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Query: EC:3.4.21.4 (trypsin)
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We previously demonstrated that the chick oviduct estrogen receptor exists in three interconvertible forms. Two of these forms bind estradiol with high but distinct affinities. A third form exists as a non-estrogen binding recyclable form, Rnb, which upon treatment with ATP/Mg2+ is quantitatively converted to the lower affinity estradiol binding form. We now describe the isolation from chick oviduct cytosol of a factor involved in this conversion and its 1100-fold purification by ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE ion-exchange chromatography, and size-exclusion HPLC. The factor elutes from the size-exclusion column with an apparent molecular weight of 40,000. This highly purified factor potentiates estradiol binding in a dose-dependent manner in the presence of ATP/Mg2+. Its activity is destroyed by heating or by trypsin treatment but is relatively stable to freezing and thawing and is inert to treatment with reducing agents. ATP is an essential nucleotide substrate; GTP and cyclic nucleotides are inactive. Studies of cation dependence demonstrate that Mg2+ is also essential; Ca2+ alone is completely ineffective in catalyzing receptor potentiation and does not synergize with Mg2+. In the presence of excess ATP/Mg2+ and a fixed concentration of Fy, the Km for potentiation of estradiol binding is approximately 0.4 nM.
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PMID:Receptor interconversion model of hormone action. 1. Purification of a factor involved in conferring estradiol binding properties to the estrogen receptor. 214 Jun 95

The cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) of vertebrate retinal rod outer segments (ROS) is kept inactive in the dark by its gamma subunits and is activated following illumination by the GTP form of the alpha subunit of transducin (T alpha-GTP). Recent studies have shown that the stoichiometry of the inhibited holoenzyme is alpha beta gamma 2. T alpha-GTP and gamma act reciprocally. We have investigated the activation mechanism using fluorescein-labeled gamma subunit (gamma F) as a probe. gamma F containing a single covalently attached fluorescein was prepared by reaction of PDE with 5-(iodoacetamido)fluorescein and purification by reversed-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). gamma F, like native gamma, inhibits the catalytic activity of trypsin-activated PDE and transducin-activated PDE. Inhibition by gamma F was overcome by further addition of T alpha-GTP. gamma F binds very weakly to ROS membranes stripped of PDE and other peripheral membrane proteins. gamma F added to ROS membranes became incorporated into a component that could be extracted with a low ionic strength buffer. HPLC gel filtration showed that gamma F became part of the PDE holoenzyme. Incorporation occurred in less than 1 min in the presence of light and GTP, but much more slowly (t1/2 approximately 500 s) in the absence of GTP. This result indicates that transducin activates PDE by binding to the holoenzyme and accelerating the dissociation of gamma from the inhibitory sites. The binding of gamma F to trypsin-activated PDE alpha beta was monitored by steady-state emission anisotropy measurements and compared with PDE activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Activation mechanism of retinal rod cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase probed by fluorescein-labeled inhibitory subunit. 215 46

GTP-binding proteins were studied in synaptic vesicles prepared from bovine brain by differential centrifugation and separated further from plasma membranes using gel permeation chromatography. Following separation by SDS-PAGE of proteins from the different fractions, and transfer to nitrocellulose sheets, the presence and localization of low-molecular-mass GTP-binding proteins were assessed by [alpha-32 P]GTP binding. The vesicle-membrane fraction (SV) was enriched in synaptophysin (p38, a synaptic vesicle marker) and contained low-molecular-mass GTP-binding proteins; these consisted of a major 27 kDa protein and minor components (Mr 26 and 24 kDa) which were trypsin-sensitive and immunologically distinguishable from ras p21 protein. GTP-binding proteins of low molecular mass, but displaying less sensitivity to trypsin, were also found in the plasma membrane fraction (PM; enriched in Na+/K(+)-ATPase). In addition, the PM fraction contained GTP-binding proteins with higher Mr (Gi alpha and G0 alpha), together with another GTP-binding protein, ras p21. Putative function(s) of these GTP-binding proteins with low mass are discussed.
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PMID:Identification and localization of low-molecular-mass GTP-binding proteins associated with synaptic vesicles and other membranes. 216 11

