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Levels of phosphomonoester (PME), phosphodiester (PDE), ATP and pH in brain cells of chicken embryos rotated for 24 h in a clinostat during the period of hatching the 13th day (E13) and 15th day (E15) embryos were investigated by using 31P-NMR spectroscopy. Significant increases in the values of PME, ATP and pH were identified after E13 rotating for 24 h. With the same treatment, differences were obtained in the phospholipid and energy metabolism of E15, but no significant levels have been reached . The calorimetric assay (malachite green method) was used for measuring the activity of total ATPase. A dramatic decrease was evident in the activity of ATPase in brain cells of rotated E13 and E15. The former is more sensitive than the latter. All the levels mentioned above could restore in 24 h after the rotation stopped, except that the level of ATP was still higher than the control. 相似文献
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Levels of phosphomonoester (PME), phosphodiester (PDE), ATP and pH in brain cells of chicken embryos rotated for 24 h in a clinostat during the period of hatching the 13th day (E13) and 15th day (E15) embryos were investigated by using 31P-NMR spectroscopy. Significant increases in the values of PME, ATP and pH were identified after E13 rotating for 24 h. With the same treatment, differences were obtained in the phospholipid and energy metabolism of E15, but no significant levels have been reached . The calorimetric assay (malachite green method) was used for measuring the activity of total ATPase. A dramatic decrease was evident in the activity of ATPase in brain cells of rotated E13 and E15. The former is more sensitive than the latter. All the levels mentioned above could restore in 24 h after the rotation stopped, except that the level of ATP was still higher than the control. 相似文献
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用回转器旋转鸡胚蛋研究对脑细胞的模拟微重力生物效应.采用连续荧光法测量孵化10 d(E10)和孵化13 d(E13)鸡胚的脑细胞谷氨酸的初始释放速率、在KCl去极化及单个电脉冲刺激后的释放速率和释放量以及谷氨酸的含量,并对旋转处理组和静止对照组进行了比较.结果如下:旋转组和对照组脑细胞的谷氨酸初始释放速率没有显著差异,E10鸡胚经24 h旋转后,在KCl刺激下脑细胞的谷氨酸释放速率和释放量皆高于对照组,经4 h旋转后谷氨酸含量显著增高(P<0.01);但旋转24 h的E13鸡胚上述指标皆无显著改变,表明微重力对鸡胚脑细胞神经递质释放的影响与胚龄有关.鸡胚脑细胞在电脉冲刺激下谷氨酸释放的动态过程表明:脉冲电场引起的谷氨酸释放与细胞内钙离子迅速增加有关. 相似文献
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Sharon P. Andreoli Coleen P. Mallett James A. McAteer Stephen A. Kempson Naomi Fineberg 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》1998,34(10):824-830
Summary In renal tubular epithelial cells, oxidant injury results in several metabolic alterations including ATP depletion, decreased
Na+K+ ATPase activity, and altered intracellular sodium and potassium content. To investigate the recovery of LLC-PK1 cells following
oxidant injury and to determine if recovery can be accelerated, we induced oxidant stress in LLC-PK1 cells with 500 μM hydrogen peroxide for 60 min. Identical cohorts of oxidant-stressed cells were incubated in recovery medium without epidermal
growth factor (EGF) or recovery medium containing 25 ng EGF per ml. ATP levels, Na+K+ ATPase activity in whole cells, Na+K+ ATPase activity in disrupted cells, and intracellular sodium and potassium ion content were determined at 0, 5, 24, 48, and
72 h following oxidant injury in each cohort of cells. In oxidant-stressed cells recovering in medium without EGF, ATP levels,
Na+K+ ATPase activity, and intracellular ion content improved but continued to remain substantially lower than control values at
all time points following oxidant stress. In cells recovering in medium with EGF, ATP levels, Na+K+ ATPase activity, and the intracellular potassium-to-sodium ratio were significantly higher at nearly all time points than
values in cells recovering in medium alone. In cells recovering with added EGF, Na+K+ ATPase activity had improved to control levels, whereas ATP levels and intracellular ion content approached control values
by 72 h following oxidant stress. We conclude that oxidant-mediated ATP depletion, altered Na+K+ ATPase activity, and intracellular ion content remain depressed for several d following oxidant stress and that EGF accelerated
recovery of LLC-PK1 cells from oxidant injury. 相似文献
