THE METABOLISM OF THE ERYTHROCYTE: XII. DIPHOSPHOPYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOSIDASE OF THE RABBIT ERYTHROCYTE

1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Malkin ◽  
O. F. Denstedt

Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that in the hydrolysis of DPN by the DPN nucleosidase of rabbit erythrocyte stroma, the substrate is attached to the enzyme at more than one site. Cleavage of DPN at the nicotinamide–ribose bond is inhibited by nicotinamide, ADP, and adenine. Considering the nature of the inhibition and the extent of the inhibition, it is suggested that DPN attaches to the enzyme surface at the quaternary nitrogen of the nicotinamide and at the pyrophosphate group of the DPN molecule. Additional support for this supposition accrues from the observation that NMN, a cleavage product of DPN, can serve as a substrate for DPN-ase but the rate of hydrolysis is much slower than that with DPN.


1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Malkin ◽  
O. F. Denstedt

Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that in the hydrolysis of DPN by the DPN nucleosidase of rabbit erythrocyte stroma, the substrate is attached to the enzyme at more than one site. Cleavage of DPN at the nicotinamide–ribose bond is inhibited by nicotinamide, ADP, and adenine. Considering the nature of the inhibition and the extent of the inhibition, it is suggested that DPN attaches to the enzyme surface at the quaternary nitrogen of the nicotinamide and at the pyrophosphate group of the DPN molecule. Additional support for this supposition accrues from the observation that NMN, a cleavage product of DPN, can serve as a substrate for DPN-ase but the rate of hydrolysis is much slower than that with DPN.



1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. A. Alivisatos ◽  
S. Kashket ◽  
O. F. Denstedt

The rabbit erythrocyte possesses an active DPN-ase which is firmly attached to the membrane of the cell. Evidently, the enzyme is oriented in the membrane in such a way as to be able to act upon DPN added to the external medium. The enzyme splits DPN at the bond linking the quaternary nitrogen of the nicotinamide moiety with the ribose component. Despite the release of an H+ ion during hydrolysis of DPN, the activity of the enzyme remains practically constant over the pH range from 4.5 to 10.0. DPN-ase also splits nicotinamide from TPN, but its affinity for the latter is only about one third of that for DPN. Nicotinamide, adenine, and the substituted purine derivatives theobromine, theophylline, and xanthine inhibit DPN-ase, while compounds such as ribose, adenylic acid, caffeine, and nembutal are without effect in this respect. Of all the substances tested theobromine proved to be the most powerful inhibitor. The mode of enzyme–substrate attachment and the possible involvement of DPN-ase in ion transport are discussed in the light of these findings.



1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. A. Alivisatos ◽  
S. Kashket ◽  
O. F. Denstedt

The rabbit erythrocyte possesses an active DPN-ase which is firmly attached to the membrane of the cell. Evidently, the enzyme is oriented in the membrane in such a way as to be able to act upon DPN added to the external medium. The enzyme splits DPN at the bond linking the quaternary nitrogen of the nicotinamide moiety with the ribose component. Despite the release of an H+ ion during hydrolysis of DPN, the activity of the enzyme remains practically constant over the pH range from 4.5 to 10.0. DPN-ase also splits nicotinamide from TPN, but its affinity for the latter is only about one third of that for DPN. Nicotinamide, adenine, and the substituted purine derivatives theobromine, theophylline, and xanthine inhibit DPN-ase, while compounds such as ribose, adenylic acid, caffeine, and nembutal are without effect in this respect. Of all the substances tested theobromine proved to be the most powerful inhibitor. The mode of enzyme–substrate attachment and the possible involvement of DPN-ase in ion transport are discussed in the light of these findings.



1974 ◽  
Vol 31 (02) ◽  
pp. 309-318
Author(s):  
Phyllis S Roberts ◽  
Raphael M Ottenbrite ◽  
Patricia B Fleming ◽  
James Wigand

Summary1. Choline chloride, 0.1 M (in 0.25 M Tris. HCl buffer, pH 7.4 or 8.0, 37°), doubles the rate of hydrolysis of TAME by bovine thrombokinase but has no effect on the hydrolysis of this ester by either human or bovine thrombin. Only when 1.0 M or more choline chloride is present is the hydrolysis of BAME by thrombokinase or thrombin weakly inhibited. Evidence is presented that shows that these effects are due to the quaternary amine group.2. Tetramethyl ammonium bromide or chloride has about the same effects on the hydrolysis of esters by these enzymes as does choline chloride but tetra-ethyl, -n.propyl and -n.butyl ammonium bromides (0.1 M) are stronger accelerators of the thrombokinase-TAME reaction and they also accelerate, but to a lesser degree, the thrombin-TAME reaction. In addition, they inhibit the hydrolysis of BAME by both enzymes. Their effects on these reactions, however, do not follow any regular order. The tetraethyl compound is the strongest accelerator of the thrombokinase-TAME reaction but the tetra-ethyl and -butyl compounds are the strongest accelerators of the thrombin-TAME reaction. The ethyl and propyl compounds are the best (although weak) inhibitors of the thrombokinase-BAME and the propyl compound of the thrombin-BAME reactions.3. Tetra-methyl, -ethyl, -n.propyl and -n.butyl ammonium bromides (0.01 M) inhibit the clotting of fibrinogen by thrombin (bovine and human proteins) at pH 7.4, imidazole or pH 6.1, phosphate buffers and they also inhibit, but to a lesser degree, a modified one-stage prothrombin test. In all cases the inhibition increases regularly as the size of the alkyl group increases from methyl to butyl. Only the ethyl com pound (0.025 M but not 0.01 M), however, significantly inhibits the polymerization of bovine fibrin monomers. It was concluded that inhibition of the fibrinogen-thrombin and the one-stage tests by the quaternary amines is not due to any effect of the com pounds on the polymerization process but probably due to inhibition of thrombin’s action on fibrinogen by the quaternary amines.



