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2.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol ; 76(8): 1225-7, 2012 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22673350

RESUMO

We report two original cases of association of cleft palate and lateral cervico-facial teratoma. We discuss the embryological explanation. The first child presented a cleft palate associated with two cervico-facial localisations of teratoma. The other had Pierre Robin sequence associated with lateropharyngeal teratoma with an extra sub maxillary localisation. Most reported cases were of midline teratomas, leading different authors to advance a mechanical origin to the cleft. Our cases are different: we could hardly find reported cases of associate lateral tumours and cleft palate, which would suggest two different embryologic mechanisms, or at least a combination of more complicated phenomenons.


Assuntos
Fissura Palatina/complicações , Síndrome de Pierre Robin/complicações , Teratoma/complicações , Fissura Palatina/patologia , Face , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Síndrome de Pierre Robin/patologia , Teratoma/patologia
3.
J Neurol Sci ; 297(1-2): 71-3, 2010 Oct 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20723912

RESUMO

Susac's syndrome (SS) is a rare, immune-mediated endotheliopathy affecting the microvasculature of the brain, the inner ear and the retina. Clinical presentation is characterised by a triad: encephalopathy, hearing loss and branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO). Given the rarity of this disease, its natural history still remains partially unknown, but lethal cases appear to be extremely rare since there has never been, to our knowledge, a report of SS leading to death. We report 2 cases of SS illustrating the multiplicity of neurological symptomatology and its unpredictable course. One case is particularly unusual due to its severe neurological evolution, leading to death despite treatments. This report presents clinical and paraclinical findings contributory to SS diagnosis and offers an innovative perspective on disease management. These cases represent the potential severity of this disease. Early, aggressive treatment strategies may be warranted for SS in order to avoid neurological deterioration and lethal evolution.


Assuntos
Encéfalo/patologia , Síndrome de Susac/diagnóstico , Feminino , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade
4.
Rev Neurol (Paris) ; 164(4): 336-42, 2008 Apr.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18439925

RESUMO

INTRODUCTION: Pompe's disease, also called glycogen storage disease type II or acid maltase deficiency, is an autosomal recessive disease caused by an enzymatic deficiency of acid-alpha-glucosidase (GAA). This deficiency causes an accumulation of intralysosomal glycogen in different organs. The classic form appears in the newborn with a very severe hypotonia and cardiomyopathy, which lead to death before age two. Less frequently, the disease appears only in childhood or in adult life, so called late-onset Pompe's disease. This form causes a very progressive limb-girdle myopathy and restrictive respiratory failure. The diagnosis is based on a low level of GAA either in the muscle biopsy or in the leucocytes. We report six cases of late-onset Pompe's disease from the Languedoc-Roussillon district. METHOD: Our work was a retrospective analysis of all cases of Pompe disease diagnosed in adults between 1975 and 2006 at the Montpellier and Nîmes University Hospital. We describe the clinical presentation and course of this form and explain the diagnostic approach. Results. The mean age at onset was 44.3 years (range: 36-60 years). The first symptom was fatigability (50%), gait difficulty (50%) and dyspnea (16%). The mean delay from symptom onset to diagnosis was 8.4 years (range: 17 years). Fatal outcome due to respiratory failure was noted in three patients. The mean time between symptom onset and death (four patients) was 20.75 years (range: 37 years). The diagnosis was made on the muscle biopsy showing a low level of GAA. Muscle was strictly normal on the morphologic study in one patient, pointing out the requirement for enzymatic analysis. Molecular confirmation was available in one patient. DISCUSSION: Late-onset Pompe's disease is a possible cause of limb-girdle myopathy. Respiratory involvement is a characteristic feature. Enzymatic assay of GAA activity on the muscle biopsy is required for certain diagnosis. CONCLUSION: It is very important to recognize the adult form of Pompe's disease, a possible cause of limb-girdle myopathy, in order to search for respiratory failure and propose non-invasive ventilation if necessary. Moreover, substitutive therapy (recombinant acid-alpha-glucosidase) has shown efficiency for the classical infantile form of Pompe's disease and such treatment could be proposed for the adult form if larger studies confirm its efficacy.


