Isomerization of (3S)-2,3-dihydro-5-fluoro-L-tryptophan and of 5-fluoro-L-tryptophan catalyzed by tryptophan synthase: studies using fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance and difference spectroscopy

We are exploring the active site and the mechanism of the pyridoxal phosphate dependent reactions of the bacterial tryptophan synthase alpha 2 beta 2 complex by use of substrate analogues and of reaction intermediate analogues. Fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance studies and absorption spectroscopy are used to study the binding and reactions of the D and L isomers of 5-fluorotryptophan, of tryptophan, and of (3S)- and (3R)-2,3-dihydro-5-fluorotryptophan. Tryptophan synthase specifically and tightly binds the 3S diastereoisomer of both 2,3-dihydro-5-fluoro-D-tryptophan and 2,3-dihydro-5-fluoro-L-tryptophan, whereas it binds 5-fluoro-D-tryptophan more tightly than 5-fluoro-L-tryptophan. Unexpectedly, we find that the D and L isomers of 5-fluorotryptophan, of tryptophan, and of (3S)-2,3-dihydro-5-fluorotryptophan are slowly interconverted by isomerization reactions. Since these isomerization reactions are 10(3)-10(5) times slower than the beta-replacement and beta-elimination reactions catalyzed by tryptophan synthase, they have no biochemical significance in vivo. However, the occurrence of these slow reactions does throw some light on the nature of the active site of tryptophan synthase and its requirements for substrate binding. Our results raise the interesting question of whether tryptophan synthase itself serves a catalytic role in these slow reactions or whether the enzyme simply binds the substrate and pyridoxal phosphate stereospecifically and thus promotes the intrinsic catalytic activity of pyridoxal phosphate.     

Optical depolarization changes in single, skinned muscle fibers. Evidence for cross-bridge involvement.

Optical ellipsometry studies of single, skinned muscle fibers conducted on the diffraction orders have yielded spectra that are sensitive to the state of the fiber. The linearly polarized light field vector becomes elliptically polarized as it passes through the fiber and may be collected at the diffraction orders. Fibers that have been subjected to extraction of myosin (0.6 M KCl) retain a weak diffraction pattern and exhibit a substantially decreased depolarization of incident linearly polarized light. A significant decrease in polarization is seen in skinned fibers that are subject to an increase in pH from 7.0 to 8.0. This increase in pH results in a decrease of approximately 30% in the depolarization angle of single fibers. The major decrease in depolarization angle that we observe at pH 8.0 is consistent with the notion that as cross-bridges move out from the shaft of the thick filament, their ability to cause depolarization of the incident linearly polarized light decreases. This interpretation is also consistent with the work of Ueno and Harrington where the decrease in the ability to cross-link S-1 and S-2 to the thick filament at pH 8.2 suggests cross-bridge movement away from the thick filament. A large decrease in birefringence, seen after treatment of skinned fibers with alpha-chymotrypsin, appears to be related to the breakdown of myosin into rod, S-1, heavy meromyosin, and light meromyosin.     

小鼠抗天花粉蛋白IgE单克隆抗体的制备、分离和鉴定(英文)

天花粉蛋白是中药天花粉的有效引产成份,在应用中它偶尔也引起过敏反应。我们用杂交瘤技术建立了一株分泌抗天花粉蛋白特异性IgE单克隆抗体的杂交瘤细胞系。在实验中,二次免疫的C57 BL/6 J小鼠的肠系膜淋巴结细胞和脾细胞分别被用来同NSI骨髓瘤细胞进行融合。虽然在融合前动物血清IgE抗体效价仅为40～160 PCA滴度,但用肠系膜淋巴结细胞进行的4次融合都产生了IgE杂交瘤。阳性率为1.0-6.7%。对比之下,用脾细胞进行的另外两次融合却没有观察到IgE杂交瘤产生,统计结果说明差异显著(P<0.05)。该IgE单克隆抗体可以在体内和体外诱发大鼠肥大细胞脱颗粒。56℃热处理2小时能使该抗体诱导PCA反应的能力完全丧失,然而却不影响其结合抗原的能力。对该单克隆抗体的特异性的鉴定表明,它可以特异性地识别精制天花粉蛋白和结晶天花粉蛋白上的抗原决定簇。     

