Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: EC:3.5.4.4 (adenosine deaminase)
 5,136 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

During severe cold exposure, old rats (24-28 months) were less capable of maintaining their body temperature compared to young rats (3-6 months) due to lower rate of heat production. Single injection of adenosine deaminase (AD) (converts adenosine to inosine) significantly increased thermogenesis in both young and old rats. However, doubling the dose of AD was required for optimal thermogenic response in old rats. In contrast, the similar enhancements in both thermogenesis and cold tolerance were observed in both young and old rats receiving the same optimal doses of specific adenosine receptor antagonists. These results lead to the suggestion that the lower capability of aged rats to withstand cold exposure could be due to an increase in adenosine stimulation because of the decreased endogenous AD activity rather than an increase in adenosine receptor sensitivity. This notion is further supported by the finding that the AD activity in the neck muscle, a key site for shivering thermogenesis, was significantly lower in old rats as compared to their younger counterparts before and after cold exposure.
Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1992 Sep
PMID:Decrease in cold tolerance of aged rats caused by the enhanced endogenous adenosine activity. 140 94

Adenosine and its analogues inhibited increases in divalent cation influx stimulated by platelet-activating factor (PAF) and formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) in a dose-dependent fashion. This effect was antagonized by theophylline, an adenosine receptor antagonist. When extracellular adenosine was removed by adenosine deaminase, the effect of adenosine was completely abolished. Two adenosine analogues with different affinities for adenosine receptor subtypes, 5'-N-ethylcarboxamideadenosine (NECA) and L-N6-phenylisopropyladenosine (PIA), also inhibited divalent cation influx, NECA being more potent than PIA. These results suggest that adenosine and its analogues inhibit divalent cation influx across neutrophil plasma membranes via surface adenosine A2 receptors. Adenosine had little effect on the initial peaks of intracellular free calcium rises induced by chemoattractants, but it inhibited the subsequent rise in free calcium. Since calcium influx through the divalent cation channels or neutrophil plasma membranes is responsible for maintaining free calcium concentration following the initial peaks, we suggest that adenosine modulates neutrophil function by interfering with this calcium influx.
Cell Signal 1992 Sep
PMID:Adenosine inhibits divalent cation influx across human neutrophil plasma membrane via surface adenosine A2 receptors. 141 90

Biochemical changes in peritoneal macrophages and their relatedness to the cytostatic and phagocytotic function in C3HA mice injected with a single intraperitoneal dose of 0.45 mM carnosine and 4-methyluracil or stimulated with peptone have been studied. During the first 24 hours after injection both carnosine and 4-methyluracil increase the activity of adenosine deaminase and purine nucleoside phosphorylase, the key enzymes of purine catabolism which is the main source of O2-. radicals in macrophages. In carnosine-stimulated macrophages the activity of membrane 5'-AMP nucleotidase decreases on days 1-3 after injection which points to alleviation of adenosine-induced inhibition as well as to macrophage activation. Carnosine increases the cytostatic and phagocytotic activities of macrophage coupled to O2-. production. The mechanism of the stimulating effect of carnosine on macrophages seems to consist in the dipeptide interaction with specific receptors localized on the plasma membrane of macrophagal cells.
Biokhimiia 1992 Sep
PMID:[Carnosine as a stimulator of cytotoxic and phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophages]. 146 54

Regulation of blood flow and mitochondrial respiration in the heart would be clarified by improved knowledge of interstitial concentrations and cellular production rates of adenosine; however, these variables cannot be measured directly. To interpret indexes that are available, a comprehensive mathematical model was developed, based on a large body of experimental data. The model describes most of the important pathways of capillary-tissue transport and cellular metabolism of adenosine in the guinea pig heart. It includes capillary flow, solute transport between tissue regions, nonlinear enzyme kinetics for adenosine kinase and adenosine deaminase, and reversible biunireactant kinetics for S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase in cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells, intracellular production of adenosine via AMP hydrolysis and transmethylation, and extracellular production of adenosine. A single set of parameter values for the model was obtained in the first stage of the analysis by taking certain values directly from published sources, other values were subject to specific constraints, and other values were determined by parameter optimization. The effects of flow and endothelial metabolism on the relation between interstitial and venous adenosine concentrations were determined. The relation between myocardial adenosine production rate and S-adenosylhomocysteine accumulation in the presence of excess homocysteine was estimated. In the second stage of the analysis, the model was used to investigate the mechanism of myocardial adenosine production, without changing the parameter values. Cellular adenosine production rates were estimated by fitting measurements of venous adenosine release obtained during altered energetic conditions in experiments by different investigators. The original results showed a dissociation between measurements of cytosolic AMP concentrations and venous adenosine release. It is concluded that 1) it is essential to account for the effect of flow on interstitial and venous adenosine concentrations, since decreased flow may produce effects outwardly resembling inhibition of the enzyme 5'-nucleotidase, 2) adenosine concentrations in epicardial transudate are not in equilibrium with interstitial fluid, and 3) the rate of cellular adenosine production increases monotonically with free cytosolic concentrations of AMP during a variety of alterations in energy balance of the guinea pig heart.
Circ Res 1992 Sep
PMID:Comprehensive model of transport and metabolism of adenosine and S-adenosylhomocysteine in the guinea pig heart. 149 7

