Proteins of Polyhedral Cytoplasmic Deoxyvirus II. Nucleotide Phosphohydrolase Activity Associated with Frog Virus 3

A nucleotide phosphohydrolase is firmly associated with a purified polyhedral cytoplasmic deoxyvirus, frog virus 3. This adenosine triphosphatase is distinguishable from known mammalian cell adenosine triphosphatases and from adenosine triphosphatase of an unrelated cytoplasmic replicating virus grown in the same host cell. The enzyme activity has a high specificity for adenosine triphosphate; the product of the reaction is adenosine diphosphate. The presence of similar activities in reovirus and poxvirus indicates that adenosine triphosphatase might have a function in the replication of these viruses.     

Histochemical Localization of Phosphatases in Mycoplasma gallisepticum

Histochemical studies of adenosine triphosphatase and acid phosphatase activity were performed on Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The adenosine triphosphatase activity appears to be localized in the bleb and infrableb regions exclusively and is associated with the cell membrane; acid phosphatase activity is localized in the infrableb region and does not appear to be membrane-associated. These findings are consistent with data from biochemical studies of Mycoplasma cell fractions but, unlike them, reveal that adenosine triphosphatase activity is restricted to a particular part of the cell membrane.     

Biochemical studies on the origin of the ATPase of the avian myeloblastosis virus

The adenosine triphosphatase activity of the avian myeloblastosis virus obtained from the blood of the virus-infected chicken was compared with that of the host cell myeloblasts. The specific activity of the viral enzyme is unusually higher than that of the myeloblasts. A significant difference in inhibitor sensitivity was observed with quercetin. When the virus was grown in chicken embryonic fibroblasts in culture, the resulting virus showed very little adenosine triphosphatase activity, comparable to that of the fibroblasts and similar sensitivity to inhibitors. Antibody raised against the purified enzyme of avian myeloblastosis virus inhibits the enzyme activity of the myeloblasts while the activity of the fibroblasts enzyme as well as that of fibroblast-grown virus remains unaffected.     

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE OBSERVATIONS ON THE SURFACE ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE-LIKE ENZYMES OF HELA CELLS INFECTED WITH HERPES VIRUS

HeLa cells infected with herpes simplex virus have been examined in thin sections by electron microscopy after cytochemical staining for the presence of surface enzymes splitting adenosine triphosphate. As with uninfected HeLa cultures (18), the opaque enzyme reaction product was localized at the plasma membranes of about half the cells, tending to be present where there were microvilli and absent on smooth surfaces. Where mature extracellular herpes particles were found in association with cell membranes showing the enzyme activity, they were invariably likewise stained, and conversely, those mature particles which lay close against cells without reaction product at the surface were themselves free of it. Particles found budding into cytoplasmic vacuoles were also always without opaque deposit since this was never seen at vacuolar membranes, even in cells having the activity at the surface. The enzyme reaction product thus provided a marker indicating the manner in which the particles escape from cells and mature by budding out through cellular membranes, carrying, in the process, a portion of the latter on to themselves to form the outer viral limiting membrane. In some instances, virus particles were observed with more opaque material covering them than was present at the cell membrane with which they were associated. This finding has been taken as evidence for a physiological waxing and waning of surface enzyme activity of adenosine triphosphatase type. The fine structure of the mature extracellular virus as prepared here, using glutaraldehyde fixation, is also recorded. The observations and interpretations are discussed in full.     

Protection of Vaccinia from Heat Inactivation by Nucleotide Triphosphates

The presence of adenosine triphosphate, guanosine triphosphate, cytosine triphosphate, or uridine triphosphate reduced the rate of inactivation of vaccinia when heated at 50 C. The virus-associated nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolases (adenosine triphosphatase, guanosine triphosphatase, cytosine triphosphatase, and uridine triphosphatase) and ribonucleic acid polymerase were also protected from heat inactivation by these compounds. These obervations are best explained by postulating that ribonucleoside triphosphates bind to enzymes in the virus particle, and that these enzyme-substrate complexes are more resistant to thermal denaturation than are the enzymes without their substrates. The kinetics of heat inactivation of the vaccinia ATP phosphohydrolase activity is biphasic, suggesting that there are two proteins in the vaccinia particle that have this enzyme activity but they have different kinetics of heat inactivation. Any of the vaccinia-associated nucleotide phosphohydrolase activities are protected from heat inactivation by the presence of any one of the respective nucleoside triphosphates. This observation suggests that there is a single enzymatic site in vaccinia that is able to react with any ribonucleoside triphosphate.     

