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ArticleThe Biochemical journal2010

Calcium- and polyphosphate-containing acidic granules of sea urchin eggs are similar to acidocalcisomes, but are not the targets for NAADP.

Isabela B Ramos, Kildare Miranda, Douglas A Pace, Katherine C Verbist, Fu-Yang Lin, Yonghui Zhang, Eric Oldfield, Ednildo A Machado, Wanderley De Souza, Roberto Docampo

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Article in The Biochemical journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Isabela B RamosDepartment of Cellular Biology, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, USA.
Kildare Miranda
Douglas A Pace
Katherine C Verbist
Fu-Yang Lin
Yonghui Zhang
Eric Oldfield
Ednildo A Machado
Wanderley De Souza
Roberto Docampo
National Institute of Science and Technology for Structural Biology and Bioimaging · BRUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BR

Funding

Structure, Function and Inhibition of [4Fe-4S] ProteinsR01GM065307 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI OLDFIELD, ERIC · 2002 to 2017
$5.4M
Training in Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases - SupplementT32AI060546 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI Silvia N Moreno, Vasant Muralidharan · 2004 to 2026
$5.1M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI-060546NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI060546NIGMS NIH HHS GM-065307NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065307
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acidocalcisomes are acidic calcium-storage compartments described from bacteria to humans and characterized by their high content in poly P (polyphosphate), a linear polymer of many tens to hundreds of Pi residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds. In the present paper we report that millimolar levels of short-chain poly P (in terms of Pi residues) and inorganic PPi are present in sea urchin extracts as detected using 31P-NMR, enzymatic determinations and agarose gel electrophoresis. Poly P was localized to granules randomly distributed in the sea urchin eggs, as shown by labelling with the poly-P-binding domain of Escherichia coli exopolyphosphatase. These granules were enriched using iodixanol centrifugation and shown to be acidic and to contain poly P, as determined by Acridine Orange and DAPI (4',6'-diamidino-2-phenylindole) staining respectively. These granules also contained large amounts of calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium and zinc, as detected by X-ray microanalysis, and bafilomycin A1-sensitive ATPase, pyrophosphatase and exopolyphosphatase activities, as well as Ca2+/H+ and Na+/H+ exchange activities, being therefore similar to acidocalcisomes described in other organisms. Calcium release from these granules induced by nigericin was associated with poly P hydrolysis. Although NAADP (nicotinic acid-adenine dinucleotide phosphate) released calcium from the granule fraction, this activity was not significantly enriched as compared with the NAADP-stimulated calcium release from homogenates and was not accompanied by poly P hydrolysis. GPN (glycyl-L-phenylalanine-naphthylamide) released calcium when added to sea urchin homogenates, but was unable to release calcium from acidocalcisome-enriched fractions, suggesting that these acidic stores are not the targets for NAADP.

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AcidsAnimalsCalciumCytoplasmic GranulesMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionMicroscopy, FluorescenceNADPOvumPolyphosphatesSea UrchinsAcidsCalciumNAADPNADPPolyphosphates

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PMID20497125
PMCPMC2907711
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