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The changes in polymer-solvent interactions that occur when native calf thymus DNA is dialyzed against Na2SO4 solutions of a given ionic strength and buffer concentration but of varying concentrations in methylmercuric hydroxide have been investigated with the help of solution density measurements at 25 °C and pH 6.8–7.0. From measurements executed under equilibrium dialysis conditions at the three salt levels 5 mm, 0.05 m, and 0.5 m Na2SO4 (m refers to molality) and in the presence of 5 mm cacodylic acid buffer, the density increments for native calf thymus DNA were determined as a function of CH3HgOH concentration. was found not to vary with organomercurial concentration, irrespective of the concentration of supporting electrolyte, until a certain CH3HgOH concentration level has been reached, viz., , beyond which increases strongly with increasing concentration of CH3HgOH. As is shown by optical melting, becomes a function of organomercurial concentration the moment DNA undergoes denaturation brought about by the complexing of CH3HgOH with the various N-binding sites of the base residues in the DNA double helix.Polymer-solvent interactions, expressed in terms of preferential water interactions (“net hydration”) and preferential salt interactions (“salt solvation”), were derived from the data in combination with data obtained on the preferential interaction of CH3HgOH with denatured DNA and data on the partial specific volumes of all major solution components, gathered from density measurements on solutions with fixed concentrations of diffusible components. Evidence is presented which shows that denaturation in general decreases the net hydration while salt becomes preferentially associated with the polyelectrolyte. This process is further amplified by the interaction of CH3HgOH with denatured DNA: Methylmercurated DNA alters the redistribution of diffusible components at dialysis equilibrium to such an extent that in a formal sense large amounts of water are rejected from the immediate vicinity of the polymer. The molecular implications of these findings are explored. The results are further discussed in the light of previous findings where the methylmercury-induced denaturation of DNA had been studied with the help of buoyant density measurements in a Cs2SO4 density gradient and by velocity-sedimentation in a variety of sulfate media. 相似文献
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G.E. Breitwieser 《生物化学与生物物理学报:生物膜》1982,689(3):457-463
(1) A membrane fraction enriched in (EC 3.6.1.3) was obtained from optic ganglia of the squid (Loligo pealei) by density gradient fractionation of membranes followed by treatment with either SDS or Brij-58. The resulting membrane had an specific activity of approx. 2 units/mg and was ouabain-sensitive. (2) The had a for ATP of and a pH optimum of 7.0. It was inhibited by ouabain with a of . (3) Optimum monovalent cation concentrations were: 240 mM NaCl, 60 mM KCl, tested with . (4) The Mg2+ dependence of hydrolysis varied with the absolute ATP concentration. At 3 mM ATP, the for Mg2+ was , and at 6 mM ATP, the was . High levels of Mg2+ caused inhibition of hydrolysis. (5) The interactions of Na+ and K+ were examined over a range of conditions. K+ levels caused modulations in the Na+ dependence in the range of 1–150 mM. (6) The prepared from squid optic ganglion displays properties similar to those of the sodium pump in injected nerves. 相似文献
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G W Ruddock J A Raleigh C L Greenstock 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1981,102(1):554-560
A steady-state competition system has been developed to investigate the reactions of the superoxide radical anion () with various peroxides, including the so-called Haber-Weiss reaction. Potassium superoxide dissolved in an oxygen-free solution of DMSO containing 18-dicyclohexyl-6-crown, is the source of . High pressure liquid chromatography is used as an assay system for reactivity, to detect and quantitate the yield of anthracene, formed as a major product in the reaction between and 9,10-dihydroanthrancene. Decrease in anthracene yields, in the presence of peroxide, may be used to indicate a possible competing reaction between and added peroxide. Complications involving peroxide-stimulated formation of anthraquinone derivatives are discussed. No evidence for a competing reaction between and peroxide can be detected up to a 10-fold excess of peroxide over 9,10-dihydroanthracene. 相似文献
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Chloroplasts which were rapidly isolated from illuminated leaves showed activity of ATP hydrolysis at a level much higher than that of the dark control. Under the high-intensity illumination or under repetitive flash excitation, the activated chloroplasts synthesized more ATP than those with a low ATP hydrolysis activity. formed under repetitive flashes was smaller in the activated chloroplasts than in the inactive chloroplasts. The inhibition of ATP yield per flash by valinomycin or nigericin in the presence of K+ was stronger in the inactive chloroplasts than in the activated chloroplast. ATP synthesis in the activated chloroplasts seems to have a lower threshold. 相似文献
