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Query: EC:3.6.3.1 (Mg2+-ATPase)
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Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCCH) are chlorinated analogs of inositol; the alpha, beta, gamma, and delta isomers of HCCH have the stereochemical configurations of (+/-)-, scyllo-, muco-, and myo-inositol, respectively. To assess their potential as specific tools for the study of agonist-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism, we examined the effects of these four HCCH isomers on phosphatidylinositol (PI) synthase (CDP-1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol:myo-inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase), PI:inositol exchange enzyme, and several membrane-associated enzymes unrelated to inositol metabolism. In pancreas microsomes, in the presence of saturating myo-inositol, the alpha, beta, gamma, and delta isomers (4 mM) inhibited PI synthase activity by 9, 4, 22, and 69%, respectively. Half-maximal inhibition by delta-HCCH occurred at 0.25 mM. A similar pattern of HCCH inhibition was obtained using n-octylglucopyranoside-solubilized and partially purified PI synthase preparations. The inhibition by delta-HCCH was noncompetitive versus myo-inositol. The PI:inositol exchange enzyme in mouse pancreas microsomes was inhibited 90% by 1 mM delta-HCCH in the presence of 0.25% Triton X-100, but not in its absence; half-maximal inhibition occurred with 0.5 mM delta-HCCH. delta-HCCH (4 mM) also inhibited to varying extents the following enzymes: pancreas CDP-choline:1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol cholinephosphotransferase (75%), brain and erythrocyte (Na+,K+)-ATPase (87 and 70%), brain and erythrocyte Mg2+-ATPase (38 and -5%), brain 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol kinase (22%), and liver glucose 6-phosphatase (16%). gamma-HCCH (4 mM) inhibited these enzymes to a lesser extent, or not at all. The order of inhibition by HCCH stereoisomers was the same as the order of their saturation level in phospholipid vesicles (delta greater than gamma greater than alpha greater than beta). This suggests that the inhibitory action is due to insertion of the compounds either into hydrophobic domains of the enzymes or into annular lipid. The results indicate that the HCCHs are not selective inhibitors of inositol metabolism.
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PMID:Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol synthase and other membrane-associated enzymes by stereoisomers of hexachlorocyclohexane. 257 70

Alkaline phosphatase (ALPase) and Mg2+-activated ATPase (Mg2+-ATPase) activities were demonstrated in human brain tumors by light and electron microscopy. Four cases of glioma, i.e., two cases of astrocytoma, grade II, and two cases of glioblastoma, were used as materials. At the light microscopic level, Mg2+-ATPase activity was observed in the capillary wall and glial cells of both astrocytoma and glioblastoma. ALPase activity was restricted to the capillary wall. Its activity was stronger in glioblastoma than in astrocytoma. By electron microscopy, in astrocytoma, reaction product representing Mg2+-ATPase activity was distributed in the plasma membranes of endothelial cells and pericytes. Activity was primarily localized at the abluminal surface of endothelial cells and the surface of pericytes facing endothelium. The plasma membrane of glial cells was also positive. ALPase activity revealed essentially the same distribution pattern in blood vessels as above. In glioblastoma, on the other hand, activities of both phosphatases were markedly positive on the luminal surface of the plasma membrane of endothelial cells. They were much stronger than those along the abluminal endothelial surface. Phosphatase activities in brain tumor appear to change in localization pattern in association with glioma malignancy. This might reflect a functional aspect of changes in blood-brain barrier in glioma.
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PMID:Phosphatase activities in human glioma cells as revealed by light and electron microscopy--a preliminary study. 293 40

