Reconstitution of a light-stimulated adenylate cyclase from retina and Neurospora crassa preparations. Characterization of the heterologous systems using normal and degenerative retinas.

Autor: Muschietti JP; Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Buenos Aires, Argentina., Bianchini GM, Martinetto HE, Carricarte VC, Giusto N, Farber DB, Torres HN, Flawia MM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of biochemistry [Eur J Biochem] 1989 Oct 20; Vol. 185 (1), pp. 205-10.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb15103.x
Abstrakt: Adenylate cyclase catalytic subunits from Neurospora crassa membranes may interact with regulatory factors from membranes of bovine retinal rod outer segments (pretreated with N-ethylmaleimide), reconstituting a heterologous system which, in the presence of light, is catalytically active in assay mixtures containing MgATP. Maximal activation was observed at 550 nm. Transducin-depleted retinal membranes were not capable of reconstituting the heterologous light-stimulated adenylate cyclase system. Addition of a transducin preparation to depleted membranes restored the reconstitution capacity of these membranes. A similar heterologous adenylate cyclase system was reconstituted with Neurospora and mouse retinal whole membranes (pretreated with N-ethylmaleimide). Membranes from mice suffering photoreceptor degeneration (rd homozygotes) did not reconstitute an heterologous adenylate cyclase system.
Databáze: MEDLINE