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Isometric force developed by skinned gizzard muscle fiber bundles and levels of phosphorylation and thiophosphorylation of the 20,000-dalton myosin light chain were determined. These data showed a highly non-linear relationship between isometric force and myosin light-chain phosphorylation. Maximum force was developed at approximately 0.2 mol of phosphate/mol of light chain as reported previously (Hoar, P. E., Kerrick, W. G. L., and Cassidy, P. S. (1979) Science 204, 503-506). In contrast, the relationship between isometric force and myosin light-chain thiophosphorylation was linear, with maximum force occurring at 1.0 mol of thiophosphate/mol of myosin light chain. These observations are consistent with the latch-bridge hypothesis for conditions of varying myosin light-chain phosphatase/myosin light-chain kinase activity ratios as discussed by Hai and Murphy [1988) Am. J. Physiol. 254, C99-C106). To further test the latch-bridge hypothesis, ATPase activity was also measured during isometric force development in these fiber bundles. The relationship between isometric force and ATPase activity was linear whether the myosin light chains were phosphorylated or thiophosphorylated. Thus the number of cycling myosin cross-bridges, as measured by ATPase activity, was directly proportional to the force the muscle developed, not to the level of myosin light-chain phosphorylation. This finding that high levels of tension generated at low levels of light-chain phosphorylation are associated with high levels of ATPase activity is inconsistent with the latch-bridge model (Hai and Murphy, 1988).
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PMID:The relationship between ATPase activity, isometric force, and myosin light-chain phosphorylation and thiophosphorylation in skinned smooth muscle fiber bundles from chicken gizzard. 214 Mar 60

The energetics of smooth muscle is characterized by low tension cost (rate of ATP utilization per isometric force/cross-section area), ranging from 100- to 500-fold less than skeletal muscle. The efficiency (ATP usage per work) of smooth muscle, although less well documented, is also somewhat (4-fold) less than skeletal muscle. Another well-known characteristic of smooth muscle is the linear relation between the steady-state of ATP utilization (JATP) and isometric force. Recently, Murphy and colleagues [C.-M. Hai and R. A. Murphy. Am. J. Physiol. 254 (Cell Physiol. 23) C99-C106, 1988] have put forth a kinetic model of cross-bridge regulation that predicts the time course of stress and myosin light chain phosphorylation (MLC-Pi). The energetics consequences of this model, in brief, are that the low tension cost is partly attributed to a slow detachment rate of the myosin cross bridge when dephosphorylated when attached to actin ("latch state"), whereas the lower efficiency is ascribed to a high rate of myosin phosphorylation-dephosphorylation inherent to a fit of data to this kinetic scheme. This latter corollary is somewhat controversial in light of current interpretations of smooth muscle energetics data. Using SCoP software (National Biomedical Simulation Resource, Duke University), we tested this model in terms of fitting existing data with respect to 1) is a high myosin-dephosphorylation adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) necessary to fit the available data on the time course of stress and MLC-Pi?; and 2) can this model predict the observed linear relation between the steady-state rate of ATP hydrolysis (JATP) and isometric force?(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Smooth muscle energetics and theories of cross-bridge regulation. 230 74

The analysis of potential sorting signals in amyloid precursor protein (APP) by site-directed mutagenesis and the disturbance of metabolic pathways by drugs is used here to define the parameters that determine polarized secretion of APP in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. Endogenously produced APP751/770 and APP695 produced from transfected constructs are secreted almost exclusively into the basolateral compartment. The sorting mechanism is highly dependent on intracellular pH as demonstrated by its sensitivity to primary amines and inhibitors of the acidifying vacuolar protein ATPase. The role of potential basolateral sorting signals in the cytoplasmic, transmembrane, and beta A4 amyloid region of APP was investigated. Neither deletion of the endocytosis and putative basolateral sorting signal GY.NPTY nor complete deletion of the cytoplasmic domain causes apical secretion of soluble APP. Further deletion of the transmembrane domain and of the beta A4 amyloid region confirmed that the major basolateral sorting determinant resides in the extracellular domain of APP. Increased beta-secretase cleavage of APP after introduction of the "swedish" double mutation causes apical missorting of about 20% of beta-secretase-cleaved APP. The data underline the complexity of processing and sorting APP in polarized cells and suggest a possible problem of protein sorting in Alzheimer's Disease.
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PMID:Basolateral secretion of amyloid precursor protein in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells is disturbed by alterations of intracellular pH and by introducing a mutation associated with familial Alzheimer's disease. 787 55

