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Biser PS, Thayne KA, Fleming WW, Taylor DA. Na+, K+ ATPase alpha-subunit isoform distribution and abundance in guinea-pig longitudinal muscle/myenteric plexus after exposure to morphine. Brain Res 2002; 931:186-93. [PMID: 11897105 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(02)02277-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Previous work in the myenteric plexus has shown that the resting membrane potential of morphine-tolerant guinea-pig myenteric S neurons is significantly depolarized relative to placebo-implanted controls, and that this depolarization is associated with reduced electrogenic Na+, K+ pumping. Identification of the subunits of the sodium pump which are in the myenteric plexus was undertaken in order to facilitate direct qualitative and quantitative measurements of the abundance of sodium pump isoforms after morphine exposure, thereby confirming and extending the electrophysiological data to the molecular level. Seven days prior to the experiments, tolerance was induced by subcutaneous implantation of morphine pellets (one pellet, 75 mg/100 g body weight) while control guinea pigs received placebo pellets. Using immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy, the distribution of the alpha subunit isoforms of the Na+/K+ -ATPase in placebo and morphine-tolerant guinea-pig ileum was determined. Only the alpha1 and alpha3 subunit isoforms were in sufficient abundance to be observed. The alpha1 subunit isoform was most highly concentrated in the mucosa and in neurons. In contrast, the alpha3 subunit isoform was uniquely localized to neurons. Western and slot blot analyses of longitudinal muscle/myenteric plexus homogenates identified a significant reduction of the alpha3 but not the alpha1 subunit isoform in tolerant preparations. It is concluded that the reduced electrogenic pumping in the S neurons after morphine exposure is associated with a reduction in the alpha3 subunit isoform.
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- P S Biser
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506-9223, USA
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Biser PS, Thayne KA, Kong JQ, Fleming WW, Taylor DA. Quantification of the alpha(3) subunit of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase in developing rat cerebellum. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 2000; 123:165-72. [PMID: 11042345 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-3806(00)00084-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cerebellar Purkinje neurons of rats have been shown to exhibit a progressive increase in resting membrane potential as the animals develop postnatally. The magnitude of this increase was equivalent in magnitude to the increase in the depolarizing action of ouabain, consistent with a role for the Na(+)/K(+)-pump in the hyperpolarization. Ouabain binding sites in whole cerebellum also increased with age. The present study was undertaken to confirm that the increases in ouabain binding and the electrophysiological responses to ouabain were a consequence of increases in the sodium pump and to determine whether the changes seen at the whole organ level were reflective of changes taking place at the cellular level. Using antibodies directed against the alpha(1), alpha(2), and alpha(3) subunits of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase, rats between 13 and 19 days of age exhibited a statistically significant increase in the relative amount of the alpha(3) subunit at the level of the whole organ, as determined by Western and slot blot analyses, with no change in the levels of either the alpha(1) or the alpha(2) subunit. Using immunohistochemistry, the alpha(3) subunit was shown to increase in both the Purkinje cell layer and the white matter during this postnatal time period, while the alpha(1) subunit increased in the granular layer. These results support and extend previous work, which pointed to a role for the electrogenic sodium pump in the developmental increase in Purkinje cell membrane potential. Furthermore, the data provide a cellular mechanism underlying the increase in resting membrane potential, that is, by the specific modulation of the alpha(3) subunit isoform.
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- P S Biser
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, R. C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 9223, 526506-9223, Morgantown, WV, USA
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Bortolato M, Besson F, Roux B. Role of metal ions on the secondary and quaternary structure of alkaline phosphatase from bovine intestinal mucosa. Proteins 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0134(19991101)37:2<310::aid-prot16>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Spitsberg VL, Matitashvili E, Gorewit RC. Association and coexpression of fatty-acid-binding protein and glycoprotein CD36 in the bovine mammary gland. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 230:872-8. [PMID: 7541353 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.tb20630.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The involvement of glycoprotein CD36 and fatty-acid-binding protein (FABP) in cellular growth, differentiation, lipid transport and metabolism led us to examine the possible biochemical and physiological relationship(s) between these two proteins. We investigated three aspects of this relationship. We first attempted to identify any physical complex formed between CD36 and FABP in bovine milk fat globule membranes. These membranes are the product of mammary gland secretory epithelial cells. The second aspect studied was the effect of synthetic peptide analogs to the C-terminus (amino acid residues 121-131) of bovine mammary gland FABP on cell proliferation, as a result of the interaction of these peptides with the ectodomain of CD36. Finally, mammary gland CD36 and FABP coexpression was defined at different stages of lactation and during involution. Immunoprecipitation, Western immunoblotting with anti-FABP and anti-CD36, Northern-blot analysis and a mammary epithelial cell proliferation assay demonstrated that: (a) bovine milk fat globule membranes contain the complex of CD36 and FABP, and that this complex is, most likely, formed as a result of FABP binding to the cytoplasmic segments of CD36; (b) synthetic analog of the C-terminus of FABP with the sequence Val-Thr-Cys, identical to the sequence found in the CD36-binding domain of thrombospondin, was a more potent inhibitor of bovine mammary gland epithelial cell proliferation than a synthetic peptide with the Val-Cys-Thr sequence; (c) the expression of FABP and CD36 is related to the state of mammary cell differentiation, since it reaches its maximum during lactation and declines during the involutionary period.
