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Query: EC:4.6.1.1 (
adenylate cyclase
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A rat heart sarcolemmal preparation could be obtained in which both 5'-nucleotidase and
adenylate cyclase
were enriched approx. 9-fold by subjecting a homogenate to a discontinuous sucrose gradient, without the use of a high salt extraction. After incubation of this fraction with Mg[gamma-32P]ATP, the majority of 32P incorporated was present in 24 000- and 9000-dalton protein components. Only when a heart cytosol fraction or a purified cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase was added, was enhancement of 32P-incorporaton found by addition of cyclic AMP. The 9000- and 24 000-dalton proteins appeared to be interconvertible. The degree of conversion could be affected by changing the temperature during solubilizaion of the membranes in
SDS
prior to electrophoresis. This suggested that the 24 000-dalton protein does not correspond to phospholamban, first identified by others in canine heart sarcoplasmic reticulum. Moreover, it could be excluded that the 24 000-dalton protein was derived from contaminating myofibrillar troponin I. When the sarcolemmal fraction was preincubated with Ca2+, Mg2+, ATP and oxalate, contaminating sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles, loaded with calcium oxalate, settled to a greater density in the sucrose gradient. Membrane constituents other than those with enzymatic activity were monitored to confirm the separation between sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes: Coomassie blue staining material, sialic acid, cholesterol and phospholipid. The 24 000- and 9000-dalton proteins were equally distributed among the sarolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum fractions present in the sucrose gradient. However, the rate of 32P-incorporation in the presence of heart cytosol fraction was much slowr in the sarcoplasmic reticulum than in the sarcolemmal fraction.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of low molecular weight proteins in purified preparations of rat heart sarcolemma and sarcoplasmic reticulum. 625
Rat erythrocyte plasma membranes have been extracted exhaustively with digitonin at low temperature, and the residual, detergent-extracted membrane cytoskeletal material is compared to that prepared with Triton X-100 with respect to protein, glycoprotein, phospholipid, and cholesterol content. Digitonin, a weaker detergent than Triton X-100, solubilizes only 26% of the phospholipids and none of the cholesterol.
SDS
-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis reveals that differences between the proteins extracted by the two detergents are primarily quantitative. In terms of functional preservation, digitonin retains in the cytoskeleton 28% of the beta-adrenergic receptor binding activity (with the balance accounted for in the supernatant), greater than 90% of the
adenylate cyclase
and greater than 90% of the 45,000 mol wt polypeptide cholera toxin substrate. The cytoskeletal-associated beat-adrenergic receptor retains binding properties for antagonist and agonist which are identical to those of the native membrane receptor. The digitonin-extracted cytoskeleton containing the beta-adrenergic receptor may provide a useful vehicle for the reconstitution of a hormone-sensitive
adenylate cyclase
.
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PMID:Properties of rat erythrocyte membrane cytoskeletal structures produced by digitonin extraction: digitonin-insoluble beta-adrenergic receptor, adenylate cyclase, and cholera toxin substrate. 627 53
Several clonal Leydig tumor cell lines have been established by adapting the transplantable Leydig tumor, M548OP, to culture. One of these cell line, MLTC-1, has been characterized with regard to the gonadotropin-responsive
adenylate cyclase
system. The binding of 125I-labeled human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) was blocked by excess unlabeled hCG and lutropin (LH) but not by follitropin, thyrotropin, or insulin, indicating the presence of specific receptors for hCG and LH. Based on the specific binding of hCG to isolated MLTC-1 membranes, the calculated dissociation constant was 1.0 +/- 0.2 X 10(-10) M. The receptors appeared identical to those from normal murine Leydig cells when analyzed by
SDS
PAGE and sucrose density gradient centrifugation. The molecular weight and sedimentation coefficient were 95,000 daltons and 8.5 S, respectively. MLTC-1 cells responded to hCG by accumulating cyclic AMP and producing progesterone. Cyclic AMP accumulation was time- and dose-dependent with a maximal accumulation occurring at approximately 0.2 nM hCG. At saturating levels of hCG, cAMP levels reached a maximum by 30 min and then declined very slowly. Adenylate cyclase activity in membranes prepared from MLTC-1 cells was stimulated by hCG, LH, NaF, cholera toxin, and guanyl-5'-ylimidodiphosphate, Additionally, choleragen was found to ADP-ribosylate a membrane protein of 54,000 daltons. This protein resembles the proposed guanine nucleotide regulatory component in both size and choleragen-dependent reactivity. These data suggest that MLTC-1 cells possess a gonadotropin-responsive
adenylate cyclase
system consisting of a specific hormone receptor, a regulatory component, and a catalytic subunit.
