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Ubiquinol-1 in aerated aqueous solution inactivates several enzymes--alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, Na+/K(+)-ATPase, creatine kinase and glutamine synthetase--but not isocitrate dehydrogenase and malate dehydrogenase. Ubiquinone-1 and/or H2O2 do not affect the activity of alkaline phosphatase and glutamine synthetase chosen as model enzymes. Dioxygen and transition metal ions, even if in trace amounts, are essential for the enzyme inactivation, which indeed does not occur under argon atmosphere or in the presence of metal chelators. Supplementation with redox-active metal ions (Fe3+ or Cu2+), moreover, potentiates alkaline phosphatase inactivation. Since catalase and peroxidase protect while superoxide dismutase does not, hydrogen peroxide rather than superoxide anion seems to be involved in the inactivation mechanism through which oxygen active species (hydroxyl radical or any other equivalent species) are produced via a modified Haber-Weiss cycle, triggered by metal-catalyzed oxidation of ubiquinol-1. The lack of efficiency of radical scavengers and the almost complete protection afforded by enzyme substrates and metal cofactors indicate a 'site-specific' radical attack as responsible for the oxidative damage.
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PMID:Enzyme inactivation by metal-catalyzed oxidation of coenzyme Q1. 135 46

Various compounds were evaluated for their ability to induce prophage lambda in the Escherichia coli WP2s(lambda) microscreen assay. The inability of a DNA gyrase subunit B inhibitor (novobiocin) to induce prophage indicated that inhibition of the gyrase's ATPase was insufficient to elicit the SOS response. In contrast, poisons of DNA gyrase subunit A (nalidixic acid and oxolinic acid) were the most potent inducers of prophage among the agents examined here. This suggested that inhibition of the ligation function of subunit A, which also has a DNA nicking activity, likely resulted in DNA breaks that were available (as single-stranded DNA) to act as strong SOS-inducing signals, leading to prophage induction. Agents that both intercalated and produced reactive-oxygen species (the mammalian DNA topoisomerase II poisons, adriamycin, ellipticine, and m-AMSA) were the next most potent inducers of prophage. Agents that produced reactive-oxygen species only (hydrogen peroxide and paraquat) were less potent than adriamycin and ellipticine but more potent than m-AMSA. Agents that intercalated but did not generate reactive-oxygen species (actinomycin D) or that did neither (teniposide) were unable to induce prophage, suggesting that intercalation alone may be insufficient to induce prophage. These results illustrate the variety of mechanisms (and the relative effectiveness of these mechanisms) by which agents can induce prophage. Nonetheless, these agents may induce prophage by producing essentially the same type of DNA damage, i.e., DNA strand breaks. The potent genotoxicity of the DNA gyrase subunit A poisons illustrates the genotoxic consequences of perturbing an important DNA-protein complex such as that formed by DNA and DNA topoisomerase.
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PMID:Prophage induction by DNA topoisomerase II poisons and reactive-oxygen species: role of DNA breaks. 137 45

Vacuolar H+ ATPases participate in renal hydrogen ion secretion in both the proximal and distal nephron. These plasma membrane forms of the vacuolar H+ ATPase are regulated physiologically to maintain the acid-base balance of the organism. Proton transporting renal cells have requirements for constitutive acidification of intracellular compartments for normal endocytic and secretory functions. Recent experiments have begun to reveal how the kidney regulates these proton pumps independently. Vacuolar H+ ATPases are a family of structurally similar enzyme which differ in the composition of specific subunits. Cytosolic regulatory enzymes are present in renal cells which may affect vacuolar H+ ATPases in certain membrane compartments selectively. The vacuolar H+ ATPase in the plasma membrane of intercalated cells resides in a specialized proton-transporting apparatus that translocates the enzyme between an intracellular membrane pool and the plasma membrane in response to physiologic stimuli.
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PMID:The structure and biochemistry of the vacuolar H+ ATPase in proximal and distal urinary acidification. 140 Feb 80