1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 845-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Šorm ◽  
Miloslav Procházka ◽  
Jaroslav Kálal

The course of hydrolysis of an ester, 4-acetoxy-3-nitrobenzoic acid catalyzed with poly(1-methyl-3-allylimidazolium bromide) (IIa), poly[l-methyl-3-(2-propinyl)imidazolium chloride] (IIb) and poly[l-methyl-3-(2-methacryloyloxyethyl)imidazolium bromide] (IIc) in a 28.5% aqueous ethanol was investigated as a function of pH and compared with low-molecular weight models, viz., l-methyl-3-alkylimidazolium bromides (the alkyl group being methyl, propyl, and hexyl, resp). Polymers IIb, IIc possessed a higher activity at pH above 9, while the models were more active at a lower pH with a maximum at pH 7.67. The catalytic activity at the higher pH is attributed to an attack by the OH- group, while at the lower pH it is assigned to a direct attack of water on the substrate. The rate of hydrolysis of 4-acetoxy-3-nitrobenzoic acid is proportional to the catalyst concentration [IIc] and proceeds as a first-order reaction. The hydrolysis depends on the composition of the solvent and was highest at 28.5% (vol.) of ethanol in water. The hydrolysis of a neutral ester, 4-nitrophenyl acetate, was not accelerated by IIc.



1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1229-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Balej ◽  
Milada Thumová

The rate of hydrolysis of S2O82- ions in acidic medium to peroxomonosulphuric acid was measured at 20 and 30 °C. The composition of the starting solution corresponded to the anolyte flowing out from an electrolyser for production of this acid or its ammonium salt at various degrees of conversion and starting molar ratios of sulphuric acid to ammonium sulphate. The measured data served to calculate the rate constants at both temperatures on the basis of the earlier proposed mechanism of the hydrolysis, and their dependence on the ionic strength was studied.



1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1099-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikuláš Chavko ◽  
Michal Bartík ◽  
Evžen Kasafírek

A polarographic study of the hydrolysis of [8-lysine]vasopressin and some hormonogens of the vasopressin series with the blood serum of women in the last week of pregnancy was studied. The dependence of hydrolysis on pH (pH optimum: 7.4-7.50, substrate concentration (Km 1.2 . 10-5M), pH stability and thermal stability were determined. The rate of hydrolysis of individual vasopressin analogues decreases in the order: [8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-glycyl-prolyl[8-lysine]-vasopressin > Nα-leucyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-alanyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-phenyl alanyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-diglycyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-prolyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-triglycyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin > Nα-sarcosyl-glycyl-[8-lysine]vasopressin. The degree of hydrolysis gradually increases to a multiple with the length of the pregnancy in consequence of the presence of oxytocine. However, vasopressin is also hydrolysed to a small extent with the enzymes from the blood sera of non-pregnant women. Under similar analytical conditions oxytocin was not hydrolysed with the sera of non-pregnant women and therefore oxytocin is a more suitable substrate than vasopressin for polarographic determination of serum oxytocinase.



1985 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandalal Bagchi ◽  
Birdie Shivers ◽  
Thomas R. Brown

Abstract. Iodine in excess is known to acutely inhibit thyroidal secretion. In the present study we have characterized the time course of the iodine effect in vitro and investigated the underlying mechanisms. Labelled thyroid glands were cultured in vitro in medium containing mononitrotyrosine, an inhibitor of iodotyrosine deiodinase. The rate of hydrolysis of labelled thyroglobulin was measured as the proportion of labelled iodotyrosines and iodothyronines recovered at the end of culture and was used as an index of thyroidal secretion. Thyrotrophin (TSH) administered in vivo acutely stimulated the rate of thyroglobulin hydrolysis. Addition of Nal to the culture medium acutely inhibited both basal and TSH-stimulated thyroglobulin hydrolysis. The effect of iodide was demonstrable after 2 h, maximal after 6 h and was not reversible upon removal of iodide. Iodide abolished the dibutyryl cAMP induced stimulation of thyroglobulin hydrolysis. Iodide required organic binding of iodine for its effect but new protein or RNA synthesis was not necessary. The inhibitory effects of iodide and lysosomotrophic agents such as NH4C1 and chloroquin on thyroglobulin hydrolysis were additive suggesting different sites of action. Iodide added in vitro altered the distribution of label in prelabelled thyroglobulin in a way that suggested increased coupling in the thyroglobulin molecule. These data indicate that 1) the iodide effect occurs progressively over a 6 h period, 2) continued presence of iodide is not necessary once the inhibition is established, 3) iodide exerts its action primarily at a post cAMP, prelysosomal site and 4) the effect requires organic binding of iodine, but not new RNA or protein synthesis. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that excess iodide acutely inhibits thyroglobulin hydrolysis by increasing the resistance of thyroglobulin to proteolytic degradation through increased iodination and coupling.



2002 ◽  
Vol 310 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Q Paula Lei ◽  
David H Lamb ◽  
Ron K Heller ◽  
Anthony G Shannon ◽  
Robert Ryall ◽  
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