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Brush border membrane vesicles from rat small intestine were isolated by a Mg/EGTA precipitation method. Further fractionation either by free flow electrophoresis or by sucrose density gradient centrifugation leads to subfractions which differ with respect to enzyme enrichment factors, transport properties for D-glucose and protein pattern analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A relative enrichment of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is found in one fraction, whereas in another fraction maltase, aminopeptidase M and alkaline phosphatase are relatively enriched. The fractions show different properties of D-glucose transport under tracer exchange conditions and a different inhibition of D-glucose transport by phlorizin and phloretin. These results indicate that the vesicles obtained from rat small intestine by this cation precipitation method are not homogeneous. The inhomogeneity cannot be due to a crosscontamination by membranes other than from the cell envelopment, as none of the fractions show a significant enrichment of succinate--cytochrome c oxidoreductase, KCN-resistant NADH oxidoreductase or glucosaminidase. The inhomogeneity might be due either to a crosscontamination by basal-lateral membranes or to membranes derived from epithelial cells not yet fully differentiated.
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PMID:Heterogeneity of brush-border-membrane vesicles from rat small intestine prepared by a precipitation method using Mg/EGTA. 641 69

Although there is some evidence that extrachoroidal sites for the production of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are important, the choroid plexuses in the ventricles contribute the major part of CSF formation. The exact mechanism for CSF production is not fully understood. In order to study this mechanism from the enzyme histochemical standpoint, the previously reported studies are reviewed, in addition to the authors' own electron microscopic enzyme histochemical observations on this tissue. The ultrastructure and enzyme biochemistry of choroid plexus epithelial cells are considered, together with the histochemistry of the following enzymes: alkaline and acid phosphatase, Mg2+-ATPase, Na+, K+-ATPase, glucose-6-phosphatase, thiamine pyrophosphatase, adenylate cyclase, carbonic anhydrase, oxidoreductase, esterase, several hydrolases, and other enzymes. Finally, CSF formation and active transport in the choroid plexus epithelial cells are discussed, mainly in terms of the results of our enzyme cytochemical observations on Na+, K+-ATPase and carbonic anhydrase in this tissue.
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PMID:The enzyme histochemistry of the choroid plexus. 683 Nov 99

Plasma membranes purified from onion roots contain two distinct NAD(P)H-dehydrogenases of 27 and 31 kDa that differ in their physicochemical properties, substrate specificities and inhibitors sensitivities. The 27-kDa enzyme used both NADH and NADPH as electron donors. The 31-kDa enzyme was fully specific for NADH and accounted for the bulk of NADH-ferricyanide oxidoreductase. We have used NADPH- and NADH-ferricyanide oxidoreductase activities as markers for investigating the orientation of the 27- and 31-kDa enzymes at the plasma membrane, respectively. These activities were assayed in right-side-out vesicles isolated by two-phase partition, inside-out vesicles obtained by treatment with the detergent Brij 58 and membranes permeabilized with Triton X-100. Upon addition of Brij 58 to right-side-out plasma membrane vesicles, both NADPH- and NADH-ferricyanide oxidoreductases were activated to the same degree as the plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase. Redox activities were similar when measured in the presence of either Brij 58 or Triton X-100. Our results demonstrate that both enzymes expose their catalytic sites toward the cytoplasmic side of the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Topography of the 27- and 31-kDa electron transport proteins in the onion root plasma membrane. 748 79

