Effet de l'aflatoxine B1 sur les activités enzymatiques de Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner)

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 931-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Boutibonnes

At 20 °C, aflatoxin B1, at a sublethal dose, decreases the activity of alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1), α-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20), esterase (EC 3.1.1.1), chymotrypsin (EC 3.4.21.1), leucine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.1), and phosphoamidase (EC 3.9.1.1) biosynthesis in Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner).In contrast, at 41 °C no significant decrease was observed. At this temperature, the mycotoxin is not destroyed or metabolized and bacterial cells are resistant to the toxin.

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1536-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuji Tani ◽  
Ken Kurokawa ◽  
Masao Nasu

ABSTRACT We applied HNPP (2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid-2′-phenylanilide phosphate) to direct in situ PCR for the routine detection of specific bacterial cells at the single-cell level. PCR was performed on glass slides with digoxigenin-labeled dUTP. The digoxigenin-labeled PCR products were detected with alkaline phosphatase-labeled antidigoxigenin antibody and HNPP which was combined with Fast Red TR. A bright red fluorescent signal was produced from conversion to HNP (dephosphorylated form) by alkaline phosphatase. We used the ECOL DNA primer set for amplification of ribosomal DNA of Escherichia coli to identify cells specifically at the single-cell level in a bacterial mixture. High-contrast images were obtained under an epifluorescence microscope with in situ PCR. By image analysis,E. coli cells in polluted river water also were detected.


1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gifford Lum ◽  
S Raymond Gambino

Abstract Serum γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), leucine aminopeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase, and aspartate aminotransferase activities were assayed in controls and in patients with liver, pancreatic, or bone disease. GGT activity was above normal in all forms of liver disease studied (viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis, metastatic carcinoma to liver, pancreatic carcinoma, liver granuloma, and acute pancreatitis). GGT more sensitively indicated hepatic disease than did alkaline phosphatase, much more so than did leucine aminopeptidase. GGT was disproportionately more active in relation to the transaminases in cases of intraor extrahepatic biliary obstruction; the reverse was true in cases of viral hepatitis. GGT activity was normal in children, adolescents, and pregnant women, and in cases of bone disease and renal failure. Kinetic measurement of GGT activity offers a simple, sensitive, and direct means for distinguishing whether bone or liver is the source of increased serum alkaline phosphatase activity. Activity was highest in obstructive liver disease.


2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rivka Cahan ◽  
Efrat Hetzroni ◽  
Marina Nisnevitch ◽  
Yeshayahu Nitzan

1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (6) ◽  
pp. F853-F858
Author(s):  
A. K. Mircheff ◽  
H. E. Ives ◽  
V. J. Yee ◽  
D. G. Warnock

A conventional brush border membrane preparation, obtained by divalent cation precipitation of homogenates of rabbit renal cortex, was analyzed by countercurrent distribution in an aqueous dextran:polyethylene glycol two-phase system. The resulting fractions were assayed for the presence of the Na+/H+ antiporter and for a variety of biochemical marker enzymes. This analysis revealed four physically distinct membrane populations (A-D). Population A consisted of two subpopulations, A' and A", which were enriched an average of 49-fold in maltase; they were also highly enriched in alkaline phosphatase, leucine aminopeptidase, and Na+/H+ antiporter. On the basis of their marker contents, populations A' and A" appear to represent highly purified, functional brush border membrane vesicles. Population B was enriched twofold in NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and population C was enriched 12-fold in galactosyltransferase. Populations B and C accounted for 25% of the protein in the starting material and appear to reflect contamination of the brush border membrane preparation by subpopulations of endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi fragments. Population D was enriched in Na+/H+ antiporter, alkaline phosphatase, leucine aminopeptidase, Na-K-ATPase, and acid phosphatase but not maltase, NADPH-cytochrome c reductase, galactosyltransferase, or succinate dehydrogenase. Its identity is unclear, and it might consist of a multiplicity of populations from different origins.


1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Jack R. Sutherland ◽  
Ute Rink ◽  
E. E. McMullan ◽  
T. A. D. Woods

Extracts of samples from Caloscyphafulgens infested and noninfested Sitka spruce (Piceasitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) seed lots and diseased and healthy seeds were separated by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels and stained for esterase (EC 3.1.1.1), leucine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.1.1), acid phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.2), alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1), glucose-6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.9), malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.37), isocitrate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.42), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.43) and alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1). Several differences were detected between the isozyme patterns of disease-free and infested samples, but the main difference was the latter's high alkaline phosphatase activity. By using gel electrophoresis, (i) a qualitative analysis was developed, based on the presence or absence of alkaline phosphatase, to distinguish infested from disease-free seed lots, and (ii) the high alkaline phosphatase activity of infested samples was determined to be of pathogenic origin. By determining the alkaline phosphatase activity of samples with known numbers of diseased seeds, a prediction equation was derived relating enzyme activity and disease incidence. Correlation analyses showed significant (P = 0.01) correlations between disease incidence estimates obtained by this technique and plating of surface-sterilized seeds on water agar.


1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
T P Pretlow ◽  
A S Lapinsky ◽  
L C Flowers ◽  
R W Grane ◽  
T G Pretlow

Two-micrometer sections of methacrylate-embedded kidney were used to investigate the enzymatic activities of mouse kidney where the proximal tubule and Bowman's capsule from the same corpuscle were viewed in the same section. Alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, leucine aminopeptidase, alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase, and adenosine triphosphatase activities were observed in the proximal tubule, but only 5'-nucleotidase, alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase, and alkaline phosphatase were observed in the squamous portion of the parietal epithelium of Bowman's capsule. The use of methacrylate-embedded tissue allowed more precise localization of enzymatic activity than is possible with most frozen sections. This may provide interesting applications not only for characterization of kidney diseases but also for characterization of other normal and abnormal tissues.


1971 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Taylor ◽  
R. G. Price ◽  
D. Robinson

1. A collagenase digest of rat kidney cortex was separated into four bands by zonal centrifugation. 2. Two of these bands were shown by light-microscopy to contain glomeruli and tubular fragments, which were free from each other and well separated from other renal material. 3. Protein, N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, 5′-nucleotidase, l-leucine β-naphthylamidase, leucine aminopeptidase, acid phosphatase and alkaline phosphatase were assayed across the gradient. 4. The greater proportion of these enzyme activities was recovered in the tubular fragments and acid phosphatase was the only enzyme detected in significant amounts in the glomeruli. 5. Tubular fragments and glomeruli were sedimented and multiple forms of β-naphthylamidase, N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, acid phosphatase and alkaline phosphatase were investigated by starch-gel electrophoresis.


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