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Analysis of nucleotide binding by a vacuolar proton-translocating adenosine triphosphatase.

The vacuolar-type proton-translocatine adenosine triphosphatase from bovine adrenal secretory granules (chromaffin granules) was purified and reconstituted into proteoliposomes. The binding of nucleotides to the enzyme was studied by quantifying their effects on the rate of inactivation by N-ethylmaleimide (MalNEt) of ATP-dependent proton translocation, and by direct measurement of the binding of [3H]MgADP. The results of these experiments are consistent with a model of the enzyme that had been developed as a result of kinetic experiments, the features of which are that the enzyme exists in two states, each containing three nucleotide-binding sites on catalytic subunits, and that nucleoside diphosphates regulate the enzyme by binding with high affinity to a single site in the inactive T state of the enzyme. Under the conditions of the experiments, MalNEt inactivated the ATPase in a pseudo-first order reaction. Rate constants of inactivation were reduced in the presence of MgADP, MgIDP and free ADP; the kinetics of protection suggested that the two conformational states of the enzyme were inactivated at different rates and also confirmed the existence of two different types of binding site for MgADP. Low nucleotide concentrations afforded partial protection from MalNEt; this was ascribed to binding of nucleotide to the regulatory site causing a shift in the conformational equilibrium towards the T state, which was more slowly inactivated than the unliganded R state of the enzyme. At higher nucleotide concentrations, binding at the catalytic site afforded complete protection from MalNEt. Protection by MgADP[S] and magnesium 2'- and 3'-O-[4-benzoylbenzoyl]adenosine 5'-triphosphate showed simpler kinetics but was also consistent with previously reported kinetic results. Analysis of subunit labelling with [3H]MalNEt showed that the three 72-kDa (catalytic) subunits were alkylated by MalNEt with similar rate constants, consistent with a symmetrical arrangement of the catalytic subunits, in contrast to the situation in F-type ATPases. Analysis of the binding of [3H]MgADP also confirmed the results of kinetic experiments. MgADP was shown to bind to the enzyme with an apparent dissociation constant of about 66 nM; assuming that the nucleotide binds only to the T-state, the true dissociation constant is < 1 nM. Using Blue Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to separate the holo-ATPase from the membrane sector, the stoichiometry of binding was calculated to be 0.6 mol/mol enzyme, confirming the existence of a single regulatory site for MgADP. However, binding of MgADP to the enzyme was much slower than could be accounted for by the measured dissociation constants, suggesting that it is rate limited by a step such as a protein conformational change. Treatment designed to remove endogenous nucleotide had no effect on the rate or extent of binding of MgADP.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

Molecular mimicry between Helicobacter pylori antigens and H+, K+ --adenosine triphosphatase in human gastric autoimmunity.

Autoimmune gastritis and Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric atrophy develop through similar mechanisms involving the proton pump H+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase as autoantigen. Here, we report that H. pylori-infected patients with gastric autoimmunity harbor in vivo-activated gastric CD4+ T cells that recognize both H+, K+-adenosine triphosphatase and H. pylori antigens. We characterized the submolecular specificity of such gastric T cells and identified cross-reactive epitopes from nine H. pylori proteins. Cross-reactive H. pylori peptides induced T cell proliferation and expression of T helper type 1 functions. We suggest that in genetically susceptible individuals, H. pylori infection can activate cross-reactive gastric T cells leading to gastric autoimmunity via molecular mimicry.

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Intermediate states of actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase.

The early kinetic steps of actomyosin subfragment 1 (acto-S1) adenosine triphosphatase have been investigated by simultaneous monitoring of fluorescence and light scattering and also by observation of the time course of the production of phosphate. The results show that fluorescence enhancement occurs after the dissociation of actomyosin and that the rate of enhancement is similar to the maximum rate of enhancement for S1 alone, under similar conditions of pH and temperature. The maximum rate of the phosphate burst for acto S1 is also approximately the same as that for S1 alone. The maximum rates for fluorescence enhancement or phosphate formation are reached at much lower adenosine triphosphate concentrations for acto-S1 than for S1. An extension of the actomyosin scheme is presented which accounts for these results.

Actins↗

Activation of membrane-bound high-affinity calcium ion-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase of human erythrocytes by bivalent metal ions.