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- V L Spitsberg
- Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Walker SJ, Liu X, Roskoski R, Vrana KE. Catalytic core of rat tyrosine hydroxylase: terminal deletion analysis of bacterially expressed enzyme. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1206:113-9. [PMID: 7910484 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90079-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the rate-limiting step in catecholamine biosynthesis. This enzyme is hypothesized to consist of an amino-terminal regulatory domain and a carboxy-terminal catalytic domain. In the present studies, we have utilized recombinant DNA techniques to map the boundaries of the regulatory and catalytic domains of TH. We have isolated a full-length cDNA clone for rat pheochromocytoma TH and have expressed the enzyme in bacteria. Utilizing this bacterial expression system and polymerase chain reaction technology, we have constructed and subcloned genes for five amino-terminal deletion mutants (N delta 40, N delta 155, N delta 165, N delta 175 and N delta 200; N delta denotes amino-terminal deletion and the numerical value denotes the number of amino acids deleted) and two carboxy-terminal deletion mutants (C delta 19 and C delta 50). The catalytic core of rat tyrosine hydroxylase has been identified to include the region from amino acid #165 to amino acid #479. The amino-terminal deletion mutants, N delta 40, N delta 155 and N delta 165 are from 1.85 to 2.5-fold more active than unmodified recombinant TH, while the removal of 19 amino acids from the C-terminus (C delta 19) results in a 70% reduction in enzyme activity. Removal of additional sequences (ten more residues from the N-terminus [N delta 175]; or an additional 31 amino acids from the C-terminus [C delta 50]) results in protein that is totally without enzyme activity. As expected, removal of 40 (or more) N-terminal amino acids abolishes the ability of the catalytic subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase to phosphorylate the recombinant enzyme; serine-40 is the phosphorylation site on TH for PKA. We conclude that the N-terminal boundary for the TH catalytic domain resides between residues 165 and 175 and that removal of this N-terminal domain (totally or partially) increases the activity of the enzyme. These findings confirm previous reports that proteolytic cleavage at amino acid #158 produces an active (and activated) catalytic fragment.
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- S J Walker
- Department of Biochemistry, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1016
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Dunn PE, Bohnert TJ, Russell V. Regulation of antibacterial protein synthesis following infection and during metamorphosis of Manduca sexta. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1994; 712:117-30. [PMID: 8192326 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb33567.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Larvae of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, respond to intrahemocoelic injection of bacteria or bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan with induced synthesis of a suite of antibacterial proteins. Previous studies have demonstrated peptidoglycan regulation of the synthesis of these antibacterial proteins. In addition to eliciting enhanced synthesis of antibacterial proteins, peptidoglycan fragments also elicit a "malaise syndrome" characterized by decreased feeding and growth, delayed metamorphosis, and altered excretion. We speculate that these symptoms may be components of a mechanism to flush out and sterilize the midgut lumen, one of the primary sources of bacterial infection in insects. Studies of naive larvae have demonstrated the accumulation of lysozyme in the differentiating pupal midgut epithelium and release of lysozyme into the pupal midgut lumen after the larval midgut epithelium has been sloughed off. These observations have been extended by the identification of potent bactericidal activity against E. coli and immunoreactive hemolin, together with lysozyme, in the lumen of the newly differentiated pupal midgut.
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- P E Dunn
- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1158
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Role of TFIIIA zinc fingers in vivo: analysis of single-finger function in developing Xenopus embryos. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8336715 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.8.4776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The Xenopus 5S RNA gene-specific transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) has nine consecutive Cys2His2 zinc finger motifs. Studies were conducted in vivo to determine the contribution of each of the nine zinc fingers to the activity of TFIIIA in living cells. Nine separate TFIIIA mutants were expressed in Xenopus embryos following microinjection of their respective in vitro-derived mRNAs. Each mutant contained a single histidine-to-asparagine substitution in the third zinc ligand position of an individual zinc finger. These mutations result in structural disruption of the mutated finger with little or no effect on the other fingers. The activity of mutant proteins in vivo was assessed by measuring transcriptional activation of the endogenous 5S RNA genes. Mutants containing a substitution in zinc finger 1, 2, or 3 activate 5S RNA genes at a level which is reduced relative to that in embryos injected with the message for wild-type TFIIIA. Proteins with a histidine-to-asparagine substitution in zinc finger 5 or 7 activate 5S RNA genes at a level that is roughly equivalent to that of the wild-type protein. Zinc fingers 8 and 9 appear to be critical for the normal function of TFIIIA, since mutations in these fingers result in little or no activation of the endogenous 5S RNA genes. Surprisingly, proteins with a mutation in zinc finger 4 or 6 stimulate 5S RNA transcription at a level that is significantly higher than that mediated by similar concentrations of wild-type TFIIIA. Differences in the amount of newly synthesized 5S RNA in embryos containing the various mutant forms of TFIIIA result from differences in the relative number and/or activity of transcription complexes assembled on the endogenous 5S RNA genes and, in the case of the finger 4 and finger 6 mutants, result from increased transcriptional activation of the normally inactive oocyte-type 5S RNA genes. The remarkably high activity of the finger 6 mutant can be reproduced in vitro when transcription is carried out in the presence of 5S RNA. Disruption of zinc finger 6 results in a form of TFIIIA that exhibits reduced susceptibility to feedback inhibition by 5S RNA and therefore increases the availability of the transcription factor for transcription complex formation.
