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Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (ATPase)
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The divalent cations of cobalt, zinc, and nickel are essential nutrients for bacteria, required as trace elements at nanomolar concentrations. However, at micro- or millimolar concentrations, Co2+, Zn2+, and Ni2+ (and "bad ions" without nutritional roles such as Cd2+) are toxic. These cations are transported into the cell by constitutively expressed divalent cation uptake systems of broad specificity, i.e., basically Mg2+ transport systems. Therefore, in case of a heavy metal stress, uptake of the toxic ions cannot be reduced by a simple down-regulation of the transport activity. As a response to the resulting metal toxicity, metal resistance determinants evolved which are mostly plasmid-encoded in bacteria. In contrast to that of the cation Hg2+, chemical reduction of Co2+, Zn2+, Ni2+, and Cd2+ by the cell is not possible or sensible. Therefore, other than mutations limiting the ion range of the uptake system, only two basic mechanisms of resistance to these ions are possible (and were developed by evolution): intracellular complexation of the toxic metal ion is mainly used in eucaryotes; the cadmium-binding components are phytochelatins in plant and yeast cells and metallothioneins in animals, plants, and yeasts. In contrast, reduced accumulation based on an active efflux of the cation is the primary mechanism developed in procaryotes and perhaps in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. All bacterial cation efflux systems characterized to date are plasmid-encoded and inducible but differ in energy-coupling and in the number and types of proteins involved in metal transport and in regulation. In the gram-positive multiple-metal-resistant bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, Cd2+ (and probably Zn2+) efflux is catalyzed by the membrane-bound CadA protein, a P-type ATPase. However, a second protein (CadC) is required for full resistance and a third one (CadR) is hypothesized for regulation of the resistance determinant. The czc determinant from the gram-negative multiple-metal-resistant bacterium Alcaligenes eutrophus encodes proteins required for Co2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+ efflux (CzcA, CzcB, and CzcC) and regulation of the czc determinant (CzcD). In the current working model CzcA works as a cation-proton antiporter, CzcB as a cation-binding subunit, and CzcC as a modifier protein required to change the substrate specificity of the system from Zn2+ only to Co2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+.
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PMID:Resistance to cadmium, cobalt, zinc, and nickel in microbes. 174 58

Both nickel-specific transport and nickel transport by a magnesium transporter have been described previously for a variety of nickel-utilizing bacteria. The derepression of hydrogenase activity in Bradyzhizobium japonicum JH and in a gene-directed mutant of strain JH (in an intracellular Ni metabolism locus), strain JHK7, was inhibited by MgSO4. For both strains, Ni2+ uptake was also markedly inhibited by Mg2+, and the Mg(2+)-mediated inhibition could be overcome by high levels of Ni2+ provided in the assay buffer. The results indicate that both B. japonicum strains transport Ni2+ via a high-affinity magnesium transport system. Dixon plots (1/V versus inhibitor) showed that the divalent cations Co2+, Mn2+, and Zn2+, like Mg2+, were competitive inhibitors of Ni2+ uptake. The KiS for nickel uptake inhibition by Mg2+, Co2+, Mn2+, and Zn2+ were 48, 22, 12, and 8 microM, respectively. Cu2+ strongly inhibited Ni2+ uptake, and molybdate inhibited it slightly. Respiratory inhibitors cyanide and azide, the uncoupler carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, the ATPase inhibitor N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, and ionophores nigericin and valinomycin significantly inhibited short-term (5 min) Ni2+ uptake, showing that Ni2+ uptake in strain JH is energy dependent. Most of these conclusions are quite different from those reported previously for a different B. japonicum strain belonging to a different serogroup.
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PMID:Competitive inhibition of an energy-dependent nickel transport system by divalent cations in Bradyrhizobium japonicum JH. 178 26

