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The synthetase subunit of Escherichia coli carbamyl phosphate synthetase has two catalytic nucleotide-binding domains, one involved in the activation of HCO3- and the second in phosphorylation of carbamate. Here we show that a Glu841----Lys841 substitution in a putative ATP-binding domain located in the carboxyl half of the synthetase abolishes overall synthesis of carbamyl phosphate with either
glutamine
or NH3 as the nitrogen source. Measurements of partial activities indicate that while HCO3(-)-dependent ATP hydrolysis at saturating concentrations of substrate proceeds at higher than normal rates, ATP synthesis from ADP and carbamyl phosphate is nearly completely suppressed by the mutation. These results indicate Glu841 to be an essential residue for the phosphorylation of carbamate in the terminal step of the catalytic mechanism. The Lys841 substitution also affects the kinetic properties of the HCO3- activation site. Both kcat and Km for ATP increase 10-fold, while Km for HCO3- is increased 100-fold. Significantly, NH3 decreases rather than stimulates Pi release from ATP in the HCO3(-)-dependent
ATPase
reaction. The increase in kcat of the HCO3(-)-dependent
ATPase
reaction, and an impaired ability of the Lys841 enzyme to catalyze the reaction of NH3 with carboxy phosphate, strongly argues for interactions between the two catalytic ATP sites that couple the formation of enzyme-bound carbamate with its phosphorylation.
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PMID:Mutational analysis of carbamyl phosphate synthetase. Substitution of Glu841 leads to loss of functional coupling between the two catalytic domains of the synthetase subunit. 173 23
The progress of research in the Central Nervous System (CNS) had led to the consideration of neurons and glia as indissociable functional complexes. Neuron-glia interactions are essential for the maturation of the CNS. Glial cells release trophic factors for neurons (NGF) and neurons release trophic factors for glia (GGF). Furthermore, the latter provide a substrate for the migration of neurons and guidance of axons by mean of adhesion molecules. In adults, the interactions between neurons and glial cells serve to maintain homeostasis. Thus, the glial cells perform the restoration of the metabolic equilibrium overthrown by the transmission of the nerve impulse and provide the glucose required for neuronal activity. The nerve impulse provokes increases in the cellular space of CO2, K+, NH3 and neurotransmitters which must be taken up to allow neuronal activity to continue (in normal conditions). Astrocytes perform the uptake of the extracellular K+ by means of passive ionic channels, ionic voltage-dependent channels and a sodium-potassium-
ATPase
-dependent pump. The oligodendrocytes are involved in the metabolism of CO2 by converting CO2 into carbonic acid by means of carbonic anhydrase. Oligodendrocytes and astrocytes play a role in terminating neural transmission by the uptake of the amino acid neurotransmitters, such as GABA, glutamate and aspartate. The catabolism of glutamate to
glutamine
by means of glutamine synthetase allows both the conversion of an excitatory amino acid into a neutral amino acid (which can diffuse in the extracellular space without causing neural transmission) and the reduction of cerebral NH3 content.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Neuron-glia interactions]. 178 93
The change in reaction energetics of the bicarbonate-dependent
ATPase
reaction of Escherichia coli carbamoyl phosphate synthetase has been investigated for two site-directed mutations of the essential cysteine in the small subunit. Cysteine 269 has been proposed to facilitate the hydrolysis of
glutamine
by the formation of a glutamyl-thioester intermediate. The two mutant enzymes, C269S and C269G, along with the isolated large subunit, exhibit a 2-2.6-fold increase in the bicarbonate-dependent
ATPase
reaction relative to that observed for the wild type enzyme. In the presence of
glutamine
the overall enhancement is 3.7 and 9.0 for the C269G and C269S mutant enzymes, respectively. Carboxyphosphate is an intermediate in the bicarbonate-dependent
ATPase
reaction. The cause of the rate enhancements was investigated by measuring the positional isotope exchange rate in [gamma-18O4] ATP relative to the net rate of ATP hydrolysis. This ratio (Vex/Vchem) is a measure of the partitioning of the enzyme-carboxyphosphate-ADP complex. The partitioning ratio for the mutants is identical within experimental error to that observed for the wild type enzyme. This observation is consistent with the conclusion that the ground state for the enzyme-carboxyphosphate-ADP complex in the mutants is destabilized relative to the same complex in the wild type enzyme. If the increase in the absolute rate of ATP hydrolysis was due to a stabilization of the transition state for carboxyphosphate hydrolysis then the positional isotope exchange rate relative to the chemical hydrolysis rate would have been expected to decrease in the mutants.
