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A Mg-dependent ecto-ATPase in Leishmania amazonensis and its possible role in adenosine acquisition and virulence.

Abstract：

:The plasma membrane of cells contains enzymes whose active sites face the external medium rather than the cytoplasm. The activities of these enzymes, referred to as ectoenzymes, can be measured using living cells. In this work we describe the ability of living promastigotes of Leishmania amazonensis to hydrolyze extracellular ATP. In these intact parasites whose viability was assessed before and after the reactions by motility and by trypan blue dye exclusion, there was a low level of ATP hydrolysis in the absence of any divalent metal (5.39 +/- 0.71 nmol P(i)/h x 10(7) cells). The ATP hydrolysis was stimulated by MgCl(2) and the Mg-dependent ecto-ATPase activity was 30.75 +/- 2.64 nmol P(i)/h x 10(7) cells. The Mg-dependent ecto-ATPase activity was linear with cell density and with time for at least 60 min. The addition of MgCl(2) to extracellular medium increased the ecto-ATPase activity in a dose-dependent manner. At 5 mM ATP, half-maximal stimulation of ATP hydrolysis was obtained with 1.21 mM MgCl(2). This stimulatory activity was also observed when MgCl(2) was replaced by MnCl(2), but not by CaCl(2) or SrCl(2). The apparent K(m) for Mg-ATP(2-) was 0.98 mM and free Mg(2+) did not increase the ecto-ATPase activity. In the pH range from 6.8 to 8.4, in which the cells were viable, the acid phosphatase activity decreased, while the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity increased. This ecto-ATPase activity was insensitive to inhibitors of other ATPase and phosphatase activities, such as oligomycin, sodium azide, bafilomycin A(1), ouabain, furosemide, vanadate, molybdate, sodium fluoride, tartrate, and levamizole. To confirm that this Mg-dependent ATPase was an ecto-ATPase, we used an impermeant inhibitor, 4,4'-diisothiocyanostylbene 2',2'-disulfonic acid as well as suramin, an antagonist of P(2) purinoreceptors and inhibitor of some ecto-ATPases. These two reagents inhibited the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity in a dose-dependent manner. A comparison between the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase activity of virulent and avirulent promastigotes showed that avirulent promastigotes were less efficient than the virulent promastigotes in hydrolyzing ATP.

journal_name

Arch Biochem Biophys

journal_title

Archives of biochemistry and biophysics

authors

Berrêdo-Pinho M,Peres-Sampaio CE,Chrispim PP,Belmont-Firpo R,Lemos AP,Martiny A,Vannier-Santos MA,Meyer-Fernandes JR

doi

10.1006/abbi.2001.2384

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-07-01 00:00:00

pages

16-24

issue

eissn

0003-9861

issn

1096-0384

pii

S0003-9861(01)92384-7

journal_volume

391

pub_type

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A Mg-dependent ecto-ATPase in Leishmania amazonensis and its possible role in adenosine acquisition and virulence.