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Macrophage myosin. Regulation of actin-activated ATPase, activity by phosphorylation of the 20,000-dalton light chain.

Myosin was purified from rabbit alveolar macrophages in a form that could not be activated by actin. This myosin could be phosphorylated by an endogenous myosin light chain kinase, up to 2 mol of phosphate being incorporated/mol of myosin. The site phosphorylated was located on the 20,000-dalton myosin light chain. Phosphorylation of macrophage myosin was found to be necessary for actin activation of myosin ATPase activity. Moreover, the actin-activated ATPase activity was found to vary directly with the extent of myosin phosphorylation, maximal phosphorylation (2 mol of Pi/mol of myosin) resulting in an actin-activated MgATPase activity of approximately 200 nmol of Pi/mg of myosin/min at 37 degrees C. These results establish that phosphyoyration of the 20,000-dalton light chain of myosin is sufficient to regulate the actin-activated ATPase activity of macrophage myosin.

Actins

Ca-activated ATPase activity in subcellular fractions of mouse pancreatic islets.

Ca-stimulated ATPase activity has been demonstrated in homogenates of mouse pancreatic islets. On subcellular fractionation Ca-ATPase activity was found in secretory granules, mitochondria, and microsomes, but not in the postmicrosomal fractions. Highest specific activity was found in the granules. In all active subcellular fractions two Km(Ca) values for Ca-ATPase around 7.0 X 10(-6) and 1.8 X 10(-7) M were estimated. Assuming an ATP hydrolysis:Ca pumping ratio of 1:2, the highest capacity for active Ca transport was found in secretory granules and mitochondria. Concentrations of 40 mM or higher of Na and 10(-5) M cyclic AMP inhibited Ca-ATPase in all subfractions. Caffeine at a concentration of 10 mM inhibited Ca-ATPase significantly in secretory granules and microsomes. Also MG-ATPase activity was demonstrated in the various subfractions. This activity was compared with that of Ca-ATPase at identical concentrations of free metal ions and in the absence or presence of various inhibitors. It was concluded that high-affinity Ca-ATPase and Mg-ATPase are two different enzymic entities. Ca-ATPase may tentatively be assumed to participate in active transport of Ca between intracellular compartments and to constitute a Ca-accumulating system which returns the cytosolic free Ca concentration to the resting state after stimulation of the beta-cells by secretagogues. This enzyme may therefore play a significant role in regulation of insulin release.

4-Chloromercuribenzenesulfonate

Bicarbonate-activated ATPase activity in renal cortex of chronically acidotic rats.

The effect of chronic NH4Cl-induced acidosis on the activity of a bicarbonate-activated component of ATPase was studied in homogenates of renal tissue from Wistar rats. This particular component of ATPase, which is maximally stimulated by 50 mM bicarbonate, and is insensitive to the action of ouabain, has been implicated in the active transport of bicarbonate in various tissues. The activity of this enzyme in cortical homogenates from an acidotic group of animals was 4.3 +/- 0.4 mumol Pi/mg protein per hour compared with 5.8 +/- 0.3 mumol Pi/mg protein per hour in a control group (p less than 0.02). No significant change in bicarbonate ATPase activity was observed in medullary homogenates, and NaK-ATPase activity remained the same in cortex and medulla of both groups. Subcellular fractionation of the cortical tissue homogenates revealed that bicarbonate ATPase activity in a microsomal fraction from acidotic animals was 6.5 +/- 1.1 mumol Pi/mg protein per hour compared with 9.4 +/- 1.2 mumol Pi/mg protein per hour in control animals (p less than 0.02). Bicarbonate ATPase activity in other subcellular fractions was not different in the two groups of animals. These findings are compatible with the hypothesis that a certain percentage of bicarbonate reabsorption in the nephron is mediated by a bicarbonate-activated component of ATPase.

Acidosis

[SH-group and Mg2+-dependent Ca2+-activated ATPase activity of the microsome fraction of the brain].

