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The effects of the proton-ionophore FCCP, the electroneutral calcium-proton ionophore A23187, pH and oxalate on calcium uptake and (Ca-Mg)ATPase activity were assayed in microsomal vesicles prepared from guinea pig pancreas. The results can be summarized as follows: 1) The optimum pH for ATP-dependent calcium uptake was 7, whereas the (Ca-Mg)ATPase activity was maximal at pH 7.5-8; 2) after a time lag of oxalate-insensitivity, oxalate stimulated strongly the ATP-dependent calcium uptake; 3) FCCP uncoupled the process of calcium uptake and ATP hydrolysis; 4) the effects of FCCP on calcium transport and ATPase activity were quite similar to those induced by the calcium ionophore A23187. These results can be explained by the formation of a proton gradient through membrane vesicles during the calcium pumping process.
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PMID:Effect of pH and ionophores on the calcium-pumping ATPase of endoplasmic reticulum microsomes from guinea pig pancreas. 296 80

Ca2+-uptake activities of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) were determined with a Ca2+-sensitive electrode in homogenates from fast- and slow-twitch muscles from both normal and dystrophic mice (C57BL/6J strain) of different ages. Immunochemical quantification of tissue Ca2+-ATPase content allowed determination of the specific Ca2+-transport activity of the enzyme. In 3-week-old mice of the dystrophic strain specific Ca2+ transport was already significantly lower than in the normal strain. It progressively decreased with maturation and reached only 40-50% and 30-50% of the normal values in fast- and slow-twitch muscles of adult dystrophic animals, respectively. Tissue contents of calsequestrin were reduced in both types of muscle leading to an increased Ca2+-ATPase to calsequestrin protein ratio. Equal amounts of the Ca2+-ATPase protein (detected by Coomassie blue staining of polyacrylamide gels) were present in SR vesicles isolated by Ca2+-oxalate loading from adult normal and dystrophic fast-twitch muscles. However, the specific ATP-hydrolysing activity of the enzyme was approximately 50% lower in dystrophic than in normal SR. The reduced ATP-hydrolysing activity was correlated with decreased Ca2+-transport activity, phosphoprotein formation and fluorescein isothiocyanate labeling as determined in total microsomal and heavy SR fractions. Although the Ca2+ and ATP affinities of the enzyme were unaltered, its ATPase activity was reduced at all levels of ATP in the dystrophic SR. Taken together, these findings point to a markedly impaired function of the SR and an increase in the population of inactive SR Ca2+-ATPase molecules in murine muscular dystrophy.
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PMID:Postnatal development of Ca2+-sequestration by the sarcoplasmic reticulum of fast and slow muscles in normal and dystrophic mice. 296 44

Idiopathic hypercalciuria is a common disorder whose inheritance suggests an enzyme abnormality in calcium transport. We measured calcium-magnesium-ATPase activity in erythrocytes from 38 patients (mean age [+/- SEM], 40 +/- 2.1 years) with idiopathic hypercalciuria (24-hour urinary calcium excretion greater than or equal to 0.1 mmol per kilogram of body weight) and a history of multiple calcium oxalate kidney stones. As compared with 41 healthy controls, the patients with hypercalciuria had increased erythrocyte-membrane calcium-magnesium-ATPase activity (64.2 +/- 2.19 vs. 51.6 +/- 1.91 nmol of ATP split per milligram per minute; P less than 0.01) and increased sodium-potassium pump activity (6866 +/- 233 vs. 6096 +/- 228 mumol of sodium per liter of red cells per hour; P less than 0.05). No significant difference between the two groups was found in erythrocyte sodium-potassium cotransport, sodium-lithium countertransport, or potassium content. In 66 patients with kidney stones (38 with hypercalciuria and 28 with normal calcium excretion), 24-hour urinary calcium excretion correlated with calcium-magnesium-ATPase activity (r = 0.46, P less than 0.001). Erythrocyte calcium-magnesium-ATPase activity remained unchanged in eight subjects studied after four months on a low-calcium diet. A study of 30 healthy families found significant correlations between mean values in parents and those in offspring for calcium-magnesium-ATPase (r = 0.68, P less than 0.001) and urinary calcium excretion (r = 0.45, P less than 0.02), with no significant correlations between parents with respect to these measures (r = 0.27 and r = 0.08, respectively). We conclude that abnormalities in erythrocyte calcium-magnesium-ATPase activity may represent an inherited defect in calcium transport related to the cause of idiopathic hypercalciuria.
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PMID:Abnormal red-cell calcium pump in patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria. 297 Nov 39

