scholarly journals Ethanol has different effects on Ca2+-transport ATPases of muscle, brain and blood platelets

1995 ◽  
Vol 312 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Mitidieri ◽  
L de Meis

The effects of ethanol on different sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-transport ATPases (SERCAs) were studied. In sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles, ethanol concentrations varying from 5 to 20% promoted a progressive inhibition of Ca2+ uptake, enhancement of Ca2+ efflux, activation of the ATPase activity, increase of the enzyme phosphorylation by ATP and inhibition of enzyme phosphorylation by P1. The effects of ethanol on Ca2+ uptake and Ca2+ efflux were antagonized by Mg2+, P(i) and spermine. The increased efflux promoted by ethanol was antagonized by Ca2+ and thapsigargin. In brain and platelet vesicles a biphasic effect of ethanol was observed, so that activation occurred at low concentrations (5-10%) and inhibition at higher concentrations. The activation was not observed with the use of n-propanol and n-butanol. Different from the situation in sarcoplasmic reticulum, the decrease of the Ca2+ uptake in brain and platelet vesicles was associated with an inhibition of the ATPase activity. Mg2+ and P(i) antagonized the enhancement of Ca2+ efflux and the inhibition of Ca2+ uptake promoted by ethanol. However, thapsigargin and Ca2+ did not arrest the Ca2+ efflux promoted by ethanol in brain and platelet preparations. These results suggest that, in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles, ethanol uncouples the pump, promoting its activity as a Ca2+ channel. The SERCA isoform found in skeletal muscle has different properties from the isoforms found in brain and blood platelets.

1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Wuytack ◽  
Y Kanmura ◽  
J A Eggermont ◽  
L Raeymaekers ◽  
J Verbist ◽  
...  

Smooth muscle expresses in its endoplasmic reticulum an isoform of the Ca2+-transport ATPase that is very similar to or identical with that of the cardiac-muscle/slow-twitch skeletal-muscle form. However, this enzyme differs from that found in fast-twitch skeletal muscle. This conclusion is based on two independent sets of observations, namely immunological observations and phosphorylation experiments. Immunoblot experiments show that two different antibody preparations against the Ca2+-transport ATPase of cardiac-muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum also recognize the endoplasmic-reticulum/sarcoplasmic-reticulum enzyme of the smooth muscle and the slow-twitch skeletal muscle whereas they bind very weakly or not at all to the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase of the fast-twitch skeletal muscle. Conversely antibodies directed against the fast-twitch skeletal-muscle isoform of the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase do not bind to the cardiac-muscle, smooth-muscle or slow-twitch skeletal-muscle enzymes. The phosphorylated tryptic fragments A and A1 of the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPases have the same apparent Mr values in cardiac muscle, slow-twitch skeletal muscle and smooth muscle, whereas the corresponding fragments in fast-twitch skeletal muscle have lower apparent Mr values. This analytical procedure is a new and easy technique for discrimination between the isoforms of endoplasmic-reticulum/sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPases.


1984 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Wuytack ◽  
L Raeymaekers ◽  
J Verbist ◽  
H De Smedt ◽  
R Casteels

Membrane fractions prepared from smooth muscle of the pig stomach (antral part) contain two Ca2+-dependent phosphoprotein intermediates belonging to different Ca2+-transport ATPases. These alkali-labile phosphoproteins can be separated by electrophoresis in acid medium. The 130 kDa phosphoprotein resembles a corresponding protein in the erythrocyte membrane, whereas the 100 kDa protein resembles that of the Ca2+-transport ATPase in sarcoplasmic reticulum from skeletal muscle. These resemblances are expressed in terms of Mr, reaction to La3+ and in a similar proteolytic degradation pattern. The presence of the calmodulin-stimulated ATPase in mixed membranes from smooth muscle is confirmed by its binding of calmodulin and antibodies against erythrocyte Ca2+-transport ATPase, whereas such binding does not occur with proteins present in the presumed endoplasmic reticulum from smooth muscle.


1995 ◽  
Vol 306 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
J C Benech ◽  
H Wolosker ◽  
L de Meis

In this study, the endoplasmic Ca2+ transport ATPase of blood platelets was compared with the Ca2+ ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum skeletal muscle. Similar to the muscle enzyme, the Ca2+ ATPase from platelets was found to catalyse an ATP<-->P(i) exchange both in the presence and in the absence of a transmembrane Ca2+ gradient. When platelet vesicles are loaded with Ca2+ and diluted in medium containing ADP, P(i) and EGTA, the ATPase catalyses Ca2+ efflux coupled to synthesis of ATP. The stoichiometry between Ca2+ ion released and ATP synthesized by platelet Ca2+ ATPase is 1, while that of skeletal muscle is 2. Thapsigargin, a specific inhibitor of sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPases, inhibited both the Ca(2+)-dependent ATPase activity and the reversal of the platelet Ca2+ pump. The possibility is discussed that the differences observed between the two transport systems is related to the distinct amino acid sequences of the enzymes.


