Monoacylglycerol lipase activity in cardiac myocytes

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (9) ◽  
pp. 1013-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Severson ◽  
Mariette Hee-Cheong

Monoacylglycerol lipase activity in homogenates of isolated myocardial cells (myocytes) from rat hearts was recovered in both particulate and soluble subcellular fractions. The activity present in the microsomal (100 000 × g pellet) fraction was solubilized by treatment with Triton X-100 and combined with the 100 000 × g supernatant fraction; the properties of monoacylglycerol lipase were investigated with this soluble enzyme preparation. The Km for the hydrolysis of a 2-monoolein substrate was 16 μM. The rates of hydrolysis of 1-monoolein and 2-monoolein were identical, and 1-monoolein was a competitive inhibitor (Ki = 20 μM) of the hydrolysis of 2-monoolein. Monoacylglycerol lipase activity was regulated by product inhibition according to the following order of potency: fatty acyl CoA > free fatty acids > fatty acyl carnitine.

1994 ◽  
Vol 298 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
M W Lee ◽  
D L Severson

A diacylglycerol (DG) lipase has been purified from a soluble subcellular fraction of bovine aorta by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation in the presence of 5.0% (w/v) Triton X-100, followed by chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel, heparin-Sepharose and octyl-Sepharose in the presence of either CHAPS or Triton X-100 detergents. Under basal conditions, the hydrolysis of a short-chain [3H]dioctanoylglycerol ([3H]diC8) substrate was much greater than that of a long-chain 1-[1-14C]palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycerol (1-[14C]POG) substrate. Lipase activity measured with 1-[14C]POG was markedly enhanced by Triton X-100. In the presence of 0.1% Triton X-100, specific enzyme activities in the octyl-Sepharose fraction determined with 1-[14C]POG or 1-stearoyl-2-[1-14C]-arachidonoyl-sn-glycerol as substrates were the same as that measured with [3H]diC8. MgCl2 (5mM) or CaCl2 (2 mM) also selectively stimulated lipase activity (up to 10-13-fold) measured with the long-chain (1-[14C]POG) substrate only. The increase in relative specific activity in the octyl-Sepharose fraction was 60-fold and 155-fold, based on hydrolysis of [3H]diC8 and 1-[14C]POG (+ Triton X-100), respectively. Unlabelled diC8 was a competitive inhibitor of 1-[14C]POG hydrolysis, suggesting that a single lipase hydrolyses both the short-chain and long-chain DG substrates; selective stimulatory effects of non-ionic detergents and bivalent cations on the hydrolysis of 1-[14C]POG may be due to effects on the physical properties of the substrate preparation. Monoacylglycerol lipase, DG kinase and cholesterol esterase activities could not be detected in the partially purified lipase preparation.


1976 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Borensztajn ◽  
M S Rone ◽  
T J Kotlar

1. Lipoprotein lipase activity was measured in heart homogenates and in heparin-releasable and non-releasable fractions of isolated perfused rat hearts, after the intravenous injection of Triton WR-1339. 2. In homogenates of hearts from starved, rats, lipoprotein lipase activity was significantly inhibited (P less than 0.001) 2h after the injection of Triton. This inhibition was restricted exclusively to the heparin-releasable fraction. Maximum inhibition occurred 30 min after the injection and corresponded to about 60% of the lipoprotein lipase activity that could be released from the heart during 30 s perfusion with heparin. 3. Hearts of Triton-treated starved rats were unable to take up and utilize 14C-labelled chylomicron triacylglycerol fatty acids, even though about 40% of heparin-releasable activity remained in the hearts. 4. It is concluded that Triton selectively inhibits the functional lipoprotein lipase, i.e. the enzyme directly involved in the hydrolysis of circulating plasma triacylglycerols. 5. Lipoprotein lipase activities measured in homogenates of soleus muscle of starved rats and adipose tissue of fed rats were decreased by 25 and 39% respectively after Triton injection. It is concluded that, by analogy with the heart, these Triton-inhibitable activities correspond to the functional lipoprotein lipase.


1979 ◽  
Vol 177 (3) ◽  
pp. 833-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Scrutton ◽  
I Beis