The gamma-subunit of retinal rod-outer-segment phosphodiesterase (PDE-gamma) is a multifunctional protein which interacts directly with both of the catalytic subunits of PDE (PDE alpha/beta) and the alpha-subunit of the retinal G (guanine-nucleotide-binding)-protein transducin alpha (T alpha). We have previously reported that the PDE gamma binds to T alpha at residue nos. 24-45 [Morrison. Rider & Takemoto (1987) FEBS Lett. 222, 266-270]. In vitro this results in inhibition of T alpha GTP/GDP exchange [Morrison, Cunnick, Oppert & Takemoto (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 11671-11681]. We now report that the inhibitory region of PDE gamma for PDE alpha/beta occurs at PDE gamma residues 54-87. This binding results in inhibition of either trypsin-solubilized or membrane-bound PDE alpha/beta. PDE gamma which has been treated with carboxypeptidase Y, removing the C-terminus, does not inhibit PDE alpha/beta, but does inhibit T alpha GTP/GDP exchange. Inhibition by PDE gamma can be removed by T alpha-guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]) addition to membranes. This results in a displacement of PDE gamma, but not in removal of this subunit from the membrane [Whalen, Bitensky & Takemoto (1990) Biochem. J. 265, 655-658]. These results suggest that low levels of T alpha-GTP[S] can result in displacement of PDE gamma from the membrane in vitro as a GTP[S]-T alpha-PDE gamma complex. Further activation by high levels of T alpha-GTP[S] occurs by displacement of PDE gamma from its inhibitory site on PDE alpha/beta, but not in removal from the membrane.
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PMID:Binding of the gamma-subunit of retinal rod-outer-segment phosphodiesterase with both transducin and the catalytic subunits of phosphodiesterase. 217 4

Native elongation factor Tu from Thermus thermophilus is initially attacked by various endoproteases in a region spanning amino acid residues 40-70. By comparing the hydrolysis rates of nucleotide-free and GDP-bound EF-Tu, only a small difference was observed for the tryptic cleavage at Arg-59. Protease V-8 attacks Glu-55 only in a GDP/GTP form, whereas this enzyme exclusively hydrolyze Asn-64 in nucleotide-free EF-Tu, even when the protein had been previously cleaved at Arg-59. Binding of GDP leads to a 42-fold decreased rate of hydrolysis by the Lys-C protease at Lys-52. It also reduces the accessibility of Lys-275 to trypsin, reflecting a "long-range" effect from nucleotide binding domain I to domain II. Only slight differences were observed in the rate of hydrolysis at all positions in the GDP- versus the GTP-bound form. The intrinsic GTPase activity was slightly reduced in trypsin-treated EF-Tu, significantly impaired in EF-Tu cleaved at Lys-52, and completely abolished in EF-Tu cleaved at Asn-64. No ribosome-induced GTPase activity was observed for protease-cleaved EF-Tu's. Treatment of these proteins with periodate-oxidized GDP or GTP followed by cyanoborohydride led to covalent modification of the new N-terminus located exclusively within region 52-60. The highest reactivity was shown by the N-terminus of Glu-56. Additionally, lysine residues in the native protein sensitive to affinity labeling [Peter, M.E., Wittmann-Liebold, B., & Sprinzl, M. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 9132-9139] lost their reactivity upon cleavage of EF-Tu in region 52-60, suggesting an altered structure of the cleaved protein.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Mapping the effector region in Thermus thermophilus elongation factor Tu. 218 98

The accessibility of three amino acids of EF-2, located within highly conserved regions near the N- and C-terminal extremities of the molecule (the E region and the ADPR region, respectively) to modifying enzymes has been compared within nucleotide-complexed EF-2 and ribosomal complexes that mimic the pre- and posttranslocational ones: the high-affinity complex (EF-2)-nonhydrolysable GTP analog GuoPP[CH2]P ribosome and the low-affinity (EF-2)-GDP-ribosome complex, EF-2 and ribosomes being from rat liver. We studied the reactivity of two highly conserved residues diphthamide-715 and Arg-66, to diphtheria-toxin-dependent ADP-ribosylation and trypsin attack, and of a threonine that probably lies between residues 51 and 60, to phosphorylation by a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase. Diphthamide 715 and this threonine residue were unreactive within the high-affinity complex but seemed fully reactive in the low-affinity complex. Arg-66 was resistant to trypsin in both complexes. The possible involvement of the E and ADPR regions of EF-2 in the interaction with ribosome in the two complexes is discussed.
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PMID:Modification of the reactivity of three amino-acid residues in elongation factor 2 during its binding to ribosomes and translocation. 232 78

