scholarly journals Molecular and antigenic properties of cytochrome b5 from slow-muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum

1981 ◽  
Vol 197 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Salviati ◽  
S Salvatori ◽  
R Betto ◽  
A Margreth

NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase and cytochrome b5 associated with slow-muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum and liver microsomal fraction were identified with discrete protein bands of molecular weights 33000 and 16700 by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Purified detergent-extracted cytochrome b5 from muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum is indistinguishable from liver microsomal cytochrome b5 with respect to spectral properties, pI values and immunological reactivity with antibody to the liver cytochrome b5. Reaction of the antibody with membrane-bound cytochrome b5 inhibits the sarcoplasmic-reticulum NADH-cytochrome c reductase activity.

1975 ◽  
Vol 148 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Berman ◽  
K M Ivanetich ◽  
J E Kench

1. The effects of halothane (CF3CHBrCl), a volatile anaesthetic agent, on electron transfer in isolated rat liver microsomal preparations were examined. 2. At halothane concentrations achieved in tissues during clinical anaesthesia (1-2mM), halothane shifts the redox equilibrium of microsomal cytochrome b5 in the presence of NADPH towards the oxidized form. Halothane accelerates stoicheiometric consumption of NADPH and O2, increases the rate of reoxidation of NADH-reduced microsomal ferrocytochrom b5, but does not affect NADPH- or NADH-cytochrome c reductase activity. The enhanced microsomal electron flow seen in the presence of halothane is not diminished by CO nor is it increased by pretreatment of the animals with phenobarbital. 3. The effects of halothane are maximum in microsomal preparations isolated from animals fed on a high-carbohydrate diet to induce stearate desaturase activity. Changes in microsomal electron transfer caused by halothane are in all cases abolished by low concentrations (1-2mM) of cyanide. Microsomal stearate desaturase activity is unaffected by halothane. 4. The first-order rate constant for oxidation of membrane-bound ferrocytochrome b5 in the absence of added substrate (k1 equals 1.5 times 10(-3)A-1) is similar to that for autoxidation of purified ferrocytochrome b5(k1 equals 7 times 10(-3)S-1) the rate of autoxidation of soluble ferrocytochrome b5 is unaffected by halothane. 5. It is concluded that the effects of halothane on microsomal electron transfer are not related to cytochrome P-450 linked metabolism but rather arise from the interaction of halothane with the cyanide-sensitive factor of the stearate desaturase pathway.


1979 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
S R Slaughter ◽  
D E Hultquist

We have obtained and studied a 105,000-g pellet from T-3-Cl-2 cells, a cloned line of Friend virus-induced erythroleukemia cells. By difference spectrophotometry, the pellet was shown to contain cytochrome b5 and cytochrome P-450, hemeproteins that have been shown to participate in electron-transport reactions of endoplasmic reticulum and other membranous fractions of various tissues. The pellet also possesses NADH-cytochrome c reductase activity which is inhibited by anti-cytochrome b5 gamma-globulin, indicating the presence of cytochrome b5 reductase. This is the first demonstration of membrane-bound forms of these redox proteins in erythroid cells. Dimethyl sulfoxide-treated T-3-Cl-2 cells were also shown to possess membrane-bound cytochrome b5 and NADH-cytochrome c reductase activity. We failed to detect soluble cytochrome b5 in the 105,000-g supernatant fraction from homogenates of untreated or dimethyl sulfoxide-treated T-3-Cl-2 cells. In contrast, erythrocytes obtained from mouse blood were shown to possess soluble cytochrome b5 but no membrane-bound form of this protein. These findings are supportive of our hypothesis that soluble cytochrome b5 of erythrocytes is derived from endoplasmic reticulum or some other membrane structure of immature erythroid cells during cell maturation.


Blood ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-157
Author(s):  
JA Badwey ◽  
AI Tauber ◽  
ML Karnovsky

An NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity of ca. 170 nmole ferricyanide reduced/min/10(7) cells is present in the membrane fraction of human neutrophils. This membrane-bound activity constitutes ca. 85% of the total NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity that is present in these cells. The enzyme(s) readily utilize(s) purified cytochrome-b5 from beef liver as an electron acceptor. No other physiologic electron acceptors tested (e.g., ubiquinone-30, menadione) were active. The specificities of electron donors (e.g., NADH congruent to deamino-NADH much greater than NADPH) and acceptors (e.g., Fe(CN)6–3 greater than 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol much greater than O2) for the enzyme(s) in unfractionated membranes, along with action of inhibitors (e.g., ADP, p-chloromercuribenzoate) and the pH optimum, indicate that virtually all of the membrane-bound ferricyanide reductase activity in these cells is NADH-cytochrome-b5 reductase. This reductase, however, is only slightly solubilized (ca. 10%) by a phosphate buffer extraction procedure that is effective with the liver enzyme.