1991 ◽  
Vol 278 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
T L Kirley

The Mg(2+)-ATPase present in rabbit skeletal-muscle transverse tubules is an integral membrane enzyme which has been solubilized and purified previously in this laboratory [Kirley (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 12682-12689]. The present study indicates that, in addition to the approx. 100 kDa protein (distinct from the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase) seen previously to co-purify with the Mg(2+)-ATPase activity, there are also proteins having molecular masses of 160, 70 and 43 kDa. The 70 and 43 kDa glycosylated proteins (50 and 31 kDa after deglycosylation) are difficult to detect by SDS/PAGE before deglycosylation, owing to the broadness of the bands. Additional purification procedures, cross-linking studies and chemical and enzymic deglycosylation studies were undertaken to determine the structure and relationship of these proteins. Both the 97 and 160 kDa proteins were demonstrated to be N-glycosylated at multiple sites, the 97 kDa protein being reduced to a peptide core of 84 kDa and the 160 kDa protein to a peptide core of 131 kDa after deglycosylation. Although the Mg(2+)-ATPase activity is resistant to a number of chemical modification reagents, cross-linking inactivates the enzyme at low concentrations. This inactivation is accompanied by cross-linking of two 97 kDa molecules to one another, suggesting that the 97 kDa protein is involved in ATP hydrolysis. The existence of several proteins along with the inhibition of ATPase activity by cross-linking is consistent with the interpretation of the susceptibility of this enzyme to inactivation by most detergents as being due to the disruption of a protein complex of associated subunits by the inactivating detergents. The 160 kDa glycoprotein can be partially resolved from the Mg(2+)-ATPase activity, and is identified by its N-terminal amino acid sequence as angiotensin-converting enzyme.


1987 ◽  
Vol 245 (3) ◽  
pp. 739-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
G W Gould ◽  
J M McWhirter ◽  
J M East ◽  
A G Lee

On addition of ATP to vesicles derived from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of skeletal muscle, Ca2+ is accumulated from the external medium. Following uptake, spontaneous release of Ca2+ occurs in the presence or in the absence of ATP. These processes of Ca2+ uptake and release were simulated by using the models derived for ATPase activity [Gould, East, Froud, McWhirter, Stefanova & Lee (1986) Biochem. J. 237, 217-227; Stefanova, Napier, East & Lee (1987) Biochem. J. 245, 723-730] and for Ca2+ release from passively loaded vesicles [McWhirter, Gould, East & Lee (1987) Biochem. J. 245, 713-722]. The simulations are consistent with measurements of the effects of pH, K+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ on uptake and release of Ca2+. The increase in maximal Ca2+ accumulation observed in the presence of maleate is explained in terms of complexing of Ca2+ and maleate within the SR. The calculated concentration of ADP generated by hydrolysis of ATP has a large effect on the simulations. The effects of an ATP-regenerating system on the measured Ca2+ uptake is explained in terms of both removal of ADP and precipitation of Ca3(PO4)2 within the vesicles. It is concluded that both the process of Ca2+ uptake and the process of Ca2+ release seen with SR vesicles can be interpreted quantitatively in terms solely of the properties of the Ca2+ + Mg2+-activated ATPase.


1991 ◽  
Vol 280 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Makuch ◽  
K Birukov ◽  
V Shirinsky ◽  
R Dabrowska

Calponin and caldesmon, constituents of smooth-muscle thin filaments, are considered to be potential modulators of smooth-muscle contraction. Both of them interact with actin and inhibit ATPase activity of smooth- and skeletal-muscle actomyosin. Here we show that calponin and caldesmon could bind simultaneously to F-actin when used in subsaturating amounts, whereas each one used in excess caused displacement of the other from the complex with F-actin. Calponin was more effective than caldesmon in this competition: when F-actin was saturated with calponin the binding of caldesmon was eliminated almost completely, whereas even at high molar excess of caldesmon one-third of calponin (relative to the saturation level) always remained bound to actin. The inhibitory effects of low concentrations of calponin and caldesmon on skeletal-muscle actomyosin ATPase were additive, whereas the maximum inhibition of the ATPase attained at high concentration of each of them was practically unaffected by the other one. These data suggest that calponin and caldesmon cannot operate on the same thin filaments. CA(2+)-calmodulin competed with actin for calponin binding, and at high molar excess dissociated the calponin-actin complex and reversed the calponin-induced inhibition of actomyosin ATPase activity.


1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 591-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Nogues ◽  
A. Cuenda ◽  
F. Henao ◽  
C. Gutiérrez-Merino

Abstract The glycogenolytic-sarcoplasmic reticulum complex from rat skeletal muscle accumulates Ca2+ upon stimulation of glycogen phosphorolysis in the absence of added ATP. It is shown that an efficient Ca2+ uptake involves the sequential action of glycogen phosphorylase, phosphoglucomutase and hexokinase, which generate low concentrations of ATP (approximately 1 -2 μм) compartmentalized in the immediate vicinity of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (the Ca2+ pump). The Ca2+ uptake supported by glycogenolysis in this subcellular structure is strongly stimulated by micromolar concentrations of AMP, showing that the glycogen phosphorylase associated with this complex is in the dephosphorylated b form. The results point out that the flux through this compartmentalized metabolic pathway should be enhanced in physiological conditions leading to increased AMP concentrations in the sarcoplasm, such as long-lasting contractions and in ischemic muscle.


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