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Query: UNIPROT:P20020 (adenosine triphosphatase)
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A preliminary investigation of the primary structure of the Ca(2+-transporting ATPase (adenosine triphosphatase) protein of rabbit skeletal-muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum is reported. The preparation of derivatives of delipidated protein in a form suitable for sequence analysis is described. Tryptic peptides containing S-carboxymethylcysteine residues were isolated from the reduced carboxymethylated protein, and their sequences were partially determined. The results are consistent with mol.wt. about 105000 for the polypeptide, and the absence of extended repeated lengths of sequence. The distribution of tryptophan and cysteine residues between large, aggregated peptides and soluble tryptic peptides shows that these residues are concentrated in different regions of the primary structure. This observation agrees with other evidence that these residues are, on the whole, widely separated in the native protein. The details of the procedures used to isolate the peptides, and the evidence for the determination of their sequences, are given Supplementary Publication SUP 50085 (30 pages), which has been deposited at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.J. (1978) 169, 5.
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PMID:Primary structures of cysteine-containing peptides from the calcium ion-transporting adenosine triphosphatase of rabbit sarcoplasmic reticulum. 15 33

The ATP-energy transducing system in membranes of Escherichia coli is inhibited by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. The protein component of this complex with which carbodiimides covalently react to inhibit function was previously identified by labeling wild type and dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-resistant mutants with dicyclohexyl[14C]carbodiimide (Fillingame, R. H. (1975) J. Bacteriol. 124, 870-883). This specific carbodiimide-reactive protein has now been purified. The protein was extracted from the membrane with chloroform:methanol and chromatographed on DEAE-cellulose and hydroxypropyl Spehadex G-50 in this sulvent mixture. The resultant 700-fold purification yielded a protein that was homogeneous on dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gel electrophoresis and virtually free of phospholipid. It remained soluble in neutral chloroform:methanol throughout the purification procedure. The amino acid composition of the purified protein was extraordinary in that only 16% of the amino acids present could be considered polar. Histidine, serine, cysteine, and tryptophan were not found. Abnormally high contents of methionine, glycine, alanine, and leucine were present. One mole of lysine and threonine were found/mole of dicyclohexyl[14C]carbodiimide bound. The minimum molecular weight based on the amino acid composition was 8400. The specific carbodiimide-reactive protein has also been purified without prior modification by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. The unmodified protein eluted from DEAE-cellulose at a higher salt concentration than the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-modified form, which suggested that the reaction with the carbodiimide neutralized the negative charge. Only one-third of the total carbodiimide-reactive protein in the membrane was modified by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide under conditions which maximally inhibited adenosine triphosphatase activity. These results rais the possibility that the carbodiimide-reactive protein may be present as an oligomer in the energy-transducing complex. The purification of the unmodified carbodiimide-reactive protein should permit assessment of tis biological function, particularly its role in the protein-translocation process that is catalyzed by this energy-transducing complex.
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PMID:Purification of the carbodiimide-reactive protein component of the ATP energy-transducing system of Escherichia coli. 78 71

The effect of vitamin A deficiency on the intestinal absorption of nutrients and the activities of brush border enzymes were studied in albino rats. Intestinal uptakes of D-glucose, L-methionine, L-tryptophan and L-histidine were significantly greater in vitamin A-deficient animals than in controls. The specific activities of total adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), ouabain-sensitive ATPase, maltase and sucrase in the intestinal mucosa of vitamin A-deprived rats were 121, 124, 131 and 134 per cent respectively, of the corresponding values in control animals. The DNA content of the small intestine in vitamin A-deficient rats was 36.5 per cent lower than in control rats. The stimulation in digestive and absorptive capacity appears to be an adaptive change in vitamin A-deficiency which decreases the intestinal cell population.
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PMID:Effect of vitamin A deficiency on rat intestinal digestive & absorptive functions. 253 19

Second and fourth derivatives have been calculated from the fluorescence emission spectra of N-acetyl tryptophanamide in solvents of varying polarity. It is demonstrated that the otherwise featureless fluorescence emission spectrum can be resolved into a series of discrete bands by the use of the derivative technique. These bands appear to have their origins in the transitions of electrons from the first excited singlet state back to the various vibrational levels of the ground state. The shifting of the fluorescence emission maximum to shorter wavelengths upon decreasing the solvent polarity is shown to be due to changes in the relative contributions of each of the bands combined with smaller changes in the band positions. Derivative spectra have also been obtained from the intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence of the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-adenosine triphosphatase of sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes. A similar pattern of bands is observed to that found in the model system and is consistent with the majority of the tryptophan residues being located in hydrophobic environments. Addition of calcium ions to the protein results in enhancement of the protein fluorescence accompanied by a small and hitherto unseen blue-shift of the spectrum. The mechanistic implications of this finding are discussed in relation to the calcium transport function of the protein.
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PMID:Derivative spectroscopy of tryptophan fluorescence used to study conformational transitions in the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-adenosine triphosphatase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. 294 31

