title: Permeability of Rickettsia prowazekii to NAD.
abstract: Rickettsia prowazekii accumulated radioactivity from [adenine-2,8-3H]NAD but not from [nicotinamide-4-3H]NAD, which demonstrated that NAD was not taken up intact. Extracellular NAD was hydrolyzed by rickettsiae with the products of hydrolysis, nicotinamide mononucleotide and AMP, appearing in the incubation medium in a time- and temperature-dependent manner. The particulate (membrane) fraction contained 90% of this NAD pyrophosphatase activity. Rickettsiae which had accumulated radiolabel after incubation with [adenine-2,8-3H]NAD were extracted, and the intracellular composition was analyzed by chromatography. The cells contained labeled AMP, ADP, ATP, and NAD. The NAD-derived intracellular AMP was transported via a pathway distinct from and in addition to the previously described AMP translocase. Exogenous AMP (1 mM) inhibited uptake of radioactivity from [adenine-2,8-3H]NAD and hydrolysis of extracellular NAD. AMP increased the percentage of intracellular radiolabel present as NAD. Nicotinamide mononucleotide was not taken up by the rickettsiae, did not inhibit hydrolysis of extracellular NAD, and was not a good inhibitor of the uptake of radiolabel from [adenine-2,8-3H]NAD. Neither AMP nor ATP (both of which are transported) could support the synthesis of intracellular NAD. The presence of intracellular [adenine-2,8-3H]NAD within an organism in which intact NAD could not be transported suggested the resynthesis from AMP of [adenine-2,8-3H]NAD at the locus of NAD hydrolysis and translocation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile 36688.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Winkler
mesh_terms: D000249:Adenosine Monophosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism*; D010761:Phosphorus Radioisotopes; D012283:Rickettsia prowazekii / Q000378:metabolism*; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D010761:Phosphorus Radioisotopes; D009243:NAD; D014316:Tritium; D000249:Adenosine Monophosphate