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Query: UNIPROT:P20020 (adenosine triphosphatase)
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A technique for selecting mutants of Escherichia coli in which the proton-translocating sector of the adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) complex has been inactivated is reported. The procedure uses a strain of E. coli (NR-70) lacking the extrinsic (F1) sector of the ATPase complex and which in consequently permeable to protons (B. P. Rosen, J. Bacteriol. 116:1124--1129, 1973). After growing strain NR-70 under noninducing conditions for the lac operon, cells were mutagenized and plated on minimal medium containing low concentrations of lactose. Several mutants of strain NR-70 were isolated as large colonies on these plates, apparently because they could concentrate lactose more efficiently. A description of one of the mutants, strain KW-1, is reported here. The most distinguishing difference in growth properties of the two strains was that, when transferred to medium containing low concentrations of lactose, strain KW-1 induced the lac operon with a shorter lag time than strain NR-70. The mutation in strain KW-1 leading to more rapid growth on lactose was cotransducible with the asn and unc loci, at 83 min on the E. coli genetic map. Intact cells of strain KW-1 actively transported L-proline as well as did wild-type cells, whereas cells of strain NR-70 were markedly deficient in L-proline transport. The improvement in the transport capacity of strain KW-1 correlated with a marked decrease in proton permeability relative to that of strain NR-70. Based on an acid-base pulse technique that measured the proton conductance of the membranes of intact cells, strain NR-70 was at least 10 times more permeable to protons than was the wild type, whereas strain KW-1 was only 2 times more permeable. The transport properties and proton conductance were also compared with membrane vesicles prepared by osmotic shock. With either D-lactate or ascorbate-N-methylphenazonium methosulfate as respiratory substrates, vesicles of strain KW-1 transported L-proline much more rapidly than did vesicles of strain NR-70, but still at rates less rapid than those of the wild type. The passive proton conductance of the membrane vesicles was quantitated by measuring the rate of H+ influx into vesicles in response to a valinomycin-generated K+ diffusion potential. The proton permeability of vesicles of strain KW-1 was reduced 1.5-fold relative to vesicles of strain NR-70, but these vesicles were still four times more permeable to protons than was the wild type. Vesicles of strain KW-1 corresponded to wild-type vesicles treated with 0.5 micrometer carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) and vesicles of strain NR-70 corresponded to wild-type vesicles treated with 1.4 micrometer CCCP. Treatment of wild-type vesicles with these concentrations of CCCP caused decreases in transport comparable to those observed in the mutants. Strain KW-1 lacked ATPase activity. Cross-reacting material to F1-ATPase was not found in strain KW-1 by double immunodiffusion analysis.
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PMID:Method for isolation of Escherichia coli mutants with defects in the proton-translocating sector of the membrane adenosine triphosphatase complex. 15 9

To investigate further the pathophysiology of rotavirus-induced diarrhea, changes in specific activities of eight relevant intestinal enzymes [alkaline phosphatase, thymidine kinase, lactase, maltase, sucrase, Na+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), adenylate and guanylate cyclases] were measured following infection of suckling mice with murine rotavirus (epizootic diarrhea of infant mouse strain) and compared with age-matched control mice. The concentration of lactose within the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract during infection was also measured. During the course of infection, activities of alkaline phosphatase and lactase decreased, whilst the activity of thymidine kinase increased. Precocious maturation profiles of sucrase and maltase enzymes were observed. No significant changes were detected in the activities of Na+,K+-ATPase or the adenylate and guanylate cyclases. These results are discussed in relation to existing and novel hypotheses on the pathogenesis of rotavirus-induced diarrhea.
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PMID:Intestinal enzyme profiles in normal and rotavirus-infected mice. 289 74

Penetration of substrates into marine bacteria as influenced by cations has been demonstrated by the effects of increased osmotic pressure in spheroplasts of these cells. Spheroplasts of Pseudomonas natriegens, stabilized with lactose, underwent a metabolic swelling in the presence of a substrate to which they had been induced. Maximal and persistent swelling was achieved only by addition of catabolizable substrate and both Na(+) and K(+). Addition, along with substrate, of Na(+) alone or K(+) alone did not stimulate swelling; no metabolic swelling occurred in the presence of a sugar to which the cells had not been induced. Confirmation of rapid uptake by induced cells of the inducer sugar, l-arabinose, but not the d-isomer, was obtained with (14)C-labeled substrate. Addition of NaN(3) completely inhibited swelling, and 2, 4-dinitrophenol and ouabain each suppressed it by 50%, indicating requirement for energy metabolism and involvement of an adenosine triphosphatase in the penetration phenomena of these cells.
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PMID:Influence of cations on spheroplasts of marine bacteria functioning as osmometers. 603 44

The transport of the branched-chain amino acids in Streptococcus agalactiae was characterized. Glucose-grown cells were able to utilize only glucose as an energy source for transport of L-leucine, whereas lactose-grown cells could utilize both glucose and lactose. It was determined from metabolic inhibitor studies that energy from glycolysis and substrate level phosphorylation was required for active transport. Energy was found to be coupled to transport by the action of adenosine triphosphatase and the generation of a proton motive force. The branched-chain amino acids were found to share a common transport system that may consist of multiple components.
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PMID:Branched-chain amino acid transport in Streptococcus agalactiae. 644 76

The development of immune-mediated diabetes in BB rats may involve a defect of the gastrointestinal tract (GI), as suggested by increased gut permeability. This study aimed at measuring invertase, maltase, lactase, and peroxidase activities in the duodenum of diabetesprone BioBreeding (BBdp) rats and control BioBreeding rats (BBc) given free access to NIH-07 diet up to the time of killing at 60 66 d of age. After washing the entire small intestine, the duodenal mucosa was scraped off in the first 5-cm segment from the pylorus and frozen in distilled water. Invertase, maltase, and lactase activities were measured by monitoring the conversion of [U-(14)C]sucrose, [U-(14)C]maltose, and [D-[1-(14)C]glucose] lactose to radioactive hexoses, which were phosphorylated in the presence of adenosine triphosphatase and yeast hexokinase and then separated from their precursor by ion-exchange chromatography. Peroxidase activity was measured by a spectrophotometric procedure. In the BBdp rats, the activity of invertase, maltase, and lactase averaged, respectively, 70.2 +/- 4.4, 81.2 +/- 4.3, and 75.7 +/- 4.1% (n = 16 and p < 0.001 in all cases) of the control values found in BBc rats of the same sex. Inversely, after exclusion of two female BBc rats with abnormally high plasma D-glucose concentration, the activity of peroxidase in the BBdp rats averaged 157.4 +/- 20.0% (n = 16; p < 0.02) of the mean control value recorded in BBc rats of the same sex (100.0 +/- 9.3%; n = 14). These findings are compatible with the view that a proinflammatory state of the GI associated with compromise function may precede the occurrence of pancreatic insulitis in BBdp rats and, possibly, human subjects with type 1 diabetes.
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PMID:Invertase, maltase, lactase, and peroxidase activities in duodenum of BB rats. 1262 29