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Query: EC:4.6.1.1 (adenylate cyclase)
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Sugars such as glucose are transported into Escherichia coli by a coupled phosphorylation mechanism (the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system, PTS). Transport of sugars through the PTS results in inhibition of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity by a mechanism involving a change in the state of phosphorylation of PTS proteins. Other sugars (e.g., lactose) are transported without modification by a mechanism involving proton cotransport, which requires a proton motive force across the cell membrane. We show here that uptake of sugars through the lactose transport system results in inhibition of adenylate cyclase activity if the proton symport mechanism is also active. The protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone also inhibits adenylate cyclase activity. These data suggest that the steady-state electrochemical proton gradient regulates the activity of adenylate cyclase. We propose that sugar-dependent inhibition of adenylate cyclase activity may occur by either of two mechanisms. Sugars transported by the PTS inhibited adenylate cyclase activity by dephosphorylation of a regulatory protein, while sugars transported by the proton motive force system inhibit adenylate cyclase activity as a result of collapse of the proton electrochemical gradient.
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PMID:Escherichia coli adenylate cyclase complex: regulation by the proton electrochemical gradient. 10 76

The influence of various toxic substances and of drugs with ototoxic side effects upon energy generation, energy utilization, and membrane processes of the cochlea were studied. None of the drugs tested interfered with energy generation to as great an extent as did anoxia or cyanide and 2,4-dinitrophenol. Ouabain produced a pronounced interference with energy utilization of the stria vascularis. The "loop" diuretics ethacrynic acid and furosemide produced a reduction of energy utilization of a lesser degree than did ouabain. The "loop" diuretics do not seem to exert their toxic action upon strial Na+K+-ATPase, but may act by interfering with strial adenylate cyclase. Aminoglycoside antibiotics and diuretic and nondiuretic mercurials seem to exert their primary noxious action upon cochlear function by interfering with membrane processes of the structures bounding the cochlear duct.
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PMID:Noxious effects upon cochlear metabolism. 13 22

The radioactive adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) level derived from 8-14C adenine in intact rabbit platelets decreased in the presence of mitochondrial inhibitor (potassium cyanide) or uncoupler (sodium azide), and markedly increased by the addition of NaF, monoiodoacetic acid (MIA), or 2-deoxy-D-glucose. The stimulative effect of the glycolytic inhibitors was distinctly enhanced by the simultaneous addition of sodium succinate. MIA did neither directly stimulate the adenyl cyclase activity nor inhibit the phosphodiesterase activity. These results suggest that cyclic AMP synthesis in platelets is closely linked to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation.
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PMID:Dependence of platelet adenyl cyclase system on oxidative phosphorylation. 17 98

Addition of the uncoupler and protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) to starved yeast cells starts endogenous alcoholic fermentation lasting about 20 min. Hexose 6-phosphates, fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, and pyruvate accumulate in less than 2 min after addition of CCCP from almost zero concentration to concentrations which correspond to 1/5-1/10 of the steady-state concentrations during fermentation of glucose. CCCP immediately causes a decrease of the intracellular cytosolic pH from 6.9 to 6.4. This change activates adenylate cyclase (Purwin, C., Nicolay, K., Scheffers, W.A., and Holzer, H. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 8744-8749) and leads to the previously observed transient increase of cyclic AMP. It is shown here that the following enzymes known from in vitro experiments to be activated by cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation are activated in the CCCP-treated starved yeast cells in vivo: glycogen phosphorylase, trehalase (pH 7), 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase. The activation of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase leads to an accumulation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, which is known from in vitro experiments to activate 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase and to inhibit fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. All effects observed in the intact yeast cells fit with the idea that the CCCP-initiated activation of adenylate cyclase leads to a sequence of events which by protein phosphorylation and allosteric effects initiates endogenous alcoholic fermentation.
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PMID:Mechanism of stimulation of endogenous fermentation in yeast by carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. 282 Sep 96

