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Differential sensitivity of human gastric cancer ATPase and normal gastric mucosa ATPase to the synthetic mammalian lignan analogue 2,3-dibenzylbutane-1,4-diol (hattalin).

Plasma membrane-associated adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) samples partially purified from the tumor dissections of 15 gastric cancer patients were examined for sensitivity to the synthetic lignan, 2,3-dibenzylbutane-1,4-diol (hattalin), and ouabain in the presence of Mg2+, Na+, and K+. Hattalin was the strongest Na+, K(+)-ATPase inhibitor among the lignans previously examined. The enzyme from normal gastric tissue of the same patient was used as control. The specific activity of ATPase from cancer tissue (C-ATPase) was inhibited by more than 50% by 2.0 mM hattalin, whereas only 33.1% of the specific activity of ATPase from normal gastric mucosa (N-ATPase) was inhibited by 2.0 mM hattalin. There was statistical significance of lignan sensitivity between C- and N-ATPase (p less than 0.02). Ouabain also inhibited C-ATPase in preference to N-ATPase, though not significantly. Hattalin inhibited both C- and N-ATPase more strongly than did ouabain (p less than 0.05). Moreover, the lignan inhibited both C- and N-ATPase in the absence of Na+ and K+. From these data, it is evident that the sensitivity of plasma membrane-associated to lignan increased by gastric canceration. The target ATPase of hattalin is likely to be one other than sodium- and potassium-dependent, ouabain-sensitive ATPase.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Subunit composition and Ca(2+)-ATPase activity of the vacuolar ATPase from barley roots.

The vacuolar ATPase was purified from a tonoplast-enriched membrane fraction from barley (Hordeum vulgare cv CM72) roots. The membranes were solubilized with Triton X-100 and the membrane proteins were separated by chromatography on Sephacryl S-400 followed by fast protein liquid chromatography on a Mono-Q column. The purified vacuolar ATPase was inhibited up to 90% by KNO3 or 80% by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCI). The ATPase was resolved into polypeptides of 115, 68, 53, 45, 42, 34, 32, 17, 13, and 12 kDa. An additional purification step of centrifugation on a glycerol gradient did not result in loss of any polypeptide bands or increased specific activity of the ATPase. Antibodies against the purified holoenzyme inhibited proton transport by the native ATPase. Two peaks of solubilized Ca(2+)-ATPase were obtained from the Sephacryl S-400 column. A peak of Ca(2+)-ATPase copurified with the vacuolar ATPase during all of the purification steps and was inhibited by NO3- and DCCI. It is proposed that this Ca(2+)-ATPase is a partial reaction of the plant vacuolar ATPase. The second Ca(2+)-ATPase was greatly retarded on the Sephacryl S-400 column and eluted after the main protein peak. It was not inhibited significantly by NO3- or DCCI. The second Ca(2+)-ATPase is a major component of ATP hydrolysis by the native membranes.

Calcium↗

Correlation of increased activities of Na+, K+-ATPase and Ca2+-ATPase with the reversal of cisplatin ototoxicity induced by D-methionine in guinea pigs.

Na(+), K(+)-ATPase and Ca(2+)-ATPase in the cochlear lateral wall play an important role in maintaining ionic homeostasis and physiologic function of the cochlea. The present study was designed to test whether the changes of Na(+), K(+)-ATPase and Ca(2+)-ATPase activities of the cochlear lateral wall and the brainstem of guinea pigs after receiving cisplatin for seven consecutive days were correlated with the altered auditory brainstem responses (ABR). Furthermore, whether a chemoprotective agent, D-methionine reversed the increased ABR threshold induced by cisplatin accompanied with the increased ATPase activities was also evaluated. The results obtained showed that cisplatin exposure caused not only a significant increase of threshold but also altered various absolute wave and interwave latencies of ABR. In addition, cisplatin significantly decreased the Na(+), K(+)-ATPase and Ca(2+)-ATPase activities in the cochlear lateral wall with a good dose-response relationship. Regression analysis indicated that an increase of ABR threshold was well correlated with a decrease of both Na(+), K(+)-ATPase and Ca(2+)-ATPase activities in the cochlear lateral wall. A chemoprotectant, D-methionine indeed reversed both abnormalities of ABR and ATPase activities in a well correlation function. The selectivity of these observed changes induced by cisplatin and D-methionine was revealed by the findings that cisplatin-treated guinea pigs had normal III-V interwave latency of ABR and no reduction of Na(+), K(+)-ATPase and Ca(2+)-ATPase specific activities in the brainstem, which is in accordance with the nonpenetrable cisplatin across the blood brain barrier. Taken all together, the present findings suggest that biochemical damage and ionic disturbance may contribute to cisplatin-induced ototoxicity to some extent, which can be reversed by d-methionine.