The isolation and characterization of the soluble peptides from the CNBr digest of the calcium ion-transporting adenosine triphosphatase protein of rabbit skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum are described. The 562 unique residues of the protein were placed in sequences. The remaining part of the protein (about 500 residues) yielded long hydrophobic sequences that contained all but one of the tryptophan residues of the protein and that were probably derived largely from the intramembranous parts of the protein. Three long stretches of primary structure, constituting half of the protein, have been reconstructed from the information presented here together with the sequences found in peptides from other digests of the protein. The secondary structures of these sequences have been predicted. A model for the primary structure of the protein is presented and the implications discussed. Details of the isolation of peptides are contained in Supplementary Publication, SUP 50105 (29 pages), which has been deposited with the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1978) 169, 5.
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PMID:The primary structure of the calcium ion-transporting adenosine triphosphatase protein of rabbit skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum. Peptides derived from digestion with cyanogen bromide, and the sequences of three long extramembranous segments. 623 81

The inhibitory subunit (epsilon) of the F1 adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) was purified to homogeneity from the ML 308-225 and K12 (lambda) strains of Escherichia coli. No tryptophan or cysteine was detected in the subunit from either strain. The highly active epsilon from both strains was found to be a globular protein with a Stokes' radius of 18--19 A. Circular dichroism spectra suggested an alpha-helix content of approximately 40%. The molecular weight of epsilon was approximately 15000--16000 by sedimentation equilibrium centrifugation in the presence and absence of guanidinium hydrochloride, molecular sieve chromatography, and gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and 8 M urea. The s20,w of epsilon was approximately 1.6 s-1. Inhibition of the purified F1 ATPase by epsilon displayed noncompetitive kinetics with a Ki of approximately 10 nM. The inhibition of the ATPase was rapidly reversed by diluting the enzyme--epsilon mixture. [125I]epsilon which was incorporated into ECF1 was readily displaced by unlabeled epsilon. epsilon had no significant effect on the ATPase activity of "native" or reconstituted everted membrane vesicles under a variety of assay conditions. Combining the epsilon-inhibited F1 ATPase with its hydrophobic portion in everted membrane vesicles reconstituted the reversible proton-translocating ATPase and restored nearly full ATPase activity. These results suggest that epsilon inhibits the enzyme only when the F1 ATPase becomes detached from its hydrophobic subunits.
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PMID:Characterization of the inhibitory (epsilon) subunit of the proton-translocating adenosine triphosphatase from Escherichia coli. 644 14

A conditional-lethal rho mutant of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 has been isolated. The mutation was selected as a suppressor of the polarity of an insertion sequence (IS)2-induced mutation (gal3) carried on an F' plasmid. In addition to suppression of IS2-induced polarity, the rho-111 mutation suppressed nonsense and frameshift polarity. The rho-associated polycytidylic acid-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity in the mutant strain was elevated 15-fold above that in the parental strain, and the mutant rho protein was thermally unstable. A temperature-resistant revertant of the mutant strain did not suppress polarity and contained normal levels of polycytidylic acid-dependent adenosine triphosphatase, suggesting that the phenotype of the rho-111-bearing strain is the consequence of a single mutation. The rho-111 mutation was located on the S. typhimurium linkage map midway between the ilv and cya loci by phage P22 cotransduction studies. F' plasmid maintenance was not impaired in the mutant strain, and the mutation was recessive to the wild-type allele. The rho-111 mutation did not alter in vivo expression of either the tryptophan or histidine operons.
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PMID:Genetic analysis of a temperature-sensitive Salmonella typhimurium rho mutant with an altered rho-associated polycytidylate-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity. 645 64

The causes of the reduced activity of Na+/K+-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) in human diabetes are still the object of controversy. The aim of this work was to investigate the mechanisms of inhibition by means of the study of the Na+/K+-ATPase purified from human placenta. We purified Na+/K+-ATPase from term placentas of six healthy women and six age-matched women with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in good metabolic control. The enzymatic activity was reduced in both the microsomal fraction and the purified Na+/K+-ATPase obtained from diabetic women, whereas no difference was found in the number of active molecules determined by anthroyl ouabain binding. The Na+/K+-ATPase purified from women with IDDM did not show any modification in the ouabain affinity or changes in the physicochemical structure of the ouabain binding site investigated by dynamic fluorescence or alterations in lateral diffusion. The activation energy of the enzyme was increased, whereas the tryptophan accessibility of the enzyme was lower in women with IDDM. The fluidity of the lipid anulus of the enzyme was higher in women with IDDM than in control women, as suggested by fluorescence polarization of 1-(4-trimethylaminophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene. The adenosine triphosphate-binding site, investigated by anisotropy decay studies of the fluorescent probe pyrene isothiocyanate, was modified in women with IDDM. It appears that the Na+/K+-ATPase of human placenta is altered in its disposition in IDDM.
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PMID:Modifications induced by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus on human placental Na+/K+-adenosine triphosphatase. 935 71