Assuntos
Doença de Depósito de Glicogênio Tipo II/patologia , Adulto , Idade de Início , Biópsia , Progressão da Doença , Dispneia/etiologia , Dispneia/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Transtornos Neurológicos da Marcha/etiologia , Transtornos Neurológicos da Marcha/fisiopatologia , Doença de Depósito de Glicogênio Tipo II/diagnóstico , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fadiga Muscular/fisiologia , Músculos/patologia , Insuficiência Respiratória/etiologia , Estudos Retrospectivos , alfa-Glucosidases/metabolismo
5.
Rev Neurol (Paris) ; 162(11): 1128-30, 2006 Nov.
Artigo em Francês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17086151

RESUMO

INTRODUCTION: We report a case of amyloid cardiopathy revealed by a cerebral embolism. CASE REPORT: A 55-year-old patient was admitted with a right hemiplegia and aphasia due to an infarction in the middle cerebral artery territory. Echocardiography was suggestive of an amyloid cardiopathy, and an IgG lambda multiple myeloma with renal insufficiency was discovered. The patient died suddenly 4 months later after chemotherapy was initiated. CONCLUSION: Embolic complications are rare and late in cardiac amyloidosis. The diagnosis may be suspected by echocardiography.


Assuntos
Amiloide , Cardiomiopatias/complicações , Embolia Intracraniana/etiologia , Cardiomiopatias/patologia , Eletrocardiografia , Evolução Fatal , Humanos , Imunoglobulina A/imunologia , Infarto da Artéria Cerebral Média/complicações , Embolia Intracraniana/patologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mieloma Múltiplo/complicações , Insuficiência Renal/complicações , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
6.
Biophys J ; 80(1): 324-30, 2001 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11159405

RESUMO

Electric fields play an important role in the physiological function of macromolecules. Much is known about the role that electric fields play in biological systems, but membrane molecule structure and orientation induced by electric fields remain essentially unknown. In this paper, we present a polarized attenuated total reflection (ATR) experiment we designed to study the effect of electric fields on membrane molecule structure and orientation by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Two germanium crystals used as the internal reflection element for ATR-FTIR experiments were coated with a thin layer of polystyrene as insulator and used as electrodes to apply an electric field on an oriented stack of membranes made of dioleylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) and melittin. This experimental set up allowed us for the first time to show fully reversible orientational changes in the lipid headgroups specifically induced by the electric potential difference.


Assuntos
Lipídeos de Membrana/química , Fenômenos Biofísicos , Biofísica , Eletroquímica , Técnicas In Vitro , Lipossomos/química , Meliteno/química , Potenciais da Membrana , Fosfatidilcolinas/química , Espectroscopia de Infravermelho com Transformada de Fourier
7.
Protein Expr Purif ; 19(1): 57-65, 2000 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10833391

RESUMO

A functional recombinant mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that bears a six-histidine tag at the C-terminus, Anc2(His(6))p, has been engineered to allow its purification by immobilized metal-ion affinity chromatography (IMAC). The tagged carrier was expressed at a level similar to that of unmodified Anc2p as determined by immunodetection and titration of the specific atractyloside binding sites. Anc2(His(6))p, enriched by chromatography on hydroxyapatite of detergent extracts of mitochondria, was still contaminated by mitochondrial proteins and a large amount of ergosterol. It was highly purified after adsorption on Ni-NTA resin and elution by imidazole buffer, with a 90-95% overall yield. Anc2(His(6))p interacted differently with immobilized ions depending on whether it was unliganded or bound to carboxyatractyloside (CATR) or bongkrekic acid (BA), two specific inhibitors of the ADP/ATP transport, thus indicating that accessibility of the C-terminus is markedly influenced by the conformational state of the carrier. Fluorometric assays demonstrated that purified unliganded Anc2(His(6))p was in a functional state since it underwent CATR- and BA-sensitive and ADP (or ATP)-induced conformational changes. Large-scale purification of Anc2(His(6))p-CATR and Anc2(His(6))p-BA complexes by IMAC will be of major interest for structural analysis of the ADP/ATP carrier.


