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Human skin fibroblasts, grown to confluency in the presence of 32P for random labelling of the phospholipids, showed upon 24 h incubation in the presence of either 8 mM L-serine or 4 mM ethanolamine an increased content of phosphatidylserine (150% of control cells) or phosphatidylethanolamine (116% of control cells), respectively. Concomitantly the phosphatidylcholine correspondingly decreased. Upon cell harvesting and gentle enzyme preparation the base-treated cells demonstrated a significantly higher unstimulated, fluoride- and thyrotropin-stimulated activity of adenylate cyclase. The activities of total ATPase, ouabain-sensitive ATPase, 5'-nucleotidase and gamma-glutamyltransferase remained unaltered. When subjecting enzyme preparations from fibroblasts to ultrasonication the activity of adenylate cyclase decreased progressively with energy applied, whereas the activities of the other enzymes were unaltered ((K+ + Na+)-ATPase, 5'-nucleotidase) or even increased (Mg2+-ATPase, gamma-glutamyltransferase). The results have a bearing upon the regulatory function of the phospholipid microenvironment of membrane-bound enzymes.
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PMID:The influence of changes in the phospholipid pattern of intact fibroblasts on the activities of four membrane-bound enzymes. 1 85

Free-flow electrophoresis was used to subfractionate membrane vesicles from calf thymocyte plasma membranes. The fractionation resulted in a separation of vesicle populations bearing four different enzymes: alkaline nitrophenyl-phosphatase (orthophosphoric-monoester phosphohydrolase (alkalin optimum) EC 3.1.3.1), gamma-glutamyltransferase (EC 2.3.2.2), (Mg2+ + Na+ + K+)-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) and acyl-CoA:lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase (acyl-CoA:1-acylglycero-3-phosphocholine-O-acyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.23). The specific content of cholesterol and total phospholipid coincided with the distribution of membrane-bound protein. However, vesicles migrating towards the cathode had a higher molar ratio of cholesterol to phospholipid (0.75) compared to those migrating to the anode (0.55). Sodium dodecyl sulphate-gel electrophoresis of pooled vesicle fractions also demonstrates distinct differences in their protein pattern. Electron-micrographic thin sections show that the vesicle populations have a similar morphology and size distribution. These results are discussed in terms of heterogeneity of the original thymocytes, contamination with intracellular membranes and a heterogeneous structure of the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Fractionation of membrane vesicles. II. A method for separation of membrane vesicles bearing different enzymes by free-flow electrophoresis. 2 91

The purpose of this work was to isolate thymocyte plasma membranes at high yield and purity to study specific surface molecules in their structural context. A procedure was developed in which 92-95% of the cells were disrupted by homogenization in a dense viscous medium, while nuclei remained intact. Differential centrifugation of the homogenate was avoided; instead, only a brief (2 h) centrifugation at equilibrium-density of membrane components was used. Five fractions were obtained, three by flotation. Membrane-bound enzymatic activities indicated a 60-80% yield of plasma membranes in the three floated membrane fractions, which comprised 1.6% of the homogenate protein. Enrichment factors for three ectoenzymes, alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyltransferase, and ouabain-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase were respectively, 70-74, and 40-50 in the two lightest fractions. Nuclear membranes were then isolated from the remaining whole nuclei and were found to be enriched in esterase and NADH-cytochrome c reductase. Plasma membranes and light nuclear membranes appeared as pure unit-membrane vesicles in thin sections and freeze-etching electron microscopy. Some aggregation of intramembranous particles occurred in plasma membrane vesicles.
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PMID:Isolation of plasma and nuclear membranes of thymocytes. I. Enzymatic composition and ultrastructure. 2 89

The localization of gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in guinea pig liver was studied after subcellular fractionation. The enzyme activity was essentially connected with plasma membranes whereas only low activity was found in the endoplasmic reticulum. A similar activity distribution was demonstrated for 5'-nucleotidase. Highest specific activity of gamma-glutamyltransferase was found in plasma membranes enriched in bile canaliculi. In this fraction the specific activity was 35 times greater than the specific activity of the total homogenate, a value similar to the relative specific activity of (Na+,K+)-ATPase. More than 90% of the total gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in guinea pig liver was connected with parenchymal cells and the enzyme seemed to have an outside orientation. Animals treated with phenobarbital showed moderate increased in gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in serum and liver, whereas high activities were found in most bile samples. No particular liver subfraction showed substantial accumulation of gamma-glutamyltransferase activity. The present findings do not support the suggested use of serum gamma-glutamyltransferase measurements as a direct index of "microsomal enzyme induction".
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PMID:Subcellular localization of gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in guinea pig liver. Effect of phenobarbital on the enzyme activity levels. 3 6

