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Natural abundance of 15N ( 15N) of leaves harvested from tropical plants in Brazil and Thailand was analyzed. The 15N values of non-N2-fixing trees in Brazil were +4.5±1.9, which is lower than those of soil nitrogen (+8.0±2.2). In contrast, mimosa and kudzu had very low 15N values (–1.4+0.5). The 15N values of Panicum maximum and leguminous trees, except Leucaena leucocephala, were similar to those of non-N2-fixing trees, suggesting that the contribution of fixed N in these plants is negligible. The 15N values of non-N2-fixing trees in Thailand were +4.9±2.0. Leucaena leucocephala, Sesbania grandiflora, Casuarina spp. and Cycas spp. had low 15N values, close to the value of atmospheric N2 (0), pointing to a major contribution of N2 fixation in these plants. Cassia spp. and Tamarindus indica had high 15N values, which confirms that these species are non-nodulating legumes. The 15N values of Acacia spp. and Gliricidia sepium and other potentially nodulating tree legumes were, on average, slightly lower than those of non-N2-fixing trees, indicating a small contribution of N2 fixation in these legumes. 相似文献
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Here we report on the use of iodination of the membrane-bound nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) from Torpedo californica electric tissue in order to define surface-exposed portions of the receptor molecule. Membrane-bound nAChR was 125I-iodinated using the oxidation agent Iodo-Gen. The iodinated subunits were separated by preparative gel electrophoresis, desalted, and cleaved with trypsin. The resulting peptides were separated by reverse-phase HPLC and the radioactive peptides were identified by mass spectrometry and protein sequencing. For the -subunit, we identified five iodinated peptides containing the tyrosine residues Tyr17, Tyr74, Tyr365, Tyr372, and Tyr428. The surface exposition of these amino acids is in agreement with the four-transmembrane-segment model (4TM model) of the nAChR, but the assignment to the intra- or extracellular surface is doubtful. According to this model, the N-terminal portion of the receptor subunits including the iodinated residues Tyr17 and Tyr74 is extracellular and Tyr372 as a site of tyrosine phosphorylation is located on the cytoplasmic side. But since this latter residue is among the first to be iodinated using an immobilized iodination agent, its true position with respect to the membrane bilayer is not clear. 相似文献
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Iren Vollenweider Eva Vrbka Walter Fierz Peter Groscurth 《Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII》1993,36(5):331-336
Effector-target conjugates, formed by coincubation of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells with either K562 or Daudi cells, were separated from single cells by Percoll sedimentation. The occurrence of various CD molecules (CD3, CD56, CD57, CD16, /-TCR) was compared in both fractions. Only LAK cells expressing the / T cell receptor (TCR) were found in a significantly increased percentage in fractions containing conjugates indicating that /-TCR+ LAK cells were preferably bound to target cells at the time of separation. In order to determine whether /-TCR+ LAK cells also show a preferred killing activity against the targets, cultures enriched with or depleted of /-TCR+ cells were established. Against K562 cells, /-TCR+-enriched cultures showed a greatly reduced killing activity compared to LAK bulk cultures or cultures depleted of /-TCR+ cells. Using Daudi cells as targets the enriched fraction revealed a slightly increased killing activity compared to bulk cultures or depleted fractions. Preincubation of /-TCR+ LAK cells with anti-/ or anti-CD3 mAb resulted in a distinct increase of the killing activity against K562 cells, but in only a slightly enhanced activity against Daudi cells. It is postulated that /-TCR+ LAK cells use the same adhesion mechanism for both targets but that only Daudi cells express a specific ligand for the /-TCR. Occupation of the /-TCR/CD3 complex by mAb, however, seems to substitute for the absent epitope on K562 cells by eliciting stimulatory signals in /-TCR+ LAK cells which, in combination with the binding stimulus, trigger cytolytic activity.This work was supported by the Hartmann-Müller Foundation, Zürich 相似文献