Actomyosin in smooth muscle is in a quiescent state. The mechanism or mechanisms by which Ca2+ activates the actomyosin ATPase is not clear. There is sufficient evidence for the presence of enzyme systems which phosphorylate and dephosphorylate myosin light chains. The activity of the kinase that phosphorylates the myosin is regulated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Phosphorylated kinase has decreased affinity for calmodulin and lower activity when compared with unphosphorylated myosin light chain kinase. The activity of myosin light chain kinase is also regulated by calcium-calmodulin. In the presence of Ca2+, myosin is phosphorylated. In the absence of Ca2+, the phosphatase activity becomes dominant; the myosin remains in the unphosphorylated form under this condition. The Mg2+-ATPase of the phosphorylated myosin is activated by actin. The maximal activation of the Mg2+-ATPase by actin requires Ca2+ and tropomyosin, a protein located on the thin filament. Hence, the actin-activation of the Mg2+-ATPase requires Ca2+ even after phosphorylation by the calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase. The regulation of actin-activated ATPase activity by myosin light chain phosphorylation is depicted in the schematic diagram. Caldesmon, an actin-binding protein which also binds to calmodulin in the presence of Ca2+, has been shown to be present in thin-filaments isolated from smooth muscle. This protein inhibits actin-activated myosin ATPase activity. The release from this inhibition requires Ca2+ and calmodulin. The possibility that caldesmon is also involved in the calcium regulation of actomyosin in smooth muscle is presently under investigation in a number of laboratories.
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PMID:Regulation of actomyosin ATPase in smooth muscle. 294 44

Na+-K+-ATPase has been isolated and characterized from canine aortic tissue. The ouabain-sensitive enzyme activity was 24 mumol X mg protein-1 X h-1, and the remaining Mg2+-ATPase activity was 54 mumol X mg protein-1 X h-1. The ratio of Na+-K+-ATPase to ouabain-sensitive K+-phosphatase was 13 to 1, similar to other more homogeneous preparations from other tissues. The dissociation characteristics of the enzyme-glycoside complex of this aortic preparation were the same as for cardiac preparations in that it was stabilized by K+. These data suggest that the nature of both the ATP hydrolytic site of Na+-K+-ATPase and the ouabain binding site are the same in preparations from vascular smooth muscle as in preparations from other tissues.
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PMID:Na+-K+-ATPase in vascular smooth muscle. 300 64

We have partially purified myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) and myosin light chain phosphatase (MLCP) from Dictyostelium discoideum. MLCK was purified 4,700-fold with a yield of approximately 1 mg from 350 g of cells. The enzyme is very acidic as suggested by its tight binding to DEAE. Dictyostelium MLCK has an apparent native molecular mass on HPLC G3000SW of approximately 30,000 D. Mg2+ is required for enzyme activity. Ca2+ inhibits activity and this inhibition is not relieved by calmodulin. cAMP or cGMP have no effect on enzyme activity. Dictyostelium MLCK is very specific for the 18,000-D light chain of Dictyostelium myosin and does not phosphorylate the light chain of several other myosins tested. Myosin purified from log-phase amebas of Dictyostelium has approximately 0.3 mol Pi/mol 18,000-D light chain as assayed by glycerol-urea gel electrophoresis. Dictyostelium MLCK can phosphorylate this myosin to a stoichiometry approaching 1 mol Pi/mol 18,000-D light chain. MLCP, which was partially purified, selectively removes phosphate from the 18,000-D light chain but not from the heavy chain of Dictyostelium myosin. Phosphatase-treated Dictyostelium myosin has less than or equal to 0.01 mol Pi/mol 18,000-D light chain. Phosphatase-treated myosin could be rephosphorylated to greater than or equal to 0.96 mol Pi/mol 18,000-D light chain by incubation with MLCK and ATP. We found myosin thick filament assembly to be independent of the extent of 18,000-D light-chain phosphorylation when measured as a function of ionic strength. However, actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of Dictyostelium myosin was found to be directly related to the extent of phosphorylation of the 18,000-D light chain. MLCK-treated myosin moved in an in vitro motility assay (Sheetz, M. P., and J. A. Spudich, 1983, Nature (Lond.), 305:31-35) at approximately 1.4 micron/s whereas phosphatase-treated myosin moved only slowly or not at all. The effects of phosphatase treatment on the movement were fully reversed by subsequent treatment with MLCK.
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PMID:Myosin light chain kinase and myosin light chain phosphatase from Dictyostelium: effects of reversible phosphorylation on myosin structure and function. 303 87