Assuntos
Proteínas Fúngicas/isolamento & purificação , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/isolamento & purificação , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/química , Antibacterianos/química , Atractilosídeo/análogos & derivados , Atractilosídeo/química , Ácido Bongcréquico/química , Cromatografia de Afinidade , Fluorescência , Proteínas Fúngicas/química , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Histidina/química , Mitocôndrias/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/genética , Conformação Proteica , Isoformas de Proteínas/química , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Isoformas de Proteínas/isolamento & purificação
8.
Biochim Biophys Acta ; 1457(1-2): 81-93, 2000 Feb 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10692552

RESUMO

The adenine nucleotide carrier, or Ancp, is an integral protein of the inner mitochondrial membrane. It is established that the inactive Ancp bound to one of its inhibitors (CATR or BA) is a dimer, but different contradictory models were proposed over the past years to describe the organization of the active Ancp. In order to decide in favor of a single model, it is necessary to establish the orientations of the N- and C-termini and thus the parity of the Ancp transmembrane segments (TMS). According to this, we have constructed a gene encoding a covalent tandem dimer of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Anc2p and we demonstrate that it is stable and active in vivo as well as in vitro. The properties of the isolated dimer are strongly similar to those of the native Anc2p, as seen from nucleotide exchange and inhibitor binding experiments. We can therefore conclude that the native Anc2p has an even number of TMS and that the N- and C-terminal regions are exposed to the same cellular compartment. Furthermore, our results support the idea of a minimal dimeric functional organization of the Ancp in the mitochondrial membrane and we can suggest that TMS 1 of one monomer and TMS 6 of the other monomer in the native dimer are very close to each other.


Assuntos
Proteínas Fúngicas/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/metabolismo , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Clonagem Molecular , Dimerização , Proteínas Fúngicas/química , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Membranas Intracelulares/metabolismo , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/química , Modelos Moleculares , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Proteínas Nucleares/química , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Plasmídeos , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo
9.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 95(13): 7322-6, 1998 Jun 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9636147

RESUMO

The Drosophila HMG1-like protein DSP1 was identified by its ability to inhibit the transcriptional activating function of Dorsal in a promoter-specific fashion in yeast. We show here that DSP1 as well as its mammalian homolog hHMG2 bind to the mammalian protein SP100B and that SP100B in turn binds to human homologs of HP1. The latter is a Drosophila protein that is involved in transcriptional silencing. Each of these proteins represses transcription when tethered to DNA in mammalian cells. These results suggest how heterochromatin proteins might be recruited to specific sites on DNA with resultant specific effects on gene expression.


Assuntos
Antígenos Nucleares , Cromatina/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila , Proteínas de Grupo de Alta Mobilidade/metabolismo , Proteínas Repressoras/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição , Transcrição Gênica , Animais , Autoantígenos/metabolismo , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Homólogo 5 da Proteína Cromobox , Proteínas Cromossômicas não Histona/metabolismo , DNA/metabolismo , Drosophila , Humanos , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Fosfoproteínas/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Ligação Proteica , beta-Galactosidase/metabolismo
10.
Biochimie ; 80(2): 137-50, 1998 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9587671

