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Liu CQ, Charoechai P, Khunajakr N, Deng YM, Dunn NW. Genetic and transcriptional analysis of a novel plasmid-encoded copper resistance operon from Lactococcus lactis. Gene 2002; 297:241-7. [PMID: 12384305 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(02)00918-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A plasmid-borne copper resistance operon (lco) was identified from Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis LL58-1. The lco operon consists of three structural genes lcoABC. The predicted products of lcoA and lcoB were homologous to chromosomally encoded prolipoprotein diacylglyceral transferases and two uncharacterized proteins respectively, and the product of lcoC is similar to several multicopper oxidases, which are generally plasmid-encoded. This genetic organization represents a new combination of genes for copper resistance in bacteria. The three genes are co-transcribed from a copper-inducible promoter, which is controlled by lcoRS encoding a response regulator and a kinase sensor. The five genes are flanked by two insertion sequences, almost identical to IS-LL6 from L. lactis. Transposon mutagenesis and subcloning analysis indicated that the three structural genes were all required for copper resistance. Copper assay results showed that the extracellular concentration of copper of L. lactis LM0230 containing the lco operon was significantly higher than that of the host strain when copper was added at concentrations from 2 to 3 mM. The results suggest that the lco operon conferred copper resistance by reducing the intracellular accumulation of copper ions in L. lactis.
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- Chun-Qiang Liu
- Cooperative Research Centre for Food Industry Innovation, Department of Biotechnology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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Kakinuma Y. Inorganic cation transport and energy transduction in Enterococcus hirae and other streptococci. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1998; 62:1021-45. [PMID: 9841664 PMCID: PMC98938 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.4.1021-1045.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Energy metabolism by bacteria is well understood from the chemiosmotic viewpoint. We know that bacteria extrude protons across the plasma membrane, establishing an electrochemical potential that provides the driving force for various kinds of physiological work. Among these are the uptake of sugars, amino acids, and other nutrients with the aid of secondary porters and the regulation of the cytoplasmic pH and of the cytoplasmic concentration of potassium and other ions. Bacteria live in diverse habitats and are often exposed to severe conditions. In some circumstances, a proton circulation cannot satisfy their requirements and must be supplemented with a complement of primary transport systems. This review is concerned with cation transport in the fermentative streptococci, particularly Enterococcus hirae. Streptococci lack respiratory chains, relying on glycolysis or arginine fermentation for the production of ATP. One of the major findings with E. hirae and other streptococci is that ATP plays a much more important role in transmembrane transport than it does in nonfermentative organisms, probably due to the inability of this organism to generate a large proton potential. The movements of cations in streptococci illustrate the interplay between a variety of primary and secondary modes of transport.
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- Y Kakinuma
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
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The ATP Binding Sites of P-Type ION Transport ATPases: Properties, Structure, Conformations, and Mechanism of Energy Coupling. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2558(08)60152-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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An overview is given of the biotechnological utilizability of various features of cell membranes. Techniques are given that describe how to make use of the barrier and transport functions of membranes for biotechnological purposes, ranging from cell permeabilization and construction of immobilized biocatalysts to manipulating excretion and uptake properties of the membranes by various methods. Glucose transporters, iron-transporting membrane systems, and pumps engaged in pleiotropic drug resistance are treated in more detail as particularly biotechnologically important membrane proteins.
