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Uremic serum fractions obtained by Amicon XM-10 hollow fiber and membrane filtration was investigated using cytotoxicity in tissue culture by Rose's circumfusion system and by monolayer culture. The cytotoxic fraction was investigated with Elphor-Va 4, IR spectrometry, mass spectrometry, and NMR spectrometry for analysis of the true form of the substance. Remarkable cytotoxicity was observed in the small molecular fraction. Of the substances which may be surmised as uremic toxins, such as urea methylguanidine (MG), guanidinosuccinic acid, etc., only MG presented a similar cytotoxicity to this fraction. From the result of mass spectrometry, infrared spectrometry, and NMR spectrometry, it appeard that the electropositive substance included in the small molecular fraction was intimately associated with MG or one of its derivatives. The middle molecular fraction showed an inhibitory effect on cultured mouse liver glucokinase and human erythrocytic Na-K-dependent ATPase.
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PMID:Studies on uremic toxins: the identification and the determination of toxic effect by tissue culture method. 14 39

EPR and water proton relaxation rate (1/T1) studies of partially (40%) and "fully" (90%) purified preparations of membrane-bound (Na+ + K+) activated ATPase from sheep kidney indicate one tight binding site for Mn2+ per enzyme dimer, with a dissociation constant (KD = 0.88 muM) in agreement with the kinetically determined activator constant, identifying this Mn2+-binding site as the active site of the ATPase. Competition studies indicate that Mg2+ binds at this site with a dissociation constant of 1 mM in agreement with its activator constant. Inorganic phosphate and methylphosphonate bind to the enzyme-Mn2+ complex with similar high affinities and decrease 1/T1 of water protons due to a decrease from four to three in the number of rapidly exchanging water protons in the coordination sphere of enzyme-bound Mn2+. The relative effectiveness of Na+ and K+ in facilitating ternary complex formation with HPO2-4 and CH3PO2-3 as a function of pH indicates that Na+ induces the phosphate monoanion to interact with enzyme-bound Mn2+. Thus protonation of an enzyme-bound phosphoryl group would convert a K+-binding site to a Na+-binding site. Dissociation constants for K+ and Na+, estimated from NMR titrations, agreed with kinetically determined activator constants of these ions consistent with binding to the active site. Parallel 32Pi-binding studies show negligible formation (less than 7%) of a covalent E-P complex under these conditions, indicating that the NMR method has detected an additional noncovalent intermediate in ion transport. Ouabain, which increases the extent of phosphorylation of the enzyme to 24% at pH 7.8 and to 106% at pH 6.1, produced further decreases in 1/T1 of water protons. Preliminary 31P- relaxation studies of CH3PO2-3 in the presence of ATPase and Mn2+ yield an Mn to P distance (6.9 +/- 0.5 A) suggesting a second sphere enzyme-Mn-ligand-CH3PO2-3 complex. Previous kinetic studies have shown that T1+ substitutes for K+ in the activation of the enzyme but competes with Na+ at higher levels. From the paramagnetic effect of Mn2+ at the active site on the enzyme on I/T1 of 205T1 bound at the Na+ site, a Mn2+ to T1+ distance of 4.0 +/- 0.1 A is calculated, suggesting the sharing of a common ligand atomy by Mn2+ and T1+ on the ATPase. Addition of Pi increases this distance to 5.4 A consistent with the insertion of P between Mn2+ and T1+. These results are consistent with a mechanism for the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase and for ion transport in which the ionization state of Pi at a single enzyme active site controls the binding and transport of Na+ and K+, and indicate that the transport site for monovalent cations is very near the catalytic site of the ATPase. Our mechanism also accounts for the order of magnitude weaker binding of Na+ compared to K+.
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PMID:Magnetic resonance and kinetic studies of the mechanism of membrane-bound sodium and potassium ion- activated adenosine triphosphatase. 17 21

