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Query: EC:4.1.2.13 (aldolase)
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Fructose-P2 aldolases isolated from vertebrate skeletal muscle have underivatized NH2-terminal proline residues in contrast to most other cytoplasmic proteins which contain alpha-N-acetylated termini. However, if "native" aldolase molecules derived from chicken muscle, rat liver, wheat germ, and the cytosol of spinach leaves are isolated in the presence of phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride (an inhibitor of serine proteases), they contain blocked and presumably derivatized NH2-terminal residues. When chicken muscle aldolase is isolated in the absence of this protease inhibitor, the derivatized NH2-terminal residue is removed by an endogenous protease(s). The native and modified forms of the enzyme were not distinguished on the basis of catalytic activity, thermal stability, electrophoretic mobility, or subunit molecular weight. Structural analyses of both forms, together with amino acid sequence analysis of the primary translation product encoded for by aldolase mRNA, showed that native muscle aldolase subunits contain a single derivatized methionine NH2-terminal to the proline residue. This form of the enzyme is presumably the one which exists in vivo.
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PMID:Cellular fructose-P2 aldolase has a derivatized (blocked) NH2 terminus. 669 79

When leupeptin, a thiol protease inhibitor of microbial origin, was injected into rats, the activity of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-lyase, EC 4.1.2.13) in the liver decreased to about 60% of that in control rats. However, the concentration of aldolase protein in the liver extracts, measured with a specific antibody obtained with enzyme purified on a phosphocellulose column, remained unchanged. Injection of leupeptin also caused a marked increase in the activities of free lysosomal proteases, such as cathepsin B (EC 3.4.22.1), cathepsin L (EC 3.4.22.-), cathepsin D (EC 3.4.23.5) and lysosomal carboxypeptidase A in the cytosol fraction. A clear inverse relationship between aldolase and cathepsin B activities in the cytosol fraction was demonstrated. The possibility that the less active form of aldolase detected in the livers of leupeptin-treated rats was produced during homogenization was excluded by showing that the aldolase activity was not changed by addition of various protease inhibitors to the homogenization medium., When insulin was coinjected with leupeptin, increase in the activity of free cathepsin L and decrease of activity of aldolase produced by the injection of leupeptin was prevented. These findings indicate that modification of aldolase may be due to the action of a lysosomal protease(s). Enhanced sensitivity of lysosomes to osmotic shock was demonstrated in the livers of leupeptin-treated rats, suggesting that the lysosomal membrane is labilized by administration of leupeptin. Incubation of the purified aldolase with the lysosomal fraction produced the same changes in properties of aldolase as those observed in vivo on injection of leupeptin.
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PMID:Proteolytic modification of rat liver fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase by administration of leupeptin in vivo. 702 Jul 65

To better understand the molecular mechanisms of the photoperiodic regulation of rice, a short-day plant, we isolated 27 cDNAs that were differentially expressed in the photoperiod-insensitive se5 mutant from approximately 8,400 independent mRNA species by the use of a fluorescent differential display (FDD). For this screening, we isolated mRNAs at five different time points during the night and compared their expression patterns between se5 and the wild type. Of 27 cDNAs isolated, 12 showed diurnal expression patterns often associated with genes involved in the determination of the flowering time. In se5, expression of nine cDNAs was increased. Five of these cDNAs were up-regulated under SD, suggesting that they may promote flowering under SD. They included genes encoding a cDNA containing a putative NAC domain, the fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, and a protease inhibitor. Expression of three cDNAs was decreased in se5 but not photoperiodically regulated. These cDNAs included a rice homolog of Arabidopsis GIGANTEA (GI), lir1, and a gene for myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase, all of which were previously shown to be under the control of circadian clocks. The expression patterns of the rice homolog of GI, OsGI, were similar to those of the Arabidopsis GI, suggesting the conservation of some mechanisms for the photoperiodic regulation of flowering between these two species.
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PMID:Isolation of rice genes possibly involved in the photoperiodic control of flowering by a fluorescent differential display method. 1204 96