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Proton inventory investigations of the hydrolysis N-acetylbenzotriazole at pH 3.0 (or the equivalent point on the pD rate profile) have been conducted at two different temperatures and at ionic strengths ranging from 0 to 3.0 M. The solvent deuterium isotope effects and proton inventories are remarkably similar over this wide range of conditions. The proton inventories suggest a cyclic transition state involving four protons contributing to the solvent deuterium isotope effect for the water-catalyzed hydrolysis. The hydrolysis data are described by the equation with , where ko is the observed first-order rate constant in protium oxide, n is the atom fraction of deuterium in the solvent, kn is the rate constant in a protium oxide-deuterium oxide mixture, and is the isotopic fractionation factor. 相似文献
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[] Phosphatidylcholines are introduced into the outer monolayer of phosphatidylcholine vesicles with the phosphatidylcholine exchange protein from bovine liver. The transbilayer distribution of the [] phosphatidylcholine is measured with 13C NMR. The transbilayer movements of phosphatidylcholine and [] dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine at 30°C in vesicles composed of these phosphatidylcholines are extremely slow processes with estimated half-times of days. [] Dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine introduced into dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles migrates from the outer to the inner monolayer with a half-time of less than 12 h. The data suggest that differential changes in the lateral packing of the two monolayers might be a driving force for transbilayer transport of phospholipids. 相似文献
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In order to test the question if a pool of lipophilic ions may exist in black lipid membranes which cannot be detected by electrical relaxation measurements we have performed simultaneously measurements of the optical absorption of a lipophilic ion. The absorbance of membrane-bound dipicrylamine at 410 nm was measured with a sensitive spectrophotometer which can detect absorbance changes . A minimal concentration of about 6 · 1011 dipicrylamine ions per cm2 of the membrane could be detected with this instrument. The dipicrylamine concentration in the membrane obtained with the optical method is compared with the concentrations obtained from simultaneous electrical relaxation measurements. and agreed at low dipicrylamine concentrations (10?8–10?7 M in the aqueous phase) and showed saturation at higher concentrations (up to 5 · 10?6 M). In the saturation range was maximally four times higher than . The significance of this difference is discussed together with general aspects of the saturation phenomenon. 相似文献
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Peter Nicholls 《BBA》1976,430(1):13-29
1. Formate inhibits cytochrome oxidase activity both in intact mitochondria and submitochondrial particles, and in isolated cytochrome . The inhibition increases with decreasing pH, indicating that HCOOH may be the inhibitory species.2. Formate induces a blue shift in the absorption spectrum of oxidized cytochrome ) and in the half-reduced species (). Comparison with cyanide-induced spectral shifts, towards the red, indicates that formate and cyanide have opposite effects on the spectrum, both in the fully oxidized and the half-reduced states. The formate spectra provide a new method of obtaining the difference spectrum of minus , free of the difficulties with cyanide (which induces marked high → low spin spectral shifts in cytochrome ) and azide (which induces peak shifts of cytochrome towards the blue in both α- and Soret regions).3. The rate of formate dissociation from cytochrome is faster than its rate of dissociation from , especially in the presence of cytochrome . The for formate inhibition of respiration is a function of the reduction state of the system, varying from 30 mM (100% reduction) to 1 mM (100% oxidation) at pH 7.4, 30 °C.4. Succinate-cytochrome reductase activity is also inhibited by formate, in a reaction competitive with succinate and dependent on [formate]2.5. Formate inhibition of ascorbate plus oxidation by intact rat liver mitochondria is partially released by uncoupler addition. Formate is permeable through the inner mitochondrial membrane and no differences in ‘on’ or ‘off’ inhibition rates were observed when intact mitochondria were compared with submitochondrial particles.6. NADH-cytochrome reductase activity is unaffected by formate in submitochondrial particles, but mitochondrial oxidation of glutamate plus malate is subject both to terminal inhibition at the cytochrome level and to a slow extra inhibition by formate following uncoupler addition, indicating a third site of formate action in the intact mitochondrion. 相似文献
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In the glycolytic system derived from rat brain acetone powder, ammonium ion has been found to stimulate three different reactions: (a) the transphosphorylase reaction from phosphoenolpyruvate, (b) the phosphohexokinase reaction, and (c) the hexokinase reaction. The transphosphorylases are affected differently depending upon whether adenosine diphosphate or adenylic acid is the phosphate acceptor; in the case of the latter, the dependency upon is particularly marked. A highly active myokinase is present in these extracts and its activity influences the transphosphorylase reaction to a considerable extent. The phosphohexokinase reaction is stimulated to a greater extent by than is the hexokinase reaction. In contrast to these reactions which require the participation of the adenylic system, triose phosphate oxidase activity is uninfluenced by the presence of . 相似文献
