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Query: UNIPROT:P20020 (adenosine triphosphatase)
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Rat liver lysosomes were lysed and subfractionated by differential centrifugation through 0.2M-NaCl to yield a membranous pellet. This membrane fraction contains less than 20% of the lysosomal protein, adenosine triphosphatase activity of about 1.2mumol/min per mg of protein, 120nmol of thiol groups/mg of protein and at least 16 protein and glycoprotein bands on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. The gel patterns of membranes isolated from lysosomes after treatment with (1) [125I]iodidehydrogen peroxide-lactoperoxidase, (2) toluene 2,4-di-isocyanate-activated bovine serum albumin, (3) trypsin and (4) subtilisin indicate that most of the membrane proteins are exposed to the cytoplasm. These exposed proteins are candidates for intracellular receptors which recognize either substances that are to be degraded or vesicles containing those substances.
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PMID:Properties of the membrane proteins of rat liver lysosomes. The majority of lysosomal membrane proteins are exposed to the cytoplasm. 15 36

The mechanism by which toluene decreased synaptosomal phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) was investigated by studying degradative and synthetic phospholipid pathways. Toluene stimulated a PE-specific phospholipase (PLase) C both in vivo (44-75%) and in vitro (20-30%) whereas PLase A, PLase D and base exchange enzymes were unchanged. Toluene, in vivo, also increased the synthesis of PE (27%) when expressed as [3H]ethanolamine incorporation into [3H]PE, but had no effect on PE synthesis when administered in vitro. Perhaps this reflects a compensatory mechanism in synaptosomes to replace PE via increasing de novo synthesis. Phospholipid methylation, an event proposed to be related to the transduction of singals across membranes, as well as a measure of membrane function, was studied. Toluene was found to rapidly increase phospholipid methylation (43%, 15 min), followed by a significant decrease (35%, 1 hr). Another measure of membrane, as well as cell function used in these studies was ATPase activity. Toluene, both in vivo and in vitro, stimulated Na+, K(+)-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity (20-30%, 15-30 min), whereas Mg(++)-ATPase and Ca(++)-ATPase were unaffected, an indication that toluene alters neuronal cell function. Membrane fluidity studies using fluorescence polarization reported that toluene, both in vivo and in vitro, increased the outer synaptosomal membrane fluidity using the probe trimethylammonium-diphenylhexatriene, whereas no effect was observed on the central core fluidity using diphenylhexatriene. These are the first studies to demonstrate that an organic solvent effects only specific membrane region fluidities. One possibility is that early synaptic alterations resulting from toluene exposure may be preceded by increases in outer membrane fluidity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Altered synaptosomal phospholipid metabolism after toluene: possible relationship with membrane fluidity, Na+,K(+)-adenosine triphosphatase and phospholipid methylation. 216 49

The effects of some aromatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic chlorinated hydrocarbons, and alcohols on adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity in human erythrocyte ghost membrane were studied in vitro. Both aromatic and chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons inhibited this activity dose-dependently, the inhibition of total ATPase activity being clearer than that of magnesium-activated ATPase. Of the alcohols studied, methanol had no effect on the ATPase activity, but ethanol, propranolol, and butanol were slightly enzyme-activating at high concentrations. The enzyme-inhibiting potency of organic solvents was generally related to their lipid solubilities, but 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane was a potent enzyme inhibitor despite its low lipid solubility. This findings indicates that, eg, the molecular structure of solvents may modulate their enzyme inhibition. In the presence of Triton-X-100, toluene did not cause any changes in the activity of total ATPase, and the combined effect of the two compounds was slight. Triton-X-100 also caused a significant solubilization of membrane proteins although even the highest toluene concentrations did not. These results show that organic solvents may cause their membrane effects by acting directly on membrane-bound integral proteins such as ATPase. This action is not only dependent on the lipid solubility of the compounds, but also on their molecular structure.
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PMID:Effects of industrial organic solvents on human erythrocyte membrane adenosine triphosphatase activities in vitro. 296 75

The mechanism of the anaesthetic effect of toluene on the central nervous system (CNS) was studied by using rat erythrocyte and synaptosome membranes as nerve cell models both in vitro and in vivo. The activities of the membrane-bound integral enzymes acetylcholinesterase (AChE), total adenosine triphosphatase (total ATPase) and magnesium-activated adenosine triphosphatase (Mg2+-ATPase) were determined. A short-term exposure to 2000 p.p.m. of toluene had an inhibitory effect on the enzyme activities studied. The degree of inhibition in erythrocyte membranes in vitro and in vivo, and in synaptosome membranes in vitro were in good correlation. In in vivo conditions, the synaptosome-bound enzymes were, however, significantly more inhibited by toluene, which indicates that membranes in vivo are even more vulnerable to the toxic effects of organic solvents than they are as isolated membranes in vitro. However, our results show that in vitro experiments can be used to predict the toxic nerve cell membrane effects of organic solvents. Toluene caused similar enzyme inhibitions both in neural cell membranes and in erythrocyte membranes. Thus, even peripheral non-excitable cell membranes, like erythrocytes, can be used as nerve cell membrane models in studies on the mechanism of the anaesthesia caused by solvents.
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PMID:The effect of in vitro and in vivo toluene exposure on rat erythrocyte and synaptosome membrane integral enzymes. 296 6