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Rollins MB, Del Rio S, Galey AL, Setzer DR, Andrews MT. Role of TFIIIA zinc fingers in vivo: analysis of single-finger function in developing Xenopus embryos. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:4776-83. [PMID: 8336715 PMCID: PMC360104 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.8.4776-4783.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The Xenopus 5S RNA gene-specific transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) has nine consecutive Cys2His2 zinc finger motifs. Studies were conducted in vivo to determine the contribution of each of the nine zinc fingers to the activity of TFIIIA in living cells. Nine separate TFIIIA mutants were expressed in Xenopus embryos following microinjection of their respective in vitro-derived mRNAs. Each mutant contained a single histidine-to-asparagine substitution in the third zinc ligand position of an individual zinc finger. These mutations result in structural disruption of the mutated finger with little or no effect on the other fingers. The activity of mutant proteins in vivo was assessed by measuring transcriptional activation of the endogenous 5S RNA genes. Mutants containing a substitution in zinc finger 1, 2, or 3 activate 5S RNA genes at a level which is reduced relative to that in embryos injected with the message for wild-type TFIIIA. Proteins with a histidine-to-asparagine substitution in zinc finger 5 or 7 activate 5S RNA genes at a level that is roughly equivalent to that of the wild-type protein. Zinc fingers 8 and 9 appear to be critical for the normal function of TFIIIA, since mutations in these fingers result in little or no activation of the endogenous 5S RNA genes. Surprisingly, proteins with a mutation in zinc finger 4 or 6 stimulate 5S RNA transcription at a level that is significantly higher than that mediated by similar concentrations of wild-type TFIIIA. Differences in the amount of newly synthesized 5S RNA in embryos containing the various mutant forms of TFIIIA result from differences in the relative number and/or activity of transcription complexes assembled on the endogenous 5S RNA genes and, in the case of the finger 4 and finger 6 mutants, result from increased transcriptional activation of the normally inactive oocyte-type 5S RNA genes. The remarkably high activity of the finger 6 mutant can be reproduced in vitro when transcription is carried out in the presence of 5S RNA. Disruption of zinc finger 6 results in a form of TFIIIA that exhibits reduced susceptibility to feedback inhibition by 5S RNA and therefore increases the availability of the transcription factor for transcription complex formation.
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- M B Rollins
- Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7614
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ATP synthase of yeast mitochondria. Characterization of subunit d and sequence analysis of the structural gene ATP7. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55335-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Marres CA, de Vries S, Grivell LA. Isolation and inactivation of the nuclear gene encoding the rotenone-insensitive internal NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase of mitochondria from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 195:857-62. [PMID: 1900238 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15775.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We have recently described the isolation of a mitochondrial rotenone-insensitive NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae [de Vries, S. & Grivell, L. A. (1988) Eur. J. Biochem. 176, 377-384]. We now report the isolation of the nuclear gene encoding this single-subunit enzyme. Null mutants have been constructed by means of one-step gene disruption. Oxygen-uptake experiments, performed with mitochondria isolated from the mutant cells, showed that this NADH dehydrogenase catalyzes the oxidation of NADH generated inside the mitochondrion. Inactivation of this NADH dehydrogenase does not affect growth on glucose and ethanol, but growth on lactate, pyruvate and acetate is impaired or absent. This phenotype is discussed in terms of the interplay between different metabolic pathways in yeast.
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- C A Marres
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Arselin G, Gandar JC, Guérin B, Velours J. Isolation and complete amino acid sequence of the mitochondrial ATP synthase epsilon-subunit of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)35231-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Malyan AN, Vitseva OI. pH dependent changes in ADP and ATP affinity for the tight nucleotide-binding site of chloroplast coupling factor 1. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1990; 25:11-16. [PMID: 24420166 DOI: 10.1007/bf00051731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/1989] [Accepted: 01/16/1990] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The pH-dependence of ADP and ATP affinity for CF1 tight nucleotide-binding sites was studied under conditions of equilibrium between bound and free labeled nucleotides. With the nucleotide/CF1 ratio>1, the ATP content in tightly bound nucleotides depended only slightly on medium pH. With the nucleotide/CF1 ratio approaching 1, tightly bound ATP content grew rapidly with decreasing pH. Calculations of ADP/ATP ratio in free and tightly bound nucleotides showed that decreasing the pH from 8.0 to 6.0 induced a 150 times greater affinity of the nucleotide-binding site for ATP than for ADP. The data indicates that ATP-ADP equilibrium at the CF1 tight nucleotide-binding site depends on protonation of specific acid-base groups of the enzyme.
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- A N Malyan
- The Institute of Soil Science and Photosynthesis, Academy of Science of the USSR, Pushchino, Moscow Region, USSR
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Paul MF, Velours J, Arselin de Chateaubodeau G, Aigle M, Guerin B. The role of subunit 4, a nuclear-encoded protein of the F0 sector of yeast mitochondrial ATP synthase, in the assembly of the whole complex. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 185:163-71. [PMID: 2553400 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb15098.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The yeast nuclear gene ATP4, encoding the ATP synthase subunit 4, was disrupted by insertion into the middle of it the selective marker URA3. Transformation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain D273-10B/A/U produced a mutant unable to grow on glycerol medium. The ATP4 gene is unique since subunit 4 was not present in mutant mitochondria; the hypothetical truncated subunit 4 was never detected. ATPase was rendered oligomycin-insensitive and the F1 sector of this mutant appeared loosely bound to the membrane. Analysis of mitochondrially translated hydrophobic subunits of F0 revealed that subunits 8 and 9 were present, unlike subunit 6. This indicated a structural relationship between subunits 4 and 6 during biogenesis of F0. It therefore appears that subunit 4 (also called subunit b in beef heart and Escherichia coli ATP synthases) plays at least a structural role in the assembly of the whole complex. Disruption of the ATP4 gene also had a dramatic effect on the assembly of other mitochondrial complexes. Thus, the cytochrome oxidase activity of the mutant strain was about five times lower than that of the wild type. In addition, a high percentage of spontaneous rho- mutants was detected.
