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Yung-Feng Chang 《Neurochemical research》1982,7(5):577-588
Metabolism ofl-[U-14C]lysine was studied in the human autopsy tissues and the intact monkeys through intracerebroventricular and intravenous injections. The human tissues were more active in the metabolism ofl-[14C]lysine to [14C]pipecolate than the rat tissues previously reported. This metabolism was equally active in the phosphate (pH 7) and the glycyl-glycine (pH 8.6) buffers with the brain and the kidney having higher activity than the liver. Besides [14C]pipecolate, traces of [14C]saccharopine and -[14C]aminoadipate were also detected in the liver incubation. Twenty-four hr after intraventricular injection ofl-[14C]lysine to the monkey, substantial labeling of pipecolate and -aminoadipate was observed in the brain and spinal cord, with the kidney, liver and the plasma having much reduced levels. Radioactivity levels of these two compounds were found low in the organs and plasma of the intravenously injected monkey. The urine of both monkeys contained only traces of [14C]pipecolate, even though it contained high levels ofl-[14C]lysine and -[14C]aminoadipate. It was concluded thatl-lysine is actively metabolized to pipecolate and -aminoadipate in the human and the monkey, that this reaction is most active in the brain whenl-lysine is intraventricularly administered, and that in contrast to the rat, the monkey may have an effective renal reabsorption for pipecolate which is similar to the human. 相似文献
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The Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pI258 CadC is a homodimeric repressor that binds Cd(II), Pb(II), and Zn(II) and regulates expression of the cadAC operon. CadC binds two Cd(II) ions per dimer, with a tetrathiolate binding site composed of residues Cys(7), Cys(11), Cys(58), and Cys(60). It is not known whether each site consists of residues from a single monomer or from residues contributed by both subunits. To examine whether Cys(7) and Cys(11) are spatially proximate to Cys(58) and Cys(60) of the same subunit or of the other subunit, homodimers with the same cysteine mutation in each subunit and heterodimers containing different cysteine mutations in the two subunits were reacted with 4,6-bis(bromomethyl)-3,7-dimethyl-1,5-diazabicyclo[3.3.0]octa-3,6-diene-2,8-dione, which cross-links thiol groups that are within 3-6 A of each other. Cys(7) or Cys(11) cross-linked only with Cys(58) or Cys(60) on the other subunit. The data demonstrate that Cys(7) and Cys(11) from one monomer are within 3-6 A of either Cys(58) or Cys(60) in the other monomer. The results of this study strongly indicate that each of the two Cd(II) binding sites in the CadC homodimer is composed of Cys(7) and Cys(11) from one monomer and Cys(58) and Cys(60) from the other monomer. 相似文献
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The toxic metalloid arsenic is widely disseminated in the environment and causes a variety of health and environment problems.
As an adaptation to arsenic-contaminated environments, organisms have developed resistance systems. Many ars operons contain only three genes, arsRBC. Five gene ars operons have two additional genes, arsD and arsA, and these two genes are usually adjacent to each other. ArsA from Escherichia coli plasmid R773 is an ATPase that is the catalytic subunit of the ArsAB As(III) extrusion pump. ArsD was recently identified
as an arsenic chaperone to the ArsAB pump, transferring the trivalent metalloids As(III) and Sb(III) to the ArsA subunit of
the pump. This increases the affinity of ArsA for As(III), resulting in increased rates if extrusion and resistance to environmentally
relevant concentrations of arsenite. ArsD is a homodimer with three vicinal cysteine pairs, Cys12–Cys13, Cys112–Cys113 and
Cys119–Cys120, in each subunit. Each vicinal pair binds one As(III) or Sb(III). ArsD mutants with alanines substituting for
Cys112, Cys113, Cys119 or Cys120, individually or in pairs or truncations lacking the vicinal pairs, retained ability to interact
with ArsA, to activate its ATPase activity. Cells expressing these mutants retained ArsD-enhanced As(III) efflux and resistance.