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- K Sigler
- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Melchers K, Weitzenegger T, Buhmann A, Steinhilber W, Sachs G, Schäfer KP. Cloning and membrane topology of a P type ATPase from Helicobacter pylori. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:446-57. [PMID: 8550601 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.1.446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Southern blot screening of a genomic Helicobacter pylori library was employed to find a P type ATPase using a mixture of 16 DNA oligonucleotides coding for the DKTGT(I/L)T consensus sequence specific for the phosphorylation site of this family of ATPases. A positive clone, pRH439, was isolated and sequenced. The inserted 3.4-kb H. pylori DNA contained an intact open reading frame encoding a protein of 686 amino acids carrying the consensus sites for phosphorylation and ATP binding. The amino acid sequence exhibits a 25-30% identity with bacterial Cd2+ and Cu2+ ATPases. Genomic Southern blot analysis showed that this ATPase was present in all H. pylori strains examined, whereas it was not detectable in Campylobacter jejuni and other bacteria. The membrane topology of this ATPase was investigated using in vitro transcription/translation of fusion vectors to find signal anchor and/or stop transfer sequences. Eight regions of the H. pylori ATPase acted as signal anchor and/or stop transfer sequences and were ordered pairwise along the polypeptide chain placing the N and C-terminal amino acids in the cytoplasm. These transmembrane segments are contained between positions 73 and 92 (H1), 98 and 125 (H2), 128 and 148 (H3), 149 and 176 (H4), 309 and 327 (H5), 337 and 371 (H6), 637 and 658 (H7), and 659 and 685 (H8). The membrane domain of the ATPase, therefore, consists of at least four pairs of transmembrane segments with the phosphorylation site and ATP binding domain located in the large cytoplasmic loop between H6 and H7. The cytoplasmic domain contains several histidines and cysteines, perhaps indicative of divalent cation binding sites. There are several charged amino acids (3 Lys, 2 Glu, 2 Asp), predicted to be in the membrane domain mainly in H2, H3, and H4 and a Cys-Pro-Cys putative metal ion site in H6. The extracytoplasmic domain also has several charged amino acids (5 Glu, 1 Asp, 1 Lys, 1 Arg). It is likely that this novel protein is a heavy metal cation transporting ATPase and belongs to a family of P type ATPases containing eight transmembrane segments.
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- K Melchers
- Byk Gulden Pharmaceuticals, Department of Molecular Biology, Konstanz, Germany
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Stumpe S, Schlösser A, Schleyer M, Bakker E. Chapter 21 K+ circulation across the prokaryotic cell membrane: K+-uptake systems. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s1383-8121(96)80062-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Ge Z, Hiratsuka K, Taylor DE. Nucleotide sequence and mutational analysis indicate that two Helicobacter pylori genes encode a P-type ATPase and a cation-binding protein associated with copper transport. Mol Microbiol 1995; 15:97-106. [PMID: 7752900 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02224.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A 2.7 kb fragment of Helicobacter pylori UA802 chromosomal DNA was cloned and sequenced. Three open reading frames (designated ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3, respectively) were predicted from the DNA sequence, of which ORF1 and ORF2 appeared to be located within the same operon. The deduced 611-amino-acid sequence of ORF1, a P-type ATPase (designated hpCopA), had striking homology (29-38%) with several bacterial P-type ATPase and contained the potential functional domains conserved in P-type ATPases from various sources ranging from bacterial to human. A protein of 66 amino acids (designated hpCopP) encoded by ORF2 shared extensive sequence similarity with MerP, a periplasmic mercuric ion-transporting protein, and contains the heavy metal-binding motif. Disruption of ORF1 with a chloramphenicol-resistance cassette (CAT) rendered the H. pylori mutants more susceptible to cupric ion than their parental strains, whereas there is no significant alteration of susceptibility to Ni2+, Cd2d+ and Hg2+ between the mutants and the parental strains. The results obtained indicate that ORF1 and ORF2 comprise a cation-transporting system which is associated with copper export out of the H. pylori cells.
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- Z Ge
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Membrane topology of a P-type ATPase. The MgtB magnesium transport protein of Salmonella typhimurium. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)41553-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Silver S, Nucifora G, Phung LT. Human Menkes X-chromosome disease and the staphylococcal cadmium-resistance ATPase: a remarkable similarity in protein sequences. Mol Microbiol 1993; 10:7-12. [PMID: 7968520 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb00898.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A search with the proposed amino acid translation product from the new 'candidate gene' for human Menkes disease against protein sequence libraries showed a remarkable similarity to that for the cadmium efflux ATPase from Staphylococcus aureus resistance plasmids. The Menkes sequence appears closer to the CadA Cd2+ sequence than to P-type ATPases from animal sources. Menkes syndrome is an X-chromosome invariably fatal disease that results from aberrant copper metabolism. The gene that is defective in Menkes patients, i.e. the Menkes candidate gene, encodes a P-type ATPase, whose properties satisfactorily explain the phenotype of the disease. P-type ATPases are all cation pumps, either for uptake (e.g. the bacterial Kdp K+ ATPase), for efflux (e.g. the muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase), or for cation exchange (e.g. the animal cell Na+/K+ ATPase). These enzymes have a conserved aspartate residue that is transiently phosphorylated from ATP during the transport cycle, hence the name 'P-type' ATPase. The Menkes sequence shares with the staphylococcal CadA ATPase those regions common to all P-type ATPases and also an N-terminal dithiol region that was proposed to be a 'metal-binding motif'. There are one or two copies of this motif in the available CadA sequences and six copies in the Menkes sequence.
