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《Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology》1976,40(2):119-124
Effect of sodium nitrite on cultured FM3A cells, a C3H mouse mammary carcinoma cell line, was examined. The chromosomal preparations demonstrated that severe aberrations were induced in more than 80% of the mitotic plates at 10−2 M and in nearly 40% at 10−2.5 M after 24 and 48 h treatment. According to the results of alkaline sucrose gradient analysis sedimentation profiles of cell DNA treated at as high as 10−1 M for 24 h scarcely changed from that of control cell DNA. Induction of 8-azaguanine-resistant mutation was demonstrated above 10−3 M sodium nitrite. 相似文献
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《Mutation Research Letters》1992,281(4):255-260
The genotoxicity of methyl mercury chloride (MMC, 0–25 × 10−6M) and dimethyl mercury (DMM, 0–434 × 10−6M) was evaluated by chromosome metaphase analysis in human lymphocytes treated in vitro for 24 h. Structural (CA) and numerical (AN) chromosomal aberrations were scored for the assessment of induced genotoxic effects, while the variation in mitotic index (MI) was considered a monitor for induced cellular toxicity. MMC induced CA and AN in a dose-related manner at doses exceeding 0.6 × 10−6M, and the proportion of cells with CA was constantly and significantly higher than that of cells with AN. DMM was able to induce both effects as well, although to a lesser extent than MMC, CA and AN being induced at doses exceeding 43.4 × 10−6M and 1.73 × 10−6M, respectively. MMC was 6-fold more effective in inducing CA than DMM at equivalent toxic doses. On the other hand, no significant difference was observed between the two compounds in inducing AN. Therefore MMC was much more c lastogenic than DMM, whereas mitotic spindle disturbances appeared to be almost equally induced by both compounds. 相似文献
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Human leukocyte cultures were set up with Ham's F-10 medium and stimulated with PHA-M. Treatment of the cells in G1 from 15–20 h with 0.5 × 10−6 M Trenimon resulted in a considerable cell cycle delay, as measured by [3H]-TdR autoradiography and determination of mitotic indices. Under these conditions only few cells incorporated the tracer at the same time as most cells did in untreated cultures. However, this did not lead to a mitotic activity at the same time as obtained in controls. Most of the treated cells started their DNA synthesis and mitotic activities with a delay of around 20 h, as compared with the controls. Continuous treatment of the cells with 10−3 M NaF had no effect on [3H]TdR labelling or mitotic indices in otherwise untreated cultures, but led to an impressive effect on DNA synthesis in Trenimon-treated cultures, without a considerable effect on the mitotic indices. This finding could beexplained as due to a lower alkylation in cellular DNA in the presence of NaF. More cells can start with their DNA synthesis, although they are, like Trenimontreated cultures, incapable of completing it normally. Analyses of the effect of NaF on chromosomes aberrations induced by Trenimon revealed that pre-, simultaneous and post-treatments significantly enhanced the frequency of undamaged mitoses. Continuos fluoride treatment also protected the cells from Trenimon-induced damage, but the effect was not significant, possibly because of heavily damaged mitoses which appeared under these conditions. We interpret our findings as an indication of a real anti-mutagenic activity of NaF. 相似文献
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The effect of Ca2+-binding protein regucalcin on protein kinase activity in the nuclei of normal and regenerating rat livers was investigated. Protein kinase activity in the nuclei isolated from normal rat liver was significantly increased by addition of Ca2+ (500 μM) and calmodulin (10 μg/ml) in the enzyme reaction mixture. Nuclear protein kinase activity was significantly decreased in the presence of EGTA (1.0 mM), trifluoperazine (TFP; 20 μM), dibucaine (10−4 M), or staurosporine (10−7 M), indicating that Ca2+-dependent protein kinases are present in the nuclei. Protein kinase activity was significantly elevated in the liver nuclei obtained at 6 to 48 h after a partial hepatectomy. Hepatectomy-increased nuclear protein kinase activity was significantly decreased in the presence of EGTA (1.0 mM), TFP (20 μM), or staurosporine (10−7 M) in the enzyme reaction mixture. The presence of regucalcin (0.1–0.5 μM) caused a significant decrease in protein kinase activity in the nuclei obtained from normal and regenerating rat livers. Meanwhile, the nuclear protein kinase activity from normal and regenerating livers was significantly elevated in the presence of anti-regucalcin monoclonal antibody (50–200 ng/ml). The present study suggests that regucalcin plays a role in the regulation of protein kinase activity in the nuclei of proliferative liver cells. J. Cell. Biochem. 