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The effects of glucose and oxygen on the formation of the plasma membrane of Staphylococcus aureus were studied. Phospholipids were consistent components of the membrane and were not affected by glucose or oxygen. Phospholipid fatty acids in cells grown in glucose containing media were rich in Ceven (C18, C20) fatty acid chains, whereas cells grown in glucose deficient media (normal broth) had anteiso Codd (C15,C17) fatty acid chains in place of Ceven chains. This may indicate increased membrane rigidity of the cells grown in glucose containing media. Cytochromes and ATPase were present in the membrane from cells grown in normal broth, but were deficient in the cells grown in glucose containing media. Polypeptide analysis of the membrane proteins showed a deficiency of the bands corresponding to these enzymes. They were not induced by the additionof oxygen to cells grown in glucose containing media. It was concluded that glucose was the dominant factor inhibiting the formation of these membrane enzymes.
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PMID:Effect of glucose and oxygen on the structure of the plasma membrane of Staphylococcus aureus. 16 Jan 85

SC4453 is a digoxin analogue with a pyridazine instead of a lactone ring on C17 beta. SC4453 was compared with digoxin with respect to inhibition of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase prepared from human heart, guinea-pig heart and guinea-pig brain. SC4453 was slightly less potent than digoxin but showed a similar sensitivity to K+. As for cardenolides, species differences in sensitivity to SC4453 were accounted for by differences in the rate of dissociation from the receptors. These observations confirm that the human heart is one of the tissues most sensitive to cardiac glycosides.
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PMID:Inhibition by digoxin and SC4453 of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase prepared from human heart, guinea-pig heart and guinea-pig brain. 23 Sep 81

Binding experiments at equilibrium were performed to study pharmacological properties of isozymes of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rat tissues. Experiments were performed on brain (alpha 3 isozyme), kidney (alpha 1 isozyme) and heart microsomes (alpha 1 and alpha 2 isozymes). Affinity of series of ouabain and digoxin derivatives was studied in competition experiments. It was observed that: (i) ouabain and digoxin had higher affinity (P less than 0.01) for alpha 3 isozyme (Kd of 0.071 +/- 0.004 and 0.066 +/- 0.001 microM, respectively) than for alpha 1 isozyme (Kd of 15.9 +/- 0.8 and 1.78 +/- 0.46 microM, respectively) and alpha 2 isozyme (Kd of 0.26 +/- 0.04 and 0.15 +/- 0.06 microM, respectively); (ii) saturation of the C20-C22 bond on the C17 beta lactone ring present in ouabain and digoxin markedly decreased the drug affinity for all isozymes (P less than 0.01); and (iii) suppression of the C3 beta osidic chain decreased the affinity of ouabain and digoxin to a higher extent for alpha 2 and alpha 3 than for alpha 1 (P less than 0.01). The presence of 10 mM KCl in the incubation medium decreased ouabain affinity for the alpha 1 isozyme to a much higher extent (Kd increase of about 20-fold) than for the other isozymes (Kd increase of about 2-fold). The results show that the isozymes of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rat tissue are differently sensitive to changes in the substituents of the cardioactive steroids and to the presence of 10 mM KCl.
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PMID:A comparison of the affinities of rat (Na+ + K+)-ATPase isozymes for cardioactive steroids, role of lactone ring, sugar moiety and KCl concentration. 217 7

