scholarly journals Evidence that the peripheral cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase of rat liver plasma membranes is a metalloenzyme

1985 ◽  
Vol 225 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Londesborough

Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase activity in salt extracts of rat liver plasma membranes was progressively inactivated by treatment with the metal chelators 8-hydroxyquinoline and o-phenanthroline, but not the non-chelating m-phenanthroline isomer. Activity at 20 microM-cyclic AMP was lost more slowly than activity at 0.4 microM-cyclic AMP. The activity of treated preparations was partially restored by incubation with Zn2+ or Mn2+ ions (in the presence of 1 mM-MgCl2) but not with Ca2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Cu2+ or Fe2+ ions, nor by MgCl2 alone. The results suggest the presence in the membrane extracts of a cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase containing tightly bound metal, possibly Zn or Mn, that affects the enzyme's affinity for cyclic AMP.

1981 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Marchmont ◽  
M D Houslay

Incubation of intact purified rat liver plasma membranes with insulin, cyclic AMP and ATP led to the activation of the peripheral “low-Km” cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase. When (gamma-32P]ATP was included in the incubation mixture, after purification of this enzyme to homogeneity it was found to contain 1 mol of alkali-labile 32P/mol of enzyme. Treatment of the homogeneous phosphorylated enzyme with alkaline phosphatase released all of the 32P from the protein while restoring its activity to the native state. The reversibility of the activation that is achieved by the phosphorylation of this enzyme could also be demonstrated with a high-speed supernatant from rat liver. This restored the activity of the activated membrane-bound enzyme to its native state. The Ka for the cyclic AMP-dependence of this process (1.6 micrometer) was unaffected by a range of ATP concentrations (1-10 mM) and by a range of membrane protein concentrations (0.2-2 mg/ml). Adenylyl imidodiphosphate could not substitute for ATP, and concanavalin A could not substitute for insulin, as essential ligands in the activation process. The purified activated enzyme exhibited Km 0.6 microM, Vmax 10.9 units/mg of protein and Hill coefficient (h) 0.47. The Vmax. for this activated enzyme was much higher than that of the native enzyme, yet h was much lower.


1980 ◽  
Vol 187 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Marchmont ◽  
M D Houslay

1. Approx. 10% of the rat liver cellular cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity was associated with a plasma-membrane fraction. 2. Lineweaver-Burk plots of this activity were clearly non-linear, yielding extrapolated Km values of 0.7 and 60.6 microns. 3. Treatment of these membranes with high-ionic-strength NaCl solutions apparently released 80% of this activity assayed at 0.4 micron-cyclic AMP, and 15% of the activity assayed at 1 mM-cyclic AMP. 4. The high-salt-solubilized enzyme gave a non-linear Lineweaver-Burk plot. 5. The cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity of the washed high-salt-treated membranes exhibited a linear Lineweaver-Burk plot, yielding a Km of 60 microns. 6. The high-salt-solubilized enzyme exhibited a single peak of activity upon polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, a single peak upon sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation (3.9 S) and decayed as a single exponential upon heat-treatment (half-life 1 min at 55 degrees C). 7. The activity of washed high-salt-treated membranes decayed as a single exponential upon heat-treatment (half-life 42 min at 55 degrees C), and was solubilized in the detergent Triton X-100. 8. Cytosol-derived cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity could bind to washed high-salt-treated plasma membranes, but was totally eluted by washing with 1 mM-KHCO3, unlike the high-salt-solubilized enzyme, which required high salt concentrations to elute it. 9. We suggest that the cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity of rat liver plasma membranes can be resolved into two components: a single peripheral protein exhibiting apparent negative co-operativity, that is distinct from cytosol forms, and an intrinsic protein exhibiting normal Michaelis kinetics.


1981 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Marchmont ◽  
S R Ayad ◽  
M D Houslay

The peripheral high-affinity cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase from rat liver plasma membranes was purified to apparent homogeneity. The procedure used involved the initial purification of liver plasma membranes and the solubilization of the enzyme by using a high-ionic-strength medium. This was followed by chromatography of the enzyme on DEAE-cellulose, Affi-Gel Blue, a novel affinity column and Sephadex G-100. A 9500-fold purification of the enzyme with a 24% yield was achieved by this procedure. The purified enzyme was apparently monomeric (Mr 52000) as it exhibited identical molecular weights on analysis by gel filtration, sedimentation and sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. It is suggested that the non-Michaelis kinetics exhibited by the enzyme are due to it obeying a mnemonical mechanism, where it displays Km 0.7 micrometer, Vmax. 9.1 units/mg of protein and Hill coefficient (h) 0.62. Cyclic GMP acts as a poor substrate for the enzyme, with Km 120 micrometer and Vmax. 0.4 unit/mg of protein, and also as an inhibitor of the enzyme, with I50 (concentration giving 50% inhibition) 150 micrometer when assayed at 0.4 micrometer-cyclic AMP. Inhibition by 5′-AMP is unlikely to be of physiological importance, as it is only a weak inhibitor of the enzyme (I50 47 mM assayed at 0.4 micrometer-cyclic AMP).