The purified Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase from rat heart plasma membrane was activated by Ca2+ and Mg2+ with Ka values of 1.47 mM and 2.51 mM, respectively; other divalent cations also activated the enzyme but to a lesser extent. Divalent cations like Cu2+, Zn2+, Ni2+, Cd2+ were potent inhibitors of the enzyme activity in the presence of Ca2+ or Mg2+ whereas Na+, K+ or HCO3- did not affect the Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase activity; the pH optima was 8.5. The enzyme hydrolyzed ATP with a Km of 0.34 mM for Ca2+ ATPase and 0.48 mM for Mg2+ ATPase; various nucleoside triphosphate such as ITP, CTP, GTP, and UTP were also hydrolyzed. Phospholipase A and C as well as neuraminidase decreased the Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase activity whereas phospholipase D was ineffective. The purified Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase was found to bind ATP-r-35S with two affinities; the KD values were 50.9 +/- 0.8 and 1160 +/- 198 nM and the Bmax values were 8.71 +/- 0.16 and 145 +/- 9.7 nmol/mg protein for high and low affinity sites, respectively. Treatment of the enzyme preparation with phospholipases and neuraminidase did not affect the ATP-r-35S binding. Ca2+ was also found to bind with Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase with a KD of 0.384 mM and a Bmax of 1.85 mumol/mg protein; Ni2+, Mn2+, Zn2+ at 1 mM concentrations inhibited the Ca2+ binding but Mg2+ and verapamil were without effect. Phospholipase A and neuraminidase decreased the Ca2+ binding by 20-30%; this indicated that Ca2+ binding with the purified enzyme may be partly due to the phospholipids and sialic acid residues associated with the enzyme. These results show that the purified Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase is a Ca2+ binding glycoprotein having two binding sites for ATP. Furthermore, this study suggests that phospholipids associated with purified Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase are required for maximal activity.
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PMID:Characterization of the purified rat heart plasma membrane Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase. 183 90

A new visualization (Ce/Ce-H2O2-DAB-Ni) procedure for cerium (Ce III) phosphate in semithin and ultrathin plastic sections (Epon 812, Lowicryl K4M, glycol methacrylate) of rat kidney tissues that had been incubated before embedding for the demonstration of phosphatases (alkaline and acid phosphatase, 5(1)-nucleotidase, Mg-dependent ATPase) is described. For this purpose the hydrophobic Epon resin was removed in NaOH-ethanol solution, whereas the hydrophilic Lowicryl and methacrylate sections did not required any etching. The primary reaction product Ce III-phosphate was amplified in a Ce III-citrate solution, subsequently oxidized with H2O2 and then visualized in a H2O2 containing DAB-nickel medium (Ce IV-perhydroxy induced DAB polymerization principle). The method yielded a very clear localization of enzyme activity. The final reaction product (DAB-nickel polymers) in 0.5 - 2.0 microns semithin sections is blue-black; the background staining is completely prevented. An increase of the staining contrast was obtained by posttreatment with OsO4 (osmium black formation). Furthermore, the enzyme reaction product could be demonstrated in 40 nm thick ultrathin sections by silver intensification, which utilized the high argyrophilia of the polymerized DAB-nickel complexes. This procedure replaces the earlier published technique.
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PMID:Cerium as amplifying agent--an improved cerium-perhydroxide-DAB-nickel (Ce/Ce-H2O2-DAB-Ni) method for the visualization of cerium phosphate in resin sections. 193 7

Heavy metal ions have been shown to induce Ca2+ release from skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) by binding to free sulfhydryl groups on a Ca2+ channel protein and are now examined in cardiac SR. Ag+ and Hg2+ (at 10-25 microM) induced Ca2+ release from isolated canine cardiac SR vesicles whereas Ni2+, Cd2+, and Cu2+ had no effect at up to 200 microM. Ag(+)-induced Ca2+ release was measured in the presence of modulators of SR Ca2+ release was compared to Ca2(+)-induced Ca2+ release and was found to have the following characteristics. (i) Ag(+)-induced Ca2+ release was dependent on free [Mg2+], such that rates of efflux from actively loaded SR vesicles increased by 40% in 0.2 to 1.0 mM Mg2+ and decreased by 50% from 1.0 to 10.0 mM Mg2+. (ii) Ruthenium red (2-20 microM) and tetracaine (0.2-1.0 mM), known inhibitors of SR Ca2+ release, inhibited Ag(+)-induced Ca2+ release. (iii) Adenine nucleotides such as cAMP (0.25-2.0 mM) enhanced Ca2(+)-induced Ca2+ release, and stimulated Ag(+)-induced Ca2+ release. (iv) Low Ag+ to SR protein ratios (5-50 nmol Ag+/mg protein) stimulated Ca2(+)-dependent ATPase activity in Triton X-100-uncoupled SR vesicles. (v) At higher ratios of Ag+ to SR proteins (50-250 nmol Ag+/mg protein), the rate of Ca2+ efflux declined and Ca2(+)-dependent ATPase activity decreased gradually, up to a maximum of 50% inhibition. (vi) Ag+ stimulated Ca2+ efflux from passively loaded SR vesicles (i.e., in the absence of ATP and functional Ca2+ pumps), indicating a site of action distinct from the SR Ca2+ pump. Thus, at low Ag+ to SR protein ratios, Ag+ is very selective for the Ca2+ release channel. At higher ratios, this selectivity declines as Ag+ also inhibits the activity of Ca2+,Mg2(+)-ATPase pumps. Ag+ most likely binds to one or more sulfhydryl sites "on" or "adjacent" to the physiological Ca2+ release channel in cardiac SR to induce Ca2+ release.
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PMID:The heavy metal ions Ag+ and Hg2+ trigger calcium release from cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. 213 85

