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Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (ATPase)
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A protein has been studied which spontaneously precipitates from stored fractions of platelet soluble phase prepared by density gradient centrifugation. It is rich in a Ca2+ ATPase activity which displays an activity/pH profile resembling that of skeletal muscle myosin. Adjustment of freshly prepared soluble phase fractions to 0.6 M with respect to KCl and dilution 1 in 3 results in the precipitations of a protein fraction with essentially the same enzymatic properties as the spontaneously precipitable protein. These two similar proteins represent between 9 and 13% of the soluble phase total protein and each account for almost the whole of divalent cation activated ATPase activity of the soluble phases from which they were derived. The Mg2+ ATPase activity is only about twice purified with respect to the soluble phase enzyme activity, but the Ca2+ ATPase shows a 10-13-fold enrichment. Synthetic actomyosins can be prepared from the two proteins by addition of either platelet or skeletal muscle actin. These show significant increases in Mg2+ ATPase at the most favourable combination ratios. The ratio between the yield of soluble phase protein obtained by dilution precipitation and the lactate dehydrogenase activity of the soluble phase remains constant under a wide range of homogenization and sonication conditions applied to the original whole platelet suspensions. This confirms our earlier view that the soluble phase is a valid intracellular compartment for a considerable proportion of the platelet contractile protein and that in the complex the myosin-like component predominates.
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PMID:The identification and subcellular localization of thrombosthenin "M", the myosin-like component of pig platelets. 0 43

Adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activities were compared in platelets of asthmatic and nonasthmatic children. Significantly elevated Mg2+- and Ca2+-dependent ATPase activities were found in particulate and soluble fractions of platelets from nonsteroid-treated asthmatic children compared to steroid-treated asthmatic and nonasthmatic children. The most pronounced increase (greater than twofold) occurred in the Ca2+-ATPase of the soluble fraction which contains platelet contractile protein. Intact cell surface of ecto ATPase activity was not significantly increased in platelets of asthmatic children. The findings are consistent with adrenergic imbalance in asthma involving depressed adenylate cyclase activity (beta-adrenergic) and increased ATPase activity (alpha-adrenergic) and may relate to abnormal platelet aggregation patterns.
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PMID:Increased adenosine triphosphatase activity in platelets of asthmatic children. 12 27

Like all inhalation anesthetics, halothane (CF3CHBrCl) has a dose-dependent negative inotropic effect on cardiac muscle. The mechanism of the action has not been determined, although effects on glycolysis, mitochondrial respiration and calcium kinetics, and sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase activity have been suggested. Previous studies of the effect of halothane on the ATPase of contractile protein suffered from design and dosing defects. We have measured ATP splitting by canine cardiac natural actomyosin using extraction and equilibration procedures described previously (Honig, C. R. and Reddy, Y. C. 1973, J. Pharmacol. 184: 330-338). Drug dosing calculations were facilitated by measurement of the partition coefficient of halothane in protein. Halothane shifted the Ca++ concentration effect curve for actomyosin ATPase activity to the right. The maximum depression occurred at pCa 7.0 or 6.5. The effect was dose dependent with less than 10 percent depression at threshold and 50-60 percent depression at peak. Enzyme inhibition was antagonized by high Ca++ concentration, and was reversed by removing halothane from the reaction mixture. We suggest that inhibition of ATP utilization by the contractile system may be a mechanism of the in vivo myocardial depression produced by halothane.
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PMID:Halothane decreases actomyosin ATPase activity: a possible mechanism of the negative inotropic effect. 12 60

A contractile protein (actomyosin) was isolated from bovine tracheal smooth muscle by the use of "classical" procedures. The protein was considered to be actomyosin because it demonstrated: ATPase activity; superprecipitation upon the addition of ATP, and the solubility and extraction characteristics of actomyosin. The ATPase and superprecipitation reactions were not inhibited by EGTA, and did not require calcium. Lack of an effect of either calcium or EGTA could not be reversed by the addition of active bovine skeletal muscle troponin and tropomyosin. No troponin-tropomyosin like activities could be demonstrated in various tracheal muscle fractions.
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PMID:Actomyosin isolated from bovine tracheal smooth muscle. 12 59