RESUMO

Under the conditions of oxidative phosphorylation, the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier catalyses the one to one exchange of cytosolic ADP against matrix ATP across the inner mitochondrial membrane. The ADP/ATP transport system can be blocked very specifically by two families of inhibitors: atractyloside (ATR) and carboxyatractyloside (CATR) on one hand, and bongkrekic acid (BA) and isobongkrekic acid (isoBA) on the other hand. It is well established that these inhibitors recognise two different conformations of the carrier protein, the CATR- and BA-conformations, which exhibit different chemical, immunochemical and enzymatic reactivities. The reversible transition of the ADP/ATP carrier between the two conformations was studied by fluorometric techniques. This transconversion, which is only triggered by transportable nucleotides, is probably the same as that which occurs during the functioning of ADP/ATP transport system. The fluorometric approach, using the tryptophanyl residues of the yeast carrier as intrinsic fluorescence probes, was combined to a mutagenesis approach to elucidate the ADP/ATP transport mechanism at the molecular level. Finally, recent reports that myopathies might result from defect in ADP/ATP transport led us to develop a method to quantify the carrier protein in muscular biopsies.


Assuntos
Mitocôndrias/enzimologia , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/fisiologia , Difosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Trifosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Compartimento Celular , Citosol/metabolismo , Células Eucarióticas , Fluorescência , Humanos , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/genética , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/metabolismo , Miopatias Mitocondriais/etiologia , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Conformação Proteica , Distribuição Tecidual , Transcrição Gênica
11.
Biochemistry ; 35(50): 16116-24, 1996 Dec 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8973183

RESUMO

During the transport process the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide carrier (Ancp) undergoes conformational changes which result in modifications of the intrinsic fluorescence of the carrier. To further study these changes by a fluorometric approach, the three tryptophanyl residues (Trp87, Trp126, and Trp235) of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Anc2p were individually mutated to their tyrosine counterparts. The resulting mutated genes (two-Trp, one-Trp or Trp-less variants) were integrated at the ANC2 locus. A prerequisite for such studies is that all the engineered carrier molecules are still able to catalyze ADP/ATP exchange. The cellular characteristics of the strains expressing the mutated Anc2p and the biochemical properties of the variant Anc2p in mitochondria were examined. Although Trp87 is absolutely conserved in all 30 available Ancp sequences, none of the tryptophanyl residues is essential to the carrier protein folding and the transport activity. The mutated and wild-type Anc2p were expressed to the same level, as evidenced by both ligand binding and immunochemical analyses. When isolated in the presence of detergent, all the variant Anc2p preparations contained ergosterol in similar amounts (9 mol/mol of 35 kDa Anc2p) but no specific interaction was revealed. Our results show that the tryptophanmutated Anc2p are suitable for fluorescence studies, which are reported in the accompanying paper by Roux et al. [(1996) Biochemistry 35, 16125-16131].


Assuntos
Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/metabolismo , Conformação Proteica , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Triptofano , Atractilosídeo/metabolismo , Sequência de Bases , Sítios de Ligação , Primers do DNA , Escherichia coli , Cinética , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/biossíntese , Modelos Estruturais , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Plasmídeos , Mutação Puntual , Proteínas Recombinantes/biossíntese , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Espectrometria de Fluorescência , Espectrofotometria Ultravioleta
12.
Biochemistry ; 35(50): 16125-31, 1996 Dec 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8973184

RESUMO

Tryptophanyl substitution of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae adenine nucleotide carrier (Anc2p isoform) was not deleterious for the transport activity or the folding of the carrier [preceding paper by Le Saux et al. (1996) Biochemistry 35, 16116-16124]. Conformational changes of the isolated wild-type and Trp-substituted Anc2p variants, induced upon binding of specific substrates [adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or diphosphate (ADP)] or inhibitors [carboxyatractyloside (CATR) or bongkrekic acid (BA)], were studied by measurement of intrinsic fluorescence. Titration of CATR and BA binding sites ended in the same number of sites, namely, 6-7 nmol/mg of wild-type and variant Anc2p. Isolated Anc2p in detergent presented similar emission spectra, suggesting that all tryptophanyl residues were in environments of similar hydrophobicity. Trp87 and Trp126 contributed largely and to a similar extent to the fluorescence enhancement observed in response to ATP binding, while Trp235 contributed negatively and to a small extent to the fluorescence change. Both Trp126 and Trp235, and to a lower extent Trp87, participate in the CATR-induced fluorescence decrease of Anc2p. Responses to BA binding were observed only in the presence of ATP; they consisted of a further fluorescence increase of the Anc2p.ATP complex, which was mainly due to Trp87 and Trp126, Trp235 being much less responsive. The different fluorescence responses of the three Trp residues of Anc2 variants to ATP, CATR, and BA are in agreement with distinct binding sites for these ligands and distinct conformations of the carrier protein recognizing specifically CATR or BA. A mechanistic model is proposed to interpret the transitions between the different conformational states of Anc2p.