ATPases were solubilized from membranes of Acetabularia acetabulum using nonanoyl-N-methylgluconamide and purified by ion-exchange and gel permeation chromatography. Three fractions of ATPase, Mono Q-I, -II, and -III, were separated. Activity in fraction Mono Q-I was very labile and could not be accurately determined. Fractions Mono Q-II and -III had specific activities of 0.6 and 6 units/mg of protein, respectively. By SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, and peptide mapping, it was shown that fractions Mono Q-II and -III consisted of the same polypeptides with molecular masses of 54K (a-subunit) and 50K (b-subunit). Fractions Mono Q-II and -III had the following catalytic properties: pH optimum at 6.0; substrate specificity, ATP = GTP = ITP much greater than UTP = CTP (Km for ATP 0.6 mM); divalent cation requirement, Mn2+ = Mg2+ greater than Co2+ greater than Zn2+ much greater than Ca2+, Ni2+. Both activities were inhibited by monovalent anions, while monovalent cations had neither inhibitory nor stimulatory effects. Orthovanadate inhibited both activities to 50% at 1 mM, and the most effective inhibitor of both was azide (95% inhibition at 100 microM). An enzyme-phosphate complex was formed after incubation of fraction Mono Q-III with [gamma-32P]ATP. The CF1-ATPase subcomplexes were isolated from the same organism and compared with the fraction Mono Q-III. Data supported the difference of fraction Mono Q-III from CF1-ATPase.
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PMID:A Cl(-)-translocating adenosinetriphosphatase in Acetabularia acetabulum. 1. Purification and characterization of a novel type of adenosinetriphosphatase that differs from chloroplast F1 adenosinetriphosphatase. 213 42

The degradation of insulin in isolated liver endosomes and the relationships of this process with ATP-dependent endosomal acidification have been studied. Incubation of endosomal fractions containing 125I-insulin in isotonic KCl at 30 degrees C resulted in a rapid loss of insulin integrity as judged from trichloroacetic acid precipitability, Sephadex G-50 chromatography, immunoreactivity and receptor binding ability, with a maximum at pH 5-6 (t1/2: 10, 10, 6 and 6 min, respectively). On a log/log plot, the amount of acid-soluble products generated was linearly related to the amount of insulin associated with endosomes (slope, 0.80). Upon incubation, virtually all acid-soluble products diffused out of endosomes as judged from their solubility in aqueous poly(ethyleneglycol). In permeabilized endosomes, intact insulin was also released in part extraluminally, but only when degradation was inhibited did this release increase with lowering pH. ATP shifted the pH for maximal insulin degradation to about 7.5-8.5 and caused endosomal acidification as judged from the uptake of acridine orange and the fluorescence of internalized fluorescein-labeled dextran and galactosylated bovine serum albumin (delta pH about 0.8-0.9). GTP, ITP and UTP exerted comparable effects but with lower potencies. The ability of ATP to alter the pH dependence of insulin degradation was maximal in the presence of Cl-, other anions being less effective (Br- greater than gluconate = SO4(2-) greater than NO3- = sucrose = mannitol) and/or inhibitory (NO3-). Na+, K+ and Li+ supported more effectively ATP-dependent insulin degradation than did choline. Divalent cations were required for the ATP effect (Mg2+ = Mn2+ greater than Co2+ greater than Ni2+ = Zn2 greater than Ca2+). Little or no effects of ATP occurred in the presence of proton ionophores such as monensin and carbonyl cyanide chlorophenylhydrazone, and inhibitors of the proton ATPase such as N-ethylmaleimide. The abilities of nucleotides, ions and inhibitors to support or inhibit ATP-dependent insulin degradation were well correlated with their abilities to affect ATP-dependent acidification. The acidotropic agents chloroquine and quinacrine caused a leftward shift in the pH dependence of insulin degradation and a decrease in maximal degradation; in the presence of ATP, chloroquine almost completely inhibited degradation at pH 5-9. It is concluded that ATP-dependent acidification, in part by enhancing the dissociation of the insulin-receptor complex, is required for optimum degradation of insulin within liver endosomes.
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PMID:Degradation of insulin in isolated liver endosomes is functionally linked to ATP-dependent endosomal acidification. 214 19

