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It is shown that biased answers are given by the mathematical method used by Stein and his colleagues (Hankin B. L. Hankin, W. R. Lieb, and W. D. Stein (1972)Biochim. Biophys. Acta288, 114–126) to calculate K21ic, the half-saturation concentration for the entry of glucose into erythrocytes in infinite-cis conditions. A method for calculating K21ic accurately is described and tested. The published estimates of K21ic are low; nevertheless, even when they are revised upwards, the asymmetrical carrier model of glucose transport still fails to satisfy the “rejection criteria” of Hankin et al. (1972).  相似文献   

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The dual wavelength assay technique (H. R. Levy, and G. H. Daouk, 1979, J. Biol. Chem.254, 4843–4847) is used to examine the rates of the NADP- and NAD-linked reactions of Leuconostoc mesenteroides glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase simultaneously under various conditions. Inhibition by ATP, MgATP2?, acetyl-CoA, and palmitoyl-CoA is greatly diminished at high glucose 6-P concentration which favors the NAD-linked reaction. Increasing NADPHNADP+ concentration ratios inhibit the NADP-linked, but stimulate the NAD-linked reaction. The selective effects of glucose 6-P and the NADPHNADP+ concentration ratio, which cannot be detected by conventional assays, are explained in terms of the differing kinetic mechanisms for the NADP-linked and NAD-linked reactions previously described (C. Olive, M. E. Geroch, and H. R. Levy, 1971, J. Biol. Chem.246, 2047–2057). It is proposed that these effects constitute the mechanism whereby the nucleotide specificity of the amphibolic glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides is regulated.  相似文献   

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Migrating cells possess surface glycosyltransferase activity toward extracellular substrates, and the appearance of enzyme activity coincides with the onset of cellular migration (Shur, 1977a, Shur, 1977b, Develop. Biol.58, 23–39, 40–55; E. A. Turley and S. Roth, 1979, Cell17, 109–115). In this paper, surface glycosyltransferases were examined during normal and TT mutant mesenchyme migration. Of six glycosyltransferases that were assayed, only galactosyltransferase was present at significant levels on the cell surface, despite the presence of a variety of intracellular glycosyltransferases. All controls have been performed to show clearly the enzyme activity was cell surface localized. In both normal and TT embryos, surface galactosyltransferase activity was localized, by autoradiography, primarily to migrating mesenchymal cells, and to a lesser degree, to presumptive neural epithelium. During primitive streak formation, putative TT embryos were devoid of surface galactosyltransferase activity. However, as development progressed, the TT level of activity eventually exceeded wild-type levels by two- to sixfold and was evident in TT tissues prior to the onset of microscopic pathology. Other surface enzymes assayed did not show any TT-dependent increase in activity. The extracellular galactosyl acceptors were not chloroform:methanol soluble, and glycopeptides prepared by exhaustive Pronase digestion were excluded from Sephadex G-50. This large galactosylated glycoconjugate was readily digestable with endo-β-galactosidase, and, therefore, is similar to the poly-N-acetyllactosamine chains previously identified on early embryonic tissues (A. Kapadia, T. Feizi, and M. J. Evans, 1981, Exp. Cell. Res.131, 185–195; T. Muramatsu, G. Gachelin, M. Damonneville, C. Delarbre, and F. Jacob, 1979, Cell18, 183–191; A. Heifetz, W. J. Lennarz, B. Libbus, and Y. -C. Hsu, 1980, Develop. Biol.80, 398–408). These results support an involvement of surface galactosyltransferases in mesenchyme formation and during migration on poly-N-acetyllactosamine substrates.  相似文献   

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The use of a “hapten-analog” affinity column, lipoyl-Sepharose, is described for the purification of antibodies directed against biotin. The antibodies bind to biotin very tightly (Kd ? 10?8m) (M. Berger, 1975, Biochemistry14, 2338–2342), and elution of antibody from biotin-Sepharose requires harsh conditions (1–1.5 m acetic acid) and results in a poor yield of antibody, which, upon storage, loses much of its capacity to inhibit the biotin-containing enzyme, transcarboxylase. With lipoyl-Sepharose, the antibody can be eluted in good yield and with high efficacy using 0.1 m acetic acid. In addition, antibody-biotin complexes or complexes of the antibody with biotin enzyme can be eluted directly from antibody-bound lipoyl-Sepharose using solutions of biotin or of biotin-containing enzyme.  相似文献   

