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Retinal pigment epithelial cells of the posterior pole have fewer Na/K adenosine triphosphatase pumps than peripheral cells.

The density of Na/K adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) pumps in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells in different retinal regions was quantified by measuring the binding of 3H-ouabain to RPE in cow and human eyecups. In bovine eyes, pump density was estimated in RPE samples isolated from three retinal regions outlined with a 7-mm trephine: one from the posterior pole in the area centralis and two from the superior, equatorial retina representing unpigmented (in the tapetum) and pigmented zones. In human eyes, RPE samples were isolated from a posterior region centered around the macula and one superior region. Ouabain binding to RPE of the posterior pole of both species was approximately 40-60% lower than binding to RPE of more peripheral regions in the same eyes. For bovine eyes, ouabain binding did not differ between pigmented and unpigmented cells of the superior retina, suggesting that reduced binding in the relatively amelanotic posterior cells was not related to levels of pigmentation. For human RPE, binding to posterior cells was lower in eyes from donors of all ages (range, 17-90 yr). The data suggest that Na/K ATPase pump site density is lower in posterior RPE cells of both bovine and human eyes, perhaps due to a regional difference in requirements for ionic regulation.

Adolescent↗

Effects of thyroid hormone on Na-K-adenosine triphosphatase activity along the rat nephron.

Na-K-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity was determined in individual nephron segments obtained from the kidneys of euthyroid and hypothyroid rats. One group of animals was made hypothyroid by feeding 0.05% aminotriazole (ATZ) in the diet for 2 weeks. A second group received the same amount of ATZ plus 500 micrograms/kg body weight of L-thyroxine (T4) given subcutaneously each day for 2 weeks. A third group received the same diet without ATZ or T4. There was a 57% (P less than 0.01) decrease in Na-K-ATPase activity in the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) in ATZ-treated rats that was corrected by the simultaneous administration of T4 with ATZ. A smaller (15% to 25%) and statistically nonsignificant decrease in Na-K-ATPase activity was observed in the cortical portion of the proximal straight tubule and in both the cortical and the medullary portions of the thick ascending limb in ATZ-treated rats. These changes in the enzyme activity were also corrected by simultaneous administration of T4 with ATZ. The results suggest that under the conditions of these experiments the PCT is a major site of action of thyroid hormone in the rat kidney.

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Distribution of adenosine triphosphatase and thamine pyrophosphatase in the digestive system of Heteropneustes fossils.

Histochemical localization of adenosine triphosphatase and thiamine pyrophosphatase in the digestive system of the teleost fish, Heteropneustes fossilis has been studied. In the stomach, ATPase activity is observed in the mucosa, gastric glands and muscularis. The activity is stronger in the muscularis. Very weak TPPase activity is localized only in the mucosa and gastric glands. In the intestinal mucosa ATPase activity is stronger especially, along the brush border. Mild activity is also found in the connective tissue network and their nuclei, muscularis and serosa. In the posterior portion of the intestine and rectum, the localization pattern is similar to that of intestine but the activity is weaker. TPPase activity in the intestine and rectum is restricted only to the goblet shaped mucus secreting cells. In the liver, strong activity of ATPase and moderate activity of TPPase are found in the cytoplasm as well as the nuclei of the hepatic cells.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Distribution of adenosine triphosphatase in infiltrating ductal carcinoma and non-neoplastic breast.

The histochemical reaction for adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) has previously been used to differentiate myoepithelial from epithelial cells in the breast and to investigate the possible contribution of myoepithelial cells to mammary carcinoma. Discrepancies in published reports prompted this study of ATPase in non-neoplastic breast and infiltrating ductal carcinoma. ATPase was localized mainly on myoepithelial cells of normal breast and was identified with significant frequency on epithelial cells in hyperplastic ducts. Infiltrating ductal carcinomas usually displayed a variable reactivity. In one instance, malignant cells demonstrating mucin production were found to be ATPase-positive. An infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the papillary type with apocrine features was also strongly ATPase-reactive. It is concluded that ATPase is not an exclusive marker of myoepithelial cells and, therefore, data resulting from the use of this enzyme to study the role of the myoepithelium in mammary carcinoma must be interpreted with caution.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Plastid development in primary leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris. Development of plastid adenosine triphosphatase activity during greening.

