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Query: EC:3.5.4.4 (adenosine deaminase)
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Adenosine deaminase activities in sera were measured in 18 psoriatic patients, 8 mycosis fungoides patients, and 9 patients with adult T cell leukemia. Adenosine deaminase activity in the sera of the psoriatic patients showed no significant increase. An elevated adenosine deaminase activity was observed in 7 of the 8 patients with mycosis fungoides and 8 of the 9 patients with adult T cell leukemia. After chemotherapy, adenosine deaminase activity in serum of acute adult T cell leukemia was reduced. Adenosine deaminase activity in the sera of 2 patients with smoldering adult T cell leukemia was more elevated, with exacerbation of the disease. It is difficult to grade the extension of the tumors in plaque stage mycosis fungoides and smoldering adult T cell leukemia. To know the progression of the disease is critical in determining its management. These results indicate that adenosine deaminase activity in serum is one of the reliable indicators for the grading of mycosis fungoides and adult T cell leukemia.
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PMID:Adenosine deaminase activity in sera of patients with psoriasis, mycosis fungoides and adult T cell leukemia. 929 44

The role of adenosine in postprandial jejunal hyperemia was investigated by determining the effect of placement of predigested food into the jejunal lumen on blood flow and oxygen consumption before and during intra-arterial infusion of dipyridamole (1.5 microM arterial concn) or adenosine deaminase (9 U/ml arterial concn) in anesthetized dogs. Neither drug significantly altered resting jejunal blood flow and oxygen consumption. Before dipyridamole or deaminase, food placement increased blood flow by 30-36%, 26-42%, and 21-46%, and oxygen consumption by 13-22%, 21-22%, and 26-29%, during 0- to 3-, 4- to 7-, and 8- to 11-min placement periods, respectively. Adenosine deaminase abolished the entire 11-min hyperemia, whereas dipyridamole significantly enhanced the initial 7-min hyperemia (45-49%). Both drugs abolished the initial 7-min food-induced increase in oxygen consumption. Dipyridamole attenuated (14%), whereas deaminase did not alter (28%), the increased oxygen consumption that occurred at 8-11 min. Adenosine deaminase also prevented the food-induced increase in venoarterial adenosine concentration difference. In separate series of experiments, luminal placement of food significantly increased jejunal lymphatic adenosine concentration and release. Also, reactive hyperemia was accompanied by an increase in venous adenosine concentration and release. This study provides further evidence to support the thesis that adenosine plays a role in postprandial and reactive hyperemia in the canine jejunum.
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PMID:Role of adenosine in postprandial and reactive hyperemia in canine jejunum. 141 8

The role of adenosine for reactive hyperemia in normal and stunned myocardium was examined in 16 open-chest barbiturate-anesthetized pigs. Interstitial adenosine concentration was reduced or enhanced by intracoronary infusion of adenosine deaminase or the nucleoside transport inhibitor R 75231, respectively. In normal myocardium, adenosine deaminase reduced volume of hyperemia (Doppler flowmetry) after a 30-s left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) occlusion by 20% (6-34%; P < 0.05), whereas R 75231 increased volume of hyperemia by 15% (2-24%; P < 0.05). Adenosine deaminase reduced volume of hyperemia after a 2-min LAD occlusion by 27% (13-37%; P < 0.001), whereas R 75231 increased volume of hyperemia by 66% (53-159%; P < 0.001). Adenosine deaminase and R 75231 did not affect maximal hyperemia. Volume of hyperemia after a 2-min LAD occlusion was reduced in stunned myocardium (%systolic segment length shortening reduced by approximately 45%, ultrasonic technique) but not further altered by either adenosine deaminase or R 75231. These findings show that adenosine contributes to reactive hyperemia after 30-120 s of ischemia in normal myocardium and indicate that the reduced reactive hyperemia in stunned myocardium is due to reduced accumulation of adenosine during ischemia.
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PMID:Role of adenosine for reactive hyperemia in normal and stunned porcine myocardium. 141 60

Adenosine deaminase was infused into isolated perfused guinea pig hearts to determine its effect on myocardial adenosine levels. The enzyme was administered during constant coronary flow perfusion at 6.11 +/- 0.36 ml.min-1.g-1. Venous adenosine was measured in samples of pulmonary artery effluent; epicardial and endocardial adenosine were measured with the porous nylon disk technique. Infusion of adenosine deaminase at 2.4 and 4.8 U/ml produced adenosine deaminase activity of 0.92 +/- 0.09 and 2.33 +/- 0.15 U/ml, respectively, in epicardial fluid and 1.93 +/- 0.28 and 4.84 +/- 0.47 U/ml, respectively, in endocardial fluid. Aortic pressure was unchanged by infusion of adenosine deaminase at both infusion rates. Adenosine deaminase (data from both infusion rates pooled) reduced epicardial adenosine from 0.327 +/- 0.028 to 0.139 +/- 0.022 microM, endocardial adenosine from 4.61 +/- 0.42 to 1.64 +/- 0.20 microM, and venous adenosine from 0.017 +/- 0.02 to 0.003 +/- 0.001 microM. The data indicate that infused adenosine deaminase reaches the epicardial and endocardial interstitial fluid (ISF) compartments. The absence of any effect on coronary pressure suggests that adenosine may not be involved in resting basal coronary tone. The presence of significant residual adenosine despite adenosine deaminase infusion indicates that adenosine production in the unstressed isolated guinea pig heart exceeds the degradative capacity of infused adenosine deaminase. Previous studies in which it was assumed that almost all of the endogenous adenosine is inactivated by the infusion of adenosine deaminase should be reevaluated in light of these observations.
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PMID:Effect of adenosine deaminase on cardiac interstitial adenosine. 141 80