71:569–576, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Chaochun Tang Weiwei Zhang Haibo Cai Zhaoyang Ye Xu Zhang Wensong Tan 《Journal of cellular biochemistry》2019,120(5):7778-7787
Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) play important roles in the ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). In this study, the effects of resveratrol (RES), on the ex vivo expansion of HSPCs were investigated by analyzing CD34+ cells expansion and biological functions, with the objective to optimize ex vivo culture conditions for CD34 + cells. Among the five tested doses (0, 0.1, 1, 10, 20, and 50 μM), 10 μM RES was demonstrated to be the most favorable for ex vivo CD34 + cells expansion. In the primary cultures, 10 μM RES favored higher expansion folds of CD34 + cells, CD34 +CD38 − cells, and colony-forming units (CFUs) ( P < 0.05). It was found that the percentages of primitive HSPCs (CD34 +CD38 −CD45R −CD49f +CD90 + cells) in 10 μM RES cultures were higher than those without RES. Further, in the secondary cultures, expanded CD34 + cells derived from primary cultures with 10 μM RES exhibited significantly higher total cells and CD34 + cells expansion ( P < 0.05). In the semisolid cultures, the frequency of CFU-GM and total CFUs of 10 μM RES group were both higher than those of without RES group, demonstrating that CD34 + cells expanded with 10 μM RES possessed better biological function. Furthermore, the addition of 10 μM RES downregulated the intracellular ROS level via strengthening the scavenging capability of ROS, and meanwhile reducing the percentages of apoptotic cells in cultures. Collectively, RES could stimulate the ex vivo expansion of CD34 + cells, preserved more primitive HSPCs and maintain better biological function by alleviating intracellular ROS level and cell apoptosis in cultures. 相似文献
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Cobalt was found to produce effects on cell division, cell protein, volume, calcium uptake, and ultrastructure of the calcifying alga Cricosphaera carterae (Braarud & Fager.) Braarud. The rate of cell division increased slightly as the added Co concentration of the medium was increased from 0–10 μM. At higher added Co concentrations, the rate of division decreased approximately linearly with concentration until division was blocked almost completely at 100 μM Co. Inhibition of division was reversible after 2 days in Co. Protein content was elevated in Co-treated nondividing cells but the rate of protein synthesis was markedly reduced. Cell volume also increased progressively with Co concentration, and after 72 h in 200 μM Co, the volume was 3.2 times that in culture medium (0.09 μM Co). Co had a dual effect on calcification as indicated by the uptake of 45Ca. After 48 h treatment, Ca uptake had increased 53% in 100 μM and decreased 40% in 200 μM Co as compared with cells in 0.09 μM Co. Ultrastructurally, Co caused enlargement of the cell vacuole and the appearance of membrane-bound vacuoles containing electron dense bodies. 相似文献
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Induction of p53 protein expression by sodium arsenite 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
A. M. Salazar P. Ostrosky-Wegman D. Menndez E. Miranda A. García-Carranc E. Rojas 《Mutation research》1997,381(2):7-265
Arsenic is carcinogen for humans and has been shown to act as an enhancer in initiated animal models. In a previous work we found impairment of lymphocyte proliferation in arsenic-exposed individuals and in vitro we obtained dose-related inhibition of mitotic response and lymphocyte proliferation. Intrigued by these effects and based on the role of p53 on cell proliferation, we tested different concentrations of sodium arsenite for their ability to induce the expression of tumor suppressor gene p53 in different cell lines (HeLa, C-33A, Jurkat) and a lymphoblast cell line transformed with Epstein–Barr virus (LCL-EBV). We also evaluated changes in their viability after 24 h arsenic treatment; C-33A cells showed the higher sensitivity to arsenic treatment while HeLa, Jurkat and LCL-EBV cells showed similar cytotoxicity curves. Immunoblots showed an increased expression of p53 gene with 1 μM sodium arsenite in Jurkat cells and 10 μM sodium arsenite in HeLa and LCL-EBV cells. In addition, we transfected Jurkat cells and human lymphocytes with wild-type and mutated p53 genes; lymphocytes and Jurkat cells that received the mutated p53 showed increased sensitivity to arsenic cytotoxicity. Data obtained indicate that arsenic induces p53 expression and that cells with a functional p53 contend better with damage induced by this metalloid. 相似文献