The etioplasts of dark-grown bean leaves showed ATPase (adenosine triphosphatase) activity which had a pH optimum of 8.5, was stimulated by dithiothreitol and unaffected by light-triggering. Bean chloroplasts showed a low activity of dark-induced ATPase with a pH optimum of 8.5 and a substantial amount of light-triggered activity with a pH optimum of 8.0. The light-triggered activity depended on dithiothreitol and Mg2+ and was promoted by phenazine methosulphate. Light-triggered ATPase activity was completely inhibited by 20mum-dicyclohexylcarbodi-imide. Etioplasts developed light-triggered ATPase activity in response to 30 min illumination of the etiolated leaves. During the 48 h of light-induced greening of dark-grown leaves there was a 70% increase of the chloroplast ATPase activity found after light-triggering and a 30% fall in the dark-induced activity, both expressed on a per leaf basis. As the larger part of these changes occurred during the first 30 min of illumination, it is concluded that most or all of the chloroplast ATPase was present in the etioplast, a conclusion identical with that of Lockshin et al. (1971) for maize. During 48 h of greening there was a tenfold increase in the amount of thylakoid membrane in the leaf together with an 83% fall in the ATPase activity per m2 of thylakoid membrane, measured after light-triggering.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Adenosine triphosphatases as histochemical markers for the cell of origin in experimental mammary carcinoma.

Different adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activities were detected at an ultrastructural level in order to differentiate epithelial and myoepithelial cells in normal and neoplastic mouse mammary tissues. Mg2+ dependent and Na+-K+-dependent ATPase activities were studied in: BALB/c mouse mammary gland; a BALB/c carcinoma from a transplantable D2 hyperplastic nodule; a stable cell line, MCF-8, derived from the BALB/c carcinoma; and a BALB/c scirrhous-like carcinoma induced by MCF-8 cell inoculation. Mg2+-dependent ATPase was detected in the plasma membranes of the normal mouse mammary epithelial cells, the epithelial component of the BALB/c carcinoma, the MCF-8 cells in culture, and the atypical epithelial component of the scirrhous-like carcinoma. Na+-K+-dependent and Mg2+-dependent ATPase were localized in the plasma membranes of the myoepithelial cells of the normal mammary gland and the BALB/c carcinoma. The results from these histochemical studies established that the cell of origin in both the BALB/c carcinoma and the scirrhous-like carcinoma was the mammary epithelial rather than the myoepithelial cells. Furthermore, these results indicated that the MCF-8 cell line was derived from the epithelial component of the primary BALB/c carcinoma. These conclusions, which were based on histochemical study, were supported by the presence of intracisternal type A viral particles in the epithelial cells of the primary BALB/c carcinoma, the MCF-8 cells in culture, and the epithelial cells of the scirrhous-like carcinoma. Thus, the enzymatic markers were specific for cell type and remained unchanged by the process of cell transformation.

Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous↗

(Na+, K+)-adenosine triphosphatase regulation by the sympathetic nervous system: effects of noradrenergic stimulation and lesions in vivo.