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Summary The ratio of deuterium to hydrogen (expressed as D) in hydrogen released as water during the combustion of dried plant material was examined. The D value (metabolic hydrogen) determined on plant materials grown under controlled conditions is correlated with pathways of photosynthetic carbon metabolism. C3 plants show mean D values of-132 for shoots and -117 for roots; C4 plants show mean D values of -91 for shoots and-77 for roots and CAM plants a D value of-75 for roots and shoots. The difference between the D value of shoot material from C3 and C4 plants was confirmed in species growing under a range of glasshouse conditions. This difference in D value between C3 and C4 species does not appear to be due to differences in the D value (tissue water) in the plants as a result of physical fractionation of hydrogen isotopes during transpiration. In C3 and C4 plants the hydrogen isotope discrimination is in the same direction as the carbon isotope discrimination and factors contributing to the difference in D values are discussed. In CAM plants grown in the laboratory or collected from the field D values range from-75 to +50 and are correlated with 13C values. When deprived of water, the D value (metabolic hydrogen) in both soluble and insoluble material in leaves of Kalanchoe daigremontiana Hamet et Perr., becomes less negative. These changes may reflect the deuterium enrichment of tissue water during transpiration, or in field conditions, may reflect the different D value of available water in areas of increasing aridity. Whatever the origin of the variable D value in CAM plants, this parameter may be a useful index of the water relations of these plants under natural conditions. 相似文献
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In a series of experiments, it is demonstrated that the trace element vanadium (4·10-7 g-at/l as NH4VO3) has a considerable positive influence on the synthesis of -aminolevulinic acid (-ALA) in the autotrophically growing green algaChlorella pyrenoidosa, the effect being visible by an enhanced output of the amino acid into the culture medium in presence of levulinic acid (LA). The level of intracellularly accumulated -ALA, however, is not changed in presence of the metal. The V-effect on exogenous found -ALA is suppressed, when LA is added to the nutrient medium at low pH (pH 5), although V-uptake into the algal cells is not disturbed by LA. As demonstrated in culture media with various nitrogen sources (urea, partially hydrolized urea, ammonium salts), the development of the pH during the cultivation time is important for the presentation of the V-effect on -ALA. It is suggested that vanadium acts as a catalyst in the conversion of 4,5-dioxovaleric acid to -ALA by transamination.Abbreviations -ALA
-aminolevulinic acid
- LA
levulinic acid
- DOVA
4,5-dioxovaleric acid 相似文献
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Summary Five subunits (-, -, -, - and -subunits) of the six -and -subunits) in the F1 portion (F1ATPase) of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase were isolated by an electrophoretic method. The - and -subunits were not distinguishable immunologically but showed completely different tryptic peptide maps, indicating that they were different molecular species. In vitro protein synthesis with isolated sweet potato root mitochondria produced only the -subunit when analyzed with anti-sweet potato F1ATPase antibody reacting with all the subunits except the -subunit. Sweet potato root poly(A)+RNA directed the synthesis of six polypeptides which were immunoprecipitated by the antibody: two of them immunologically related to the -subunit and the others to the - and -subunits. We conclude that the -subunit of the F1ATPase is synthesized only in the mitochondria and the -, - and -subunits are in the cytoplasm. 相似文献
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The measurement of natural 15N abundance is a well-established technique for the identification and quantification of biological N2 fixation in plants. Associative N2 fixing bacteria have been isolated from sugarcane and reported to contribute potentially significant amounts of N to plant growth and development. It has not been established whether Australian commercial sugarcane receives significant input from biological N2 fixation, even though high populations of N2 fixing bacteria have been isolated from Australian commercial sugarcane fields and plants. In this study, 15N measurements were used as a primary measure to identify whether Australian commercial sugarcane was obtaining significant inputs of N via biological N2 fixation. Quantification of N input, via biological N2 fixation, was not possible since suitable non-N2 fixing reference plants were not present in commercial cane fields. The survey of Australian commercially grown sugarcane crops showed the majority had positive leaf 15N values (73% >3.00, 63% of which were >5.00), which was not indicative of biological N2 fixation being the major source of N for these crops. However, a small number of sites had low or negative leaf 15N values. These crops had received high N fertiliser applications in the weeks prior to sampling. Two possible pathways that could result in low 15N values for sugarcane leaves (other than N2 fixation) are proposed; high external N concentrations and foliar uptake of volatilised NH3. The leaf 15N value of sugarcane grown in aerated solution culture was shown to decrease by approximately 5 with increasing external N concentration (0.5–8.0 mM), with both NO3