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A theory of 1f and conductance noise is given for ionic channels in nerve membrane. The theory is based on the assumption that the channels are in constant, stochastically independent, rotational motion within a fluid bilayer membrane. The resulting expression for the current noise power density S contains a conduction noise term consistent withStevens (1972) and Hill & Chen (1972) and a 1f noise term consistent with Lundstrom & McQueen (1974) and Clay & Shlesinger (1976). The expression for S also contains a third term which is the spectrum of the product of the single channel conduction noise and 1f noise correlation functions. This term is independent of the number of channels in the membrane, R. Consequently, the expression for S effectively reduces to a sum of 1f and conduction noise for R 10–100 which is in agreement with noise measurements on squid axon. The theory is applied in detail to potassium squid noise measurements of Conti, DeFelice & Wanke (1975) using the stochastic analysis of single file ion motion developed in our previous paper (Clay & Shlesinger (1976)).  相似文献   

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Homogeneous preparations of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (EC 4.1.1.39) were isolated from several diploid and tetraploid cultivars of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) by three different purification protocols. The apparent Km values for substrate CO2 were essentially identical for the fully CO2Mg2+-activated diploid and tetraploid enzymes, as were the kinetics for deactivation and activation of the CO2Mg2+ activated and -depleted carboxylases, respectively. Similarly, virtually indistinguishable electrophoretic properties were observed for both the native and dissociated diploid and tetraploid ryegrass proteins, including native and subunit molecular weights and the isoelectric points of the native proteins and the large and small subunit component polypeptides. The quantity of carboxylase protein or total soluble leaf protein did not differ significantly between the diploid and tetraploid cultivars. Contrary to a previous report (M. K. Garrett, 1978, Nature (London)274, 913–915), these results indicate that increased ploidy level (i.e., nuclear gene dosage) has had essentially no effect on the quantity or enzymic and physicochemical properties of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/ oxygenase in perennial ryegrass.  相似文献   

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The Coomassie brilliant blue G assay for proteins described by Bradford (1976) (Anal. Biochem.72, 248) was reexamined. It was found that the extinction coefficient of the dye-protein complex solution remained constant over the protein concentration range of 0.8 to 10 μg/ml of solution. This unchanging extinction coefficient, A595 = 0.60 ± 0.0110 μg of protein/ml of solution, enhances both the sensitivity and versatility of the assay. Selection of a volume of dye-reagent (0.5 to 5.0 ml) which dilutes the protein sample to a final concentration of 0.8 to 10 μg/ml permits the application of Beer's Law for accurate determinations of ≤0.5 to 50 μg of protein. A combination of Bradford's study and the present one indicates that most common laboratory reagents and chemicals exert little or no influence on the A595 of the dye-reagent.  相似文献   

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A modified Hodgkin & Huxley (1952) model for axons was used to simulate smooth muscle action potentials. The modifications were such as to match our own experimental results and published data on the passive and active behavior of smooth muscle.A brief account of the modifications introduced to the HH model is as follows. The resting ionic conductances were obtained from the data of Casteels (1969). Chloride conductance was replaced by an ad hoc leakage conductance (g?L) in order to obtain a resting membrane resistance of about 11 kΩcm2. The ionic equilibrium potentials were according to Kao & Nishiyama (1969). The rate constants m, n and h have similar form to those in axons, but their different numerical values produce action potentials that match the duration of the smooth muscle action potential (about 16 ms) at half its maximum amplitude. The effective membrane capacitance was taken as 2.5 μF/cm2.The results obtained by implementing those smooth muscle parameters in the HH formulation include: (a) a membrane potential that matches the main characteristics of experimentally recorded action potentials in uterine smooth muscle and guinea-pig taenia-coli, and (b) a propagated action potential which, on a cable diameter of 5 μm (similar to the diameter of a single smooth muscle cell), has a speed of propagation within the range of the values experimentally recorded in smooth muscle. This observed velocity of propagation is not compatible with a large cable and it is concluded that “functional units” are not required to sustain propagation of action potentials in smooth muscle.  相似文献   

