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N Sone

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PubMed1975

A highly stable adenosine triphosphatase from a thermophillie bacterium. Purification, properties, and reconstitution.

1. A highly stable ATPase (TF1) was purified to a monodispersed state from the membranes of a thermophilic bacterium PS3. Its molecular weight was 380,000, and it was composed of five subunits alpha, beta, gamma, sigma', and sigma with molecular weights of 56,000, 53,000, 32,000, 15,500, and 11,000, respectively. 2. TF1 was stable against dissociating agents such as 5.5 M urea and 4.0 M LiCl, organic solvents, such as 60% acetone, heavy metals, and detergents. Low concentrations of all these agents stimulated its activity at 60 degrees. 3. TF1 was not cold-labile and showed a maximal activity at 70 degrees. Its CD spectrum revealed that its conformation changed between 81 and 96 degrees, and that its contents of alpha helices and beta structures were 27.3 and 12.8%, respectively, at 75 degrees. 4. TF1 was completely dissociated by treatment with dodecyl sulfate at 60 degrees and then with 7.1 M urea. The dissociated TF1 was reconstituted by treatment with Dowex 1-X2, and then dialysis. 5. [3H]Acetyl-TF1 bound to TF1-depleted membranes. TF1 only catalyzed 32Pi-ATP exchange and showed sensitivity to inhibitors of energy transfer when bound to the membranes. 6. A hydrophobic membrance component (TFo) was isolated which rendered TF1 sensitive to inhibitors of energy transfer. It was composed of three subunits (with molecular weights of 19,000, 13,500, and 5,400) and P-lipids.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗
PubMed1975

Purification and properties of a dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase from a thermophilic bacterium.

1. A stable ATPase complex with sensitivity to dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (TFo-F1) was purified from the membranes of the thermophilic aerobic bacterium PS3, by ion exchange chromatography in the presence of Triton X-100. 2. The ATPase of TFo-F1 was maximal at 70 degrees at pH 8.6 and was stable after monomerization in 4 M urea and 0.5% Triton X-100 at 25 degrees. The activity was dependent on Mg2+, Co2+, or Mn2+, and it became insensitive to dicyclohexylcarbodiimide when Ca2+ or Cd2+ was added instead. 3. TFo-F1 required P-lipids of this bacterium contained branched fatty acyl groups but no unsaturated groups and were stable against oxidation and heat. 4. Studies by electron microscopy, gel electrophoresis, and use of anti-ATPase antibody and [3H]acetyl-ATPase indicated that the TFo-F1 complex was composed of an ATPase moiety (TF1, five different subunits) and a hydrophobic moiety (TFo, three different subunits. TFo conferred TF1 with sensitivity to dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. 5. Vesicles catalyzing 32Pi-ATP exchange and ATP-driven enhancement of fluorescence of anilinonaphthalene sulfonate were reconstituted by dialyzing pure TFo-F1 and P-lipids together, and were active even at 50-75 degrees. The vesicles reconstituted from TFo-F1 and bacterial P-lipids were more stable than those reconstituted from TFo-F1 and soybean P-lipids.

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Menaquinol oxidase activity and primary structure of cytochrome bd from the amino-acid fermenting bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum.

Cytochrome d was spectroscopically detected in membrane fractions of the amino-acid-fermenting, high-G+C gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum. Inhibition of NADH oxidase activity in the membranes by cyanide suggested that the main terminal respiratory oxidase during the stationary phase was a type of cytochrome bd. Cytochrome bd-type quinol oxidase, purified from the membranes, was composed of two subunits. Its reduced form showed absorption peaks at 627, 595, and 560 nm, which were due to haem d, high-spin protohaem, and low-spin protohaem, respectively. The air-oxidised form showed a peak at 645 nm, which might be due to oxygenated ferrous haem d. The spectral features and the size of subunit I are more similar to the properties of cytochromes bd from Proteobacteria, such as Escherichia coli, than to those of cytochrome bd from low-G+C gram-positive bacteria, such as Bacillus stearothermophilus. The menaquinol oxidase activity of the purified cytochrome bd was low, but was enhanced about fivefold by pre-incubating the enzyme with menaquinones. The order of effectiveness of quinols as oxidase substrates was clearly different from that of quinones as the activators of enzyme activity. Furthermore, activation was destroyed by ultraviolet irradiation of the pre-incubated enzyme and then restored by a second incubation with menaquinone. These results indicate that the enzymatic properties of this new oxidase are more similar to the properties of cytochromes bd from low-G+C gram-positive bacterial than to those of proteobacterial counterparts. They also suggest that the enzyme has a second quinone-binding site essential for full activity, in addition to the active centre for substrate oxidation. By using probes based on partial peptide sequences of the subunits, the genes for the two subunits of C. glutamicum cytochrome bd were cloned. The deduced amino acid sequence demonstrated that subunit I lacks the C-terminal half of the Q loop and that the primary structure of C. glutamicum cytochrome bd is more similar to that of other gram-positive bacteria than to proteobacterial cytochromes bd.

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Reduced immunogenicity of beta-lactoglobulin by conjugation with carboxymethyl dextran.

We prepared two beta-lactoglobulin (beta-LG)-carboxymethyl dextran (CMD) conjugates (Conj. 10A and Conj. 10B) by using a water-soluble carbodiimide to decrease the immunogenicity of beta-LG. The molar ratios of beta-LG to CMD in the conjugates were 5:1 (Conj. 10A) and 2:1 (Conj. 10B). The beta-LG-CMD conjugates maintained the retinol-binding activity of native beta-LG. Intrinsic fluorescence study indicated that shielding of the surface of beta-LG by CMD occurred in each conjugate, which was eminent in Conj. 10B. A local conformational change around (125)Thr-(135)Lys (alpha-helix) in each conjugate was detected by ELISA with monoclonal antibodies. The denaturation temperature of beta-LG evaluated by differential scanning calorimetry was greatly enhanced in each conjugate. The anti-beta-LG antibody response was markedly reduced after immunization with the beta-LG-CMD conjugates in BALB/c, C57BL/6, and C3H/He mice. We determined the B cell epitopes of beta-LG and each conjugate recognized in these mice and found that the linear epitope profiles of the beta-LG-CMD conjugates were similar to those of beta-LG, while the antibody response for each epitope was dramatically reduced. The reduced immunogenicity of beta-LG was most marked in the case of Conj. 10B, which contained more CMD than Conj. 10A, and was effectively shielded by CMD. We concluded that masking of epitopes by CMD is responsible for the decreased immunogenicity of the beta-LG in these conjugates.

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