– and NH4
+ nitrogen forms. Foliar uptake of atmospheric NH3 has been shown to result in depleted leaf 15N values in many plant species. Acid traps collected atmospheric N with negative 15N value (–24.45±0.90) from above a field recently surface fertilised with urea. The 15N of leaves of sugarcane plants either growing directly in the soil or isolated from soil in pots dropped by 3.00 in the same field after the fertiliser application. Both the high concentration of external N in the root zone (following the application of N-fertilisers) and/or subsequent foliar uptake of volatilised NH3 could have caused the depleted leaf 15N values measured in the sugarcane crops at these sites. 相似文献
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Nancy H. Roosens Fawaz Al Bitar Kristof Loenders Geert Angenon Michel Jacobs 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2002,9(2):73-80
Accumulationof proline is a way to increase tolerance to water stress in plants. Therefore,considerable attention has been devoted to optimise proline biosynthesis intransgenic plants. Glutamate and ornithine are both precursors of proline butwhile genes of the glutamate pathway were overexpressed in transgenic plants,no gene encoding an enzyme of the ornithine pathway was considered until now. Thepresent study aims to establish if the overexpression ofornithine--aminotransferase (-OAT) represents an additional wayto increase proline content. To achieve this goal, anArabidopsis -OAT cDNA was fused to the CaMV35Spromoter and introduced via Agrobacterium transformationinto Nicotiana plumbaginifolia. Overexpression of the-OAT cDNA in the analysed transgenic lines was linked to an increase in-OAT enzyme activity. The transgenic lines presenting high enzymaticactivity synthesized more proline than the control plants and showed a higherbiomass and a higher germination rate under osmotic stress conditions. Thesestudies reveal a new and efficient way to increase proline content in plantsand to enhance crop tolerance. 相似文献
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IgM and IgD genes of the Japanese flounder were cloned and characterized from a genomic bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library. The gene contained four constant region exons (C1–C4), and two transmembrane exons (TM1 and TM2), which conforms to the organizational pattern of all other vertebrate -chain genes examined so far. In the same BAC clone, the gene, which is homologous to the IgD gene in mammals and teleost fish, was found immediately (0.9 kb) downstream of the IgM gene. This gene encoded seven exons (C1–C7) and two TM exons (TM1 and TM2) and had no duplication of C1-C2, as found in Atlantic cod, or C2-C3-C4, as found in Atlantic salmon and channel catfish. Phylogenetic and sequence analyses strongly suggest that teleost is more closely related to non-IgM isotypes than IgM isotypes. The heavy chain (IgH) locus of Japanese flounder, which encodes m, s and m, was found to be fully functional. 相似文献
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Using stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope measurements of feathers to infer geographical origins of migrating European birds 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Successful application of stable-hydrogen isotope measurements (Df) of feathers to track origins of migratory birds and other wildlife requires a fundamental understanding of the correlation between Df and deuterium patterns in rainfall (Dp) over continental scales. A strong correlation between Dp and Df has been confirmed for birds and insects in North America, but not yet for other continents. Here, we compare Df data from resident European birds to new Dp basemaps for Europe. Three maps, representing growing-season and mean annual Dp estimates from an elevation-explicit, detrended interpolation model and growing-season Dp estimates from simple Kriging, all indicate that strong isotope gradients occur across Europe with a general depletion