The enantiomers of erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine [(+)- and (-)-EHNA) bound to adenosine deaminase (ADA) at pH 7 with concomitant changes in the optical properties of the enzyme. The association rate constant for (+)-EHNA was 2.9 x 10(6) M-1 s-1 and that for (-)-EHNA was 6.4 x 10(6) M-1 s-1. The dissociation of (-)-EHNA.ADA or (+)-EHNA.ADA in the presence of excess coformycin was monitored by the quenching of enzyme fluorescence as coformycin.ADA was formed. The dissociation rate constants of (+)- and (-)-EHNA.ADA were 0.0054 s-1 and 2.7 s-1, respectively. A similar value for the dissociation rate constant (0.005 s-1) for (+)-EHNA.ADA was calculated from the time course for the appearance of catalytic activity after dilution of (+)-EHNA.ADA into 100 microM adenosine. The Ki values of ADA for (+)- and (-)-EHNA were similar to the dissociation constants calculated from the ratio of the respective dissociation and association rate constants. The biphasic time-dependent inhibition of the catalytic activity of ADA by (+/- )-EHNA [Frieden, C., Kurz, L. C., & Gilbert, H. R. (1980) Biochemistry 19, 5303-5309] was confirmed. However, the catalytic activity of ADA was inhibited monophasically by (+)-EHNA. Thus, the biphasic nature of the time course for inhibition of ADA by (+/- )-EHNA was the result of the presence of both enantiomers of the inhibitor in this assay. These kinetic data were interpreted in terms of single-step mechanisms for binding of (+)- and (-)-EHNA.
Biochemistry 1992 Sep 08
PMID:Kinetics of inhibition of calf intestinal adenosine deaminase by (+)- and (-)-erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine. 152 61

The effects of burn injury and sepsis on intracellular lymphocyte metabolism were evaluated using a rat model. Adult Lewis rats were subjected to a sham burn, a 30% full-thickness burn, or a 30% full-thickness burn which was infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. One week later the animals were sacrificed, and the splenic lymphocytes were harvested and cultured for 24 hr with mitogen stimulation. Lymphocytes from the burned-infected rats were found to utilize more glucose and certain amino acids than did lymphocytes obtained from the other two groups. Lymphocytes obtained from the burned-infected group had lower levels of the immunologically important enzyme, adenosine deaminase, than did the lymphocytes obtained from the other two groups. In summary, sepsis appears to alter a number of intracellular lymphocyte metabolic processes. These alterations may be found to be predictive of early sepsis.
J Surg Res 1992 Sep
PMID:Alterations in intracellular lymphocyte metabolism induced by infection and injury. 152 55

Anti-adenosine antibodies were produced in rabbits immunized with N6-carboxymethyladenosine conjugated to methyl albumin. 125I-N6-Aminobenzyladenosine was synthesized and used as a high-specific-activity, high-affinity ligand. A radioimmunoassay (RIA) was developed that can detect 6.25 nM (312.5 fmol) of underivatized adenosine and cross-reacts less than 0.02% with adenine nucleotides and guanosine and not at all with 1 mM inosine. The sensitivity of the RIA can be increased to a detection limit of 0.125 nM (6.25 fmol) by derivitizing samples with benzyl bromide to form N6-benzyladenosine. The assay was adapted to an automated RIA procedure. Assay precision was increased by: (i) inhibiting slight adenosine deaminase activity present in anti-sera; (ii) treating buffers and albumin used in the RIA with charcoal to remove contaminating adenosine; and (iii) correcting for a small but variable component of immunoreactivity not attributable to adenosine. A second antibody prepared with a 2',3'-disuccinyladenosine-albumin conjugate was also found to detect some non-adenosine-mediated immunoreactivity in plasma samples. Immunointerference in human plasma was eliminated in samples treated with ZnSO4/Ba(OH)2 or partially purified over C18 Sep Paks to remove nucleotides and assayed after sample benzylation or succinylation. Human blood was mixed with a novel "stop" solution that was optimized to inhibit adenosine formation from AMP by greater than 99% and to inhibit adenosine uptake into red cells and degradation by greater than 94%. Human plasma/stop solution was assayed by RIA and HPLC with equivalent results.
 ...
PMID:The precise radioimmunoassay of adenosine: minimization of sample collection artifacts and immunocrossreactivity. 163 11