Experiments were designed to determine the efficacy of different types of liver cell proliferative stimuli given during exposure to several liver tumor-promoting regimens, on the formation of foci of enzyme-altered hepatocytes. Male Wistar rats were initiated with diethylnitrosamine (150 mg/kg body wt). After a 2 week recovery period animals were subjected to promoting regimens, the resistant hepatocyte model, the phenobarbital model and the orotic acid model. While the rats were on these regimens they were given liver cell proliferative stimulus, either a compensatory type (two-thirds partial hepatectomy or a necrogenic dose of carbon tetrachloride) or a direct hyperplastic stimulus such as that induced by the primary mitogen, lead nitrate. Initiated cells so promoted by these regimens were monitored as foci of enzyme-altered hepatocytes positive for gamma-glutamyltransferase and placental glutathione S-transferase or deficient for adenosine triphosphatase. While carbon tetrachloride and partial hepatectomy-induced compensatory regeneration stimulated the promoting ability of the regimens used, direct hyperplasia could not stimulate the formation of foci and/or nodules from initiated hepatocytes. Evaluation of thymidine incorporation indicated that there was no significant difference in the extent of DNA synthesis in both the proliferative stimuli irrespective of the promoting procedure used.
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PMID:Mitogen-induced liver hyperplasia does not substitute for compensatory regeneration during promotion of chemical hepatocarcinogenesis. 134 15

A series of experiments was performed to investigate the effect of different types of cell proliferation on the development of enzyme-altered preneoplastic hepatic foci in male Wistar rats. Animals were given a single dose of diethylnitrosamine (100 mg/kg body weight). After a 2-week recovery period liver cell proliferation was repeatedly induced by four or eight necrogenic doses of carbon tetrachloride (compensatory cell proliferation), or by four or eight treatments with three different liver mitogens, namely lead nitrate, ethylene dibromide and nafenopin (direct hyperplasia). The carcinogen altered hepatocytes were monitored as gamma-glutamyltransferase positive or adenosine triphosphatase negative foci. The results indicate that compensatory cell proliferation induced by both four and eight carbon tetrachloride treatments enhanced the growth of diethylnitrosamine-initiated hepatocytes to enzyme-altered foci. On the contrary, repeated waves of cell proliferation induced by liver mitogens did not result in any significant number of enzyme-altered foci.
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PMID:Cell proliferation and promotion of rat liver carcinogenesis: different effect of hepatic regeneration and mitogen induced hyperplasia on the development of enzyme-altered foci. 197 Jul 63

The livers of rats given either the peroxisome proliferating hepatocarcinogen di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) following initiation by 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF) or the neoplasm promoter phenobarbital (PB) were studied for changes in 8 histochemical properties. Male F344 rats were fed 200 ppm AAF for 7 weeks to induce hepatocellular altered foci, and were then fed diets containing either no chemical, 12,000 ppm DEHP or 500 ppm PB for 24 weeks. In hepatocytes, DEHP increased alkaline phosphatase activity throughout the lobule, but reduced gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) activity in periportal hepatocytes. PB, in contrast, increased GGT activity in periportal hepatocytes. In foci that were induced by AAF, DEHP reduced the histochemical activity of GGT and did not increase the number, mean volume or volume % of foci detected by deficiencies in iron storage, glucose-6-phosphatase, adenosine triphosphatase or fibronectin. PB enhanced the expression of all 8 phenotypic abnormalities in foci such that either more profiles were detected or the area of foci was increased.
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PMID:Effects of the peroxisome proliferator di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate on enzymes in rat liver and on carcinogen-induced liver altered foci in comparison to the promoter phenobarbital. 197 53