Solution of thrombosthenin, the contractile protein complex isolated from pig platelets, have been studied by analytical ultracentrifugation and zone sedimentation in sucrose density gradients. Freshly prepared thrombosthenin in 0.6 M KCl shows a prominent peak in the ultracentrifuge with S degrees 20w about 5.5 and higher molecular weight aggregates (greater than 100S) sedimenting quickly to the bottom of the cell. Short term storage of high ionic strength solutions of thrombosthenin induces actomyosin-like gel formation and these gels dissociate with ATP and Mg2+ ions into two components of S degrees 20w 8.0 and S degrees 20w50. The supernatant, after actomyosin gel removal, contains only the S degrees 20w5.5 protein. From results of Ca2+ ATPase activity measurements and SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic mobilities of dissociated thrombosthenin separated into fractions in sucrose density gradients, it is concluded that the S degrees20w5.5 protein species is the myosin-like protein of thrombosthenin. The S degrees 20w8.0 protein is not fibrinogen but also has myosin-like properties and is believed to be myosin dimer. Species of higher S values seen in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ in the analytical ultracentrifuge and located in the higher density zones of the sucrose gradients all gave in SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis a single band of molecular weight 46-47,000 daltons. These subunit proteins appear to be derived from a range of polymeric variants of the F-actin-like protein of the contractile complex. All these higher density F-actin-like proteins readily form superprecipitates and display syneresis when combined with rabbit skeletal muscle myosin or platelet myosin. They are also all capable of conferring upon these two myosins a Mg2+ activated ATPase activity. It is suggested that in thrombosthenin solutions a myosin monomer-dimer equilibrium state exists which can be directionally influenced by a number of factors. The coexistence in the solution of F-actin and Mg2+ ATP, for example, increases the propensity of the myosin-like protein to form the higher molecular weight aggregate. Such aggregation may be the initiating mechanism for the intracellular organization of the thick filaments of the actomyosin complex, preparatory to a contractile event.
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PMID:Platelet contractile proteins: separation and characterization of the actin and myosin-like components. 12 96

A contractile protein closely resembling natural actomyosin (myosin B) of rabbit skeletal muscle was extracted from plasmodia of the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, by protecting the SH-groups with beta-mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol. Superprecipitation of the protein induced by Mg2+-ATP at low ionic strength was observed only in the presence of very low concentrations of free Ca2+ ions, and the Mg2+-ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] reaction was activated 2- to 6-fold by 1 muM of free Ca2+ ions. Crude myosin and actin fractions were separated by centrifuging plasmodium myosin B in the presence of Mg2+-PPi at high ionic strength. The crude myosin showed both EDTA- and Ca2+-activated ATPase activities. The Mg2+-ATPase activity of crude myosin from plasmodia was markedly activated by the addition of pure F-actin from rabbit skeletal muscle. Addition of the F-action-regulatory protein complex prepared from rabbit skeletal muscle as well as the actin fraction of plasmodium caused the same degree of activation as the addition of pure F-actin only in the presence of very low concentrations of Ca2+ ion
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PMID:Ca2+-sensitivity of actomyosin ATPase purified from Physarum polycephalum. 13 90

We studied hearts from sham-operated and uninfected catheterized rabbits as well as from rabbits at early and late stages of cardiomyopathy and failure after 3 and 6 days of infection with Streptococcus viridans. No ultrastructural abnormalities or biochemical changes in membrane and myofibrillar activities were seen in 3-day uninfected hearts. In 6-day uninfected hearts there were decreased sarcolemmal M2+ ATPase, Na+-K+ ATPase, adenylate cyclase and calcium binding, microsomal calcium binding and uptake, and myofibrillar Ca2+-stimulated ATPase as well as increased mitochondrial calcium uptake. Slight ultrastructural changes also were apparent in 6-day uninfected hearts. At both early and late stages of infective cardiomyopathy and failure there were varying degrees of depression in sarcolemmal Mg2+ ATPase, Na+-K+ ATPase, adenylate cyclase and calcium binding, microsomal calcium binding, calcium uptake and basal ATPase, and myofibrillar Ca2+-stimulated ATPase activities. However, sarcolemmal Ca2+ ATPase and myofibrillar Mg2+ ATPase activities were decreased only after 6 days of infection. Mitochondrial calcium binding and uptake were increased in early stages but decreased in late stages of disease. Furthermore in infected hearts there were defects in mitrochondrial respiration and phosphorylation. Generalized severe myocardial cell damage involving myofibrils, mitochondria, and the sarcotubular system was seen only in late stages of infection. The results demonstrate impairment of different membrane and contractile protein functions as well as ultrastructural abnormalities in bacterial cardiomyopathic hearts which were absent or of lesser magnitude in hearts with only hypertrophy. The findings reported here suggest to use that there is an association between heart failure and changes in function of cellular components during bacterial infective cardiomyopathy.
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PMID:Abnormalities in heart membranes and myofibrils during bacterial infective cardiomyopathy in the rabbit. 13 11

