title: NTPDase family in zebrafish: Nucleotide hydrolysis, molecular identification and gene expression profiles in brain, liver and heart.
abstract: The nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase (NTPDase) family cleaves tri- and diphosphonucleosides to monophosphonucleosides and is responsible for terminating purinergic transmission. Since the NTPDase family in zebrafish is poorly understood, here we evaluated the nucleotide hydrolysis in three tissues of adult zebrafish (brain, liver, and heart), confirmed the presence of distinct NTPDase members by a phylogenetic analysis and verified their relative gene expression profiles in the respective tissues. A different profile of ATP and ADP hydrolysis in the brain, liver, and heart as a function of time and protein concentration was observed. Sodium azide (20mM), ARL 67156 (300 microM) and Suramin (300 microM) differently altered the nucleotide hydrolysis in zebrafish tissues, suggesting the contribution of distinct NTPDase activities. Homology-based searches identified the presence of NTPDase1-6 and NTPDase8 orthologs and the phylogeny also grouped three NTPDase2 and two NTPDase5 paralogs. The deduced amino acid sequences share the apyrase conserved regions, conserved cysteine residues, putative N-glycosylation, phosphorylation, N-acetylation sites, and different numbers of transmembrane domains. RT-PCR experiments revealed the existence of a distinct relative entpd1-6 and entpd8 expression profile in brain, liver, and heart. Taken together, these results indicate that several NTPDase members might contribute to a tight regulation of nucleotide hydrolysis in zebrafish tissues.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-graduação em Bioquímica, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600-Anexo, 90035-003, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Denis Broock
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Rosemberg
authors.forename: Eduardo Pacheco
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Rico
authors.forename: Andrei Silveira
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Langoni
authors.forename: Jonathan Tesch
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Spinelli
authors.forename: Talita Carneiro
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Renato Dutra
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Diogo Onofre
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Carla Denise
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Bonan
authors.forename: Maurício Reis
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Bogo
mesh_terms: D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D019295:Computational Biology; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis / Q000187:drug effects; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D043583:Nucleoside-Triphosphatase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D043583:Nucleoside-Triphosphatase