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Induction by nucleotide triphosphate hydrolysis of a form of sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase capable of medium phosphate-oxygen exchange in presence of calcium.

Sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles rendered leaky by exposure to alkaline pH, like intact vesicles, catalyze a rapid Mg2+-dependent exchange of oxygens of medium Pi with water. The exchange with 10 mM Pi is strongly inhibited by 0.15 mM Ca2+. Upon addition and hydrolysis of ITP or ATP, a rapid phosphate-oxygen exchange is observed even with 0.15 mM Ca2+ present and a definite but smaller exchange at 8 mM Ca2+. Oxygen exchange per Pi formed is greater with ITP than with ATP. When no Pi is initially present, the extent of oxygen exchange is increased with time of incubation as Pi is formed. With 18O-labeled Pi present, ATP hydrolysis accelerates 18O loss. The results show that much of the oxygen exchange occurs as a result of reversible binding of medium Pi. Thus the binding and cleavage of ITP or ATP overcomes the Ca2+ inhibition of the medium Pi in equilibrium HOH exchange. Such findings support the concept that the cleavage cycle includes a transient conformational form which can reversibly react with Pi to give a phosphoryl enzyme and resultant oxygen exchange or in a rate-limiting step decay to a form with high Ca2+ and NTP affinity.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

HEp-2 cell- and herpes simplex virus type 1- induced deoxythymidine kinases: inhibition by derivatives of 5-trifluoromethyl-2'-deoxyuridine.

5-Trifluoromethyl-2'-deoxyuridine (F(3)Thd), its free base and nucleotide triphosphate derivative, along with the nucleotide monophosphate and nucleotide triphosphate of deoxythymidine (dThd), were investigated as inhibitors of HEp-2 cell deoxythymidine kinase (dTK) and herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)-induced dTK. 5-Trifluoromethyluracil did not inhibit cellular or viral dTK. F(3)dThd competitively inhibited phosphorylation of dThd by both the HEp-2 cell- and the HSV-1-induced dTK. The K(mapp) for dThd and the K(Iapp) for the alternate substrate, F(3)dThd, were 3.5 and 22.5 muM for the HEp-2 cell dTK and 63.5 and 71.0 muM for the HSV-1-induced dTK. dThd-5'-PPP at 10 muM inhibited HEp-2 cell- and HSV-1-induced dTK by 94 and 22%, respectively. In comparison, 10 muM F(3)dThD-5'-PPP inhibited HEp-2 cell- and HSV-1-induced dTK 95 and 15%, respectively. These data indicate that F(3)dThd-5'-PPP may mimic dThd-5'-PPP feedback regulation of cellular and viral dTK.

Cells, Cultured

Metabolism and effects of 5-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl)isocytosine in P815 cells.

5-(beta-D-Ribofuranosyl)isocytosine (psi l Cyd), a C-nucleoside, has been shown to be active against P815 leukemia in mice. In P815 cells treated with [2-14C]psi l Cyd, we have detected radioactivity in nucleotide fractions and in RNA and DNA. Degradation to nucleosides of the labeled triphosphate nucleotide fraction and of RNA showed that the radioactivity present was chromatographically identical to psi l Cyd. Half-saturation concentrations for the incorporation of [2-14C]psi l Cyd into the triphosphate nucleotide fraction and into RNA and DNA were 370, 280, and 94 microgram/ml, respectively, which were greater than 100-fold higher than those for tritiated cytidine. The incorporation of psi l Cyd was competitively inhibited by cytidine. Phosphorylation and incorporation of psi l Cyd into nucleic acids of P815 cells and of a P815 subline resistant to 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine are about 2- to 20-fold higher than in P815 sublines resistant to psi l Cyd or to both 5-azacytidine and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine. These data suggest that the phosphorylation of psi l Cyd and possibly its incorporation into nucleic acids are essential for therapeutic activity in P815 leukemias. In vitro metabolic studies also suggest that psi l Cyd and 5-azacytidine are cross-resistant and that P815 cells resistant to psi l Cyd are collaterally sensitive to 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine. These predictions were confirmed by therapeutic experiments carried out in mice bearing P815 leukemias.