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PMID:Alterations in the energetics of the carbamoyl phosphate synthetase reaction by site-directed modification of the essential sulfhydryl group. 182 18
Site-specific mutagenesis of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-
ATPase
was used to investigate the functional roles of 18 amino acid residues located at or near the "hinge-domain," a highly conserved region of the cation-transporting ATPases. Mutation of Lys684 to arginine, alanine, histidine, and
glutamine
resulted in complete loss of calcium transport function and
ATPase
activity. For the Lys684----Ala, histidine, and
glutamine
mutants, this coincided with a loss of the ability to form a phosphorylated intermediate from ATP or Pi. The Lys684----Arg mutant retained the ability to phorphorylate from ATP with normal apparent affinity, demonstrating the importance of the positive charge. On the other hand, no phosphorylation was observed with Pi as substrate in this mutant. Examination of the partial reactions after phosphorylation from ATP in the Lys684----Arg mutant demonstrated a reduction of the rate of transformation of the ADP-sensitive phosphoenzyme intermediate (E1P) to the ADP-insensitive phosphoenzyme intermediate (E2P), which could account for the loss of transport function. Once accumulated, the E2P intermediate was able to decompose rapidly in the presence of K+ at neutral pH. These results may be interpreted in terms of a preferential destabilization of protein phosphate interactions in the E2P form of this mutant. The Asp703----Ala and Asn-Asp707----Ala-Ala mutants were completely inactive and unable to form phosphoenzyme intermediates from ATP or Pi. In these mutants as well as in the Lys684----Ala mutant, nucleotides were found to protect with normal affinity against intramolecular cross-linking induced with glutaraldehyde, indicating that the nucleotide binding site was intact. Mutation of Glu646, Glu647, Asp659, Asp660, Glu689, Asp695, Glu696, Glu715, and Glu732 to alanine did not affect the maximum rates of calcium transport and ATP hydrolysis or the apparent affinities for calcium and ATP. Mutation of the 2 highly conserved proline residues, Pro681 and Pro709, as well as Lys728, to alanine resulted in partially inhibited Ca(2+)-
ATPase
enzymes with retention of the ability to form a phosphoenzyme intermediate from ATP or Pi and with normal apparent affinities for ATP and calcium. The proline mutants retained the biphasic ATP concentration dependence of
ATPase
activity, characteristic of the wild-type, and therefore the partial inhibition of turnover could not be ascribed to a disruption of the low affinity modulatory ATP site.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Functional consequences of alterations to amino acids located in the hinge domain of the Ca(2+)-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. 183 54
The Ca2+,Mg(2+)-ATPase of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is irreversibly inactivated by a freeze-thaw (FT) cycle. The membrane does not become more permeable to calcium after a FT cycle, suggesting that the reduced uptake is due to damage to the Ca2+,Mg(2+)-ATPase. Several amino acids, in addition to standard cryoprotectants provide good protection of calcium uptake against FT damage. The amount of protection given by the amino acids is generally inversely proportional to a measure of hydrophobicity, the mean fractional area loss upon incorporation in globular proteins of the amino acid side chain. Unlike the case for cells,
glutamine
and dimethyl sulfoxide do not act independently as cryoprotectants for SR calcium ATPase. When the protein is exposed to multiple FT cycles, the amount of inactivation is exponentially proportional to the number of FT cycles. This is true for both protected and unprotected samples. Some SR vesicles fuse during FT. Fusion of vesicles cannot account for the observed inactivation of the enzyme. Fluorescence studies, using intrinsic tryptophan and extrinsic FITC and NCD-4, suggest that FT does not damage the transmembrane region of the Ca2+,Mg(2+)-ATPase or the calcium binding sites, but only the mechanism coupling
ATPase
activity to calcium translocation. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies suggest that this region comprises less than 15% of the whole enzyme.
