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Peptostreptococcus anaerobius converted glutamine stoichiometrically to ammonia and pyroglutamic acid, and the Eadie-Hofstee plot of glutamine transport was biphasic. High-affinity, sodium-dependent glutamine transport (affinity constant [Kt] of 1.5 microM) could be driven by the chemical gradient of sodium, and more than 20 mM sodium was required for half-maximal velocity. High-affinity glutamine transport was not stimulated or inhibited by a membrane potential (delta psi). Low-affinity glutamine transport had a rate which was directly proportional to the external glutamine concentration, required less than 100 microM sodium, and was inhibited strongly by a delta psi. Cells which were treated with N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide to inhibit the F1F0 ATPase still generated a delta psi but did so only if the external glutamine concentration was greater than 15 mM. Low-affinity glutamine uptake could not be saturated by as much as 200 mM glutamine, but glutamine-1 accounts for only a small fraction of the total glutamine at physiological pH values (pH 6 to 7). On the basis of these results, it appeared that the low-affinity glutamine transport was an electrogenic mechanism which was converting a chemical gradient of glutamine-1 into a delta psi. Other mechanisms of delta psi generation (electrogenic glutamine-pyroglutamate or -ammonium exchange) could not be demonstrated.
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PMID:Electrogenic glutamine uptake by Peptostreptococcus anaerobius and generation of a transmembrane potential. 811 69

The functional significance of ammonia production in brain under physiological or pathological conditions is not clearly known. NH4+ stimulates Na+, K+ activated ATPase causing stabilization of neuronal membranes of which gangliosides are major structural components. Moreover ammonia is known to inhibit lysosomal enzymes which include enzymes degrading gangliosides. Gangliosides have been shown to stimulate neuritogenesis in neuronal cultures and prevent the damage of the neurons from glutamate toxicity particularly in areas of brain ischemia. Hyperammonemia without any behavioural changes was induced in experimental rats by intraperitoneal administration of either a single dose (0.8 mmol/100 g wt.) or by six 'hourly' doses (0.6 mmol/100 g wt.) of ammonium acetate. An increase in the content of gangliosides along with a rise in the content of GD1A and GD1B without any change in beta-galactosidase and N-acetylhexosaminidase was observed in cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and brain stem, following the administration of single dose of ammonium acetate. Gangliosides, after extraction from the different brain regions, were estimated by the thiobarbituric acid method and expressed in terms of sialic acid. Individual gangliosides were separated and estimated by thin layer chromatography using resorcinol as the staining agent. These results suggest that ammonia production in the neuronal pathways in brain either as a result of repeated stimulation under physiological conditions or as a result of focal ischemia or injury, may likewise cause an increase in the content of gangliosides which may help in neuritic growth (physiological conditions facilitating synaptic plasticity) and may exert a protective effect on the neurons in the ischemic area against glutamate toxicity.
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PMID:Functional relationship between ammonia and gangliosides in brain. 817 76

To examine functional changes of the transporters in the inner stripe of the outer medullary collecting ducts (OMCDis) by the peritubular acid-base status, in vitro microperfusion using the acetoxymethyl ester of 2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein was performed. Cell alkalinization systems were assessed by the recovery rate (dpHi/dt) of intracellular pH (pHi) after intracellular acid loading by NH(4+)-NH3 prepulse with bath amiloride. In alkali-loaded rabbits (0.15 M NaHCO3 drinking for 14 days), dpHi/dt showed a significant decrease (1.80 +/- 0.29 pH units/s x 10(3)) compared with either control (3.30 +/- 0.59) or acid-loaded rabbits (0.15 M NH4Cl drinking for 14 days, 3.05 +/- 0.46). The difference of dpHi/dt between control and alkali-loaded rabbits was eliminated by lumen N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), suggesting that H+ pump activity was decreased. The effect of in vitro alkali treatment (50 mM HCO3-, pH 7.7) for 3-4 h was also examined. This incubation significantly decreased the dpHi/dt (1.83 +/- 0.35) compared with the time control experiments (3.18 +/- 0.28), whereas no significant difference was seen in the presence of lumen NEM. Anion exchanger activity, as determined from the pHi changes after Cl- addition to the bath, showed no significant change with in vivo or in vitro alkali treatment. The results indicate that cell function of the OMCDis is regulated in response to the peritubular acid-base environment via changes in the H(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase.
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PMID:Effects of in vivo and in vitro alkali treatment on intracellular pH regulation of OMCDis cells. 823 55

