title: Similar physical and kinetic properties of rat brain synaptic membrane and cytosol phosphoinositide phospholipases C.
abstract: Phosphoinositide phospholipase C (PLC) was extracted from the synaptic membrane fraction of rat brain by 1% sodium deoxycholate. The molecular weight and sedimentation coefficient of the membrane PLC were about 160,000 and 6.7 as estimated by gel filtration and sucrose density gradient centrifugation, respectively. These values of the membrane PLC were identical with those of the cytosol PLC of the same tissue. Moreover, the membrane PLC showed the substrate specificity for phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol-4-monophosphate and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate and the sensitivity to Ca2+, sodium deoxycholate and N-ethylmaleimide similar to those of the cytosol PLC. These results indicate that the rat brain synaptic membrane PLC is indistinguishable from the cytosol PLC in physical and kinetic properties.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000201:enzymology; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000201:enzymology; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013570:Synaptic Membranes / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D002118:Calcium