Reversal of the cycle of sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase starts from ATPase phosphorylation by Pi, in the presence of Mg2+, and leads to ATP synthesis. We show here that ATP can also be synthesized when Ca2+ replaces Mg2+. In the absence of a calcium gradient and in the presence of dimethyl sulfoxide, ATPase phosphorylation from Pi and Ca2+ led to the formation of an unstable phosphoenzyme. This instability was due to a competition between the phosphorylation reaction induced by Pi and Ca2+ and the transition induced by Ca2+ binding to the transport sites, which led to a conformation that could not be phosphorylated from Pi. Dimethyl sulfoxide and low temperature stabilized the calcium phosphoenzyme, which under appropriate conditions, subsequently reacted with ADP to synthesize ATP. Substitution of Co2+, Mn2+, Cd2+, or Ni2+ for Mg2+ induced ATPase phosphorylation from Pi, giving phosphoenzymes of various stabilities. However, substitution of Ba2+, Sr2+, or Cr3+ produced no detectable phosphoenzymes, under the same experimental conditions. Our results show that ATPase phosphorylation from Pi, like its phosphorylation from ATP, does not have a strict specificity for magnesium.
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PMID:Reversal of the sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase cycle by substituting various cations for magnesium. Phosphorylation and ATP synthesis when Ca2+ replaces Mg2+. 214 62

The effect of 10(-6) M ouabain on macroscopic low-threshold T-type Ca2+ and high-threshold L-type Ca2+ currents was studied by whole cell recording in isolated guinea pig ventricular myocytes superfused with K-free, Na-free media, i.e., after suppression of Na-K-ATPase activity and Na influx through the Na-Ca exchanger. Under such conditions, the amplitudes of the two currents were significantly increased by ouabain. In particular, the current occurring in the -50 to -20 mV range (T-type Ca2+) was increased two- to threefold by ouabain and suppressed by 40 microM Ni2+. Ouabain shifted by approximately 10 mV toward negative potentials the steady-state inactivation curve of the T-type Ca2+ current but not that of the L-type Ca2+ current. It is concluded that ouabain enhances not only L-type Ca2+ current but also T-type Ca2+ current possibly through different mechanisms.
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PMID:Stimulatory effect of ouabain on T- and L-type calcium currents in guinea pig cardiac myocytes. 233 92

This study concerns the properties of rapid K+ and Cl transport pathways that are present in the (H+ + K+)-ATPase membrane from stimulated, and secreting, gastric oxyntic cells. Ion permeabilities in the isolated stimulation-associated vesicles were monitored via the rates of H+ efflux under conditions of exclusive H+/K+ counterflux or H+ - Cl co-efflux, as well as by comparison of equilibration rates for 86Rb and 36Cl under conditions of equilibrium exchange and unidirectional salt flux. These latter studies suggest that Rb+ and Cl pathways are conductive and independent. In spite of the functional independence of the ion pathways, several divalent cations inhibit Rb+ and Cl isotopic exchange as well as the H+ efflux that is dependent on either K+ or anion (Cl, SCN, NO2) fluxes. Zn2+ is the more potent inhibitor, reducing by 50% the sensitive component of K+, Cl, and NO2 fluxes at about 20 microM; Mn2+ has a similar effect at 200 microM. Ni2+ and Co2+ were roughly equipotent to Mn2+ while Mg2+ and Ca2+ had no inhibitory effect. These results suggest that the stimulation-induced permeabilities, while functioning independently, may be physically linked, i.e., residing within a single entity. In similar studies carried out in (H+ + K+)-ATPase vesicles obtained from nonstimulated cells, no vestiges of sensitivity to the inhibitory divalent cations could be detected. The implications of these findings for the physiology of the oxyntic cell in the context of a model for membrane fusion are discussed.
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PMID:K+ and Cl- conductances in the apical membrane from secreting oxyntic cells are concurrently inhibited by divalent cations. 258 27


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