The Na(+)-dependent hexose carrier, an endogenous apical marker, develops during differentiation of LLC-PK1, an established cell line with characteristics of the proximal tubule. This development was inhibited by the microtubule-disrupting drugs, colchicine and nocodazole, while it was insensitive to lumicolchicine. This strongly suggests that microtubules are involved in the plasma membrane expression of the Na(+)-dependent hexose carrier. We also analyzed the increase in activity of endogenous apical and basolateral membrane proteins during the polarization process. The development of three apical (Na(+)-dependent hexose carrier, gamma-glutamyltransferase and alkaline phosphatase) and one basolateral membrane protein (Na+/K(+)-ATPase) was studied during the reorganization of LLC-PK1 cells into a polarized epithelium. Colchicine inhibited the rapid, transient increase in the expression of the Na(+)-dependent hexose carrier during this polarization process. A similar result was observed for the development of the other apical proteins, while the development of Na+/K(+)-ATPase seemed to be largely insensitive to colchicine. Our results are in agreement with the model that the vesicles containing the apical membrane proteins use microtubules as tracks to reach the plasma membrane. The transport of vesicles containing basolateral membrane proteins clearly occurs by a different pathway which is independent on an intact microtubular network. Since the inhibition by the microtubule-disrupting drugs was complete, it can be concluded that after disruption of microtubules, the apical vesicles do not use the basolateral pathway by default.
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PMID:Development of the Na(+)-dependent hexose carrier in LLC-PK1 cells is dependent on microtubules. 197 53

Bilirubin and phthalein dyes are taken up by the liver via a carrier-mediated mechanism operated at least in part by bilitranslocase (BTL). Because they also undergo renal transport, the presence and function of BTL was investigated in rat renal tubular plasma membrane vesicles. Transport of sulfobromophthalein (BSP) was enriched in basolateral domain of plasma membrane and followed the distribution pattern of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase but not of gamma-glutamyltransferase. BSP uptake was inhibited by addition of monospecific antibodies raised against hepatic BTL. As in liver vesicles, BSP transport was electrogenic, being greatly accelerated by addition of valinomycin in presence of an inwardly directed K+ gradient. Apparent Km of BSP transport was 17 +/- 2 microM (n = 3 expts), one order of magnitude higher than that measured in liver; however, Vmax was similar to that described in liver vesicles (429 +/- 18 nmol BSP.mg protein-1.min-1, n = 3 expts). Competitive inhibition was observed with both unconjugated bilirubin (Ki, 2.9 +/- 0.2 microM) and rifamycin SV (Ki, 76 +/- 10 microM), known competitors for hepatic BTL-mediated transport of BSP. Immunoblotting studies with anti-BTL monospecific antibodies revealed presence of a single positive band only in basolateral-enriched membrane fraction; its apparent molecular mass was 37 kDa, virtually identical to that of hepatic protein. Immunohistochemistry confined presence of BTL to renal proximal tubules (RPT) We conclude that BTL is present in basolateral plasma membrane of RPT cells. Lower affinity of renal, compared with hepatic protein, for substrates might explain the marginal role of kidney in plasma clearance of bilirubin and cholephilic dyes.
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PMID:Bilitranslocase localization and function in basolateral plasma membrane of renal proximal tubule in rat. 222 Oct 93

Activities of different enzymes (acid glycosidases, phosphatases, Na+ - K+ -dependent ATPase, proteases, dehydrogenases) and acid glycosaminoglycans were studied by histochemical methods in sections of rabbit anterior eye segments after experimental alkali burn and treatment with aprotinin, an inhibitor of plasmin and other serine proteinases. Solutions of sodium hydroxide (0.25-1.0 M) were applied on corneas using 12-mm-diameter plastic tube for 15-60 s. After wiping with cotton and rinsing with tap water aprotinin solutions were applied in saline (in experimental animals) and saline (in control animals) dropwise in 12-h intervals for a month. Within the first two weeks aprotinin was used at a concentration of 5000 IU/ml. During the subsequent two weeks the aprotinin concentration was reduced to 2500 IU/ml. Striking differences in enzyme activities and in the healing between treated and untreated eyes were found. Without aprotinin, ulcers developed in most corneas within 3 weeks and plasmin was regularly demonstrated in tears and in the aqueous. When aprotinin treatment was started within 24 h after the burn, the number of enzymatically active inflammatory cells was significantly lower, not only in the cornea itself but also in the whole anterior eye segment. With aprotinin treatment no ulcerations and no plasmin in tears and the aqueous were observed and the corneas healed within a month. The healing process started from the zone of enzymatically activated corneal cells in the unburned zone at the corneal periphery. In the regenerating epithelium and endothelium high activities of Na+ -K+ -dependent ATPase, gamma-glutamyltransferase, lactate and succinate dehydrogenases appeared very soon.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Histochemical study of alkali-burned rabbit anterior eye segment in which severe lesions were prevented by aprotinin treatment. 247 20


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