Gastric parietal cell apical membranes must protect the cell from the extremely low pH and wide variations in osmolality of the gastric juice. To characterize the permeability properties of gastric apical membranes, we have measured passive permeabilities to water, protons, NH3, and small nonelectrolytes of membrane vesicles derived from parietal cells of fasted animals and fed animals. Both preparations are known to be highly enriched in H+/K(+)-ATPase, the enzyme responsible for acidifying the gastric contents. The preparations behaved as single populations, and their permeability properties were similar in all respects, permitting pooling of the results. This similarity suggests that insertion of tubulovesicles into the apical membrane does not change the behavior of the lipid bilayer. Osmotic water permeability (Pf) averaged (mean +/- SD) (2.8 +/- 0.3) x 10(-4) cm/s, a value 10-fold lower than that obtained in lecithin large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) and similar to that obtained in other water-tight epithelia. Similarly, ammonia permeability (PNH3) was low [(4.4 +/- 2.3) x 10(-3) cm/s] and 10 times below that of lecithin LUV. By contrast, proton permeability (PH+) was surprisingly high (0.030 +/- 0.011 cm/s) and similar to that of lecithin LUV. These results suggest that the pathway for proton permeation differs from that of water and NH3. Nonelectrolyte permeabilities were strikingly similar to those obtained in another water-tight epithelium, the toad urinary bladder. Moreover, these permeabilities followed Overton's rule in that permeability varied in accordance with the oil-water partition coefficient. We conclude that the gastric apical membrane, like that of several renal epithelia, is relatively water-tight and exhibits low permeabilities to small nonelectrolytes. These properties are likely to be essential to the ability of this membrane to perform its barrier function.
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PMID:Apical membrane of the gastric parietal cell: water, proton, and nonelectrolyte permeabilities. 838 20

The chromium complex of adenosine 5'-[beta,gamma-methylene]triphosphate, Cr(H2O)4AdoPP[CH2]P, inactivates Na+/K(+)-ATPase from pig kidney at 37 degrees C with an inactivation velocity constant of 7.1 x 10(-3) min-1 by binding to the high-affinity ATP site (E1ATP site). The dissociation constant (Kd) of the analogue at this site is 26 microM, and of ATP 0.8 microM. Inactivation of the overall reaction of Na+/K(+)-ATPase by Cr(H2O)4AdoPP[CH2]P did not alter the activities of the E2 conformational state such as K(+)-activated p-nitrophenylphosphatase, 86Rb+ occlusion and [3H]ouabain binding by the 'backdoor' phosphorylation. However, [3H]ouabain binding via the forwards reaction from E1ATP in the presence of Na+ + Mg2+ is inhibited. K(+)-activated p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity of the Cr(H2O)4AdoPP[CH2]P-inactivated enzyme decreases when an MgATP analogue, the tetraammine cobalt complex of ATP, Co(NH3)4ATP, is used additionally to inactivate the E2ATP site. The enzyme activity of K(+)-activated phosphatase is also lost if the beta,gamma-bidentate chromium(III) complex of ATP, Cr(H2O)4ATP, which may form a stable E1-chromo-phosphointermediate, is used for the inactivation of Na+/K(+)-ATPase. We conclude that the phenomenon of a blockade of the overall reaction of Na+/K(+)-ATPase by the formation of a stable E1.CrAdoPP[CH2]P complex, leading thereby to a loss of the partial activities of the E1 conformation, but not of the E2 conformation, is consistent with the postulate of an (alpha beta)2 diprotomeric nature of the sodium pump. The observation, moreover, that treatment of the sodium pump with Cr(H2O)4ATP but not with Cr(H2O)4AdoPP[CH2]P leads to an inactivation of K(+)-activated phosphatase seems to indicate that the formation of a E1-phosphointermediate affects the E2ATP site.
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PMID:Modification of the E1ATP binding site of Na+/K(+)-ATPase by the chromium complex of adenosine 5'-[beta,gamma-methylene]triphosphate blocks the overall reaction but not the partial activities of the E2 conformation. 838 35

