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Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (
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The Lubrol-dispersed guanylate cyclase from sea urchin sperm was purified and isolated essentially free of detergent by GTP affinity chromatography, DEAE-Sephadex chromatography, and gel filtration. After removal of the detergent, the enzyme remained in solution in the presence of 20% glycerol. The specific activity of the purified enzyme was about 12 mumol of guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) formed - min-1 - mg of protein-1 at 30 degrees, an activity about 4600 times that of a soluble guanylate cyclase purified recently from Escherichia coli (Macchia V., Varrone, S., Weissbach, H., Miller, D.L., and Pastan, I. (1975) J. Biol. Chem. 250, 6214-6217). The cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase activity was negligible and adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) phosphodiesterase was not detectable in the purified preparation. Cyclic AMP formation from ATP occurred at a rate of 0.002% of that of guanylate cyclase. In the absence of phosphodiesterase or guanosine
triphosphatase
inhibitors, 100% of the added GTP was converted to cyclic GMP. The purified enzyme required Mn2+ for maximum activity, the relative rates in the presence of Mg2+ or
Ca2+
being less than 0.6% of the rates with Mn2+. The purified enzyme displayed classical Michaelis-Menten kinetics with respect to MnGTP (apparent Km is approximately equal to 170 muM) in contrast to the positively cooperative kinetic behavior displayed by the unpurified, detergent-dispersed, or particulate guanylate cyclase. The molecular weight of the purified enzyme was approximately 182,000 as estimated on Bio-Gel A-0.5m columns equilibrated in the presence or absence of 0.1 M NaCl. The unpurified, detergent-dispersed enzyme also migrated with an apparent molecular weight of 182,000 on columns equilibrated with 0.5% Lubrol WX and 0.1 M NaCl, but it migrated as a large aggregate (molecular weight is greater than 5 X 10(5)) on columns equilibrated in the absence of either the detergent of NaCl. After gel filtration, the unpurified, dispersed enzyme still yielded positive cooperative kinetic patterns as a function of MnGTP. Na dodecyl-SO4 gel electrophoresis of the enzyme after the DEAE-Sephadex or the gel filtration steps resulted in two major protein bands with estimated molecular weights of 118,000 and 75,000. Whether or not these protein bands represent the subunit molecular weights of guanylate cyclase is unknown at present.
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PMID:Sea urchin sperm guanylate cyclase. Purification and loss of cooperativity. 0 69
Ca2+
is a powerful inhibitor (Ki is congruent to 16 muM) of basal and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1)-stimulated adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing); EC 4.6.1.1] activity in membranes obtained from homogenized human platelets.
Ca2+
(but not the ionophore A23,187) decreased V(max) of the reaction without an effect on the Ks for ATP. Neither ATP nor PGE1 affected Ki for
Ca2+
. In intact platelets A23,187 induced
Ca2+
influx and markedly inhibited PGE1-stimulated rise in adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) levels. Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing); EC 4.6.1.2] activity was mainly found in the soluble fraction (greater than 90%). Both soluble and membrane bound enzymes were stimulated by Mn2+ and
Ca2+
and inhibited by Zn2+. Adenylate and guanylate cyclase activity were both present in a membrane fraction cyclase activity were both present in a membrane fraction which contained
Ca2+
activated
ATPase
activity, and accumulated
Ca2+
from the medium in the presence of ATP and oxalate. Other evidence indicates that these membranes originated in large part from the dense tubular system of the platelets. It is proposed that concurrent inhibition of adenylate cyclase and stimulation of guanylate cyclase facilitates the direct initiating effect of
Ca2+
on platelet secretion and aggregation.
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PMID:Interrelationships between Ca2+ and adenylate and guanylate cyclases in the control of platelet secretion and aggregation. 0 60
Our efforts have been directed towards characterizing amino acid uptake, metabolism and release in bulk-isolated glia and neuronal perikarya studied in parallel with nerve-endings, especially as it concerns the transmitter amino acids and the participation of glia in the clearing of the synpatic space during impulse conduction. A possible neuromodulator role for the glia at the synapse is also suggested by K+-stimulated release. Our most definitive conclusions have been based so far on studies with GABA, although we are also beginning to accumulate data for glutamate related to glutamate-glutamine compartmentation. Glia preferentially accumulate potassium and amino acids compared to neuronal perikarya, have higher Na+/K+-
ATPase
activity, possess high-affinity, sodium-dependent uptake systems for GABA and glutamate similar to the ones in synaptosomes, and release amino acid in response to a potassium pulse by a
calcium
-independent process. Low neuronal uptake could be due to loss of dendrites. Unidirectional GABA-flux from the synaptosomal to glial compartment is supported by high GAD in nerve endings compared to high GABA-T in glia. Glutamine may be a transmitter glutamate-precursor in nerve-endings since glutaminase activity is high in nerve-endings, but low in glia where glutamine is presumably made. Glutamine uptake in both glia and synaptosomes obeys low-affinity kinetics in contrast to glutamate, consistent with the inability of glutamine to excite the neuronal membrane. The studies with GABA, which are considerably more extensive, are supported by related work using glia in tissue-culture and autoradiography. There appears to be a suggested difference in the behavior of amines which were poorly taken up by the glial system. Glia, synaptosomes and neuronal perikarya, in general behaved similarly with respect to requirements for uptake and release, except in the case of Ca++, which exerted opposite effects on glial and synaptosomal uptake of GABA. We believe that work along these lines tends to firmly establish a direct role for glial cells as modulators of neuronal excitability and represents a convergence between transmitter amino acid neuropharmacology and cellular biochemistry. This not only deepens and enlarges the vocabulary of synaptic biochemistry but also undoubtedly will have major clinical applications in the fields of epilepsy and behavior.