The purpose of the present study was to determine the lead structure in cardiac glycosides at the receptor level, i.e. the minimal structural requirement for specific and powerful receptor recognition. Accordingly 73 digitalis-like acting steroids were characterized as to the concentration effecting half-maximum inhibition of Na,K-ATPase from human cardiac muscle under standardized turnover conditions. Since the Ki value equaled the apparent KD value, K'D was expressed in terms of the apparent standard Gibbs energy change delta G degrees' of steroid interaction with Na,K-ATPase. This allowed the use of the extrathermodynamic approach as a rational way of correlating in a quantitative manner, the potency and structure of the various steroidal compounds. The results of the present analysis taken in conjunction with relevant findings reported in the literature, favour the following conclusions. Cassaine, canrenone, prednisolone- and progesterone-3,20-bisguanylhydrazone, and chlormadinol acetate are compounds that are not congeneric with digitalis. The butenolide ring of cardenolides or the analogous side-chains at C17 beta of 5 beta, 14 beta-androstane-3 beta, 14-diol are not pharmacophoric substructures, but merely amplifiers of the interaction energy of the steroid lead. All modifications of the structure, geometry and spatial relationship between the steroid nucleus and butenolide side chain of digitoxigenin all at once weaken the close fit interaction with the steroid and butenolide binding subsites of the enzyme in such way that the cardenolide derivatives interact with the receptor binding site area in whatever orientation that will minimize the Gibbs energy of the steroid-receptor-solvent system. The "butenolide carbonyl oxygen distance model" (Ahmed et al. 1983) for the interpretation of the differences in potency of the cardenolide derivatives describes the change in interaction energy through structural modification as a function of the entire molecule. 5 beta, 14 beta-androstane-3 beta, 14-diol, the steroid nucleus of cardiac glycosides of the digitalis type, is the minimum structure for specific receptor recognition and the key structure for inducing protein conformational change and thus Na,K-ATPase inhibition. It is also the structural requirement for maximum contributions of the butenolide substituent at C17 beta and the sugar substituent at C3 beta-OH to the overall interaction energy, i.e. this steroid nucleus is the lead structure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:The lead structure in cardiac glycosides is 5 beta, 14 beta-androstane-3 beta 14-diol. 403 7

The aims of the study included: to explore the protein structure basis for the differences in digitalis sensitivity between isoforms of Na/K-ATPase from human and guinea-pig cardiac muscle; to determine the relative significance of the constituents of tripartite digitalis compounds in their inhibitory action on these Na/K-ATPase isoforms; to evaluate the potential significance of the receptor kinetics for pharmacological characteristics. The analytical method has been the recording of the inhibitory interaction of various digitalis derivatives with the Na/K-ATPase isoforms. The protein structure basis for the isoform differences in digitalis susceptibility has been explored by analysing in free-energy plots the kinetics of their inhibitory interaction with 53 digitalis derivatives of grossly different structure. The slope of the regression line and the parameters of the regression equation proved to be similar for the two isoforms in spite of the great difference in their digitalis susceptibilities. This surprising uniformity indicates that a uniform "macroscopic" mechanism underlies the inhibitory effect of the various derivatives on the two isoforms. On the other hand, the differences in the positions of delta G*on and delta G*off values for particular inhibitors relative to the regression line reveal differences in the "microscopic" interaction energy surfaces of the two isoforms. In conclusion, the origin of the isoform distinctions in their susceptibility towards inhibition by various digitalis derivatives is essentially confined to differences in the chemotopology of the digitalis recognition matrix and binding cleft. Specific observations allowed to disentangle the impact of various steroid derivatizations at carbon atoms 3, 17, and diverse other positions on the kinetics of their interaction with the enzyme isoforms. The steroid nucleus of the cardiac glycosides, 5 beta, 14 beta-androstane, proves to be the basal structural element for discrimination of Na/K-ATPase isoforms. This discrimination becomes much enlarged by steroid glycosidation at C3 beta-OH and/or by steroid substitution of C17 beta-H by a lactone ring. The higher inhibitory sensitivity of the human isoform is based either on an increased association rate or a decreased dissociation rate, depending on the nature of derivatization.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Differentiation between isoforms of Na+/K+-transporting atpase from human and guinea-pig muscle through use of digitalis derivatives as analytical probes. 760 82