Adenosine deaminase (ADA) was partially purified 486- and 994-fold from rat liver mitochondria and cytosol, respectively. Relative molecular mass of the enzymes from both fractions was 34,000. Km for adenosine and 2'-deoxy-adenosine were 3.08 x 10(-5) M and 3.03 x 10(-5) M for mitochondrial ADA and 3.12 x 10(-5) M and 2.87 x 10(-5) M for cytosolic ADA. The enzyme from both subcellular fractions had the maximum activity at pH 7.5-8.0, and pI 5.2 and 4.2 for mitochondrial and cytosolic enzyme, respectively. The enzyme was inhibited by erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine and 2'-deoxycoformycin with Ki 4.4 x 10(-7) M and 3.2 x 10(-7) M for mitochondrial ADA and 4.9 x 10(-7) M 2.8 x 10(-7) M for cytosolic ADA. Among the natural nucleoside and deoxynucleotide derivatives tested, deoxy-GTP and UTP inhibited only cytosolic adenosine deaminase by 60% and 40%, respectively.
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PMID:Adenosine deaminase: physical and chemical properties of partially purified mitochondrial and cytosol enzyme from rat liver. 144 46

Dipyridamole is proposed to increase coronary blood flow (CBF) by inhibition of adenosine uptake into cells, resulting in an increase in interstitial fluid (ISF) adenosine and an adenosine-mediated vasodilation. The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in CBF and ISF adenosine, inosine, and hypoxanthine during dipyridamole infusion in the absence or presence of adenosine receptor blockade or adenosine deaminase. To sample cardiac ISF, cardiac microdialysis probes were implanted in the left ventricular myocardium of chloralose-urethan-anesthetized dogs and perfused with Krebs-Henseleit buffer. The metabolite concentration in the effluent dialysate was used as an index of intramyocardial ISF metabolite concentration. In response to dipyridamole, CBF and dialysate adenosine concentration increased 4.4-fold and 2.2-fold, respectively, whereas dialysate inosine was unchanged and dialysate hypoxanthine decreased 50%. Adenosine receptor blockade, achieved by intracoronary 8-(p-sulfophenyl)theophylline infusion, attenuated the increase in CBF induced by dipyridamole without changing dialysate adenosine concentration. Adenosine deaminase fully attenuated the dipyridamole-induced increases in CBF and dialysate adenosine. These results demonstrate that dipyridamole increases ISF adenosine in the dog and suggest that adenosine is the sole mediator of dipyridamole-induced coronary vasodilation.
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PMID:Interstitial adenosine with dipyridamole: effect of adenosine receptor blockade and adenosine deaminase. 151 Jan 52

In 32PO4-labeled adipocytes, isoproterenol (ISO) or physiologically relevant concentrations of insulin rapidly increased phosphorylation of a particulate 135-kDa protein which has been identified as a cGMP-inhibited "low Km" cAMP phosphodiesterase (CGI-PDE) by several criteria, including selective immunoprecipitation with anti-CGI-PDE IgG (Degerman, E., Smith, C.J., Tornqvist, H., Vasta, V., Belfrage, P., and Manganiello, V.C. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 533-537). The time courses and concentration dependences for phosphorylation of CGI-PDE by ISO and insulin correlated with CGI-PDE activation in the presence of these agents; effects of ISO were somewhat more rapid than those of insulin. Adenosine deaminase, which metabolizes the adenylate cyclase inhibitor adenosine, also rapidly induced phosphorylation and activation of CGI-PDE. Phenylisopropyladenosine (an adenosine deaminase-resistant adenosine analog) prevented or reversed both adenosine deaminase-stimulated phosphorylation and activation of CGI-PDE (IC50 approximately 0.2 nM). Incubation of adipocytes with 0.1 nM insulin in the presence of ISO rapidly produced 30-200% greater activation and phosphorylation of CGI-PDE than the expected added effects of insulin and ISO individually; both effects preceded the insulin-induced decreases in protein kinase A activity and inhibition of lipolysis. These and other results indicate that CGI-PDE can be phosphorylated at distinct sites and activated by cAMP-dependent and insulin-dependent serine kinase(s), that the activation state of CGI-PDE reflects its relative phosphorylation state, and that synergistic phosphorylation/activation of CGI-PDE may be important in the antilipolytic action of insulin.
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PMID:Hormone-sensitive cyclic GMP-inhibited cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase in rat adipocytes. Regulation of insulin- and cAMP-dependent activation by phosphorylation. 164 89