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A journey from mammals to yeast with vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase).

The vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) is one of the most fundamental enzymes in nature. It functions in almost every eukaryotic cell and energizes a wide variety of organelles and membranes. V-ATPase has a structure and mechanism of action similar to F-ATPase and several of their subunits probably evolved from common ancestors. In eukaryotic cells, F-ATPase is confined to the semiautonomous organelles, chloroplasts and mitochondria, which contain their own genes that encode some of the F-ATPase subunits. In contrast to F-ATPases, whose primary function in eukaryotic cells is to form ATP at the expense of the protonmotive force (pmf), V-ATPases function exclusively as ATP-dependent proton pumps. The pmf generated by V-ATPases in organelles and membranes of eukaryotic cells is utilized as a driving force for numerous secondary transport processes. It was the survival of the yeast mutant without the active enzyme and yeast genetics that allowed the identification of genuine subunits of the V-ATPase. It also revealed special properties of individual subunits, factors that are involved in the enzyme's biogenesis and assembly, as well as the involvement of V-ATPase in the secretory pathway, endocytosis, and respiration. It may be the insect V-ATPase that unconventionally resides in the plasma membrane of their midgut, that will give the first structure resolution of this complex.

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Environmental differences of a pyridine derivative (AU-1421)-access sites between (H+,K+)-ATPase and (Na+,K+)-ATPase.

We investigated the environmental differences of a pyridine derivative-access sites between hog gastric (H+,K+)-ATPase and dog kidney (Na+,K+)-ATPase. The environmental differences are inferred from the marked contrasts in inhibition properties of (Z)-5-methyl-2-[2-(1-naphthyl)ethenyl]-4-piperidinopyridine hydrochloride (AU-1421) between the two adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases). AU-1421 is a hydrophobic pyridine derivative which inhibits (H+,K+)-ATPase and (Na+,K+)-ATPase competitively with respect to K+. AU-1421 inhibition of (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity is preincubation time-dependent, pH-independent (pH 6.4-8.4), and hardly reversible by dialysis. These features are opposite to those found with the gastric (H+,K+)-ATPase. Furthermore, in the presence of dilute sodium dodecyl sulfate (30-120 microM), the inhibitory potency of AU-1421 for (Na+,K+)-ATPase is increased, whereas the inhibitory potency for (H+,K+)-ATPase is decreased. These results favor proposals that protonated species of AU-1421 interact with its access-site of (H+,K+)-ATPase at the exterior surface of the enzyme molecule by ionic interaction, whereas AU-1421 interacts with its access-site of (NA+,K+)-ATPase at the interior domain of the enzyme molecule predominantly by hydrophobic interaction. The differences indicate the existence of a different feature of K(+)-access sites between the two ATPases.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Immunolocalization of Na+, K(+)-ATPase, Ca(++)-ATPase, calcium-binding proteins, and carbonic anhydrase in the guinea pig inner ear.

