Abstract

Abstract Glycogen phosphorylase has been studied in Rana pipiens eggs and embryos with regard to the nature of the enzyme, its control possibilites, and its involvement in preneurula development. On the basis of enzyme activity, immunological, and electrophoretic comparisons, R. pipiens egg phosphorylase is not wholly identical with the phosphorylases characteristic of skeletal muscle, liver, or kidney tissues. The possibility exists that the egg activity consists of a mixture of types or is a single type peculiar to the embryo. Amphibian egg phosphorylase possesses the same control possibilities as adult tissue forms. It can be activated by AMP. It appears to exist in active and inactive forms, the interconversion of which is catalyzed by endogenous factors having properties of a phosphorylase kinase and phosphorylase phosphatase. The egg phosphorylase kinase is capable of activating purified frog and rabbit muscle phosphorylase, and the purified rabbit muscle phosphorylase b kinase can activate the egg and frog muscle enzymes. However, the egg and rabbit muscle phosphatases are species specific. If the activity of the activated form of egg phosphorylase in the presence of AMP is assigned a value of 100%, its activity in the absence of AMP is 96%. The activity of the inactivated form in the presence of AMP is 35%. In the absence of AMP, the inactivated form has no activity. Phosphorylase in unfertilized R. pipiens eggs is mostly in the inactive form. Shortly after fertilization and at gastrulation, increases in activity and in the -AMP:+AMP activity ratio occur. A cyclic adenosine 3' ,5'-monophosphate-mediated control mechanism is possible as a cyclic AMP-activated protein kinase has been detected in the fractionated egg supernatant. This enzyme mimics the behavior of rabbit muscle phosphorylase kinase kinase.

Highlights

  • The possibility exists that the egg activity consists of a mixture of types or is a single type peculiar to the embryo

  • AMP-activated protein kinase has been detected in the fractionated egg supernatant. This enzyme mimics the behavior of rabbit muscle phosphorylase kinase kinase

  • When an inactivated ovarian egg solution was assayed in the presence of 0.7 M sodium sulfate, phosphorylase activity was depressed 22 y0 in the preseuce of AMP but was increased 3-fold in the abseuce of AMP. These data rule against the possibility that the egg phosphorylase is identical with liver phosphorylase

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SUMMARY

Glycogen phosphorylase has been studied in Rana pipiens eggs and embryos with regard to the nature of the enzyme, its control possibilites, and its involvement in preneurula development. Amphibian egg phosphorylase possesses the same control possibilities as adult tissue forms AMP-activated protein kinase has been detected in the fractionated egg supernatant This enzyme mimics the behavior of rabbit muscle phosphorylase kinase kinase. Different tissue-specific molecular forms of 1)hosphorylase Iiave been demonstrated as well as isocllzymic forrns within :I give tissue [8, 9] Sillce these differellt tissue types arise from the single cell of the fertilized egD(r, any one or 8 cornbinatioll ol these enzyme types could exist in the early embryo. A\lI ot,her cllemicals were obtaitled front commercial sources and were oi’ the highest grade obtaillable

RI:SULTY
HOURS AFTER
HOURS AFTER HOMOGENIZATION
INACTIVE FORM
Acfivity during Early Amphibian
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Findings
Per cent standard deviation
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