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- M F Paul
- Institut de Biochimie Cellulaire et Neurochimie du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bordeaux, France
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Horovitz O, Spitsberg V, Salpeter MM. Regulation of acetylcholine receptor synthesis at the level of translation in rat primary muscle cells. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1989; 108:1817-22. [PMID: 2469678 PMCID: PMC2115538 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.108.5.1817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Previous studies have shown that rat primary muscle cells do not respond to crude rat brain extract or one of its active components, ascorbic acid, with a significant increase in surface acetylcholine receptor (AChR) number. We report here that, although little or no response is seen on the cell surface, rat primary muscle cells do respond to both crude brain extract and to ascorbic acid with an approximately threefold increase in AChR alpha-subunit mRNA. The response of the mRNA is similar to that seen in the cloned L5 cells. However, while in L5 cells the increase in alpha-subunit mRNA is further translated into increased levels of alpha-subunit protein, there is no such increase in alpha-subunit synthesis in the primary cells. This study thus shows a regulation of surface AChR synthesis in rat primary cells at the level of alpha-subunit translation. This level of regulation is different from that involving subunit transcription or subunit assembly reported by others.
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- O Horovitz
- Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14858
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de Vries S, Grivell LA. Purification and characterization of a rotenone-insensitive NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase from mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 176:377-84. [PMID: 3138118 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14292.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A mitochondrial NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase has been isolated from cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by a simple method involving extraction of the enzyme from the mitochondrial membrane with Triton X-100, followed by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and blue Sepharose CL-6B. By this procedure a 2000-fold purification is achieved with respect to whole cells or a 150-fold purification with respect to the mitochondrion. The purified NADH dehydrogenase consists of a single subunit with molecular mass of 53 kDa as indicated by SDS/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme contains FAD, non-covalently linked, as the sole prosthetic group with Em,7.6 = -370 mV and no iron-sulphur clusters. The enzyme is specific for NADH with apparent Km = 31 microM and was found to be inhibited by flavone (I50 = 95 microM), but not by rotenone or piericidin. The purified enzyme can use ubiquinone-2, -6 or -10, menaquinone, dichloroindophenol or ferricyanide as electron acceptors, but at different rates. The greatest turnover of NADH was obtained with ubiquinone-2 as acceptor (2500 s-1). With the natural ubiquinone-6 this value was 500 s-1. The NADH:Q2 oxidoreductase activity shows a maximum at pH 6.2, the NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase activity is constant between pH 4.5-9.0. The amount of enzyme in the cell is subject to glucose repression; it increases slightly when cells, grown on glucose or lactate, enter the stationary phase. The experiments performed so far suggest that the enzyme purified in this study is the external NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase, bound to the mitochondrial inner membrane and that it is involved in the oxidation of cytosolic NADH. The relation of this enzyme with respect to various other NADH dehydrogenases from yeast and plant mitochondria is discussed.
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- S de Vries
- Section for Molecular Biology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Darby MK, Andrews MT, Brown DD. Transcription complexes that program Xenopus 5S RNA genes are stable in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:5516-20. [PMID: 3399503 PMCID: PMC281788 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.15.5516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The long-term stability of transcription complexes on 5S RNA genes has been demonstrated in vivo. Complexes on oocyte and somatic-type 5S RNA genes injected into Xenopus laevis oocyte nuclei are stable for at least 4 days. Tissue culture cells and mature erythrocytes have equivalent numbers of somatic 5S RNA genes programmed into transcription complexes, yet the former cell type has a greater than 50-fold higher cellular content of transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA). Functional transcription complexes on somatic 5S RNA genes in nucleated erythrocytes of Xenopus are stable for weeks, perhaps months, even though a mature erythrocyte has less than two molecules of TFIIIA for each somatic 5S RNA gene. These findings strengthen our proposal that stable transcription complexes are a means of maintaining the differentiated state.
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- M K Darby
- Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD 21210
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Functional deletion mutants of the trans-acting factor TFIIIA, truncated at both ends of the molecule, have been expressed by in vitro transcription of a cDNA clone and subsequent cell-free translation of the synthetic mRNAs. A region of TFIIIA 19 amino acids or less, near the carboxyl terminus, is critical for maximal transcription and lies outside the DNA-binding domain. The elongated protein can be aligned over the internal control region (ICR) of the Xenopus 5S RNA gene with its carboxyl terminus oriented toward the 5' end of the gene and its amino terminus oriented toward the 3' end of the gene. The nine "zinc fingers" and the linkers that separate them comprise 80% of the protein mass and correspond to the DNA-binding domain of TFIIIA. The zinc fingers near the amino terminus of the protein contribute more to the overall binding energy of the protein to the ICR than do the zinc fingers near the carboxyl end. The most striking feature of TFIIIA is its modular structure. This is demonstrated by the fact that each zinc finger binds to just one of three short nucleotide sequences within the ICR.