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Eugene gracilis Klebs (Z) was grown in a cyclostat (continuous culture on a light/dark cycle) at growth limiting levels of phosphate. Cell division was restricted to the dark period regardless of the proportion of the cells dividing during each 24 h period. Growth rate, as reflected by the amplitude of the cell density oscillation, was correlated with dilution rate. The width of the division gate was analyzed using a phasing index and found to be narrowest at dilution rates where the mean generation time of the cell population was an even multiple of 24 h. The effect was attributed to enhanced phasing of the cell division process by the biological clock of Euglena. Residual phosphate levels in the cyclostat were less than 0.3 μM PO4 at all submaximal growth rates. Cellular phosphorus concentration increased with dilution rate as described by a hyperbola saturating at Dmax= 0.74 day−1 with 8 × 10−8μM P/cell as the minimum intracellular phosphorus concentration for growth. The results are discussed, in terms of the inherent similarities and differences between a cyclostat and a steady state chemostat, and the advantages of the cyclostat for studies in phytoplankton ecology. 相似文献
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A Pseudomonas isolate, designated PAHAs-1, was found capable of reducing arsenate and degrading polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) independently and simultaneously. This isolate completely reduced 1.5 mM arsenate within 48 h and removed approximately 100% and 50% of 60 mg l−1 phenanthrene and 20 mg l−1 pyrene within 60 h, respectively. Using PAHs as the sole carbon source, however, this isolate showed a slow arsenate reduction rate (4.62 μM h−1). The presence of arsenic affected cell growth and concurrent PAHs removal, depending on PAH species and arsenic concentration. Adding sodium lactate to the medium greatly enhanced the arsenate reduction and pyrene metabolism. The presence of the alpha subunit of the aromatic ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase (ARHD) gene, arsenate reductase (arsC) and arsenite transporter (ACR3(2)) genes supported the dual function of the isolate. The finding of latter two genes indicated that PAHAs-1 possibly reduced arsenate via the known detoxification mechanism. Preliminary data from hydroponic experiment showed that PAHAs-1 degraded the majority of phenanthrene (>60%) and enhanced arsenic uptake by Pteris vittata L. (from 246.7 to 1187.4 mg kg−1 As in the fronds). The versatile isolate PAHAs-1 may have potentials in improving the bioremediation of PAHs and arsenic co-contamination using the plant-microbe integrated strategy. 相似文献
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Arsenic speciation and cycling in the natural environment are highly impacted via biological processes. Since arsenic is ubiquitous in the environment, microorganisms have developed resistance mechanisms and detoxification pathways to overcome the arsenic toxicity. This study has evaluated the toxicity, transformation and accumulation of arsenic in a soil microalga Scenedesmus sp. The alga showed high tolerance to arsenite. The 72-h 50 % growth inhibitory concentrations (IC50 values) of the alga exposed to arsenite and arsenate in low-phosphate growth medium were 196.5 and 20.6 mg? L?1, respectively. When treated with up to 7.5 mg? L?1 arsenite, Scenedesmus sp. oxidised all arsenite to arsenate in solution. However, only 50 % of the total arsenic remained in the solution while the rest was accumulated in the cells. Thus, this alga has accumulated arsenic as much as 606 and 761 μg? g?1 dry weight when exposed to 750 μg? L?1 arsenite and arsenate, respectively, for 8 days. To our knowledge, this is the first report of biotransformation of arsenic by a soil alga. The ability of this alga to oxidise arsenite and accumulate arsenic could be used in bioremediation of arsenic from contaminated water and soil. 相似文献
