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M R Hanley 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1978,82(1):392-401
The phospholipolytic neurotoxin from , crotoxin, is able to produce a dose- and time-dependent block of carbachol-stimulated 22Na efflux from pre-loaded excitable vesicles. The blocking activity is dependent on calcium and is abolished by chemical modification with p-bromophenacyl bromide. The isolated basic subunit, crotoxin B, produces an identical block, whereas the isolated acidic subunit, crotoxin A, has no detectable effect. Neither crotoxin nor crotoxin B antagonizes the binding of to purified acetylcholine receptor, although, at high concentrations, they antagonize its binding to acetylcholine receptor-rich membrane fragments. Certain phospholipase A2 enzymes and the fatty acid products of their digestion can mimic the crotoxin action. It is therefore suggested that, although considered a pre-synaptic neurotoxin, crotoxin can have post-synaptic effects, possibly mediated by its endogeneous phospholipase A2 activity. 相似文献
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Yasuhiko Masuho Naoji Umemoto Takeshi Hara Nobuya Ohtomo 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1981,102(1):561-567
A hybrid protein was prepared by coupling the A-chain of diphtheria toxin with the Fab′ fragment of immunoglobulin with -phenylenedimaleimide (PDM). Although in this hybrid, the two components were linked with each other with bonds which could not be reductively cleaved with 2-mercaptoethanol as in a hybrid cross-linked with a disulfide bond (e.g. Fab′-S-S-A-chain), it exhibited a potent cytotoxicity , one-third of that of Fab′-S-S-A-chain, against the target L1210 cells. 相似文献
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Lara F. Vieira Angelo J. Magro Carlos A.H. Fernandes Bibiana M. de Souza Walter L.G. Cavalcante Mário S. Palma José C. Rosa André L. Fuly Marcos R.M. Fontes Márcia Gallacci Diana S. Butzke Leonardo A. Calderon Rodrigo G. Stábeli José R. Giglio Andreimar M. Soares 《Biochimie》2013
Crotoxin is a neurotoxin from Crotalus durissus terrificus venom that shows immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antitumor and analgesic activities. Structurally, this toxin is a heterodimeric complex composed by a toxic basic PLA2 (Crotoxin B or CB) non-covalently linked to an atoxic non-enzymatic and acidic component (Crotapotin, Crotoxin A or CA). Several CA and CB isoforms have been isolated and characterized, showing that the crotoxin venom fraction is, in fact, a mixture of different molecules derived from the combination of distinct subunit isoforms. Intercro (IC) is a protein from the same snake venom which presents high similarity in primary structure to CB, indicating that it could be an another isoform of this toxin. In this work, we compare IC to the crotoxin complex (CA/CB) and/or CB in order to understand its functional aspects. The experiments with IC revealed that it is a new toxin with different biological activities from CB, keeping its catalytic activity but presenting low myotoxicity and absence of neurotoxic activity. The results also indicated that IC is structurally similar to CB isoforms, but probably it is not able to form a neurotoxic active complex with crotoxin A as observed for CB. Moreover, structural and phylogenetic data suggest that IC is a new toxin with possible toxic effects not related to the typical CB neurotoxin. 相似文献
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The kinetics of the fluorescence yield Ф of chlorophyll a in Chlorella pyrenoidosa were studied under anaerobic conditions in the time range from 50 μs to several minutes after short ( or 5 μs) saturating flashes. The fluorescence yield “in the dark” increased from at the beginning to in about 3 h when single flashes separated by dark intervals of about 3 min were given.After one saturating flash, Ф increased to a maximum value (4–5) at 50 μs, then Ф decreased to about 3 with a half time of about 10 ms and to the initial value with a half time of about 2 s. When two flashes separated by 0.2 s were given, the first phase of the decrease after the second flash occurred within 2 ms. After one flash given at high initial fluorescence yield, the 10-ms decay was followed by a 10 s increase to the initial value. After the two flashes 0.2 s apart, the rapid decay was not follewed by a slow increase.These and other experiments provided additional evidence for and extend an earlier hypothesis concerning the acceptor complex of Photosystem II (Bouges-Bocquet, B. (1973) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 314, 250–256; Velthuys, B. R. and Amesz, J. (1974) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 333, 85–94): reaction center 2 contains an acceptor complex QR consisting of an electron-transferring primary acceptor molecule Q, and a secondary electron acceptor R, which can