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Interaction of lymphocytes and macrophage cell line cells (M1 cells). I. Functional maturation and appearance of Fc receptors im M1 cells 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
M1 cells, which are cell line cells established from myeloid leukemia cells of the SL strain mouse, can differentiate from blast cells () to mature macrophages () within 48 hr, when they are cultured with conditioned medium (CM) obtained from murine embryonic fibroblasts. While cells have no phagocytic activity nor Fc receptor (FcR), cells possess both characteristics. The appearance of FcR is temperature-dependent and inhibited by a metabolic inhibitor, cycloheximide. FcR on cells is resistant to trypsin and pronase. cells improve the viability of macrophage-depleted SL splenic lymphocytes and restore the in vitro secondary plaque forming cell response of macrophage-depleted spleen cells to particulate and soluble antigens. cells lack this macrophage-substituting capacity. Mm1 cells, mutant cells from M1 cells, having FcR and higher phagocytic activity than cells, are also devoid of this capacity. 相似文献
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R S Himmelwright N C Eickman E I Solomon 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1978,84(2):300-305
Half hemocyanin is shown to undergo a unique change at the Cu(II)?Cu(I) active site with temperature, exhibiting class II mixed valent properties at low temperature (The appearance of an intense near IR intervalence-transfer transition and a delocalized EPR spectrum). This requires a Cu(II)NNNCu(I) bridging geometry. The effects of CO coordination to half , combined with the presence of a low energy charge transfer transition, demonstrate that azide is also bridging at room temperature. Finally, half is found to be capable of coordination of a second at the copper(II) site. 相似文献
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The concept of high- and low-affinity reactions in bovine cytochrome c oxidase steady-state kinetics
(1) Analysis of the data from steady-state kinetic studies shows that two reactions between cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase sufficed to describe the concave Eadie-Hofstee plots ( and ). It is not necessary to postulate a third reaction of . (2) Change of temperature, type of detergent and type of cytochrome c affected both reactions to the same extent. The presence of only a single catalytic cytochrome c interaction site on the oxidase could explain the kinetic data. (3) Our experiments support the notion that, at least under our conditions (pH 7.8, low-ionic strength), the dissociation of ferricytochrome c from cytochrome c oxidase is the rate-limiting step in the steady-state kinetics. (4) A series of models, proposed to describe the observed steady-state kinetics, is discussed. 相似文献
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The kinetics of isotopic Na+ flows was studied in urinary bladders of toads from the Dominican Republic. Initial studies of the potential dependence of passive serosal to mucosal 22Na+ efflux demonstrated the absence of isotope interaction and/or other coupling with passive Na+ flow. The electrical current and mucosal to serosal 22Na+ influx were then measured with transmembrane potential clamped at . Subsequent elimination of active Na+ transport mucosal amiloride permitted calculation of the rates of active Na+ transport and active and passive influx and and . The results indicate that for Dominican toad bladders mounted in chambers only Na+ contributes significantly to transepithelial active ion transport; hence . was abolished at . As Δψ approached , active efflux became demonstrable. At exceeded , so that was negative. Experimental values of agreed well with theoretical values predicted by a thermodynamic formulation: . The dependence of on Δψ is curvilinear. 相似文献
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The distribution of activity was studied in cell fractions prepared from homogenates of rat liver. The level of mitochondrial contamination in the microsomal fraction depended on the fractionation procedure and on the method of homogenization. With proper care, microsomes with undetectable mitochondrial contamination could be prepared. These microsomes had no detectable activity. Approximately 85 % of the total activity of the post 6000 x g · min supernatant was recovered in the mitochondrialfraction. The properties of this mitochondrial were not distinguishable from those of the various microsomal previously described by other investigators. 相似文献
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The method of determination of Redox potentials of radicals, using the pulse radiolysis technique, is outlined. The method is based on the determination of equilibrium constants of electron transfer reactions between the radicals and appropriate acceptors. The limitations of this technique are discussed.The redox potentials of several quinones-semiquinones are calculated, as well as the standard redox potential of the peroxy radical. and the redox oxidation properties of the peroxy radical in various systems and pH are discussed. The value determined for the redox potentials of is higher by more than 0.2 V than earlier estimates, which has important implications on the possible role of O2? in biological processes of O2 fixation. 相似文献