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K J Chacko 《Acta anatomica》1977,97(4):379-386
Timed pregnancies were obtained in Sprague-Dawley rats, and cardiac tissues from embryos of days 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and from newborn rats were used for the cytochemical localization of ATPase activity utilizing a lead phosphate precipitation procedure. Following incubation with ATP as the substrate, granular deposits of reaction product are discernible on the cell membranes of the embryonic myocardium. There is a noticeable decrease in the intensity of reaction product as visualized in the electron micrographs from the 10th day of gestation to the 14th day. No granular reaction product is recognizable in myofibrils, mitochondria or other organelles in the cytoplasm. It appears that there is a selective deposition of the reaction product on the cell membranes or structures derived from it. The intense ATPase activity seen on 10th and 11th days seems to be correlated with the initial appearance of myofilaments and fibrils in the myocardial cells. 相似文献
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Pincetich CA Viant MR Hinton DE Tjeerdema RS 《Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP》2005,140(1):103-113
In vivo (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) was used to determine phosphometabolite changes in medaka (Oryzias latipes) during embryogenesis and hypoxia. NMR data were acquired using a flow-through NMR tube perfusion system designed to both deliver oxygenated water to embryos and accommodate a hypoxic challenge. Measurements of embryogenesis at 12- and 24-h intervals throughout 8 days of development (n = 3 per time point, 900 embryos per replicate) and during acute hypoxia (n = 6, 900 embryos at Iwamatsu stage 37 per replicate) were performed via NMR, and replicate samples (n = 4, 250 embryos each) were flash frozen for HPLC analysis. The hypoxic challenge experiment consisted of data acquisition with recirculating water (pre-hypoxic control period; 1 h), without recirculating water (hypoxic challenge; 1 h), then again with recirculating water (recovery period; 1.3 h). Concentrations of ATP, phosphocreatine (PCr), orthophosphate (P(i)), phosphomonoesters (PME), phosphodiesters (PDE), and intracellular pH (pH(i)) were determined by NMR, and ATP, ADP, AMP, GTP, GDP, and PCr were also determined via HPLC. During embryogenesis, [ATP] and [PCr] as determined by HPLC increased from 1-day post fertilization (DPF) levels of 0.93+/-0.08 and 2.48+/-0.21 micromol/mg (dry tissue), respectively, to 7.24+/-0.77 and 15.66+/-1.08 micromol/mg, respectively, by day 8. [ATP] and [PCr] measured by both NMR and HPLC fluctuated over 1-3 DPF, then increased significantly (p<0.05) over 3-8 DPF, while [PME] and [PDE] decreased (p<0.05) throughout embryogenesis. NMR and HPLC measurements revealed 1-3, 4-5, and 6-8 DPF as periods of embryogenesis significantly different from each other (p<0.05), and representing important transitions in metabolism and growth. During hypoxic challenge, [ATP] and [PCr] declined (p<0.05), [PME] and [PDE] decreased slightly, and [P(i)] increased (p<0.05). All phosphometabolites returned to pre-hypoxia concentrations during recovery. The pH(i) decreased (p<0.05) from 7.10+/-0.03 to 6.94+/-0.03 as a result of hypoxia, and failed to return to pre-hypoxic levels within the 1.3-h recovery phase. Results demonstrate the utility of in vivo (31)P NMR to detect significant alterations in phosphorylated nucleotides and phosphometabolites at specific developmental stages during medaka development and that late-stage medaka utilize PCr to generate ATP under hypoxic conditions. 相似文献
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J Sedlácek 《Physiologia Bohemoslovaca》1986,35(5):427-436