The highly stereoselective total synthesis of the macrolide antibiotic, bafilomycin A(1) (1), the first specific potent inhibitor of vacuolar H(+)-ATPase, has been achieved by a convergent route involving the synthesis and coupling of its 16-membered tetraenic lactone and beta-hydroxyl hemiacetal side-chain subunits. The C1-C17 16-membered lactone aldehyde 2 was synthesized through the coupling of the C5-C11 vinyl iodide 4 and the C12-C17 vinylstannane 5, followed by construction of the C1-C4 diene and macrolactonization. The aldol coupling of 2 and the C18-C25 ethyl ketone 3 followed by desilylation provided 1, which was identical with natural bafilomycin A(1). The key synthetic segments 3-5 were effectively synthesized from the readily available chiral materials, D-glucose, ethyl (S)-lactate, and methyl (S)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropionate, respectively.
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PMID:Total Synthesis of Bafilomycin A(1). 1167 14

Fed-batch fermentations of glucose by P. acidipropionici ATCC 4875 in free-cell suspension culture and immobilized in a fibrous-bed bioreactor (FBB) were studied. The latter produced a much higher propionic acid concentration (71.8 +/- 0.8 g/L vs. 52.2 +/- 1.1 g/L), indicating enhanced tolerance to propionic acid inhibition by cells adapted in the FBB. Compared to the free-cell fermentation, the FBB culture produced 20-59% more propionate (0.40-0.65 +/- 0.02 g/g vs. 0.41 +/- 0.02 g/g), 17% less acetate (0.10 +/- 0.01 g/g vs. 0.12 +/- 0.02 g/g), and 50% less succinate (0.09 +/- 0.02 g/g vs. 0.18 +/- 0.03 g/g) from glucose. The higher propionate production in the FBB was attributed to mutations in two key enzymes, oxaloacetate transcarboxylase and propionyl CoA: succinyl CoA transferase, leading to the production of propionic acid from pyruvate. Both showed higher specific activity and lower sensitivity to propionic acid inhibition in the mutant than in the wild type. In contrast, the activity of PEP carboxylase, which converts PEP directly to oxaloacetate and leads to the production of succinate from glucose, was generally lower in the mutant than in the wild type. For phosphotransacetylase and acetate kinase in the acetate formation pathway, however, there was no significant difference between the mutant and the wild type. In addition, the mutant had a striking change in its morphology. With a threefold increase in its length and approximately 24% decrease in its diameter, the mutant cell had an approximately 10% higher specific surface area that should have made the mutant more efficient in transporting substrates and metabolites across the cell membrane. A slightly lower membrane-bound ATPase activity found in the mutant also indicated that the mutant might have a more efficient proton pump to allow it to better tolerate propionic acid. In addition, the mutant had more longer-chain saturated fatty acids (C17:0) and less unsaturated fatty acids (C18:1), both of which could decrease membrane fluidity and might have contributed to the increased propionate tolerance. The enhanced propionic acid production from glucose by P. acidipropionici was thus attributed to both a high viable cell density maintained in the reactor and favorable mutations resulted from adaptation by cell immobilization in the FBB.
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PMID:Enhanced propionic acid fermentation by Propionibacterium acidipropionici mutant obtained by adaptation in a fibrous-bed bioreactor. 1597 54

Compound 14beta,17beta-cycloketoester-3beta-OH androstane (INCICH-D7) is a semisynthetic product of a structural modification of the digitoxigenin molecule. INCICH-D7 has a heterocyclic ketoester type fusion between positions C14 and C17 of the steroid nucleus, which confers this molecule stronger electronegativity than that of digitoxigenin. INCICH-D7 retained positive inotropic effect, with a greater safety margin, when compared to digitoxigenin and ouabain. In this study we have examinated the INCICH-D7 effect on Na+, K+-dependent adenosinetriphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) and compared these results with the ones observed with digitoxigenin and ouabain. The inhibitory effect of INCICH-D7 on Na+, K+-ATPase was five times lower (IC50=4 microM) than that of ouabain (IC50=0.8 microM) and 70 times lower than that of digitoxigenin (IC50=0.06 microM). The inhibitory effect of INCICH-D7 and ouabain on the enzyme was irreversible while digitoxigenin's one was reversible in up to an 80%. Our results indicate that inclusion of the heterocycle between positions C14 and C17 in the digitoxigenin molecule lowers significantly the inhibitory effect on Na+, K+-ATPase and renders the interaction between INCICH-D7 and enzyme irreversible under the studied reaction conditions.
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PMID:Effect of the digitoxigenin derivative, INCICH-D7, on Na+, K+-ATPase. 1608 Oct 50

