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CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ECTO-5'-NUCLEOTIDASE ACTIVITY PRESENT ON THE CELL SURFACE OF TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS
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Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei. Departamento de Engenharia de Biossistemas. São João del Rei, MG, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular e Doenças Endêmicas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. CCS. Instituto de Bioquímica Médica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem (INCTBEB). CCS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. CCS. Instituto de Bioquímica Médica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem (INCTBEB). CCS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. CCS. Instituto de Bioquímica Médica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem (INCTBEB). CCS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. CCS. Instituto de Bioquímica Médica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem (INCTBEB). CCS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Tritrichomonas foetus is the causative agent of sexually transmitted trichomoniasis in cattle. In females, the infection can be associated with infertility, vaginitis, endometritis, abortion or pyometra, leading to significant economic losses in cattle raising. T. foetus is devoid of the ability to synthesize purine nucleotides de novo, depending instead on salvaging purines from the host environment. Ecto-5'-nucleotidase catalyzes the final step of extracellular nucleotide degradation, the hydrolysis of nucleoside 5'-monophosphates to the corresponding nucleosides and Pi. In this work we show that living, intact cells of T. foetus were able to hydrolyze 5'AMP at a rate of 12.57 ± 1.23 nmol Pi × h(-1) × 10(-7) cells at pH 7.2 and the 5'AMP hydrolysis is due to a plasma membrane-bound ecto-enzyme activity. The apparent K(m) for 5'AMP was 0.49 ± 0.06 mM. In addition to 5'AMP, the enzyme hydrolyzed all substrate monophosphates tested except 3'AMP. No divalent metals or metal chelators were able to modulate enzyme activity. Phosphatase inhibitors did not have an effect on ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity while ammonium molybdate did inhibit the activity in a dose dependent manner. The presence of adenosine in the culture medium negatively modulated the enzyme. These results indicate the existence of an ecto-5'-nucleotidase that may play a role in the salvage of purines.
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