accept two electrons in succession, but transfers two electrons simultaneously to a molecule of the tertiary acceptor pool, containing plastoquinone (A). Furthermore, the kinetics indicate that 2 reactions centers of System I, excited by a short flash, cooperate directly or indirectly in oxidizing a plastohydroquinone molecule (A2?). If initially all components between photoreaction 1 and 2 are in the reduced state the following sequence of reactions occurs after a flash has oxidised A2? via System I: Q?R2? + A → Q?R + A2? → QR? + A2?. During anaerobiosis two slow reactions manifest themselves: the reduction of R (and A) within 1 s, presumably by an endogenous electron donor D1, and the reduction of Q in about 10 s when R is in the state R? and A in the state A2?. An endogenous electron donor, D2, and Q? compete in reducing the photooxidized donor complex of System II in reactions with half times of the order of 1 s. 相似文献
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A low-affinity Ca2+-ATPase from erythrocyte membranes has been purified by agarose suspension electrophoresis and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the absence of detergents. For maximal activity a calcium concentration above 10 mM is required. The activity is independent of magnesium. The value for ATP is about 60 μM. The enzyme appears in two forms (A and B) with similar amino acid composition. The specific activity of A is higher than that of B. Gel electrophoresis in SDS of A gives a pattern consisting of two bands. B gives the same pattern; the only difference between the patterns is the ratio of the amounts of protein in the bands. The apparent molecular weight of the proteins in the two SDS bands has been estimated at 23 000 and 21 000, respectively. The results obtained can be explained by assuming that the two proteins corresponding to the two bands obtained in SDS electrophoresis have a similar structure and can associate to complexes A and B. We have also shown that electrophoretic and chromatographic supporting media can induce aggregation of (membrane) proteins. Artificial complexes can thus be formed and cause misinterpretation of the data obtained. This may be the reason why some authors have speculated that Ca2+-ATPase is active only in complex with other proteins such as spectrin and actin. 相似文献
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D T Rogers D Saville H Bussey 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1979,90(1):187-193
The extracellular proteins and glycoproteins of a yeast mutant defective in killer toxin expression were separated by one and two dimensional polyacyylamide gel electrophoresis. Many mutant extracellular proteins and glycoproteins show both altered electrophoretic mobility and isoelectric points when compared with the parent strain. Altered proteins and glycoproteins from were identified with their parental counterparts by peptide mapping. The observed alterations co-segregated with the nuclear mutation in genetic crosses. 相似文献
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Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase from Bacillus stearothermophilus is a dimeric molecule of approximately 90,000 Mr. The crystal structure originally reported by Irwin et al. (1976) has been re-interpreted using a new density-modification technique. The reinterpretation is confirmed by the complete amino acid sequence (D. Barker & (G. Winter, personal communication). The structure consists of an amino-terminal domain, a domain containing five α-helices, and a region of 99 amino acids at the carboxyl terminus, which appears to be disordered. The re-interpretation reveals two new α-helices in the domain, and some changes in chain connections. The strands of the β-sheet are in the order A, F, E, B, C, D, with A antiparallel to the others. The arrangement of strands B to F is topologically identical to arrangements found in many other proteins, including the first five strands of the sheet in the NAD-binding domain of the dehydrogenases. Strands B, C, D form a mononucleotide-binding fold.In the complex with tyrosyl adenylate (Rubin & Blow, 1981), an intermediate in the reaction catalysed by the enzyme, the adenine lies near the carboxyl-terminal end of strand F of the β-sheet, with the ribose between the ends of strands B and E. This is similar to the nicotinamide position in dehydrogenases. The tyrosine moiety occupies a pocket at one side of the sheet, close to strands B and C. This tyrosine orientation is quite different from any part of the coenzyme in dehydrogenases. The ends of strands C and D of the sheet are buried, and binding of a nucleotide to the mononucleotide-binding fold formed by strands B, C, D would require a substantial structural change. 相似文献
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Association of adenovirus type 2 early proteins with a soluble complex that synthesizes adenovirus DNA in vitro 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
