PÉREZ CASTIÑEIRA , José Román

Overexpression of membrane-bound K+-dependent H+-translocating inorganic pyrophosphatases (H+-PPases) from higher plants has been widely used to alleviate the sensitivity toward NaCl in these organisms, a strategy that had been previously tested in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. On the other hand, H+-PPases have been reported to functionally...

Phosphorus is the fifth most abundant chemical element in living cells. Microorganisms and plants take up phosphorus as dissolved (ortho)phosphate (Pi), that is often limited due to the formation of sparingly soluble complexes in soil; on the other hand, overapplication of phosphate fertilizer generally leads to the problems of eutrophication...

Expression of heterologous multispanning membrane proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a difficult task. Quite often, the use of multicopy plasmids where the foreign gene is under the control of a strong promoter does not guarantee efficient production of the corresponding protein. In the present study, we show that the expression level...

8-Dehydrosterols are present in a wide range of biologically relevant situations, from human rare diseases to amine fungicide-treated fungi and crops. However, the molecular bases of their toxicity are still obscure. We show here that 8-dehydrosterols, but not other sterols, affect yeast vacuole acidification through V-ATPases. Moreover, erg2Δ...

El Laboratorio de Biología del IAPH, en colaboración con el Departamento de Bioquímica Vegetal y Biología Molecular de la Universidad de Sevilla y el Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis del CSIC, ha comenzado a aplicar técnicas de biología molecular para el estudio del biodeterioro causado por microorganismos sobre el patrimonio...

Cancer cells show a metabolic shift that makes them overproduce protons; this has the potential to disturb the cellular acid-base homeostasis. However, these cells show cytoplasmic alkalinisation, increased acid extrusion and endosome-dependent drug resistance. Vacuolar type ATPases ...

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Soluble and membrane-bound inorganic pyrophosphatases (sPPase and H -PPase, respectively) of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum are differentially regulated by environmental growth conditions. Both proteins and their transcripts were found in cells of anaerobic phototrophic batch cultures along all growth phases, although they...

Phosphorus is one of the bioelements most needed as a compound cell by living organisms. Phosphorus is involved in several pathologies: in human with bone and kidney diseases, in mammals with metabolism disorder (glucose, insulin···), in microorganisms whose phosphorus is involved in cell growth. Phosphorus has various forms including...

Inorganic pyrophosphatases are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of inorganic pyrophosphate to orthophosphate. These enzymes are divided into two groups: the soluble pyrophosphatases and the membrane pyrophosphatases. They vary in structure and each has a determined catalysis mechanism. Soluble pyrophosphatases are ubiquitous enzymes and...

Two types of proteins that hydrolyze inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), very different in both amino acid sequence and structure, have been characterized to date: soluble and membrane-bound proton-pumping pyrophosphatases (sPPases and H+-PPases, respectively). sPPases are ubiquitous proteins that hydrolyze PPi releasing heat, whereas H+-PPases, so...

V-ATPases are multicomponent proton pumps involved in the acidification of singlemembrane intracellular compartments such as endosomes and lysosomes. They couple thehydrolysis of ATP to the translocation of one to two protons across the membrane. Acidification ofthe lumen of single membrane organelles is a necessary factor for the correct...

Inorganic pyrophosphatases are required for anabolism to take place in all living organisms. Defects in genes encoding these hydrolytic enzymes are considered inviable, although their exact nature has not been studied at the cellular and molecular physiology levels. Using a conditional mutant in IPP1, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene encoding...

An increasing body of biochemical and genetic evidence suggests that inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) plays an important role in protist bioenergetics. In these organisms, two types of inorganic pyrophosphatases [EC 3.6.1.1, namely soluble PPases (sPPases) and proton-translocating PPases (H+-PPases)] that hydrolyse the PPi generated by cell...

Amine fungicides are widely used as crop protectants. Their success is believed to be related to their ability to inhibit postlanosterol sterol biosynthesis in fungi, in particular sterol-Δ8,Δ7-isomerases and sterol-Δ14-reductases, with a concomitant accumulation of toxic abnormal sterols. However, their actual cellular effects and mechanisms...

Los métodos tradicionales utilizados en la conservación del patrimonio histórico incluyen principalmente el uso de insecticidas sintéticos, que presentan las desventajas de su toxicidad y de su falta de inocuidad sobre el sustrato a tratar. En este artículo se presenta una alternativa a estos métodos basada en el empleo de sustancias biocidas...