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Regulation and Inactivation of Brain Phosphocholine-Phosphatase Activity

  • Seo, Seong-Kon;Liu, Xi-Wen;Lee, Hyun-Jeong;Kim, Hye-Kyeong;Kim, Mee-Ree;Sok, Dai-Eun
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • 제22권5호
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    • pp.464-473
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    • 1999
  • Regulation of phosphcholine-hydrolyzing phosphatase (phosphocholine-phosphatase) activity, purified from bovine brain, was examined under physiological conditions. Various endogenous phosphomonoesters, which were utilized as substrate, inhibited the phosphocoline-phosphatase activity competitively (Ki 5.5-$82.0 {\mu}M$); among phosphomonoesters tested, there was a similar order of capability between the binding affinity of substrate and the inhibitory potency. In addition, phosphate ions also inhibited the phosphatase activity competitively with a Ki value of approximately $16{\mu}M$. Although leucine or theophylline inhibited the phosphatase activity at pH 9.0, their inhibitory action decreased greatly at pH 7.4. The pH-Km and pH-Vm profiles indicate that ionizable amino acids are involved in substrate binding as well as catalysis, alluding that the phosphatase activity may be highly dependent on the intracellular pH. Amino acid modification study supports the existence of tyrosine, arginine or lysine residue in the active site, and the participation of tyrosine residue in the catalytic action may e suggested positively for the susceptibility to the action of tetranitromethane or HOl-generator. Separately, the oxidative inactivation of phosphocholine-phosphatase activity was investigated. Of oxidants tested, HOONO, HOCl, HOl and $ascorbate/Cu^{2+}$ system were effective to inactivate the phosphatase activity. Noteworthy, a remarkable inativation was accomplished by $30{\mu}M$ HOCl in combination with 1 mM Kl. Inaddition, $Cu^{2+}(3{\mu}M) $in combination with ascorbate at concentrations as low as 0.1-0.3 mM reduced the phosphatase activity to a great extent. From these results, it is proposed that the phosphocholine-phosphatase activity may be regulated endogenously and susceptible to the various oxidant system in vivo.

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Partial Characterization of Soybean cDNA Encoding CTP: Phosphocholine Cytidylyltransferase

  • Sung Ho Cho
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • 제38권4호
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    • pp.359-364
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    • 1995
  • As the first step to elucidate the relationship between the structure and function of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.15) in plants, the partial nucleotide sequence of soybean cytidylyltransferase cDNA was determined using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Degenerate oligonucleotide primers were synthesized from the conserved region revealed from the rat and yeast cytidylyltransferase DNA sequences. The catalytic domain region showed 78 and 76% homology with the rat and yeast amino acid sequences, respectivly. The hydropathy profile indicated that the C-terminal non-catalytic portion of the protein was very hydrophilic, and in the region between the catalytic domain and the C-terminal region, there was a large amphipathic $\alpha$-helical domain that was believed to bind the membrane surface in the active formation. There are 7 potential sites for phosphorylation by protein kinase C and 4 potential sites for phosphorylation by Ca2+/calmodulin kinase within the determined sequence.

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FUNGAL EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDES INVOLVED IN RECYCLING OF METABOLITES AND OSMOTOLERANCE OF PENICILLIUM FELLUTANUM : APPLICATION OF $^{13}$ C-NMR SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE STUDY ON FUNGAL PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM

  • Park, Yong-Il;Gander, John.-E.
    • 한국미생물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국미생물생명공학회 2000년도 Proceedings of 2000 KSAM International Symposium and Spring Meeting
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    • pp.208-213
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    • 2000
  • Penicillium fellutanum produces a phosphorylated, choline-containing extracellular peptido-polysaccharide, peptidophosphogalactomannan (pPxGM) (8). The $\^$13/C-methyl labeled pPxGM ([methyl-$\^$13/C]pPxGM) was prepared from the cultures supplemented with L-[methyl-$\^$13/C]methionine or [2-$\^$13/C]glycine and was used as a probe to monitor the fate of phosphocholine in this polymer. Addition of purified [methyl-$\^$l3/C]pPxGM to growing cultures in low phosphate medium resulted in the disappearance of [methyl-$\^$13/C]phosphocholine and -N,N'-dimethyl-phosphoethanolamine from the added [methyl-$\^$13/C]pPxGM. Two $\^$l3/C-methyl-enriched cytoplasmic solutes, choline-O-sulfate and glycine betaine, were found in mycelial extracts, suggesting that phosphocholine-containing extracellular pPxGM of P.fellutanum is a precursor of intracellular choline-O-sulfate and glycine betaine and thus of phosphatydilcholine (l0). $\^$13/C-Methyl-labeled cells grown in 3 M NaCl-containing medium showed 2.6- and 22-fold more accumulation of $\^$13/C-methyl labeled choline-O-sulfate and glycine betaine, respectively, originated from the extracellular [$\^$13/C-methyl]pPxGM than those grown without added NaCl. The results suggest that, in addition to glycerol and erythritol, glycine betaine and choline-O-sulfate and thus choline are also osmoprotectants and hence that pPxGM is involved in osmotolerance of this fungus (11). Taken collectively, the $\^$l3/C- and $\^$31/P-NMR analyses of cytosolic solute pools and structural modulation of extracellular pPxGM corresponding to environmental stimuli in P. fellutanum, provided evidence that pPxGM is involved in cellular choline metabolism, osmotolerance, and recycling of metabolites.