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Ultrastructural histochemistry instead of acrylamide gel electrophoresis (see R. Yasbin, J. Sawicki, and R. J. MacIntyre, 1978, Develop. Biol. 63, 00-00) is used to determine the time of paternal gene expression for the enzyme acid phosphatase-1 of Drosophila melanogaster in Acph-1nAcph-1B embryos in which the null allele is derived from the female parent. Timed embryos were histochemically stained for acid phosphatase activity according to the lead phosphate method of Gomori and were examined at the ultrastructural level. Enzyme activity, resulting from activation of the paternal Acph-1 gene, is detected as early as 5 hr after fertilization. Maternally derived enzyme in Acph-1BAcph-1B embryos is found principally in the yolk regions and around invaginations. This suggests that acid phosphatase-1 functions in yolk digestion and in cell movements during early embryogenesis.  相似文献   

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Functionally inverted plasma membrane vesieles isolated from the eukaryotic microorganism Neurospora crassa generate and maintain a transmembrane electrical potential via ATP hydrolysis catalyzed by a plasma membrane ATPase (G. A. Scarborough, 1976, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA73, 1485–1488). In order to facilitate investigation of the molecular mechanism of the electrogenic ATPase, and other transport systems, we have developed a method for the large scale isolation and storage of Neurospora plasma membranes in a stable form. Large quantities of open plasma membrane sheets (ghosts) are isolated by a scaled-up modification of the original method (G. A. Scarborough, 1975, J. Biol. Chem.250, 1106–1111) and stored at ?26°C in 60% glycerol (vv). As needed, the ghosts are washed free of glycerol and then converted to closed vesicles by a modification of the original method. With this technique, plasma membrane vesicles with normal electrogenic pump activity can be prepared daily in approximately 2.5 h.  相似文献   

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Fertilization of frog eggs by frog sperm is inhibited if the egg's membrane potential is positive (N. L. Cross and R. P. Elinson, 1980, Dev. Biol.75, 187–198); however, fertilization of salamander eggs by salamander sperm does not depend on membrane potential (M. Charbonneau, M. Moreau, B. Picheral, J. P. Vilain, and P. Guerrier, 1983, Dev. Biol.98, 304–318). Since salamander sperm can fertilize frog eggs, we have investigated whether this cross-fertilization is voltage dependent. If, during insemination with Notophthalmus sperm, Xenopus eggs were voltage clamped between +7 and +20 mV, fertilization proceeded in 710 (70%) of the clamped eggs, compared to 3848 (79%) of the neighboring eggs. In control experiments in which voltage-clamped Xenopus eggs were inseminated with Xenopus sperm, fertilization proceeded in only 110 (10%) of the clamped eggs, compared to 5960 (98%) of the neighbors. Similar results were obtained with cross-fertilization experiments between Notophthalmus sperm and Rana eggs. These experiments indicate that the voltage dependence of fertilization depends on the species of sperm.  相似文献   

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Trehalose-6-phosphate (T-6-P) synthetase activity in extracts of Dictyostelium discoideum has been reexamined in an effort to resolve discrepancies between the results of previous studies (R. Roth and M. Sussman (1966). Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 122, 225; K. A. Killick and B. E. Wright (1972). J. Biol. Chem., 247, 2967). We find that T-6-P synthetase is not cold sensitive as reported by Killick and Wright (1972), is not present in bacterial-grown vegetative cells (though subject to some modulation by other nutritional conditions), and is not in our hands unmasked or activated by ammonium sulfate fractionation. We conclude that the pattern of T-6-P synthetase accumulation and disappearance during fruiting body construction in D. discoideum is as originally described by R. Roth and M. Sussman (1968). J. Biol. Chem., 243, 5081) and confirmed elsewhere (P. C. Newell et al. (1972). J. Mol. Biol., 63, 373; R. W. Brackenbury et al. (1974). J. Mol. Biol., 90, 529; B. D. Hames and J. M. Ashworth (1974). Biochem. J., 142, 301).  相似文献   

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Nuclear protein A24, which is composed of histone H2A and ubiquitin, a nonhistone protein, joined by an isopeptide linkage [Goldknopf and Busch (1977) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA74, 864–868], is found to be ADP-ribosylated in isolated rat liver nuclei.  相似文献   

