scholarly journals A calmodulin-stimulated Ca2+ pump in plasma-membrane vesicles from Trypanosoma brucei; selective inhibition by pentamidine

1993 ◽  
Vol 296 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Benaim ◽  
C Lopez-Estraño ◽  
R Docampo ◽  
S N J Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Trypanosoma Brucei ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Selective Inhibition ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Plasma Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Calmodulin Antagonist ◽  
Stimulation Of

Despite previous reports [McLaughlin (1985) Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 15, 189-201; Ghosh, Ray, Sarkar and Bhaduri (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 11345-11351; Mazumder, Mukherjee, Ghosh, Ray and Bhaduri (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 18440-18446] that the plasma membrane of different trypanosomatids only contains Ca(2+)-ATPase that does not show any demonstrable dependence on Mg2+, a high-affinity (Ca(2+)-Mg2+)-ATPase was demonstrated in the plasma membrane of Trypanosoma brucei. The enzyme became saturated with micromolar amounts of Ca2+, reaching a Vmax. of 3.45 +/- 0.66 nmol of ATP/min per mg of protein. The Km,app. for Ca2+ was 0.52 +/- 0.03 microM. This was decreased to 0.23 +/- 0.05 microM, and the Vmax. was increased to 6.36 +/- 0.22 nmol of ATP/min per mg of protein (about 85%), when calmodulin was present. T. brucei plasma-membrane vesicles accumulated Ca2+ on addition of ATP only when Mg2+ was present, and released it to addition of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187. In addition, this Ca2+ transport was stimulated by calmodulin. Addition of NaCl to Ca(2+)-loaded T. brucei plasma-membrane vesicles did not result in Ca2+ release, thus suggesting the absence of a Na+/Ca2+ exchanger in these parasites. Therefore the (Ca(2+)-Mg2+)-ATPase would be the only mechanism so far described that is responsible for the long-term fine tuning of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration of these parasites. The trypanocidal drug pentamidine inhibited the T. brucei plasma-membrane (Ca(2+)-Mg2+)-ATPase and Ca2+ transport at concentrations that had no effect on the Ca(2+)-ATPase activity of human or pig erythrocytes. In this latter case, pentamidine behaved as a weak calmodulin antagonist, since it inhibited the stimulation of the erythrocyte Ca(2+)-ATPase by calmodulin.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the Ca2+ pump and Ca2+-ATPase in the plasma membrane of rat myometrium

1988 ◽  
Vol 252 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Enyedi ◽  
J Minami ◽  
A J Caride ◽  
J T Penniston
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Calcium Uptake ◽  
Limited Proteolysis ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Calcium Pump ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Plasma Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Active Calcium ◽  
Stimulation Of

A plasma membrane-enriched fraction from rat myometrium shows ATP-Mg2+-dependent active calcium uptake which is independent of the presence of oxalate and is abolished by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187. Ca2+ loaded into vesicles via the ATP-dependent Ca2+ uptake was released by extravesicular Na+. This showed that the Na+/Ca2+ exchange and the Ca2+ uptake were both occurring in plasma membrane vesicles. In a medium containing KCl, vanadate readily inhibited the Ca2+ uptake (K1/2 5 microM); when sucrose replaced KCl, 400 microM-vanadate was required for half inhibition. Only a slight stimulation of the calcium pump by calmodulin was observed in untreated membrane vesicles. Extraction of endogenous calmodulin from the membranes by EGTA decreased the activity and Ca2+ affinity of the calcium pump; both activity and affinity were fully restored by adding back calmodulin or by limited proteolysis. A monoclonal antibody (JA3) directed against the human erythrocyte Ca2+ pump reacted with the 140 kDa Ca2+-pump protein of the myometrial plasma membrane. The Ca2+-ATPase activity of these membranes is not specific for ATP, and is not inhibited by mercurial agents, whereas Ca2+ uptake has the opposite properties. Ca2+-ATPase activity is also over 100 times that of calcium transport; it appears that the ATPase responsible for transport is largely masked by the presence of another Ca2+-ATPase of unknown function. Measurements of total Ca2+-ATPase activity are, therefore, probably not directly relevant to the question of intracellular Ca2+ control.