Ifosfamide (IF) is an alkylating cytostatic drug with urotoxic (hemorrhagic cystitis) and nephrotoxic side effects. Several cases of Fanconi syndrome in children following therapy with IF were reported. Little information is available concerning the pathomechanisms of transport inhibition by IF. We used a permanent renal epithelial cell line with proximal tubular characteristics (LLC-PK1) in order to investigate the effects of IF and some of its major metabolites (4-OH-IF, chloracetaldehyde, and acrolein). LLC-PK1 cells were used in a confluent state. Sodium-dependent and sodium-independent fluxes of 32PO4 were determined by standard techniques. Activities of marker enzymes of apical and basolateral membranes, of mitochondria, and of endoplasmic reticulum were determined in cell homogenates. IF induces a moderate stimulation of PO4 transport. 4-OH-IF also has a stimulatory effect on transport at low concentrations (up to 200 mumol/l) and with short incubation (2h), while a 24-hour exposure of cells to 100 mumol/l of 4-OH-IF has an inhibitory effect of PO4 transport. Concentrations of 4-OH-IF which inhibit transport also reduce the activity of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase. Chloracetaldehyde, like 4-OH-IF, induces a biphasic response of PO4 transport with stimulation in the low concentration range (up to 75 mumol/l) and inhibition at higher concentrations. Chloracetaldehyde reduces the activity of succinate-cytochrome c oxidoreductase, suggesting that a defect in ATP generation might play a role in the pathogenesis of Fanconi syndrome induced by IF. Acrolein strongly damages monolayers and reduces sodium-dependent transport of PO4 to very low levels at 150 mumol/l. It reduces the activities of both Na(+)-K+ ATPase and succinate-cytochrome c oxidoreductase. Acrolein also is the only metabolite with a moderate effect on alkaline phosphatase. We conclude that sodium-dependent transport of PO4 is highly sensitive to IF metabolites. In addition to direct toxic effects of IF metabolites on transport proteins within the apical plasma membrane, damage to mitochondrial enzymes and to Na(+)-K+ ATPase which generates the electrochemical gradients for secondary active PO4 transport may play an important role in the pathogenesis of Fanconi syndrome induced by IF.
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PMID:Effect of ifosfamide metabolites on sodium-dependent phosphate transport in a model of proximal tubular cells (LLC-PK1) in culture. 750 38

The 26S proteasome is the central protease of the ubiquitin-dependent pathway of protein degradation and has a highly conserved structure from slime molds to humans. The elongated molecule which has a molecular mass of approximately 2,000 kD is formed by a barrel-shaped 20S core complex and two polar 19S complexes. The 20S complex has C2 symmetry and is built by four seven-membered rings of which the outer rings are rotated by 26 degrees relative to the inner rings while the inner rings are in register. The 19S cap complex is asymmetric and therefore considerably less well understood on a structural level. From a comparison of the activity and regulation of the 26S and 20S particles, it can be deduced that the 20S particle contains the protease activity while the 19S complex is supposed to contain isopeptidase, oxidoreductase, ATPase and protein-unfolding activities. In this article we describe the structure of various proteasome complexes as determined by electron microscopy and discuss structural implications of their subunit sequences.
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PMID:Structural features of 26S and 20S proteasomes. 769 24

Cationic antiseptics--catamine AB, polysept (polymeric derivative of chlorhexidine) as well as cationic protein protamine exhibited a pronounced cytotoxic effect on human skin and lung fibroblasts in cell culture. Their effect was accompanied by augmentation of lipid peroxidation products and by inhibition of DT-diaphorase, LDH, ATPase and glutathione reductase. Introduction of alpha-tocopherol into the cultural medium normalized the rate of lipid peroxidation but did not remove the inhibitory effect on activity of oxidoreductase studied. Blood serum proteins immunoglobulins and albumin diminished significantly the cytotoxic effect of cationic preparations contributing to restoration of all the parameters studied to control values; this phenomenon appears to occur due to nonspecific membrane protective and antioxidation effects of the blood serum proteins.
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PMID:[Some biochemical indicators of the cytotoxic response of human fibroblasts cultured with natural and synthetic polycations]. 779 94

Membrane preparations from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contain both thylakoid and mitochondrial membranes [1]. These preparations have been intensely used to study the structure, function and biogenesis of protein complexes involved in the photosynthetic pathway. We show here that these preparations are also suitable for studying protein complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain of the alga. The respiratory complexes, fractionated on a sucrose gradient in the presence of Triton X-100, were identified by their catalytic properties and their polypeptide content. From the bottom to the top of the sucrose gradient, we identified the NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I), the mitochondrial ATP synthase (F0F1-ATPase), the cytochrome bc1 complex and the cytochrome c oxidase. At the top of the gradient, another enzyme was detected which displayed an NADH: menaquinone oxidoreductase activity.
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PMID:Identification of mitochondrial respiratory proteins from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 782 32