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This note considers sampling theory for a selectively neutral locus where it is supposed that the data provide nucleotide sequences for the genes sampled. It thus anticipates that technical advances will soon provide data of this form in volume approaching that currently obtained from electrophoresis. The assumption made on the nature of the data will require us to use, in the terminology ofKimura (Theor. Pop. Biol.2, 174–208 (1971)), the “infinite sites” model of Karlin and McGregor (Proc. Fifth Berkeley Symp. Math. Statist. Prob.4, 415–438 (1967)) rather that the “infinite alleles” model of Kimura and Crow (Genetics49, 174–738 (1964)). We emphasize that these two models refer not to two different real-world circumstances, but rather to two different assumptions concerning our capacity to investigate the real world. We compare our results where appropriate with corresponding sampling theory of Ewens (Theor. Pop. Biol.3, 87–112 (1972)) for the “infinite alleles” model. Note finally that some of our results depend on an assumption of independence of behavior at individual sites; a parallel paper byWatterson (submitted for publication (1974)) assumes no recombination between sites. Real-world behavior will lie between these two assumptions, closer to the situation assumed by Watterson than in this note. Our analysis provides upper bounds for increased efficiency in using complete nucleotide sequences.  相似文献   

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Recently, Bode et al. [J. Bode, M. Gómez-Lira, and H. Schröter (1983)Eur. J. Biochem.130, 437–445] have observed that monomeric nucleosomal particles from butyrate-treated Namalva lymphoma cells display a distinct heterogeneity in their mobilities on a non-denaturing 4% polyacrylamide gel. They have proposed that histone hyperacetylation induces a conformational change in monomers that can be modulated by the presence of HMG 1417. The electron microscopic analyses presented here support these proposals.  相似文献   

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Mutations at the bithoraxoid (bxd) and postbithorax (pbx) loci cause a transformation of posterior haltere to posterior wing. It has previously been shown that pbx and pbxUbx101 cause this transformation by affecting the maintenance (or cell heredity function) of determination so that the transformed cells are indistinguishable from normal wing cells, and have no “memory” of having been part of a haltere disk (Adler, 1978a). I report here that Tp(3) bxd100Ubx101 and bxd1, pbx, ew both cause the transformation of posterior haltere to posterior wing in the same way as pbx. On the other hand, bxd1, bxd1Ubx101, bxd51j, bxd51jUbx101, and bxd51jred pbx cause this same transformation of posterior haltere to posterior wing by interfering with the expression of the determined state so that the developmental information of posterior haltere is “misread” as posterior wing. The transformed cells in these disks retain the memory of having been part of a haltere disk; that is, these posterior cells that would secrete wing cuticle during metamorphosis regenerate anterior haltere structures. Thus it appears clear that it is possible to uncouple the expression and cell heredity functions of determination in the haltere disk of Drosophila.  相似文献   

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Acridine orange and proflavine form complexes with the dinucleoside monophosphate, 5-iodocytidylyl(3′–5′)guanosine. The acridine orange-iodoCpG2 crystals are monoclinic, space group P21, with unit cell dimensions a = 14.36 A?, b = 19.64 A?, c = 20.67 A?, β = 102.5 °. The proflavine-iodoCpG crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with unit cell dimensions a = 32.14 A?, b = 22.23 A?, c = 18.42 A?, β = 123.3 °. Both structures have been solved to atomic resolution by Patterson and Fourier methods, and refined by full matrix least-squares.Acridine orange forms an intercalative structure with iodoCpG in much the same manner as ethidium, ellipticine and 3,5,6,8-tetramethyl-N-methyl phenanthrolinium (Jain et al., 1977, Jain et al., 1979), except that the acridine nucleus lies asymmetrically in the intercalation site. This asymmetric intercalation is accompanied by a sliding of base-pairs upon the acridine nucleus and is similar to that observed with the 9-aminoacridine-iodoCpG asymmetric intercalative binding mode described in the previous papers (Sakore et al., 1977, Sakore et al., 1979). Basepairs above and below the drug are separated by about 6.8 Å and are twisted about 10 °; this reflects the mixed sugar puckering pattern observed in the sugar-phospate chains: C3′ endo (3′–5′) C2′ endo (i.e. each cytidine residue has a C3′ endo sugar comformation, while each guanosine residue has a C2′ endo sugar conformation), alterations in glycosidic torsional angles and other small but significant conformational changes in the sugar-phosphate backbone.Proflavine, on the other hand, demonstrates symmetric intercalation with iodoCpG. Hydrogen bonds connect amino groups on proflavine with phosphate oxygen atoms on the dinucleotide. In contrast to the acridine orange structure, base-pairs above and below the intercalative proflavine molecule are twisted about 36 °. The altered magnitude of this angular twist reflects the sugar puckering pattern that is observed: C3′ endo (3′–5′) C3′ endo. Since proflavine is known to unwind DNA in much the same manner as ethidium and acridine orange (Waring, 1970), one cannot use the information from this model system to understand how proflavine binds to DNA (it is possible, for example, that hydrogen bonding observed between proflavine and iodoCpG alters the intercalative geometry in this model system).Instead, we propose a model for proflavine-DNA binding in which proflavine lies asymmetrically in the intercalation site (characterized by the C3′ endo (3′–5′) C2′ endo mixed sugar puckering pattern) and forms only one hydrogen bond to a neighboring phosphate oxygen atom. Our model for proflavine-DNA binding, therefore, is very similar to our acridine orange-DNA binding model. We will describe these models in detail in this paper.  相似文献   

