvasive adenylate cyclase, was able to restore the ability of the adenylate cyclase preparation to enter neuroblastoma cells and increase intracellular cAMP levels. Furthermore, the fraction eluted from the wheat germ lectin-agarose column was found to be trypsin and chymotrypsin sensitive, suggesting that this material was proteinaceous.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Isolation of a protein fraction from Bordetella pertussis that facilitates entry of the calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase into animal cells. 255 96


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