The effects of the acute and chronic administration of a pure opioid antagonist--naltrexone--was studied in chick embryos from the 4th to the 19th day of incubation. In acute administration, naltrexone (40 mg/kg egg weight) induced paroxysmal activation of spontaneous motility in both normal and spinal embryos from the 13th-15th day of incubation. Activation attained 3- to 4-fold the resting activity of chick embryos of the same ages. The chronic administration of naltrexone (7.46 +/- 1.18 mg/kg e.w. per 24 h) from the 4th to the 16th day of incubation was not manifested either in the embryos' somatic development or in the weight of the brain hemispheres, but it depressed the development of spontaneous motility to 26.1-75.8% of the activity of the control embryos. This developmental effect was not demonstrably correlated either to the length of time for which naltrexone was administered, or to when, in the course of incubation, it was administered to the chick embryos. The results are evaluated as evidence of the participation of opioid elements in the development and effectuation of central motor input functions in the early stages of ontogenetic development. 相似文献
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Margarita Cid-Hernández Ana C Ramírez-Anguiano Genaro G Ortiz Eddic W Morales-Sánchez Luis J González-Ortiz Sandra F Velasco-Ramírez Fermín P Pacheco-Moisés 《Biological research》2015,48(1)
Background
Karwinskia humboldtiana (Kh) is a poisonous plant of the rhamnacea family. To elucidate some of the subcellular effects of Kh toxicity, membrane fluidity and ATPase activities as hydrolytic and as proton-pumping activity were assessed in rat liver submitochondrial particles. Rats were randomly assigned into control non-treated group and groups that received 1, 1.5 and 2 g/Kg body weight of dry powder of Kh fruit, respectively. Rats were euthanized at day 1 and 7 after treatment.Results
Rats under Kh treatment at all dose levels tested, does not developed any neurologic symptoms. However, we detected alterations in membrane fluidity and ATPase activity. Lower dose of Kh on day 1 after treatment induced higher mitochondrial membrane fluidity than control group. This change was strongly correlated with increased ATPase activity and pH gradient driven by ATP hydrolysis. On the other hand, membrane fluidity was hardly affected on day 7 after treatment with Kh. Surprisingly, the pH gradient driven by ATPase activity was significantly higher than controls despite an diminution of the hydrolytic activity of ATPase.Conclusions
The changes in ATPase activity and pH gradient driven by ATPase activity suggest an adaptive condition whereby the fluidity of the membrane is altered. 相似文献9.
Brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) from the midgut epithelial cells of silkworm larvae were prepared. ATP hydrolyzing activity (ATPase activity) was associated with the BBMV. ATPase activity without Mg2 + was not observed at pH 7 but substantial ATP hydrolyzing activity was observed at pH 7 with Mg2 +. The enzyme required Mn2 +, Mg2 +, or Ca2+ ions. The enzyme also hydrolyzed ITP and GTP but not p-NPP, ADP, or AMP. KNO3 and NEM strongly inhibited the ATPase activity. Behaviours of the ATPase against inhibitors suggested that it resembled vacuolar type ATPase. 相似文献
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Wenrong Chen Peng Liu Gendi Xu Miaozhen Cai Huina Yu Minyan Chen 《Acta Physiologiae Plantarum》2008,30(3):303-308
Root border cells (RBC) are cells surrounding the root apex. They are functionally different from the apex and are considered
to play a role in the protection of the root tip from biotic and abiotic stresses. We investigated RBC viability, formation,
and pectin methylesterase (PME) activity of the root caps during RBC development in cowpea (Vigna ungniculata ssp. sesquipedalis) under aeroponic culture. The results showed that the border cells formed almost synchronously with the emergence of the
root tip. The number of border cells reached the maximum when roots were approximately 15 mm long. Pectin methylesterase (PME)
activity of the root cap peaked at a root length of 1 mm. Root border cells separated from the root cap died within 24 h under
Al3+ stress while those still attached to the root cap maintained 85% viability at 48 h after treatment. The PME activity did
not differ significantly under different Al3+ treatments. 相似文献