This paper reports on 1H and 31P NMR as well as EPR measurements of the labeling reagent of ATPase sites, "Co(III)-(phen)-ATP." This complex is found to be paramagnetic, as deduced both from its EPR spectrum and from the significant broadening, though almost unshifted, proton and phosphorus resonances. This paramagnetism is a result of the incorporation of the superoxide free-radical anion in the coordination sphere of the trivalent cobalt ion. Evidence for the presence of superoxide in the complex is based on competition experiments with cyanide, which is able to displace the superoxide anion. The latter was identified by its inducing effect on the photoreactivity of luminol. The displacement of superoxide by cyanide was accompanied by the abolition of the paramagnetism of the complex. The relative distances between the protons and phosphorus atoms of ATP and the superoxide anion in the complex were calculated using the NMR line-broadening data. Structural models compatible with the experimental results are proposed. Under conditions of excess of adenine nucleotides or phenanthroline, the coordinated ATP molecule becomes exchangeable. This phenomenon is attributed to the labilization of the cobaltic ion ligands induced by the superoxide anion.
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PMID:Structural and exchange properties of "Co(III)-phenanthroline-ATP": a labeling reagent for the active site of ATPases. 21 Aug 47

Carbamyl phosphate synthetase from Escherichia coli has been shown to use only the A isomer of adenosine-5'-[2-thiotriphosphate] in both the ATPase reaction (MgATP HCO3- leads to MgADP + Pi) and the carbamyl phosphate synthesis reaction (2MgATP + HCO3- + L-glutamine leads to 2MgADP + Pi + carbamyl-P + L-glutamate). The B isomer was less than 5% as reactive. In the reverse reaction, only the A isomer of adenosine-5'-[2-thiotriphosphate] is synthesized from adenosine-5'-[2-thiodiphosphate] and carbamyl-P as determined by 31P NMR and a coupled enzymatic assay with Cd2+- hexokinase. It is therefore proposed that carbamyl phosphate synthetase uses the same diastereomer of MgATP at both ATP sites.
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PMID:Carbamyl phosphate synthetase of Escherichia coli uses the same diastereomer of adenosine-5'-[2-thiotriphosphate] at both ATP sites. 21 Nov 24

Thermoplasma acidophilum, a mycoplasma-like organism, grows optimally at 56 degrees C and pH2. The low temperature extreme of growth is 37 degrees C. The plasma membrane of cells grown at 37 degrees C was isolated and characterized physicobiochemically. Membrane lipids which comprise 25% of the membrane dry weight consist mainly of two repetitively methyl-branched C40 side chains that were ether-linked to two glycerol molecules. The lipid structures were elucidated by combined gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy, direct probe mass spectroscopy and 13C NMR. 37 degrees C-grown cells contained lipids with 42% more pentane cyclization than the 56 degrees C-grown cells. In 37 degrees C-grown cells, phospholipid and serine content decreased by about 10% each, carbohydrate content increased by 5%. EPR studies demonstrated an increase in membrane lipid fluidity of 37 degrees C-grown cells with an upper transition temperature at 35 degrees C which was shifted down by 10 degrees C compared with cells grown at 56 degrees C. Membrane-bound ATPase activities also indicated similar changes upon adaptation. There is a close correlation between membrane fluidity and physiological functioning of this membrane-bound enzyme.
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PMID:Structure of membrane lipids and physico-biochemical properties of the plasma membrane from Thermoplasma acidophilum, adapted to growth at 37 degrees C. 22 Oct 32

(20R)-20,22-Dihydrodigitoxigenin (3a) and (20S)-20,22-dihydrodigitoxigenin (3b) were isolated from (20R,S)-20,22-dihydrodigitoxigenin (3) by three fractional crystallizations each from ethyl acetate. The two diastereomers have distinct NMR spectra and similar (Na+,K+)ATPase inhibitory activities (I50 = 1.1-1.4 X 10(-5) M)--about 1/100 as active as digitoxigenin (1). Their activity compared with other cardenolide analogues suggests a passive geometric role for the 20(22) double bond in eliciting (Na+,K+)ATPase inhibition, keeping the lactone carbonyl in the proper orientation. (20S)-3 beta,14 beta-Dihydroxy-22-methylene-5 beta,14 beta-cardanolide (7a) was then synthesized from 3a, and (20R)-3 beta,14 beta-dihydroxy-22-methylene-5 beta,14 beta-cardanolide (7b) from 3b. They were found to be equivalently active in inhibiting (Na+,K+)ATPase, with I50 values of 7.0 x 10(-5) M. Although it has been usually believed that the 14 beta-hydroxyl of cardenolides increases binding to the receptor, 2b (the 14-ene derivative of 7b) was more than twice as active (I50 = 3.0 X 10(-5)) than either 7a or 7b.
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PMID:Cardenolide analogues. 4. (20R)- and (20S)-Cardanolides: on the roles of the 20(22)-ene and 14beta-hydroxyl in genin activity. 22 7

