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N P Bakuleva

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A comparison of the protective effect of a modified StTH solution and HTK-B on the energy and functional status of the isolated rat heart.

Using a model of the isolated beating rat heart, the authors compared the protective effect of St. Thomas Hospital cardioplegic solution enriched with glucose and mannitol (StTH-M) and Bretschneider solution (HTK-B). Results showed that, during 120-minute global ischaemia in cardioplegia, StTH-M was able to maintain levels of high-energy phosphates comparable with those found in a group of hearts perfused with HTK-B at 20 degrees C only when the temperature had been decreased to 12-15 degrees C. Under these conditions, repair of metabolic and functional parameters during post-ischaemic perfusion was also similar in both groups.

Animals

[Effect of hypothermia on the metabolism and post-ischemia restoration of myocardial function].

Our studies have revealed a prognostically poor course in postinfarction angina pectoris patients on conservative medicamentous treatment. The mortality rate within the first year of this syndrome onset was 19.8 per cent among conservatively treated patients. Surgical management of these patients had a significantly better prognosis. Despite the fact that there was a great difference in survival rates between the studied groups at the hospital stage, the survival rate was significantly higher at subsequent stages in surgical patients compared to that in the conservatively treated group, and correlated with that in a larger population of matched age. In addition, surgical treatment was found to substantially improve the quality of life in patients with postinfarction angina pectoris which implies lowered frequency of attacks, increased exercise tolerance, and improved working capacity.

Animals

[Effectiveness of protecting the myocardium against ischemia with a normothermic cardioplegic solution and creatine phosphate].

The protective effects of cardioplegic solutions (CS) containing creatine phosphate (CP) were studied in a rat heart model of cardiopulmonary bypass and ischemic cardiac arrest. Isolated rat hearts were subjected to a 3-minute coronary infusion with CS containing CP in normothermic (37 degrees C) and hypothermic (4-6 degrees C) regimes. In the normothermia group, the postischemic functional recovery was 70-75% of the preischemic control value, while the cellular ATP and CP content was reduced but insignificantly. By contrast, in the hypothermia group, the postischemic functional recovery was markedly depressed, with the tissue high-energy phosphate content being appreciably lowered. The data obtained confirm high efficacy of CP-containing cardioplegic solutions administered under normothermia conditions.

Adenosine Triphosphate

The flip-flop mechanism of the phosphorylation of yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase.

1. An active monomeric form of inorganic pyrophosphatase from baker's yeast was prepared by maleylation of the protein at pH 10.5. 2. The dimeric and monomeric pyrophosphatase bound at non-catalytic sites 0.5 and 1.0 mol of slowly dissociating Pi per mol subunit, respectively. This stoichiometry was not affected on active site blockage with PPi. 3. Added Pi accelerated the dissociation of Pi from the dimeric but not monomeric enzyme. 4. Our results indicate a strong interaction to occur between the non-catalytic sites of two subunits of native pyrophosphatase which results in diminished stability of Pi binding to one of them.

Adenosine Triphosphatases

[Calorimetric assay of yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase interaction with magnesium and phosphate ions].

The thermodynamic characteristics for the specific binding of one or two Mg2+ by the yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase and for the enzyme interaction with phosphate were determined. Saturation of the first binding site with Mg2+ causes structural rearrangements in the enzyme molecule without changing the temperature of protein denaturation. On the contrast, saturation of the second binding site results in stabilization of the system, i. e. a considerable fall in the entropy and a rise in the temperature of denaturation. Phosphorylation of the enzyme carboxylic group by inorganic phosphate requires saturation of the first binding site with Mg2+ and is not accompanied by changes in the enthalpy of the system. The pyrophosphate synthesis in the presence of the enzyme saturated with Mg2+ in both binding sites is associated with changes in the enthalpy and, possibly, in the entropy of the system.

Calorimetry

[Isolation and catalytic properties of the soluble monomeric form of inorganic pyrophosphatase from baker's yeast].

Data from sedimentation analysis suggest that modification of about 40% of free amino groups of inorganic pyrophosphatase by maleic anhydride, pH 10.5, results in a loss of the enzyme ability to form dimers at neutral values of pH. The specific activity of monomeric pyrophosphatase is 50-80% of that of the dimeric form. The monomer has a pH optimum of about 7, requires metal ions for activation of both enzyme and substrate and is capable of exergonic synthesis of PPi in the active center. The enzyme binding to PPi is strongly stabilized by fluoride. The experimental data indicate that the individual subunit of inorganic pyrophosphatase possesses all the main catalytic properties of native dimeric molecule.

Hydrogen-Ion Concentration

[Detection and characterization of an additional site for binding of substrate and its analogs by inorganic pyrophosphatase].