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The impacts of unnatural every day cycles (circadian) for 60 days on the histological structure of kidneys and ATPase activities in MF1 mice were studied. The exposure times were 16 h dark, 16 h light, 24 h dark, and 24 h light, and control exposure times were 12 h dark followed by 12 h light. Our results showed an increase in the total ATPase activity of mice in all groups. Additionally, the activity of the enzyme Na+/K+-ATPase was increased after 24 h darkness, 24 h light, and 16 h light exposures compared to control. The enzyme Mg+2-ATPase activities of the groups were higher when exposed to 16 h light, 24 h light, 24 h darkness and 16 h darkness. The activities of total ATPase, Na+/K+-ATPase and Mg+2-ATPase in kidneys were increased in all groups after 24 h light, 24 h darkness, 16 h darkness and 16 h light exposures. Interestingly, the activity of V-type ATPase was reduced after 16 h darkness, 24 h darkness and 16 h light. Taking everything into account, changes in the day by day cycle prompt neurotic changes, enzymatic and histological changes in the kidneys of mice. More studies should be directed to explore the impacts of light and darkness that can prompt these progressions. 相似文献
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Bioenergetic Mechanism for Nisin Resistance, Induced by the Acid Tolerance Response of Listeria monocytogenes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Marcelo Bonnet Mohamed M. Rafi Michael L. Chikindas Thomas J. Montville 《Applied microbiology》2006,72(4):2556-2563
This study examined the bioenergetics of Listeria monocytogenes, induced to an acid tolerance response (ATR). Changes in bioenergetic parameters were consistent with the increased resistance of ATR-induced (ATR+) cells to the antimicrobial peptide nisin. These changes may also explain the increased resistance of L. monocytogenes to other lethal factors. ATR+ cells had lower transmembrane pH (ΔpH) and electric potential (Δψ) than the control (ATR−) cells. The decreased proton motive force (PMF) of ATR+ cells increased their resistance to nisin, the action of which is enhanced by energized membranes. Paradoxically, the intracellular ATP levels of the PMF-depleted ATR+ cells were ~7-fold higher than those in ATR− cells. This suggested a role for the FoF1 ATPase enzyme complex, which converts the energy of ATP hydrolysis to PMF. Inhibition of the FoF1 ATPase enzyme complex by N′-N′-1,3-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide increased ATP levels in ATR− but not in ATR+ cells, where ATPase activity was already low. Spectrometric analyses (surface-enhanced laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry) suggested that in ATR+ listeriae, the downregulation of the proton-translocating c subunit of the FoF1 ATPase was responsible for the decreased ATPase activity, thereby sparing vital ATP. These data suggest that regulation of FoF1 ATPase plays an important role in the acid tolerance response of L. monocytogenes and in its induced resistance to nisin. 相似文献
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J Sedlácek 《Physiologia Bohemoslovaca》1975,24(3):229-237
The development of the physicochemical properties of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was studied in chick embryos from the 9th day of incubation up to hatching. Some of these properties were compared with the corresponding blood or blood plasma properties. During the second half of incubation the CSF pressure rose from 13.2 plus or minus 0.18 mm H2O in 9-day-old embryos to 80.7 plus or minus 0.48 mm H2O just prior to hatching. The critical stages of this development were the 13th to 15th and the 19th to 21st day of incubation. In 13- and 15-day-old embryos, CSF pressure fell sharply after the intracerebral injection of ouabain, but in 19-day embryos it was unaffected. Except for the 15th and 19th incubation day, the CSF pH was always lower than the plasma pH. From the 11th day of incubation up to hatching, the CSF pH fell from 7.36 plus or minus 0.002 to 7.2 plus or minus 0.005. On the 11th and 13th day, specific CSF resistance was higher than plasma resistance, whereas from the 17th incubation day it was significantly lower than the plasma value. During the second half of incubation, specific CSF resistance fell from 1.059 times 10(6) to 0.824 times 10(6) omega mm.m(-1). A difference between the D.C. potential of the venous blood and the CSF appeared for the first time in 15-day-old embryos, the CSF being negative in relation to the blood. By the end of the incubation period this potential difference rose to 10.82 times 0.07 mv. 相似文献
