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The subcellular distribution and properties of guanylate cyclase was examined in preparations of normal rat renal cortex and Morris renal tumors MK2 and MK3. In normal kidney cortex about two-thirds of guanylate cyclase activity of homogenates was found in soluble fractions. With renal tumors the homogenate activity was less and the enzyme was equally divided between particulate and soluble fractions. The particulate enzyme in kidney cortex and tumors was associated with all particulate fractions. Triton X-100 increased the activity of all preparations. All preparations preferred Mn2+ as the sole cation. The stimulatory effects of Ca2+ on soluble enzyme and inhibitory effects on particulate activity were similar with preparations of renal cortex and tumors. ATP inhibited all preparations. Soluble and particulate guanylate cyclases from renal cortex were activated several-fold with 1 mM NaN3. Preparations of tumor enzymes did not respond to NaN3. Thus, compared to normal renal cortex the subcellular distribution of guanylate cyclase and some of its properties are altered in preparations of renal tumors.
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PMID:Properties of guanylate cyclase from rat kidney cortex and transplantable kidney tumors. 0 71

Two membrane fractions prepared from the Ehrlich ascites-tumor cell show non-identical stimulatory responses to certain amino acids in their Mg+2 -dependent activity to cleave ATP, despite the presence of ouabain and the absence of Na+ or K+. The first of these, previously described, shows little (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity, and is characteristicallly stimulated by the presence of certain diamino acids with low pK2, and at pH values suggesting that the cationic forms of these amino acids are effective. The evidence indicates that these effects are not obtained through occupation of the kinetically discernible receptor site serving characteristically for the uphill transport of these amino acids into the Ehrlich cell. The second membrane preparation was purified with the goal of concentrating the (Na+ +K+)-ATPase activity. It also is stimulated by the model diamino acid, 4-amino-1-methylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid, and several ordinary amino acids. The diamino acids were most effective at pH values where the neutral zwitterionic forms might be responsible. Among the optically active amino acids tested, the effects of ornithine and leucine were substantially stronger for the L than for the D isomers. The list of stimulatory amino acids again corresponds poorly to any single transport system, although the possibility was not excluded that stimulation might occur for both preparations by occupation of a membrane site which ordinarily is kinetically silent in the transport sequence. The high sensitivity to deoxycholate and to dicyclohexylcarbodiimide of the hydrolytic activity produced by the presence of L-ornithine and 4-amino-1-methyl-piperidine-4-carboxylic acid suggests that the stimulatory effect is not merely a general intensification of the background Mg+ -dependent hydrolytic activity.
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PMID:Amino acid stimulation of ATP cleavage by two Ehrlich cell membrane preparations in the presence of ouabain. 0 67

Transplantable mouse melanomas possess a melanotropin-sensitive adenylate cyclase system which is responsive to alpha-melanotropin, beta-melanotropin, adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and prostaglandin E1. It was found that sensitivity to ACTH was not directed towards the ACTH activity but to the intrinsic melanotropin activity of the ACTH molecule. Therefore, the melanotropin-sensitive adenylate cyclase system is hormonally specific to the intrinsic melanotropin activity of peptide hormones and is unique in the melanoma tissue. The significance of the sensitivity to prostaglandin E1 is obscure at present. The melanotropin-sensitive adenylate cyclase requires the presence of Mg2+ or Mn2+, for its enzymic activity. Ca2+ inhibit the enzyme in the presence of a wide range of concentrations of Mg2+. The enzymic activity is ATP concentration-dependent and the saturation concentration appears to be 1 mM. The enzyme is very labile in the unfractionated tumor homogenates. A washed 11000 X g particulate fraction, representing about 30-60% of the total enzymic activity, was found to be more stable and could be stored at 5 degrees C for 2 h without appreciable loss of the activity. This fraction retained sensitivity to melanotropin, prostaglandin E1 and NaF. About 20% of the activity of the tumor homogenate could not be sedimented by centrifugation at 105000 X g for 60 min. This "soluble" fraction was not responsive to melanotropin, prostaglandin E1 and NaF and might be a degradative product produced by the fractionation. Cyclic AMP and alpha-melanotropin were able to increase the tyrosinase activity of isolated mouse melanoma-cells in vitro under the same conditions.
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PMID:PHrmonal specificity of the melanotropin-sensitive adenylate cyclase of mouse melanoma and effect of cyclic AMP on the tyrosinase activity of mouse melanoma cells, in vitro. 0 31