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Vrana KE, Churchill ME, Tullius TD, Brown DD. Mapping functional regions of transcription factor TFIIIA. Mol Cell Biol 1988; 8:1684-96. [PMID: 2837652 PMCID: PMC363329 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.4.1684-1696.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Functional deletion mutants of the trans-acting factor TFIIIA, truncated at both ends of the molecule, have been expressed by in vitro transcription of a cDNA clone and subsequent cell-free translation of the synthetic mRNAs. A region of TFIIIA 19 amino acids or less, near the carboxyl terminus, is critical for maximal transcription and lies outside the DNA-binding domain. The elongated protein can be aligned over the internal control region (ICR) of the Xenopus 5S RNA gene with its carboxyl terminus oriented toward the 5' end of the gene and its amino terminus oriented toward the 3' end of the gene. The nine "zinc fingers" and the linkers that separate them comprise 80% of the protein mass and correspond to the DNA-binding domain of TFIIIA. The zinc fingers near the amino terminus of the protein contribute more to the overall binding energy of the protein to the ICR than do the zinc fingers near the carboxyl end. The most striking feature of TFIIIA is its modular structure. This is demonstrated by the fact that each zinc finger binds to just one of three short nucleotide sequences within the ICR.
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- K E Vrana
- Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland 21210
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Andrews MT, Brown DD. Transient activation of oocyte 5S RNA genes in Xenopus embryos by raising the level of the trans-acting factor TFIIIA. Cell 1987; 51:445-53. [PMID: 3664642 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90640-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The concentration of the trans-acting factor, TFIIIA, required for the activation of 5S RNA genes in Xenopus can be elevated in developing embryos by injecting a synthetic full-length mRNA into fertilized eggs. 5S RNA genes are activated by the increased factor concentration at the mid-blastula transition through mid-gastrulation. The activated oocyte 5S RNA genes are then inactivated, leaving the TFIIIA-enhanced embryos with the same profile of differential 5S RNA gene activity as control embryos, i.e., synthesizing mainly somatic 5S RNA. Inactivation of the oocyte 5S RNA genes is complete by neurulation and can occur in the absence of DNA replication. We propose that this loss of gene activity is due at least in part to destabilization of transcription complexes that are associated with oocyte 5S RNA genes.
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- M T Andrews
- Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland 21210
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Walker JE, Runswick MJ, Poulter L. ATP synthase from bovine mitochondria. The characterization and sequence analysis of two membrane-associated sub-units and of the corresponding cDNAs. J Mol Biol 1987; 197:89-100. [PMID: 2890767 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90611-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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ATP synthase from bovine mitochondria is a complex of 13 different polypeptides, whereas the Escherichia coli enzyme is simpler and contains eight subunits only. Two of the bovine subunits, b and d, which had not been characterized, have been isolated from the purified enzyme. Subunits with sizes corresponding to bovine subunits b and d are evident in preparations of the enzyme from mitochondria of other species. Partial protein sequences have been determined by direct methods. On the basis of some of this information, two oligonucleotide mixtures, 17 and 18 bases in length, have been synthesized and used as hybridization probes in the isolation of clones of the cognate cDNAs. The sequences of the two proteins have been deduced from their DNA sequences. Subunit b is 214 amino acid residues in length and has a free N terminus. Subunit d is 160 amino acid residues long. Its N-terminal alanine is blocked by an N-acetyl group, as demonstrated by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry of N-terminal peptides. The sequence near the N terminus of the b subunit is made predominantly of hydrophobic residues, whereas the remainder of the protein is mainly hydrophilic. This N-terminal hydrophobic region may be folded into an alpha-helical structure spanning the lipid bilayer. In its distribution of hydrophobic residues, this protein resembles the b subunits of ATP synthase complexes in bacteria and chloroplasts. The b subunit in E. coli forms an important structural link between the extramembrane sector of the enzyme F1, and the intrinsic membrane domain, FO. It is proposed that the bovine mitochondrial subunit b serves a similar function. If this is so, the mitochondrial enzyme, as the chloroplast ATP synthase, contains equivalent subunits to all eight of those that constitute the E. coli enzyme. Subunit d has no extensive hydrophobic sequences, and is not apparently related to any subunit described in the simpler ATP synthases in bacteria and chloroplasts.
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- J E Walker
- Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K
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Velours J, Arselin de Chateaubodeau G, Galante M, Guérin B. Subunit 4 of ATP synthase (F0F1) from yeast mitochondria. Purification, amino-acid composition and partial N-terminal sequence. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1987; 164:579-84. [PMID: 2883007 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb11166.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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One subunit of the membrane portion of yeast ATP synthase was purified. Structural data are reported. This subunit (subunit 4) is the fourth polypeptide of the complex when classifying subunits in order of decreasing molecular mass. Its apparent relative molecular mass is about 25,000. The polypeptide was extracted from the complex with a mixture of chloroform/methanol (1/1) and 0.5 M pyridinium acetate pH 6.0. Purification was performed with a combination of gel permeation chromatography on Sephadex G-75 and high-performance gel permeation chromatography with aqueous solvents containing 5% sodium dodecyl sulfate. The amino acid composition is reported here. The following sequence of the NH2-terminal ten residues was determined: Met-Ser-Ser-Thr-Pro-Glu-Lys-Gln-Thr-Asp.
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Spitsberg VL. A selective extraction of growth hormone from bovine pituitary gland and its further purification and crystallization. Anal Biochem 1987; 160:489-95. [PMID: 3107425 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(87)90081-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A highly efficient method for the isolation of bovine growth hormone (GH) is described. The method is based on selective extraction of GH from 15,000 g subcellular sediment of anterior pituitary gland with 130-150 mM NH4HCO3, 1 mM EGTA, pH 7.2-7.4, at 2-6 degrees C for 60 min, purification of the extracted GH by ammonium sulfate fractionation, one-step ion-exchange column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose (or CM-cellulose), and gel filtration on Sephadex G-75. This 2-3 day procedure provides a highly pure hormone in high yield (up to 70-80 mg per 35-40 g of the whole pituitary gland), which can be crystallized by the batch method at a low ionic strength and isoelectric pH.