Characteristics of calcium transport and binding by rat myometrium plasma membrane subfractions

1980 ◽  
Vol 239 (3) ◽  
pp. C66-C74 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Grover ◽  
C. Y. Kwan ◽  
J. Crankshaw ◽  
D. J. Crankshaw ◽  
R. E. Garfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Cytochrome C ◽  
Buoyant Density ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Plasma Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Cytochrome C Reductase ◽  
Ca Uptake ◽  
High Concentrations

A gradient has been designed to yield two subfractions of plasma membrane vesicles from rat myometrium, a low buoyant density (8-24% sucrose) fraction N1 richer in 5'-nucleotidase and a higher buoyant density (24-30% sucrose) fraction N2, instead of a previously described fraction F1. Both N1 and N2 had very low activities of NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and succinate-cytochrome c reductase. Electron micrographs of thin sections of N1 showed clear vesicles, whereas N2 consisted of vesicles with electron-dense bodies attached to them. These plasma membrane vesicles can actively take up Ca. The active uptake of Ca was potentiated by oxalate and phosphate and abolished by the Ca ionophore A23187. Dilution of actively loaded vesicles in isotonic media containing EGTA led to loss of a small proportion of the stored Ca instantaneously and the remainder more slowly in a biphasic manner. Dilution in hypotonic media with EGTA led to a release of a much larger proportion of the accumulated Ca. A23187 at high concentrations (10 microM) caused a release of all the sequestered Ca whether the active Ca uptake had been carried out in the presence or in the absence of oxalate. A23187, 0.5 microM, released all the sequestered Ca from the vesicles that were actively loaded in the absence of oxalate, but only 37% when the vesicles were actively loaded with Ca in the presence of oxalate. Comparison of the composite plasma membrane fraction F1 (8-30% sucrose) and the subfractions N1 and N2 showed that they had different capacities for Ca uptake in the presence and absence of ATP. An attempt has been made to analyze the active Ca-uptake data in terms of various Ca pools.

scholarly journals ATP-dependent transport of glutathione conjugate of 7β,8α-dihydroxy-9α,10α-oxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene in murine hepatic canalicular plasma membrane vesicles

1998 ◽  
Vol 332 (3) ◽  
pp. 799-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay K. SRIVASTAVA ◽  
Xun HU ◽  
Hong XIA ◽  
Richard J. BLEICHER ◽  
Howard A. ZAREN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Atp Hydrolysis ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Competitive Inhibitor ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Plasma Membrane Vesicles ◽  
High Affinity ◽  
Dependent Transport ◽  
Detoxification Pathway ◽  
Stimulation Of

Glutathione (GSH) S-transferases (GSTs) have an important role in the detoxification of (+)-anti-7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-oxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene [(+)-anti-BPDE], which is the ultimate carcinogen of benzo[a]pyrene. However, the fate and/or biological activity of the GSH conjugate of (+)-anti-BPDE [(-)-anti-BPD-SG] is not known. We now report that (-)-anti-BPD-SG is a competitive inhibitor (Ki 19 µM) of Pi-class isoenzyme mGSTP1-1, which among murine hepatic GSTs is most efficient in the GSH conjugation of (+)-anti-BPDE. Thus the inhibition of mGSTP1-1 activity by (-)-anti-BPD-SG might interfere with the GST-catalysed GSH conjugation of (+)-anti-BPDE unless one or more mechanisms exist for the removal of the conjugate. The results of the present study indicate that (-)-anti-BPD-SG is transported across canalicular liver plasma membrane (cLPM) in an ATP-dependent manner. The ATP-dependent transport of (-)-anti-[3H]BPD-SG followed Michaelis–Menten kinetics (Km 46 µM). The ATP dependence of the (-)-anti-BPD-SG transport was confirmed by measuring the stimulation of ATP hydrolysis (ATPase activity) by the conjugate in the presence of cLPM protein, which also followed Michaelis–Menten kinetics. In contrast, a kinetic analysis of ATP-dependent uptake of the model conjugate S-[3H](2,4-dinitrophenyl)-glutathione ([3H]DNP-SG) revealed the presence of a high-affinity and a low-affinity transport system in mouse cLPM, with apparent Km values of 18 and 500 µM respectively. The ATP-dependent transport of (-)-anti-BPD-SG was inhibited competitively by DNP-SG (Ki 1.65 µM). Likewise, (-)-anti-BPD-SG was found to be a potent competitive inhibitor of the high-affinity component of DNP-SG transport (Ki 6.3 µM). Our results suggest that GST-catalysed conjugation of (+)-anti-BPDE with GSH, coupled with ATP-dependent transport of the resultant conjugate across cLPM, might be the ultimate detoxification pathway for this carcinogen.