The kinetic and molecular properties of a phosphofructokinase derived from a transplantable rat thyroid tumor lacking regulatory control on the glycolytic pathway were studied. The properties of the near-purified enzyme (specific activity 140 units/mg) were compared with those of phosphofructokinase from normal rat thyroid (specific activity 134 units/mg). The electrophoretic mobilities and gel elution behavior of these two enzymes were almost similar. The thyroid tumor phosphofructokinase showed, however, a greater degree of size and/or shape heterogeneity in the presence of ATP than the normal thyroid enzyme, as determined by gel filtration and sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Kinetic studies below pH 7.4 showed a sigmoid response curve for both enzymes when the velocity was determined at 1 mM ATP with varying levels of fructose-6-P. The interaction coefficient, however, was 4.2 and 2.6 for normal and tumor thyroid phosphofructokinase, respectively. Ammonium sulfate decreased the cooperative interactions with the substrate fructose-6-P in both enzymes. The thyroid tumor enzyme, however, was less sensitive to the inhibition by ATP and by citrate. The reversal of citrate inhibition by cyclic 3':5'-adenosine monophosphate was also less effective with the thyroid tumor phosphofructokinase, while the protective effect of fructose-6-P was stronger. The difference in citrate inhibition between tumor and normal thyroid enzyme was not strongly affected by varying the MgCl2 concentration up to 10 mM. It is concluded that the complex allosteric regulation typical of the normal thyroid phosphofructokinase is still present in the enzyme isolated from the thyroid tumor tissue. The latter, however, is more loosely controlled by its physiological effectors, such as ATP, citrate, and cyclic AMP.
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PMID:Differences in phosphofructokinase regulation in normal and tumor rat thyroid cells. 1 Feb 94

High-resolution 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectra at 145.7 MHz are reported for intact Ehrlich ascites tumor cells and their perchloric acid extracts. In the extracts it was possible to assign resonances to fructose 1,6-bisphosphates, dihydroxyacetone phosphate, ATP, ADP, AMP, Pi, NAD+, phosphorylcholine, glycero-3-phosphorylcholine, glycero-3-phosphorylethanolamine, and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from their chemical shifts, pH behavior, and spin couplings. All but glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate were observed and assigned in the intact cells. It was possible to show that the hydrolysis of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is in equilibrium, that the dihydroxyacetone phosphate leads to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate reaction is not, and that in the intact cell without added oxygen or glucose the reaction 2ADP in equilibrium ATP + AMP is in equilibrium. From the known pH dependence of the Pi resonance it was possible to show that during aerobic or anerobic glycolysis the difference between intracellular and extracellular pH values was less than 0.2 pH units. Upon oxygenation the ATP concentration increased while the ADP concentration fell. Introducing deoxyglucose depleted the ATP and resulted in an AMP signal and one from deoxyglucose 6-phosphate, which is transported and phosphorylated but not catabolized.
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PMID:31P nuclear magnetic resonance studies of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. 1 72

(1) The mitochondrial ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) Ehrlich ascites cell mitochondria, was inhibited by D-glucose under physiological concentrations of ATP. The generation of ADP by the mitochondrial bound hexokinase, seems to be the reason for the D-glucose inhibitory effect. Reversal of the inhibitory effect of ADP on Ehrlich ascites cell mitochondria ATPase by an ATP-regenerating system was achieved. (2) Dissociation of mitochondrial bound hexokinase from the mitochondria eliminated the inhibitory effect of D-glucose. Rebinding of the hexokinase to the mitochondria regenerated the D-glucose inhibitory effect on Ehrlich ascites cell mitochondria ATPase. (3) Bioflavonoids such as quercetin inhibit the mitochondrial hexokinase activity, but do not change the mitochondrial ATPase activity of isolated Ehrlich ascites tumor cell mitochondria. (4) The inhibitory effect of bioflavonoids on mitochondrial bound hexokinase activity is shown to be dissociable from the ascites tumor cell mitochondria and seems to be associated with regulatory rather than catalitic sites of the enzyme.
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PMID:Bioflavonoid regulation of ATPase and hexokinase activity in Ehrlich ascites cell mitochondria. 1 95