Rapid, unidirectional Ca2+ influx was examined in isolated brown adipocytes by short incubations (30 s) with 45Ca2+. Ca2+ uptake was found to be large in the resting brown adipocyte, but was markedly inhibited when the cells were presented with norepinephrine. Specific alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation was without effect on Ca2+ uptake. The effect of norepinephrine (which had an EC50 of 140 nM) could be inhibited by beta-adrenergic blockade and could be mimicked by forskolin (an adenylate cyclase activator) and theophylline (a phosphodiesterase inhibitor). Exogenous free fatty acids such as octanoate and palmitate (classical stimulators of respiration in brown adipocytes) were also able to dramatically inhibit Ca2+ uptake by the cells. The artificial mitochondrial uncoupler carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP) induced a large reduction in cellular Ca2+ uptake (even in the presence of the ATPase inhibitor oligomycin), and in the presence of FCCP the inhibitory effect of norepinephrine on Ca2+ uptake was significantly reduced. The effect of beta-adrenergic stimulation on Ca2+ uptake was not directly caused by the large increase in respiration that occurs in response to norepinephrine because the respiratory inhibitor rotenone did not affect the Ca2+ response of the cells to the hormone. The evidence suggests that beta-adrenergic stimulation of brown adipocyte metabolism leads to a partial inhibition of Ca2+ uptake into the mitochondrial Ca2+ pool and we discuss the possibility that this represents the effect of a reduced membrane potential (and thus reduced Ca2+ uniport activity) in the partially uncoupled mitochondria of the thermogenically active brown adipocyte.
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PMID:Beta-adrenergic modulation of Ca2+ uptake by isolated brown adipocytes. Possible involvement of mitochondria. 283 96

To examine the involvement of Na+ ions in adrenergic responses in brown adipose tissue, a method is described for measuring Na+ influx into isolated brown adipocytes, using short (30 s) incubations with 22Na+, followed by a two-step centrifugation recovery procedure. Using this method, a clear norepinephrine-stimulated accumulation of intracellular 22Na+ was observed, which was enhanced by the addition of ouabain, was insensitive to amiloride (a Na+/H+ exchange blocker), and could not be mimicked by the total removal of oxygen from the incubation medium. The norepinephrine-stimulated Na+ influx was dose-dependent for the hormone with an EC50 of 250 nM, was blocked by the beta-antagonist propranolol but not by the alpha 1-antagonist prazosin, and could be induced by adrenergic agonists with the order of potency: isoproterenol greater than norepinephrine greater than phenylephrine, indicating a beta-receptor-mediated process. The Na+ influx was found to be cAMP-dependent since it could be induced by both theophylline (a phosphodiesterase inhibitor) and forskolin (an adenylate cyclase activator), but it was independent of other known cellular cAMP-dependent responses since neither addition of fatty acid substrates (octanoate or palmitate), nor of the mitochondrial uncoupler carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenyl-hydrazone could induce the phenomenon, despite having significant stimulatory effects on cellular respiration. Furthermore, total respiratory inhibition with rotenone, or total oxygen depletion of the medium with dithionite, did not prevent the normal norepinephrine-induced Na+ influx. The possibility that this beta-mediated norepinephrine-stimulated Na+ influx plays an important physiological role in brown adipose tissue activity is discussed, perhaps as one of the, as yet undefined, signals initiating tissue growth in the chronically beta-stimulated tissue of animals facing long-term increases in thermogenic demands.
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PMID:Norepinephrine-induced Na+ influx in brown adipocytes is cyclic AMP-mediated. 302 38

The phosphorylation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is preceded by a transient increase in the intracellular level of cyclic AMP which activates a cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (Pohlig, G., and Holzer, H. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 13818-13823). Possible mechanisms by which sugars or ionophores might activate adenylate cyclase and thereby lead to an increase in cyclic AMP concentrations were studied. Studies with permeabilized yeast cells demonstrated that neither sugar intermediates nor carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone are able to increase adenylate cyclase activity. In the light of striking differences of the effects of fermentable sugars and of carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone on parameters characterizing the membrane potential, it seems not reasonable that the activity of adenylate is under control of the membrane potential. Rapid quenching of 9-aminoacridine fluorescence after addition of fermentable sugars to starved yeast cells indicated an intracellular acidification. The 31P NMR technique showed a fast drop of the intracellular pH from 6.9 to 6.55 or 6.4 immediately after addition of glucose or carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. The time course of the decrease of the cytosolic pH coincides with the transient increase of cyclic AMP concentration and the 50% inactivation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase under the conditions of the NMR experiments. Kinetic studies of adenylate cyclase activity showed an approximately 2-fold increase of activity when the pH was decreased from 7.0 to 6.5, which is the result of a decrease in the apparent Km for ATP with no change in Vmax. These studies suggest that activation of adenylate cyclase by decrease in the cytosolic pH starts a chain of events leading to accumulation of cyclic AMP and phosphorylation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase.
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PMID:Mechanism of control of adenylate cyclase activity in yeast by fermentable sugars and carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. 352 79