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- S Silver
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612
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Kanamaru K, Kashiwagi S, Mizuno T. The cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7942, possesses two distinct genes encoding cation-transporting P-type ATPases. FEBS Lett 1993; 330:99-104. [PMID: 8370468 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80928-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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P-type (or E1 E2-type) ATPases comprise a large family of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins capable of transporting a variety of cations, and function in a wide variety of cellular processes. The present study was carried out to search for genes encoding P-type ATPases in the phototrophic cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7942. We succeeded in cloning two genes each encoding P-type ATPases from this bacterium. It was found that Synechococcus at least, two distinct P-type ATPases; one belongs to the family of typical prokaryotic P-type ATPases and the other markedly resembles eukaryotic P-type ATPases. An insertion mutant lacking either of these two ATPase-genes was constructed. The results showed that the growth of these mutants is hypersensitive to osmotic stress upon addition of NaCl or sorbitol to the medium.
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- K Kanamaru
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Japan
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A strategy was developed to mutate and genetically identify exported proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Vectors were created and used to screen pneumococcal DNA in Escherichia coli and S. pneumoniae for translational gene fusions to alkaline phosphatase (PhoA). Twenty five PhoA+ pneumococcal mutants were isolated and the loci from eight of these mutants showed similarity to known exported or membrane-associated proteins. Homologues were found to: (i) protein-dependent peptide permeases, (ii) penicillin-binding proteins, (iii) Clp proteases, (iv) two-component sensor regulators, (v) the phosphoenolpyruvate: carbohydrate phosphotransferases permeases, (vi) membrane-associated dehydrogenases, (vii) P-type (E1E2-type) cation transport ATPases, (viii) ABC transporters responsible for the translocation of the RTX class of bacterial toxins. Unexpectedly one PhoA+ mutant contained a fusion to a member of the DEAD protein family of ATP-dependent RNA helicases suggesting export of these proteins.
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- B J Pearce
- Laboratory of Molecular Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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Although the causes of the abnormal copper utilization seen in Menkes' disease remain unknown, a candidate gene reported by three laboratories has narrowed the search for the defective or missing factor. These genetic studies also suggest that a copper ATPase may be important in normal copper metabolism.
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- E D Harris
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843
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Vulpe C, Levinson B, Whitney S, Packman S, Gitschier J. Isolation of a candidate gene for Menkes disease and evidence that it encodes a copper-transporting ATPase. Nat Genet 1993; 3:7-13. [PMID: 8490659 DOI: 10.1038/ng0193-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 950] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Menkes disease is an X-linked disorder of copper transport characterized by progressive neurological degeneration and death in early childhood. We have isolated a candidate gene (Mc1) for Menkes disease and find qualitative or quantitative abnormalities in the mRNA in sixteen of twenty-one Menkes patients. Four patients lacking Mc1RNA showed rearrangements of the Menkes gene. The gene codes for a 1,500 amino acid protein, predicted to be a P-type cation-transporting ATPase. The gene product is most similar to a bacterial copper-transporting ATPase and additionally contains six putative metal-binding motifs at the N-terminus. The gene is transcribed in all cell types tested except liver, consistent with the expression of the Menkes defect.