小鼠对天花粉蛋白体内及体外免疫应答的基本特点

C 57 BL/6 J小鼠在应用弗氏全佐剂或铝矾为佐剂结合天花粉蛋白免疫后都能引起抗原特异的IgE类抗体的反应以及其它Ig类抗体的反应;IgE的滴度和总的抗天花粉蛋白抗体的滴度的动态变化趋势基本一致,但并不完全同步。IgE类上升得较IgG等类抗体为慢,但上升的速度要快。脾和肠系膜淋巴结细胞分泌抗体的动态变化也和血清并不完全一致。天花粉蛋白在一定浓度下能抑制小鼠T淋巴细胞在体外的抗原特异的增殖反应和ConA反应。这抑制并不限于增殖过程的启动。补充外源性的IL-2也不能消除这抑制作用。天花粉蛋白加热变性后丧失了对小鼠淋巴细胞的毒性,并能引起经未变性天花粉蛋白体内致敏的小鼠的T淋巴细胞在体外的明显增殖。应用微量的天花粉蛋白为抗原,以及少量的无凝集素的conA条件培液等能在体外诱发致敏的B淋巴细胞产生二次抗体应答。     

用体外免疫的人淋巴细胞建立抗破伤风类毒素的杂交瘤克隆

我们应用破伤风类毒素体外免疫的人扁桃体细胞和人-鼠异源骨髓瘤RF 系细胞进行融合,从中筛选到一株杂交瘤细胞89112—50,并通过克隆化筛选获得了两个亚克隆,其分泌的抗体是抗原特异的,和三种抗原(OVA、TC-S、FYG)都不交叉,分泌抗体的功能也比较稳定,在培养瓶内连续扩增传代13次后,仍维持相当高的抗体分泌能力,在常规传代培养过程中所收集的培养物上清液中抗体的含量平均为69.6μg/ml。     

V-fos基因对NIH3T3细胞转化的研究

本文报道了用含v-fos基因的pFBJ-2质粒转染NIH 3 T 3细胞,获得了转化细胞株。对细胞株的研究结果表明:(1)Southern杂交检测到细胞基因组中有v-fos基因的整合;(2)点杂交测得有v-fos mRNA的表达;(3)出现一系列转化表型,包括细胞形态的改变,异常的增长速率,在软琼脂上的贴壁不依赖性生长,对低血清浓度培养液的适应性以及细胞膜表而超微结构的变化等,提示v-fos基因能使NIH 3 T 3细胞发生转化,并在体外转化过程中起决定性作用。     

General organization of the genes specifically involved in the diaminopimelate-lysine biosynthetic pathway of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Summary To obtain animal cell lines carrying nonsense mutations and the corresponding suppressors, we used a supersuppressor selection strategy on the CHO cell line. The wild-type strain is resistant to the aminopterin present in HAT medium (i.e., it is HAT^r) because it contains the enzymes hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) and thymidine kinase (TK), whereas both HPRT mutants — selected by their resistance to 6-thioguanine (TG^r) — and TK^- mutants — selected by their resistance to 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd^r) — are HAT^s. Therefore, from HPRT^- TK^- double nonsense mutants, whose phenotype would be TG^r BrdUrd^r (HAT^s), simultaneous HPRT⁺ TK⁺ double phenotypic revertants could be obtained by selecting HAT^r (TG^s BrdUrd^s) variants carrying the corresponding nonsense supersuppressors. Through ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis of the CHO cell line we obtained 65 TG^r variants, 53 of which were HAT^s and the rest HAT^r. Among 36 TG^r (HAT^s) variants tested, 23 did not revert to HAT^r, 4 reverted spontaneously and with EMS, and 9 reverted only with EMS. Some of the latter were probably HPRT^- nonsense mutants because they were very stringent (had less than 2% of wild-type [³H]hypoxanthine incorporation and HPRT enzyme activity), and did not complement genetically. The introduction of a second marker (BrdUrd^r) in 7 of these strains allowed us to isolate 29 TG^r BrdUrd^r (HAT^s) double drug-resistant lines. Through one-step mutagenesis and selection in HAT medium, from two double resistant strains we could isolate HAT^r (TG^s BrdUrd^s) wild-type phenotypic revertants, each of which probably carries suppressible HPRT and TK nonsense (or missense) alleles and the corresponding supersuppressor. Our strategy could now be extended to obtain variants carrying suppressors in other cell lines.     

