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Query: EC:4.6.1.1 (adenylate cyclase)
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We have been studying the mechanism by which light and nucleoside triphosphates activate the discmembrane phosphodiesterase (oligonucleate 5'-nucleotidohydrolase; EC 3.1.4.1) in frog rod outer segments. GTP is orders of magnitude more effective than ATP as a cofactor in the light-dependent activation step. GTP and the analogue guanylyl-imidodiphosphate function equally as allosteric activators of photoreceptor phosphodiesterase rather than participating in the formation of a phosphorylated activator. Moreover, we have found a light-activated (5-fold) GTPase which participates in the modulation of photoreceptor phosphodiesterase. This GTPase activity appears necessary for the reversal of phosphodiesterase activation in vitro and may play a critical role in the in vivo regulation of light-sensitive phosphodiesterase. The K(m) for GTP in the light-activated GTPase reaction is <1 muM. The light sensitivity of this GTPase (number of photons required for half-maximal activation) is identical to that of light-activated phosphodiesterase. The GTPase action spectrum corresponds to the absorption spectrum of rhodopsin. There is, in addition, a light-insensitive GTPase activity with a K(m) for GTP of 90 muM. At GTP concentrations above 5 muM, there is no appreciable activation of GTPase activity by light. The substrate K(m) values for guanylate cyclase, light-activated GTPase, and light-activated phosphodiesterase order an enzyme array that might permit light to simultaneously cause the hydrolysis of both the substrate and product of guanylate cyclase. These findings reveal yet another facet of light regulation of photoreceptor/cyclic GMP levels and also provide a striking analogy to the GTP regulation of nonphotoreceptor, hormone-sensitive adenylate cyclase.
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PMID:A light-activated GTPase in vertebrate photoreceptors: regulation of light-activated cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase. 20 Sep 9

The requirements for choleragen activation of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] were investigated by using an enzyme preparation solubilized with Triton X-100 from an extensively washed brain particulate fraction and partially purified with DEAE-cellulose. Unlike the particulate enzyme, this preparation was not activated after incubation with choleragen plus dithiothreitol, ATP, and NAD. Addition of the purified protein activator of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and calcium to the partially purified enzyme increased basal activity somewhat, but choleragen activation was minimal. When cyclase was incubated with GTP plus the protein activator (and calcium), choleragen markedly increased the activity 3- to 6-fold. When GppNHp and protein activator were incubated with the cyclase prior to assay, activity was elevated but no effect of choleragen was observed. GTP and GppNHp had relatively small effects on cyclase activity in the absence of protein activator or if they were added directly to the assay. Boiled brain supernatant was consistently more effective than protein activator (plus calcium) and GTP, suggesting that other factors are required for maximal cyclase activity after choleragen treatment. It appears that the cyclase system is dissociable into several components, all of which may be necessary for optimal regulation of activity. It is probable that one of these is the heat-stable calcium-dependent protein activator of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase and adenylate cyclase that we have found is required along with GTP for demonstration of choleragen activation of partially purified brain adenylate cyclase.
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PMID:Choleragen activation of solubilized adenylate cyclase: requirement for GTP and protein activator for demonstration of enzymatic activity. 20 Sep 16

The effects of guanine nucleotides on basal and parathyroid hormone-stimulated adenylate cyclase of human fat cell ghosts were studied. GTP (10(-7)-10(-3) M) caused a dose-dependent inhibition of basal enzyme activity, but it had no significant effect on PTH-stimulated rates of cAMP-formation. The guanine nucleotide analogue 5'-guanylyl-imidodiphosphate GMP (PNP) when applied in the same concentration range, stimulated basal as well as PTH-activated adenylate cyclase activity up to 300%. GMP (PNP) activation was non-linear with time. PTH-activated the human fat cell adenylate cyclase via an individual receptor distinct from beta-adrenergic receptor sites.
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PMID:Human fat cell adenylate cyclase. Modulation of parathyroid hormone action by guanine nucleotides. 20 Sep 96