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Barros FS De Menezes LF Pinheiro AA Silva EF Lopes AH De Souza W Meyer-Fernandes JR 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》2000,375(2):304-314
In this work, we describe the ability of living cells of Entamoeba histolytica to hydrolyze extracellular ATP. In these intact parasites, whose viability was determined by motility and by the eosin method, ATP hydrolysis was low in the absence of any divalent metal (78 nmol P(i)/h/10(5) cells). Interestingly, in the presence of 5 mM MgCl(2) an ecto-ATPase activity of 300 nmol P(i)/h/10(5) cells was observed. The addition of MgCl(2) to the extracellular medium increased the ecto-ATPase activity in a dose-dependent manner. At 5 mM ATP, half-maximal stimulation of ATP hydrolysis was obtained with 1.23 mM MgCl(2). Both activities were linear with cell density and with time for at least 1 h. The ecto-ATPase activity was also stimulated by MnCl(2) and CaCl(2) but not by SrCl(2), ZnCl(2), or FeCl(3). In fact, FeCl(3) inhibited both Mg(2+)-dependent and Mg(2+)-independent ecto-ATPase activities. The Mg(2+)-independent ATPase activity was unaffected by pH in the range between 6.4 and 8. 4, in which the cells were viable. However, the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity was enhanced concomitantly with the increase in pH. In order to discard the possibility that the ATP hydrolysis observed was due to phosphatase or 5'-nucleotidase activities, several inhibitors for these enzymes were tested. Sodium orthovanadate, sodium fluoride, levamizole, and ammonium molybdate had no effect on the ATPase activities. In the absence of Mg(2+) (basal activity), the apparent K(m) for ATP(4-) was 0.053 +/- 0.008 mM, whereas at saturating MgCl(2) concentrations, the corresponding apparent K(m) for Mg-ATP(2-) for Mg(2+)-dependent ecto-ATPase activity (difference between total and basal ecto-ATPase activity) was 0.503 mM +/- 0.062. Both ecto-ATPase activities were highly specific for ATP and were also able to hydrolyze ADP less efficiently. To identify the observed hydrolytic activities as those of an ecto-ATPase, we used suramin, a competitive antagonist of P(2) purinoreceptors and an inhibitor of some ecto-ATPases, as well as the impermeant agent 4'-4'-diisothiocyanostylbenzene-2'-2'-disulfonic acid. These two reagents inhibited the Mg(2+)-independent and the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activities to different extents, and the inhibition by both agents was prevented by ATP. A comparison among the ecto-ATPase activities of three amoeba species showed that the noninvasive E. histolytica and the free-living E. moshkovskii were less efficient than the pathogenic E. histolytica in hydrolyzing ATP. As E. histolytica is known to have a galactose-specific lectin on its surface, which is related to the pathogenesis of amebiasis, galactose was tested for an effect on ecto-ATPase activities. It stimulated the Mg(2+)-dependent ecto-ATPase but not the Mg(2+)-independent ATPase activity. 相似文献
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The effects of corticosterone on the cholinergic enzymes, choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) were studied in the chick embryonic brain. Chick embryos received either 0.25, 0.5, or 1.0 g of corticosterone via the air sac daily for three days during either embryonic days 6 through 8 (E6-E8), of cerebral neurogenesis, or days 10 through 12 (E10-E12), a period of cerebellar neurogenesis. Enzyme activities were determined in cerebral hemispheres, optic lobes, cerebellum and remaining brain at 10, 15, and 20 days of incubation. In embryos treated from E6 to E8, ChAT activity was generally higher at day 10 in cerebral hemispheres and optic lobes (cerebellum was not determined) while AChE activity was not affected. At day 20 ChAT activity of treated chick embryos was lower in the cerebral hemispheres and optic lobes, but not in the cerebellum; AChE