1. N10-Formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase was purified to homogeneity from rat liver with a specific activity of 0.7–0.8 unit/mg at 25 degrees C. The enzyme is a tetramer (Mw = 413,000) composed of four similar, if not identical, substrate addition and give the Km values as 4.5 micron [(-)-N10-formyltetrahydrofolate] and 0.92 micron (NADP+) at pH 7.0. Tetrahydrofolate acts as a potent product inhibitor [Ki = 7 micron for the (-)-isomer] which is competitive with respect to N10-formyltetrahydrofolate and non-competitive with respect to NADP+. 3. Product inhibition by NADPH could not be demonstrated. This coenzyme activates N10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase when added at concentrations, and in a ratio with NADP+, consistent with those present in rat liver in vivo. No effect of methionine, ethionine or their S-adenosyl derivatives could be demonstrated on the activity of the enzyme. 4. Hydrolysis of N10-formyltetrahydrofolate is catalysed by rat liver N10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase at 21% of the rate of CO2 formation based on comparison of apparent Vmax. values. The Km for (-)-N10-folate is a non-competitive inhibitor of this reaction with respect to N10-formyltetrahydrofolate, with a mean Ki of 21.5 micron for the (-)-isomer. NAD+ increases the maximal rate of N10-formyltetrahydrofolate hydrolysis without affecting the Km for this substrate and decreases inhibition by tetrahydrofolate. The activator constant for NAD+ is obtained as 0.35 mM. 5. Formiminoglutamate, a product of liver histidine metabolism which accumulates in conditions of excess histidine load, is a potent inhibitor of rat liver pyruvate carboxylase, with 50% inhibition being observed at a concentration of 2.8 mM, but has no detectable effect on the activity of rat liver cytosol phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase measured in the direction of oxaloacetate synthesis. We propose that the observed inhibition of pyruvate carboxylase by formiminoglutamate may account in part for the toxic effect of excess histidine.


1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. J. Davis ◽  
Howard Lees

A partially purified preparation of the constitutive alkaline phosphatase from Neurospora crassa, containing two electrophoretically distinct activities was used in initial studies of product inhibition patterns. Inorganic phosphate was shown to be a linear competitive inhibitor, and p-nitrophenol to be a non-linear, non-competitive inhibitor of p-nitrophenyl phosphate hydrolysis. Glycerol was shown to be a linear non-competitive inhibitor of β-glycerophosphate hydrolysis.A purification procedure whereby one enzyme activity could be obtained free of the second was devised. The purified enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of a wide range of substrates and had a molecular weight of 111 000. Its hydrolysis of glucose 6-phosphate was competitively inhibited by phosphate and non-competitively inhibited by glucose. Both inhibitions were linear. Hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate was competitively inhibited by phosphate in a linear manner, but p-nitrophenol was a non-linear, non-competitive inhibitor. Alternate product inhibition by glucose was linear competitive. No inhibition by p-nitrophenol of glucose 6-phosphate hydrolysis could be detected.The inhibition data for glucose 6-phosphate and β-glycerophosphate may be consistent with an ordered Uni-Bi mechanism expanded to include one or more isomerizations of enzyme complexes. The postulation of a different mechanism involving alternate pathways is probably required to explain the data obtained when p-nitrophenyl phosphate was the substrate.


1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 976-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Severson ◽  
Mariette Hee-Cheong

Diacylglycerol lipase and kinase activities were measured in particulate and soluble fractions from rabbit aorta (intima–media) and coronary microvessels. With rabbit aorta, the hydrolysis at the sn-1 position of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycerol had a pH optimum of 5–6 and was greater than hydrolysis at the sn-2 position (pH optimum of 6.5). Only the 2-monoacylglycerol accumulated during incubations at pH 5 and 6.5. These results are consistent with an ordered two-step reaction sequence where the fatty acid at the sn-1 position is released first, followed by the hydrolysis of the fatty acid from the 2-monoacylglycerol by a monoacylglycerol lipase with a neutral pH optimum. Lipase activity (sn-2 hydrolysis) at pH 6.5 was greater than kinase activity at all substrate concentrations. The presence of arachidonate at the sn-2 position of the diacylglycerol increased kinase activity but had little effect on lipase activity. Kinase activity was mainly particulate, whereas 50–60% of diacylglycerol lipase and 50% of monoacylglycerol lipase activity were soluble. Diacylglycerol lipase and kinase were also present in coronary microvessel preparations. Diacylglycerol lipase (sn-2 hydrolysis) activity in coronary microvessels was not enhanced by preincubation of the enzyme preparation with cAMP-dependent protein kinase.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sailen Mookerjea

Microsomal membranes were solubilized by incubation with lysolecithin which caused considerable release of galactosyl- and N-acetylglucosaminyl-transferase into a high-speed supernatant fraction. With a critical concentration of lysolecithin (2.5 mg/10 mg protein in 1 mL microsome suspension), there was a maximal binding of radioactive lysolecithin to the sediment fraction obtained after high-speed centrifugation. Increase of lysolecithin concentration (above 2.5 mg/mL) in the incubation mixture caused a progressive release of the enzymes into the supernatant fraction.Lysolecithin binding to the membrane was greatly inhibited by 1 M NaCl, and high salt concentration also inactivated galactosyltransferase in the sediment, suggesting an electrostatic interaction between lysolecithin and membrane enzyme. In contrast, high NaCl concentration had no inhibitory effect on the enzyme activity in the sediment when the fraction was prepared by treatment with Triton X-100.Lysolecithin-treated microsomal sediment and supernatant galactosyltransferase was inactivated by oleoyllysophosphatidic acid but not by palmitoyllysophosphatidic acid or egg yolk lysophosphatidic acid. Triton X-100 treated microsomal fractions were also similarly affected by different species of lysophosphatidic acid. The results suggested a similarity of interactions of lysophosphatidic fatty acyl species with lysolecithin and Triton-treated galactosyltransferase.


