期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1973
卷号:70
期号:4
页码:1055-1059
DOI:10.1073/pnas.70.4.1055
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:The activity of the enzyme adenylate cyclase, a component of the plasma membrane, has been determined in chick-embryo fibroblasts and in cells transformed by either Bryan high-titer strain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV-BH) or a temperature-sensitive mutant of this virus (RSV-BH-Ta). Adenylate cyclase activity is reduced in cells transformed by the wild-type virus and also by the temperature-sensitive mutant when the cells are grown at the permissive temperature (37{degrees}). Transformation results in an altered affinity (Km) for the substrate (Mg ATP). The apparent Km ATP is 0.23 mM in normal cells and 1.1 mM in cells transformed with wild-type virus. The Km ATP of the cells infected with RSV-BH-Ta is 0.67-1.0 mM at 37{degrees} and 0.28 mM at 42{degrees}. The enzyme from normal cells appears to have two binding sites for Mg++, one at the catalytic site and a second at a regulatory site. Transformation by RSV-BH or RSV-BH-Ta (37{degrees}) apparently alters this second Mg++ site. A decrease in adenylate cyclase activity occurs within 10 min after cells infected with RSV-BH-Ta are shifted from 42{degrees} to 37{degrees}; the activity falls to one-half that of normal cells 30 min after the temperature shift. Our observations indicate that a viral function lowers cyclic AMP content by lowering the activity of adenylate cyclase, probably through some modification of the plasma membrane.