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1.
Experientia ; 47(6): 610-2, 1991 Jun 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2065759

ABSTRACT

NAD pyrophosphorylase (ATP:NMN adenylyltransferase) activity has been measured in the skeletal muscle of dystrophic mice. The amount of this enzyme in the dystrophic mice, as determined by three different methods, was about one half of that in the controls. In addition, the concentration of ATP was too low to be detected in crude extracts of dystrophic mouse skeletal muscle, which were prepared using Tris buffer alone or Tris buffer containing either 3 M KCl, or 1 mM PMSF.


Subject(s)
Muscles/enzymology , Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/enzymology , Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase/metabolism , Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism , Animals , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Mutant Strains
2.
J Neurochem ; 56(3): 729-32, 1991 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1899693

ABSTRACT

Intracerebroventricular injections of angiotensin II caused 108, 62, and 54% increases in monoamine oxidase A activities in rat hippocampus, hypothalamus, and striatum, respectively. These activatory effects were abolished by simultaneous injections of eledoisin. No significant changes of monoamine oxidase B activities were found under the same experimental conditions. Neither angiotensin II nor elodoisin changed substrate/inhibitor affinities of both isoenzymes. These data indicate that angiotensin II and tachykinin transmitter systems may exert opposite, long-term regulatory effects on monoaminergic neurons in rat brain.


Subject(s)
Angiotensin II/pharmacology , Brain/enzymology , Eledoisin/pharmacology , Monoamine Oxidase/metabolism , Animals , Benzylamines/antagonists & inhibitors , Brain/metabolism , Clorgyline/pharmacology , Injections, Intraventricular , Isotonic Solutions/pharmacology , Male , Octopamine/antagonists & inhibitors , Rats , Rats, Inbred Strains , Selegiline/pharmacology , Tissue Distribution
3.
Ital J Biochem ; 36(4): 275-82, 1987.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3429210

ABSTRACT

Cytidine deaminase (cytidine aminohydrolase, EC 3.5.4.5) from chicken liver has been obtained in pure form through a rapid procedure consisting of organic solvent precipitation, heat treatment, anionic-exchange chromatography, hydrophobic interaction chromatography followed by two rapid chromatographies using an FPLC system. The final preparation is pure but shows microheterogeneity as judged by a single band obtained by SDS-gel electrophoresis and a series of superimposed active bands obtained on native gel electrophoresis and gel isoelectrofocusing. The native protein molecular weight determined by gel filtration is 50,000. SDS-gel electrophoresis experiments conducted in the presence and in the absence of reducing agents, suggest an oligomeric structure of four apparently identical subunits of 12,000 molecular weight. The absorption spectrum of the native protein reveals a maximum at 278 nm and a minimum at 261 nm with a small shoulder at 285 nm. The isoelectric point has an average value around pH 4.45.


Subject(s)
Cytidine Deaminase/isolation & purification , Liver/enzymology , Nucleoside Deaminases/isolation & purification , Animals , Chickens , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Isoelectric Focusing , Molecular Weight
4.
Basic Appl Histochem ; 31(3): 299-313, 1987.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2447864

ABSTRACT

DNA and nuclear RNA fractions contain small peptides (mol. wt. 600-1500) attached noncovalently. A large scale isolation procedure was developed for the extraction of such peptides directly from the lysed nuclei. Further purification and fractionation was performed with the chromatography on Sephadex, silica gel and H.P.L.C. C18 reverse phase columns. H.P.L.C. fractionation yielded eleven peaks. The peptides are rich in serine, glycine, alanine and acidic amino acids. They do not contain sulfur-containing amino acids. Only occasionally tyrosine, phenyalanine, histidine, arginine, and very moderate amount of lysine are found. These peptides are active in inhibiting gene expression in cell-free systems and incorporation of labeled thymidine in L 1210 murine leukemic cell culture. Thorough and exhaustive analysis demonstrated that the isolated peptides are not degradative products of histone or nonhistone chromosomal proteins.