Effects of noradrenergic stimulation and depletion on the K+-p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity and ouabain binding associated with (Na+, K+)-adenosine triphosphatase (E.C. 3.6.1.3) were examined in heart, soleus, brown adipose tissue and kidney. Stimulation by repeated yohimbine or d-amphetamine increased and depletion by parenteral 6-hydroxydopamine decreased enzyme activity or ouabain binding in each tissue studied except kidney. Some increase in the parameters associated with (Na+, K+)-adenosine triphosphatase was seen after repeated doses of 1 mg/kg of d-amphetamine or yohimbine, with maximal effects at 2 mg/kg of yohimbine and 5 or 10 mg/kg of d-amphetamine. Stimulation was reduced by administration of alpha-1 or beta noradrenergic antagonists. Repeated treatment with isoproterenol, but not with phenylephrine, increased ouabain binding and enzyme activity in the heart. The decrease and recovery of enzyme activity in the heart after administration of the reversible noradrenergic neurotoxin N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine (DSP4) were parallel to the recovery of norepinephrine content and desmethylimipramine binding. The effects of the noradrenergic changes appeared to involve chiefly the fraction of enzyme with high affinity for ouabain.

4-Nitrophenylphosphatase↗

Adenosine triphosphatase activity in the neural lobe of the bovine pituitary gland.

1. Homogenates of neural lobes of bovine pituitary glands were fractionated by differential and density-gradient ultracentrifugation and the distribution of adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity was studied. It was shown that all the activity was membrane-bound. 2. On the basis of ionic requirements the ATPase activity was grouped into three categories: (a) Mg(2+)-dependent, (b) Ca(2+)-dependent and (c) Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-dependent (ouabain-sensitive) ATPases. The activity in the absence of bivalent cations was negligible. The ratio between the activities of the three ATPases varied between the different subcellular fractions. 3. Preincubation of the subcellular fractions with deoxycholate increased the activity of the Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-dependent enzyme, whereas the Mg(2+)- and Ca(2+)-activated ATPases were either unaffected or slightly inhibited. Triton X-100 solubilized the Mg(2+)- and Ca(2+)-ATPases; however, the activity of the Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-ATPase was abolished by the concentration of Triton X-100 used. 4. All the subfractions displayed unspecific nucleotide triphosphatase activity towards GTP, ITP and UTP. These substrates inhibited the hydrolysis of ATP by all three ATPases. ADP also inhibited the ATPases. 5. Polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of extracts containing the Mg(2+)- and Ca(2+)-dependent ATPase activity solubilized by Triton X-100 revealed the presence of two enzymes; one activated by either Mg(2+) or Ca(2+) and the other activated only by Ca(2+). 6. In sucrose density gradients the distribution of vasopressin was different from that of all three types of ATPases. It is therefore suggested that the neurosecretory granules do not possess ATPase activity.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

The fine structural localization of adenosine triphosphatase in the small intestine, kidney, and liver of the rat.

The distribution of the reaction product of a staining method for adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) in rat small intestine, kidney, and liver was studied with electron microscopy. Several procedures were tried but the best results were obtained from tissue that had been quenched in liquid nitrogen, sectioned at 25 micro in a cryostat, fixed for 30 to 90 minutes at 4 degrees C in formalin-sucrose buffered to pH 7.2, incubated with substrate, and then osmicated and prepared for electron microscopy in the usual way. This procedure enabled the localization of mitochondrial ATPase to be studied. In tissue fixed in small blocks in osmium tetroxide for 3 minutes prior to incubation with substrate, good preservation was noted, and the reaction product for ATPase was localized on the cell membrane and nuclei. The reaction product was present in abundant amount in the nuclei, and particularly within nucleoli, of all tissues studied. Because the histochemical localization of nuclear enzymes poses numerous interpretative problems at the present time, the significance of this nuclear localization is uncertain. Cell (plasma) membranes were the site of localization, especially at areas where it has been proposed that active transport mechanisms may occur, namely, on the microvilli of intestinal epithelium, endothelial lining of capillaries, glomerular epithelial cell membranes, basal infoldings of the cell membrane of renal tubules, on the microvilli of bile canaliculi, and on the microvilli of proximal convoluted tubular epithelial cells. ATPase localization on the cristae mitochondriales was also demonstrated.

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Energetics and mechanism of actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase.