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PMID:Amino acid transport in isolated neurons and glia. 0 26
Membrane-bound
ATPase
activities in chloroplasts of Euglena were examined.
Ca2+
- and Mg2+-dependent activities were relatively high in membrane preparations and could not be further activated by a number of procedures. The enzyme was found to be highly specific for purine nucleotides and was inhibited by the usual inhibitors of photophosphorylation. Km values of
Ca2+
and Mg2+
ATPase
for ATP were 2.5 and 2.1 mM, respectively. Both activities were competitively inhibited by ADP and inorganic phosphate. A relationship was found between
Ca2+
- or Mg2+-dependent
ATPase
activities and chloroplast completeness. The possibilities that these activities result from one enzyme depending on
Ca2+
or Mg2+ or from two different enzymes are discussed.
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PMID:Membrane-bound ATPase in chloroplasts of Euglena gracilis. 0 24
The kinetic study of the C2+
ATPase
activity of lymphocyte plasma memebranes allowed some properties of this enzyme to be evidenced. The
Ca2+
-activated hydrolysis of ATP is independent of a non-specific alkaline phosphatase. The substrate of the
ATPase
activity is the chelate
Ca2+
- ATP. Mg2+ may substitute for
Ca2+
both as chelating ion and as activating ion. Several results suggest that we have only one
ATPase
, activated either by
Ca2+
-, or by Mg2+ with less efficiency; both chelates hve the same Km; pH values for maximum activity and transition temperatures are identical; the effects of free ions are also the same, activation at low concentration and inhibition at high concentration.
...
PMID:[Kinetics of Ca 2+ or Mg 2+ activated ATPase from lymphocyte plasma membranes]. 0 56
Cardiac myosin from thyrotoxic animals (myosin-T) exhibits elevated
Ca2+
-
ATPase
activity which is resistant to further stimulation by sulfhydryl modification. In the present study, we have compared the enzymatic properties of myosin-T with those of myosin from euthyroid rabbits (myosin-N) and the derivatives of myosin-T and myosin-N formed by blocking the most rapidly reacting class of thiols (SH1) with N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). Vmax for
Ca2+
-
ATPase
of myosin-T was about 250% greater than myosin-N and was nearly the same as NEM-modified myosin-N. Values for the apparent Km of myosin-T and NEM-modified myosin-N were 200% greater than the value for unmodified myosin-N. Vmax and Km for K+ (EDTA)-
ATPase
activity of NEM-modified myosin-T and myosin-N were identical. The
Ca2+
saturation, pH, and salt-dependency curves for the
ATPase
activity of myosin-T were parallel to the curves for myosin-N and differed from those for the NEM-modified myosins. Myosin-T exhibited an increased rate of hydrolysis of ATP, CTP, and UTP in both low (0.05m) and high (0.5m) KCl medium. NEM-modified myosin-N showed increased hydrolysis of ATP and CTP in low KCl medium and increased hydrolysis of ATP, CTP, and UTP in high KCl medium. These results support the hypothesis that the enzymatic behavior of myosin-T may be caused by an alteration in the active site near the SH, thiols. The unique enzymatic properties of myosin-T did not seem to be the result of a major change in structure. The electrophoretic pattern of light chains from myosin-T and myosin-N was the same in polyacrylamide gels containing either 8 M urea at pH 8.6 or sodium dodecyl sulfate. Also, myosin-T had a normal amino acid composition and lacked 3-methyl-histidine and hot acid-stable phosphate.
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PMID:Enzymatic properties of native and N-ethylmaleimide-modified cardiac myosin from normal and thyrotoxic rabbits. 0 19
The kinetics of vascular smooth musclw activity was studied by means of afterloaded isotonic contractions of the tetanized rat portal vein at varied pH (8.0-5.9), pCa (3.4-2.1), and during noradrenaline incubation (0.4 mug/ml). Under control conditions (pH 7.3, pCa 2.6) the following parameters of the force velocity relation were calculated: a of Hill's equation (relating to the isometric peak tension) = 0.36; b (relating to the actual muscle length) = 0.19 ML/s; VM Trelating to the actual muscle length) = 0.56 ML/s. Within the range of pCa between 2.0 and 3.2 the amount of force generation (= delta P) depended on the extracellular
calcium
level whereas the extrapolated velocity of shortening of the unloaded preparation (= VM) did not. Also pH changes between 8.0 and 6.8 as well as noradrenaline incubation at a pH of 5.9 affected delta P quite considerably, but VM only scarcely. At a pH of 6.3, however, VM was distinctly diminished, and a reduced
calcium
sensitivity of the
ATPase
was inferred from the shift of ED50 of extracellular
calcium
from 0.66 mM Ca at a pH of 7.3 to 1.56 mM Ca at a pH of 6.3 (P less than 0.0005). It is concluded from these results that the experimental conditions-pCa between 2.0 and 3.2, pH between 8.0 and 6.8, and noradrenaline added at a pH of 5.9-obviously change the intracellular
calcium
concentration which influences the number of activated interaction sites rather than the velocity of crossbridge movement.