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The study of an effect of exogenous thymidine on the mitotic cycle demonstrated that a 30 minute exposure to unlabeled and to tritiated thymidine at a concentration of 2.9 × 10?6 M was sufficient to cause a significant increase in the mitotic index of root meristem cells of Haplopappus gracilis. An analysis of the data revealed that this was due to the prolongation of metaphase rather than to an increase in the actual number of cells entering division. 相似文献
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cultures of sp. were exposed to various concentrations of hydroxyurea (HU) during the logarithmic phase. In the presence of 5 × 10?2M HU, cell division was completely blocked after an initial increase in cell numbers by about 20%. Inhibition of incorporation of 3H-thymidine into acid-insoluble material was effective within 1 hr of exposure to the drug (5 × 10?2M) and it reached a level of 80% after 8 hr. At lower concentrations (5 × 10?4M ? 1 × 10?3M), however, incorporation of 3H-thymidine was remarkably increased while cell division remained unaffected indicating that the increase in incorporation was not due to increased DNA synthesis in preparation for cell division. 相似文献
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Jing Zhang Quan-Zhi ZhaoGui-Lan Duan Yan-Chao Huang 《Environmental and Experimental Botany》2011,72(1):34-40
The influence of sulphur on the accumulation and metabolism of arsenic in rice was investigated. Rice seedlings were grown in nutrient solutions with low sulphate (1.8 μM SO42−) or high sulphate (0.7 mM SO42−) for 12 or 14 d, before being exposed to 10 μM arsenite or arsenate for 2 or 1 d, respectively. In the arsenite exposure treatment, low sulphate-pretreated rice accumulated less arsenite than high sulphate pretreated plants, but the arsenite concentrations in shoots of low sulphate pretreated rice were higher than those of high sulphate pretreated. In the arsenate exposure treatment, the low sulphate pre-treatments also resulted in less arsenite accumulation in rice roots. Sulphur deprivation in nutrient solution decreased the concentrations of non-protein thiols in rice roots exposed to either arsenite or arsenate. The low sulphate-pretreated plants had a higher arsenic transfer factor than the high sulphate-pretreated plants. The results suggest that rice sulphate nutrition plays an important role in regulating arsenic translocation from roots to shoots, possibly through the complexation of arsenite-phytochelatins. 相似文献
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David J. Dix J. Brian Garges Robert L. Hong 《Molecular reproduction and development》1998,51(4):373-380
Mouse 70-kDa heat shock proteins Hsp70–1 and Hsp70–3 (Hsp70–1/3) are stress-inducible protein chaperones thought to protect embryonic cells and tissues from the effects of a wide range of environmental exposures. Hsp70–1/3 are expressed constitutively, and at times are stress-inducible during various stages of preimplantation embryogenesis. In order to elucidate the functions of constitutive and stress-inducible Hsp70 expression in mouse preimplantation embryos, the consequences of inhibiting expression with antisense oligonucleotides complementary to the mRNAs of hsp70–1 and hsp70–3 (AO70–1/3) were evaluated. Transfection of preimplantation embryos (four-cell stage) with 2.5 μM AO70–1/3 had no effect on in vitro blastocoel formation. However, transfection with 5 or 10 μM AO70–1/3 reduced in vitro blastocyst development to 30% and 0%, respectively (approximately 90% control embryos developed to blastocyst). Thus constitutive expression of Hsp70–1/3 appears significant to preimplantation embryogenesis. Limiting expression of Hsp70–1/3 with 5 μM AO70–1/3 also heightened embryo sensitivity to arsenic, resulting in less than 5% in vitro development to blastocyst in the presence of the subtoxic dose of 0.4 μM sodium arsenite. Whether the combined effect of AO70–1/3 and arsenic is due to blocking inducible expression of the Hsp70s, or due to further reducing the amount of constitutively expressed Hsp70s available to the embryo is not known at this time. However, these results clearly indicate that some minimal amount of Hsp70–1 and/or Hsp70–3 is required for preimplantation embryogenesis, and that increasing the demand for Hsp70s by arsenic exposure heightens this requirement. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 51:373–380, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Oxidation and methylation status determine the effects of arsenic on the mitotic apparatus 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Thomas R Prabhu PD Mathivanan J Rohini Sivakumar D Jayakumar PN Devi BI Satish S Sastry KV Gope R 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》2005,279(1-2):113-121