Rate constants were determined for the reaction of actin with subfragment 1 (S1), S1-product complex, heavy meromyosin (HMM), and HMM-products complex for a range of temperatures, pH's, and ionic strengths. For actin concentrations up to 10 muM, the rate of reassociation of the product intermediate was equal to the rate of actomyosin subfragment 1 (acto-S1) or acto-HMM adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase). Therefore, under these conditions, the only important pathway for adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis is through the dissociation and recombination of S1 or HMM. The apparent rate constants for the association of S1 and S1-product with actin showed a similar large ionic strength dependence. The S1-product reaction had a large temperature dependence paralleling the rate of acto-S1 ATPase, while the reaction with S1 had a much smaller variation with temperature. The low value of the rate constant for the S1-product reaction and its relationship to the s1 areaction suggests that the apparent rate constant does not measure a simple second-order reaction. A plausible mechanism is a rapid equilibrium for the binding step, followed by a transition (product release) which increases the association constant. A refractory state could also reduce the apparent rate constant of recombination. An approximate assignment of equilibrium constants for the acto-S1 ATPase reaction was made based on the interpretation of the present evidence and equilibrium constnats for the S1 ATPase.

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The characterization of myosin-product complexes and of product-release steps during the magnesium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase reaction.

Evidence is presented that the myosin subfragment-1-ADP complex, generated by the addition of Mg(2+) and ADP to subfragment 1, is an intermediate within the myosin Mg(2+)-dependent adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) turnover cycle. The existence of this species as a steady-state intermediate at pH8 and 5 degrees C is demonstrated by fluorescence measurements, but its concentration becomes too low to measure at 21 degrees C. This arises because there is a marked temperature-dependence on the rate of the process controlling ADP dissociation from subfragment 1 (rate=1.4s(-1) at 21 degrees C, 0.07s(-1) at 5 degrees C). In the ATPase pathway this reaction is in series with a relatively temperature-insensitive process, namely an isomerization of the subfragment-1-product complex (rate=0.055s(-1) at 21 degrees C, 0.036s(-1) at 5 degrees C). By means of studies on the P(i) inhibition of nucleotide-association rates, a myosin subfragment-1-P(i) complex was characterized with a dissociation equilibrium constant of 1.5mm. P(i) appears to bind more weakly to the myosin subfragment-1-ADP complex. The studies indicate that P(i) dissociates from subfragment 1 at a rate greater than 40s(-1), and substantiates the existence of a myosin-product isomerization before product release in the elementary processes of the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase. In this ATPase mechanism Mg(2+) associates as a complex with ATP and is released as a complex with ADP. In 0.1m-KCl at pH8 1.0mol of H(+) is released/mol of subfragment 1 concomitant with the myosin-product isomerization or P(i) dissociation, and 0.23 mol of H(+) is released/mol of subfragment when ATP binds to the protein, but 0.23 mol of H(+) is taken up again from the medium when ADP dissociates. Within experimental sensitivity no H(+) is released into the medium in the step involving ATP cleavage.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

Three deoxyribonucleic acid-dependent adenosine triphosphatases from Bacillus subtilis.

We have isolated from Bacillus subtilis three deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-dependent adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases) (gamma-phosphohydrolases). The enzymes were extensively purified, and their physicochemical and functional properties were determined. The three enzymes (ATPases I, II, and III) were shown to be different by several criteria. ATPases II and III showed an absolute requirement for single-stranded DNA as a cofactor, whereas ATPase I had some residual activity also with double-stranded DNA. They required Mg2+ and had a pH optimum of 6.5 to 7. Only adenosine 5'-triphosphate and deoxyadenosine 5'-triphosphate were hydrolyzed. The molecular weights of ATPases I, II, and III were 108,000, 115,000, and 148,000, respectively. Km values for adenosine 5'-triphosphate and DNA were also evaluated and shown to be different for each enzyme. All three enzymes formed physical complexes with single-stranded DNA. We present evidence that ATPases I and II might migrate along DNA during adenosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis. On the other hand, this effect was not observed with ATPase III, which exhibited the highest affinity for single-stranded DNA.

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