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  • Title: Biochemical properties of cardiac sarcolemma: adenylate cyclase and (Na++K+)-activated ATPase.
    Author: Tada M, Kirchberger MA, Katz AM.
    Journal: Recent Adv Stud Cardiac Struct Metab; 1976; 9():117-31. PubMed ID: 176692.
    Abstract:
    Morphologically intact plasma membranes from guinea pig ventricles were obtained by exposing isolated cell segments to osmotic shock, followed by extraction of actomyosin in 1 M KC1. These preparations contained approximately 1/6 of the protein and 5-10 percent of the mitochondrial markers present in the original cell preparation. Both adenylate cyclase and (Na++K+)-activated ATPase activities were enriched 3-4 fold. The receptor for epinephrine stimulation of adenylate cyclase was retained. The "basal" ATPase activity of 5-6 mumoles of Pi/mg/hr, measured in 120 mM NaC1 or KC1, was approximately doubled in 100 mM NaC1+20 mM KC1. This increment, the (Na++K+)-activated ATPase, was abolished by 10(-5) M ouabain, the Ki for ouabain being approximately 3x10(-7) M. Adenylate cyclase, which had a basal activity of approximately 0.33 nmole of cyclic AMP produced/min/mg of protein, was significantly stimulated by both l-epinephrine and NaF. Half-maximal stimulation was seen at approximately 5x10(-6) M l-epinephrine. Increasing Ca2+ in the range between 10(-7) and 10(-3) M inhibited basal, l-epinephrine-, and NaF-stimulated adenylate cyclase activities. Basal rates of cyclic AMP production were more sensitive to Ca2+ than was l-epinephrine-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity, so that l-epinephrine stimulation was increased from approximately 60 percent in 0.5 mM ethylene glycol bis (beta-aminoethyl ether) N,N'-tetraacetic acid to approximately 150 percent in 10(-7)M Ca2+ and 400 percent in 10(-5) M Ca2+. The inhibitory effect of Ca2+ on adenylate cyclase activity may represent a negative feedback mechanism by which eelevation of intracellular Ca2+ concentration lowers cellular levels of cyclic AMP and thus reduces Ca2+ influx into the myocardium.
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