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용매 특성에 따른 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) 분자에서 글리세롤 골격 구조에 대한 MD 시뮬레이션 연구 (MD Simulation Study for Preferred Structure of Glycerol Backbone in 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) Molecule According to Solvent Properties)

  • 양지현;허유진;안익성;민병진
    • 대한화학회지
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    • 제65권3호
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    • pp.179-184
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    • 2021
  • 본 연구에서는 용매 특성에 따른 인지질 내 글리세롤 골격 구조 변화를 알아보기 위해서 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) 단분자에 대한 분자동역학 시뮬레이션을 용매 특성을 변화시켜가며 진행하였다. DOPC 골격구조는 인지질 내 글리세롤 C1-C2 결합의 비틀림각에 따라 A(θ3 = trans, θ4 = gauche), B(θ3 = gauche, θ4 = gauche-), C(θ3 = gauche-, θ4 = trans) 세가지 형태로 구분된다. 용매의 유전상수와 표면장력을 변수로 하여 DOPC의 골격 구조 변화를 살펴본 결과, 유전상수가 증가할수록, 표면장력이 클수록 B 구조의 빈도가 증가하였으며 그 이유는 B 구조의 solvation 에너지가 A에 비해서 더 크고, 표면적이 A에 비해서 작기 때문이다. 이러한 연구 결과는 추후 인지질 구조 연구에 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

지방산과 인지질(DOPC)의 혼합 LB막의 광이성질화 현상에 관한 연구 (Photoisomerization of Mixture LB Films of Fatty Acid and Phospholipid(DOPC))

  • 박근호;심경재;김남석
    • 한국응용과학기술학회지
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2002
  • We carried out this subject to observe photoisomerization using 1,2-dioleoyl-sn- glycero-3-phosphocholine(DOPC) mixed with fatty acid containing azobenzene group which has reversible to cis-trans by light irradiation. Spreading solutions for the LB films were prepared in chloroform($5.0{\times}10^{-5}$mol/L).We investigated the photoisomerization and property of the organic ultra thin film of fatty acid containing azobenzene was prepared on the hydrophilic ITO(idium tin oxide) glass plate by LB method. As a result, the absorption spectra of 8A5H and DOPC of mixture LB films was induced to photoisomerization by alternating irradiation of ultraviolet and visible light, because the condensation of pure azobenzene monolayers was loosened by the introduction of phospholipid into the monolayers, and the molecular high aggregation in pure azobenzene monolayers is also weakened by the introduction of phospholipid. We found that it was reversibly induced to cis-trans photoisomerization in several solvents and mixture LB films.

Encapsulation of Plasmid DNA in Liposomes: Preparation and Characterization

  • Park, Hyo-Min;Lee, Hwa-Jeong
    • 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.1
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    • pp.300.2-300.2
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    • 2003
  • Unlike cationic liposome/DNA complexes, neutralliposomes containing plasmid DNA are stable in blood and does not selectively entrapped in the lung. The objective of this study was to construct neutral liposomes containing plasmid DNA with optimal encapsulation efficiency. Plasmid DNA (pGL2 clone 753,-6 kb) was encapsulated by the freeze/thawing method into liposomes composed of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphocholine(POPC), didodecyldimethylammonium bromide(DDAB), distaroylphosphatidyl-ethanolamine polyethylene glycol 2000(DSPE-PEG 2000) and DSPE-PEG 2000-maleimide. (omitted)

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cDNA cloning of a membrane-associated. magnesium-dependent 30kDa neutral sphingomyelinase

  • Jeon, Hyung-Jun;Jung, Sung-Yun;Kim, Dae-Kyong
    • 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2
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    • pp.328.1-328.1
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    • 2002
  • A major lipid-signaling pathway in mammalian cells implicated the activation of sphingomyelinase (SMase), which hydrolyses sphingomyeline to generate ceramide and phosphocholine. Sphingomyelinase is divided into many isoform groups dependent on optimal pH, and essential cation especially magnesium in their activation. Such as acidic sphingomyelinase, neutral sphingomyelinase and alkaline sphingomyelinase. Ceramide is known as a crucial second messenger in cell responses like cell proliferation. cell cycle arrest. cellular senescence, and apoptosis. (omitted)

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