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- C Vulpe
- Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Francisco, California
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Maguire ME, Snavely MD, Leizman JB, Gura S, Bagga D, Tao T, Smith DL. Mg2+ transporting P-type ATPases of Salmonella typhimurium. Wrong way, wrong place enzymes. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1992; 671:244-55; discussion 255-6. [PMID: 1288323 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1992.tb43800.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- M E Maguire
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4965
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Odermatt A, Suter H, Krapf R, Solioz M. An ATPase operon involved in copper resistance by Enterococcus hirae. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1992; 671:484-6. [PMID: 1288347 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1992.tb43836.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- A Odermatt
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Berne, Switzerland
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McIntosh D. Glutaraldehyde cross-links Lys-492 and Arg-678 at the active site of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)41674-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Gambel A, Desrosiers M, Menick D. Characterization of a P-type Ca(2+)-ATPase from Flavobacterium odoratum. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)49622-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Gambel AM, Gallien TN, Dantzler-Whitworth T, Bowes M, Menick DR. Sequence of the feline cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1131:203-6. [PMID: 1535224 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(92)90078-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The complementary DNA for the feline cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+)-ATPase has been cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence consists of 997 amino acid residues which shows greater than 98% identity with the pig, rabbit and human SR Ca(2+)-ATPase. The 5' and 3' untranslated regions are also strikingly similar to the published rabbit sequence.
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- A M Gambel
- Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-2221
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Doonan B. Unitary model of cell activation, growth control, cancer and other diseases: 1. Activated oxygen species and arachidonic acid modulation of solute permeabilities, internal Ca, Na and AOS levels and DNA transcription and synthesis. Med Hypotheses 1991; 35:38-51. [PMID: 1921775 DOI: 10.1016/0306-9877(91)90081-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A comprehensive model of cellular activation and proliferation is developed. The model has arachidonic acid (ARA) produced mainly from PLA2 on both sides of the membrane, and superoxide and other activated oxygen species (AOS) formed from O2 by electrons passing out through membrane NANPH and NADH oxidases, as the immediate stimulants of solute permeability. Both ARA and AOS interact with the various solute channel proteins especially their external thiols and disulfides, to increase influx of metabolic substrates, Na, Ca and O2. PLA2 and NADPH oxidase are turned on by growth factors at their receptors acting through tyrosine kinase phosphorylations of messenger proteins GP and ras p-21, stimulated proteases, and by Ca-calmodulin. The adenylate cyclase system has opposite, deactivating character as it increases efflux of Ca and desensitizes growth factor receptors by phosphorylation to shut down the increased solute permeability. Most cancer types are due to carcinogen binding to cell membrane channel and mitochondrial sites for increased solute influx with excessive AOS production inside the cell from mitochondria and other vesicles. High Ca, Na and AOS stimulate proliferation with extra high levels causing transformation to the autogenic, more embryonic-type cancer cell.
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Van Dyck L, Petretski JH, Wolosker H, Rodrigues Júnior G, Schlesser A, Ghislain M, Goffeau A. Molecular and biochemical characterization of the Dio-9-resistant pma1-1 mutation of the H(+)-ATPase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 194:785-90. [PMID: 2148517 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19470.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The plasma-membrane H(+)-ATPase gene PMA1 was sequenced in four Dio-9-resistant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, isolated independently. The same amino acid substitution Ala608----Thr was found in the four mutated strains. The mutant ATPase activity was decreased while the Km value for MgATP was increased. The ATPase efficiency (V/Km) of the mutant was reduced by a factor of 25 under acid conditions (pH 5.5), and by a factor of 10 at physiological pH (pH 6.6). The mutation also strongly reduces the inhibition by vanadate of ATPase activity, suggesting that the altered amino acid is involved in phosphate binding and/or in the E1-E2 transition.
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- L Van Dyck
- Unité de Biochimie Physiologique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Functional consequences of alterations to amino acids located in the nucleotide binding domain of the Ca2(+)-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)45693-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Miller H, Poole LB, Claiborne A. Heterogeneity among the flavin-containing NADH peroxidases of group D streptococci. Analysis of the enzyme from Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38750-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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- K Geering
- Institut de Pharmacologie de l'Université, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Subjecting bacteria to a high-voltage electric discharge renders the cells permeable to DNA. This powerful method allows the genetic manipulation of bacterial species that cannot easily be transformed by conventional techniques.