occurring in a northeast direction. The feather data, representing 141 individuals of 25 avian species from 38 sites, ranged from –131 to –38. Regression analysis showed that strong correlations existed between both mean annual and growing-season Dp estimated by detrended interpolation and Df of non-aquatic and non-corvid birds (r2=0.66 and 0.65, respectively). We also examined mean annual and growing-season 18Op vs. 18Of for our samples. Both oxygen regressions were similar (r2=0.56 and 0.57, respectively) but poorer than for deuterium. Our study reveals that D measurements of feathers from migratory birds in Europe may be used to track their origin and movements, and so provide a powerful investigative tool for avian migration research in Europe. 相似文献
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L. Mario Amzel 《Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes》1981,13(3-4):109-121
F1-ATPases are large multimeric proteins that can be isolated from the membrane bound system that catalyzes the phosphorylation of ADP by inorganic phosphate in bacteria, plants, and mitochondria. They can be visualized in electron micrographs of the inner mitochondrial membranes where they appear as large protruding spheres 90 Å in diameter. The purified F1-ATPases have a molecular weight of 320,000 to 400,000 daltons and are composed of five non-identical subunits (, , , and ). The stoichiometry of these subunits in the complex is still unknown but compositions of the type 33 and 22222 were found to be consistent with some of the available experimental data. This review discusses the recent data and the experimental approaches utilized for the structural characterization of F1-ATPases. 相似文献
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Isoform-Specific Membrane Translocation of Protein Kinase C After Ischemic Preconditioning 总被引:18,自引:0,他引:18
Kurkinen Kaisa Busto Raul Goldsteins Gundars Koistinaho Jari Pérez-Pinzón Miguel A. 《Neurochemical research》2001,26(10):1139-1144
Mild cerebral anoxic/ischemic/stress insults promote tolerance and thereby protect the brain from subsequent lethal anoxic/ischemic insults. We examined whether specific activation of PKC , , , or isoforms is associated with ischemic preconditioning (IPC) in rat brain. IPC was produced by a 2-minute global cerebral ischemia. Membrane and cytosolic fractions of the hippocampi were immunoblotted using specific antibodies for PKC, , , and . PKC showed a significant translocation to the membrane fraction from 30 min to 4 h and PKC at 4 h following IPC. In contrast, the membrane/cytosol ratio of PKC showed a tendency to decrease at 30 min and 8 h, and the membrane/cytosol ratio of PKC was significantly decreased from 30 min to 24 h following IPC. These findings indicate PKC isoform-specific membrane translocations in the hippocampus after brief global brain ischemia and suggest that activation of PKC and PKC may be associated with IPC-induced tolerance in the rat hippocampus. 相似文献
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Peter H. van der Schaft Nico ter Burg Steven van den Bosch Amnon M. Cohen 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》1992,36(6):712-716
Summary The hydrogenation of ,-unsaturated Massoi lactones to natural -lactones by various microorganisms belonging to the Basidiomycetes and by Saccharomyces ce cerevisiae has been studied. Natural -decalactone is an important constituent of several natural flavourings. Process parameters for the hydrogenation by baker's yeast have been characterized on a 2-1 fermentation scale. High hydrogenation activity by baker's yeast was observed at pH 5.5, a temperature of 35° C, no oxygen limitation and constant addition of glucose. By stepwise addition of 2-decen-5-olide about 1.2 g/l of 5-decanolide could be obtained in a fermentation of 16 h. The same concentration could be obtained in 8 h by adding all the substrate at once (1.7 g/l) in the presence of 2% cyclodextrin.Offprint requests to: P. H. van der Schaft 相似文献
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We analysed the stable isotope composition of emitted N2O in a one-year field experiment (June 1998 to April 1999) in unfertilized controls, and after adding nitrogen by applying slurry or mineral N (calcium ammonium nitrate). Emitted N2O was analysed every 2–4 weeks, with additional daily sampling for 10 days after each fertilizer application. In supplementary soil incubations, the isotopic composition of N2O was measured under defined conditions, favouring either denitrification or nitrification. Soil incubated for 48 h under conditions favouring nitrification emitted very little N2O (0.024 mol gdw