Mitochondria from normal rat liver and heart, and also Ehrlich tumor cells, respiring on succinate as energy source in the presence of rotenone (to prevent net electron flow to oxygen from the endogenous pyridine nucleotides), rapidly take up Ca(2+) and retain it so long as the pyridine nucleotides are kept in the reduced state. When acetoacetate is added to bring the pyridine nucleotides into a more oxidized state, Ca(2+) is released to the medium. A subsequent addition of a reductant of the pyridine nucleotides such as beta-hydroxybutyrate, glutamate, or isocitrate causes reuptake of the released Ca(2+). Successive cycles of Ca(2+) release and uptake can be induced by shifting the redox state of the pyridine nucleotides to more oxidized and more reduced states, respectively. Similar observations were made when succinate oxidation was replaced as energy source by ascorbate oxidation or by the hydrolysis of ATP. These and other observations form the basis of a hypothesis for feedback regulation of Ca(2+)-dependent substrate- or energy-mobilizing enzymatic reactions by the uptake or release of mitochondrial Ca(2+), mediated by the cytosolic phosphate potential and the ATP-dependent reduction of mitochondrial pyridine nucleotides by reversal of electron transport.
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PMID:Regulation of Ca2+ release from mitochondria by the oxidation-reduction state of pyridine nucleotides. 2 36

(1) (DL)-Propranolol and Ca2+ are shown to alter the transmembrane potential difference of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells as measured by means of the cyanine dye, 3,3'-dipropyl-2,2'-thiodicarbocyanine iodide, whose fluorescent intensity changes as a function of membrane potential. (2) The changes in membrane potential elicited by these agents are dependent of the external K+ concentration in a manner which suggest that the potential changes result from a specific increase in the permeability of the plasma membrane to K+. (3) Na+-dependent amino acid transport in the presence of propranolol can be modulated by varying the external K+ concentration (K+o). The initial rate of uptake is stimulated by propranolol at low K+o and inhibited at high K+o. The change in transport rate is nearly directly proportional to the natural logarithm of [K+]o in the presence of propranolol. (4) ATP depletion of the cells by preincubation with rotenone abolishes the changes in fluorescence and amino acid uptake seen with propranolol as a function of K+o. Restoration of cellular ATP with glucose in presence of Ca2+ restores both fluorescence and amino acid transport changes which occur in response to propranolol. (5) The fluorescence changes and amino acid transport changes in response to propranolol are pH dependent, with little effect seen at pH6. (6) It is concluded that the rate of Na+-dependent amino acid uptake is a function of membrane potential and is dependent on the electrochemical potential difference for Na+.
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PMID:Influence of (DL)-propranolol and Ca2+ on membrane potential and amino acid transport in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. 2 2

Extracellular acidosis (pH 6.6) has been found to delay the lethal effect of p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonic acid on Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. At pH 6.6, 50 per cent of the cells died within approximately 80 minutes, compared with approximately 10 minutes at pH 7.5 or approximately 5 minutes at pH 8.0. It was also observed that low pH produced a dissociation between potassium loss, ATP levels, cell volume, and cell death. The possible mechanism of this effect is discussed; it is our hypothesis that it involves proton interactions with plasma membrane components which either affect available membrane sulfhydryl groups or otherwise stabilize the cell membrane against loss of semipermeable characteristics and cellular lysis.
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PMID:Studies on modification on the cellular response to injury. 5 Apr 96

The reversibility of changes in ultrastructure, K+, and ATP content was studied in experimental injury of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. Different grades of injury resulted from incubations in N2 atmosphere and omitting substrate after which air and glucose were reinstated. The changes observed in cells after 1 hour of anoxia such as dilations of endoplasmic reticulum, complex invaginations of plasma membrane, and slight condensation of mitochondria, as well as a drop of K+ and ATP content to a level approximating 40 per cent of the paired controls, were entirely reversible. After 2 hours of anoxia approximately 50 per cent of the cells recovered, but after 3 and 4 hour of anoxia most of the cells were irreversibly damaged showing markedly swollen mitochondria with flocculent densities.
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PMID:Studies of cellular recovery from injury. I. Recovery from anoxia in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. 5 20


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