J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 264, Issue 14, 7809-7813, May, 1989
Nucleotide specificity of canine cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Differential alteration of enzyme properties by detergent treatment
CA Tate, RJ Bick, SL Blaylock, KA Youker, NM Scherer and ML Entman
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
We previously demonstrated that, in contrast to the hydrolysis of ATP, the
hydrolysis of GTP by canine cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum is not sensitive
to calcium. Based on a variety of qualitative and quantitative
considerations (cf. Tate, C. A., Bick, R. J., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W. B.,
and Entman, M. L. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 9618-9623), we suggested that
the hydrolysis of ATP and GTP appears to be effected by the same enzyme. In
the present paper, we examined the sensitivity of both enzymatic activities
to low concentrations of detergent. With nonsolubilizing concentrations of
the nonionic detergent, octaethylene glycol monododecyl ether, the
hydrolysis of GTP was rendered partially calcium-sensitive resulting from a
slightly increased total (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-GTPase activity and a markedly
inhibited calcium-independent (Mg2+-dependent) GTPase activity.
Calcium-dependent ATPase activity was increased with octaethylene glycol
monododecyl ether, mimicking the effect of the ionophore, A23187.
Calcium-dependent ATPase activity and detergent-induced calcium-dependent
GTPase activity were similar in (a) calcium sensitivity, (b) sensitivity to
mersalyl, and (c) pressure inactivation through dilution and
centrifugation, all of which differed from the untreated
calcium-independent GTPase activity. Calcium- dependent ATPase activity
differed from calcium-dependent GTPase activity with (a) a higher
nucleotide affinity, (b) a lower vanadate sensitivity, and (c) a calcium
sensitivity for phosphoenzyme formation. Thus, the detergent-induced
perturbation of the GTPase resulted in an enzyme with many characteristics
qualitatively and quantitatively similar to the calcium ATPase.