Identification of specific binding sites for nerve growth factor on human blood platelets and membranes from bovine brain

1996 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. D. Chekalina ◽  
T. P. Klyushnik ◽  
O. S. Brusov ◽  
E. V. Danilovskaya ◽  
N. L. Deineko
1974 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Frazier ◽  
Linda F. Boyd ◽  
Andrzej Szutowicz ◽  
Morris W. Pulliam ◽  
Ralph A. Bradshaw

1986 ◽  
Vol 56 (03) ◽  
pp. 260-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Roos ◽  
Fabrizia Ferracin ◽  
Alfred Pletscher

SummaryArginine-vasopressin (AVP) in the presence of Mg2+ but not in the absence of bivalent cations led to accumulation of [32P]-phosphatidic acid ([32P]-PA) in human blood platelets. Mg2+ also enhanced the specific binding of [3H]-AVP to intact platelets. The concentrations of the cation which enabled AVP to cause half maximal rise of [32P]-PA and those inducing half maximal [3H]-AVP-binding were of the same order. It is concluded that the stimulation of phosphatidyl inositide breakdown by AVP in presence of Mg2+ is at least partially due to a Mg2+-induced enhancement of specific AVP-binding to the platelet membranes.


1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 1153-1159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juta K. Reed ◽  
Diane England

We have studied the development of the action potential Na+ channels in PC12 cells, an established line that has been useful as a model for neuronal differentiation. In continuous culture PC12 cells, although electrically inexcitable, nevertheless have a low level of Na+ channels as judged by the increase in 22Na+ uptake in the presence of veratridine and scorpion toxin. These two neurotoxins have been shown to promote activation of Na+ channels in a variety of electrically excitable cells. Following treatment with nerve growth factor (NGF), conditions which induce differentiation to an electrically excitably neuronal-cell type, the neurotoxin-activated 22Na+ uptake increases approximately 12-fold, on a per cell basis, reaching a maximum in 12–16 days. The dose–response curves for veratridine and scorpion toxin are unchanged by NGF treatment (K0.5 for veratridine, 18–14 μM; K0.5 for scorpion toxin, 120–96 nM). Na+ channels in both undifferentiated and differentiated cells are tetrodotoxin sensitive and NGF treatment has no effect on the inhibition constant (Ki, 10–12 nM). Na+ channel sites were measured directly by the specific binding of [3H]saxitoxin. In NGF-treated cells, the saxitoxin receptor density reaches 154 fmol/mg protein (Kd, 1.3 nM), a level comparable to other excitable cells. Levels in control cells were too low to measure accurately. These findings show that NGF treatment of PC12 cells leads to a substantial increase in the expression of neurotoxin-sensitive Na+ channels. Furthermore, these channels are pharmacologically similar, if not identical, to those which exist in undifferentiated cells and therefore do not appear to result from the conversion of preexisting channels.


1992 ◽  
Vol 28 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 621-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Bailie ◽  
R. A. Roth ◽  
M. L. Contreras

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