Temperature sensitivity of proteoliposomes reconstituted from a mixture of scallop and rabbit sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases

Journal of Biochemistry
Y NagataT Yamamoto

Abstract

We reconstituted proteoliposomes by mixing scallop and rabbit sarcoplasmic reticulum, SR, at different protein weight ratios, and investigated the effects of temperature on their Ca2+-transport activity. When proteoliposomes containing scallop and rabbit SR at a protein ratio of 1:1 were pre-incubated in the presence of Ca2+ at 39 degrees C for 10 min, the Ca2+-transport activity was almost completely lost, whereas the activity of proteoliposomes containing rabbit SR alone decreased only slightly. Essentially the same results were obtained for proteoliposomes reconstituted with Ca2+-ATPases partially purified from scallop and rabbit SR. The susceptibility of the reconstituted proteoliposomes to heat inactivation increased with an increase in the protein weight ratio of scallop to rabbit SR, the maximum being approached at a ratio higher than 1. When the scallop SR was thermally treated before reconstitution, the resulting vesicles showed as high Ca2+-transport activity as that of control vesicles reconstituted from rabbit SR alone. The former vesicles were not inactivated on further treatment at high temperature. In contrast, when the scallop SR was heated in EGTA before reconstitution of vesicles with rabbit SR, the Ca2+-trans...Continue Reading

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Oct 27, 1998·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology·Y NagataJ Nakamura
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Jun 22, 1999·The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry : Official Journal of the Histochemistry Society·H PlattnerL Bachmann
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