H M Rho Y H Jeng W S Wold M Green 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1977,79(2):422-428
A soluble Ad2 DNA synthesizing complex was prepared from Ad2-infected KB cell nuclei and purified by exclusion chromatography on a BioGel A-50m column. The purified complex was able to synthesize DNA from all regions of the virus genome, as indicated by RI restriction endonuclease analysis of labeled DNA. Experiments were performed to identify Ad2-induced early polypeptides present in the complex. Ad2-infected and mock-infected cells were labeled with [35S]methionine 7–10 h postinfection, then incubated for 8 h to allow the 35S-labeled early polypeptides to become associated with the complex. The polypeptides in the purified complex and each of the cell fractions were identified by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. The major components of the purified complex were the 73K DNA binding phosphoprotein and 11K, two adenovirus 2-induced early polypeptides. The 11K has a preferred nuclear location. Small quantities of other Ad2-induced early proteins, 21K, 15K, and possibly 8.3K were also associated with the complex. 相似文献
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Ponce-Soto LA Lomonte B Rodrigues-Simioni L Novello JC Marangoni S 《The protein journal》2007,26(4):221-230
A new crotoxin B isoform PLA2 (F6a), from Crotalus durissus collilineatus was purified from by one step reverse phase HPLC chromatography using μ-Bondapack C-18 column analytic. The new crotoxin
B isoform PLA2 (F6a), complex crotoxin, the catalytic subunit crotoxin B isoform PLA2 (F6a) and two crotapotin isoforms (F3 and F4), were isolated from the venom of Crotalus durissus collilineatus. The crotapotins isoforms F3 and F4 had similar chemical properties, the two proteins different in their ability to inhibit
of isoforms of PLA2 (F6 and F6a). The molecular masses estimated by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry were: crotoxin B: 14,943.14 Da, crotapotin F3:
8,693.24 Da, and crotapotin F4: 9 314.56 Da. The new crotoxin B isoform PLA2 (F6a) contained 122 amino acid residues and a pI of 8.58. Its amino acid sequence presents high identity with those of other
PLA2s, particularly in the calcium binding loop and active site helix 3. It also presents similarities in the C-terminal region
with other myotoxic PLA2s. The new crotoxin B isoform PLA2 (F6a) contained 122 amino acid residues, with a primary structure of HLLQFNKMIK FETRRNAIPP YAFYGCYCGW GGRGRPKDAT DRCCFVHDCC
YGKLAKCNTK WDFYRYSLKS GYITCGKGTW CEEQICECDR VAAECLRRSL STYRYGYMIY PDSRCRGPSE TC. A neuromuscular blocking activity was induced
by crotoxin and new crotoxin B isoform PLA2 (F6a) in the isolated mouse phrenic nerve diaphragm and the biventer cervicis chick nerve-muscle preparation. Whole crotoxin
was devoid of cytolytic activity upon myoblasts and myotubes in vitro, whereas new crotoxin B isoform PLA2 (F6a) was clearly cytotoxic to these cells. 相似文献
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Brief exposure to the protein neurotoxin, β-bungarotoxin, is known to disrupt neuromuscular transmission irreversibly by blocking the release of transmitter from the nerve terminal. This neurotoxin also has a phospholipase A2 activity, although phospholipases in general are not very toxic. To determine if the toxicity of this molecule might result from specific binding to neural tissue, we have looked for high affinity, saturable binding using 125I-labeled toxin. At low membrane protein concentration 125I-labeled toxin binding was directly proportional to the amount of membrane; at fixed membrane concentration 125I-labeled toxin showed saturable binding. It was unlikely that iodination markedly changed the toxin's properties since the iodinated toxin had a comparable binding affinity to that of native toxin as judged by competition experiments. Comparison of toxin binding to brain, liver and red blood cell membranes showed that all had high affinity binding sites with dissociation constants between one and two nanomolar. This is comparable to the concentrations previously shown to inhibit mitochondrial function. However, the density of these sites showed marked variation such that the density of sites was 13.0 pmol/mg protein for a brain membrane preparation, 2.4 pmol/mg for liver and 0.25 pmol/mg for red blood cell membranes.In earlier work we had shown that calcium uptake by brain mitochondria is inhibited at much lower toxin concentrations than is liver mitochondrial uptake. Both liver and brain mitochondria bind toxin specifically, but the density of 125I-labeled toxin binding sites on brain mitochondrial prepartions () exceeded by a factor of ten the density on liver mitochondrial preparations (). It is also shown that the labeled toxin does not cross synaptosomal membranes, suggesting that mitochondria may not be the site of action of the toxin in vivo. We conclude the β-bungarotoxin is an enzyme which can bind specifically with high affinity to cell membranes. 相似文献