Phosphate, pyrophosphate, imidodiphosphate, EDTA and tripolyphosphate increase the rate constant for dissociation of the inorganic pyrophosphatase-substrate intermediate formed after cessation of the reaction by fluoride. The effect is enhanced in the given order 19-fold, the dependence of this effect on ligand concentration being hyperbolic. The values of the dissociation constants of the enzyme-ligand complexes lie within the concentration range of 0.16-1.0 mM. At high concentrations of Na2+ added simultaneously with the ligands this effect is decreased. The value of tau 1/2 for Pi binding to the enzyme-substrate compound is 0.15 min. The data obtained suggest that pyrophosphatase contains an anion ligand binding site, differing from that of the active one. This site does not affect the hydrolytic function of pyrophosphatase, as can be evidenced from the fact that Pi (9.5 mM) does not change the rate of enzymatic cleavage of PPi.

Binding Sites

[Stable compound of inorganic pyrophosphatase with pyrophosphate obtained by a fluoride-mediated reaction with phosphate].

Incubation of inorganic pyrophosphate from baker's yeast with phosphate and MgCl2 in the presence of fluoride results in a gradual inactivation of the enzyme concomitant with incorporation of PP1 (about 2 moles per mole) into the protein. The rate constant for this process shows an increase with a rise in concentrations of the three reagents, the maximal value of inactivation being 0.11 min-1. The bound PP1 is not separated by gel-filtration. The rate of spontaneous degradation of the enzyme-pyrophosphate complex and the nature of EDTA and Mg2+ effects are similar to those for the analogous compound obtained by inhibition of PP1 hydrolysis by fluoride. The data obtained suggest that during PP1 synthesis and hydrolysis by pyrophosphatase fluoride stabilizes the same intermediate of the enzyme with pyrophosphate.

Diphosphates

The essential activated carboxyl group of inorganic pyrophosphatase.

1. A carboxyl group of high reactivity has been found in inorganic pyrophosphatase (pyrophosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.1) from yeast. This group interacts with agents which react neither with carboxyl groups of low molecular weight compounds nor with other carboxyl groups of the protein. 2. The reaction of this activated carboxyl group with inorganic phosphate, hydroxylamine, N-methyl- and O-methylhydroxylamines, and glycine methyl ester has been studied. 3. Homoserine and homoserine lactone were found in the hydrolyzate of phosphorylated and NaBH4-reduced pyrophosphatase, indicating that an aspartyl residue is phosphorylated. 4. Hydroxylamine and other nucleophilic agents cause inactivation of pyrophosphatase as a result of interaction with a carboxyl group. Both diaminobutyric and diaminopropionic acids were seen in the acid hydrolyzate of the protein treated with hydroxylamine and subjected to rearrangement in the presence of carbodiimide. 5. The ways in which the activation of a carboxyl group in the enzyme is achieved and the presumed mechanism of action of inorganic pyrophosphatase are discussed.

Carbodiimides

Fluoride inhibition of inorganic pyrophosphatase. II. Isolation and characterization of a covalent intermediate between enzyme and entire substrate molecule.

A presumed pyrophosphoryl-enzyme intermediate of the reaction catalyzed by bakers' yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase pyrophosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.1) has been isolated using fluoride-mediated inactivation of the enzyme during catalysis. The analysis of the F--inactivated pyrophosphatase revealed the presence of one molecule of PPi and one atom of fluoride per active site. The incubation of the inactivated enzyme at 25 degrees C and pH 7.2 resulted in gradual recovery of catalytic activity and concomitant removal of PPi by a first-order reaction with tau1/2 of 1 h. The digestion of the F--treated pyrophosphatase with pepsin yielded phosphorous-containing peptides, which were reduced with NaBH4 and gave homoserine and homoserine lactone after acid hydrolysis. This suggests that the PPi residue is linked to the protein through a bond of an acyl phosphate type involving the beta-COOH function of aspartic acid. Together with the results of the kinetic studies of fluoride inhibition of pyrophosphatase reported in accompanying papers, these findings strongly indicate that the enzyme-substrate compound stabilized by fluoride is a transient of the catalytic reaction.

Binding Sites

[The effect of droperidol on heart function].

The effect of droperidol (3.3 x 10(-6) M) on the functional capacities of the isolated heart has been studied. The drug inhibited myocardial contractility. The effect manifested directly after the introduction of droperidol into perfusate (prompt phase). Afterwards the progress of the drug inhibitory effect was slow (slow phase). It is assumed that the difficulties in the use of droperidol in the critical cardiosurgical patients are associated with the attenuation in the realization of the regulatory effects of the central nervous system.

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