–1) and still produced N2O from denitrification. Under denitrifying incubation conditions, much more N2O was formed (0.91 mol gdw
–1 after 48 h). The isotope ratios of N2O emitted from denitrification stabilized at 15N = –40.8 ± 5.7 and 18O = 2.7 ± 6.3. In the field experiment, the N2O isotope data showed no clear seasonal trends or treatment effects. Annual means weighted by time and emission rate were 15N = –8.6 and 18O = 34.7 after slurry application, 15N = –4.6 and 18O = 24.0 after mineral fertilizer application and 15N = –6.4 and 18O = 35.6 in the control plots, respectively. So, in all treatments the emitted N2O was 15N-depleted compared to ambient air N2O (15N = 11.4 ± 11.6, 18O = 36.9 ± 10.7). Isotope analyses of the emitted N2O under field conditions per se allowed no unequivocal identification of the main N2O producing process. However, additional data on soil conditions and from laboratory experiments point to denitrification as the predominant N2O source. We concluded (1) that the isotope ratios of N2O emitted from the field soil were not only influenced by the source processes, but also by microbial reduction of N2O to N2 and (2) that N2O emission rates had to exceed 3.4 mol N2O m–2 h–1 to obtain reliable N2O isotope data. 相似文献
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Yu. B. Lishmanov N. V. Naryzhnaya A. B. Krylatov L. N. Maslov S. A. Bogomaz D. S. Ugdyzhekova G. J. Gross J. B. Stefano 《Biology Bulletin》2003,30(6):603-609
Preliminary stimulation of opiate receptors (ORs) by intravenous administration of agonist DALDA (0.5 mg/kg), 1 agonist DPDPE (0.5 mg/kg), and agonist (-)-U-50.488 (1 mg/kg) increases rat myocardial resistance to arrhythmogenic effect of coronary occlusion (10 min) and reperfusion (10 min). Activation of 2 ORs (DSLET, 0.5 mg/kg) has no effect on the incidence rate of ischemic and reperfusion arrhythmias. Preliminary administration of glibenclamide (0.3 mg/kg), an inhibitor of KATP channels, blocks the antiarrhythmic effect of DALDA and DPDPE. Repeated short-term exposures of rats to immobilization within two weeks increases the heart tolerance to the arrhythmogenic effect of coronary occlusion and reperfusion. This effect disappears after administration of CTAP (0.5 mg/kg), a antagonist, or injection of 5-hydroxydecanoate (5 mg/kg), an inhibitor of mitochondrial KATP channels. The selective antagonists of and ORs have no effect on cardiac adaptation-induced resistance to the arrhythmogenic effect of ischemia and reperfusion. We believe that stimulation of , , and ORs increases myocardial tolerance to the arrhythmogenic effect of ischemia and reperfusion through activation of KATP channels. The antiarrhythmic effect of the adaptation is mediated by stimulation of ORs and mitochondrial KATP channels. 相似文献
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We found that -caprolactam is a new powerful inducer for the formation of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 nitrilase. When Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 cells were cultivated at 28°C for 120 h in a nutrient medium supplemented with 0.5% (w/v) -caprolactam, an enormous amount of nitrilase was formed in the cells which corresponded to approximately 30% of all soluble protein. The level of -caprolactam in the culture broth barely decreased in the course of cultivation. -Butyrolactam and -valerolactam also caused effective induction. The induction of nitrilase formation by -caprolactam was also observed in some other Rhodococcus strains. 相似文献
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Shin Takagi 《Development genes and evolution》1986,195(1):15-21
Summary Expression of -crystallin, a lens-specific protein, in 6-day-old chick embryonic brain cells was examined in situ and in vitro. The presence of minute amounts of -crystallin and its mRNA (-mRNA) in brain cells in situ was demonstrated by immunoblot and Northern blot analysis. In spreading cultures of the brain cells, -crystallin and -mRNA showed a significant increase from their in situ level. Immunohistological staining (peroxidase antiperoxidase) with monospecific anti-serum against -crystallin revealed that -producers were both epithelial cells and dendritic cells. Neither lentoidogenesis nor -crystallin expression was observed. Stimulation of -crystallin synthesis in cultured brain cells differed when compared with transdifferentiating cultures of neural retina cells. In the latter, -crystallin synthesis occurred concomitantly with differentiation of morphologically distinct lens cells containing -crystallin. 相似文献