1973 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence D. Prospero ◽  
Malcolm L. E. Burge ◽  
Kenneth A. Norris ◽  
Richard H. Hinton ◽  
Eric Reid

The ribonuclease and phosphodiesterase activities of rat liver plasma membranes, purified from the crude nuclear fraction by centrifugation in an A-XII zonal rotor and flotation, were examined and compared. The plasma membrane is responsible for between 65 and 90% of the phosphodiesterase activity of the cell and between 25 and 30% of the particulate ribonuclease activity measured at pH8.7 in the presence of 7.5mm-MgCl2. Both enzymes were most active between pH8.5 and 8.9. Close to the pH optimum, both enzymes were more active in Tris buffer than in Bicine or glycine buffer. Both plasma-membrane phosphodiesterase and ribonuclease were strongly activated by Mg2+, there being at least a 12-fold difference between the activity in the presence of Mg2+ and of EDTA. There is, however, a difference in the response of the enzymes to Mg2+ and EDTA in that the phosphodiesterase is fully activated by 1.0mm-MgCl2 and fully inhibited by 1.0mm-EDTA, whereas the ribonuclease requires 7.5mm-MgCl2 for full activation and 5mm-EDTA for full inhibition. Density-gradient centrifugation has indicated that on solubilization in Triton X-100 most of the ribonuclease activity is released into a small fragment of the same size as that containing the phosphodiesterase activity. The relationship between the two activities is discussed in view of these results.


1986 ◽  
Vol 234 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z Kiss ◽  
Y Luo ◽  
G Vereb

Rat liver plasma membranes contain a 55 kDa protein which proved to be identical with type II regulatory subunit (RII) of the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (kinase A) by several criteria (gel electrophoretic behaviour, peptide map, position of the autophosphorylated site). Analysis of phosphopeptide maps revealed that the membrane-bound RII was phosphorylated by a kinase which is unrelated to the catalytic unit (C) of kinase A. Dephosphorylation of the membrane-bound RII by an endogenous phosphatase was stimulated by both cyclic AMP and fluoride. Addition of C did not stimulate dephosphorylation even in the presence of ADP; moreover, protein inhibitor of C did not modify the effects of cyclic AMP or fluoride. The effects of both cyclic AMP and fluoride were, however, inhibited by C. Results indicate that rat liver plasma membranes contain a phosphorylation-dephosphorylation system for which RII is a relatively specific substrate.


1979 ◽  
Vol 178 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
M D Houslay ◽  
R W Palmer

1. Synthetic lysophosphatidylcholines inhibit the glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity of rat liver plasma membranes at concentrations two to five times lower than those needed to inhibit the fluoride-stimulated activity. 2. Specific 125I-labelled glucagon binding to hormone receptors is inhibited at concentrations similar to those inhibiting the fluoride-stimulated activity. 3. At concentrations of lysophosphatidylcholines immediately below those causing inhibition, an activation of adenylate cyclase activity or hormone binding was observed. 4 These effects are essentially reversible. 5. We conclude that the increased sensitivity of glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase to inhibition may be due to the lysophosphatidylcholines interfering with the physical coupling between the hormone receptor and catalytic unit of adenylate cyclase. 6. We suggest that, in vivo, it is possible that lysophosphatidylcholines may modulate the activity of adenylate cyclase only when it is in the hormone-stimulated state.


1990 ◽  
Vol 272 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
K M Hurst ◽  
B P Hughes ◽  
G J Barritt

1. Guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]) stimulated by 50% the rate of release of [3H]choline and [3H]phosphorylcholine in rat liver plasma membranes labelled with [3H]choline. About 70% of the radioactivity released in the presence of GTP[S] was [3H]choline and 30% was [3H]phosphorylcholine. 2. The hydrolysis of phosphorylcholine to choline and the conversion of choline to phosphorylcholine did not contribute to the formation of [3H]choline and [3H]phosphorylcholine respectively. 3. The release of [3H]choline from membranes was inhibited by low concentrations of SDS or Triton X-100. Considerably higher concentrations of the detergents were required to inhibit the release of [3H]phosphorylcholine. 4. Guanosine 5′-[beta gamma-imido]triphosphate and guanosine 5′-[alpha beta-methylene]triphosphate, but not adenosine 5′-[gamma-thio]-triphosphate, stimulated [3H]choline release to the same extent as did GTP[S]. The GTP[S]-stimulated [3H]choline release was inhibited by guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate, GDP and GTP but not by GMP. 5. It is concluded that, in rat liver plasma membranes, (a) GTP[S]-stimulated hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine is catalysed predominantly by phospholipase D with some contribution from phospholipase C, and (b) the stimulation of phosphatidylcholine hydrolysis by GTP[s] occurs via a GTP-binding regulatory protein.


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