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L K Lane

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Homology of ATP binding sites from Ca2+ and (Na,K)-ATPases: comparison of the amino acid sequences of fluorescein isothiocyanate labeled peptides.

Ca2+ and (Na,K)-stimulated ATPases from various species and tissues were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC). Labeled peptides were solubilized by tryptic digestion and purified by reverse phase high pressure liquid chromatography. The amino acid sequences of the labeled peptides reveal considerable homology between sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases from various sources. These Ca2+-ATPases also contain a region of homology with all other ATPases thus far sequenced. A difference was demonstrated between dog skeletal and cardiac Ca2+-ATPases. These results demonstrate homology of the putative ATP binding site of ATPases, which extends over tissue, species, and cation specificity, including the completely conserved amino acid sequence: lys-gly-ala-pro-glu.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

The amino acid sequence of the fluorescein isothiocyanate reactive site of lamb and rat kidney Na+- and K+-dependent ATPase.

Fluorescein 5'-isothiocyanate has been used to label ouabain sensitive and insensitive (Na,K)-ATPases from lamb and rat kidney, respectively. The labeled enzymes were digested with trypsin to generate soluble peptides, which were purified by high performance liquid chromatography and sequenced on a gas phase sequenator. The sequence of the labeled peptide from both species is His-Leu-Leu-Val-Met-Lys-Gly-Ala-Pro-Glu-Arg. Thus, it appears that the primary structure of the fluorescein 5'-isothiocyanate reactive site, and therefore presumably the ATP binding site, is completely conserved in ouabain sensitive and ouabain insensitive (Na,K)-ATPases.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Reaction of (Na,K)-ATPase with fluorescent maleimide derivatives. Probes for studying ATP site(s) function.

The fluorescent maleimide derivatives, 2-(4'-maleimidylanilino)naphthalene 6-sulfonic acid (Mal-ANS) and N-(1-pyrene)-maleimide (Mal-pyrene), both alkylate sulfhydryl groups on the alpha subunit of the (Na,K)-ATPase to inhibit (Na,K)-ATPase and p-nitrophenyl phosphatase activities and phosphoenzyme formation. Reaction of the enzyme with Mal-pyrene, but not with Mal-ANS, also inhibits MgPi- and Mg.ATP.Na-supported [3H]ouabain-binding to the enzyme. Mal-pyrene and Mal-ANS react, in part, with different sulfhydryl groups on the enzyme protein. On the average, the sulfhydryl groups which react with Mal-pyrene are located in a more shielded or hydrophobic environment than are those which react with Mal-ANS. It is the reaction of Mal-pyrene with sulfhydryl groups, which are not accessible to Mal-ANS, that results in the decreased [3H]ouabain-binding capacity of the (Na,K)-ATPase. The results indicate that phosphorylation of (Na,K)-ATPase is not required for Mg.ATP.Na-stimulated ouabain binding, and suggest that the ATP and sodium sites which modulate the interaction of ouabain with the (Na,K)-ATPase may be different from those which promote phosphorylation.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Tryptic digest of the alpha subunit of lamb kidney (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.

The Mr approximately equal to 100 000 alpha subunit was prepared from highly purified lamb kidney (Na+ + K+)-ATPase. Its N-terminal sequence is Gly-Arg-Asx-Lys-Tyr-Glu. The alpha subunit was S-carboxymethylated, succinylated, and cleaved at its 40 arginine residues with trypsin. Four major, well-differentiated peptide fractions (A to D) were obtained by chromatography of the digest on a Sephadex G-50 column. Fraction A eluted at the void volume of the column and contained aggregated, very hydrophobic peptides, possibly from regions of alpha that are buried within the membrane lipid bilayer in the native enzyme. Fractions B to D, which together accounted for about 75% of the total protein, contained water-soluble peptides. To test the feasibility of using antibodies to identify and purify specific peptides of alpha subunit, studies were carried out using antibodies to native (Na+ + K+)-ATPase. Carboxymethylation and succinylation did not significantly decrease total antibody binding to alpha subunit, although the affinity of the anti-(Na+ + K+)-ATPase antibodies for alpha subunit was reduced by about 50%. The tryptic peptides of alpha subunit also retain significant immunochemical reactivity. Fractions A, B and C (but not D) of the digest all bind antibodies. To characterize further the tryptic digest, 16 peptides from fraction D were isolated and sequence studies on these were carried out.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Studies of the antigenic properties of the catalytic and glycoprotein subunits of Na+,K+-ATPase.