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Bowman BJ, Bowman EJ. H+-ATPases from mitochondria, plasma membranes, and vacuoles of fungal cells. J Membr Biol 1986; 94:83-97. [PMID: 2882028 DOI: 10.1007/bf01871190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Falson P, Di Pietro A, Gautheron DC. Chemical modification of thiol groups of mitochondrial F1-ATPase from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Involvement of alpha- and gamma-subunits in the enzyme activity. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38368-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Murphy DJ. Reconstitution of energy transfer and electron transfer between solubilised pigment-protein complexes from thylakoid membranes. The role of acyl lipids. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1986; 8:219-233. [PMID: 24443260 DOI: 10.1007/bf00037130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/1985] [Revised: 07/03/1985] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Solubilisation of thylakoid membranes from young leaves of Pisum sativum in the presence of Triton X-100 resulted in an almost complete loss of quenching of light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein (LHCP) fluorescence, as measured at 77°K. There were concomitant changes in the kinetics of light-saturation curves of electron transport from 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol/ascorbate to methyl viologen. These effects were accompenied by a physical dissociation of LHCP polypeptides from photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) polypeptides, as determined by polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis. Detergent-dialysis in the presence of exogenous purified galactolipids, about 80% of which were linoleoyl molecular species, only partially reversed these effects. However, detergent-dialysis using the phospholipids, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine, resulted in the substantial restoration of 77°K fluorescence quenching and the restoration of both emission spectra and electron transport kinetics of both Photosystems I and II that were typical of native membranes.
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- D J Murphy
- Research Institute for Photosynthesis, University of Sheffield, 26 Taptonville Road, S10 5BR, Sheffield, UK
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Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) of partially purified ATPase from vacuoles of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis under non-dissociating conditions revealed 3 bands with ATPase activity. Further PAGE in dissociating conditions showed the similarity in composition of these 3 ATPase preparations. They were assumed to contain the same vacuolar ATPase exhibiting, however, different electrophoretic mobility due to the formation of enzyme complexes with different proteins and phospholipids. The ATPase preparation with the highest electrophoretic mobility contained 6 subunits of 75, 62, 16, 14, 12 and 9 kDa. Inhibitors of vacuolar ATPase [14C]DCCD and [14C]NEM bound to a 9 kDa polypeptide, while [14C]DES associated with a polypeptide of 75 kDa. A partially purified preparation of the vacuolar ATPase was not phosphorylated by [gamma-32P]ATP under conditions when plasma membrane ATPase formed a phosphorylated intermediate. Our results show that vacuolar H+-ATPase consists of several polypeptides, does not form the phosphorylated intermediate, and evidently represents a new type of H+-ATPase of yeast.
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Dunn PE, Dai W, Kanost MR, Geng CX. Soluble peptidoglycan fragments stimulate antibacterial protein synthesis by fat body from larvae of Manduca sexta. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 1985; 9:559-568. [PMID: 3899763 DOI: 10.1016/0145-305x(85)90019-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Both hemocytes and fat body from larvae of Manduca sexta, which have been injected with inducers of antibacterial protein synthesis, contain immunoreactive lysozyme. However, fat body is a richer source and has been demonstrated to synthesize and release lysozyme and cecropin-like peptides (bactericidins) in vitro. Fat body secretion of lysozyme and bactericidins is stimulated by addition of soluble peptidoglycan fragments to culture medium. The rate of lysozyme secretion by fat body varies as a function of peptidoglycan inducer concentration. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that, in vivo, bacteria must be phagocytized and partially degraded (processed) by hemocytes to generate a signal (peptidoglycan) that subsequently induces antibacterial protein synthesis by fat body.