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Using nine different l-aminoacyl-4-nitroanilides and four different dipeptidyl-4-nitroanilides, aminopeptidases and dipeptidyl aminopeptidases active at pH 7.5 and (or) pH 5.5 in logarithmically growing and stationary-phase cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were searched for. Ion-exchange chromatography was used to separate the proteins of the soluble cell extract. Besides the three already-characterized aminopeptidases—aminopeptidase I (P. Matile, A. Wiemken, and W. Guyer (1971) Planta (Berlin)96, 43–53; J. Frey and K. H. Röhm (1978) Biochim. Biophys. Acta527, 31–41), aminopeptidase II (J. Frey and K. H. Röhm (1978) Biochim. Biophys. Acta527, 31–41; J. Knüver (1982) Thesis, Fachbereich Chemie, Marburg, FRG), and aminopeptidase Co (T. Achstetter, C. Ehmann, and D. H. Wolf (1982) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.109, 341–347)—12 additional aminopeptidase activities are found in soluble cell extracts eluting from the ion-exchange column. These activities differ from the characterized aminopeptidases in one or more of the parameters such as charge, size, substrate specificity, inhibition pattern, pH optimum for activity and regulation. Also, a particulate aminopeptidase, called aminopeptidase P, is found in the nonsoluble fraction of disintegrated cells. Besides the described particulate X-prolyl-dipeptidyl aminopeptidase (M. P. Suarez Rendueles, J. Schwencke, N. Garcia-Alvarez and S. Gascon (1981) FEBS Lett.131, 296–300), three additional dipeptidyl aminopeptidase activities of different substrate specificities are found in the soluble extract.  相似文献   

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The distribution of membrane-bound receptors and enzymes between the cell surface and the cell interior can be determined without solubilization or gross disruption of cell organelles in the presence of the nonionic detergent digitonin. This steroid glycoside permeabilizes cells, releases cytoplasmic proteins with subunit molecular weights up to 200,000, and allows exogenous molecules to gain access to intracellular receptors. All cell types examined were affected similarly by digitonin. Permeabilization was complete within 2 min at 0°C and did not require the continued presence of digitonin. A characteristic amount of protein (~50%) was lost between 0.02 and 0.08% (wv) digitonin. Three independent systems were examined: the insulin receptor in 3T3 fibroblasts and the asialoglycoprotein receptor and the Na+K+-ATPase in rat hepatocytes. In each case an increase in the specific activity of enzyme/receptor occurred over a range of detergent concentration in which the retention of cell protein was constant and virtually no solubilization of membrane-bound activity occurred. The binding of 125I-asialo-orosomucoid to rat hepatocytes at 0°C in the presence of digitonin was linear with cell number and kinetically indistinguishable from binding to intact cells. Receptors exposed by digitonin were shown to be intracellular by light microscopic examination of permeabilized cells first treated with antiserum to the receptor and then with a second antibody horseradish peroxidase conjugate. The use of digitonin has many advantages over procedures which require total cell disruption or solubilization to assess intracellular receptors. The technique has already been valuable in studies on recycling and endocytosis mediated by the asialoglycoprotein receptor (P. H. Weigel and J. A. Oka (1983)J. Biol. Chem.258, 5095–5102) and should also be useful in studies with other membrane-bound receptors and enzymes in other cell types.  相似文献   

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