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S Nasu F D Wicks S Sakakibara R K Gholson 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1978,84(4):928-935
Two proteins (A and B) from are required for the synthesis of the NAD precursor quinolinate from aspartate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Mammalian liver contains a FAD linked protein which replaces B protein for quinolinate synthesis. D-aspartic acid but not L-aspartic acid is a substrate for quinolinic acid synthesis in a system composed of the B protein replacing activity of mammalian liver and A protein. In contrast the B protein- A protein quinolinate synthetase system requires L-aspartic acid as substrate. The previous report that L-aspartate was a substrate in the liver- system was due to contamination of commercially available [14C]L-aspartate with [14C]D-aspartate. These and other observations suggest that liver B protein is D-aspartate oxidase and B protein is L-aspartate oxidase. 相似文献
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Synthesis of the E. coli pyruvate dehydrogenase complex: non-dependence on 3'-5'-cyclic AMP 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A determination of the level of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in a 3′–5′-c-AMP deficient mutant of K12 has been carried out. The deficiency has no effect on specific activities for derivatives carrying either the inducible genes for two components of the complex or constitutive mutants. We conclude that synthesis of the complex is not sensitive to catabolite repression. 相似文献
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Three binding components have been detected in solubilized extracts of brain tissue. These components have sedimentation coefficients of 9.0S, 15.4S and 17.4S. All three components were degraded by α-chymotrypsin. The addition of butyl alcohol to brain extract suggests an interrelationship of the toxin binding proteins by promoting a simultaneous decrease in the 9S component and increase in the 15.4S and 17.4S components. This transition was also demonstrated by the readdition of isolated fractions of each component to brain extract. 相似文献
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S Sakakibara F D Wicks R K Gholson 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1977,76(1):158-166
contains two proteins (A and B) which together convert dihydroxyacetone phosphate and aspartate to quinolinic acid, a precursor of NAD. Although mammalian liver homogenate does not catalyze this reaction it contains a protein which will replace the B protein of the system. The behavior of the liver protein on Sephadex G-75 suggests it is much smaller than the B protein. Liver B protein also appears to contain tightly bound FAD while FAD is easily removed from the B protein. The pH optimum for the hybrid system A protein-liver B protein is 9.0 while in the pure system the optimum is pH 8.0. The hybrid system is inhibited by NAD to the same extent as the pure system. 相似文献
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Mu-Chin Tzeng Ming Jhy Hseu Jun Hai Yang Richard John Guillory 《The protein journal》1986,5(3):221-228
Snake presynaptic toxins such as crotoxin, β-bungarotoxin and taipoxin block neuromuscular transmission through inhibiting the release of acetylcholine by their phospholipase A2 activities. On the other hand, many other phospholipase A2s show little neurotoxicity. It is likely that the difference lies in whether high affinity binding to nerve cell membranes exists or not. To test this idea, crotoxin, β-bungarotoxin and taipoxin were first radioactively labeled with Na(125I) without loss of their neurotoxicity. Using the radioactive toxins we have found that each of the three showed specific binding to synaptosomal membranes from guinea pig brain. In contrast, we could not detect specific binding of a non-neurotoxic pancreatic phospholipase A2. Crotoxin and taipoxin, but not β-bungarotoxin, also bound specifically to membrane preparation from other tissues. The binding of each toxin was not greatly affected by the other two toxins. The photoaffinity labeling technique has been used to obtain further information about the components which bind crotoxin. For this purpose, (125I) crotoxin was derivatized with N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-4-azidobenzoate. Autoradiographic analysis of the membranes following photoirradiation in the presence of the modified crotoxin revealed that an 85K dalton component was preferentially covalently conjugated with the crotoxin analogue in a specific manner. 相似文献
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M K Pangburn Y Burstein P H Morgan K A Walsh H Neurath 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1973,54(1):371-379