The distribution of Na+, K(+)-ATPase, Ca(++)-ATPase, carbonic anhydrase, and calcium-binding proteins were investigated immunohistochemically in paraffin sections of guinea pig inner ears. Marginal cells of the stria vascularis, type II fibrocytes of the spiral ligament, and cells in supralimbal and suprastrial regions, were positive for Na+, K(+)-ATPase. Type I fibrocytes of the spiral ligament were positive for Ca(++)-ATPase, carbonic anhydrase, calmodulin and osteopontin. In the vestibular system, dark cells were positive for Na+, K(+)-ATPase. However, these cells and subepithelial fibrocytes were negative for Ca(++)-ATPase, carbonic anhydrase, and the calcium-binding proteins. In the endolymphatic sac, epithelial cells in intermediate and distal portions were positive for Na+, K(+)-ATPase, but the reaction was less than that in the stria. The same endolymphatic sac cells that were positive for Na+, K(+)-ATPase were also positive for Ca(++)-ATPase and calcium-binding proteins, but negative for carbonic anhydrase. The presence of Ca(++)-ATPase and calcium-binding proteins in the type I fibrocytes of the spiral ligament suggests that these cells are involved in mediating Ca++ regulation. Lower levels of Na+, K(+)-ATPase and the co-existence of Ca(++)-ATPase and calcium-binding proteins in the epithelial cells of the endolymphatic sac indicate that these cells have a distinctive role in ion transport that is different from that of the cells of the stria vascularis and vestibular dark cells.

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Calcium inhibition of the ATPase and phosphatase activities of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.

In experiments performed at 37 degrees C, Ca2+ reversibly inhibits the Na+-and (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activities and the K+-dependent phosphatase activity of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase. With 3 mM ATP, the Na+-ATPase was less sensitive to CaCl2 than the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity. With 0.02 mM ATP, the Na+-ATPase and the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activities were similarly inhibited by CaCl2. The K0.5 for Ca2+ as (Na+ + K+)-ATPase inhibitor depended on the total MgCl2 and ATP concentrations. This Ca2+ inhibition could be a consequence of Ca2+-Mg2+ competition, Ca . ATP-Mg . ATP competition or a combination of both mechanisms. In the presence of Na+ and Mg2+, Ca2+ inhibited the K+-dependent dephosphorylation of the phosphoenzyme formed from ATP, had no effect on the dephosphorylation in the absence of K+ and inhibited the rephosphorylation of the enzyme. In addition, the steady-state levels of phosphoenzyme were reduced in the presence both of NaCl and of NaCl plus KCl. With 3 mM ATP, Ca2+ alone sustained no more than 2% of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity and about 23% of the Na+-ATPase activity observed with Mg2+ and no Ca2+. With 0.003 mM ATP, Ca2+ was able to maintain about 40% of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity and 27% of the Na+-ATPase activity seen in the presence of Mg2+ alone. However, the E2(K)-E1K conformational change did not seem to be affected. Ca2+ inhibition of the K+-dependent rho-nitrophenylphosphatase activity of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase followed competition kinetics between Ca2+ and Mg2+. In the presence of 10 mM NaCl and 0.75 mM KCl, the fractional inhibition of the K+-dependent rho-nitrophenylphosphatase activity as a function of Ca2+ concentration was the same with and without ATP, suggesting that Ca2+ indeed plays the important role in this process. In the absence of Mg2+, Ca2+ was unable to sustain any detectable ouabain-sensitive phosphatase activity, either with rho-nitrophenylphosphate or with acetyl phosphate as substrate.

4-Nitrophenylphosphatase↗

A Ca(2+)-ATPase from rat parotid gland plasma membranes has the characteristics of an ecto-ATPase.

A Ca(2+)-ATPase with an apparent Km for free Ca2+ = 0.23 microM and Vmax = 44 nmol Pi/mg/min was detected in a rat parotid plasma membrane-enriched fraction. This Ca(2+)-ATPase could be stimulated without added Mg2+. However, the enzyme may require submicromolar concentrations of Mg2+ for its activation in the presence of Ca2+. On the other hand, Mg2+ could substitute for Ca2+. The lack of a requirement for added Mg2+ distinguished this Ca(2+)-ATPase from the Ca(2+)-transporter ATPase in the plasma membranes and the mitochondrial Ca(2+)-ATPase. The enzyme was not inhibited by several ATPase inhibitors and was not stimulated by calmodulin. An antibody which was raised against the rat liver plasma membrane ecto-ATPase, was able to deplete this Ca(2+)-ATPase activity from detergent solubilized rat parotid plasma membranes, in an antibody concentration-dependent manner. Immunoblotting analysis of the pellet with the ecto-ATPase antibody revealed the presence of a 100,000 molecular weight protein band, in agreement with the reported ecto-ATPase relative molecular mass. These data demonstrate the presence of a Ca(2+)-ATPase, with high affinity for Ca2+, in the rat parotid gland plasma membranes. It is distinct from the Ca(2+)-transporter, and immunologically indistinguishable from the plasma membrane ecto-ATPase.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

The two calcium ions initially bound to nonphosphorylated sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase can no longer be kinetically distinguished when they dissociate from phosphorylated ATPase toward the lumen.

