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  • Title: Isoquinoline alkaloids. Inhibitory actions on cation-dependent ATP-phosphohydrolases.
    Author: Meyerson LR, McMurtrey KD, Davis VE.
    Journal: Neurochem Res; 1978 Apr; 3(2):239-57. PubMed ID: 149928.
    Abstract:
    Representatives of eleven different classes of isoquinoline alkaloids inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase and Mg2+-ATPase in rat brain microsomal preparations. In most cases the Na+, K+-ATPase is more sensitive than Mg2+-ATPase to inhibition by the alkaloids. The classes of alkaloids can be ranked according to potency of inhibition of Na+, K+-ATPase. Protoberberines are most effective, followed in decreasing order by benzophenanthridines, benzylisoquinolines, aporphines, tetrahydroprotoberberines, pavines, protopines, isoquinolines, tetrahydrobenzylisoquinolines, morphinanes, and tetrahydroisoquinolines. As specific representatives of each of the first four classes of alkaloids, berberine, sanguinarine, papaveroline and 1,2,10,11-tetrahydroxyaporphine, respectively, prove most valuable in kinetic studies because they exhibit the greatest inhibitory action on brain Na+, K+-ATPase. Kinetic analyses plotted in double reciprocal form reveal that berberine and 1,2,10,11-tetrahydroxyaporphine are simple linear competitive inhibitors with respect to ATP, whereas sanguinarine and papaveroline are simple linear noncompetitive inhibitors. These four representative alkaloids exhibit non-linear competitive inhibition with respect to Na+-activation. Additionally, these alkaloids significantly inhibit rat brain microsomal K+-activated pNPPase. The results demonstrate that certain members of several classes of isoquinoline alkaloids markedly affect various cation-dependent phosphohydrolases in vitro.
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