The contractile properties and contractile protein enzymatic activity of skeletal muscle can be altered by neural influences. To determine whether similar influences apply to cardiac muscle, adult rats were chemically sympathectomized by intravenous injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). After 2 weeks of treatment, rats were anesthetized and an index of myocardial contractility (max dP/dt) was measured in situ. Max dP/dt was depressed in 6-OHDA-treated rats [4560 +/- 420 (mean +/- SE) mm Hg/sec] when compared to controls (6710 +/- 580 mm Hg/sec). Sympathectomy was verified by reduced hemodynamic responsiveness to tyramine injections. After functional measurements had been completed, the heart was excised. Myofibrils were prepared from left ventricular tissue and analyzed for ATPase activity. Myofibrillar protein yield averaged 38 +/- 2 mg/g in controls and was not significantly different in 6-OHDA rats. Myofibrillar ATPase activity was 0.314 +/- 0.014 mumol P1/mg per min in controls. Enzyme activity was significantly reduced to 0.230 +/- 0.020 mumol P1/mg per min in 6-OHDA rats. The results demonstrate that a chronic reduction in sympathetic stimulation to the heart results in a depression of an index of myocardial contractile function which is accompanied by reduced myofibrillar ATPase activity. Acute (16-18 hours) chemical sympathectomy depressed the contractile function index without altering ATPase activity. Bilateral adrenalectomy produced no further decrement in myofibrillar ATPase activity in chronically (2 weeks) sympathectomized rats. Therefore, it appears that the changes in contractile protein enzymatic properties are mediated by sympathetic neural influences and may involve the synthesis of new contractile protein(s) with altered enzymatic properties.
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PMID:Myocardial contractile function and myofibrillar adenosine triphosphatase activity in chemically sympathectomized rats. 13 56

A method for primary culture of ovine myometrial cells is described. After dissection, myometrium of ewe uteri was digested in trypsin and collagenase. The cells were preplated for 1 h at 37 degrees C. The non-attached cells were grown in appropriate medium supplemented with 2% fetal calf serum. They had a doubling time of 3 days, reached confluency at 10 days and did not exhibit contact inhibition. Cultures were maintained up to 22 days. Characterization of the cells was achieved by electron microscopy, analysis of myosin in cell extracts and assessment of hormone sensitivity. The cells were found to contain myofilaments, characteristic of smooth muscle. A high content of myosin (6--13%) was demonstrated on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: this was confirmed by ATPase activity assay. Cells responded to estradiol stimulation by increased protein synthesis, and bound [3H]estradiol in a specific and saturable way. These results suggest that myometrial cells grown in primary culture should provide a useful model for studying the hormonal control of contractile protein synthesis.
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PMID:Myometrial cells in primary culture: characterization and hormonal profile. 15 21

Dog thyroid contractile proteins are characterized by their ATPase activity at high KCl concentration. In the presence of Ca(2+), 80 nmol ATP are hydrolyzed per min per mg protein. This Ca(2+) -ATPase activity is inhibited by Mg(2+) but not influenced by sodium azide. The 26 000 molecular weight protein which is present in thyroid contractile protein preparations and the phosphorylation of which is stimulated by thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is suggested to be identical to the lysine-rich histones (H1). Indeed, radioactive thyroid H1 histones added to unlabelled thyroid slices copurify with the contractile proteins and migrate at the same level as the 26 000 molecular weight when submitted to electrophoresis in polyacrylamide sodium dodecyl sulfate gels of different acrylamide concentrations.
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PMID:Nature of the phosphorylated 26 000 molecular weight protein extracted from dog thyroid with contractile proteins. 15 30


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