We investigated the spindle inhibitory properties of six arsenicals differing in their methylation or oxidation state. Human
lymphoblasts were exposed for 6 h to either sodium arsenate (NaAsV), sodium arsenite (NaAsIII), monomethylarsonic acid (MMAV), monomethylarsonous acid (MMAIII), dimethylarsinic acid (DMAV), or dimethylarsinous acid (DMAIII). After exposure slides were prepared, and the mitotic indices (MI) were assessed. We also exposed tubulin directly to each
arsenical and spectrophotometrically measured its effect on polymerization. NaAsV caused a small but significant increase in MI. MMAV also caused only a slight increase in MI that just reached statistical significance. In contrast, DMAV caused a significant increase in MI, producing ∼75% the MI of demecolcine and ∼4 times the MI of the control. NaAsIII had no significant effect on MI and was quite toxic. MMAIII induced more than a twofold increase in MI compared to the control, which was about 40% that caused by demecolcine. On a
micromolar basis, MMAIII was the most potent of the arsenicals tested. DMAIII gave inconsistent results. None of the pentavalent arsenicals had a substantial effect (either inhibition or enhancement)
on GTP-induced polymerization of tubulin. In contrast, NaAsIII inhibited polymerization at concentrations of 1 mM and above and MMAIII and DMAIII at 10 μM and above. Taken together, these results present a complex picture of how arsenicals may affect cells. These studies
demonstrate that the metabolites of arsenic are active not only as chromosome breaking and DNA damaging agents but can also
interfere with cell division via tubulin disruption. 相似文献
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《Plant Science Letters》1980,17(2):237-243
The respiration of excised tomato roots was inhibited by 10−4 M potassium cyanide or 10−4 M salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) suggesting that excised tomato roots probably possess both cyanide-sensitive and cyanide-insensitive respiratory paths. Although KCN at 10−4 M was inhibitory, at 10−5 M it stimulated the respiration after a lag period of 24 h.KCN at 10−6 M had no appreciable effect on growth, but at 10−5 M, a concentration which was slightly stimulatory to respiration, it greatly inhibited growth. Depending on the concentrations, SHAM was either slightly stimulatory or inhibitory to growth. A stimulation of 18% was observed with 10−5 M and almost total inhibition was observed with concentrations at 10−4 M and above. 相似文献
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Alkaline phosphatase activities of the diazotrophic marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium were studied among natural populations in the northern Red Sea and in laboratory cultures of Trichodesmium sp. strain WH9601. Open-water tuft-shaped colonies of Trichodesmium showed high alkaline phosphatase activities with 2.4–11.7 μmol p-nitrophenylphosphate (PNPP) hydrolyzed·μg chl a − 1·h − 1, irrespective of date or origin of the sample. Coastal populations of the Trichodesmium tuft colonies had low alkaline phosphatase activities with 0.2–0.5 μmol PNPP·μg chl a − 1·h − 1. An exception was the Trichodesmium fall maximum, when both tuft colonies and the plankton community (<100 μm) had alkaline phosphatase activities of 0.6–7.4 μmol PNPP·μg chl a − 1·h − 1. Likewise, the more rare puff and bow-tie colonies of Trichodesmium spp. in coastal waters had elevated alkaline phosphatase activities (0.8–1.6 μmol PNPP·μg chl a − 1·h − 1) as compared with tuft colonies coinhabiting the same waters. Intact filaments of tuft-forming Trichodesmium sp. strain WH9601 from phosphate-replete cultures had a base alkaline phosphatase activity of 0.5 μmol PNPP·μg chl a − 1·h − 1. This activity underwent a 10-fold increase in phosphate-deplete cultures and in cultures supplied with glycerophosphate as the sole P source. The elevated level of alkaline phosphatase activity was sustained in P-deplete cultures, but it declined in cultures with glycerophosphate. The decline is suggested to result from feedback repression of alkaline phosphatase synthesis by the phosphate generated in the glycerophosphate hydrolysis. The enhanced alkaline phosphatase activities of Trichodesmium spp. populations provide evidence that P stress is an important factor in the ecology of Trichodesmium in the northern Red Sea. 相似文献