An assessment was made of some of the basic parameters responsible for the modulation of adenylate cyclase activity in a bovine adrenocortical plasma-membrane preparation. When determined at 0.1 mM-ATP, basal adenylate cyclase activity increased with increasing MgCl2 concentrations, whereas in the presence of corticotropin activity was essentially maximal at 10mM-MgCl2; high concentrations (25mM) of MgCl2 inhibited adenylate cyclase activity determined in the presence of both corticotropin and GTP. At all MgCl2 concentrations, corticotropin and GTP activated the enzyme in a synergistic fashion. The magnitude of the stimulation of basal activity produced by corticotropin was a function of Mg2+ concentration, whereas that produced by GTP appeared largely independent of Mg2+ concentration. Adenylate cyclase activity in the bovine adrenal membrane was half-maximally stimulated by corticotropin concentrations in the range 0.3--1.0 nM. The concentration of corticotropin evoking half-maximum response was not significantly affected by raising the free Mg2+ concentration from 0.4 to 4.9 mM, nor by the presence of GTP. In the presence of GTP, high concentrations (over 1 micrometer) of corticotropin inhibited adenylate cyclase activity, although no inhibition was apparent in the absence of guanine nucleotide.
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PMID:Modulation of the response of bovine adrenocortical adenylate cyclase to corticotropin. 20 64

It has recently been suggested that adenylate cyclase activity is controlled by a regulatory cycle consisting of two reactions: a hormone induced formation of the active adenylate cyclase-GTP complex, and a subsequent turn-off reaction in which hydrolysis of the bound nucleotide reverts the system to the inactive state. To test this model each of the two reactions was measured separately and their rate constants were used to estimate the steady state adenylate cyclase and GTPase activities. The first order rate constants were kon = 3 min-1 for the activation reaction and koff = 15 min-1 for the turn-off reaction. Substitution of these rate constants in the steady state equation of the regulatory cycle gave values of hormone stimulated adenylate cyclase and GTPase activities similar to those determined by direct measurements. Treatment of the adenylate cyclase with cholera toxin caused a decrease of 96% in the rate constant of the turn-off reaction. In this case too the activities calculated from the steady state equation were in good agreement with those determined directly.
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PMID:The regulatory GTPase cycle of turkey erythrocyte adenylate cyclase. 20 12

Epinephrine increased adenylate cyclase activity 10 to 15 fold in lysates of the cultured human astrocytoma cell line 132-1N1. GTP had little effect on adenylate cyclase activity of lysed cell preparations either with or without added epinephrine. However, the epinephrine stimulation of adenylate cyclase was essentially lost (less than 90%) when a washed nuclei-free membrane preparation of the cyclase was assayed. A 10 to 15 fold epinephrine stimulation of the membrane adenylate cyclase could be demonstrated if cytosol of GTP were added to the assay with the hormone. The criteria of anion exchange, cation exchange, gel exclusion and paper chromatography indicated that the cytosolic agents which acted synergistically with hormones were GTP and GDP. The apparent Kact's for the synergistic action of GDP and GTP were essentially identical (1.0 muM) and of all the other nucleotides examined only GDP had a potency similar to GTP. However, the effect of GDP was apparently due to its rapid conversion to GTP even in the absence of a regenerating system. With epinephrine pretreatment of the intact 132-1N1 cells there was a specific loss of epinephrine stimulation of adenylate cyclase activity. The hormone pretreatment did not alter the capacity of the cytosol from these desensitized cells to potentiate epinephrine stimulation of the cyclase. Rather, the alteration was in the particulate fraction of the lysate. The desensitization of the membranous cyclase was stable and not reversed by GTP.
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PMID:Endogenous GTP and the regulation of epinephrine stimulation of adenylate cyclase. 20 54

The nature of the inotropic actions of exogeneously applied ATP and related compounds (AMP-PNP, GTP, GMP and guanosine) was studied in comparison with that of adrenaline on the bullfrog atrial muscle under voltage clamped and unclamped conditions with the double-gap method. ATP and GTP (10(-6-) - 10(-3) M) produced an immediate positive inotropic effect similar to that achieved with adrenaline. Dose-response curves of these drugs fitted the theoretical dose-response relations, but the curves of ATP and GTP were not significantly altered by propranolol. Under voltage clamped conditions, ATP, AMP-PNP (non-hydrolyzable analogue of ATP) and GTP augmentated the calcium inward current (ICa), ICa-dependent tension and the delayed outward current (Ix) as adrenaline. On the other hand, GMP and guanosine, which have a purine-ribose base but not a high energy phosphate bond, produced a negative inotropic effect, and depressed the Ix as adenosine. All these nucleotides and nucleosides inhibited the ICa-independent tonic tension. The facts that GTP and AMP-PNP showed the same effect as ATP indicated that neither the energy liberation from the phosphate bond nor the substrate for cyclic AMP formation is involved in their positive inotropic effects. It is proposed that the energy rich nucleotides modulate the adenylate cyclase activity, being mediated by some receptor located at the outer surface of the membrane other than beta-adrenergic receptor.
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PMID:Nature of catecholamine-like actions of ATP and other energy rich nucleotides on the bullfrog atrial muscle. 20 16

