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The procedure described is essentially that of Shioiri and Yamada. Diphenyl phosphorazidate is a useful and versatile reagent in organic synthesis. It has been used for racemlzatlon-free peptide syntheses, thiol ester synthesis, a modified Curtius reaction, an esterification of a-substituted carboxylic acld, formation of diketoplperazines, alkyl azide synthesis, phosphorylation of alcohols and amines,and polymerization of amino acids and peptides. - Furthermore, diphenyl phosphorazidate acts as a nitrene source and as a 1,3-dipole.An example in the ring contraction of cyclic ketones to form cycloalkanecarboxylic acids is presented in the next procedure, this volume. 

Although in in vivo circumstances an intracellular free calcium increase apparently acts as the primary modulator of contraction, it can be bypassed in highly permeabilized smooth muscle preparations where the active subunit of MLCK can be introduced to phosphorylate myosin and induce contraction. The MLCK catalyzed phosphorylation of serine-19 is seen as the necessary event in the activation of smooth muscle myosin to form crossbridges. Thus, the rising phase of force during an isometric smooth muscle contraction follows an increase in the degree of phosphorylation of myosin, and that in turn follows the transient rise of (a) cytosolic free Ca, (b) Ca-calmodulin complexes, and (c) the active form of MLCK. The regulation of the intracellular calcium is discussed below. The dynam-... 

Oxidative phosphorylation is central to the metabolism of all higher organisms, because the free energy of hydrolysis of the ATP so generated is used in the synthesis of, inter alia, nucleic acids (Chaps. 7 and 16), proteins (Chaps. 4,9, and 17), and complex lipids (Chap. 6), as well as in processes as diverse as muscle contraction (Chap. 5) and the transmission of nerve impulses. 

Recently, another regulatory mechanism has been identified in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Cardiac contraction was shown to be dependent upon a multifunctional regulator protein called calmodulin (27, 28). Calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of sarcoplasmic reticulum is dependent upon the presence of free intracellular Ca2+ (29,... 

Triton skinned and glycerinated fibers have been very valuable in demonstrating that phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of MLC is sufficient to induce contraction and relaxation (see Section III.B). These preparations have also been used to study the influence of ionic strength (Arheden et al., 1988 Gag-elmann and Guth, 1985), free Mg + (Arner, 1983 Bar-sotti et al., 1987), pH (Mrwa et al., 1974), inorganic phosphate (Schneider et al., 1981), nucleotides such as ATP and ADP (Arner and Hellstrand, 1985) on isometric force development, shortening velocity, and ATP turnover. Some of these experiments have also been carried out in smooth muscle fiber bundles and single smooth muscle cells permeabilized with saponin, (3-escin, or a-toxin (Saida and Nonomura, 1978 lino, 1981 Warshaw et al., 1987 Crichton et al., 1993). 

The finding that CP is phosphorylated in vitro but not in the intact muscle is reminiscent of that of the inhibitory component of skeletal muscle troponin, which can be phosphorylated (Stull et al., 1972) and dephosphorylated (England et al., 1972) in vitro but is not phosphorylated during contraction of intact skeletal muscle (Barany et al., 1974). Apparently, protein residues that are free for phosphorylation in vitro may participate in bond formation or are buried in situ and. 

In principle, one can classify the phosphoproteins into two groups (1) functional, whose phosphorylation is correlated with contraction, and (2) structural, whose phosphate content remains rather steady during the contraction cycle. Structural phosphoproteins could make contact with other proteins to form a specific protein network. Alternatively, they may bind divalent metals, Ca + or Mg2+. The common experience of the slow turnover of phosphate in these proteins also suggests that the covalently bound phosphate is not free and, therefore, not readily available for protein kinases and phosphatases. Future investigation should provide information about the role of the structural phosphoproteins in smooth muscle. 

ATP serves as the general "free energy currency" for virtually all cellular processes. Hydrolysis of ATP is used to drive countless biochemical reactions, including many that are not phosphorylations. It is a direct source of energy for cell motility, muscle contraction, and the... 

These correlative studies neither prove nor disprove a causal link between contractile parameters and LC20 phosphorylation. Using permeabilised smooth muscle it was attempted to show that there is a causal relation between activation of contraction and LC20 phosphorylation. In permeabilised smooth muscle the medium surrounding the myofilaments can be controlled and there is free access for inhibitors and activators to the... 

Fig. 6. Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is phosphorylated during microcystin-evoked contraction in both control and PDBu downregulated tissues. Control and downregu-lated tissues were incubated in calcium-free solution containing 10 mM EGTA and then stimulated with 1 pM microcystin for 1 hr in the presence of P-ATP, homogenized, and subjected to immunoprecipitation with an antibody against MLCK. A Autoradiograph of the immunoprecipitate of control (C) and downregulated (D) tissue. B Western blot of the same membrane for MLCK. Representative of three experiments. Autophos-phorylated MLCK is active in solution even in the absence of calcium (Tokui et al. 1995 Andrea and Walsh, personal communication 1997) From Walker et al. 1998.

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