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The rates of the ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] reaction of the H-meromyosin-F-actin-relaxing protein system were measured in 2 mM MgCl2, 50mM KC1, and 10mM Tris-HC1 at pH 7.8 and 20 degrees in the presence and absence of 0.05-0.1 mM Ca2+ ions. The concentrations of H-meromyosin (HMM) and the F-actin-relaxing protein (F-A-PR) complex were 3.4 and 3 mg/ml, respectively, and the ATPase reaction was coupled with 4 mg/ml of pyruvate kinase [EC 2.7.1.40] and 1 or 20 mM phosphoenolpyruvate to regenerate ATP. The amount of ADP bound to HMM during the ATPase reaction was determined by measuring the amount of ADP remaining in the reaction mixture. The amount of ATP bound to HMM was determined by subtracting the amount of bound ADP from the total amount of nucleotides bound to HMM, which was measured by a rapid flow-dialysis method. The following results were obtained. 1. The ATPase activity of the HMM-F-A-RP system increased linearly with increase in the amount of ATP added, and was independent of the presence of 0.05 mM Ca2+, when the amount of ATP added was less than 1 mole/mole of HMM. In the presence of 0.05 mM Ca2+, the ATPase activity reached a maximal level when 1.2-1.5 mole of ATP was added per mole of HMM, and maintained this level even at 3 moles of added ATP/mole of HMM. In the presence of 3mM EGTA, the ATPase activity decreased with increase in the amount of ATP added, from 1.5 to 3 moles of ATP/mole of HMM, and reached the level of the HMM ATPase reaction at 3 moles of added ATP/mole of HMM. Similar results were observed when the concentration of HMM was maintained at 3.4 mg/ml and the concentration of the F-A-RP complex was decreased from 3 to 1 or 0.5 mg/ml.
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PMID:The amounts of adenosine di- and triphosphates bound to H-meromyosin and the adenosinetriphosphatase activity of the H-meromyosin-F-actin-relaxing protein system in the presence and absence of calcium ions. The physiological functions of the two routes of myosin adenosinetriphosphatase in muscle contraction. 12 89

1. The hydrolysis of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and the consequent formation of guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and phosphate (P1) are activated by light in a suspension of broken retinal rods: the hydrolysis rate with GTP in the micrometer concentration range is 2.5-3.5 n-mole/min per mg of rhodopsin in the preparation. 2. The ionic composition of the medium suspending the rods is not critical: the hydrolysis is present in NaCl saline solution with MG2+ as well as in Tris-HC1 buffer solution, and with the chelating agent EDTA. 3. The ionic strength is critical: the effect is reduced when the broken rods are suspended in a low salt mannitol solution, and is altogether abolished when they are separated from the mannitol solution; it reappears when the mannitol solution is added again in the presence of salts. An element essential for the effect is thus reversibly released in the mannitol solution. No hydrolytic activity on GTP, however, is found in the mannitol soluble fraction. 4. The cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase is eluted from the rods in the mannitol solution, and is reaggregated to the rods in the presence of salts; once recombined with the rods, it can be activated by light. 5. The activation of the phosphodiesterase by light is present in the absence of added nucleotide triphosphates.
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PMID:Light-activated hydrolysis of GTP and cyclic GMP in the rod outer segments. 20 80

15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase was isolated from human term placenta up to a final purification of 380-fold. A spec. act. of 2000 mU/mg of protein was reached. The preparation was not homogeneous as judged by analytical disc electrophoresis. The enzyme could be stored in the presence of 50% glycerol and 10mM 2-mercaptoethanol without any loss of activity for at least one year. A distinct single protein band stained after discontinuous polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was shown by enzymatic activity staining to correspond to 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase activity. Thus no evidence for the exitstence of isoenzymes was obtained. The protein in the final preparation steps showed neither alcohol dehydrogenase, NAD reductase, nor NADH oxidase activity, nor enzymatic conversion of prostaglandin or 15-oxoprostaglandin in the absence of NAD and NADH. No spontaneous reactions between NAD and prostaglandin or NADH and 15-oxoprostaglandin were detectable in the absence of the enzyme. Ethanol and glycerol slightly inhibited the reaction. Various buffers (Tris/HC1, potassium phosphate, HEPES, and triethanolamine) and salts (ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride) had different effects on the reaction rate. The pH profile of the reaction shows a plateau between pH 7.0 and 7.8 and a steep maximum at pH 9.5. A linear Arrhenius plot was obtained for the temperature dependence of the reaction from 20 to 37 degrees C. The molar activation enthalpy of the reaction was calculated to be 13.1 kcal/mole. The molecular weight of 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase was estimated to be 32000 -/+ 3000 by gel filtration on Sephadex G-150 in the presence of 10mM mercaptoethanol.
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PMID:[15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase from human placenta. 1. Isolation and characterization]. 24 91