The synthesis of several novel carbocyclic purine nucleosides that incorporate a nitrogen in place of carbon 3 of the cyclopentyl moiety are described. These analogues are all derived from the key stereochemically defined intermediate N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-O-[(4-methoxyphenyl)diphenylmethyl]-trans- 4- hydroxy-D-prolinol (19), which was accessible in 61.1% overall yield for a five-step sequence starting from cis-4-hydroxy-D-proline. The heterocyclic bases, 6-chloropurine and 2-amino-6-chloropurine, are efficiently introduced onto the pyrrolidine ring via a Mitsunobu-type coupling procedure with triphenylphosphine and diethyl azodicarboxylate. Standard transformations and removal of protecting groups gave the cis-adenine (26), hypoxanthine (27), 2,6-diaminopurine (28), and guanine (29) D-prolinol derivatives. In addition, a related sequence from trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline provided the enantiomeric L-prolinol guanine derivative (36). Lastly, the 6-(dimethylamino)purine analogue, 37, was coupled to N-(benzyl-oxycarbonyl)-p-methoxy-L-phenylalanine to provide, after deprotection, the novel puromycin-like analogue 39. The analogues 26-29, 36, and 39 were all evaluated for antitumor and, except for 39, for antiviral activity. These compounds failed to appreciably inhibit the growth of P388 mouse leukemia cells in vitro at concentrations up to 100 micrograms/mL. In addition, they did not exhibit noticeable activity against the human immunodeficiency virus or herpes simplex virus type 1 at concentrations as high as 100 microM. The adenine analogue, 26, did, however, prove to be a substrate for adenosine deaminase. It possessed an affinity for the enzyme only 50% less than that of adenosine with a Ki = 85 microM.
J Med Chem 1991 Sep
PMID:Synthesis and biological evaluation of 4-purinylpyrrolidine nucleosides. 165 29

Extrachromosomal elements are common early intermediates of gene amplification in vivo and in cell culture. The time at which several extrachromosomal elements replicate was compared with that of the corresponding amplified or unamplified chromosomal sequences. The replication timing analysis employed a retroactive synchrony method in which fluorescence-activated cell sorting was used to obtain cells at different stages of the cell cycle. Extrachromosomally amplified Syrian hamster CAD genes (CAD is an acronym for the single gene which encodes the trifunctional protein which catalyzes the first three steps of uridine biosynthesis) replicated in a narrow window of early S-phase which was approximately the same as that of chromosomally amplified CAD genes. Similarly, extrachromosomally amplified mouse adenosine deaminase genes replicated at a discrete time in early S-phase which approximated the replication time of the unamplified adenosine deaminase gene. In contrast, the multicopy extrachromosomal Epstein-Barr virus genome replicated within a narrow window in late S-phase in latently infected human Rajii cells. The data indicate that localization within a chromosome is not required for the maintenance of replication timing control.
Mol Cell Biol 1991 Sep
PMID:Replication timing control can be maintained in extrachromosomally amplified genes. 167 57

In order to study the ontogenesis of the beta- and alpha 2-adrenergic control of lipolysis during the adipose conversion process, a model based on preadipocytes isolated from the stromal-vascular fraction of hamster adipose tissue was developed. When cultured in an ITT (insulin, transferrin, triiodothyronine) medium supplemented with 2% fetal calf serum, adipose precursors differentiated into adipose-like cells. On 8-day-post-confluent differentiating preadipocytes, the rank order of potency of activation of lipolysis by various beta-adrenergic agonists (BRL37344 greater than norepinephrine = isoproterenol greater than epinephrine greater than fenoterol) was equivalent to that determined in mature adipocytes isolated from adult hamster adipose tissue. On 8-day-post-confluent differentiating preadipocytes, phenylisopropyladenosine (A1-adenosine agonist) and prostaglandin E1 evoked a strong antilipolytic response whereas that evoked by UK 14304 and clonidine (alpha 2-adrenergic agonists) remained undetectable at this step of differentiation. The activity of UK 14304 and clonidine only appeared on 20- to 25-day-post-confluent differentiating preadipocytes. They induced dose-dependent antilipolysis with a maximal effect reaching 80-85% inhibition of adenosine deaminase-stimulated lipolysis. Their action was blocked by increased concentrations of different alpha 2-adrenergic antagonists with the following order of potency, RX 821002 greater than phentolamine much greater than yohimbine. This order of potency was similar to that determined on mature adipocytes isolated from adult hamsters. Both the density of the alpha 2-adrenoceptors, identified with the selective alpha 2-adrenergic radioligand [3H]RX-821002 (19 +/- 1 vs. 30 +/- 1 fmol/mg protein: P less than 0.01) and the amount of Gi proteins identified by pertussis toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation (31 +/- 4 vs. 43 +/- 4% of the amount defined in mature fat cells from adult hamsters: P less than 0.05) were significantly increased between 8 days and 20-25 days after confluence, explaining the late emergence of the alpha 2-adrenergic control of lipolysis during preadipocyte differentiation. In conclusion, the late emergence of the alpha 2-adrenergic control of lipolysis, which is also supported by previous data obtained in vivo that demonstrated the age and/or the fat cell size dependence of alpha 2-adrenoreceptor expression in mature adipocytes, allows the alpha 2-adrenoceptor to be considered as a marker of adipocyte hypertrophy.
J Lipid Res 1991 Sep
PMID:Late expression of alpha 2-adrenergic-mediated antilipolysis during differentiation of hamster preadipocytes. 168 79


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next >>