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PMID:Site of freeze-thaw damage and cryoprotection by amino acids of the calcium ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. 183 65
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from Escherichia coli catalyzes the formation of carbamoyl phosphate from ATP, bicarbonate, and
glutamine
. The amidotransferase activity of this enzyme is catalyzed by the smaller of the two subunits of the heterodimeric protein. The roles of four conserved histidine residues within this subunit were probed by site-directed mutagenesis to asparagine. The catalytic activities of the H272N and H341N mutants are not significantly different than that of the wild-type enzyme. The H353N mutant is unable to utilize
glutamine
as a nitrogen source in the synthetase reaction or the partial glutaminase reaction. However, binding to the
glutamine
active site is not impaired in the H353N enzyme since
glutamine
is found to activate the partial
ATPase
reaction by 40% with a Kd of 54 microM. The H312N mutant has a Michaelis constant for
glutamine
that is 2 orders of magnitude larger than the wild-type value, but the maximal rate of
glutamine
hydrolysis is unchanged. These results are consistent with His-353 functioning as a general acid/base catalyst for proton transfers while His-312 serves a critical role for the binding of
glutamine
to the active site.
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PMID:Role of the four conserved histidine residues in the amidotransferase domain of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. 186 65
Strain F, a recently isolated ruminal bacterium, grew rapidly with glutamate or
glutamine
as an energy source in the presence but not the absence of Na. Monensin, a Na+/H+ antiporter, completely inhibited bacterial growth and significantly reduced ammonia production (85%), but 3,3',4',5-tetrachlorosalicylanide (a protonophore) and valinomycin had little effect on growth or ammonia production. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, a H(+)-
ATPase
, inhibitor had no effect. The kinetics of glutamate and
glutamine
transport were biphasic, showing unusually high rates at high substrate concentrations. On the basis of low substrate concentrations (less than 100 microM), the Km values for glutamate and
glutamine
were 4 and 11 microM, respectively. Strain F had separate carriers for glutamate and
glutamine
which could be driven by a chemical gradient of Na. An artificial delta psi was unable to drive transport even when Na was present. The glutamate carrier had a single binding site for Na with a Km of 21 mM; the
glutamine
carrier appeared to have more than one binding site, and the Km was 2.8 mM. Neither carrier could use Li instead of Na. Histidine and serine were also rapidly transported by Na-dependent systems, but serine alone did not allow growth even when Na was present. Because exponentially growing cells at pH 6.9 had little delta psi (-3 mV) and a slightly reversed Z delta pH (+17 mV), it appeared that the membrane bioenergetics of strain F were solely dependent on Na circulation.
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PMID:Transport and deamination of amino acids by a gram-positive, monensin-sensitive ruminal bacterium. 197 63
The sodium- and potassium-dependent
adenosine triphosphatase
(Na+,K(+)-
ATPase
) maintains the transmembrane Na+ gradient to which is coupled all active cellular transport systems. The R and S alleles of the gene encoding the Na+,K(+)-
ATPase
alpha 1 subunit isoform were identified in Dahl salt-resistant (DR) and Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats, respectively. Characterization of the S allele-specific Na+,K(+)-
ATPase
alpha 1 complementary DNA identified a leucine substitution of
glutamine
at position 276. This mutation alters the hydropathy profile of a region in proximity to T3(Na), the trypsin-sensitive site that is only detected in the presence of Na+. This mutation causes a decrease in the rubidium-86 influx of S allele-specific sodium pumps, thus marking a domain in the Na+,K(+)-
ATPase
alpha subunit important for K+ transport, and supporting the hypothesis of a putative role of these pumps in hypertension.