activity was higher in the cerebral hemispheres, lower in the optic lobes, and not changed in the cerebellum as compared to controls. However, in embryos treated from E10 to E12 both cerebellar ChAT and AChE activities were higher at day 15 in comparison to controls. These data show that the hormonal effects were most prominent only in the brain areas undergoing neurogenesis during the period of hormonal treatment. Since AChE activity is also present in nonneuronal cells, the observed alterations caused by corticosterone may reflect glial cell responses to the hormone. Whether the hormone affects the final number and/or maturation of cholinergic neurons and/or glial cells remain to be investigated. 相似文献
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Carbofuran Induced Oxidative Stress Mediated Alterations in Na+‐K+‐ATPase Activity in Rat Brain: Amelioration by Vitamin E
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Sunil Kumar Jaiswal Nikhat Jamal Siddiqi Bechan Sharma 《Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology》2014,28(7):320-327
Pesticides cause oxidative stress and adversely influence Na+‐K+‐ATPase activity in animals. Since impact of carbofuran has not been properly studied in the mammalian brain, the ability of carbofuran to induce oxidative stress and modulation in Na+‐K+‐ATPase activity and its amelioration by vitamin E was performed. The rats divided into six groups received two different doses of carbofuran (15% and 30% LD50) for 15 days. The results suggested that the carbofuran treatment caused a significant elevation in levels of malonaldehyde and reduced glutathione and sharp inhibition in the activities of super oxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione‐S‐transferase; the effect being dose dependent. Carbofuran at different doses also caused sharp reduction in the activity of Na+‐K+‐ATPase. The pretreatment of vitamin E, however, showed a significant recovery in these indices. The pretreatment of rats with vitamin E offered protection from carbofuran‐induced oxidative stress. 相似文献
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J Sedlácek 《Physiological research / Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovaca》1992,41(2):109-114
The acute and chronic effect of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6- tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) on spontaneous motor activity and its development was studied in chick embryos. 1. From the 13th day of incubation, the acute effect of MPTP (30 mg/kg e.w., up to 60 min after administration) consisted in significant depression of spontaneous motility. From the 17th day, the effect of MPTP in supraspinal compartments of the CNS also began to participate in this depression. 2. The subacute effect of MPTP (up to 24 h after a single dose) was lethal for 11-day-old embryos. Conversely, in older embryos resting motility partly recovered, with signs of an inverse correlation to the embryo's age. The final effect, however, consisted in absolute failure of the hatching process 3. The chronic effect of MPTP (3.57 mg/kg e.w./24 h, from the 4th to the 16th day of incubation) led to a developmental reduction of spontaneous motor activity, chiefly from the 8th to 12th day of incubation. 4. The interaction of nialamide (25 mg/kg e.w.), a blocker of monoaminooxidase produced disparate results with the effect of MPTP in young and old embryos. 相似文献
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Bengt C. Magnusson 《Histochemistry and cell biology》1974,42(3):211-219
Summary The hydrolysis of ATP, AMP and glycerophosphate (GP) at alkaline pH in mineralizing bone and teeth of young mice has been studied histochemically. The substrates were visibly hydrolyzed to the same degree in osteoblasts, cells of stratum intermedium, odontoblasts and subodontoblasts at Ca2+ concentrations ranging from 10 mM to 600 mM. In the ameloblasts, however, only ATP was hydrolyzed. The ATPase activities gradually decreased at increasing Mg2+/Ca2+ ratios. The AMPase and GPase activities, on the other hand, were visibly unaffected. Marked cellular staining, including the nuclei was seen with AMP and GP as substrates when only Mg2+ ions were added. No ATPase