title: 5'-Nucleotidases: specific assays for five different enzymes in cell extracts.
abstract: Several mammalian 5'-nucleotidases (5-NTs), attached to membranes or present in the cytosol or in mitochondria, remove the phosphate from ribo- and deoxyribonucleotides with different specificities for the sugar and base moieties. Some enzymes probably participate in signaling functions by producing adenosine from AMP. A more general function may be to prevent overproduction of deoxyribonucleotides. 5-NTs may affect the pharmacological activity of nucleoside analogs and also be involved in their mitochondrial toxicity. Here we describe for five cloned 5-NT specific assays that largely rely on new inhibitors for some of the enzymes. The assays can be used to quantitate each enzyme in crude cell extracts. To ascertain their validity we applied each assay to extracts from genetically modified cells that overproduce separately each of the five enzymes. The methodology should be useful in further studies of the physiological function of 5-NTs and their influence on the clinical use of nucleoside analogs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua I 35131, Italy.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rampazzo
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mazzon
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reichard
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bianchi
mesh_terms: D015720:5'-Nucleotidase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000201:enzymology; D002999:Clone Cells; D017931:DNA Primers; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D019169:Jurkat Cells; D007668:Kidney; D007700:Kinetics; D008322:Mammals; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000201:enzymology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D007527:Isoenzymes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015720:5'-Nucleotidase