In contrast, mutants with substitutions of conserved Cys12, Cys13 or Cys18, individually or in pairs, were unable to activate
ArsA or to enhance the activity of the ArsAB pump. It is proposed that ArsD residues Cys12, Cys13 and Cys18, but not Cys112,
Cys113, Cys119 or Cys120, are required for delivery of As(III) to and activation of the ArsAB pump. 相似文献
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Autophagy is a major protein degradation pathway that is essential for stress-induced and constitutive protein turnover. Accumulated evidence has demonstrated that amyloid-beta (A beta) protein can be generated in autophagic vacuoles, promoting its extracellular deposition in neuritic plaques as the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The molecular machinery for A beta generation, including APP, APP-C99 and beta-/gamma-secretases, are all enriched in autophagic vacuoles. The induction of autophagy can be vividly observed in the brain at early stages of sporadic AD and in an AD transgenic mouse model. Accumulated evidence has also demonstrated a neuroprotective role of autophagy in mediating the degradation of aggregated proteins that are causative of various neurodegenerative diseases. Autophagy is thus widely regarded as an intracellular hub for the removal of the detrimental A beta peptides and Tau aggregates. Nonetheless, compelling data also reveal an unfavorable function of autophagy in facilitating the production of intracellular A beta. The two faces of autophagy on the homeostasis of A beta place it in a very unique and intriguing position in AD pathogenesis. This article briefly summarizes seminal discoveries that are shedding new light on the critical and unique roles of autophagy in AD and potential therapeutic approaches against autophagy-elicited AD. 相似文献
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L-lysine is a barbiturate-like anticonvulsant and modulator of the benzodiazepine receptor 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Our earlier observations showed thatl-lysine enhanced the activity of diazepam against seizures induced by pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), and increased the affinity of benzodiazepine receptor binding in a manner additive to that caused by -aminobutyric acid (GABA). The present paper provides additional evidence to show thatl-lysine has central nervous system depressant-like characteristics.l-lysine enhanced [3H]flunitrazepam (FTZ) binding in brain membranes was dose-dependent and stimulated by chloride, bromide and iodide, but not fluoride. Enhancement of [3H]FTZ binding byl-lysine at a fixed concentration was increased by GABA but inhibited by pentobarbital between 10–7 to 10–3M. While GABA enhancement of [3H]FTZ binding was inhibited by the GABA mimetics imidazole acetic acid and tetrahydroisoxazol pyridinol, the enhancement by pentobarbital andl-lysine of [3H]FTZ binding was dose-dependently increased by these two GABA mimetics. The above results suggest thatl-lysine and pentobarbital acted at the same site of the GABA/benzodiazepine receptor complex which was different from the GABA binding site. The benzodiazepine receptor antagonist imidazodiazepine Ro15-1788 blocked the antiseizure activity of diazepam against PTZ. Similar to pentobarbital, the anti-PTZ effect ofl-lysine was not blocked by Ro15-1788. Picrotoxinin and the GABA, receptor antagonist bicuculline partially inhibitedl-lysine's enhancement of [3H]FTZ binding with the IC50s of 2 M and 0.1 M, respectively. The convulsant benzodiazepine Ro5-3663 dose-dependently inhibited the enhancement of [3H]FTZ binding byl-lysine. This article shows the basic amino acidl-lysine to have a central nervous system depressant characteristics with an anti-PTZ seizure activity and an enhancement of [3H]FTZ binding similar to that of barbiturates but different from GABA. 相似文献
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Ying-Tsen Tung Wen-Ming Hsu Hsinyu Lee Wei-Pang Huang Yung-Feng Liao 《Cellular and molecular neurobiology》2010,30(5):795-806
Mammalian p62/sequestosome-1 protein binds to both LC3, the mammalian homologue of yeast Atg8, and polyubiquitinated cargo
proteins destined to undergo autophagy-mediated degradation. We previously identified a cargo receptor-binding domain in Atg8
that is essential for its interaction with the cargo receptor Atg19 in selective autophagic processes in yeast. We, thus,
sought to determine whether this interaction is evolutionally conserved from yeast to mammals. Using an amino acid replacement
approach, we demonstrate that cells expressing mutant LC3 (LC3-K30D, LC3-K51A, or LC3-L53A) all exhibit defective lipidation
of LC3, a disrupted LC3–p62 interaction, and impaired autophagic degradation of p62, suggesting that the p62-binding site
of LC3 is localized within an evolutionarily conserved domain. Importantly, whereas cells expressing these LC3 mutants exhibited
similar overall autophagic activity comparable to that of cells expressing wild-type LC3, autophagy-mediated clearance of
the aggregation-prone mutant Huntingtin was defective in the mutant-expressing cells. Together, these results suggest that
p62 directly binds to the evolutionarily conserved cargo receptor-binding domain of Atg8/LC3 and selectively mediates the
clearance of mutant Huntingtin. 相似文献
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Liao YF Gotwals PJ Koteliansky VE Sheppard D Van De Water L 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2002,277(17):14467-14474
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Hsien-Tseng Lu Ming-Shium Hsieh Chao-Wen Cheng Li-Fan Yao Tsuey-Ying Hsu Jai Lan Kwang Yoon Kim Suk Jung Oh Yung-Hsiang Chang Chian-Her Lee Yung-Feng Lin Chien-Ho Chen 《Journal of biomedical science》2015,22(1)