Using rapid filtration, we investigated the kinetics of release toward the lumen of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles of the two Ca2+ ions transported by the Ca(2+)-dependent ATPase of these vesicles. Release rates at 20 degrees C were measured by three methods, with vesicles previously made leaky with an ionophore. First, we measured the rate at which 45Ca2+ bound to ATPase approached its steady-state level after addition of ATP to the 45Ca(2+)-equilibrated ATPase. At pH 6 in the absence of potassium, the observed kinetics did not reveal any very fast phase of 45Ca2+ dissociation from phosphorylated ATPase. Second, we measured the kinetics of 45Ca2+ dissociation from phosphorylated ATPase in a "chase" experiment, by isotopic dilution of calcium under turnover conditions in the presence of potassium. We found that these kinetics were essentially monophasic. Moreover, when they were measured in the presence of a high concentration of calcium, designed to saturate the low-affinity calcium transport sites on the lumenal side of the ATPase, they only departed slightly from monophasic behavior, irrespective of the experimental pH (pH 6, 7, or 9). This small perturbation by high calcium concentrations of the observed dissociation kinetics was attributed to ADP-facilitated rapid exchange of 40Ca2+ for Mg2+ at the catalytic site of phosphorylated ATPase. The third method was based on the fact that phosphorylation-induced 45Ca2+ occlusion occurred faster than 45Ca2+ dissociation from nonphosphorylated ATPase: here, we measured the rate of 45Ca2+ internalization on addition to 45Ca(2+)-saturated ATPase of an unlabeled ATP-containing medium. This method allowed separate observation of the dissociation kinetics of each of the two 45Ca2+ ions bound to phosphorylated ATPase, after either one or the other had been labeled by a preliminary partial isotopic exchange in the non-phosphorylated state of the ATPase. We found that after ATP-induced phosphorylation, the two 45Ca2+ ions dissociated toward the lumenal medium with virtually identical rate constants; this was observed under different ionic and pH conditions and also in the presence of a high Ca2+ concentration. As a control, the same partial isotopic exchange procedure allowed us to confirm that, in contrast, when ATP was absent from the final dissociation medium, the two 45Ca2+ ions dissociated from nonphosphorylated ATPase toward the cytoplasmic medium at different rates, the one bound more deeply only dissociating after a lag period corresponding to dissociation of the superficial one.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Localization and identification of Ca2+ATPases in highly purified human platelet plasma and intracellular membranes. Evidence that the monoclonal antibody PL/IM 430 recognizes the SERCA 3 Ca2+ATPase in human platelets.

The Ca2+ATPase activities of highly purified human platelet membranes prepared by high-voltage free-flow electrophoresis have been analysed by using [gamma-32P]ATP hydrolysis, recognition by antibodies and phosphoenzyme-complex formation. The Ca2+ATPase activity present in mixed membranes was found to be predominantly associated with intracellular membranes after subfractionation, with only a low level of activity associated with plasma membranes. The intracellular-membrane Ca2+ATPase activity was inhibited totally with thapsigargin (Tg), whereas the plasma-membrane Ca2+ATPase was not significantly affected, suggesting that the latter does not belong to the SERCA (sarco-endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+ATPase) class. A monoclonal antibody, 5F10, raised to the red-cell membrane Ca2+ATPase [Cheng, Magocsi, Cooper, Penniston and Borke (1993) Cell Physiol. Biochem. 4, 31-43] recognized two bands at 135 and 150 kDa in mixed membranes and plasma membranes, and the corresponding bands in red-blood-cell membranes, confirming the Ca2+ATPase to be of the PMCA (plasma-membrane Ca2+ATPase) type. No recognition of any band was detected in intracellular membranes. Identification of the intracellular-membrane Ca2+ATPase activity was carried out with polyclonal antibodies with known specificity towards SERCA 2b (S.2b) and SERCA 3 (N89), and a monoclonal antibody, PL/IM 430, raised against platelet intracellular membranes. All of these antibodies recognized the 100 kDa Ca2+ATPase in mixed membranes and intracellular membranes, with little or no recognition of the activity in the plasma membranes. In some membrane preparations the antibody PL/IM 430 and antiserum N89 recognized similar degradation products, of 74, 70 and 40 kDa, in the intracellular-membrane fraction. The Ca2+ATPase recognized by PL/IM 430 was immunoprecipitated, and the immunoprecipitated protein was specifically recognized by the antiserum N89, but not by S.2b. Analysis of the phosphoenzyme-complex formation revealed potent phosphorylation of the 100 and 74 kDa peptides, both recognized by PL/IM 430 and N89. These studies report the presence of a PMCA in a purified plasma-membrane fraction from human platelets, and that the antibody PL/IM 430 recognizes the SERCA 3 Ca2+ATPase in intracellular membranes.