Mg2+-dependent Ca2+-activated ATPase of microsoma fraction from the grey matter of cerebral great hemispheres determined after the preliminary treatment of the preparation with 0.1% digitonin, while preserved in the medium with 10 mM mercaptoethanol for seven days at a temperature of 4-6 degrees C is inactivated by 10-15% and approximately by 50% while preserved without mercaptoethanol. Mercaptoethanol does not make reactivating effect. SH-reagents at definite concentrations completely inhibit the activity of Mg2+, Ca2+-ATPase. Half-maximum inhibition of the enzyme is reached with the salirgan, p-CMB and NEM concentrations of 5-10(-6) M, 5-10(-6) M and 5-10(-3) M, respectively. Mg2+-ATPase is not suppressed completely, and at high concentrations of SH-reagents the residual activity is 1.3 muM of Pi per 1 mg of protein in 1 hr. ATP in the concentrations optimal for manifestation of Mg2+, Ca2+-ATPase (3 mM) efficiently protects the enzyme from the inactivating effect of NEM. This gives reasons to suppose that the active centre of Mg2+, Ca2+-ATPase contains an SH-group. The quantity of SH-groups readily accessible of the Ellman reactive in the initial preparation of the brain microsomes is 45 + 2.0 nM per 1 mg of protein and in the preparation dissolved in 2.5% sodium dodecyl sulphate, 110 + 7.8 nmM per 1 mg of protein. In the presence of 0.1% digitonin the quantity of SH-groups of the preparation is 55 + 3.5 nM per 1 mg of protein, simultaneously such treatment of detergent results in manifestation of Mg2+, Ca2+-ATPase activity. An inactivating effect of SH-reagents and the protective effect of ATP indicate similarity of the enzyme under study to Mg2+, Ca2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmatic reticulum.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

Calcium-activated ATPase activity in a plasma membrane-rich preparation of rat pancreas.

1. Calcium-stimulated ATPase activity was studied in a plasma membrane rich fraction of rat pancreas homogenate. 2. The enzyme is stimulated to the same maximum rate of ATP hydrolysis by either calcium or magnesium, but the apparent requirement for calcium is five-fold lower than for magnesium. 3. Maximum hydrolytic activity of the enzyme is not increased when additional magnesium is added to the optimal amount of calcium. 4. The enzyme does not require Na+ or K+ for its activation by Ca2+ and is not inhibited by ouabain or 2,4-dinitrophenol. 5. Pancreozymin, in concentrations which evoke secretion of zymogen protein, inhibits the calcium-stimulated ATPase. 6. Carbachol and dibutyryl cyclic AMP, in concentrations which increase the release of digestive proteins, do not alter the activity of the calcium-stimulated enzyme. 7. It is suggested that the plasma membrane calcium-activated enzyme, is not involved in the active calcium extrusion, previously reported to occur with use of the various pancreatic secretagogues tested.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

[Distribution of Mg-activated ATPase activity in the sensorimotor cortex (electron-cytochemical study)].

The localization of Mg-activated ATPase was studied by the lead method. The reaction product was seen in the nuclei and nucleoli of the cells. Five types of its distribution in the nuclei, typical for different types of cells and characterizing their functional activity were distinguished. The reaction to ATPase was also determined in the ribosomes, lipofuscin granules and some oval areas of the cytoplasma of cellular bodies and axons. The precipitate in the brain mitochondria was detected only after the administration of aminazine (15 mg/kg), i. e. in conditions of increased membrane permeability. The presence of ATPase reaction products in axo-dendrite synapses of different types, where it is mainly bound with postsynaptical consolidation and reflects the size of zone activity contacts, may have a direct relation to the conduction of the nervous impulse. The reaction product is also constantly present in the basal membrane of blood vessels.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

Inhibition of Na+-K+-activated ATPase activity following experimental spinal cord trauma.

The specific activity of the membrane-bound enzyme, Na+-K+-activated adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), has been shown to be decreased following experimental impact injury (400 gm-cm) to the spinal cord in dogs. The prompt and significant (p less than 0.01) fall in activity was evident as early as 5 minutes after injury, and remained at 56% to 67% of control for the 1-hour period studied. This decrease was most prominent in the central core of the traumatized segments of spinal cord. Central core samples, excised immediately adjacent to the trauma site, gave values for the Na+-K+-activated enzyme intermediate to those of the trauma and control sites. For these same samples, the activity of the Mg+2-dependent ATPase did not change appreciably. No alterations were observed in the tissue surrounding the zone of maximum injury at these early time periods. The relationship of membrane-bound enzyme alterations to blood flow, clotting mechanisms, and abnormal free radical reactions are briefly discussed.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

Na-K-activated ATPase: activity maturation in rabbit nephron segments dissected in vitro.