We analyzed the effect of the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase inhibitor bafilomycin A1 (bafA1) on the processing of beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP). In kidney 293 cells stably transfected with the wild-type beta APP cDNA, bafA1 caused a stabilization of mature beta APP and its 10-kDa COOH-terminal fragment. Moreover, it caused a 2-3-fold increase in secretion of soluble APP and amyloid-beta protein (A beta). Interestingly, bafA1 treatment of cells transfected with a mutant beta APP isoform that occurs in a Swedish kindred with familial Alzheimer's disease resulted in a decrease of A beta production and no increase of soluble APP secretion. Identical results were obtained when the effect of bafA1 was analyzed on fibroblasts derived from affected versus unaffected members of the Swedish family. These data demonstrate a differential effect of bafA1 on the production of A beta derived from wild-type or Swedish mutant beta APP. Radiosequencing of A beta derived from bafA1-treated cells expressing wild-type beta APP revealed a marked increase of A beta peptides starting at amino acids phenylalanine 4 and valine -3 and a relative decrease of A beta molecules beginning at the typical NH2 terminus of aspartate 1. Cells transfected with the Swedish mutation and treated with bafA1 did not produce these alternative A beta peptides, so that bafA1 treatment resulted in a decrease of A beta starting at aspartate 1. Our data indicate that multiple proteases are able to cleave A beta at or near its NH2 terminus. Inhibition of the protease cleaving at aspartate 1 by bafA1 and perhaps other similar agents can result in an increase of alternatively cleaved peptides.
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PMID:The vacuolar H(+)-ATPase inhibitor bafilomycin A1 differentially affects proteolytic processing of mutant and wild-type beta-amyloid precursor protein. 789 Jul 53

The experiments in this paper identify multiple calcium compartments in cultured human fibroblasts and reveal abnormalities in one of these pools in cells from Alzheimer patients. In the presence of external calcium, bradykinin (BK) increased cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i) about 3-fold and then [Ca2+]i rapidly declined. Omission of calcium from the media did not affect the BK-induced peak, which indicates that the peak reflects internal stores. Other compounds that also released calcium from internal stores included A23187 (a calcium ionophore), thapsigargin (Tg; an inhibitor of endoplasmic reticulum ATPase), and FCCP (an uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation). The [Ca2+]i response to sequential addition of compounds in calcium-free media identified discrete internal calcium stores. BK depleted internal calcium pools such that subsequent stimulation with BK, FCCP or bombesin did not increase [Ca2+]i. However, A23187 or thapsigargin still elicited responses. A23187 depleted essentially all internal calcium pools. Either Tg or FCCP reduced the calcium stores that could be released by BK or A23187. Thus, cellular calcium compartments that respond to BK and A23187 partially overlap. The common pool includes Tg-and FCCP-sensitive compartments. Calcium stores were examined in cells from Alzheimer disease patients, because previous studies suggest that their calcium homeostasis is altered. A23187 addition to BK-treated cells produced a 95% greater response in cell lines from Alzheimer patients (n = 7) than in those from controls (n = 5). Thus, various calcium stores can be pharmacologically distinguished in fibroblasts and at least one of these compartments is abnormal in Alzheimer's disease.
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PMID:Calcium stores in cultured fibroblasts and their changes with Alzheimer's disease. 867 53

We recently demonstrated that the Alzheimer's beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is internalized from the axonal cell surface. In this study, we use biochemical and cell biological methods to characterize endocytotic compartments that participate in trafficking of APP in central neurons. APP is present in presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles purified from bovine brain, together with the recycling synaptic vesicle integral membrane proteins synaptophysin, synaptotagmin, and SV2. In contrast, APP is largely excluded from synaptic vesicles purified from rat brain. In primary cerebellar macroneurons, cell-surface APP is internalized with recycling synaptic vesicle integral membrane proteins but is subsequently sorted away from synaptic vesicles and transported retrogradely to the neuronal soma. Internalized APP partially co-localizes with rab5a-containing compartments in axons and with V-ATPase-containing compartments in both axons and neuronal soma. These results provide direct biochemical evidence that an obligate sorting compartment participates in the regeneration of synaptic vesicles during exo/endocytotic recycling at nerve terminals but do not preclude concurrent "kiss-and-run" recycling. Moreover, APP is now, to our knowledge, the first demonstrated example of an axonal cell-surface protein that is internalized with recycling synaptic vesicle membrane proteins but is subsequently sorted away from synaptic vesicles.
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PMID:Trafficking of cell-surface beta-amyloid precursor protein: evidence that a sorting intermediate participates in synaptic vesicle recycling. 898 43