The Ca2+-sensitive ATPase (adenosine triphosphatase) of human erythrocyte membranes is activated, not only by Ca2+ ions, but also by a series of other bivalent metal ions including Sr2+, Ba2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, Co2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Zn2+ and Pb2+. The degree of activation is dependent on the radius of the ion rather than on its nature, in contrast with the dissociation constant of the enzyme--metal ion complex.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Muscle and serum adenosine triphosphatase in patients suffering from tetanus.

Serial estimation of muscle and serum adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity was performed in 16 healthy control patients and 32 cases with tetanus. There was no significant difference due to age and sex in muscle and serum ATPase activity between the normal and tetanus cases. Tetanus patients showed a marked increase in muscle and serum ATPase activity as compared to normal. The ATPase activity increased with the severity of convulsion and disease. There was increased mortality in tetanus patients having higher values of muscle and serum ATPase.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Characterization of a negative thyroid hormone response element in the rat sodium, potassium-adenosine triphosphatase alpha3 gene promoter.

The thyroid hormone L-T3 elicits either a stimulatory or an inhibitory effect on expression of the Na,K-adenosine triphosphatase alpha3-subunit gene in primary cultures of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. The present study was undertaken to characterize a negative thyroid hormone response element present within the rat Na,K-adenosine triphosphatase alpha3-subunit gene proximal promoter. Transient transfection assays indicated that the DNA-binding domain of thyroid hormone receptor was essential for mediating repression of alpha3 gene transcription by thyroid hormone. This negative effect of thyroid hormone was enhanced in the presence of cotransfected retinoid X receptor and its ligand 9-cis-retinoic acid. Inhibition of alpha3 chimeric gene expression by thyroid hormone was dependent on the initial cell plating density. The negative thyroid hormone response element was localized to a region between nucleotides -68 to -6 of the alpha3 gene. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that thyroid hormone receptor binds in a synergistic manner as a heterodimer with retinoid X receptor to two sites at positions -62 to -41 and -39 to -17 of the alpha3 gene promoter. The upstream and downstream heterodimer binding sites coexist with CAAT and TATA elements, respectively.

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Citreoviridin, a specific inhibitor of the mitochondiral adenosine triphosphatase.

1. Citreoviridin was a potent inhibitor of the soluble mitochondrial ATPase (adenosine triphosphatase) similar to the closely related aurovertins B and D. 2. Citreoviridin inhibited the following mitochondrial energy-linked reactions also: ADP-stimulated respiration in whole mitochondria from ox heart and rat liver; ATP-driven reduction of NAD+ by succinate; ATP-driven NAD transhydrogenase and ATPase from ox heart submitochondrial particles. 3. The dissociation constant (KD) calculated by a simple law-of-mass-action treatment for the citreoviridin--ATPase complex was 0.5--4.2micron for ox-heart mitochondrial preparations and 0.15micron for rat liver mitochondria. 4. Monoacetylation of citreoviridin decreased its inhibitory potency (KD=2--25micron, ox heart; KD=0.7micron, rat liver). Diacetylation greatly decreased the inhibitory potency (KD=60--215micron, ox heart). 5. Hydrogenation of citreoviridin monoacetate diminished its inhibitory potency considerably. 6. No significant enhancement of fluorescence was observed when citreoviridin interacted with the mitochondrial ATPase.

Acetates↗

Partial purification and characterization of dynein adenosine triphosphatase from bovine sperm.

Outer dynein arm polypeptides that possess Mg+2-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity have been extracted from the flagellar axonemes of demembranated bovine sperm. Electron microscopy of intact and salt-extracted sperm demonstrates a relatively selective removal of the outer dynein arms. The salt extract contains a specific ATPase activity of 55 nmoles inorganic phosphate (Pi)/min/mg protein. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation of this extract results in a 6-fold increase in specific activity of ATPase (333 nmole/Pi/min/mg protein), which sediments as a single 13S peak. Concomitant with the increase in specific activity, there is enrichment of three high molecular weight polypeptides (Mr greater than 300,000) characteristic of dynein heavy chains. ATPase activities in the initial extract and in the 13S peak are inhibited by concentrations of vanadate and erythro-9-[3-2-(hydroxynonyl)]adenine similar to those that inhibit ATPase activity in sea urchin sperm dynein. These findings indicate that outer arm dynein ATPase can be extracted and partially purified from bovine sperm.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Adenosine triphosphatase activity of cutaneous nerve fibers.