Proton pumping ATPases/ATPsynthases are found in all groups of present-day organisms. The structure of V- and F-type ATPases/ATP synthases is very conserved throughout evolution. Sequence analysis shows that the V- and F-type ATPases evolved from the same enzyme already present in the last common ancestor of all known extant life forms. The catalytic and noncatalytic subunits found in the dissociable head groups of the V/F-type ATPases are paralogous subunits, i.e., these two types of subunits evolved from a common ancestral gene. The gene duplication giving rise to these two genes (i.e., encoding the catalytic and noncatalytic subunits) predates the time of the last common ancestor. Mapping of gene duplication events that occurred in the evolution of the proteolipid, the noncatalytic and the catalytic subunits, onto the tree of life leads to a prediction for the likely subunit structure of the encoded ATPases. A correlation between structure and function of V/F-ATPases has been established for present-day organisms. Implications resulting from this correlation for the bioenergetics operative in proto-eukaryotes and in the last common ancestor are presented. The similarities of the V/F-ATPase subunits to an ATPase-like protein that was implicated to play a role in flagellar assembly are evaluated. Different V-ATPase isoforms have been detected in some higher eukaryotes. These data are analyzed with respect to the possible function of the different isoforms (tissue specific, organelle specific) and with respect to the point in their evolution when these gene duplications giving rise to the isoforms had occurred, i.e., how far these isoforms are distributed.
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PMID:Evolution of structure and function of V-ATPases. 140 Feb 86

To study sphingolipid function(s) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we have investigated the effects of environmental stress on mutant (SLC) strains (R. C. Dickson, G. B. Wells, A. Schmidt, and R. L. Lester, Mol. Cell. Biol. 10:2176-2181, 1990) that either contain or lack sphingolipids, depending on whether they are cultured with a sphingolipid long-chain base. Strains lacking sphingolipid were unable to grow at low pH, at 37 degrees C, or with high salt concentrations in the medium; these environmental stresses are known to inhibit the growth of some S. cerevisiae strains with a defective plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase. We found that sphingolipids were essential for proton extrusion at low pH and furthermore found that cells lacking sphingolipid no longer exhibited net proton extrusion at normal pH after a 1-min exposure to pH 3. Cells lacking sphingolipid appeared to rapidly become almost completely permeable to protons at low pH. The deleterious effects of low pH could be partially prevented by 1 M sorbitol in the suspension of cells lacking sphingolipid. Proton extrusion at normal pH (pH 6) was significantly inhibited at 39 degrees C only in cells lacking sphingolipid. Thus, the product of an SLC suppressor gene permits life without sphingolipids only in a limited range of environments. Outside this range, sphingolipids appear to be essential for maintaining proton permeability barriers and/or for proton extrusion.
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PMID:Phenotypes of sphingolipid-dependent strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 142 41

It has been postulated that a distinctive type of hyperkalemic distal renal tubular acidosis (DRTA), referred to as voltage-dependent DRTA, results from diminished potassium and hydrogen ion secretion in the distal nephron, which is due to a suboptimal voltage (lumen negative) as a result of impaired sodium reabsorption. To test for the presence of a voltage-dependent DRTA, we used amiloride (20 mg oral, single dose) and bumetanide (2 mg oral, single dose) to inhibit and to stimulate voltage-dependent potassium and hydrogen ion secretion, respectively. Eighteen patients with hyperkalemic DRTA and seven controls with a comparable degree of renal impairment were studied. Patients were subdivided in two groups on the basis of their ability to lower their urine pH during spontaneous acidosis. Patients in Group I lowered their urine pH to the level of controls (5.29 +/- 0.06 and 5.37 +/- 0.11, respectively) whereas patients in Group II could not lower their urine pH below 5.5 (6.38 +/- 0.11). Patients in Group I and Group II had a similar degree of metabolic acidosis and hyperkalemia whereas controls had neither acidosis or hyperkalemia. Most patients in Group II and all patients in Group I had low plasma aldosterone levels. The administration of amiloride resulted in an increase in urine pH and a decrease in potassium excretion in all three groups. The finding that amiloride, presumably by obliterating the transtubular voltage as a result of blockade of sodium transport, inhibited potassium excretion to about the same extent in both groups of patients and in controls argues against the existence of a voltage-dependent defect. Bumetanide produced a fall in urine pH below 5.5 and an increase in potassium excretion in controls and Group I patients. In Group II patients, bumetanide failed to elicit a fall in urine pH below 5.5 but resulted in an increase in potassium excretion similar to that seen in controls and Group I patients. These findings suggest that a derangement other than a voltage-dependent defect is responsible for the inability, characteristic of Group II patients, to lower their urine pH. It was concluded that the impairment in urinary acidification observed in patients with this subtype of hyperkalemic DRTA is due to a defect in collecting tubule hydrogen secretion that results from H+ ATPase dysfunction rather than from a voltage-dependent defect.
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PMID:On the mechanism of impaired distal acidification in hyperkalemic renal tubular acidosis: evaluation with amiloride and bumetanide. 145 Mar 72

