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. 1997 Nov 1;327(Pt 3):899–907. doi: 10.1042/bj3270899

T-tubule membranes from chicken skeletal muscle possess an enzymic cascade for degradation of extracellular ATP.

J Delgado 1, G Moro 1, A Saborido 1, A Megías 1
PMCID: PMC1218873  PMID: 9581572

Abstract

The chicken T-tubule Mg2+-ATPase is an integral membrane glycoprotein that presents properties different from those of other ATPases located in skeletal muscle cells and exhibits ATP-hydrolysing activity on the extracellular side of the transverse tubule (TT) membranes. In this study we demonstrate that TT vesicles purified from chicken skeletal muscle possess ecto-ADPase and ecto-5'-nucleotidase activities that, along with ecto-ATPase, are able to sequentially degrade extracellular ATP to ADP, AMP and adenosine. Characterization studies of these TT ectonucleotidases revealed remarkable differences between ecto-ATPase and ecto-ADPase activities with respect to thermal stability, temperature dependence of the hydrolytic activity, effect of ionic strength, kinetic behaviour, divalent cation preference and responses to azide, N-ethylmaleimide, NaSCN, Triton X-100 and concanavalin A. Ecto-ATPase, but not ecto-ADPase, was inhibited by a polyclonal antibody against the chicken TT ecto-ATPase. On the basis of these results we propose that ATP and ADP hydrolysis are accomplished by two distinct enzymes and therefore the TT ecto-ATPase is not an apyrase. 5'-Nucleotidase activity was inhibited by adenosine 5'-[alpha,beta-methylene]diphosphate and concanavalin A, followed simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics and was released from the membranes by treatment with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C, indicating that AMP hydrolysis in T-tubules is catalysed by a typical ecto-5'-nucleotidase. Results obtained from electrophoresis experiments under native conditions suggest that ecto-ATPase, ecto-ADPase and 5'-nucleotidase might be associated, forming functional complexes in the T-tubule membranes. The TT ectonucleotidases constitute an enzymic cascade for the degradation of extracellular ATP that might be involved in the regulation of purinergic signalling in the muscle fibre.

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