Blood ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Badwey ◽  
AI Tauber ◽  
ML Karnovsky

Abstract An NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity of ca. 170 nmole ferricyanide reduced/min/10(7) cells is present in the membrane fraction of human neutrophils. This membrane-bound activity constitutes ca. 85% of the total NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity that is present in these cells. The enzyme(s) readily utilize(s) purified cytochrome-b5 from beef liver as an electron acceptor. No other physiologic electron acceptors tested (e.g., ubiquinone-30, menadione) were active. The specificities of electron donors (e.g., NADH congruent to deamino-NADH much greater than NADPH) and acceptors (e.g., Fe(CN)6–3 greater than 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol much greater than O2) for the enzyme(s) in unfractionated membranes, along with action of inhibitors (e.g., ADP, p-chloromercuribenzoate) and the pH optimum, indicate that virtually all of the membrane-bound ferricyanide reductase activity in these cells is NADH-cytochrome-b5 reductase. This reductase, however, is only slightly solubilized (ca. 10%) by a phosphate buffer extraction procedure that is effective with the liver enzyme.


1980 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 516-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Meldolesi ◽  
G Corte ◽  
G Pietrini ◽  
N Borgese

NADH-cytochrome b5 reductases of rat liver microsomes, mitochondria, and heavy and light Golgi fractions (GF3 and GF 1+2) were compared by antibody inhibition and competition experiments, by peptide mapping, and by CNBr fragment analysis. The water-soluble portion of the microsomal enzyme, released by lysosomal digestion and purified by a published procedure, was used to raise antibodies in rabbits. Contaminant antimicrosome antibodies were removed from immune sera by immunoadsorption onto the purified antigen, and the F(ab')2 fragments of the pure antireductase antibody thus obtained were found to inhibit the NADH-cytochrome c reductase activity equally well in the four membrane fractions investigated, with similar dose-response relationships. Moreover, the purified water-soluble fragment of microsomal reductase, which by itself is very inefficient in reducing cytochrome c, competed for antibody binding with the membrane-bound enzymes, and therefore prevented the inhibition of their activity not only in microsomes but also in the other fractions. The reductases isolated from detergent-solubilized microsomes, mitochondria, GF3, and GF1+2 by immunoadsorption had identical mobilities in SDS polyacrylamide gels. The corresponding bands were eluted from gels, fragmented with pepsin or CNBr treatment, and the two families of peptides thus obtained were analyzed by two-dimensional mapping and SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, respectively. Both analyses failed to reveal differences among reductases of the four fractions. These findings support the hypothesis that NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase in its various subcellular locations is molecularly identical.


1982 ◽  
Vol 202 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Salviati ◽  
Pompeo Volpe ◽  
Sergio Salvatori ◽  
Romeo Betto ◽  
Ernesto Damiani ◽  
...  

1. Microsomes were isolated from rabbit fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle and were separated into heavy and light fractions by centrifugation in a linear (0.3–2m) sucrose density gradient. The membrane origin of microsomal vesicles was investigated by studying biochemical markers of the sarcoplasmic-reticulum membranes and of surface and T-tubular membranes, as well as their freeze-fracture properties. 2. Polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis showed differences in the Ca2+-dependent ATPase/calsequestrin ratio between heavy and light fractions, which were apparently consistent with their respective origin from cisternal and longitudinal sarcoplasmic reticulum, as well as unrelated differences, such as peptides specific to slow-muscle microsomes (mol.wts. 76000, 60000, 56000 and 45000). 3. Freeze-fracture electron microscopy of muscle microsomes demonstrated that vesicles truly derived from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, with an average density of 9nm particles on the concave face of about 3000/μm2 for both fast and slow muscle, were admixed with vesicles with particle densities below 1000/μm2. 4. As determined in the light fractions, the sarcoplasmic-reticulum vesicles accounted for 84% and 57% of the total number of microsomal vesicles, for fast and slow muscle respectively. These values agreed closely with the percentage values of Ca2+-dependent ATPase protein obtained by gel densitometry. 5. The T-tubular origin of vesicles with a smooth concave fracture face in slow-muscle microsomes is supported by their relative high content in total phospholipid and cholesterol, compared with the microsomes of fast muscle, and by other correlative data, such as the presence of (Na++K+)-dependent ATPase activity and of low amounts of Na+-dependent membrane phosphorylation. 6. Among intrinsic sarcoplasmic-reticulum membrane proteins, a proteolipid of mol.wt. 12000 is shown to be identical in the microsomes of both fast and slow muscle and the Ca2+-dependent ATPase to be antigenically and catalytically different, though electrophoretically homogeneous. 7. Basal Mg2+-activated ATPase activity was found to be high in light microsomes from slow muscle, but its identification with an enzyme different from the Ca2+-dependent ATPase is still not conclusive. 8. Enzyme proteins that are suggested to be specific to slow-muscle longitudinal sarcoplasmic reticulum are the flavoprotėin NADH:cytochrome b5 reductase (mol.wt. 32000), cytochrome b5 (mol.wt. 17000) and the stearoyl-CoA desaturase, though essentially by criteria of plausibility.


1988 ◽  
Vol 256 (3) ◽  
pp. 1051-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Carlsen ◽  
K Christiansen ◽  
H M Jensen

Cytochrome b5 from rat liver microsomes (microsomal fractions) was purified in its native form. The procedure described has great capacity, is fast, and the final product is pure as judged from SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Antibodies to cytochrome b5 are obtained after administration of the antigen inserted into small unilamellar lipid vesicles.


1978 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ademar Vieira De Barros ◽  
Jean-Claude Kaplan ◽  
Philippe Duvaldestin ◽  
Pierre Berthelot

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