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PMID:Establishment of gonadotropin-responsive murine leydig tumor cell line. 628 40
We have utilized the technique of lectin-loading of
SDS
gels with iodinated concanavalin A and wheat germ agglutinin to identify glycoproteins in prostatic and seminal fluids as well as in prostate tissue fractions. The following subunits which bound both lectins were detected: (a) 50, 43 and 38 kDa subunits common to prostatic and seminal fluids, and an additional 55 kDa subunit which predominates only in prostatic fluid; (b) 78, 55, 50 and 43 kDa subunits in prostatic tissue cytosol and (c) 195, 170, 135, 116 and 95 kDa subunits present in the particulate fractions of prostatic tissue. Immunoblotting using specific rabbit antibodies revealed the 50 kDa band to be prostatic acid phosphatase and the 38 kDa band to be prostate-specific antigen. Interestingly, antibodies directed toward prostatic acid phosphatase were found to cross-react with the 43 kDa band. Fractionation on sucrose gradients showed that several of these particulate glycoproteins were associated with a vesicle fraction enriched in
adenylate cyclase
activity, implying that they are plasma membrane glycoproteins. Comparison of soluble and particulate fractions of normal and cancerous tissue homogenates was made by densitometric scanning of autoradiograms of lectin-loaded gels. Similar relative intensities of lectin-binding were obtained for corresponding proteins in normal and cancerous tissue fractions. Also, immunoblotting showed no differences in prostatic acid phosphatase or prostate-specific antigen between normal and cancerous soluble homogenate fractions. Our results suggest that major lectin-binding proteins are conserved in the transition from normal to cancerous tissue. These results may be useful in developing a multiple-marker profile of metastatic prostate cancer and for the design of imaging agents, such as monoclonal antibodies, to prominent soluble and particulate prostate glycoproteins.
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PMID:Identification of structural and secretory lectin-binding glycoproteins of normal and cancerous human prostate. 639 53
We have found in water-soluble extracts of rat liver (and RL-PR-C cloned rat hepatocytes), prepared in the absence of detergent, a factor that markedly enhances basal, isoproterenol and cholera toxin activation of
adenylate cyclase
of rigorously washed hepatocyte membranes, in the absence of added GTP. The factor, which has characteristics of a protein with an Mr of approx. 35000, has been fractionated from crude cytosol by gel filtration, and then further purified over 50-fold by sequential ion-exchange chromatography. The site of action of the protein appears to be at the level of the guanine nucleotide regulatory (G) protein of the plasma membrane
adenylate cyclase
complex, as the factor, cooperatively with GTP, also permitted cholera toxin to ADP-ribosylate (from 32P-labeled NAD) two integral membrane proteins that migrated on
SDS
-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis gels with the mobilities (Mr approx. 46 000 and 48 000) generally observed for the guanine nucleotide regulator protein subunits. In this system, isoproterenol did not stimulate ADP-ribosylation, in either the presence or absence of the liver protein factor.
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PMID:Partial purification of a water-soluble liver protein that regulates adenylate cyclase activity (basal, hormone- and cholera-toxin-activated) and cholera-toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation of the membrane G protein. 643 82
A method has been developed for routine high yield separation of canalicular (cLPM) from basolateral (blLPM) liver plasma membrane vesicles of rat liver. Using a combination of rate zonal floatation (TZ-28 zonal rotor, Sorvall) and high speed centrifugation through discontinuous sucrose gradients, 9-16 mg of cLPM and 15-28 mg of blLPM protein can be isolated in 1 d. cLPM are free of the basolateral markers Na+/K+-ATPase and glucagon-stimulatable
adenylate cyclase
activities, but are highly enriched with respect to homogenate in the "canalicular marker" enzyme activities leucylnaphthylamidase (48-fold), gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase (60-fold), 5'-nucleotidase (64-fold), alkaline phosphatase (71-fold), Mg++-ATPase (83-fold), and alkaline phosphodiesterase I (116-fold). In contrast, blLPM are 34-fold enriched in Na+/K+-ATPase activity, exhibit considerable glucagon-stimulatable
adenylate cyclase
activity, and demonstrate a 4- to 15-fold increase over homogenate in the various "canalicular markers." cLPM have a twofold higher content of sialic acids, cholesterol; and sphingomyelin compared with blLPM. At least three canalicular-(130,000, 100,000, and 58,000 mol wt) and several basolateral-specific protein bands have been detected after
SDS
PAGE of the two LPM subfractions. Specifically, the immunoglobin A-binding secretory component is restricted to blLPM as demonstrated by immunochemical techniques. These data indicate virtually complete separation of basolateral from canalicular LPM and demonstrate multiple functional and compositional polarity between the two surface domains of hepatocytes.