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PMID:Alteration of alpha 1 Na+,K(+)-ATPase 86Rb+ influx by a single amino acid substitution. 197 5
In a model proposed for the structure of the a-subunit of the Escherichia coli F0F1-
ATPase
(Howitt, S.M., Gibson, F. and Cox, G.B. (1988) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 936, 74-80), a cluster of charged residues, including one arginine and four aspartic acid residues, lie on the periplasmic side of the membrane. On the cytoplasmic side, three pairs of lysine residues and an arginine residue are present. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to investigate the roles of these residues. It was found that none was directly involved in the proton pore. However, the substitutions of Asp-124 or Asp-44 by asparagine or Arg-140 by
glutamine
had similar effects in that the membranes from such mutants from which the F1-ATPase was removed were proton-impermeable. A combination of the Asp-44 mutation with either the Asp-124 or Arg-140 mutations in the same strain resulted in complete loss of oxidative phosphorylation. It was tentatively concluded that Asp-124 and Arg-140 form a salt bridge, as did Asp-44 with an unknown residue, and these salt bridges were concerned with the maintenance of correct a-subunit structure. Further support for this conclusion was obtained when second site revertants of a Glu-219 to histidine mutant were found to have either histidine or leucine replacing Arg-140. Thus, the lack of the Asp-124/Arg-140 salt bridge might enable repositioning of the helices of the a-subunit such that His-219 becomes a functional component of the proton pore.
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PMID:Mutational analysis of the function of the a-subunit of the F0F1-APPase of Escherichia coli. 213 15
To examine the potential effect of the cellular ATP concentration and of the phosphate potential on the function of the sodium pump in intact renal cells, the ATP content of dog cortical tubules was first modified by a 30-min preincubation with one of the following effectors: 5 or 10 mM fructose, 2.5 mM adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP), or 2.5 mM adenosine in the presence of substrates (10 mM
glutamine
+ 1 mM glutamate with either 10 mM lactate (low ATP) or 10 mM pyruvate (high ATP)). The tubules were then incubated in Krebs-Henseleit saline using two different phosphate concentrations and the same substrate mixture. The ATP content in tubular cells was modified by these treatments, ranging from 2.2 to 5.7 mM. The oxygen uptake by the tubules was measured before and after application of a small amount of nystatin (0.05 mM, 6 mumol/g wet wt.), added to impose an identical and submaximal increment of work to the Na(+)-K+
ATPase
in tubules, irrespective of their ATP condition. This manoeuvre was followed by the addition of 1 mM ouabain to inhibit the sodium pump and quantify the respiration related to the activity of the Na+ pump. No significant effect of the ATP content on the respiratory cost of the Na(+)-K+
ATPase
activity was noted when the [ATP] was above the normal concentration of approximately 3.0 mM before or after introduction of nystatin. In a second group of experiments, tubules were treated with 0.1 mM digitonin (13 mumol/g wet wt.) and resuspended in intracellular-like and sodium-free medium. The respiration was measured before and after the addition of increasing Mg-ATP concentrations (0-12 mM). A fixed quantity of Na+ (20 mM) was then introduced before ouabain was applied. The oxygen uptake was measured in these three conditions. We observed a fixed increment of ouabain-sensitive respiration upon stimulation of the pump activity by sodium at ATP concentrations ranging from 2 to 7 mM. The same observation applied when the free energy released from ATP hydrolysis ranged from -50 to -56 kJ.mol-1 and when the [ATP]/[ADP].[Pi] ratio ranged from 1.5 to 7.5 mM-1. These results suggest that the Na+:ATP stoichiometry of the Na(+)-K+
ATPase
is not modified by [ATP] in dog cortical tubules when the ATP content is at or above the physiological value. Furthermore, the stoichiometry of the pump does not appear to change when the phosphate potential and (or) the free energy released from ATP hydrolysis are altered.
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PMID:Relationship between intracellular ATP and the sodium pump activity in dog renal tubules. 215 85
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