Streptococcus bovis deaminated glutamine by a mechanism that did not involve glutaminase. Since pyroglutamate and ammonia were the only end-products, it appeared that glutamine deamination was catalyzed by a cyclotransferase reaction. Stationary S. bovis cells had essentially no intracellular ATP or membrane potential (delta psi), however, when they were provided with glutamine, intracellular ATP and delta psi increased to 0.52 mM and 158 mV, respectively. When glutamine-energized cells were treated with N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD, 150 microM), there was an even greater increase in intracellular ATP (> 5-fold) and the delta psi was dissipated. Because toluene-treated cells produced ATP from ADP and Pi, it did not appear that the cell membrane was directly involved in glutamine-dependent ATP generation. The rate of ammonia production was directly proportional to the glutamine concentration, but the stoichiometry of ATP to ammonia was always 1 to 1. Based on these results, it appeared that glutamine was deaminated by glutamine cyclotransferase which was coupled to ATP formation. The membrane bound ATPase then used the ATP to create a delta psi.
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PMID:The glutamine cyclotransferase reaction of Streptococcus bovis: a novel mechanism of deriving energy from non-oxidative and non-reductive deamination. 840 35

Three conserved histidine residues, His-243, His-781, and His-788, located within the large subunit of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from Escherichia coli were identified by sequence identity comparisons. These three histidine residues were individually mutated to asparagine residues. The H243N mutant enzyme was found to be critical for carbamoyl phosphate synthesis as the mutant protein was unable to synthesize carbamoyl phosphate at a significant rate (< 1/1500). By analysis of the effects of this mutation on the partial reactions catalyzed by CPS, it was determined that this mutation blocked the formation of the carbamate intermediate from carboxyphosphate and ammonia. The H781N mutant enzyme had an order of magnitude reduction for both the rate of carbamoyl phosphate formation and ATP synthesis which is consistent with the proposal that the carboxyl-terminal half of the large subunit is primarily involved in the phosphorylation of the putative carbamate intermediate. This mutation also reduced the effects of the allosteric activator ornithine on the Km parameters for ATP in the overall biosynthetic reaction and ADP in the ATP synthesis reaction. The H788N mutant enzyme is a functional protein which maintains the ability to synthesize carbamoyl phosphate at a rate comparable to that of the wild-type enzyme. The effects of this mutation are 10-fold reductions of the ATP synthetase and the bicarbonate-dependent ATPase activities with substantial increases in the Km values for ATP in the full biosynthetic reaction and for ADP in the ATP synthesis reaction.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Differential roles for three conserved histidine residues within the large subunit of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. 841 43

Helicobacter pylori urease belongs to a family of highly conserved urea-hydrolyzing enzymes. A common feature of these enzymes is the presence of two Lewis acid nickel ions and a reactive cysteine residue in the active site. The H+/K(+)-ATPase inhibitor omeprazole is a prodrug of a sulfenamide which covalently modifies cysteine residues on the luminal side of the H+/K(+)-ATPase of gastric parietal cells. Omeprazole and eight analogues were selected based on their chemical, electronic, and kinetic properties, and each was incubated with viable H. pylori in phosphate-buffered saline at pH 7.4 for 30 min, after which 100 mM urea was added and the amount of ammonia formed analyzed after a further 10 min. Inhibition between 0% and 100% at a 0.1 mM concentration was observed for the different analogues and could be expressed as a function of the pKa-value of the pyridine, the pKa-value of the benzimidazole, the overall lipophilicity, and, most importantly, the rate of sulfenamide formation, in a quantitative structure-activity relationship. The inhibition was potentiated by a lower pH (favoring the formation of the sulfenamide) but abolished in the presence of beta-mercaptoethanol (a scavenger of the sulfenamide). Structural analogues incapable of yielding the sulfenamide did not inhibit ammonia production. Treatment of Helicobacter felis-infected mice with 230 mumol/kg flurofamide b.i.d. for 4 weeks, known to potently inhibit urease activity in vivo, as a means of eradicating the infection, was tested and compared with the effect of 125 mumol/kg omeprazole b.i.d. for 4 weeks. Neither treatment proved efficacious.
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PMID:Structure-activity relationship of omeprazole and analogues as Helicobacter pylori urease inhibitors. 852 4