The histochemical study of Mg++-activated adenosine triphosphatase (Mg++-ATPase) activity was carried out on the peripheral nerves of mouse digital skin by light and electron microscopy. Under the light microscope, the ATPase activity was clearly demonstrated on the nerve fibers as a fine network in the subepidermal regions. Under the electron microscope, the reaction product of enzyme activity was located in the interspace between axolemma and the surrounding Schwann cells of the unmyelinated nerve fibers. No reaction product was observed in the space between the axolemma and the Schwann cells associated with myelinated nerve fibers. Demonstrable activity was absent at the nodes of Ranvier as well as on the para- and internodal regions of these myelinated axons. The part of the axolemma lacking a Schwann cell sheath failed to show a reaction product. The perineural epithelial cells surrounding the nerve fibers displayed reaction product in the caveolae. These results suggest a functional difference in the axon-Schwann interface of myelinated as compared to unmyelinated nerve fibers. The function of the perineural epithelial cell would be expected to be a regulatory one in transferring materials across the epithelium to keep the proper humoral environment around nerve fibers.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Studies on the microsoml sodium-plus-potassium ion-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase system in rat ventral prostate.

A Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) preparation was isolated from rat ventral prostate by flotation of microsomal membranes in high-density sucrose solutions. The reaction medium for optimum Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated ATPase activity was found to be: Na(+), 115mm; K(+), 7-10mm; Mg(2+), 3mm; ATP, 3mm; tris buffer, pH7.4 at 38 degrees , 20mm. The average DeltaP(i) (Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+) minus Mg(2+)+Na(+)) was 9mumoles/mg. of protein/hr., representing a 30% increase over the Mg(2+)+Na(+)-stimulated ATPase activity. At high concentrations, K(+) was inhibitory to the enzyme activity. Half-maximal inhibition of Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated ATPase activity was elicited by ouabain at 0.1mm. The preparation exhibited phosphatase activity towards ribonucleoside triphosphates other than ATP. However, stimulation of P(i) release by Na(+)+K(+) was observed only with ATP as substrate. The apparent K(m) for ATP for Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated activity was about 0.3x10(-3)m. Ca(2+) inhibited only the Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated ATPase activity. Mg(2+) could be replaced by Ca(2+) but then no Na(+)+K(+) stimulation of ATPase activity was noticed. The addition of testosterone or dihydrotestosterone (17beta-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-3-one) in vitro at 0.1-10mum under a variety of experimental conditions did not significantly increase the Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated ATPase activity. The enzyme preparations from prostates of orchidectomized rats, however, exhibited a drastic decrease in the specific activity of Na(+)+K(+)-stimulated ATPase; these changes were prevented in the orchidectomized rats by injection of testosterone propionate.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

The contractile potency of adenosine triphosphate and ecto-adenosine triphosphatase activity in guinea pig detrusor and detrusor from patients with a stable, unstable or obstructed bladder.

PURPOSE: We compared the potency of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and its nonhydrolyzable analogue alpha,beta-methylene ATP for generating contractions in human detrusor smooth muscle from patients with a stable, unstable and obstructed bladders. The different ATP potencies were compared with the ecto-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) of these samples. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Contractile experiments were done in vitro by superfusing samples with purines and dose-response curves were generated. Ecto-ATPase activity was measured from the rate of ATP hydrolysis sensitive to the ecto-ATPase inhibitor ARL 67156 with a luciferin-luciferase assay. RESULTS: ATP generated contractions with a mean EC50 of 933 microM. in tissue from stable bladders and was significantly more potent in tissue from unstable and obstructed bladders (EC50 141 and 172 microM., respectively). alpha,beta-methylene ATP was more potent in tissue from stable and unstable bladders (mean combined EC50 3 microM.). In guinea pig detrusor the mean EC50 for ATP and alpha,beta-methylene ATP was 138 and 5.5 microM., respectively. Mean total ATPase activity in unstable bladder biopsies plus or minus standard deviation was about 50% of that in stable bladder biopsies (2.54 +/- 1.50 versus 1.37 +/- 0.46 nmol. per second per mg. protein ). The ARL 67156 sensitive fraction was also significantly less in samples from unstable compared with stable bladders (mean 0.94 +/- 0.41 versus 0.36 +/- 0.26 nmol. per second mg. protein ). CONCLUSIONS: The greater potency of ATP for generating contractions in detrusor from unstable bladders may be due to reduced extracellular hydrolysis, allowing purine greater access to detrusor smooth muscle. This finding may explain atropine resistant purine based contractions in detrusor from unstable bladders.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

The reversible delipidation of a solubilized sodium-plus-potassium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase from the salt gland of the spiny dogfish.