Adenosine triphosphatase activity of mycoplasma membranes

Rottem, Shlomo (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), and Shmuel Razin. Adenosine triphosphatase activity of mycoplasma membranes. J. Bacteriol. 92:714-722. 1966.-Adenosine triphosphatase activity of Mycoplasma laidlawii, M. gallisepticum, and Mycoplasma sp. strain 14 was confined to the cell membrane. The enzymatic activity was dependent on magnesium, but was not activated by sodium and potassium. Ouabain did not inhibit the adenosine triphosphatase activity of the mycoplasmas, and did not interfere with the active accumulation of potassium by M. laidlawii cells. Sulfhydryl-blocking reagents and fluoride inhibited the enzymatic activity, whereas 2,4-dinitrophenol was without any effect. Membranes of M. laidlawii hydrolyzed other nucleotide triphosphates and adenosine diphosphate (ADP), but at a lower rate than adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Nucleoside-2'-(3')-phosphates, ribose-5-phosphate, glucose-6-phosphate, and pyrophosphate were not hydrolyzed by the membrane preparations. It seems that the enzyme(s) involved in ATP hydrolysis by M. laidlawii membranes is strongly bound to the membrane subunits, which would account for the failure to purify the enzyme by protein fractionation techniques. The adenosine triphosphatase activity of mycoplasma membranes resembles in its properties that of similar enzymes studied in bacteria. The mycoplasma enzyme(s) seems to differ from the adenosine triphosphatase associated with ion transport in mammalian cell membranes and from mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase.     

Anisakis simplex: uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in the muscle mitochondria of infected fish

Adenosine triphosphatase activity stimulated by Mg2+ was greater in muscle mitochondria of fish infected with larval Anisakis simplex nematodes than in uninfected fish. When muscle mitochondria were isolated in a sucrose ethylene-glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)N,N'-tetraacetic acid medium from fresh uninfected fish, they were loosely coupled, and their adenosine triphosphatase activity was comparable to that of mitochondria from rat tissue. Activity in infected fish was dose dependent, increasing with the number of worms per fish. Excretory secretory products or a cytoplasmic fraction of anisakines, when incubated with coupled rat mitochondria, also caused adenosine triphosphatase activity to increase. Storage of fish flesh caused an increase in adenosine triphosphatase activity, but such aging was not significant until 5 and 10 days after death in refrigerated and frozen samples, respectively. The Mg2+ stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity of muscle mitochondria can be used to estimate the number of nematodes per market fish. The type of medium used to isolate the mitochondria is crucial in such studies; an ionic medium with Nagarse proteinase was optimal for fish muscle mitochondria.     

Relative deficiency of Ca2 plus-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity of red cell membranes in hereditary spherocytosis

The Ca²⁺-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity associated with the plasma membrane of normal human erythrocytes is similar to that of erythrocytes from patients with hereditary spherocytosis. When spherocytic ghosts are compared to age-matched controls, however, they show a significantly decreased Ca²⁺-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity. The role of the relative deficiency of Ca²⁺-dependent adenosine triphosphatase in spherocytic ghosts is discussed in the light of the effects of intracellular [Ca²⁺] on the deformability and the rigidity of the cell membrane. This enzyme may be involved in the molecular mechanism of hereditary spherocytosis.     

Phospholipid-protein interactions in the Ca2+-adenosine triphosphatase of sarcoplasmic reticulum.

Ca2+-adenosine triphosphatase from sarcoplasmic reticulum has been delipidated by gel filtration through a Sephadex G-200 column equilibrated with buffer containing cholate. The delipidated Ca2+-adenosine triphosphatase had negligible adenosine triphosphatase activity, but up to 50% of the ATPase activity was restored when the delipidated enzyme was recombined with phosphilipids. It was shown with the delipidated preparation that the phosphorylation of the enzyme by either ATP or Pi was entirely dependent on phospholipids. Among the purified phospholipids, phosphatidylcholine reactivated the adenosine triphosphatase activity better than phosphatidylethanolamine. Vesicles capable of translocating Ca2+ were reconstituted from delipidated Ca2+-adenosine triphosphatase and phosphatidylethanolamine, but not with phosphatidylcholine alone. We conclude that the firmly bound phospholipids which are purified together with the adenosine triphosphatase protein are not essential for the pump since they can be substituted by phosphatidylethanolamine isolated from soybeans.     