Affinity chromatographic systems are described for the purification of neutral metalloendopeptidases on columns of acetyl--phenylalanine or succinyl--leucine covalently linked to Sepharose by spacers of various lengths. The neutral proteases of are separated in a single chromatographic procedure from all other proteins of the culture filtrates and subfractionated into two active species. An analogous chromatographic system is effective in the purification of thermolysin of . 相似文献
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Peter W. Andrews 《Developmental biology》1984,103(2):285-293
The human embryonal carcinoma cell lines and , clonally derived from Tera-2, differentiate extensively in vitro when exposed to retinoic acid. This differentiation is marked by the appearance of several morphologically distinct cell types and by changes in cell surface phenotype, particularly by the disappearance of stage-specific embryonic antigen-3 (SSEA-3), which is characteristically expressed by human EC cells. Among the differentiated cells are neurons, which form clusters interconnected by extended networks of axon bundles, and which express tetanus toxin receptors and neurofilament proteins. These observations constitute the first instance of extensive somatic differentiation of a clonal human EC cell line in vitro. 相似文献
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F Sánchez-Madrid P Conde D Vázquez J P Ballesta 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1979,87(1):281-291
Two dimensional gel electrophoresis of ribosomal proteins from reveals the presence of three spots in the region corresponding to proteins of high acidic character. Washing the ribosomes with 0.4 M NH4Cl and 50% ethanol, followed by chromatography of the extracted proteins on DEAE-cellulose, indicated the presence of two fractions of acidic proteins; (A and Ax), having very similar molecular weights (12.000–13.000), but phosphorylated to different extents. Fractions A and Ax are immunologically distinct and their immunologic properties differ from acidic proteins found in , rat liver, and ribosomes.Protein A can be resolved into two bands by electrofocusing, and two dimensional gel electrophoresis. The two components correspond to proteins L44 and L45 according to the standard nomenclature. Proteins Ax seems to correspond to the spot that moves above and to the left of L44 and L45 and is at least three times more phosphorylated than these two proteins. 相似文献
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M A McIntosh C L Pickett S S Chenault C F Earhart 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1978,81(4):1106-1112
A novel iron uptake system was observed in pseudorevertants of , strains defective in ferrienterochelin transport. The new system is unique in that it is an active transport system that does not utilize any known siderophore. Acquisition of the new uptake system occurs concomitantly with the loss of two major outer membrane proteins (b and c) believed to function as structural components of transmembrane pores. 相似文献
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Volvatoxin A2, a pore-forming cardiotoxic protein, was isolated from the edible mushroom Volvariella volvacea. Previous studies have demonstrated that volvatoxin A consists of volvatoxin A2 and volvatoxin A1, and the hemolytic activity of volvatoxin A2 is completely abolished by volvatoxin A1 at a volvatoxin A2/volvatoxin A1 molar ratio of 2. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanism by which volvatoxin A1 inhibits the cytotoxicity of volvatoxin A2. Volvatoxin A1 by itself was found to be nontoxic, and furthermore, it inhibited the hemolytic and cytotoxic activities of volvatoxin A2 at molar ratios of 2 or lower. Interestingly, volvatoxin A1 contains 393 amino acid residues that closely resemble a tandem repeat of volvatoxin A2. Volvatoxin A1 contains two pairs of amphipathic alpha-helices but it lacks a heparin-binding site. This suggests that volvatoxin A1 may interact with volvatoxin A2 but not with the cell membrane. By using confocal microscopy, it was demonstrated that volvatoxin A1 could not bind to the cell membrane; however, volvatoxin A1 could inhibit binding of volvatoxin A2 to the cell membrane at a molar ratio of 2. Via peptide competition assay and in conjunction with pull-down and co-pull-down experiments, we demonstrated that volvatoxin A1 and volvatoxin A2 may form a complex. Our results suggest that this occurs via the interaction of one molecule of volvatoxin A1, which contains two amphipathic alpha-helices, with two molecules of volvatoxin A2, each of which contains one amphipathic alpha-helix. Taken together, the results of this study reveal a novel mechanism by which volvatoxin A1 regulates the cytotoxicity of volvatoxin A2 via direct interaction, and potentially provide an exciting new strategy for chemotherapy. 相似文献