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PMID:Structural and functional polarity of canalicular and basolateral plasma membrane vesicles isolated in high yield from rat liver. 669 96
Lysed Torpedo synaptosomes or washed synaptosomal membranes were incubated with [32P]NAD+ and subjected to electrophoresis on
SDS
-polyacrylamide gels. More than eight membrane proteins were ADP-ribosylated. The most intensely labeled proteins were those of Mr = 62,000 and 82,000. Radiolabeling was more intense in synaptosomes than in other subcellular fractions. Cholera toxin caused ribosylation of additional synaptosomal proteins with Mr = 42,000 and (in some preparations) 49,000. Neither endogenous nor cholera toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation required added guanyl nucleotides. Cholera toxin increased the
adenylate cyclase
activity of synaptosomal membranes, suggesting that the cholera toxin substrates are regulatory components of
adenylate cyclase
in these synaptosomes.
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PMID:ADP-ribosylation of membrane proteins in cholinergic nerve terminals. 706 32
An enterotoxic activity has been identified in culture filtrates of Salmonella wien. The enterotoxin causes fluid accumulation in rabbit ligated ileal loops, firm induration and erythema in rabbit skin and morphological alteration in chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell cultures; it was revealed by treatment with calcium phosphate gel, and purified on DEAE-Sephadex A-50 and BioGel A-1.5 m. The enterotoxic activity was eluted from the BioGel column in two peaks. Approximately 50-70% of the enterotoxic activity of the first peak, corresponding to the excluded volume, was resistant to heating at 75 degrees C for 30 min, while the activity of the second peak was completely destroyed by this treatment. From the heat-labile peak a protein, in homogeneous form, was isolated exploiting its affinity towards agarose gel filtration media. This protein, with enterotoxic activity was also present as shown by
SDS
-PAGE, in the first peak, eluted from the Bio-Gel column, where it appears to be closely associated with cell wall or membrane components and thus protected from heat denaturation. The isolated enterotoxin is stable in alkaline conditions but it is sensitive to acidic pH values; moreover, it stimulates
adenylate cyclase
in cell culture systems. Thus, it appears to possess properties similar to both cholera toxin and the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli. These results indicate that the enterotoxin is a protein in nature and it is postulated that it may participate in the pathogenesis of S. wien infection.
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PMID:Isolation of Salmonella wien heat-labile enterotoxin. 710 66
CRP-cAMP-dependent operons of Escherichia coli can be expressed in cells lacking functional
adenylate cyclase
when they carry a second-site mutation in the crp gene (crp*). It is known that the expression of these operons is repressed by glucose, but the molecular mechanism underlying this cAMP-independent catabolite repression has been a long-standing mystery. Here we address the question of how glucose inhibits the expression of beta-galactosidase in the absence of cAMP. We have isolated several mutations in the crp gene that confer a CRP* phenotype. The expression of beta-galactosidase is reduced by glucose in cells carrying these mutations. Using Western blotting and/or
SDS
-PAGE analysis, we demonstrate that glucose lowers the cellular concentration of CRP* through a reduction in crp* mRNA levels. The level of CRP* protein correlates with beta-galactosidase activity. When the crp promoter is replaced with the bla promoter, the inhibitory effect of glucose on crp* expression is virtually abolished. These data strongly suggest that the lowered level of CRP* caused by glucose mediates catabolite repression in cya- crp* cells and that the autoregulatory circuit of the crp gene is involved in the down-regulation of CRP* expression by glucose.
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PMID:Glucose lowers CRP* levels resulting in repression of the lac operon in cells lacking cAMP. 749 74
We have found [125I]glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1(7-36)amide specific binding activity in rat liver and isolated hepatocyte plasma membranes, with an M(r) of approximately 63,000, estimated by cross-linking and
SDS
-PAGE. The specific binding was time- and membrane protein concentration-dependent, and equally displaced by unlabelled GLP-1(7-36)amide and by GLP-1(1-36)amide, achieving its ID50 at 3 x 10(-9) M of the peptides. GLP-1(7-36)amide did not modify the basal or the glucagon (10(-8) M)-stimulated
adenylate cyclase
in the hepatocyte plasma membranes. These data, together with our previous findings of a potent glycogenic effect of GLP-1(7-36)amide in isolated rat hepatocytes, led us to postulate that the insulin-like effects of this peptide on glucose liver metabolism could be mediated by a type of receptor probably different from that described for GLP-1 in pancreatic B-cells or, alternatively, by the same receptor which, in this tissue as well as in muscle, uses a different transduction system.
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PMID:Glucagon-like peptide-1 binding to rat hepatic membranes. 756 16
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