A plasma membrane-enriched fraction from rat myometrium shows ATP-Mg2+-dependent active calcium uptake which is independent of the presence of oxalate and is abolished by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187. Ca2+ loaded into vesicles via the ATP-dependent Ca2+ uptake was released by extravesicular Na+. This showed that the Na+/Ca2+ exchange and the Ca2+ uptake were both occurring in plasma membrane vesicles. In a medium containing KCl, vanadate readily inhibited the Ca2+ uptake (K1/2 5 microM); when sucrose replaced KCl, 400 microM-vanadate was required for half inhibition. Only a slight stimulation of the calcium pump by calmodulin was observed in untreated membrane vesicles. Extraction of endogenous calmodulin from the membranes by EGTA decreased the activity and Ca2+ affinity of the calcium pump; both activity and affinity were fully restored by adding back calmodulin or by limited proteolysis. A monoclonal antibody (JA3) directed against the human erythrocyte Ca2+ pump reacted with the 140 kDa Ca2+-pump protein of the myometrial plasma membrane. The Ca2+-ATPase activity of these membranes is not specific for ATP, and is not inhibited by mercurial agents, whereas Ca2+ uptake has the opposite properties. Ca2+-ATPase activity is also over 100 times that of calcium transport; it appears that the ATPase responsible for transport is largely masked by the presence of another Ca2+-ATPase of unknown function. Measurements of total Ca2+-ATPase activity are, therefore, probably not directly relevant to the question of intracellular Ca2+ control.
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PMID:Characteristics of the Ca2+ pump and Ca2+-ATPase in the plasma membrane of rat myometrium. 297 50

ATP stimulated the accumulation of 45Ca2+ by chromaffin granule ghosts which contained 5 mM oxalate to trap transported calcium within the lumen. Inasmuch as the ATP-dependent 45Ca2+ transport was resistant to 25 mM ammonium acetate as well as the proton ionophore, carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone, the chromaffin granule proton translocating ATPase does not provide the energy for this process. Instead, we suggest that chromaffin granules contain a calcium translocating ATPase which catalyzes the 45Ca2+ uptake directly. The observation that chromaffin granules bind to a monoclonal antibody raised against a calcium pump from bovine brain supports this hypothesis.
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PMID:Biochemical and immunological evidence for a calcium pump in chromaffin granules. 297 54

We previously demonstrated that the hydrolysis of GTP by canine cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum is not sensitive to calcium and does not support the translocation of calcium and oxalate into the vesicular space. In response to GTP, however, calcium is accumulated into a compartment which is sensitive to pH and ionophore. In the present paper, we further explored the relationship between GTP hydrolysis and GTP-induced calcium accumulation. Both ATP- and GTP-induced calcium accumulation were prevented by the sulfhydryl reagent, N-ethylmaleimide (NEM; I50 = 0.2 mM). In contrast, the sensitivity of NTP hydrolysis to NEM differed markedly; GTPase activity was not affected by NEM, whereas ATPase activity was markedly inhibited. Conversely, although the GTPase was noncompetitively inhibited by the ATP analogue, adenylyl imidodiphosphate (Ki = 8 microM), and was competitively inhibited by the GTP analogue, guanylyl imidodiphosphate (Ki = 60 microM), GTP-induced calcium accumulation was not affected by the NTP analogues at any concentration. Therefore, the GTP-dependent accumulation of calcium into the pH- and ionophore-sensitive compartment of cardiac SR may not require GTP hydrolysis but may be dependent on GTP binding. The previously reported noncompetitive inhibition of the GTPase by ATP was also observed when the calcium-dependent hydrolysis of ATP was prevented by NEM (Ki = 1.2 microM). Along with the noncompetitive inhibition of the GTPase by adenylyl imidodiphosphate, the inhibition of the GTP by ATP in the presence of NEM suggests that ATP binding may be involved in the observed inhibition. The Ki for the noncompetitive inhibition of GTPase activity is compatible with ATP binding to the high affinity catalytic site of the ATPase. Thus, although GTP-induced calcium accumulation differs somewhat from ATP-dependent calcium translocation, the similarities between the two processes (i.e. similar time courses and sensitivity to pH, ionophore, and sulfhydryl modification) suggest that they may be related in some manner.
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PMID:Nucleotide specificity of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. GTP-induced calcium accumulation and GTPase activity. 299 Dec 55

The divalent cation ionophore A23187 at a concentration of 1 nM produced an increased rate of oxalate-supported calcium uptake by isolated cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum as determined by absorbance changes of the calcium-sensitive dye murexide. Addition of a higher concentration of A23187 (0.1 microM) produced a decreased rate of calcium uptake. Measurement of the time during which ATPase was activated by calcium addition also suggested an increased rate of calcium uptake in the presence of 1 nM A23187 and an inhibition of calcium uptake at a higher concentration of the ionophore (0.1 microM). Ca2+-stimulated ATPase activity and incorporation of 32Pi from [gamma-32P]ATP into sarcoplasmic reticular proteins were increased by A23187 at concentrations of 1 nM or greater. An increased coupling of calcium uptake to ATP hydrolysis was observed at 1 nM A23187, while concentrations of the ionophore greater than or equal to 10 nM produced a decreased coupling. Addition of an inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase decreased the rate of calcium uptake, and this inhibition was reversed in a concentration-dependent manner by 0.01-1 nM A23187. These data suggest that A23187 can activate a mechanism involving the calcium-dependent phosphorylation of protein that may regulate the activity of the calcium uptake system of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. These observations appear to provide an explanation for some of the contractile effects of A23187 in intact cardiac muscle that suggest that treatment with the ionophore results in an increased sequestration of calcium from the cytoplasm.
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PMID:Low concentrations of A23187 increase calcium uptake by cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. 300 Jan 98