Animals

[Synthesis and properties of 5-acetyl-4-methyl-1-(beta-d-ribofuranosyl)-imidazole-5' di-and-triphosphate].

5-Acetyl-4-methyl-1-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-imidazole-5'-phosphate reacts with diphenylphospho chloridate forming the asymmetrical pyrophosphate ester. This in turn reacts with tri-n-butyl-ammonium phosphate yielding 5-acetyl-4-methyl-imidazole-riboside-5'-diphosphate and with tri-n-butylammonium pyrophosphate to give the nucleotide triphosphate. 5-Acetyl-4-methyl-imidazole-riboside-5'-pyrophosphate shows in the test with pyruvate kinase a reaction rate three times slower than that of ADP; but the same Km as that of ADP. The ATP analogue is only about 10% as effective as ATP itself in the test with hexokinase, 3-phosphoglycerate kinase and gloconate kinase. Adenylate kinase and NAD" kinase show no activity when ATP is replaced by the nucleotide-triphosphate-analogue. In presence of ATP the analogue strongly inhibits the reaction of adenylate kinase.

Acetates

Transcription of a cloned Bombyx mori tRNA2Ala gene: nucleotide sequence of the tRNA precursor and its processing in vitro.

We have analyzed the transcription of a cloned silkworm tRNA2Ala gene in germinal vesicle extracts of X. laevis oocytes. The primary transcript was sequenced; it is 98 nucleotides long, beginning with a 5' triphosphate nucleotide and ending in a 3' oligouridine stretch. After transcription for long periods of time, enzymes in the frog extract also process the tRNA2Ala precursor to remove extra 5' and 3' nucleotides and to add a CCA end. The twenty-two extra nucleotides at the 3' end of this precursor are recovered as an intact fragment, implicating a new site of endoribonuclease cleavage in eucaryotic tRNA processing. This enzyme activity has also been demonstrated by reincubation of isolated pre-tRNA2Ala with a germinal vesicle extract. The products of in vitro cleavage are the same as those seen in the transcription reactions. The tRNA2Ala precursor molecules are made faithfully in the system with as few as 6 bp of Bombyx morti DNA upstream of the transcription initiation site of the tRNA2Ala gene. This result narrows down the minimal amount of DNA adjacent to the 5' end of a eucaryotic tRNA gene needed to support proper initiation by RNA polymerase III.

Animals

Studies on the inhibition of hepatic microsomal glucuronidation by uridine nucleotides or adenosine triphosphate.

The ability of five nucleotides in the presence of excess divalent cations to inhibit UDPglucuronosyltransferase in sealed or leaky liver microsomal vesicles was studied. Two nucleotides inhibited potently while three others were weak inhibitors. At low concentration, both of the potent inhibitors, uridine tri- and diphosphates tended to inhibit more in sealed microsomal vesicles than in leaky microsomes, while the weak inhibitors, uridine diphosphate glucose and adenosine triphosphate behaved in the opposite manner and inhibited less in sealed than in leaky microsomes. At physiological concentrations of UDPglucuronic acid (0.4 mM) quite extensive inhibition of oestradiol glucuronidation could be achieved with physiological concentrations of uridine tri- or diphosphates (0.2 or 0.4 mM). In sealed or leaky microsomes, beta, gamma-methylene-interrupted uridine triphosphate, which is resistant to hydrolysis by nucleoside triphosphatase, inhibited much less than did uridine triphosphate.

Adenosine Triphosphate

Some properties of purified phosphoprotein phosphatases from rabbit liver.