Free- and EF-2-bound 80 S ribosomes, within the high-affinity complex with the non-hydrolysable GTP analog: guanylylmethylenediphosphonate (GuoPP(CH2)P), and the low-affinity complex with GDP, were treated with trypsin under conditions that modified neither their protein synthesis ability nor their sedimentation constant nor the bound EF-2 itself. Proteins extracted from trypsin-digested ribosomes were unambiguously identified using three different two-dimensional gel electrophoresis systems and 5 S RNA release was checked by submitting directly free- and EF-2-bound 80 S ribosomes, incubated with trypsin, to two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Our results indicate that the binding of (EF-2)-GuoPP[CH2]P to 80 S ribosomes modified the behavior of a cluster of five proteins which were trypsin-resistant within free 80 S ribosomes and trypsin-sensitive within the high-affinity complex (proteins: L3, L10, L13a, L26, L27a). As for the binding of (EF-2)-GDP to 80 S ribosomes, it induced an intermediate conformational change of ribosomes, unshielding only protein L13a and L27a. Quantitative release of free intact 5 S RNA which occurred in the first case but not in the second one, should be related to the trypsinolysis of protein(s) L3 and/or L10 and/or L26. Results were discussed in relation to structural and functional data available on the ribosomal proteins we found to be modified by EF-2 binding.
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PMID:Modification of the accessibility of ribosomal proteins after elongation factor 2 binding to rat liver ribosomes and during translocation. 232 79

Guinea pig ventricular myocytes were voltage-clamped and dialysed using two glass patch pipettes (P1, P2) with tip openings of around 2 microns. A substantial improvement in the efficacy of dialysis from P2 was achieved by the application of positive pressure (15-30 cm H2O) to P2, and similar negative pressure to P1. Evidence of enhanced dialysis was obtained by measuring the effect on Ca channel current of P2 dialysates containing Ca, cAMP, GTP [gamma-S], trypsin, or the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A. Times to maximum response were 3-5 times shorter than those calculated or observed by others using a single-pipette method. The speeding-up was verified in comparative experiments with 100 microM GTP [gamma-S] dialysates; maximum stimulation of ICa occurred after 1.3-1.8 min with the dual-pipette method, versus 8.2 min with a single pipette. Other advantages of the dual-pipette method include the option of following a control dialysis from P1 with a test dialysis from P2, and the measurement of actual membrane potential. The disadvantages are that the rate of success is lower than with single-pipette experiments, and that smaller cardiomyocytes are difficult subjects.
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PMID:A dual-pipette technique that permits rapid internal dialysis and membrane potential measurement in voltage-clamped cardiomyocytes. 233 54

A fluorescence titration assay was used to detect the effects of various modifications of E.coli elongation factor Tu on the formation of the ternary complex with aminoacyl-tRNAs. The treatment of EF-Tu.GDP with TPCK, an analogue of the 3'terminus of aminoacyl-tRNA, was found to have no influence on the conversion of EF-Tu.GDP to 'active' EF-Tu.GTP, but does decrease the affinity of the activated protein for yeast aminoacyl-tRNA by more than three orders of magnitude. Modification of the elongation factor by limited cleavage with trypsin, leading to the excision of amino acid residues 45-58, has only a minor influence on ternary complex formation. The equilibrium dissociation constant of the ternary complex with this trypsin-treated EF-Tu.GTP and E.coli Phe-tRNA(Phe) is only one order of magnitude higher than that of the ternary complex with native EF-Tu. Mutations in the amino acid residues 222 and 375 of EF-Tu also have little effect on ternary complex formation. Compared with TPCK-treated EF-Tu, the affinities of the two mutant species, designated EF-tuAR and EF-TuBO respectively, for [AEDANS-s2C]Tyr-tRNA(Tyr) are only slightly reduced and in the same range as trypsin-cleaved EF-Tu.
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PMID:The influence of different modifications of elongation factor Tu from Escherichia coli on ternary complex formation investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy. 240 11

The activity of adenylate cyclase present in a purified dog heart sarcolemmal preparation in the presence of magnesium as cosubstrate is biphasically influenced by increasing concentrations of trypsin: Stimulation at low concentrations (0.5 to 1 microgram/mL) is followed by inhibition at higher concentrations. In the presence of manganese in place of magnesium, the stimulation phase is abolished but the inhibition is still observed at the same trypsin concentrations. The trypsin stimulatory effect does not occur when trypsin is preincubated with cardiac membranes prior to the addition of ATP. When trypsin is added with ATP, the stimulation is expressed by an increase in the Maximal Velocity (Vmax) rather than a decrease in the Michaelis constant (Km). The stimulatory effect of trypsin on AC activity is rapid, linear and irreversible. GTP, Gpp(NH)p and adrenaline stimulatory curves are shifted to the left in the presence of trypsin. These results suggest that protease stimulation of cardiac AC involves the GTP-binding protein (N) activity, but the exact mechanism remains to be determined.
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PMID:Characterization of trypsin stimulation of cardiac adenylate cyclase. 241 Sep 62


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