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Jasminder Sahi Michael P. Wiggins Gil B. Gibori Thomas J. Layden Mrinalini C. Rao 《Journal of cellular physiology》1996,168(2):276-283
To determine if calcium-dependent secretagogues directly act on epithelial cells to elicit CI− secretion, their effects on CI− transport and intracellular Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) were determined in primary cultures of rabbit distal colonic crypt cells. The Cl− sensitive fluorescent probe, 6-methoxyquinolyl acetoethyl ester, MQAE and the Ca2+-sensitive fluorescent probe, fura-2AM were used to assess Cl− transport and [Ca2+]i, respectively. Basal Cl− transport (0.274 ± 0.09 mM/sec) was inhibited significantly by the Cl− channel blocker diphenylamine-2-carboxylate (DPC, 50 μM, 0.068 ± 0.02 mM/sec; P < 0.001) and the Na+/K+/2Cl− cotransport inhibitor furosemide (1 μM, 0.137 ± 0.04 mM/sec; P < 0.01). Ion substitution studies using different halides revealed the basal influx to be I− > F− ≥ Cl− > Br−. DPC inhibited I− influx by ∼50%, F− influx by 80%, Cl− influx by 85%, and Br− influx by 90%. Furosemide significantly inhibited influx of Br− (84%) and Cl− (81%) but not of F− and I−. The effects of agents known to alter biological response by increasing [Ca2+]i in other epithelial systems were used to stimulate Cl− transport. Cl− influx in mM/second was stimulated by 1 μM histamine (0.58 ± 0.05), 10 μM neurotensin (2.07 ± 0.32), 1 μM serotonin (1.63 ± 0.28), and 0.1 μM of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 (2.05 ± 0.40). The Cl− permeability stimulated by neurotensin, serotonin, and A23187 was partially blocked by DPC or furosemide added alone or in combination. Histamine-induced Cl− influx was significantly inhibited by only furosemide. Indomethacin blocked histamine-stimulated Cl− permeability but had no effect on the actions of the other agents. These studies, focusing on isolated colonocytes without the contribution of submucosal elements, reveal that (1) histamine stimulates Cl− transport by activating the Na+/K+/2Cl− cotransporter via a cyclooxygenase-dependent pathway; (2) neurotensin, serotonin, and A23187 activate both Cl− channels and the cotransporter, and their actions are cyclooxygenase-independent. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Jing Hui Xue Hiroko Takahashi Masayoshi Yamaguchi 《Journal of cellular biochemistry》2001,80(2):285-292
The effect of regucalcin, which is a regulatory protein of Ca2+ signaling, on Ca2+‐ATPase activity in isolated rat renal cortex mitochondria was investigated. The presence of regucalcin (50, 100, and 250 nM) in the enzyme reaction mixture led to a significant increase in Ca2+‐ATPase activity. Regucalcin significantly stimulated ATP‐dependent 45Ca2+ uptake by the mitochondria. Ruthenium red (10−6 M) or lanthunum chloride (10−6 M), an inhibitor of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, markedly inhibited regucalcin (100 nM)‐increased mitochondrial Ca2+‐ATPase activity and 45Ca2+ uptake. The effect of regucalcin (100 nM) in elevating Ca2+‐ATPase activity was completely prevented by the presence of digitonin (10−2%), a solubilizing reagent of membranous lipids, vanadate, an inhibitor of phosphorylation of ATPase, or dithiothreitol (50 mM), a protecting reagent of the sulfhydryl (SH) group of the enzyme. The activating effect of regucalcin (100 nM) on Ca2+‐ATPase activity was not further enhanced by calmodulin (0.30 μM) or dibutyryl cyclic AMP (10−4 M), which could increase Ca2+‐ATPase activity. Trifluoperazine (TFP; 50 μM), an antagonist of calmodulin, significantly decreased Ca2+‐ATPase activity. The activating effect of regucalcin on the enzyme was also seen in the presence of TFP, indicating that regucalcin's effect is not involved in mitochondrial calmodulin. The present study demonstrates that regucalcin can stimulate Ca2+‐pump activity in rat renal cortex mitochondria, and that the protein may act on an active site (SH group) related to phosphorylation of mitochondrial Ca2+‐ATPase. J. Cell. Biochem. 80:285–292, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. 相似文献