Biosynthesis and transport of glycoproteins in the small intestinal epithelium of rats: I. Developmental change and effect of hypophysectomy

The biosynthesis and intracellular transport of glycoproteins in duodenal absorptive cells of intact rats at 6 and 24 days and hypophysectomized rats at 24 days of age were studied after 20 min intralumenal pulse-labeling of d-[³H]galactose, l-[³H]fucose, or d-[³H]mannose. Autoradiographic studies showed that the incorporation of sugars increased significantly in intact rats between 6 and 24 days. When rats were hypophysectomized at 6 days of age, the intestinal epithelium at 24 days incorporated d-[³H]galactose at a level significantly lower than that of intact rats at 24 days. Hypophysectomy also interfered with the developmental increase in d-[³H]mannose, but not in l-[³H]fucose, incorporation. Biochemical study indicated that the radioactivity in the lipid-free acid-precipitable glycoproteins in the intestine of 24-day-old intact rats at 20 min after d-[³H]galactose injection was 129% and 97% higher than that in 6-day-old rats and in 24-day-old hypophysectomized rats, respectively. The patterns of intracellular transport of newly synthesized galactosylated or fucosylated glycoproteins in all animal groups were similar; the labeled glycoproteins were initially present in the Golgi and were transported through the smooth endoplasmic reticulum to either the lateral membrane or the brush-border membrane within 60 min after the injection of labeled sugars. The proportion of labeled glycoproteins that migrated to the brush-border membrane, however, increased about twofold in the intact rats between 6 and 24 days of age at 60–240 min after d-[³H]galactose injection. Hypophysectomy interfered with developmental increase in the transport of glycoproteins from the apical cytoplasm to the brush-border membrane. It was concluded that the incorporation of monosaccharide precursors into glycoproteins and the porportion of newly synthesized galactosylated or fucosylated glycoproteins transported to the brush-border membrane increase during postnatal development. The developmental changes are regulated, at least partially, by the pituitary gland.     

Conformation of the antifreeze glycoprotein of polar fish

High-field proton and 13C NMR spectroscopy has been used to test and refine the recent proposal, based on vacuum uv circular dichroism results, of a threefold left-handed helical conformation for antifreeze glycoprotein (AFGP). Partial assignment of the protons of the glycotripeptide repeating unit has been made by comparison with spectra of model compounds, by selective decoupling, and by measurements of nuclear Overhauser effect (nOe). At 40 degrees C, AFGP fraction 8 (Mr 2600) shows 2-Hz linewidths which broaden at lower temperature. Neither 1H nor 13C chemical shifts depend strongly on temperature, suggesting no abrupt conformational transition. The nOe between alanine alpha and beta protons vary with temperature and with field strength, from small positive enhancements at 50 degrees C and 80 MHz to large negative effects at 3 degrees C and 300 MHz, indicating a substantial change of rotational correlation time with temperature. The higher-molecular-weight fraction 1-4 shows negative nOe at all temperatures. The CD spectra of fraction 1-4 show bands characteristic of the polyproline II structure at both 3 and 50 degrees C, while those bands in fraction 8 are weaker at 50 than 3 degrees C. The 1H nOe, the 13C T1, and CD data are interpreted as indicating that AFGP fraction 8 is an extended "rod-like" conformation at low temperature which becomes a flexible coil at high temperature, while fraction 1-4 is a flexible rod with sufficient segmental mobility to eliminate any long-range order.