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. 1995 Sep 1;310(Pt 2):715–719. doi: 10.1042/bj3100715

The assembly of neutrophil NADPH oxidase: effects of mastoparan and its synthetic analogues.

D Tisch 1, Y Sharoni 1, M Danilenko 1, I Aviram 1
PMCID: PMC1135954  PMID: 7654216

Abstract

Detergent-mediated activation of the phagocyte superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase requires the participation of at least four proteins: the membrane-bound heterodimeric cytochrome b558 and three cytosolic components, p47-phox, p67-phox and a Rac1/Rac2 protein. Peptides corresponding to sequences of different subunits of NADPH oxidase have been used as probes of the mechanism and sequence of assembly of the active complex. In the present study effects of mastoparans on activation of NADPH oxidase were investigated. Mastoparans are wasp venom cationic amphiphilic tetradecapeptides capable of modulation of various cellular activities. Natural mastoparans, as well as several synthetic mastoparan analogues, unrelated to oxidase components, blocked activation of the oxidase in the cell-free system (EC50 = 1.5 microM) and in guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S])/ATP-stimulated neutrophils permeabilized with streptolysin O. In the cell-free system the effect was not relieved by raising the detergent concentration and could not be ascribed to changes in critical micellar concentration values of the activating SDS or arachidonate. Chromatography of neutrophil cytosol on an immobilized mastoparan column suggested interaction of cytosolic p47-phox and p67-phox with the peptide. In spite of this interaction mastoparan did not interfere with translocation of p47-phox and p67-phox to the cell membranes.

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