The activity of two purified homogeneous phosphoprotein phosphatases types P I and P II) (phosphoprotein phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.16) from rabbit liver (Khandelwal, R.L., Vandenheede, J.R., and Krebs, E.G. (1976) J. Biol. Chem. 251, 4850-4858) were examined in the presence of divalent cations, Pi, PPi, nucleotides, glycolytic intermediates and a number of other compounds using phosphorylase a, glycogen synthase D and phosphorylated histone as substrates. Enzyme activities were usually inhibited by divalent cations with all substrates; the inhibition being more pronounced with phosphorylase a. Zn2+ was the most potent inhibitor among the divalent cations tested. The enzyme was competitively inhibited by PPi (Ki = 0.1 mM for P I and 0.3 mM for PII), Pi (Ki = 15 mM for P I and 19.8 mM for P II) and p-nitrophenyl phosphate (Ki = 1 mM and 1.4 mM for P I and P II, respectively) employing phosphorylase a as the substrate. The compounds along with a number of others (Na2SO4, citrate, NaF and EDTA) also inhibited the enzyme activity with the other two substrates. Severe inhibition of the enzyme was also observed in the presence of the adenine and uridine nucleotides; monophosphate nucleotides being more inhibitory with phosphorylase a, whereas the di- and triphosphate nucleotides showed more inhibition with glycogen synthase D and phosphorylated histone. Cyclic AMP had no significant effect on enzyme activity with all the substrates tested. Phosphorylated metabolites did not show any marked effect on the enzyme activity with phosphorylase a as the substrate.

Animals

Nucleotide sequence determination of a strong promoter of the colicin E 1 plasmid. Analysis of restriction sites protected by RNA polymerase interactions before and after limited transcription.

This paper presents the location and nucleotide sequence of a strong promoter of ColE 1. This promoter is of interest because of its greatly enhanced activity in the supercoiled state of the plasmid DNA (3) and its possible role in the maintenance of the plasmid replicon (4). This strong promoter is located at the restriction endonuclease Hae III f-h site 0.13 map units from the single EcoR 1 site proximal to the origin of DNA replication. The nucleotide sequence of the Hpa II l fragment of ColE 1 which contains this promoter has been determined. Initiation of transcription at this promoter occurred at two positions. Limited transcription by omitting one of the four nucleotide triphosphates allowed transcription to proceed to the fourth (-UTP) and to the twelfth (-CTP) nucleotides respectively. This was used to probe the interaction between RNA polymerase and the ColE 10.13 promoter by means of restriction cutting at the Hae III site at =27 and the Hha I site at +17. RNA polymerase binding alone blocks restriction cutting at the HAE III site but not at the Hha I site. Limited transcrption to the fourth nucleotide resulted in blocking at both sites. Transcription to the twelfth nucleotide resulted in partial cutting at the Hae III site and blocking at the Hha I site.

Base Sequence

The reversible depolymerization of spinach chloroplast glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase. Interaction with nucleotides and dithiothreitol.

The ligand-dependent dissociation of spinach chloroplast glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase (Mr 600000) to protomers of Mr about 145000, previously shown by us in 1973, has been further characterized by the technique of velocity sedimentation in sucrose gradients. The process exhibits cooperativity and is accompanied by an increase of the apparent NADP+-dependent activity (reactivation) from a ratio of 0.1-0.2 to a ratio of 1 to 2 with respect to the NAD+-dependent activity. In addition to NADP+ and NADPH, most nucleotide triphosphates and, to some extent, Pi, act as dissociating agents. The enzyme is depolymerized and progressively inactivated in the presence of 2'-AMP. 2. Incubation with 20 mM dithiothreitol or 8-10 mM GTP increases the apparent NADP/H)-dependent activity, although addition of a small amount of a dissociating compound, such as 0.06 mM NADP+, is required for depolymerization. 3. NAD+, NADH and, to a lesser extent, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, NMN and cyclic AMP act as inhibitors of the dissociation and reactivation, however induced. They also favour the reassociation of protomers to tetramers. 4. The NADP(H)-linked activity is probably a property of the protomers only. The system described here resembles in many respects the light-dependent regulation of the NADP(H)-linked activity in vivo.

Adenine Nucleotides

ATP activation and properties of the methyl coenzyme M reductase system in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.