activity at all could be recorded in media containing Mg2+ but no Ca2+ ions. The different phosphatase activities in cells involved in hard tissue formation were identically affected by preincubations with solutions containing various concentrations of Ca2+ or Mg2+ ions. The ATPase activity in striated muscle fibres and blood vessel walls, however, was affected differently by the same procedure.The results indicate that the phosphatase activities recorded in osteoblasts, cells of stratum intermedium, odontoblasts and subodontoblasts at alkaline pH belong to one single enzyme. The results also imply that CaATP is the preferred substrate in the enzymatic hydrolysis of ATP in hard-tissue-forming cells. 相似文献
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Abstract— We have in the present study investigated the properties of mevalonate kinase, phosphomevalonate kinase and pyrophosphomevalonate decarboxylase in the 105,000 g supernatant fractions from rat brain, and determined whether the activities of these enzymes change during brain development. All three enzymes in brain showed a specific requirement for ATP for optimal activity. The presence of Mg2+ as divalent cation was also required for optimal activity of mevalonate kinase and phosphomevalonate kinase. Both Mg2+ and Mn2+ were equally effective divalent metal ions for pyrophosphomevalonate decarboxylase in brain. Mevalonate kinase as well as phosphomevalonate kinase were active in a broad pH range of 6.5–8 while the pH curve for pyrophosphomevalonate decarboxylase showed a peak activity at approx 6. No age-dependent change occurred in the activities of mevalonate kinase and phosphomevalonate kinase in developing brain, whereas pyrophosphomevalonate decarboxylase activity in brain increased during the 1st week after birth, reached a peak value at about the 8th day of age and declined slowly thereafter. The Km for brain mevalonate kinase in 2, 13 and 52 day old rats were 312, 400 and 434 μM, respectively. The V max for the kinase in 2, 13 and 52 day old rats were in the range of 45–52 nmol/h/mg protein, respectively. This suggests that, like in liver (R amachandran & S hah , 1976), pyrophosphomevalonate decarboxylase in brain may also be one regulatory step for cholesterol synthesis. 相似文献
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W S Parkhouse 《Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology》1992,70(8):1175-1181
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of lactate, protons, inorganic phosphate, and ATP on myofibrillar ATPase activity. Myofibrils were isolated from carp (Cyprinius carpio L.) fast-twitch white muscle, and myofibrillar ATPase activities were assessed under maximal activating calcium levels (pCa 4.0) at 10 degrees C in reaction media containing metabolic profiles similar to those seen in fatiguing muscles. The Ca(2+)-activated ATPase activity was assessed by an ATP regenerating assay that coupled the myofibrillar ATPase to pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase. This assay allowed the effects of ATP, inorganic phosphate, protons, and lactate on myofibrillar ATPase activity to be assessed. The coupled assay was found to give similar myofibrillar ATPase kinetics, with the exception of higher maximal activities, to those seen with a standard end-point assay. Myofibrillar ATPase activity was depressed by 35% when ATP concentrations were lowered to 2.5 mM. Lowering ATP levels to 0.5 mM reduced the myofibrillar ATPase activities by 85%. Lactate had no effect on myofibrillar ATPase activities. Inorganic phosphate levels up to about 20 mM significantly decreased the myofibrillar ATPase activities, after which further increases in inorganic phosphate content had minimal effects. The changes in ATPase activities were related to total inorganic phosphate, not to the content of diprotonated inorganic phosphate. Myofibrillar ATPase activity was highest at pH 7.5 and lowest at pH 6.0. The interactive effects of low ATP, decreased pH, and high inorganic phosphate levels were not additive, giving similar decreases in activity to those produced by increased inorganic phosphate levels alone.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) 相似文献