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- M Solioz
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Berne, Switzerland
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Solioz M, Waser M. Efficient electrotransformation of Enterococcus hirae with a new Enterococcus-Escherichia coli shuttle vector. Biochimie 1990; 72:279-83. [PMID: 2116916 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(90)90084-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In the present study, an Enterococcus-Escherichia coli shuttle vector, pC3, was constructed that allows efficient transformation by electroporation of Enterococcus hirae ATCC9790. 5 x 10(6) transformants per microgram of plasmid DNA were obtained, using a commercial capacitor discharge device with an improved circuitry and a home-made electrode assembly, delivering pulses of 24 kV/cm across the cell suspension. The transformants were stable without selective pressure and plasmid DNA reisolated from transformed cells displayed no alterations in restriction enzyme analysis. Chromosomal DNA from E coli or E hirae, carried by pC3, was stably maintained in E hirae, making cloning and genetic manipulation in this organism feasible.
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- M Solioz
- Dept of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Berne, Switzerland
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James P, Inui M, Tada M, Chiesi M, Carafoli E. Nature and site of phospholamban regulation of the Ca2+ pump of sarcoplasmic reticulum. Nature 1989; 342:90-2. [PMID: 2530454 DOI: 10.1038/342090a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 351] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The rapid removal of Ca2+ ions from the cytosol, necessary for the efficient relaxation of cardiac muscle cells, is performed by the Ca2+-pumping ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The calcium pump is activated by cyclic AMP- and calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of phospholamban, an integral membrane protein of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Using a heterobifunctional crosslinking agent which can be cleaved and photoactivated, we provide evidence for a direct interaction between the two proteins. Only the non-phosphorylated form of phospholamban interacts with the ATPase, demonstrating that phospholamban is an endogenous inhibitor that is removed from the ATPase by phosphorylation. Non-phosphorylated phospholamban interacts only with the calcium-free conformation of the ATPase and is released when it is converted to the calcium-bound state. We localized the site of interaction to a single peptide isolated after cyanogen bromide cleavage of the ATPase. The peptide derives from a domain just C-terminal to the aspartyl phosphate of the active site. This domain is unique to ATPases of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in that it has no homology with any other phosphorylation-type ion pump. The domain occurs in both slow- and fast-twitch isoforms of the ATPase, even though phospholamban is not expressed in fast-twitch muscles.
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- P James
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich
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Sachs G, Munson K, Balaji VN, Aures-Fischer D, Hersey SJ, Hall K. Functional domains of the gastric HK ATPase. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1989; 21:573-88. [PMID: 2556379 DOI: 10.1007/bf00808114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The gastric H+ + K+ ATPase is a member of the phosphorylating class of transport ATPase. Based on sequence homologies and CHO content, there may be a b subunit associated with the catalytic subunit of the H+ + K+ ATPase. Its function, if present, is unknown. The pump catalyzes a stoichiometric exchange of H+ for K+, but is also able to transport Na+ in the forward direction. This suggests that the transport step involves hydronium rather than protons. The initial binding site is likely to contain a histidine residue to account for the high affinity of the cellular site. The extracellular site probably lacks this histidine, so that a low affinity for hydronium allows release into a solution of pH 0.8. Labelling with positively charge, luminally reactive reagents that block ATPase and pump activity has shown that a region containing H5 and H6 and the intervening luminal loop is involved in necessary conformational changes for normal pump activity. The calculated structure of this loop shows the presence of an a helical, b turn, and b strand sector, with negative charges close to the membrane domain. This sector provides a possible site of interaction of drugs with the H+ + K+ ATPase, and may be part of the K+ pathway in the enzyme.