The interactions of gadolinium ion, lithium, and two substrate analogues, beta,gamma-imido-ATP (AMP-PNP) and tridentate CrATP, with the calcium ion transport adenosine triphosphatase (Ca2+-ATPase) of rabbit muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum have been examined by using 7Li+ NMR, water proton NMR, and Gd3+ EPR studies. Steady-state phosphorylation studies indicate that Gd3+ binds to the Ca2+ activator sites on the enzyme with an affinity which is approximately 10 times greater than that of Ca2+. 7Li+, which activates the Ca2+-ATPase in place of K+, has been found to be a suitable nucleus for probing the active sites of monovalent cation-requiring enzymes. 7Li+ nuclear relaxation studies demonstrate that the binding of Gd3+ ion to the two Ca2+ sites on Ca2+-ATPase increases the longitudinal relaxation rate (1/T1) of enzyme-bound Li+. The increase in 1/T1 was not observed in the absence of enzyme, indicating that the ATPase enhances the parmagnetic effect of Gd3+ on 1/T1 of 7Li+. Water proton relaxation studies also show that the ATPase binds Gd3+ at two tight-binding sites. Titrations of Gd3+ solutions with Ca2+-ATPase indicate that the tighter of the two Gd3+-binding sites (site 1) provides a ghigher enhancement of water relaxation than the other, weaker Gd3+ site (site 2) and also indicate that the average of the enhancements at the two sites is 7.4. These data, together with a titration of the ATPase with Gd3+ ion, yield enhancements, epsilonB, of 9.4 at site 1 and 5.4 at site 2. Analysis of the frequency dependence of 1/T1 of water indicates that the electron spin relaxation taus of Gd3+ is unusually long (2 X 10(-9) s) and suggests that the Ca2+-binding sites on the ATPase experience a reduced accessiblity of solvent water. This may indicate that the Ca2+ sites on the Ca2+-ATPase are buried or occluded within a cleft or channel in the enzyme. The analysis of the frequency dependence is also consistent with three exchangeable water protons on Gd3+ at site 1 and two fast exchanging water protons at site 2. Addition of the nonhydrolyzing substrate analogues, AMP-PNP and tridenate CrATP, to the enzyme-Gd3+ complex results in a decrease in the observed enhancement, with little change in the dipolar correlation time for Gd3+, consistent with a substrate-induced decrease in the number of fast-exchanging water protons on enzyme-bound Gd3+. From the effect of Gd3+ on 1/T1 of enzyme-bound Li+, Gd3+-Li+ separations of 7.0 and 9.1 A are calculated. On the assumption of a single Li+ site on the enzyme, these distances set an upper limit on the separation between Ca2+ sites on the enzyme of 16.1 A.
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PMID:Lithium-7 nuclear magnetic resonance, water proton nuclear magnetic resonance, and gadolinium electron paramagnetic resonance studies of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ion transport adenosine triphosphatase. 22 3