Single, defined nephron segments were dissected in vitro from fresh slices of neonatal and mature rabbit kidney. Na-K-ATPase was quantified for six different tubule segments with an ultramicromethod. The enzyme distribution pattern in the neonatal nephron was similar to that in the mature nephron. Activity in distal segments was 2-5 times higher than proximal tubule activity referred to tissue dry weight, and 2 times higher referred to tubule length. Neonatal enzyme activity was lower than mature in all segments. Some segments carried only 23% of mature activity. Enzyme activity in the proximal convoluted tubule was constant during maturation when referred to the basal and lateral membrane area measured in the same developmental stages. In vitro activities of these tubules were similar to the enzyme activity measured previously in freeze-dried slices. The Vmax during development of Na-K-ATPase was higher by a factor of 5 in the mature tubule, whereas the Km was identical in the neonatal and mature tubule. The ouabain-insensitive ATPase did not show a maturational activity change.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

The relationship of mechanical Vmax to myosin ATPase activity in rabbit and marmot ventricular muscle.

Papillary muscle mechanics and ventricular myosin calcium-activated ATPase activity were measured in the same heart as a function of temperature (8--28 degrees) in rabbits and marmots, in order to examine further the hypothesis that the velocity of cardiac muscle shortening at zero load (Vmax) is correlated with myosin ATPase activity. There was a similar Q10 for Vmax in each muscle type, as measured with isotonic afterloaded quick-releases at 30--33% time-to-peak tension; the calcium activated ATPase of myosin in the two muscle types also was similar. The least squares linear regression of rabbit Vmax on calcium-activated myosin ATPase activity was the same as in the marmot, so all the data were pooled to yield a linear regression (Y = 0.47 +/- 3.82X) with a high correlation between the two variables [r = 0.95, P less than 0.01 (ANOV)]. Furthermore, the correlation proved to be predictive of cardiac Vmax and myosin ATPase activity levels in other experiments where these two measurements decreased below normal as a result of hypertrophic growth. Consequently, the quantitative relationship between Vmax and myosin ATPase defined here may prove to be predictive of the ability of cardiac muscle to release bond energy.

Animals

Actin-activated ATPase from human erythrocytes.

A fibrillar protein complex, possessing ouabain-insensitive Ca2+-ATPase activity was isolated from human erythrocyte membranes by using a low ionic strength extraction procedure. Mg2+-ATPase activity was revealed upon addition of rabbit skeletal muscle actin, thus demonstrating the presence of a myosin-like protein in the crude extract of the erythrocyte membrane. Upon sodium dodecylsulfate gel electrophoresis, the extract showed mainly the doublet of subunit molecular weight bands of 230 000 and 210 000, and more than 10 faster moving bands. Gel filtration of the erythrocyte membrane extract on Sepharose 4B furnished 4 fractions. Fraction I, containing the doublet and 80 000, 60 000 and 46 000 subunit molecular weight bands was 5-fold purified with respect to Ca2+-ATPase activity, but was devoid of actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity. Fraction II, containing only the doublet, was devoid of Ca2+ and actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity. The 210 000 subunit molecular weight protein could be phosphorylated in the presence of Mg2+ in the crude extract and Fraction I but not in Fraction II.

Actins

Ca++ activation of ATPase activity, ATP-Pi exchange, and tension in briefly glycerinated heart muscle.

In the course of MG-dependent ATP splitting by heart actomyosin, an "energy rich" actomyosin-ADP complex is formed, which promotes the incorporation of phosphate 32P into ATP in myofibrils. The rate of this ATP-phosphate exchange reaction depends on the extent of actin-myosin overlap which can be decreased by stretching glycerinated muscle fibres. In heart muscle, the calcium-ion dependence of this reaction is similar to that of the actomyosin ATPase, the tension, and "immediate fibre stiffness" (which is "hookean" and which is a measure for the number of myosin cross-bridges attached to and interacting with actin). These findings suggest that calcium increases the amount of "contractile" actomyosin-ADP complexes. The proportionality between tension and ATPase activity further suggests that the rate-limiting step of the cross-bridge cycle (which determines the molecular turnover number, the "Wechselzahl" of the ATPase) is only little affected by calcium ions. These ions act by recruiting more bridges rather than by accelerating their reactions. In addition, the depressing effect of inorganic phosphate on the contractile tension and its presumable role in energetic insuffciency will be discussed.

Actomyosin

Cytochemical localization of adenylate cyclase and of calcium ion, magnesium ion-activated ATPases in the dense tubular system of human blood platelets.