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J.J. Schrijen A. Omachi W.A.H.M. Van Groningen-Luyben J.J.H.H.M. De Pont S.L. Bonting 《生物化学与生物物理学报:生物膜》1981,649(1):1-12
(1) The total phospholipid content of a gradient purified ()-ATPase preparation from pig gastric mucosa is 105 μmol per 100 mg protein, and consists of 29% sphingomyelin, 29% phosphatidylcholine, 28% phosphatidylethanolamine, 10% phosphatidylserine and 4% phosphatidylinositol. The cholesterol content corresponds to 50 μmol per 100 mg protein. (2) Treatment with phospholipase C (from Clostridium welchii and Bacillus cereus) results in an immediate decrease of the phosphate content. Up to 50% of the phospholipids are hydrolyzed by each phospholipase C preparation alone, without further hydrolysis by increased phospholipase concentration or prolonged incubation time. Combined treatment with the two phospholipase C preparations, sequentially or simultaneously, hydrolyzes up to 65% of the phospholipids. (3) The ()-ATPase and K+ stimulated activities are decreased proportionally with the total phospholipid content, indicating that these enzyme activities are dependent on phospholipids. (4) Phospholipase C treatment does not change optimal pH, value for ATP and temperature dependence of the gastric ()-ATPase, but slightly decreases the value for K+. (5) Phospholipase C treatment lowers the binding and phosphorylation capacities, suggesting that inactivation occurs primarily on the substrate binding level. (6) Most of the results can be understood by assuming that hydrolysis of the phospholipids by phospholipase C leads to aggregation of the membrane protein molecules and complete inactivation of the aggregated ATPase molecules. 相似文献
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Commercial [5-14C]mevalonate is shown to contain several radioactive impurities, which give artifactually high amounts of Hyamine bound, volatile acidic radioactivity when incubated with killed or living rat renal cortex slices, as compared with [5-14C]mevalonate purified either by liquid-liquid partition chromatography or through the enzymically generated by ion-exchange chromatography. The artifactual results were not diluted by incubation with increasing amounts of unlabelled mevalonate, whereas the and []cholesterol produced by rat renal cortex slices incubated with purified [5-14C]mevalonate were both diluted to the same extent by unlabelled mevalonate. It is concluded that is genuinely oxidized to , and that purification of substrate before its use is necessary. Production of and various []lipids from purified [5-14C]mevalonate, as a function of time and substrate concentration, by renal cortex and liver slices, is described. 相似文献
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W.McD. Armstrong W.R. Bixenman K.F. Frey J.F. Garcia-Diaz M.G. ORegan Jeanie L. Owens 《生物化学与生物物理学报:生物膜》1979,551(1):207-219
Na+, K+ and Cl? concentrations () and activities (), and mucosal membrane potentials () were measured in epithelial cells of isolated bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) small intestine. Segments of intestine were stripped of their external muscle layers, and bathed (at 25°C and pH 7.2) in oxygenated Ringer solutions containing 105 mM Na+ and Cl? and 5.4 mM K+. Na+ and K+ concentrations were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry and Cl? concentrations by conductometric titration following extraction of the dried tissue with 0.1 M HNO3. 14C-labelled inulin was used to determine extracellular volume. was measured with conventional open tip microelectrodes, with solid-state Cl?-selective silver microelectrodes and and with Na+- and K+-selective liquid ion-exchanger microelectrodes. The average recorded was ?34 mV. , and were 51, 105 and 52 mM. The corresponding values for , and were 18, 80 and 33 mM. These results suggest that a large fraction of the cytoplasmic Na+ is ‘bound’ or sequestered in an osmotically inactive form, that all, or virtually all the cytoplasmic K+ behaves as if in free solution, and that there is probably some binding of cytoplasmic Cl?. significantly exceeds the level corresponding to electrochemical equilibrium across the mucosal and baso-lateral cell membranes. Earlier studies showed that coupled mucosal entry of Na+ and Cl? is implicated in intracellular Cl? accumulation in this tissue. This study permitted estimation of the steady-state transapical Na+ and Cl? electrochemical potential differences (Δμ̄Na and Δμ̄Cl). Δμ̄Na (?7000 J · mol?1; cell minus mucosal medium) was energetically more than sufficient to account for Δμ̄Cl (1000–2000 J · mol?1). 相似文献
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W R Scowcroft A H Gibson J D Pagan 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1976,73(2):516-523
Nitrogenase activity in agar cultures of cowpea rhizobia, strain 32H1, was rapidly inhibited by but this was relieved by increased O2 tension. Inhibition was more rapid than that caused by inhibitors of protein synthesis and was not relieved by methionine sulfoximine or methionine sulfone. Under conditions were nitrogenase activity was inhibited by , glutamine synthetase and glutamate synthase were substantially unaffected. Glutamate dehydrogenase was undetected in either nitrogenase active or inhibited cultures. These results indicate that inhibition of nitrogenase activity in strain 32H1 is not effected through glutamine synthetase regulation of nitrogenase synthesis. 相似文献