The requirement of ATP for the methyl coenzyme M methylreductase in extracts of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum was found to be catalytic; for each mol of ATP added, 15 mol of methane was produced from methyl coenzyme M [2-(methylthio)ethanesulfonic acid]. Other nucleotide triphosphates partially replaced ATP in activation of the reductase. All components of the reaction were found in the supernatant fraction of cell extracts after centrifugation at 100,000 X g for 1 h; optimal reaction rates occurred at 65 degrees C, at a pH range of 5.6 to 6.0, and at concentrations of ATP and MgCl2 of 1 mM and 40 mM, respectively. Chloral hydrate, chloroform, nitrite, 2,4-dinitrophenol, and viologen dyes (compounds known to inhibit methanogenesis from a variety of substrates) were found to inhibit the conversion of methyl coenzyme M to methane. Methyl coenzyme M methylreductase was shown to be present in a variety of methanogens.

Adenosine Triphosphate

Regulation of phosphatidylcholine synthesis in rat liver endoplasmic reticulum.

The biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine in rat liver microsomal preparations catalysed by CDP-choline-1,2-diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase (EC 2.7.8.2) was inhibited by a combination of ATP and CoA or ATP and pantetheine. ATP alone at high concentrations (20 mM) inhibits phosphatidylcholine formation to the extent of 70%. In the presence of 0.1 mM-CoA, ATP (2 mM) inhibits to the extent of 80% and in the presence of 1 mM-pantetheine to the extent of 90%. ADP and other nucleotide triphosphates in combination with either CoA or pantetheine are only 10-30% as effective in inhibiting phosphatidylcholine synthesis. AMP(CH2)PP [adenosine 5'-(alphabeta-methylene)triphosphate] together with CoA inhibits to the extent of 59% and with pantetheine by 48%. AMP-P(CH2)P [adenosine 5'-(betagamma-methylene)triphosphate] together with either CoA or pantetheine had no significant effect on phosphatidylcholine formation. Other closely related derivatives of pantothenic acid were without effect either alone or in the presence of ATP, as were thiol compounds such as cysteine, homocysteine, cysteamine, dithiothreitol and glutathione. Several mechanisms by which this inhibition might take place were ruled out and it is concluded that ATP together with either CoA or pantetheine interacts reversibly with phosphatidylcholine synthetase to cause temporarily the inhibition of phosphatidylcholine formation.

Acetyl Coenzyme A

The immediate nucleotide precursor, guanosine triphosphate, in the riboflavin biosynthetic pathway.

In the present paper, the nucleotide precursor of riboflavin was investigated by experiments with labeled purines using non-growing cells of Eremothecium ashybii. The added purines, at 10(-4) M, were effectively incorporated into riboflavin at an early stage of riboflavin biosynthesis under the experimental conditions. In particular, both labeled xanthine and labeled guanine were specifically transported to guanosine nucleotides, GMP, GDP, GDP-Mannose and GTP, in the course of the riboflavin biosynthesis. A comparison of specific activities of labeled guanosine nucleotides and labeled riboflavin indicated that the nucleotide precursor of riboflavin is guanosine triphosphate. From the results obtained, a biosynthetic pathway of riboflavin is proposed under "DISCUSSION."

Ascomycota

In vitro transcription of Moloney leukemia virus genes in infected cell nuclei and chromatin: elongation of chromatin associated ribonucleic acid by Escherichia coli ribonucleic acid polymerase.

The in vitro transcription of viral specific DNA sequences in nuclei and chromatin isolated from mouse cells chronically infected with Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MuLV) has been studied. The in vitro RNA synthesized by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase has been isolated by sulfhydryl affinity column following reaction in the presence of 5-mercuriuridine triphosphate. By comparison of the Crt curves of the in vitro RNA with that of 70S viral RNA, the content of viral sequences is found to be 1.3% in nuclei product and 0.24% in chromatin product which is lower than the 2.5% found in chromatin associated RNA. This latter value, however, is very close to the in vivo viral RNA content in pulse-labeled [3H]RNA of the infected cells. Unexpectedly, it is observed that over 20% of the chromatin associated RNA prelabeled in vivo with [5-3H]uridine is elongated and tagged with Hg atoms during RNA synthesis catalyzed by the exogenous E. coli RNA polymerase in the presence of Hg-UTP. The elongation reaction is dependent on the presence of all four nucleotide triphosphates and appears to be due to E. coli RNA polymerase per se. It is suggested that most of the viral specific sequences observed in the in vitro RNA products are very likely initiated and derived from the chromatin associated species. The implication of the present findings for in vitro RNA synthesis in nuclei and chromatin as related to regulation of gene expression is discussed.