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Joshi S, Hughes JB, Torok K, Sanadi DR. Resolution and reconstitution of H+ -ATPase complex from beef heart mitochondria. MEMBRANE BIOCHEMISTRY 1985; 5:309-25. [PMID: 2858048 DOI: 10.3109/09687688509150284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Mitochondrial H+ -ATPase complex, purified by the lysolecithin extraction procedure, has been resolved into a "membrane" (NaBr-F0) and a "soluble" fraction by treatment with 3.5 M sodium bromide. The NaBr-F0 fraction is completely devoid of beta, delta, and epsilon subunits of the F, ATPase and largely devoid of alpha and gamma subunits of F1, where F0 is used to denote the membrane fraction and F1, coupling factor 1. This is confirmed by complete loss of ATPase and Pi-ATP exchange activities. The addition of F1 (400 micrograms X mg-1 F0) results in complete restoration of oligomycin sensitivity without any reduction in the F1-ATPase activity. Presumably, this is due to release of ATPase inhibitor protein from the F1-F0 complex consequent to sodium bromide extraction. Restoration of Pi-ATP exchange and H+ -pumping activities require coupling factor B in addition to F1-ATPase. The oligomycin-sensitive ATPase and 32Pi-ATP exchange activities in reconstituted F1-F0 have the same sensitivity to uncouplers and energy transfer inhibitors as in starting submitochondrial particles from the heavy layer of mitochondria and F1-F0 complex. The data suggest that the altered properties of NaBr-F0 observed in other laboratories are probably inherent to their F1-F0 preparations rather than to sodium bromide treatment itself. The H+ -ATPase (F1-F0) complex of all known prokaryotic (3, 8, 9, 10, 21, 32, 34) and eukaryotic (11, 26, 30, 33, 35-37) phosphorylating membranes contain two functionally and structurally distinct entities. The hydrophilic component F1, composed of five unlike subunits, shows ATPase activity that is cold labile as well as uncoupler- and oligomycin-insensitive. The membrane-bound hydrophobic component F0, having no energy-linked catalytic activity of its own, is indirectly assayed by its ability to regain oligomycin sensitive ATPase and Pi-ATP exchange activities on binding to F1-ATPase (33). The purest preparations of bovine heart mitochondrial F0 show seven or eight major components in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate or SDS-PAGE (1, 2, 12, 14), ranging from 6 to 54 ku in molecular weight (12). The precise structure and polypeptide composition of mitochondrial F0 is not known. The F0 preparations from bovine heart reported so far have been derived from H+ -ATPase preparations isolated in the presence of cholate and deoxycholate (11, 33, 36, 37).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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Orian JM, Hadikusumo RG, Marzuki S, Linnane AW. Biogenesis of mitochondria: defective yeast H+-ATPase assembled in the absence of mitochondrial protein synthesis is membrane associated. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1984; 16:561-81. [PMID: 6242247 DOI: 10.1007/bf00743246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We have investigated the extent to which the assembly of the cytoplasmically synthesized subunits of the H+-ATPase can proceed in a mtDNA-less (rho degree) strain of yeast, which is not capable of mitochondrial protein synthesis. Three of the membrane sector proteins of the yeast H+-ATPase are synthesized in the mitochondria, and it is important to determine whether the presence of these subunits is essential for the assembly of the imported subunits to the inner mitochondrial membrane. A monoclonal antibody against the cytoplasmically synthesized beta-subunit of the H+-ATPase was used to immunoprecipitate the assembled subunits of the enzyme complex. Our results indicate that the imported subunits of the H+-ATPase can be assembled in this mutant, into a defective complex which could be shown to be associated with the mitochondrial membrane by the analysis of the Arrhenius kinetics of the mutant mitochondrial ATPase activity.
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Portillo F, Gancedo C. Mode of action of miconazole on yeasts: inhibition of the mitochondrial ATPase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1984; 143:273-6. [PMID: 6236081 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08369.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Miconazole [( 1-[2-(2,4 dichlorophenyl)-2-(2,4 dichlorophenyl)methoxy]ethyl]-1 H-imidazole) completely inhibited growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans on glycerol at 10 microM . 50 microM was needed to achieve the same effect during growth on glucose. Miconazole inhibited competitively the mitochondrial ATPase of S. cerevisiae with a Ki of 1 microM. F1 activity of the enzyme was not affected. Mutants resistant to miconazole were isolated. The ATPase of these mutants was resistant to 10 microM miconazole. Higher concentrations of miconazole inhibited the ATPase of the plasma membrane. The inhibition of the S. cerevisiae enzyme was competitive with a Ki of 50 microM. The results point to the mitochondrial ATPase as the primary target of miconazole action at least during growth on non-fermentable carbon sources.
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Hadikusumo RG, Hertzog PJ, Marzuki S. Monoclonal antibodies against subunits of yeast mitochondrial H+-ATPase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1984; 765:258-67. [PMID: 6234020 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(84)90164-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fourteen stable lines of myeloma-spleen cell hybrids producing antibodies against the mitochondrial H+-ATPase have been isolated. One reacted with the alpha-subunit of the enzyme complex (Mr 56000), nine with the beta-subunit (Mr 54000), and four with a 25 kDa subunit which has not been previously characterized. These antibodies are inhibitory or stimulatory or have no effect upon the enzyme activity. Two of the monoclonal anti-beta-subunit antibodies were found to be particularly effective in immunoprecipitating intact H+-ATPase complex.
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Nuclear genes coding the yeast mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase complex. Isolation of ATP2 coding the F1-ATPase beta subunit. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)44249-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Macreadie IG, Novitski CE, Maxwell RJ, John U, Ooi BG, McMullen GL, Lukins HB, Linnane AW, Nagley P. Biogenesis of mitochondria: the mitochondrial gene (aap1) coding for mitochondrial ATPase subunit 8 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res 1983; 11:4435-51. [PMID: 6223276 PMCID: PMC326057 DOI: 10.1093/nar/11.13.4435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A mitochondrial gene (denoted aap1) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been characterized by nucleotide sequence analysis of a region of mtDNA between the oxi3 and oli2 genes. The reading frame of the aap1 gene specifies a hydrophobic polypeptide containing 48 amino acids. The functional nature of this reading frame was established by sequence analysis of a series of mit- mutants and revertants. Evidence is presented that the aap1 gene codes for a mitochondrially synthesized polypeptide associated with the mitochondrial ATPase complex. This polypeptide (denoted subunit 8) is a proteolipid whose size has been previously assumed to be 10 kilodaltons based on its mobility on SDS-polyacrylamide gels, but the sequence of the aap1 gene predicts a molecular weight of 5,815 for this protein.