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Mengli Cai Ying Huang Jianhua Liu Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthi 《Journal of biomolecular NMR》1995,6(2):123-128
Summary Three different conformations of proline rings in a protein in solution, Up, Down and Twist, have been distinguished, and stereospecific assignments of the pyrrolidine -, - and -hydrogens have been made on the basis of 1H-1H vicinal coupling constant patterns and intraresidue NOEs. For all three conformations, interhydrogen distances in the pairs -3, 3-3, 2-2, 2-2, and 3-3 (2.3 Å) are shorter than those in the pairs -2, 2-3, 3-2, 2-3, and 3-2 (2.7–3.0 Å), resulting in stronger NOESY cross peaks. For the Up conformation, the 3-2 and 2-3 spin-spin coupling constants are small (<3 Hz), and weak cross peaks are obtained in a short-mixing-time (10 ms) TOCSY spectrum; all other vicinal coupling constants are in the range 5–12 Hz, and result in medium to strong TOCSY cross peaks. For the Down form, the -2, 2-3, and 3-2 vicinal coupling constants are small, leading to weak TOCSY cross peaks; all other couplings again are in the range 5–12 Hz, and result in medium to strong TOCSY cross peaks. In the case of a Twist conformation, dynamically averaged coupling constants are anticipated. The procedure has been applied to bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor and Cucurbita maxima trypsin inhibitor-V, and ring conformations of all prolines in the two proteins have been determined. 相似文献
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Summary The 13C values of submerged aquatic plants from contrasting but relatively defined habitats, and the 13C values of emergent, floating and submerged leaves of dimorphic aquatic plants, were measured. In many instances the 13C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water were also measured. Plant 13C values in the vicinity of-40 to-50 were found in rapidly flowing spring waters with carbonate 13C values of-16 to-21, consistent with the notion that species such as Fontinalis antipyretica almost exclusively assimilate free CO2 via RuP2 carboxylase. Plant 13C values in the vicinity of-10 to-15 in sluggish water with carbonate 13C values of about-5 were observed, consistent with the notion that boundary layer diffusion and/or HCO3
- uptake may determine the 13C value of submerged aquatic plants in these circumstances. Comparisons of 13C values of the same or related species growing in waters of similar carbonate 13C value but different flow rates confirmed this view; more negative 13C values were frequently associated with plants in fast moving water. In Britain, but not in Finland, the 13C values of submerged leaves of dimorphic plants were almost invariably more negative than in aerial leaves. The 13C value of carbonate from chalk streams and in acid springs indicate substantial inputs of respiratory CO2, as opposed to atmospheric carbon. The contributions of these variations in 13C of the carbon source, and of isotope fractionation in diffusion, to the 13C value of submerged parts of dimorphic plants is discussed. 相似文献
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1. Opioid (, , ) and cannabinoid (CB1, CB2) receptors are coupled mainly toGi/Go GTP-binding proteins. The goal of the present study was to determine whether different subtypes of opioid and cannabinoid receptors, when coexpressed in the same cell, share a common reservoir, or utilize different pools, of G proteins.2. The stimulation of [35S]GTPS binding by selective opioid and cannabinoid agonists was tested in transiently transfected COS-7 cells, as well as in neuroblastoma cell lines. In COS-7 cells, cotransfection of - and -opioid receptors led to stimulation of [35S]GTPS binding by either -selective (DAMGO) or -selective (DPDPE) agonists. The combined effect of the two agonists was similar to the effect of either DAMGO or DPDPE alone, suggesting the activation of a common G-protein reservoir by the two receptor subtypes.3. The same phenomenon was observed when COS-7 cells were cotransfected with CB1 cannabinoid receptors and either - or -opioid receptors.4. On the other hand, in N18TG2 neuroblastoma cells, which endogenously coexpress CB1 and -opioid receptors, as well as in SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells, which coexpress - and -opioid receptors, the combined effects of the various agonists (the selective cannabinoid DALN and the selective opioids DPDPE and DAMGO) were additive, implying the activation of different pools of G proteins by each receptorsubtype.5. These results suggest a fundamental difference between native and artificially transfected cells regarding the compartmentalization of receptors and GTP-binding proteins. 相似文献