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- G Sachs
- University of California, Los Angeles
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Bidwai AP, Morjana NA, Scarborough GA. Studies on the active site of the Neurospora crassa plasma membrane H+-ATPase with periodate-oxidized nucleotides. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)80135-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bacterial plasmids have genes that confer highly specific resistances to As, Bi, Cd, Cu, Cr, Hg, Pb, Te, Zn, and other toxic heavy metals. For each toxic cation or anion, generally a different resistance system exists, and these systems may be "linked" together on multiple resistance plasmids. For Cd2+, AsO2-, AsO4(3)-, Hg2+, and organomercurials, DNA sequence analysis has supplemented direct physiological and biochemical experiments to produce sophisticated understanding. The cadA ATPase of S. aureus plasmids is a 727 amino acid membrane ATPase that pumps Cd2+ from the cells as rapidly as it is accumulated. This polypeptide is related by sequence to other cation translocating ATPases, including the membrane K+ ATPases of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus faecalis, the H+ ATPases of yeast and Neurospora, the Na+/K+ ATPases of vertebrate animals, and the Ca2+ ATPases of rabbit muscle. The conserved residues include the aspartyl residue that is phosphorylated, the lysine involved in ATP binding, and the proline within a membrane translocating region. The arsenate and arsenite translocating ATPase consists of 3 polypeptides (from DNA sequence analysis), including a recognizable ATP binding protein (arsA), an integral membrane protein (arsB gene), and a substrate specificity subunit (arsC gene). Inorganic mercury and organomercurial degradation is carried out by a series of about 6 polypeptides, including 2 soluble intracellular enzymes (organomercurial lyase and mercuric reductase). The latter is related by sequence and function to glutathione reductase and lipoamide dehydrogenase of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. These enzymes are dimeric, FAD-containing, NAD(P)H-dependent oxidoreductases. Other recognizable polypeptides in the mer system include a DNA-binding regulatory protein from the merR gene and a Hg2+ transport system consisting of a periplasmic Hg2(+)-binding protein (merP gene) and a membrane protein (merT gene) in gram negative systems.
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- S Silver
- University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60680
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Pardo JM, Serrano R. Structure of a Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase Gene from the Plant Arabidopsis thaliana. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)81827-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Hafer J, Siebers A, Bakker EP. The high-affinity K+-translocating ATPase complex from Bacillus acidocaldarius consists of three subunits. Mol Microbiol 1989; 3:487-95. [PMID: 2527329 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1989.tb00195.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Cells of the thermoacidophilic bacterium Bacillus acidocaldarius express a high-affinity K+-uptake system when grown at low external K+. A vanadate-sensitive, K+- and Mg2+-stimulated ATPase was partially purified from membranes of these cells by solubilization with a non-ionic detergent followed by ion-exchange chromatography of the extract. Combinations of non-denaturing and denaturing electrophoretic separation methods revealed that the ATPase complex consisted of three subunits with molecular weights almost identical to those of the KdpA, B and C proteins, which together form the Kdp high-affinity, K+-translocating ATPase complex of Escherichia coli. The affinity of the partially purified ATPase from B. acidocaldarius for its substrates K+ (Km 2-3 microM) and ATP (Km 80 microM), its stimulation by various divalent cations, and its inhibition by vanadate (Ki 1-2 microM), bafilomycin A1 (Ki 20 microM), DCCD (Ki 200 microM) or Ca2+ were also similar to those of the E. coli enzyme, indicating that the two K+-translocating ATPases have almost identical properties.
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- J Hafer
- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Universität Osnabrück, FRG
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Silver S, Nucifora G, Chu L, Misra TK. Bacterial resistance ATPases: primary pumps for exporting toxic cations and anions. Trends Biochem Sci 1989; 14:76-80. [PMID: 2523097 DOI: 10.1016/0968-0004(89)90048-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Bacterial plasmid resistance systems that maintain low intracellular levels of toxic heavy metals by pumping the substrates out as rapidly as they accumulate sometimes work at the biochemical level as efflux ATPases. The two systems responsible for arsenic and cadmium resistance have recently been sequenced. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences with those of better characterized ATPases has revealed certain structural and sequence similarities.
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Walderhaug MO, Litwack ED, Epstein W. Wide distribution of homologs of Escherichia coli Kdp K+-ATPase among gram-negative bacteria. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:1192-5. [PMID: 2521620 PMCID: PMC209720 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.2.1192-1195.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We used Southern blotting to screen a variety of bacterial genes for homology to the kdp genes of Escherichia coli, genes that encode an ATP-driven K+ transport system. We found that most enterobacteria have sequences homologous to those of the three kdp structural genes and the kdpD regulatory gene. A number of distantly related species, including some cyanobacteria, have sequences homologous to those of the structural genes but not the regulatory gene. In all cases only a single region of homology was found. These results suggest that ATP-driven transport systems similar to the Kdp system in structure and regulation are found in many enteric organisms. In other gram-negative organisms, the ATPase is more divergent, retaining good homology at the DNA level only to the highly conserved phosphorylated subunit of the ATPase.