Subject(s)
Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects , Liver/ultrastructure , Peptides/isolation & purification , Amino Acids/analysis , Animals , Cattle , Cell Nucleus/analysis , Cell-Free System , Chemical Fractionation , Chromatography, Gel , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , DNA/metabolism , DNA Polymerase I/metabolism , DNA Replication/drug effects , Molecular Weight , Peptides/metabolism , Peptides/pharmacology , Protein Biosynthesis/drug effects , RNA/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
5.
Basic Appl Histochem ; 31(3): 255-71, 1987.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2827621

ABSTRACT

NAD pyrophosporylase has been purified to homogeneity from baker's yeast. The purification procedure is relatively simple and consists of high salt extraction of enzyme activity, precipitation with polyethylenimine followed by ion exchange and by ligand chromatography separations. The final enzyme preparation is homogeneous as judged by a single Coomassie blue-stainable band when run on non-denaturing and denaturating polyacrylamide gels. The native enzyme shows a molecular weight of about 200,000 calculated by gel filtration and sucrose gradient centrifugation. The protein possess quaternary structure and is composed by four apparently identical Mr 50,000 subunits. The absorption spectrum shows a maximum at 280 nm and a minimum at 253 nm. Isoelectric point is 6.2. Amino acid composition shows the presence of 28 half-cystine residues, in agreement with the results obtained by titrating the enzyme in denaturing conditions with Ellman's reagent upon previous incubation with sodium borohydride. NAD pyrophosphorylase is a glycoprotein containing 2% sugar, 2 moles of alkali-labile phosphate per enzyme mol, and 1 mol of adenine moiety per enzyme mol. Therefore the possibility that the enzyme is ADP-ribosylated exists. Km for ATP, NMN and NaMN are 0.11 mM, 0.19 mM and 5 mM respectively. Kinetic analysis reveals a behaviour which is consistent with an ordered sequential Bi-Bi mechanism. pH optimum is in the range 7.2-8.4.


Subject(s)
Chromatin/enzymology , Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase/isolation & purification , Nucleotidyltransferases/isolation & purification , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology , Adenine/analysis , Amino Acids/analysis , Carbohydrates/analysis , Chemical Precipitation , Chromatography, Ion Exchange , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Isoelectric Point , Kinetics , Molecular Weight , Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase/metabolism , Phosphates/analysis , Spectrophotometry , Sulfhydryl Compounds/analysis , Temperature
6.
Biochem Int ; 12(4): 557-65, 1986 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3521610

ABSTRACT

The activation of yeast proteinase B at pH 5 has been suggested to be due to the degradation of a specific inhibitor for the enzyme, IB, by proteinase A. However, we found that when pepstatin, which completely inhibits proteinase A, was included in the pH 5 activation mixture, the same time-dependent activation of proteinase B was observed. Furthermore, proteinase B preparations that were void of proteinase A activity were still activated by incubation at pH 5. We found that the activation of proteinase B at pH 5 was due primarily to the irreversible loss of inhibitory effect of IB, which can be resolved by isoelectrofocusing into four distinct bands with isoelectric points of 4.6, 6.1, 6.8 and 7.6. These four forms of IB showed varying degrees of stability at pH 5, which may explain some of the differing observations reported in the past.


Subject(s)
Endopeptidases/metabolism , Serine Endopeptidases , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Enzyme Activation , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Isoelectric Focusing , Protease Inhibitors , Time Factors
7.
Physiol Chem Phys Med NMR ; 17(3): 307-23, 1985.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2419932