The mechanism by which hyperglycaemia causes decreased (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity preventable by aldose reductase inhibitors and by raising plasma myo-inositol in specific tissues can be activated in vitro in normal rabbit aortic wall; it selectively inhibits a component of resting (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity maintained by a novel regulatory system through rapid basal phosphatidylinositol turnover (hydrolysis) in a discrete pool, which is replenished by a fraction of phosphatidylinositol synthesis that selectively requires myo-inositol transport. A role for endogenously released adenosine in this regulatory system was examined. Adding adenosine deaminase or 8-phenyltheophylline, an adenosine receptor antagonist, selectively inhibited the component of (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity maintained by the regulatory system; when inhibited with adenosine deaminase this component was restored by 2-chloroadenosine, 5'-N-ethylcarbox-amidoadenosine, and 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol, but not by forskolin (which also did not inhibit this component). Adenosine deaminase inhibited the rapid basal turnover of the discrete phosphatidylinositol pool, and 2-chloroadenosine then stimulated its turnover. Raising medium glucose from 5 to 10-30 mmol/l inhibits the regulatory system by making myo-inositol transport at a normal plasma level inadequate to maintain the replenishment of the discrete phosphatidylinositol pool. 2-Chloroadenosine stimulation of the "adenosine-sensitive" component of (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity was inhibited in tissue incubated with 30 mmol/l glucose and myo-inositol in a normal plasma level, but this effect was demonstrable when the medium myo-inositol was raised seven-fold. Hyperglycaemia-induced decreased (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity that is preventable by aldose reductase inhibitors and by raising plasma myo-inositol results from the inhibition of a novel adenosine-(Na+,K+)-ATPase regulatory system.
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PMID:Elevated extracellular glucose inhibits an adenosine-(Na+,K+)-ATPase regulatory system in rabbit aortic wall. 165 55

We have identified a previously unrecognized missense mutation in a patient with severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID). The mutation is a G646-to-A transition at a CG dinucleotide and predicts a glycine-to-arginine substitution at codon 216. Computer analysis of secondary structure predicts a major alteration with loss of a beta-pleated sheet in a highly conserved region of the protein. The basepair substitution also generates a new site for the restriction enzyme BstXI in exon 7 of the genomic DNA. Digestion of genomic DNA from the patient and from his parents revealed that he was homozygous for the mutation and that his mother and father were carriers. This mutation in homozygous form appears to be associated with very severe disease, since the patient had perinatal onset of clinical manifestations of SCID, the highest concentration of the toxic metabolite deoxyATP in nine patients studied, and a relatively poor immunologic response during the initial 2 years of therapy with polyethylene glycol-adenosine deaminase. Analysis of DNA from 21 additional patients with ADA-SCID and from 19 unrelated normals revealed that, while none of the normal individuals showed the abnormal restriction fragment, two of the 21 patients studied were heterozygous for the G646-to-A mutation.
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PMID:Homozygosity for a newly identified missense mutation in a patient with very severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID). 168 Feb 89

The distribution of adenosine deaminase and adenosine deaminase complexing protein in rabbit heart has been compared using immunohistochemical staining procedures. Sections (4-5 microns) of tissue fixed in Clarke's solution or paraformaldehyde and embedded in paraffin were stained by the peroxidase anti-peroxidase method for adenosine deaminase or complexing protein, using affinity purified antibodies. Staining for adenosine deaminase and complexing protein was observed in the central myocardium of all heart chambers. Adenosine deaminase was detected in endothelial cells of blood vessels and adjacent pericytes. The nuclei of arteries stained heavily for adenosine deaminase, whereas those of venules and small veins, although positive, stained much more lightly. The cytoplasm of blood vessel endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells of the tunica media were also weakly positive for adenosine deaminase. Endothelial cells of the endocardium and epicardium did not stain. Randomly distributed mononuclear inflammatory cells and interstitial connective tissue fibroblasts were also negative for adenosine deaminase. These results raise the possibility that endothelial cells containing adenosine deaminase could serve as a metabolic barrier preventing the free exchange of plasma and interstitial adenosine. Positive staining for complexing protein was restricted to blood vessel endothelial cells, especially cytoplasmic processes. Colocalization experiments carried out with biotinylated primary antibodies indicate that some vessels are positive for both adenosine deaminase and complexing protein. This is the first experimental evidence of possible in situ association of adenosine deaminase and complexing protein.
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PMID:Localization of adenosine deaminase and adenosine deaminase complexing protein in rabbit heart. Implications for adenosine metabolism. 168 16


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