Membrane adenosine triphosphatase in synchronous cultures of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Studies of intracytoplasmic membrane biogenesis utilizing synchronized cultures of Rhodobacter sphaeroides have revealed that most intracytoplasmic membrane proteins accumulate continuously throughout the cell cycle while new phospholipid appears discontinuously within the intracytoplasmic membrane. The resulting changes in the structure of the membrane lipids was proposed to influence the activities of enzymes associated with the intracytoplasmic membranes (Wraight, C.A., Leuking, D.R., Fraley, R.T. and Kaplan, S. (1978) J. Biol. Chem. 253, 465-471). We have extended the study of intracytoplasmic membrane biogenesis in R. sphaeroides to include the membrane adenosine triphosphatase. The membrane bound Mg2+-dependent, oligomycin-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase activity was measured throughout the cell cycle for steady-state synchronized cells of R. sphaeroides and found to accumulate discontinuously. Following treatment with an uncoupling reagent (2,4-dinitrophenol) the intracytoplasmic membrane associated adenosine triphosphatase activity was stimulated uniformly in membranes isolated at different stages of the cell cycle. The adenosine triphosphatase was also measured by quantitative immunoblots utilizing specific antibody to compare the enzyme activity and enzyme protein mass. Immunologic measurement of the adenosine triphosphatase in isolated membranes indicated a constant ratio of enzyme to chromatophore protein exists during the cell cycle in contrast to the discontinuous accumulation of adenosine triphosphatase activity. These results are discussed in light of the cell-cycle specific synthesis of the intracytoplasmic membrane.     

Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Dependent Nucleotide Phosphohydrolase Activity in Purified Vaccinia Virus

A nucleotide phosphohydrolase (adenosine triphosphatase), which is associated with vaccinia virus cores, has been solubilized and shown to be deoxyribonucleic acid dependent.     

Membrane-associated, energy-linked reactions in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.

Disrupted cells of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus exhibited adenosine triphosphatase activity, 60 to 80% of which was in the soluble fraction. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide did not inhibit the adenosine triphosphatase activity in membrane particles. The particles did not show energy-linked transhydrogenase activity. The activity of non-energy-linked transhydrogenase as well as the rate of oxygen consumption were higher in membrane particles of the host-independent strain than in the host-dependent strains. The uptake of amino acid uptake was inhibited by cyanide and by carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenyl hydrazone. Valinomycin, in the presence of K+, did not inhibit the uptake, and only partial inhibition was exerted by arsenate and dicyclohexylarbodiimide. Sulfhydryl reagents inhibited amino acid uptake.     

Schistosoma mansoni: fine structural localization of tegumental adenosine triphosphatases

The distribution of Ca2+-dependent adenosine triphosphatase (EC 3.6.1.3.) and nonspecific (Na-K-Mg) adenosine triphosphatase activity in the tegument and subtegumental tissues of Schistosoma mansoni from both mixed and single sex infections was investigated cytochemically. Differences in the distribution of tegumental Ca-adenosine triphosphatase activity in 60- to 70-day-old female worms were found which could be related to the degree of sexual development in the two types of females, with little or no tegumental activity being found in 70-day-old females from single sex infections. In contrast, 28-day-old females from single sex infections showed low levels of tegumental Ca-adenosine triphosphatase activity, suggesting that the lack of tegumental activity in 70-day-old single sex females may be due to a loss or suppression of activity as a consequence of the failure of females in single sex infections to pair and develop to full sexual maturity. No differences in the distribution of nonspecific (Na-K-Mg) adenosine triphosphatase activity between females from mixed and single sex infections were found. The sexual status or age of male worms appeared to have little or no effect on the distribution of tegumental adenosine triphosphatases.     

Human erythrocyte calmodulin. Further chemical characterization and the site of its interaction with the membrane.

Human erythrocyte and bovine brain calmodulins were indistinguishable by tryptic peptide mapping, indicating that the primary sequence of the two proteins is either very similar or identical. Calcium binding determinations of human erythrocyte calmodulin, by equilibrium dialysis and fluorescence titration, were in close agreement with previous studies on other calmodulins. The calcium-activated adenosine triphosphatase which is stimulated by calmodulin was shown to be firmly associated with smooth erythrocyte plasma membranes devoid of spectrin and actin. Kinetic titration demonstrated that there are 4500 calmodulin binding sites per erythrocyte and that the turnover number of this calcium-activated adenosine triphosphatase is 3000 mumol of Pi . (mumol of site)-1 . min-1 which is similar to the turnover numbers of other transport adenosine triphosphatases. Furthermore, calmodulin stimulates calcium-activated adenosine triphosphatase by a simple enzyme-ligand association.     

Mode of inhibition of mitochondrial energy transduction by chlorophenoxyisobutyrate