The troponin I peptide N alpha-acetyl TnI (104-115) amide (TnIp) represents the minimum sequence necessary for inhibition of actomyosin ATPase activity of skeletal muscle (Talbot, J.A. & Hodges, R.S. 1981, J. Biol. Chem. 256, 2798-3802; Van Eyk, J.E. & Hodges, R.S., 1988, J. Biol. Chem. 263, 1726-1732; Van Eyk, J.E., Kay, C.M., & Hodges, R.S., 1991, Biochemistry 30, 9974-9981). In this study, we have used 1H NMR spectroscopy to compare the binding of this inhibitory TnI peptide to a synthetic peptide heterodimer representing site III and site IV of the C-terminal domain of troponin C (TnC) and to calcium-saturated skeletal TnC. The residues whose 1H NMR chemical shifts are perturbed upon TnIp binding are the same in both the site III/site IV heterodimer and TnC. These residues include F102, I104, F112, I113, I121, I149, D150, F151, and F154, which are all found in the C-terminal domain hydrophobic pocket and antiparallel beta-sheet region of the synthetic site III/site IV heterodimer and of TnC. Further, the affinity of TnIp binding to the heterodimer (Kd = 192 +/- 37 microM) was found to be similar to TnIp binding to TnC (48 +/- 18 microM [Campbell, A.P., Cachia, P.J., & Sykes, B.D., 1991, Biochem. Cell Biol. 69, 674-681]). The results indicate that binding of the inhibitory region of TnI is primarily to the C-terminal domain of TnC. The results also indicate how well the synthetic peptide heterodimer mimics the C-terminal domain of TnC in structure and functional interactions.
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PMID:A 1H NMR study of a ternary peptide complex that mimics the interaction between troponin C and troponin I. 130 91

Alterations in brain cell membrane structure and function during cerebral hypoxia were investigated by measuring Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity and levels of lipid peroxidation products in brain cell membranes obtained from newborn piglets following exposure to 60 min of hypoxic hypoxia in vivo. Cerebral hypoxia was documented as a decrease in the ratio of phosphocreatine to inorganic phosphate (PCr/Pi) using 31P-NMR spectroscopy. During hypoxia (FiO2 0.07-0.11), PCr/Pi decreased 28-47% compared to the corresponding baseline value without a decrease in cerebral ATP levels. No change in brain cell membrane Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity was observed for changes in PCr/Pi of less than 30%. When PCr/Pi was at least 30% lower than baseline, Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity decreased linearly as a function of the decrease in PCr/Pi (r = 0.95). Levels of lipid peroxidation products (conjugated dienes and fluorescent compounds) increased significantly as PCr/Pi decreased. These data suggest that below a critical threshold value of oxidative metabolism there are progressive changes in brain cell membrane structure and function during cerebral hypoxia, and demonstrate that membrane alterations occur prior to changes in cellular ATP levels.
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PMID:Effect of graded hypoxia on brain cell membrane injury in newborn piglets. 131 75

The intracellular K+/Na+ ratio of various mammalian cell types are known to differ remarkably. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that erythrocytes of different mammalian species contain entirely different potassium and sodium concentrations. The human erythrocyte is an example of the supposedly "normal" high potassium cell, while the dog erythrocyte contains ten times more sodium than potassium ions (Table I). Furthermore, this difference is sustained despite the plasma sodium and potassium concentrations being almost identical in both species (high Na+ and low K+). In spite of these inorganic ion differences, both human and dog erythrocytes contain 33% dry material (mostly Hb) and 67% water. Conventional cell theory would couple cellular volume regulation with Na+ and K+ dependent ATPase activity which is believed to control intracellular Na+/K+ concentrations. Since the high Na+ and low K+ contents of dog erythrocytes are believed to be due to the lack of the postulated Na/K-ATPase enzyme, they must presumably have an alternative mechanism of volume regulation, otherwise current ideas of membrane ATPase activity coupled volume regulation need serious reconsideration. The object of our investigation was to explore the relationship between ATPase activity, ATP levels and the Na+/K+ concentrations in human and dog erythrocytes. Our results indicate that the intracellular ATP level in erythrocytes correspond with their K+, Na+ content. They are discussed in relation to conventional membrane transport theory and also to Ling's "association-induction hypothesis", the latter proving to be a more useful basis on which to interpret results.
Physiol Chem Phys Med NMR 1992
PMID:Human and dog erythrocytes: relationship between cellular ATP levels, ATP consumption and potassium concentrations. 131 86


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