Okadaic acid isolated from black sponge (Halichondria okadai), at the concentration of 10 mumol/l, caused contraction in saponin-treated skinned smooth muscle of guinea-pig taenia coli in the absence of Ca2+. In the presence of low concentration (0.3 mumol/l) of Ca2+, okadaic acid induced a greater contraction than in the absence of Ca2+. Okadaic acid potentiated the contractions induced by Ca2+ and pCa2+-tension curve was shifted to the left as well as upward by 1 mumol/l okadaic acid. Native actomyosin preparation (myosin B) containing calmodulinmyosin light chain kinase system and phosphatase was obtained from taenia coli. Okadaic acid (10 mumol/l) increased the actomyosin Mg2+-ATPase activity in the presence or absence of Ca2+. Okadaic acid (1-100 mumol/l) had no effect on calmodulin activity as monitored by Ca2+-calmodulin activated cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase activity and the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity or erythrocyte membranes. These results suggest that okadaic acid directly activates contractile elements of smooth muscle.
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PMID:Direct activation by okadaic acid of the contractile elements in the smooth muscle of guinea-pig taenia coli. 303 85

Fodrin, an actin and calmodulin binding and spectrin-like protein present in many nonerythrocyte tissues, could be phosphorylated up to more than 1.5 mol of phosphate/mol of protein by a highly purified non-receptor-associated protein tyrosine kinase from bovine spleen. The protein phosphorylation was not affected by Ca2+/calmodulin or by F-actin. Km and Vmax values of the reaction were 91 nM and 0.35 nmol of P2 min-1 (mg of kinase)-1, respectively. Both subunits A and B of fodrin were phosphorylated, with the rate of subunit A phosphorylation much greater than that of subunit B phosphorylation. Tryptic phosphopeptide mapping of the phosphorylated subunits suggested that there were three major phosphorylation sites in subunit A and one in subunit B. Phosphotyrosylfodrin could be dephosphorylated by the calmodulin-stimulated phosphatase (calcineurin) in the presence of activating metal ions; Ni2+ was a much more effective activator than Mn2+ for this reaction. Fodrin phosphorylation by the spleen protein tyrosine kinase did not appear to alter the actin and calmodulin binding properties of the protein. On the other hand, the calmodulin-dependent stimulation of smooth muscle actomyosin Mg2+-ATPase by fodrin was enhanced by 101% +/- 3% (n = 3) upon fodrin phosphorylation. Ni2+-calcineurin, which was shown to effectively dephosphorylate the phosphotyrosyl residues on fodrin, could reverse the phosphorylation-enhanced Mg2+-ATPase stimulatory activity of fodrin.
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PMID:Characterization of fodrin phosphorylation by spleen protein tyrosine kinase. 336 86