A plasma membrane fraction from bovine carotid arteries has been isolated by extraction of a crude microsomal fraction with a low-ionic-strength buffer containing ATP and Ca2+. This step was followed by sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation in the presence of 0.6 M KCl. The plasma membrane vesicles were enriched 60- to 80-fold in Na+-K+-adenosinetriphosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, and phosphodiesterase I activities. The final yields of these marker enzymes were 12-18% of the total activities in the postnuclear supernatant, and the protein yield was 100-120 micrograms/g wet wt of carotid arteries. Contamination of the plasma membrane fraction by mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum was low as judged by low activities of succinate--cytochrome-c reductase and NADPH--cytochrome-c reductase, respectively. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoprecipitation with smooth muscle-specific actin antibodies showed that the plasma membrane fraction was substantially free from myosin and actin contamination. The plasma membrane vesicles accumulated Ca2+ in the presence of ATP, and the accumulation was increased by calmodulin. Ca2+ accumulated in the presence or absence of calmodulin could be released almost completely from the vesicles by the addition of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 but not by ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethylether)-N,N'-tetraacetic acid, indicating that Ca2+ uptake in the presence of ATP is intravesicular. The effects of phosphate and oxalate on Ca2+ uptake in the plasma membranes were different from one another. Phosphate increased Ca2+ uptake in a concentration- and time-dependent manner, and the increase in Ca2+ uptake could be observed as early as 1 min. On the other hand, oxalate at concentrations up to 5 mM did not increase Ca2+ uptake significantly during the 30-min incubation. These plasma membranes can prove useful for the study of ion transport across plasma membranes, hormone binding, characterization of calcium channels, and preparation of antibodies against plasma membrane proteins.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of plasma membranes from bovine carotid arteries. 300 86

Human erythrocyte Ca2+-translocating ATPase was solubilized from calmodulin-depleted membranes using the detergent Triton X-100, and subsequently purified by calmodulin-affinity chromatography. The purified enzyme was reconstituted in artificial phospholipid vesicles using a cholate-dialysis method and various phospholipids. The reconstituted enzyme was able to translocate Ca2+ inside the vesicles, both in the absence and in the presence of the Ca2+-chelating agent, oxalate, inside the vesicles. The tightness of coupling between ATP hydrolysis and cation translocation was investigated by the use of different ionophoretic compounds. The efficiency of Ca2+ translocation was measured by the ability of the ionophores to stimulate ATP hydrolytic activity of the reconstituted enzyme. It was found that the maximum stimulation of the ATP hydrolytic activity was induced by the electroneutral Ca2+/2H+ ionophore A23187 (9 to 10-fold). A Ca2+ ionophore unable to translocate H+, CYCLEX-2E, was less efficient in stimulating the activity of the reconstituted enzyme (two- to threefold). However, the combined addition of CYCLEX-2E plus protonophores further increased the ATP hydrolytic activity (around fourfold), whereas, the protonophores did not further stimulate ATP hydrolysis in the presence of A23187. Furthermore, in the absence of Ca2+ ionophore, the electroneutral K+(Na+)/H+ ionophoretic exchanger, monensin, stimulated the rate of ATP hydrolysis in the reconstituted enzyme two- or threefold, respectively. These results suggest that the Ca2+-ATPase not only translocates Ca2+ but also H+ in the opposite direction.
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PMID:Proton countertransport by the reconstituted erythrocyte Ca2+-translocating ATPase: evidence using ionophoretic compounds. 302 78

The coupling of calcium transport to ATP hydrolysis in rabbit muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was determined under steady-state conditions in the presence of 5 mM oxalate and using various concentrations of vesicles to modulate the concentration of free Ca2+ in the medium. This experimental approach takes advantage of the fact that at high concentrations of vesicles the slow rate of liberation of Ca2+ from its oxalate complex becomes rate limiting for pumping, therefore pushing the steady-state levels of this cation to very low values. A reduction in the number of calcium ions transported per ATP cleaved from a value near 2 at a low concentration of vesicles (high medium Ca2+ concentration) to a limiting value of about 1 at a very high concentration of vesicles (low medium Ca2+ concentration) was observed. A marked decrease in the specific ATPase activity was also found to take place as the concentration of the sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was increased to high levels and the concentration of medium Ca2+ declined. The data presented indicate that binding of 1 Ca2+ to the sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase is sufficient to activate the pump. Furthermore, these findings support the existence of a control mechanism for the calcium pump that helps to avoid a futile cycle of ATP cleavage with no net transport of calcium and that increases the pumping capability at low concentrations of free Ca2+.
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PMID:Modulation of stoichiometry of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump may enhance thermodynamic efficiency. 315 60


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