Assuntos
Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/metabolismo , Conformação Proteica , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Triptofano , Difosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Atractilosídeo/análogos & derivados , Atractilosídeo/metabolismo , Sítios de Ligação , Ácido Bongcréquico/metabolismo , Cinética , Modelos Estruturais , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Mutação Puntual , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Espectrometria de Fluorescência
13.
Bioconjug Chem ; 7(6): 617-27, 1996.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8950480

RESUMO

The syntheses and characterizations of five differently hydrosoluble monosubstituted aryl porphyrins are reported. Their metallation with indium-111 was achieved and provided tracers with strong specific activities. The covalent coupling between indium-111 porphyrins and BSA served as a model reaction for the definition of the best experimental coupling conditions; the transposition to the labeling of anti-CEA monoclonal antibody was realized. The conjugates exhibited an in vitro good mAb-labeling efficiency, as well as a good preservation of immunoreactivity.


Assuntos
Anticorpos Monoclonais , Radioisótopos de Índio , Porfirinas/química , Animais , Bovinos , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Albumina Sérica
14.
Gene ; 171(1): 113-7, 1996 May 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8675018

RESUMO

We describe the isolation and sequencing of both cDNA and genomic clones encoding the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier (Anc) of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Sp). The cDNA clone was isolated from a cDNA library of this fission yeast by complementation of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) strain defective in adenine nucleotide carrier. The predicted amino acid (aa) sequence (322 aa) shared similarity with the known Anc sequences. It is more closely related to Neurospora crassa (Nc) Anc than to ScAnc1, 2, or 3 or Kluyveromyces lactis (Kl) Anc. Hybridization experiments with ordered libraries of Sp genomic DNA led to the physical mapping (chromosome II, NotI-B region) and the isolation of the Sp ANC1 gene. We also conclude that a single-copy gene encodes the Sp Anc.


Assuntos
Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Genes Fúngicos/genética , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Schizosaccharomyces/genética , Fator de Transcrição TFIID , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Sequência de Bases , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Cromossomos Fúngicos/genética , Clonagem Molecular/métodos , DNA Complementar/genética , DNA Fúngico/análise , Dosagem de Genes , Teste de Complementação Genética , Mitocôndrias , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Filogenia , Mapeamento por Restrição , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos
15.
Anal Biochem ; 234(1): 31-7, 1996 Feb 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8742079

RESUMO

We describe here the chemical synthesis of the novel methylanthraniloyl (Mant-) derivative of atractyloside (ATR), which is a specific inhibitor of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier. The spectral properties of Mant-ATR and naphthoyl-ATR (N-ATR) are analyzed. Both derivatives bind to the membrane-bound ADP/ATP carrier at the same sites as ATR and carboxyatractyloside (CATR). When Mant-ATR and N-ATR are displaced by CATR, their fluorescence emissions are decreased and increased, respectively. These fluorescence changes allow the titration of the CATR binding sites and therefore the quantitation of the amount of ADP/ATP carrier protein in a biological preparation. The validity of the fluorometric titration was tested with beef heart mitochondria and confirmed by binding assays using radioactive ATR. The fluorometric method was applied to rabbit skeletal muscle homogenate and the results of titration were confirmed by binding assays of radioactive ATR. The reliability of the fluorometric method was assessed by comparing the amounts of CATR binding sites and the content of heme aa3 in muscle homogenates and in isolated mitochondria from the same homogenates. Because of its high sensitivity, the fluorometric titration of the ADP/ATP carrier requires small amounts of tissue. Mant-ATR and N-ATR can therefore be considered as convenient, reliable, and sensitive probes to quantify the amount of ADP/ATP carrier and detect a putative carrier protein deficiency in biopsy samples from human patients suffering from myopathies with no clear identified etiology.