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- M O Walderhaug
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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During the last few years the studies about the physiology and bioenergetics of lactic acid bacteria during growth and starvation have evolved from a descriptive level to an analysis of the molecular events in the regulation of various processes. Considerable progress has been made in the understanding of the modes of metabolic energy generation, the mechanism of homeostasis of the internal pH, and the mechanism and regulatory processes of transport systems for sugars, amino acids, peptides, and ions. Detailed studies of these transport processes have been performed in cytoplasmic membrane vesicles of these organisms in which a foreign proton pump has been introduced to generate a high proton motive force.
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- W N Konings
- Department of Microbiology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
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Siebers A, Altendorf K. The K+-translocating Kdp-ATPase from Escherichia coli. Purification, enzymatic properties and production of complex- and subunit-specific antisera. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 178:131-40. [PMID: 2849541 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14438.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The Kdp system from Escherichia coli is a derepressible high-affinity K+-uptake ATPase. Its membrane-bound ATPase activity was approximately 50 mumol g-1 min-1. The Kdp-ATPase complex was purified from everted vesicles by solubilization with the nonionic detergent Aminoxid WS 35 followed by DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B chromatography at pH 7.5 and pH 6.4 and gel filtration on Fractogel TSK HW-65. The overall yield of activity was 6.5% and the purity at least 90%. The isolated KdpABC complex had a high affinity for its substrates K+ (Km app. = 10 microM) and Mg2+-ATP (Km = 80 microM) and a narrow substrate specificity. The ATPase activity was inhibited by vanadate (Ki = 1.5 microM), fluorescein isothiocyanate (Ki = 3.5 microM), N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (Ki = 60 microM) and N-ethylmaleimide (Ki = 0.1 mM). The purification protocol was likewise applicable to the isolation of a KdpA mutant ATPase which in contrast to the wild-type enzyme exhibited an increased Km value for K+ of 6 mM and a 10-fold lowered sensitivity for vanadate. Starting from the purified Kdp complex the single subunits were obtained by gel filtration on Bio-Gel P-100 in the presence of SDS. Both the native Kdp-ATPase and the SDS-denatured polypeptides were used to raise polyclonal antibodies. The specificity of the antisera was established by immunoblot analysis. In functional inhibition studies the anti-KdpABC and anti-KdpB sera impaired ATPase activity in the membrane-bound as well as in the purified state of the enzyme. In contrast, the anti-KdpC serum did not inhibit enzyme activity.
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- A Siebers
- Universität Osnabrück, Federal Republic of Germany
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Cid A, Serrano R. Mutations of the yeast plasma membrane H+-ATPase which cause thermosensitivity and altered regulation of the enzyme. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68195-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Jørgensen PL, Andersen JP. Structural basis for E1-E2 conformational transitions in Na,K-pump and Ca-pump proteins. J Membr Biol 1988; 103:95-120. [PMID: 3054114 DOI: 10.1007/bf01870942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- P L Jørgensen
- Danish Biotechnology Research Center for Membrane Proteins, Aarhus University, Demark
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Noumi T, Maeda M, Futai M. A homologous sequence between H+-ATPase (F0F1) and cation-transporting ATPases. Thr-285—-Asp replacement in the beta subunit of Escherichia coli F1 changes its catalytic properties. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68372-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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James P, Zvaritch EI, Shakhparonov MI, Penniston JT, Carafoli E. The amino acid sequence of the phosphorylation domain of the erythrocyte Ca2+ ATPase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1987; 149:7-12. [PMID: 2961339 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(87)91597-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The amino acid sequence of a peptide isolated from a CNBr digest of the erythrocyte Ca2+ ATPase has been determined. It contains a highly conserved phosphorylation site sequence common to all aspartyl-phosphate forming ion motive ATPases which have been sequenced so far.
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- P James
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
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