Antibodies were raised against isolated, delipidated catalytic [alpha] and glycoprotein [beta] subunits of the Na+,K+-dependent ATPase purified from lamb kidney medulla. The specificity of each antiserum was confirmed by agar double-diffusion precipitation, immunoelectrophoresis, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A solid phase adsorption assay was also employed to determine antibody binding titers and to further test the specificity of these antisera. Antibodies raised to the alpha subunit had a strong reactivity and similar titer values for both the holoenzyme and the alpha subunit and a low-affinity cross-reactivity with the beta subunit. In contrast, beta-subunit-directed antibodies had little reactivity or binding with the holoenzyme and a low-affinity cross-reactivity with the alpha subunit. Competition binding studies revealed that about 80% of the alpha-subunit-specific antibodies bound to the holoenzyme, indicating that similar sets of antigenic sites are exposed in the lipid-embedded holoenzyme complex and in the isolated alpha subunit. Competition binding studies also suggest that the subunit cross-reactivities of the antisera may not result from simple contamination of the respective antigens, but that there may be partial homologies of some antigenic sites. In addition, the beta-directed antibodies had no effect on Na+,K+-ATPase activity, while the alpha-directed antibodies were effective inhibitors of activity. This indicates that at least some functionally important antigenic sites of the alpha subunit may be unaltered by its isolation and delipidation.

Animals↗

Effects of extracts of rat brain on the digitalis receptor.

There is a possibility that an endogenous substance exists which interacts with a ouabain binding site on Na+, K+-ATPase. Recently, several reports have appeared suggesting the presence of an endogenous digitalis-like substance in acid-acetone extracts of brain. We have demonstrated that in preparing an acid-acetone extract, peroxidized lipids and lysophospholipids are produced, both of which inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase, thereby complicating interpretation. Preliminary evidence suggests, however, that when rat brains are extracted with an aqueous-acetone mixture under nitrogen, a principle is obtained which specifically inhibits Na+, K+-ATPase.

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Purification and characterization of an (Na+ + K+)-ATPase proteolipid labeled with a photoaffinity derivative of ouabain.

Highly purified lamb kidney (Na+ + K+)-ATPase was photoaffinity labeled with the tritiated 2-nitro-5-azidobenzoyl derivative of ouabain (NAB-ouabain). The labeled (Na+ + K+)-ATPase was mixed with unlabeled carrier enzyme. Two proteolipid (gamma 1 and gamma 2) fractions were then isolated by chromatography on columns of Sepharose CL-6B and Sephadex LH-60. The two fractions were interchangeable when rechromatographed on the LH-60 column, suggesting that gamma 1 is an aggregated form of gamma 2. The total yield was 0.8-1.5 mol of gamma component per mol of catalytic subunit recovered. This indicates that the gamma component is present in stoichiometric amounts in the Na+ + K+)-ATPase. The proteolipids that were labeled with NAB-ouabain copurified with the unlabeled proteolipids.

Amino Acids↗

Specific effects of spermine on Na+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase.

Specific effects of spermine on Na+,K+-ATPase were observed using an enzyme partially purified from rabbit kidney microsomes by extraction with deoxycholate. 1. Spermine competed with K+ for K+-dependent, ouabain-sensitive nitrophenylphosphatase. The K1 for spermine was 0.075 mm in the presence of 1 mM Mg2+ and 5 mM p-nitrophenylphosphate at pH 7.5. 2. spermine activated Na+,K+-ATPase over limited concentration ranges of K+ and Na+ in the presence of 0.05 mM ATP. The spermine concentration required for half maximal activation was 0.055 mM in the presence of 1 mM K+, 10 mM Na+, 1 mM Mg2+, and 0.05 mM ATP. 3. The activation of Na+,K4-ATPase was not due to substitution of spermine for K+, Na+, or Mg2+. 4. When the concentration of K+ or Na+ was extremely low, or in excess, spermine did not activate Na+,K+-ATPase, but inhibited it slightly. 5. Plots of 1/v vs. 1/[ATP] at various concentrations of spermine showed that spermine decreased the Km for ATP without changing the Vmax. 6. Plots of 1/v vs. 1/[ATP] at concentrations of K+ from 0.05 mM to 0.5 mM showed that K+ increased the Km for ATP with increase in the Vmax in the presence of 0.2 mM spermine similarly to that in the absence of spermine. The contradictory effects of spermine on this enzyme system suggest that the K+-dependent monophosphatase activity does not reflect the second half (the dephosphorylation step) of the Na+,K+-ATPase catalytic cycle.

4-Nitrophenylphosphatase↗

Large-scale purification of Na,K-ATPase and its protein subunits from lamb kidney medulla.

Procedures are described for the large-scale isolation of purified Na,K-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) from frozen lamb kidney outer medulla and for the separation of its two protein subunits by hydroxyapatite chromatography in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). The methods described permit the routine isolation of up to 800 mg of purified Na,K-ATPase in one week, which can subsequently be separated into 500 mg of mr = 95,000 catalytic subunit and 200 mg of glycoprotein with four SDS-hydroxyapatite column runs.

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