In an attempt to elucidate the Ca2+-regulated mechanism of motility in Physarum plasmodia, we improved the preparation method for myosin B and pure myosin. The obtained results are as follows: 1. We obtained two types of myosin B which are distinguishable from each other with respect to their sensitivity to Ca2+. The inactive type of myosin B had low superprecipitation activities both in the presence and in the absence of Ca2+. The active type showed very high superprecipitation activity in EGTA, and the activity was conspicuously inhibited by Ca2+. The active type was converted into the inactive type by treatment with potato acid phosphatase. Also the inactive type or the phosphatase-treated active type was converted into the active type upon reacting with ATP-gamma-S. 2. In the reaction with ATP-gamma-S, only the myosin HC of myosin B was phosphorylated. The phosphorylation was independent of Ca2+ and calmodulin, and the extent was about 1 mol/mol HC. 3. The Ca2+ sensitivity in the superprecipitation of the active type was not decreased by adding an excess amount of F-actin. Besides, the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of purified phosphorylated myosin was not Ca2+-sensitive. Therefore, presence of a Ca2+-dependent inhibitory factor(s) that could bind to myosin was suggested. 4. The Mg2+-ATPase activity of purified phosphorylated myosin was 7-8 times enhanced by F-actin, but that of dephosphorylated myosin was hardly activated at all. 5. In a gel filtration in 0.5 M KCl, phosphorylated myosin was eluted behind dephosphorylated myosin. Electron microscopy applying the rotary-shadow method showed significant difference in flexibility in the tail between phosphorylated and dephosphorylated myosin molecules. 6. In 40 mM KCl and 5-10 mM MgCl2, phosphorylated myosin formed thick filaments, but dephosphorylated myosin did not, whether there was ATP or not. The above results clearly show that the phosphorylation of myosin HC is indispensable to ATP-induced superprecipitation, the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity, and the formation of thick filaments of myosin. A myosin-linked factor(s) that inhibits an actin-myosin interaction in a Ca2+-dependent manner may exist.
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PMID:Requirement of phosphorylation of Physarum myosin heavy chain for thick filament formation, actin activation of Mg2+-ATPase activity, and Ca2+-inhibitory superprecipitation. 613 16

Isolated spontaneously beating rat hearts were perfused in the Langendorff mode and divided into four groups, i.e., control (aerobic), hypoxic (95% N2-5% CO2), ischemic, and ischemic reperfused. After a total of 90 min of perfusion, the sarcolemma was isolated and enzymatically characterized. Ouabain-sensitive Na+-K+-ATPase was inhibited in all three experimental groups, whereas K+-stimulated phosphatase activity was decreased only in the ischemic and reperfused groups compared with control. 5'-Nucleotidase activity was inhibited (P less than 0.05) only in the ischemic group. Mg2+-ATPase activity was not different from control. Passive Ca2+ uptake and Ca2+ efflux were not significantly altered by any of the interventions. Na+-Ca2+ exchange rate, but not capacity, was decreased (by 32-42%) in the ischemic group but this was partially reversed on reperfusion. These results suggest that changes secondary to lack of flow rather than O2 play a major role in the etiology of ischemic damage to the membrane and that a 15-min period of reperfusion after 60 min of ischemia does not exacerbate this damage.
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PMID:Sarcolemmal enzymes and Na+ -Ca2+ exchange in hypoxic, ischemic, and reperfused rat hearts. 614 98

Caldesmon, a major calmodulin- and actin-binding protein of smooth muscle (Sobue, K., Muramoto, Y., Fujita, M., and Kakiuchi, S. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 78, 5652-5655), has been obtained in highly purified form from chicken gizzard by a modification of a previously published procedure (Ngai, P. K., Carruthers, C. A., and Walsh, M. P. (1984) Biochem. J. 218, 863-870) and was found to cause a significant inhibition of both superprecipitation and actin-activated myosin Mg2+-ATPase activity in a system reconstituted from the purified contractile and regulatory proteins without influencing the phosphorylation state of myosin. This inhibitory effect was seen both in the presence and absence of tropomyosin. A Ca2+-and calmodulin-dependent kinase which catalyzed phosphorylation of caldesmon was identified in chicken gizzard; this kinase is distinct from myosin light-chain kinase. Caldesmon prepared by calmodulin-Sepharose affinity chromatography was contaminated with caldesmon kinase activity and was unable to inhibit actomyosin ATPase activity or superprecipitation. Phosphatase activity capable of dephosphorylating caldesmon was also identified in smooth muscle. These results indicate that caldesmon can inhibit smooth muscle actomyosin ATPase activity in vitro, and this function may itself be subject to regulation by reversible phosphorylation of caldesmon.
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PMID:Inhibition of smooth muscle actin-activated myosin Mg2+-ATPase activity by caldesmon. 615 36


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