1. alpha-p-Chlorophenoxyisobutyric acid, the ethyl ester of which is widely used as an antihypercholesterolaemic drug, is an inhibitor of energy-transfer reactions in isolated rat liver mitochondria. 2. The compound at lower concentrations (<4.0mumol/mg of mitochondrial protein) inhibits state 3 oxidation, stimulates state 4 oxidation, abolishes respiratory control and stimulates the latent adenosine triphosphatase activity of mitochondria. The inhibition imposed on state 3 oxidation is relieved by dinitrophenol. 3. At higher concentrations it inhibits coupled phosphorylation as well as dinitrophenol-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity. The inhibition of state 3 oxidation under these conditions is not reversed by uncouplers. 4. The three coupling sites of phosphorylation exhibit differential susceptibility to inactivation by this compound. Coupled phosphorylation at the first site is abolished at a drug concentration of 3.0mumol/mg of protein. The third site is inactivated when the concentration of the drug reaches 5.0mumol/mg of protein. The second site is the most refractory and drug concentrations of the order of 10.0mumol/mg of protein are required effectively to inhibit phosphorylation at this site. 5. The compound also inhibits ATP-dependent reversal of electron transport as well as the adenosine triphosphatase activity in submitochondrial particles. 6. The oxidation of NADH and succinate in these particles is not inhibited. 7. These properties indicate that the compound acts as an ;inhibitory uncoupler' of energy-transfer reactions in isolated mitochondria.     

Localization of Adenosine Triphosphatase Activity on the Chloroplast Envelope in Tendrils of Pisum sativum

When samples of pea tendril tissue were incubated in the Wachstein-Meisel medium for the demonstration of adenosine triphosphatases, deposits of lead reaction product were localized between the membranes of the chloroplast envelope. The presence of Mg²⁺ was necessary for adenosine triphosphatase activity, and Ca²⁺ could not substitute for this requirement. Varying the pH of incubation to 5.5 or 9.4 inhibited enzyme activity, as did the addition of p-chloromercuribenzoic acid or N-ethylmaleimide. The adenosine triphosphatase was apparently inactivated or degraded when the plants were grown in the dark for 24 hours prior to incubation. The enzyme was substrate-specific for adenosine triphosphate; no reaction was obtained with adenosine diphosphate, uridine triphosphate, inosine triphosphate, p-nitrophenyl phosphate, and sodium β-glycerophosphate. Sites of nonspecific depositions of lead are described. The adenosine triphosphatase on the chloroplast envelope may be involved in the light-induced contraction of this organelle.     

A simple procedure for isolating adenosine triphosphatase from mitochondria

A simple method for isolation of adenosine triphosphatase (EC 3.6.1.3) from mitochondria is described. The enzyme is released from mitochondrial Lubrol particles by drastic sonication and purified by gel filtration on Sepharose 6-B. The described procedure is effective in isolating adenosine triphosphatase from rat liver as it is from beef heart mitochondria. The enzyme isolated from beef heart has a specific activity of 120 μmol P/min per mg protein and enzyme isolated from rat liver has a specific activity of 70 μmol P/min per mg protein when measured as a release of inorganic phosphate.     

Preparation and general properties of a soluble adenosine triphosphatase from mitochondria

1. The purification of an adenosine triphosphatase present in aqueous extracts of acetone-dried ox-heart mitochondria is described. 2. No evidence was found for the presence of more than one protein having adenosine-triphosphatase activity in these extracts. 3. The enzyme is less stable at 0 degrees than at 25 degrees but is stabilized by glycerol. 4. The activity is dependent on the presence of Mg(2+) or certain other bivalent metal cations. 5. The adenosine-triphosphatase activity of the Mg(2+)-activated enzyme is enhanced by 2,4-dinitrophenol. 6. The kinetics of Mg(2+) activation indicate that the ATP-Mg(2+) complex is the important substrate: free ATP and Mg(2+) are inhibitory. 7. This preparation of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase has many properties in common with the adenosine triphosphatase coupling factor from mitochondria (Racker, 1961).     

Guanidine-sensitive Na+ accumulation by poliovirus-infected HeLa cells.

The Na+ content of poliovirus-infected HeLa S3 cells increased during the late phase of virus replication, after virus inhibition of host cell protein synthesis and in coincidence with late viral functions. Guanidine hydrochloride blocked the rise in Na+ content, whereas the antiguanidine agent choline fully reversed the guanidine block. Expression of one or more late viral functions was essential for Na+ accumulation to occur because accumulation was inhibited by cycloheximide or guanidine added to the infected culture during the late phase. Increased adenosine triphosphatase activity appears to be primarily responsible for Na+ accumulation by virus-infected cells.     

Characterization of cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatases.

The catalytic properties of cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase have been analysed. The pH profile, effect of inhibitors, cold-stability and substrate specificity are characteristic of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatases, although a high guanosine triphosphatase activity does appear to be restricted to plant mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatases. The kinetic properties of nucleoside 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis by membrane-bound and soluble enzymes have been studied by means of double-reciprocal plots. These plots were linear in the absence of an activating anion, which may indicate that the catalytic and/or regulatory mechanism of Arum maculatum adenosine triphosphatase is different from that of other enzyme preparations. It is suggested that the differences in subunit composition of plant and mammalian adenosine triphosphatases reported previously [Dunn, Slabas & Moore (1985) Biochem. J. 225, 821-824] are structurally, rather than functionally, significant.