A microsomal fraction rich in Na+, K+-ATPase (sodium-plus-potassium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase) and the corresponding K+-dependent p-nitrophenyl phosphatase from the rectal salt gland of the spiny dogfish was solubilized by treatment with deoxycholate at high ionic strength. On gel filtration through Sepharose 6B, the ATPase apoenzyme could be separated, in apparently soluble form, from the tissue-fraction phospholipids and was almost free of enzymic activity (2% of the p-nitrophenyl phosphatase activity and 0.2% of the ATPase activity being recovered). On mixing the apoenzyme with an activator consisting of cooked ox brain, a large proportion of the original enzymic activity was obtained. Specific activities of the re-activated enzyme were somewhat higher than in the material before gel filtration: values of 1300-1450 mumol and 250-290 mumol/h per mg of protein were obtained for the hydrolysis of ATP and of p-nitrophenyl phosphate respectively. The activity was inhibitible by ouabain.

4-Nitrophenylphosphatase↗

Distribution of activity of alkaline phosphatase and Mg-dependent adenosine triphosphatase in the cranial dura mater-arachnoid interface zone of the rat.

The distribution of the activity of alkaline phosphatase and Mg-dependent adenosine triphosphatase was studied in the encephalic dura mater-arachnoid borderline (interface) zone of albino Wistar rats. Intense clustering of electron-dense granules that indicated alkaline phosphatase activity was observed in the inner dural cells, the neurothelial cells, the outermost row of the outer arachnoidal cells and in the intercellular cleft between the latter two (the so-called electron-dense band). The remainder of the outer arachnoidal cells contained almost no reaction product. Mg-adenosine triphosphatase activity was distributed differently; a lack of reaction product was observed not only in the outer arachnoidal cells, but also in the zone occupied by the electron-dense band. The data confirm histochemically the barrier properties of the dura mater-arachnoid interface zone.

Alkaline Phosphatase↗

Genetic complementation between two mutant unc alleles (unc A401 and unc D409) affecting the Fl portion of the magnesium ion-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase of Escherichia coli K12.

A new mutant strain of Escherichia coli in which phosphorylation is uncoupled from electron transport was isolated. A genetic-complementation analysis, using partial diploid strains, showed that the new mutant allele, uncD409, is in a gene distinct from the other previously identified genes uncA, uncB and uncC. A strain carrying the uncd409 allele has no Mg2+ ion-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity and is therefore phenotypically similar to strains carrying the uncA401 mutant allele. Complementation between the uncA401 and the uncD409 alleles occurred, as indicated by growth of partial diploid strains on succinate and their growth yields on limiting concentrations of glucose. Complementation was confirmed by using membranes prepared from the above partial diploids. Such membranes were found to have Mg2+-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity, ATP-dependent transhydrogenase activity ADP-induced atebrin-fluorescence quenching and low but significant amounts of oxidative phosphorylation.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Genetic analysis of a temperature-sensitive Salmonella typhimurium rho mutant with an altered rho-associated polycytidylate-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity.

A conditional-lethal rho mutant of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 has been isolated. The mutation was selected as a suppressor of the polarity of an insertion sequence (IS)2-induced mutation (gal3) carried on an F' plasmid. In addition to suppression of IS2-induced polarity, the rho-111 mutation suppressed nonsense and frameshift polarity. The rho-associated polycytidylic acid-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity in the mutant strain was elevated 15-fold above that in the parental strain, and the mutant rho protein was thermally unstable. A temperature-resistant revertant of the mutant strain did not suppress polarity and contained normal levels of polycytidylic acid-dependent adenosine triphosphatase, suggesting that the phenotype of the rho-111-bearing strain is the consequence of a single mutation. The rho-111 mutation was located on the S. typhimurium linkage map midway between the ilv and cya loci by phage P22 cotransduction studies. F' plasmid maintenance was not impaired in the mutant strain, and the mutation was recessive to the wild-type allele. The rho-111 mutation did not alter in vivo expression of either the tryptophan or histidine operons.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