Treatment of pigeon erythrocyte membranes with cholera toxin and NAD(+) enhanced the GTP stimulation and suppressed the F(-) activation of the adenylate cylase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1]. In the presence of NAD(+) labeled with (32)P in the AMP moiety the toxin catalyzed the covalent incorporation of radioactivity into membrane proteins with molecular weights (M(r)s) of 200,000, 86,000, and 42,000. Extraction of toxin-treated membranes with Lubrol PX followed by affinity chromatography on a GTP-Sepharose column resulted in a 200-fold purification of the 42,000-M(r) labeled protein and in its complete separation from the other labeled proteins. The fraction containing the purified GTP-binding component from toxin-treated membranes conferred an enhanced GTP-stimulated activity on adenylate cyclase solubilized from nontreated membranes. Likewise, the addition of GTP-binding fraction from nontreated membranes to an enzyme solubilized from toxin-treated membranes restored F(-) stimulation of the adenylate cyclase. The toxin-induced modification of adenylate cyclase and the incorporation of radioactivity into the 42,000-M(r) protein were partially reversed upon incubation with toxin and nicotinamide at pH 6.1. The results indicate that cholera toxin affects the adenylate cyclase system by catalyzing an ADP-ribosylation of the 42,000-M(r) component bearing the guanyl nucleotide regulatory site.
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PMID:Mechanism of cholera toxin action: covalent modification of the guanyl nucleotide-binding protein of the adenylate cyclase system. 20 69

HeLa cells contain receptors on their surface which are beta-adrenergic in nature. The binding of (-)-[3H]dihydroalprenolol is rapid, reversible, stereospecific and of relatively high affinity. The HeLa cells also contain an adenylate cyclase which is activated by (-)-isoproterenol greater than (-)-epinephrine greater than (-)-norepinephrine. The adenylate cyclase of HeLa is also activated by guanyl-5'-ylimidodophosphate (Gpp(NH)p), a nonhydrolyzable analogue of GTP. Inclusion of both (-)-isoproterenol and Gpp(NH)p leads to approximately additive rather than synergistic activation of adenylate cyclase. After treatment of HeLa cells with 5mM sodium butyrate there is an increase in the number of beta-adrenergic receptors, but not in their affinity, which is reflected in an increased ability of (-)-isoproterenol to activate adenylate cyclase. Other properties of the beta-adrenergic receptor including association and dissociation rates, temperature optimum of adenylate cyclase and response to Gpp(NH)p are relatively unaffected by butyrate pretreatment of the cells.
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PMID:Properties of beta-adrenergic receptors in untreated and butyrate-treated Hela cells. 20 39

The effects of the muscarinic cholinergic agonist methacholine on affinity of beta-adrenergic receptors for isoproterenol and on isoproterenol-induced stimulation of adenylate cyclase activity were assessed in canine myocardium. GTP and guanyl-5'-yl imidoiphosphate both decreased the affinity of beta-adrenergic receptors for isoproterenol without altering the affinity of these receptors for propranolol. Methacholine (10 nM to 10 micronM) antagonized the guanine nucleotide-induced reduction in beta-adrenergic receptor affinity for isoproterenol. This effect of methacholine was reversed by atropine. The choline ester had no effect on the affinity of beta-adrenergic receptors for isoproterenol in the absence of guanine nucleotides. Likewise, methacholine had no effect on the affinity of beta-adrenergic receptors for propranolol, either in the presence or absence of guanine nucleotides. Methacholine also attenuated GTP-induced activation of adenylate cyclase or isoproterenol-induced activation of the enzyme in the presence of GTP. The effects of methacholine on myocardial adenylate cyclase activity were apparent only in the presence of GTP. These effects were also reversed by atropine. The choline ester had no effect on adenylate cyclase activity in the presence of guanyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate or NaF. The results of the present study suggest that muscarinic cholinergic agonists can regulate both beta-adrenergic receptors and adenylate cyclase by modulating the effects of GTP.
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PMID:Muscarinic cholinergic receptor modulation of beta-adrenergic receptor affinity for catecholamines. 20 18


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