Cytochemical techniques have been employed to study the localization of adenylate cyclase and (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-stimulated ATPase activities in platelets after fixation. Biochemical analysis of adenylate cyclase demonstrated a 70% reduction in activity in homogenates from fixed cells, but the residual activity could be stimulated 10--20 times by prostaglandin E1 (1 micrometer) under the same incubation conditions as employed in the cytochemical studies (e.g. media containing 2 mM lead nitrate and 10 mM NaF). Adenylate cyclase activity employing 5'-adenylyl-imiodiphosphate (AMP-P(NH)P) as substrate was found to be associated with the dense tubular system (smooth endoplasmic reticulum) in intact fixed platelets, and was apparent only when the cells were incubated with prostaglandin E1. Less activity was found along the membranes of the surface connected open canalicular system and occasionally at the outer cell surface. Enzymatic activity was blocked by the adenylate cyclase inhibitor 9-(tetrahydro-2-furyl) adenine and was not due to AMP-P(NH)P phosphohydrolase activity. The low adenylate cyclase activity in the surface membranes may be due to enzyme inactivation as a result of fixation, since a surface membrane fraction obtained by the glycerol lysis technique from unfixed cells had an adenylate cyclase specific activity equivalent to that in the microsomal membrane fraction. (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-stimulated ATPase activity was found associated with the membranes of the surface connected open canalicular system in unfixed cells. After brief fixation (5--15 min) with glutaradehyde, strong (Ca2+ + Mg2+)ATPase activity became apparent in the dense tubular system. Longer periods of fixation inactivated enzymatic activity. Addition of Ca2+ (1.0 mM) to incubation medium with low Mg2+ (0.2 mM), or increasing Mg2+ to 4.0 mM, in both cases strongly stimulated enzyme activity. The ATPase activity in the platelet membranes was not inhibited by ouabain. It is suggested that the Ca2+-stimulated ATPase and adenylate cyclase activities in the dense tubules may possibly be involved in regulation of intracellular Ca2+ transport.

Adenylyl Cyclases

Influence of bile acids on the (Na+-K+)-activated- and Mg2+-activated ATPase of rat colon.

The influence of various bile acids on the (Na+-K+)-ATPase and Mg2+-ATPase activity of rat colon is described. At a concentration of 0.6 mmol/l C and TC did not inhibit the (Na+-K+)-ATPase activity in contrast to GC. The taurine derivates TC, TCDC and TDC did not influence or even enhanced the (Na+-K+)-ATPase activity. All bile acids except C, TC and CDC depressed the Mg2+-ATPase activity. At higher concentrations only C and TC did not influence the (Na+-K+)-ATPase activity. C, GC and TC at 2.5 mmol/l decreased the (Na+-K+)-activated phosphatase with ATP as substrate. All other substrates tested did not influence the enzymic activity significantly. The results indicate that bile acids can inhibit the Na+-absorbing system in rat colon. Hence this inhibition can cause diarrhea.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

Estrogen (EB) and EB + progesterone (P) induced changes in pituitary sodium, potassium adenosine triphosphatase activity (ATPase).

Estradiol-benzoate (EB) injected into previously ovariectomized (OVX) rats, increased pituitary ATPase activity 69% over controls, within one hour of treatment. Twelve hours after injection, ATPase activity was not significantly different from controls. Progesterone [(P): 5mg/100gBW] administered in conjunction with EB elicited an analogous response. AT at time of EB and EB+P induced increments in pituitary ATPase activity, plasma LH levels were dramatically reduced to normal, intact diestrous control levels. Post-castrational elevations in FSH were also suppressed after one hour of treatment with EB, but not following EB+P administration. The results suggest that the inhibitory actions of EB and EB+P on post-castrational LH levels may be related to modulation by these steroids of pituitary membrane ATPase activity.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

Cystic fibrosis: the effect of medium from cultured cystic fibrosis fibroblasts on ATPase activity.

Culture medium from fibroblasts of cystic fibrosis patients and controls was examined for the ability to inhibit (calcium plus magnesium)-activated ATPase and (sodium plus potassium)-activated ATPase. The ATPase systems used were both a solubilised preparation from dog-fish and a membrane associated preparation from human erythrocyes. Contrary to other reports the medium from cystic fibrosis fibroblasts did not inhibit ATPase activity.

Adenosine Triphosphatases