Blood Platelets↗

Extraction of mitochondrial protein-lipid complexes into organic solvents: an approach to study the interaction between the ATPase and the mitochondrial ATPase-inhibitor protein.

Protein-lipid complexes were transferred directly from mitochondria and submitochondrial particles into hexane and ether. The protein-lipid residue left after solvent removal from these extracts was used to form liposomes which display low-temperature-resistant ATPase activity. Centrifugation experiments indicate that the ATPase activity is associated to the vesicles. Most of the F1-ATPases appear to be accessible to the external water phase of the liposomes. The ATPase activity of these particles was insensitive to dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and oligomycin. Incubation of these vesicles at room temperature activated (4--10-fold) the ATPase through a process that is partially sensitive to phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. The results with purified ATPase-inhibitor protein and (F1--ATPase)-inhibitor complex indicate that the activation process in the liposomes is due to the abolition of the inhibitory action of the inhibitor protein bound to a large fraction of the extracted ATPases. Liposomes prepared from hexane extracts obtained from submitochondrial particles having different levels of ATPase activity displayed an activation ratio which correlated with the number of ATPases that are inhibited by the inhibitor protein in the submitochondrial particles. The extraction of mitochondrial ATPase and its incorporation into liposomes followed by activity measurements may be used to judge the number of ATPases that in a given preparation contain the inhibitor protein in its inhibiting site.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

A novel Ca2+ pump expressed in brain, kidney, and stomach is encoded by an alternative transcript of the slow-twitch muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase gene. Identification of cDNAs encoding Ca2+ and other cation-transporting ATPases using an oligonucleotide probe derived from the ATP-binding site.

We describe the results of a study designed to identify cDNAs encoding Ca2+-transporting ATPases and other cation-transporting ATPases of the aspartylphosphate class. Rat brain, kidney, and stomach cDNA libraries were screened with an oligonucleotide hybridization probe corresponding to a 23-amino acid sequence from part of the ATP-binding site of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase. This procedure resulted in the isolation of cDNAs encoding (i) the plasma membrane Ca-ATPase, (ii) an apparent Ca-ATPase that exhibits high amino acid similarity to the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pumps, (iii) a transport ATPase of unknown ion specificity and (iv) two Ca-ATPase isoforms encoded by the gene for the slow-twitch muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase. Several isoforms of the Na,K-ATPase and gastric H,K-ATPase that had been characterized previously were also identified. The complete nucleotide sequences have been determined for the two classes of cDNA derived from alternatively spliced transcripts of the slow-twitch muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase gene. One of these cDNAs, isolated from the stomach library, encodes a Ca-ATPase that is identical to the skeletal muscle enzyme. The second class of cDNA, found in brain, kidney, and stomach libraries, is identical to that of the slow-twitch isoform throughout much of its length but encodes an alternative C terminus and has a different 3'-untranslated sequence. Whereas the muscle isoform consists of 997 amino acids and terminates with the sequence Ala-Ile-Leu-Glu, the second isoform is 1043 amino acids in length due to the replacement of these last 4 amino acids with a 50-amino acid sequence that contains a potential transmembrane domain followed by a consensus sequence for an N-linked glycosylation site.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Specific anion effects on ATPase activity, calmodulin sensitivity, and solubilization of dynein ATPases.