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Funckes CL, Minth CD, Deschenes R, Magazin M, Tavianini MA, Sheets M, Collier K, Weith HL, Aron DC, Roos BA, Dixon JE. Cloning and characterization of a mRNA-encoding rat preprosomatostatin. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)32124-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Ryrie IJ. Immunological evidence for apoproteins of the light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein complex in a mutant of barley lacking chlorophyll b. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1983; 131:149-55. [PMID: 6339235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1983.tb07242.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A barley mutant lacking chlorophyll b and the pigmented light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein of photo-system 2 is shown by several criteria to contain functional apoproteins of the light-harvesting complex. 1. Electrophoretic comparison of thylakoid polypeptide patterns, and the effects of trypsin treatment on these, suggests that the mutant contains several polypeptides equivalent in mobility to those of the wild-type complex. 2. An antibody monospecific for the light-harvesting complex agglutinated both wild-type and mutant thylakoids. 3. 'Western blot' immunoelectrophoretic analysis indicated that of four distinct subunits of the light-harvesting complex in the wild-type thylakoids, three are detectable in the mutant. 4. As in wild-type lamellae at least one of the light-harvesting complex polypeptides is phosphorylated by the endogenous protein kinase. The results are considered in terms of a general role for the light-harvesting complex polypeptides in membrane appression and the regulation of excitation energy distribution within thylakoids.
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Pollitt S, Zalkin H. Role of primary structure and disulfide bond formation in beta-lactamase secretion. J Bacteriol 1983; 153:27-32. [PMID: 6336734 PMCID: PMC217338 DOI: 10.1128/jb.153.1.27-32.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Plasmid pBR322-encoded beta-lactamase was shown to contain a single disulfide bond, which caused the protein to migrate faster in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels than the fully reduced form. A similar difference in mobility of the in vitro synthesized precursor before and after reduction indicates that it also contained a disulfide bond. Formation of the disulfide bond in vivo, however, occurred concomitant with processing. In vivo accumulation of the precursor by inhibition of secretion did not allow disulfide bond formation to occur. This result is consistent with post-translational translocation of the precursor. Synthesis of a fragment of beta-lactamase lacking the carboxy terminus was obtained by insertion of a foreign DNA segment into the PstI site of bla. Processing and secretion of the protein did not appear to be greatly affected, indicating that the carboxy terminus is not required for secretion.
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Khananshvili D, Gromet-Elhanan Z. Isolation and purification of an active gamma-subunit of the F0.F1-ATP synthase from chromatophore membranes of Rhodospirillum rubrum. The role of gamma in ATP synthesis and hydrolysis as compared to proton translocation. J Biol Chem 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)33769-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Magazin M, Minth CD, Funckes CL, Deschenes R, Tavianini MA, Dixon JE. Sequence of a cDNA encoding pancreatic preprosomatostatin-22. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1982; 79:5152-6. [PMID: 6127673 PMCID: PMC346852 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.79.17.5152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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We report the nucleotide sequence of a precursor to somatostatin that upon proteolytic processing may give rise to a hormone of 22 amino acids. The nucleotide sequence of a cDNA from the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) encodes a precursor to somatostatin that is 105 amino acids (Mr, 11,500). The cDNA coding for somatostatin-22 consists of 36 nucleotides in the 5' untranslated region, 315 nucleotides that code for the precursor to somatostatin-22, 269 nucleotides at the 3' untranslated region, and a variable length of poly(A). The putative preprohormone contains a sequence of hydrophobic amino acids at the amino terminus that has the properties of a "signal" peptide. A connecting sequence of approximately 57 amino acids is followed by a single Arg-Arg sequence, which immediately precedes the hormone. Somatostatin-22 is homologous to somatostatin-14 in 7 of the 14 amino acids, including the Phe-Trp-Lys sequence. Hybridization selection of mRNA, followed by its translation in a wheat germ cell-free system, resulted in the synthesis of a single polypeptide having a molecular weight of approximately 10,000 as estimated on Na-DodSO4/polyacrylamide gels.
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Minth CD, Taylor WL, Magazin M, Tavianini MA, Collier K, Weith HL, Dixon JE. The structure of cloned DNA complementary to catfish pancreatic somatostatin-14 messenger RNA. J Biol Chem 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)34029-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Ly S, Kim KH. Inactivation of acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase and fatty acid synthesis by N2, O2'-dibutyryl guanosine cyclic 3',5'-monophosphate and N6,O2'-dibutyryl adenosine cyclic 3',5'-monophosphate in isolated hepatocytes. Arch Biochem Biophys 1982; 217:251-6. [PMID: 6127057 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(82)90500-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Green BR, Camm E, Van Houten J. The chlorophyll-protein complexes of Acetabularia. A novel chlorophyll ab complex which forms oligomers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(82)90029-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Muñoz E. Polymorphism and conformational dynamics of F1-ATPases from bacterial membranes. A model for the regulation of these enzymes on the basis of molecular plasticity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1982; 650:233-65. [PMID: 6178434 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(82)90018-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Ryrie IJ, Fuad N. Membrane adhesion in reconstituted proteoliposomes containing the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complex: the role of charged surface groups. Arch Biochem Biophys 1982; 214:475-88. [PMID: 7046632 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(82)90051-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Foster D, Fillingame R. Stoichiometry of subunits in the H+-ATPase complex of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)68140-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Esparza M, Velours J, Guerin B. Existence of two different species of mitochondrially translated proteolipids in ATPase complex of yeast mitochondria. FEBS Lett 1981; 134:63-6. [PMID: 9222325 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(81)80551-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- M Esparza
- Institut de Biochimie Cellulaire et Neurochimie du CNRS, Bordeaux, France
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Ly S, Kim K. Inactivation of hepatic acetyl-CoA carboxylase by catecholamine and its agonists through the alpha-adrenergic receptors. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)68442-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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