Effect of Na+ and ATP on peritubular Ca transport by the marine teleost renal tubule

1982 ◽  
Vol 243 (1) ◽  
pp. R34-R41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Renfro ◽  
K. G. Dickman ◽  
D. S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Rate Coefficients ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Renal Tubules ◽  
Pseudopleuronectes Americanus ◽  
Plasma Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Ca Transport ◽  
Atp Concentration ◽  
Ca Uptake

Ca uptake rates and efflux rate coefficients were determined in isolated renal tubules of the winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. Na-free medium and 10(-4) M ouabain depressed while 0.2 mM dinitrophenol stimulated Ca efflux. The effects on Ca movement appeared to be associated with the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration of the tubular fluid space (TFS), rather than the bath-to-tissue Na gradient. Elevation of the ATP concentration of TFS by incubation of tissue in external ATP more than doubled Ca uptake rate. Inhibition of Ca uptake by lanthanum and stimulation by Ca ionophore A23187 suggested that ATP altered plasma membrane Ca transport. Incubation in external phosphate had no effect. Plasma membrane vesicles (PMV) prepared from flounder tubules showed saturable Ca uptake inhibited by Mg, unaffected by Na gradients, and stimulated by intravesicular but not extravesicular ATP. ATP appeared to stimulate PMV Ca uptake by increasing membrane Ca binding. We concluded that Ca uptake across the peritubular membranes was not directly linked to the serosal Na gradient but was greatly influenced by the intracellular ATP concentration.

scholarly journals A calmodulin-activated (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase is involved in Ca2+ transport by plasma membrane vesicles from Trypanosoma cruzi

1991 ◽  
Vol 280 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Benaim ◽  
S Losada ◽  
F R Gadelha ◽  
R Docampo
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Trypanosoma Cruzi ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Plasma Membranes ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Bovine Brain ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Plasma Membrane Vesicles ◽  
High Affinity

High-affinity Ca(2+)-activated ATPases that do not show any demonstrable dependence on Mg2+ have been reported in the plasma membranes of different trypanosomatids, and it has been suggested [McLaughlin (1985) Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 15, 189-201; Ghosh, Ray, Sarkar & Bhaduri (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 11345-11351] that these enzymes may have a role in Ca2+ transport by the plasma membrane and in the regulation of intracellular Ca2+ in these parasites. In this report we investigated Ca2+ transport by Trypanosoma cruzi plasma membrane vesicles using Arsenazo III as a Ca2+ indicator. These vesicles accumulated Ca2+ upon addition of ATP only when Mg2+ was present and released it in response to the Ca2+ ionophore A23187, but were insensitive to inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate. Ca2+ transport was insensitive to antimycin A, oligomycin and carbonyl cyanide p-trifluorophenylhydrazone, ruling out any mitochondrial contamination. Staurosporine and phorbol myristate acetate had no effect on this activity, while low concentrations of vanadate (10 microM) completely inhibited it. In addition, we describe a high-affinity vanadate-sensitive (Ca(2+)-Mg2+)-ATPase in the highly enriched plasma membrane fraction of T. cruzi. Kinetic studies indicated that the apparent Km for free Ca2+ was 0.3 microM. On the other hand, Ca(2+)-ATPase activity and Ca2+ transport were both stimulated by bovine brain calmodulin and by endogenous calmodulin purified from these cells. In addition, trifluoperazine and calmidazolium, at concentrations in the range in which they normally exert anti-calmodulin effects, inhibited the calmodulin-stimulated Ca(2+)-ATPase activity. These observations support the notion that a Mg(2+)-dependent plasma membrane Ca2+ pump is present in these parasites.

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