Assuntos
Atractilosídeo/análogos & derivados , Mitocôndrias Musculares/enzimologia , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/análise , Músculo Esquelético/enzimologia , Animais , Sítios de Ligação , Bovinos , Cinética , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/metabolismo , Coelhos , Espectrometria de Fluorescência/métodos , ortoaminobenzoatos
17.
J Bioenerg Biomembr ; 25(5): 459-72, 1993 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8132486

RESUMO

In the process of oxidative phosphorylation, the exchange of cytosolic ADP3- against mitochondrial ATP4- across the inner mitochondrial membrane is mediated by a specific carrier protein. Two different conformations for this carrier have been demonstrated on the basis of interactions with specific inhibitors, namely carboxyatractyloside (CATR) and bongkrekic acid (BA). The two conformations, referred to as CATR and BA conformations, are interconvertible, provided that ADP or ATP are present. The functional ADP/ATP carrier is probably organized as a tetramer. In the presence of CATR or BA the tetramer is split into two dimers combined with either of the two inhibitors. The amino acid sequence of the beef heart carrier monomer (297 residues) contains three repeats of about 100 residues each. Experimental results obtained through different approaches, including photolabeling, immunochemistry, and limited proteolysis, can be interpreted on the basis of a model with five or six transmembrane alpha helices per carrier monomer. Two mobile regions involved in the binding of nucleotides and accessible to proteolytic enzymes have been identified. Each of them may be visualized as consisting of two pairs of short amphipathic alpha helices, which can be juxtaposed to form hydrophilic channels facilitating the nucleotide transport. Mutagenesis in yeast is currently being used to detect strategic amino acids in ADP/ATP transport.


Assuntos
Membranas Intracelulares/química , Mitocôndrias/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/química , Conformação Proteica , Difosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Trifosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Atractilosídeo/análogos & derivados , Atractilosídeo/farmacologia , Sítios de Ligação , Ácido Bongcréquico/farmacologia , Bovinos , Sequência Consenso , Proteínas Fúngicas/química , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/antagonistas & inibidores , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/genética , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/imunologia , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fosforilação Oxidativa , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzimologia , Alinhamento de Sequência , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos
18.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 192(1): 143-50, 1993 Apr 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8476415

RESUMO

The yeast mitochondrial adenine nucleotide carrier isoform encoded by the ANC2 gene has been specifically expressed in a yeast strain disrupted for the two other genes, ANC1 and ANC3. Isolation of the carrier in a functional form was achieved by utilisation of a mixture of two detergents, dodecylmaltoside and Emulphogen. The intrinsic fluorescence of the Anc2 protein was specifically and rapidly enhanced upon addition of the transportable nucleotides ADP and ATP. Fluorescence enhancement was prevented or reversed by the addition of a stoichiometric amount of CATR. Addition of CATR alone elicited a dose-dependent decrease of fluorescence. The ANC2-specific yeast stain offers the means to study a single ADP/ATP carrier, with a well-defined amino acid sequence, suitable for analysis of substrate- or inhibitor-induced conformational changes.


Assuntos
Mitocôndrias/enzimologia , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/metabolismo , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzimologia , Atractilosídeo/análogos & derivados , Atractilosídeo/metabolismo , Sítios de Ligação , Fluorescência , Translocases Mitocondriais de ADP e ATP/isolamento & purificação
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