Metal ion-binding of synthetic peptides containing HxH and CxxC motifs was investigated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) and metal chelate affinity chromatography. A high affinity of Ni2+ and Cu2+ to HxH containing sequences was found. Based on their natural metal ion-binding potential it was possible to include metal affinity chromatography in the purification process of two proteins without using an additional His-tag sequence: ATPase-439, a P type ATPase from Helicobacter pylori and the amyloid precursor protein (APP).
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PMID:Molecular characterization of metal-binding polypeptide domains by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and metal chelate affinity chromatography. 956 52

Recent experiments on permeabilized anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus edulis have shown that phosphorylation of twitchin releases catch force at pCa > 8 and decreases force at suprabasal but submaximum [Ca2+]. Twitchin phosphorylation decreases force with no detectable change in ATPase activity, and thus increases the energy cost of force maintenance at subsaturating [Ca2+]. Similarly, twitchin phosphorylation causes no change in unloaded shortening velocity (Vo) at any [Ca2+], but when compared at equal submaximum forces, there is a higher Vo when twitchin is phosphorylated. During calcium activation, the force-maintaining structure controlled by twitchin phosphorylation adjusts to a 30% Lo release to maintain force at the shorter length. The data suggest that during both catch and calcium-mediated submaximum contractions, twitchin phosphorylation removes a structure that maintains force with a very low ATPase, but which can slowly cycle during submaximum calcium activation. A quantitative cross-bridge model of catch is presented that is based on modifications of the Hai and Murphy (1988. Am. J. Physiol. 254:C99-C106) latch bridge model for regulation of mammalian smooth muscle.
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PMID:Regulation of catch muscle by twitchin phosphorylation: effects on force, ATPase, and shortening. 974 31

Recent studies of cellular amyloid precursor protein (APP) metabolism demonstrate a beta-/gamma-secretase pathway resident to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)/Golgi resulting in intracellular generation of soluble APP (APPsbeta) and Abeta42 peptide. Thus, these intracellular compartments may be key sites of amyloidogenic APP metabolism and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. We hypothesized that the ER chaperone immunoglobulin binding protein (BiP/GRP78) binds to and facilitates correct folding of nascent APP. Metabolic labeling and immunoprecipitation of transiently transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells demonstrated co-precipitation of APP with GRP78, revealing their transient interaction in the ER. Maturation of cellular APP was impaired by this interaction. Furthermore, the levels of APPs, Abeta40, and Abeta42 recovered in conditioned medium were lower compared with cells transfected with APP alone. Co-expression with APP of GRP78 T37G, an ATPase mutant, almost completely blocked cellular APP maturation as well as recovery of APPs, Abeta40, and Abeta42 in conditioned medium. The inhibitory effects of GRP78 and GRP78 T37G on Abeta40 and Abeta42 secretion were magnified by co-expression with the Swedish mutation of APP (K670N/M671L). Collectively, these data suggest a transient and direct interaction of GRP78 with APP in the ER that modulates intracellular APP maturation and processing and may facilitate its correct folding.
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PMID:The chaperone BiP/GRP78 binds to amyloid precursor protein and decreases Abeta40 and Abeta42 secretion. 974 17

Numerous lines of evidence suggest that some of the neurotoxicity associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is due to proteolytic fragments of the amyloid precursor protein (APP). Most research has focused on the amyloid beta peptide (A beta). However, the possible role of other cleaved products of APP is less clear. In this study, the effects of a recombinant carboxy terminal 105 amino acid (CT105) fragment of APP on the calcium uptake by endoplasmic reticulum Mg2+-Ca2+ ATPase, the major mechanism for sequestering calcium in this organelle, were investigated. We found that CT 105 is a potent inhibitor of Mg2+-Ca2+ ATPase of endoplasmic reticulum, whereas A beta shows no effect. These results demonstrate that CT 105 inhibits the ability of brain microsomes to sequester calcium and suggest that this inhibitory effect of CT 105 may contribute to disruption of intracellular calcium concentration, possibly being involved in inducing the neural toxicity characteristic of AD.
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PMID:C-terminal fragment of amyloid precursor protein inhibits calcium uptake into rat brain microsomes by Mg2+-Ca2+ ATPase. 987 21


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