Muscle fibre compositions of five different rabbit muscles were determined by combining two enzyme-histochemical reactions (NADH tetracolium oxidoreductase and myosin ATPase after alkaline preincubation). The differentiation into the fibre types, fast twitch glycolytic (FTG), fast twitch oxidative (FTO), and slow twitch oxidative (STO) was possible by a reliable staining classification. Aim of the study was the estimation of enzyme activity patterns within the three different fibre types. For this purpose, four serial cross-sections with several enzyme histochemical reactions were performed: alkaline combination method for fibre type determination, the reactions of myosin ATPase, alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH), and succinate dehydrogenase (SDH). The measurement procedure for the estimation of enzyme activities was based on the proportionality between the intensity of the enzyme histochemical staining reaction and the degree of enzyme activity. The activities of GPDH (indicator for glycolytic metabolism) and SDH (oxidative metabolism) were inverse. The calcium-activated myosin ATPase showed only little activity in slow twitch fibres after alkaline preincubation. In contrast to slow twitch fibres, ATPase activity in fast twitch fibres was relatively high. The results showed that the classification of muscle fibre types due to their myosin ATPase activities and their main metabolisms (oxidative and glycolytic respectively) is justified.
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PMID:Enzyme activity patterns of myosin ATPase, alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase and succinate dehydrogenase within different muscle fibre types. 797 31

We report a unique heteroplasmic T-to-C transition at nucleotide 9997 in the mitochondrial tRNA(glycine) gene in a multiplex family who manifested nonobstructive cardiomyopathy. The degree of mtDNA heteroplasmy generally correlated with the severity of the symptoms. This T-to-C transition disrupts hydrogen bonding in the region adjacent to the acceptor stem of the tRNA molecule. The thymine residue at position 9997 is highly conserved in mammals, as well as in various vertebrates and invertebrates. A PCR diagnostic test for the presence of the 9997 T-to-C transition revealed that the base change was always present in high proportion in affected family members, not present in unaffected family members, and never present in control subjects from various ethnic groups (25 groups sampled, 42 individuals), thus ruling out the possibility that this change represents a polymorphic variant in the general population. The degree of heteroplasmy in lymphoblast cultures also correlated with the level of enzyme activity present for cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV) and succinate cytochrome c oxidoreductase (complexes II and III). The absence of previously reported mtDNA mutations associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was verified by both PCR diagnostic procedures and sequence analysis. All mitochondrial tRNA genes, as well as genes encoding ATPase subunits 6 and 8, were sequenced and found not to possess base changes consistent with the clinical profile. More detailed biochemical and molecular biological investigations are discussed.
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PMID:Maternally inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy due to a novel T-to-C transition at nucleotide 9997 in the mitochondrial tRNA(glycine) gene. 807 88

We report structural and functional analyses of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum fixGHIS genes, which map immediately downstream of the fixNOQP operon for the symbiotically essential cbb3-type heme-copper oxidase complex. Expression of fixGHIS, like that of fixNOQP, is strongly induced in cells grown microaerobically or anaerobically. A fixGHI deletion led to the same prominent phenotypes as those known from a fixNOQP deletion: defective symbiotic nitrogen fixation (Fix-) and decreased cytochrome oxidase activity in cells grown under oxygen deprivation. Only traces, if any, of cytochrome cbb3 subunits were present in membranes isolated from the delta fixGHI strain, as revealed by Western blot analysis with subunit-specific antibodies. This effect was not due to lack of fixNOQP transcription. The results suggested a critical involvement of the fixGHIS gene products in the assembly and/or stability of the cbb3-type heme-copper oxidase. On the basis of sequence similarities between the FixI protein and a Cu-transporting P-type ATPase (CopA) of Enterococcus hirae, and between FixG and a membrane-bound oxidoreductase (RdxA) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, we postulate that a membrane-bound FixGHIS complex might play a role in uptake and metabolism of copper required for the cbb3-type heme-copper oxidase.
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PMID:The Bradyrhizobium japonicum fixGHIS genes are required for the formation of the high-affinity cbb3-type cytochrome oxidase. 866 20


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