1963 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ekholm ◽  
T. Zelander ◽  
P.-S. Agrell

ABSTRACT Guinea pigs, kept on a iodine-sufficient diet, were injected with Na131I and the thyroids excised from 45 seconds to 5 days later. The thyroid tissue was homogenized and separated into a combined nuclear-mitochondrial-microsomal fraction and a supernatant fraction by centrifugation at 140 000 g for one hour. Protein bound 131iodine (PB131I) and free 131iodide were determined in the fractions and the PB131I was analysed for monoiodotyrosine (MIT), diiodotyrosine (DIT) and thyroxine after hydrolysis of PB131I. As early as only 20 minutes after the Na131I-injection almost 100% of the particulate fraction 131I was protein bound. In the supernatant fraction the protein binding was somewhat less rapid and PB131I values above 90% of total supernatant 131I were not found until 3 hours after the injection. In all experiments the total amount of PB131I was higher in the supernatant than in the corresponding particulate fraction. The ratio between supernatant PB131I and pellet PB131I was lower in experiments up to 3 minutes and from 2 to 5 days than in experiments of 6 minutes to 20 hours. Hydrolysis of PB131I yielded, even in the shortest experiments, both MIT and DIT. The DIT/MIT ratio was lower in the experiments up to 2 hours than in those of 3 hours and over.


1968 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. M. Wilkie ◽  
R. M. S. Smellie

1. The 105000g supernatant fraction of rat liver catalyses the incorporation of ribonucleotides from ribonucleoside triphosphates into polyribonucleotide material. The reaction requires Mg2+ ions and is enhanced by the addition of an ATP-generating system and RNA, ATP, UTP and CTP but not GTP are utilized in this reaction. In the case of UTP, the product is predominantly a homopolymer containing 2–3 uridine residues, and there is evidence that these may be added to the 3′-hydroxyl ends of RNA or oligoribonucleotide primers. 2. The microsome fraction of rat liver incorporates ribonucleotides from ATP, GTP, CTP and UTP into polyribonucleotide material. This reaction requires Mg2+ ions and is enhanced slightly by the addition of an ATP-generating system, and by RNA but not DNA. Supplementation of the reaction mixture with the three complementary ribonucleoside 5′-triphosphates greatly increases the utilization of a single labelled ribonucleoside 5′-triphosphate. The optimum pH is in the range 7·0–8·5, and the reaction is strongly inhibited by inorganic pyrophosphate and to a much smaller degree by inorganic orthophosphate. It is not inhibited by actinomycin D or by deoxyribonuclease. In experiments with [32P]UTP in the absence of ATP, GTP and CTP, 80–90% of 32P was recovered in UMP-2′ or −3′ after alkaline hydrolysis of the reaction product. When the reaction mixture was supplemented with ATP, GTP and CTP, however, about 40% of the 32P was recovered in nucleotides other than UMP-2′ or −3′. Although the reactions seem to lead predominantly to the synthesis of homopolymers, the possibility of some formation of some heteropolymer is not completely excluded.


1992 ◽  
Vol 285 (2) ◽  
pp. 577-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Sugumaran ◽  
J E Silbert

The effects of the non-ionic detergent Triton X-100 on 6-sulphation of two species of endogenous nascent proteochondroitin by a chick-embryo cartilage microsomal system was examined. Sulphation of the larger (Type I) species with adenosine 3′-phosphate 5′-phosphosulphate was slightly diminished when Triton X-100 was present, whereas sulphation of the smaller (Type II) species was slightly enhanced. An ordered rather than random pattern of sulphation was obtained for the smaller proteoglycan, but with a considerably lower degree of sulphation than that of the larger proteochondroitin. These differences were consistent with other differences between these two species as described previously. Sulphation of exogenous [14C]chondroitin and exogenous proteo[3H]chondroitin by the microsomal system with Triton X-100 present produced ordered rather than random sulphation patterns. When a 100,000 g supernatant fraction was utilized for sulphation of [14C]chondroitin or proteo[3H]chondroitin, Triton X-100 was not needed, and ordered sulphation was still obtained. When hexasaccharide was used, sulphation of multiple N-acetylgalactosamine residues of the individual hexasaccharides resulted. This was relatively independent of Triton X-100 or the concentration of the hexasaccharide acceptors. With soluble enzyme, sulphation of multiple N-acetylgalactosamine residues on the individual hexasaccharide molecules was even greater, so that tri-sulphated products were found. This suggests that ordered rather than random sulphation of chondroitin with these enzyme preparations is due to enzyme-substrate interaction rather than to membrane organization.


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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