F0F1-ATPase has been isolated from the marine alkali-resistant bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus. The enzyme subunits cross-reacted with antibodies against subunits alpha, beta, gamma, epsilon, and b of E. coli ATPase. The purified ATPase was reconstituted into liposomes effecting an ATP-dependent uptake of H+. Proton transport was inhibited by the ATPase blockers DCCD, triphenyltin, and venturicidin. Na+ ions had no effect on ATP-dependent proton transport. No ATP-dependent transport of Na+ was detected in proteoliposomes.
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PMID:[Membrane ATPase of Vibrio alginolyticus. Ion transport activity and homology with F0F1-ATPase from E. coli]. 145 96

Omeprazole blocks the final step of gastric acid secretion by blocking the proton pump (the hydrogen and potassium ATPase) in gastric parietal cells. Due to this direct action, omeprazole is the most potent, clinically available suppressor of gastric acidity.
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PMID:Omeprazole in the treatment of peptic ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease. 146 81

The purified ATPase of Propionigenium modestum (F1Fo) was incorporated into liposomes, and the F1 part was dissociated. The Fo-liposomes catalyzed proton uptake in response to a potassium diffusion potential (inside negative). Proton translocation was abolished by rebinding F1 to the Fo-liposomes or after incubation with the c-subunit-specific inhibitor dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD). Proton uptake was also sensitive to the presence of external Na+ or Li+ ions and was completely abolished at 2 mM NaCl or 150 mM LiCl, respectively. However, the same concentrations of these salts in the internal volume of the Fo-liposomes were without effect, suggesting that the cation binding site is not accessible from both sides of the membrane simultaneously. An open channel-type of transport through Fo from P. modestum is therefore excluded. The Fo-liposomes also catalyzed Na+ influx or efflux in response to a K+ diffusion potential that was negative on the inside or outside, respectively. These Na+ fluxes could not be created, however, by delta pNa+ of about 60-180 mV. The initial rate of Na+ uptake depended strongly on the size of the membrane potential with no significant conductivity below -40 mV, followed by a proportional increase up to about -115 mV. In the absence of a membrane potential, the Fo-liposomes catalyzed 22Na+ counterflow against a 28-fold concentration gradient. Uptake of 22Na+ into Fo-liposomes against delta pNa+ (counterflow) was completely prevented by imposing an inside-positive potassium diffusion potential of 90 mV. The catalysis of 22Na+ counterflow by Fo from P. modestum is a clear indication of a carrier (transporter)-type mechanism and excludes a channel mechanism.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Studies on Na+ and H+ translocation through the Fo part of the Na(+)-translocating F1Fo ATPase from Propionigenium modestum: discovery of a membrane potential dependent step. 147 3

The equilibrium distribution of tetraphenylphosphonium bromide was used to measure the membrane potential in Leishmania donovani amastigotes and promastigotes and to investigate mechanisms underlying the maintenance of membrane potential. At pH 7.0, membrane potential ranges between -90 and -113 mV. Increasing the external concentrations of hydrogen or potassium ions decreased membrane potential as did treatments with carbonylcyanide chlorophenylhydrazone or valinomycin. These observations are consistent with a membrane potential set by hydrogen and potassium ion diffusion gradients. Anaerobiosis lowered membrane potential, suggesting the involvement of ATPase(s) in maintaining membrane potential. Membrane potential was insensitive to treatment with ouabain, demonstrating the absence of a Na+/K(+)-ATPase. Treatment with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide caused a temporary hyperpolarization of the membrane suggesting the participation of a proton ATPase in the maintenance of membrane potential. Determination of the membrane potential makes it possible to quantitate the total proton motive force which is the force for active transport across the parasite membrane.
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PMID:The plasma membrane electrical gradient (membrane potential) in Leishmania donovani promastigotes and amastigotes. 153 15


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