A procedure for isolating a suspension of tubules derived from the rabbit medullary thick ascending limb is described. The purity of the preparation was assessed by microscopy and enzyme assays and the viability of the preparation was assessed by measuring oxygen consumption. Microscopy revealed that the suspension contains 95% thick ascending limbs and that the isolation procedure preserves the structure of the epithelium except for the loss of the basement membrane. The preparation had a high activity of calcitonin-sensitive adenylate cyclase, a marker enzyme for the medullary thick ascending limb. Control oxygen consumption was considerably higher than that reported for proximal tubules in the literature, and nystatin or carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone addition produced a more than 100% increase in oxygen consumption. Furosemide inhibited the oxygen consumption by 43% and ouabain inhibited it by 42%. Furosemide inhibited sodium chloride entry without directly affecting the Na-K-ATPase or cellular metabolism. Chloride removal depressed oxygen consumption to the same extent as furosemide, but some of this action was through direct inhibition of cellular metabolism.
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PMID:Suspension of medullary thick ascending limb tubules from the rabbit kidney. 609 84

The subcellular localization, kinetics of activation, and substrate specificity of the guinea pig granulocyte superoxide (O2-) generating system was investigated. Membrane-enriched particles (podosomes) were made from granulocytes by mild sonication and differential centrifugation. These podosomes are enriched threefold for known plasma membrane markers, 5'-nucleotidase, and adenylate cyclase. Podosomes made from resting granulocytes have very little NAD(P)H-dependent O2- production. Podosomes made from cells stimulated with digitonin are equally enriched for membrane markers but have a 15- to 20-fold increase in NAD(P)H-dependent O2- production. The KmAPP for NADPH is one-tenth that for NADH, but the Vmax is the same. The kinetics of digitonin-stimulated whole-cell O2- production parallel the changes in enzyme activity in these podosomes. Temperature affects both the rate and extent of activation of this enzyme. The pH optimum for the enzyme, the pH optimum for activation, and the pH optimum for whole-cell O2- production are all 7.5. Enzyme activity is increased if the cells are treated with glucose and cyanide, inhibited in cells treated with 2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG), and requires the presence of calcium for activation. These effects are similar to those found for granulocyte O2- production. Thus, the granulocyte O2- generating enzyme system is located on a fraction enriched for plasma membrane markers, and the kinetics of granulocyte production are directly related to the rate and amount of activation of this enzyme.
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PMID:Activation of the guinea pig granulocyte NAD(P)H-dependent superoxide generating enzyme: localization in a plasma membrane enriched particle and kinetics of activation. 624 12

In the guinea pig gastric antrum, the effects of sodium nitroprusside (SNP), an NO donor, on pacemaker potentials were investigated in the presence of nifedipine. The pacemaker potentials consisted of primary and plateau components; SNP (> 1 microM) increased the frequency of occurrence of these pacemaker potentials, while inhibiting the plateau component. 1H-[1,2,4]-Oxadiazole [4,3-a] quinoxalin-1-one, an inhibitor of guanylate cyclase, had no effect on the excitatory actions of SNP on the frequency of pacemaker potentials. Other types of NO donor, (+/-)-S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine, 3-morpholino-sydnonimine and 8-bromoguanosine 3'5'-cyclic monophosphate had no excitatory effect on pacemaker activity. Forskolin, an activator of adenylate cyclase, or 4,4'-diisothiocyano-stilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid, an inhibitor of the Ca(2+)-activated Cl(-) channel, strongly attenuated the generation of pacemaker potentials, and SNP added in the presence of these chemicals restored the generation of pacemaker potentials. The pacemaker potentials evoked by SNP were abolished in low-Ca(2+) solution or by membrane depolarization with high-K(+) solution. The SNP-induced generation of pacemaker potentials was not prevented by cyclopiazonic acid, an inhibitor of internal Ca(2+)-ATPase, but was limited to a transient burst by iodoacetic acid, an inhibitor of glycolysis, carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl-hydrazone, a mitochondrial protonophore, or 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid acetoxymethyl ester, an intracellular Ca(2+) chelator. These results suggest that the SNP-induced increase in the frequency of pacemaker potentials is related to the elevated intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations due to release from mitochondria, and these actions may be independent of the activation of guanylate cyclase.
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PMID:Pacemaker frequency is increased by sodium nitroprusside in the guinea pig gastric antrum. 1250 88


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