ABSTRACT

Polysomal poly(A)+-RNA prepared from isolated calf liver polysomes by deproteinization and affinity chromatography on oligo(dT)-Sepharose at pH 6 contains low molecular weight peptides (between 600-1500 daltons) bound noncovalently. These peptides were extracted from the poly(A)+-RNA-peptides complex by precipitation of the nucleic acids with 80% (v/v) ethanol at alkaline pH (9.5) and purified on Sephadex G-25 and G-15 columns. Further fractionation was performed by silica gel chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography (h.p.l.c.). The amino acid composition of the isolated peptidic fraction was compared with similar peptides obtained from rat liver, rabbit reticulocyte and calf thymus polysomes. Effluent (ribosomal) RNA contains only negligible amount of peptides. Isolated polysomal RNA peptides were named "deprimerones" (from Latin "deprimere"), since they have a general depressing effect on gene expression in vitro (Hillar & Przyjemski, 1979). Isolated deprimerones not only inhibit DNA transcription, RNA translation in reconstituted cell-free systems, but also DNA replication by DNA polymerase beta with single- and double-stranded DNA template and synthetic deoxyribonucleotide polymers. The inhibitory effect on replication was correlated with the inhibition of [3H]-deoxyribonucleotide incorporation in isolated chromatin and in stimulated lymphocyte cell cultures. The isolated deprimerones are characterized by similar amino acid compositions in various species.


Subject(s)
Chromatin/metabolism , DNA Repair , Lymphocytes/metabolism , Peptides/physiology , Poly A/genetics , Polyribosomes/metabolism , RNA/genetics , Transcription, Genetic , Amino Acids/analysis , Animals , Cattle , Cell Division , Cell-Free System , Chromatin/ultrastructure , Liver/metabolism , Lymphocytes/cytology , Peptides/isolation & purification , Poly A/metabolism , RNA/metabolism , RNA, Messenger , Rabbits , Rats , Reticulocytes/metabolism , Species Specificity , Thymus Gland/metabolism
10.
J Biol Chem ; 253(8): 2501-3, 1978 Apr 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-344318

ABSTRACT

It has been previously demonstrated in our laboratory that uridine nucleosidase (EC 3.2.2.3) is subjected in yeast to inactivation. An inactivating fraction has been isolated and purified to homogeneity with a procedure which includes gel filtration, adsorption chromatography, and electrofocusing techniques. The molecular weight of the enzyme, estimated either by sodium dodecyl sulfate disc gel electrophoresis or by gel filtration is approximately 44,000. No quaternary structure was evidenced. The inactivating activity possesses proteolytic activity against casein and hemoglobin with pH optima of 2.5 and 3.2, respectively. The optimal pH for uridine nucleosidase inactivation is around 4.7. The inactivating activity as well as the proteolytic activity of the preparation can be inhibited by IA but not by IB2 and IC, yeast macromolecular inhibitors for proteinase A (EC 3.4.23.8), B (EC 3.4.22.9), and C (EC 3.4.12.8), respectively. The apparent isoelectric point is pH 4.03. The carbohydrate content is 8.5%. A comparison of the properties of the inactivating protein with those of known yeast proteinases leads to the conclusion that it is identical with the enzyme previously designated as proteinase A, which for the first time has been obtained homogeneous and characterized. It has been shown that proteinase A could play a physiological role in the uridine nucleosidase inactivation process when it is associated, as a complex, with proteinase B.


Subject(s)
Endopeptidases/isolation & purification , Enzyme Inhibitors/isolation & purification , N-Glycosyl Hydrolases/antagonists & inhibitors , Endopeptidases/metabolism , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Uridine
14.
Experientia ; 32(7): 925-7, 1976.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-954986

ABSTRACT

In human foetal blood the presence of Micrococcaceae in the unstable L-form, probably taking origin from the placental transmission of minimal reproductive units, has been recognized by means of microscopic and cultural methods.


Subject(s)
Fetal Blood/microbiology , Micrococcaceae/isolation & purification , Humans , L Forms , Mycobacteriaceae/isolation & purification
15.
Experientia ; 31(9): 1088-9, 1975 Sep 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1236808

ABSTRACT

The multiplication of Gram-positive Cocci originating from L-forms carried by platelets of autoimmune thrombocytopenic patients, may be attributed to the primary platelet damage enhanced following interaction with bacteria.


Subject(s)
L Forms , Micrococcus/isolation & purification , Purpura, Thrombocytopenic/microbiology , Blood Platelets/microbiology , Blood Platelets/ultrastructure , Humans , L Forms/ultrastructure , Micrococcus/ultrastructure
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