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PMID:Force velocity relations in vascular smooth muscle: the influence of pH, pCa, and noradrenaline. 0 65
The procedure for the isolation of the highly active fraction of sarcoplasmic reticulum from pigeon and dog hearts is described. The method is based on the partial loading of heart microsomes with
calcium
and oxalate ions and the precipitation of loaded vesicles in sucrose and potassium chloride concentration gradients. Preparations obtained possess high activity of
Ca2+
-dependent
ATPase
and are also able to accumulate up to 10 mumol
Ca2+
per mg protein. Purification of sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes is accompanied by a decrease in concentration of cytochrome a+a3 and an increase in the content of [32P]phosphoenzyme. The basic components in "calcium-oxalate preparation" from hearts are proteins with molecular weights of about 100000 (
Ca2+
-dependent
ATPase
) and 55000
Calcium
-oxalate preparation from pigeon hearts was used for subsequent purification of
Ca2+
-dependent
ATPase
. Specific activity of purified enzyme from pigeon hearts is 12-16 mumol Pi/min per mg protein. Enzyme activity of purified
Ca2+
-dependent
ATPase
is inhibited by EGTA and is not sensitive to azide, 2,4-dinitrophenol and ouabain. The data obtained demonstrate the similarity of calcium pump systems and
Ca2+
-dependent ATPases isolated from heart and skeletal muscles.
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PMID:Isolation of calcium pump system and purification of calcium ion-dependent ATPase from heart muscle. 0 44
Membrane vesicles from Azotobacter vinelandii O prepared by osmotic lysis of spheroplasts in tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane/acetate buffer (pH 7.8) contain a latent
adenosine triphosphatase
(
ATPase
). The
ATPase
can be activated when the vesicles are incubated in the presence of an electron donor (D-lactate) and a mixture of adenosine diphosphate and inorganic phosphate or by controlled treatment with trypsin. After the
ATPase
is activated, the membrane vesicles in the presence of adenosine triphosphate accumulate
calcium
but not glucose or rubidium (in the presence of valinomycin). ATP-dependent
calcium
uptake follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics with a Km of 48 muM and a Vmax of 20 nmol/min/mg of membrane protein and is highly specific for
calcium
over cations magnesium, barium, lanthanum, sodium, potassium, and lithium. The
calcium
accumulated in the presence of ATP is freely exchangeable with external
calcium
and is rapidly released in the presenceof uncouplers or
ATPase
inhibitors.
Calcium
uptake in the presenceof ATP is blocked by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, ADP, p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonate, by the proton-conducting ionophores m-chlorophenylcarbonylcyanide hydrazone, nigericin, monensin, and gramicidin D, but not by potassium cyanide, anoxia, or valinomycin (in the presence of potassium). Measurements of the external pH of vesicle suspensions reveal that protons are actively taken up by the membranes during hydrolysis of ATP. These results suggest that vesicles prepared under these conditions have a topology which is inverted with respect to the intact cell and that
calcium
is accumulated by means of proton antiport.
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PMID:ATP-dependent calcium transport in isolated membrane vesicles from Azotobacter vinelandii. 0 92
A method is described for the preparation of high purity myosin from the left ventricle of pig heart. The purified myosin was free from nucleic acid, actin, tropomyosin, troponin, the 150,000 molecular weight protein and other contaminants. Analyses of subunits in the purified myosin were carried out on 3.5% acrylamide gel with 0.1% SDS. Of the total protein present in myosin, 11.3% was in the light chains; light chain 1 (LC1), 5.9% and light chain 2 (LC2), 5.4%. Urea gel electrophoresis of the purified myosin showed three closely spaced bands corresponding to the 20,000 dalton, the charge-modified 20,000 dalton and the phosphorylated 20,000 dalton components. The properties of the
Ca2+
-activated and K+-activated ATPases [
EC 3.6.1.3
] of the purified myosin were also studied. The Km values were 27 and 55 muM and the Vmax values were 0.263 and 0.317 mumole P1/mg/min for the
Ca2+
-activated and K+-activated ATPases, respectively. The pH-activity profiles and the effects of SH modification were of the skeletal myosin type except that the activities were lower.
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PMID:Cardiac myosin from pig heart ventricle. Purification and enzymatic properties. 1 Feb 92
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