The basal ATPase activity of 30S dynein, whether obtained by extraction of ciliary axonemes with a high (0.5 M NaCl) or low (1 mM Tris-0.1 mM EDTA) ionic strength buffer is increased by NaCl, NaNO3, and Na acetate, with NaNO3 causing the largest increase. The calmodulin-activated ATPase activity of 30S dynein is also increased by addition of NaCl, NaNO3, or Na acetate, but the effects are less pronounced than on basal activity, so that the calmodulin activation ratio (CAR) decreases to 1.0 as salt concentration increases to 0.2 M. These salts also reduce the CAR of 14S dynein ATPase to 1.0 but by strongly inhibiting the calmodulin-activated ATPase activity and only slightly inhibiting the basal activity. Sodium fluoride differs both quantitatively and qualitatively from the other three salts studied. It inhibits the ATPase activity of both 14S and 30S dyneins at concentrations below 5 mM and, by a stronger inhibition of the calmodulin-activated ATPase activities, reduces the CAR to 1.0. Na acetate does not inhibit axonemal ATPase, nor does it interfere with the drop in turbidity caused by ATP and extracts very little protein from the axonemes. NaCl and, especially, NaNO3, cause a slow decrease in A350 of an axonemal suspension and an inhibition of the turbidity response to ATP. NaF, at concentrations comparable to those that inhibit the ATPase activities of the solubilized dyneins, also inhibits axonemal ATPase activity and the turbidity response. Pretreatment of demembranated axonemes with a buffer containing 0.25 M sodium acetate for 5 min followed by extraction for 5 min with a buffer containing 0.5 M NaCl and resolution of the extracted dynein on a sucrose density gradient generally yields a 30S dynein that is activated by calmodulin in a heterogeneous manner, ie, the "light" 30S dynein ATPase fractions are more activated than the "heavy" 30S dynein fractions. These results demonstrate specific anion effects on the basal and calmodulin-activated dynein ATPase activities, on the extractability of proteins from the axoneme, and on the turbidity response of demembranated axonemes to ATP. They also provide a method that frequently yields 30S dynein fractions with ATPase activities that are activated over twofold by added calmodulin.

Acetates↗

Inhibitory antibodies to plasmalemmal Ca2+-transporting ATPases. Their use in subcellular localization of (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-dependent ATPase activity in smooth muscle.

Antibodies directed against the purified calmodulin-binding (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase [(Ca2+ + Mg2+)-dependent ATPase] from pig erythrocytes and from smooth muscle of pig stomach (antral part) were raised in rabbits. Both the IgGs against the erythrocyte (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase and against the smooth-muscle (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase inhibited the activity of the purified calmodulin-binding (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase from smooth muscle. Up to 85% of the total (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity in a preparation of KCl-extracted smooth-muscle membranes was inhibited by these antibodies. The (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity and the Ca2+ uptake in a plasma-membrane-enriched fraction from this smooth muscle were inhibited to the same extent, whereas in an endoplasmic-reticulum-enriched membrane fraction the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity was inhibited by only 25% and no effect was observed on the oxalate-stimulated Ca2+ uptake. This supports the hypothesis that, in pig stomach smooth muscle, two separate types of Ca2+-transport ATPase exist: a calmodulin-binding ATPase located in the plasma membrane and a calmodulin-independent one present in the endoplasmic reticulum. The antibodies did not affect the stimulation of the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity by calmodulin.

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Interspecies differences in hepatic Ca(2+)-ATPase activity and the effect of cold preservation on porcine liver Ca(2+)-ATPase function.