Transcription of protein-coding genes in Leishmania major and other trypanosomatids differs from that in most eukaryotes and bioinformatic analyses have failed to identify several components of the RNA polymerase (RNAP) complexes. To increase our knowledge about this basic cellular process, we used tandem affinity purification (TAP) to identify subunits of RNAP II and III. Mass spectrometric analysis of the complexes co-purified with TAP-tagged LmRPB2 (encoded by LmjF31.0160) identified seven RNAP II subunits: RPB1, RPB2, RPB3, RPB5, RPB7, RPB10 and RPB11. With the exception of RPB10 and RPB11, and the addition of RPB8, these were also identified using TAP-tagged constructs of one (encoded by LmjF34.0890) of the two LmRPB6 orthologues. The latter experiments also identified the RNAP III subunits RPC1 (C160), RPC2 (C128), RPC3 (C82), RPC4 (C53), RPC5 (C37), RPC6 (C34), RPC9 (C17), RPAC1 (AC40) and RPAC2 (AC19). Significantly, the complexes precipitated by TAP-tagged LmRPB6 did not contain any RNAP I-specific subunits, suggesting that, unlike in other eukaryotes, LmRPB6 is not shared by all three polymerases but is restricted to RNAP II and III, while the LmRPB6z (encoded by LmjF25.0140) isoform is limited to RNAP I. Similarly, we identified peptides from only one (encoded by LmjF18.0780) of the two RPB5 orthologues and one (LmjF13.1120) of the two RPB10 orthologues, suggesting that LmRPB5z (LmjF18.0790) and LmRPB10z (LmjF13.1120) are also restricted to RNAP I. In addition to these RNAP subunits, we also identified a number of other proteins that co-purified with the RNAP II and III complexes, including a potential transcription factor, several histones, an ATPase involved in chromosome segregation, an endonuclease, four helicases, RNA splicing factor PTSR-1, at least two RNA binding proteins and several proteins of unknown function.
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PMID:Characterization of the RNA polymerase II and III complexes in Leishmania major. 1727 24

Cells derived from renal cysts of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) are abnormally sensitive to ouabain, responding to physiological ouabain concentrations with enhanced proliferation and increased forskolin-induced transepithelial fluid secretion. This requires activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), Src kinase and the extracellular signal-regulated kinases MEK and ERK. Here, we have determined if the ADPKD phenotype obtained in mouse cortical collecting duct cells by stable overexpression of the C-terminal domain of polycystin-1 (PC-1 C-tail) also elicits the ADPKD-like response to ouabain in the cells. M-1 C20 cells expressing the PC-1 C-tail and M-1 C17 cells lacking expression of this construct were treated with physiological concentrations of ouabain, and cell proliferation, activation of the EGFR-Src-MEK-ERK pathway, forskolin-induced transepithelial Cl(-) secretion and the sensitivity of Na,K-ATPase to ouabain were explored. M-1 C20 cells responded to ouabain with increased cell proliferation and ERK phosphorylation. Ouabain also augmented forskolin-induced and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-mediated apical secretion of Cl(-) in M-1 C20 cells. These effects required activation of EGFR, Src and MEK. In contrast, ouabain had no significant effects on M-1 C17 cells. Interestingly, approximately 20% of the Na,K-ATPase from M-1 C20 cells presented an abnormally increased sensitivity to ouabain. Overexpression of PC-1 C-tail in M-1 C20 cells is associated with an ouabain-sensitive phenotype and an increased ability of the cells to proliferate and secrete anions upon ouabain stimulation. This phenotype mimics the ouabain sensitivity of ADPKD cells and may help promote their cystogenic potential.
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PMID:Overexpression of the polycystin-1 C-tail enhances sensitivity of M-1 cells to ouabain. 2378 65


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