Animals

31P nuclear magnetic resonance studies of HeLa cells.

A survey of phosphorus compounds present in HeLa cells and their acid extracts has been carried out by (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 40 MHz. The proton decoupled (31)P spectrum of the neutralized extract had resolution adequate to enable the identification of the main phosphate compounds. The spectral intensities were converted to concentrations. The lower detection limit with extensive signal averaging was 0.02 mumol for the extract. The composition, listed in order of decreasing concentration, was: inorganic phosphate, ATP, phosphorylcholine, creatine phosphate, UTP, NAD(+), glucose 6-phosphate, beta-D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, alpha-D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, ADP, alpha-glycerophosphorylcholine, and alpha-glycerophosphorylethanolamine. UTP made up (1/5) of the total nucleotide triphosphate content. The composition was compared to the (31)P spectrum of an extract from a human astrocytoma grown in athymic mice. The signal from P-containing macromolecules such as nucleic acids was not detected in the intact HeLa cell spectrum because of broad lines. Effects of the glycolysis inhibitor iodoacetic acid could be clearly shown in spectra of both the intact cell and the extract as buildup of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate at the expense of ATP, UTP, and creatine phosphate.

HeLa Cells

Light-activated hydrolysis of GTP and cyclic GMP in the rod outer segments.

1. The hydrolysis of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and the consequent formation of guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and phosphate (P1) are activated by light in a suspension of broken retinal rods: the hydrolysis rate with GTP in the micrometer concentration range is 2.5-3.5 n-mole/min per mg of rhodopsin in the preparation. 2. The ionic composition of the medium suspending the rods is not critical: the hydrolysis is present in NaCl saline solution with MG2+ as well as in Tris-HC1 buffer solution, and with the chelating agent EDTA. 3. The ionic strength is critical: the effect is reduced when the broken rods are suspended in a low salt mannitol solution, and is altogether abolished when they are separated from the mannitol solution; it reappears when the mannitol solution is added again in the presence of salts. An element essential for the effect is thus reversibly released in the mannitol solution. No hydrolytic activity on GTP, however, is found in the mannitol soluble fraction. 4. The cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase is eluted from the rods in the mannitol solution, and is reaggregated to the rods in the presence of salts; once recombined with the rods, it can be activated by light. 5. The activation of the phosphodiesterase by light is present in the absence of added nucleotide triphosphates.

Animals

The role of actin in temperature-dependent gel-sol transformation of extracts of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells.

Ehrlich ascites tumor cell extracts form a gel when warmed to 25 degrees C at pH 7.0 in sucrose solution, and the gel rapidly becomes a sol when cooled to 0 degrees C. This gel-sol transformation was studied quantitatively by determining the volume or the total protein of pellets of gel obtained by low-speed centrifugation. The gelation depended on nucleotide triphosphates, Mg2+, KCl, and a reducing agent. Gelation was inhibited reversibly by 0.5 microM free Ca2+, and 25--50 ng/ml of either cytochalasin B or D, but it was not affected by 10 mM colchicine. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the gel was composed of six major proteins with mol wt greater than 300,000, 270,000, 89,000, 51,000, 48,000, and 42,000 daltons. The last component was identified as cell actin because it had the same molecular weight as muscle actin and bound with muscle myosin and tropomyosin. The role of actin in gelation was studied by use of actin-inhibitors. Gelation was inhibited by a chemically modified subfragment-1 of myosin, which binds with F-actin even in the presence of ATP, and by bovine pancreatic DNase I, which tightly binds with G-actin. Muscle G-actin neutralized the inhibitory effect of DNase I when added at an equimolar ratio to the latter, and it also restored gelation after its inhibition by DNase I. These findings suggest that gelation depends on actin. However, the extracts showed temperature-dependent, cytochalasin-sensitive, and Ca2+-regulated gelation as did the original extracts when the cell actin in the extracts was replaced by muscle actin, suggesting that components other than cell actin might be responsible for these characteristics of the gelation.

Actins