The accumulation of intracellular calcium ([Ca(2+)](i)) caused by ischemia-reperfusion during liver transplantation has been implicated as a factor leading to primary graft nonfunction. Plasma membrane (PM) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+)-adenosinetriphosphatases (ATPases) are the primary transporters that maintain [Ca(2+)](i) homeostasis in the liver. We hypothesized that the porcine liver is better than the rat liver as a model for the study of human liver Ca(2+)-ATPase activity. We also hypothesized that cold preservation would depress Ca(2+)-ATPase activity in the porcine liver. Pig and rat livers were harvested, and human liver samples were obtained from surgical resection specimens. All were preserved with University of Wisconsin solution, and porcine livers were also preserved on ice for 2 to 18 hours. Ca(2+)-ATPase activity was measured after incubation with (45)Ca(2+) and adenosine triphosphate in the presence of specific Ca(2+)-ATPase inhibitors. Porcine PM and ER Ca(2+)-ATPase activities were 0.47 +/- 0.03 and 1.57 +/- 0.10 nmol of Ca(2+)/mg of protein/min, respectively. This was not significantly different from human liver, whereas rat liver was significantly greater at 2.60 +/- 0.03 and 9.2 +/- 0.9 nmol of Ca(2+)/mg of protein/min, respectively. We conclude that the Ca(2+)-ATPase activity in the pig liver is equivalent to that of human liver, and thus, the pig liver is a better model than the rat liver. Cold preservation studies showed a significant decrease in porcine hepatic PM Ca(2+)-ATPase activity after 4 hours of storage and near-total inhibition after 12 hours. Porcine hepatic ER Ca(2+)-ATPase activity showed a 45% decrease in activity by 12 hours and a 69% decrease by 18 hours. We conclude that cold ischemia at clinically relevant times depresses PM Ca(2+)-ATPase more than ER Ca(2+)-ATPase activity in pig liver homogenates.

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ATP inactivates hydrolysis of the K+-sensitive phosphoenzyme of kidney Na+,K+-transport ATPase and activates that of muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase.

In order to characterize low affinity ATP-binding sites of renal (Na+,K+) ATPase and sarcoplasmic reticulum (Ca2+)ATPase, the effects of ATP on the splitting of the K+-sensitive phosphoenzymes were compared. ATP inactivated the dephosphorylation in the case of (Na+,K+)ATPase at relatively high concentrations, while activating it in the case of (Ca2+)ATPase. When various nucleotides were tested in place of ATP, inactivators of (Na+,K+)ATPase were found to be activators in (Ca2+)ATPase, with a few exceptions. In the absence of Mg2+, the half-maximum concentration of ATP for the inhibition or for the activation was about 0.35 mM or 0.25 mM, respectively. These values are comparable to the previously reported Km or the dissociation constant of the low affinity ATP site estimated from the steady-state kinetics of the stimulation of ATP hydrolysis or from binding measurements. By increasing the concentration of Mg2+, but not Na+, the effect of ATP on the phosphoenzyme of (Na+,K+)ATPase was reduced. On the other hand, Mg2+ did not modify the effect of ATP on the phosphoenzyme of (Ca2+)ATPase. During (Na+,K+)ATPase turnover, the low affinity ATP site appeared to be exposed in the phosphorylated form of the enzyme, but the magnesium-complexed ATP interacted poorly with the reactive K+-sensitive phosphoenzyme, which has a tightly bound magnesium, probably because of interaction between the divalent cations. In the presence of physiological levels of Mg2+ and K+, ATP appeared to bind to the (Na+,K+)ATPase only after the dephosphorylation, while it binds to the (Ca2+)-ATPase before the dephosphorylation to activate the turnover.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Effect of low and high potassium diets on H(+)-K(+)-ATPase and Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activities in the rat inner medullary collecting duct cells.

This study was designed to measure H-K-ATPase and Na-K-ATPase activities in rat inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells during potassium depletion and loading. Both enzyme activities were similarly distributed from the proximal to the distal portion of this nephron segment. One week K depletion did not stimulate H-K-ATPase activity but reduced Na-K-ATPase activity. Within 2 weeks after the onset of potassium depletion, the rats developed metabolic alkalosis, and H-K-ATPase activity was suppressed while Na-K-ATPase activity had returned to control values. H-K-ATPase activity was suppressed following potassium loading whereas Na-K-ATPase activity was unchanged. The results are consistent with the presence of H-K-ATPase in IMCD and indicate that H-K-ATPase and Na-K-ATPase activities are modulated by potassium intake.

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