Short-term-cultivated rat hepatocytes and Kupffer cells were allowed to endocytose fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-coupled dextran, in order to study the effects of aniso-osmotic exposure and NH4Cl on apparent vesicular pH (pHves) by single-cell fluorescence. Following a 2 h loading period with FITC-dextran in normo-osmotic (305 mosmol/l) medium, the apparent pHves was 6.01 +/- 0.05 (n = 39) in parenchymal cells and 4.94 +/- 0.04 (n = 76) in Kupffer cells. Under these conditions pHves in parenchymal cells, but not in Kupffer cells, was sensitive to changes in ambient osmolarity. Inhibition of vacuolar H(+)-ATPase by concanamycin A did not affect the osmosensitivity of pHves in parenchymal cells. However, the effects of anisotonicity on pHves were largely abolished in the presence of 4.4'-di-isothiocyanato-stibene-2,2'-disulphonic acid (DIDS) or when extracellular chloride was substituted for gluconate. In neither Kupffer cells, nor liver parenchymal cells did hypo-osmotic cell swelling cause an increase in intracellular Ca2+. With regard to vesicular acidification, the following differences were noted between parenchymal and Kupffer cells. (1) In Kupffer cells endocytosed FITC-dextran reached a strongly acidic compartment with a pH value of approx. 5 within 5 min, whereas it took 4-5 h in parenchymal cells. Modification of pHves by hypo-osmolarity in Kupffer cells was only observed in a short-lived "early' compartment with a pH value of approx. 6. (2) In contrast to pHves in parenchymal cells, pHves in Kupffer cells was very sensitive towards alkalinization by NH4Cl: addition of NH4Cl at 1 or 10 mM increased apparent pHves by 0.80 or 1.46 in Kupffer cells, but only by 0.18 or 0.56 in parenchymal cells. The low ammonia sensitivity of pHves in parenchymal cells was observed not only a the less acidic (pH approx. 6) endocytotic compartment which is reached by FITC-dextran within 2 h, but also in the stronger acidic compartment (pH approx. 5) which is reached after 4-5 h. (3) NH4Cl had no effect on the osmosensitivity of pHves in parenchymal cells, whereas in Kupffer cells pHves became sensitive to anisotonicity when NH4Cl was present. Osmosensitivity of pHves in Kupffer cells under these conditions, however, was not affected by genistein, DIDS or colchicine, whereas these compounds abolished the osmosensitivity of pHves in parenchymal cells. It is suggested that regulation of pHves by cell volume in liver parenchymal cells involves changes of vesicular chloride conductance. In addition, there are marked differences between Kupffer and parenchymal cells with respect to vesicular ammonia permeability and the kinetics of endocytotic membrane flow and acidification.
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PMID:Regulation of vesicular pH in liver macrophages and parenchymal cells by ammonia and anisotonicity as assessed by fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextran fluorescence. 861 4

Recent studies have indicated the presence of hydrogen-potassium-adenosinetriphosphatase (H-K-ATPase) in the collecting duct. We examined the localization of functional H-K-ATPase activity in individual cells of the outer and inner stripes of outer medullary collecting ducts (OMCDo and OMCDi). Tubules were isolated from control and K(+)-depleted rabbits and perfused in vitro. Intracellular pH (pHi) of principal cells, intercalated cells, and OMCDi cells was monitored by fluorescence ratio imaging using 2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF). An intracellular acid load was induced by NH3/NH4 prepulse in extracellular Na(+)-, K(+)-, and HCO3(-)-free condition, and then 5 mM K+ was added to the lumen or the bath in the presence of Ba2+. Functional activity of H-K-ATPase was estimated by the difference in the rates of pHi recovery before and after K+ addition. In the control condition, luminal addition of K+ significantly increased the pHi recovery rate by 1.6 +/- 0.4 and 1.9 +/- 0.4 x 10(-3) pH units/s in intercalated calls and OMCDi cells, respectively, but not in principal cells. This K(+)-dependent pHi recovery was inhibited by 63% in intercalated cells and 74% in OMCDi cells in the presence of luminal Sch-28080 (10 microM) but was not affected in the presence of luminal bafilomycin-A1 (10 nM). K+ depletion increased the K(+)-dependent pHi recovery to 2.3-fold in intercalated cells and 2.6-fold in OMCDi cells. By contrast, K(+)-dependent pHi recovery was not detected in the basolateral membrane of any cell types in either the control or the K(+)-depleted condition. These results provide functional evidence that H-K-ATPase is distributed in the luminal membrane of intercalated cells and OMCDi cells and that this ATPase is activated by K+ depletion, suggesting the contribution of intercalated cells and OMCDi cells to K+ conservation in rabbit OMCD.
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PMID:Functional activity of H-K-ATPase in individual cells of OMCD: localization and effect of K+ depletion. 876 29


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