β-Adrenergic stimulation of cyclic AMP and protein kinase activity in the thyroid

Nature ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 254 (5498) ◽  
pp. 347-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN W. SPAULDING ◽  
GERARD N. BURROW
1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Tsang ◽  
R. L. Singhal

β-Adrenergic stimulation of the ventral prostate cyclic-AMP system was investigated by examining the influence of isoproterenol on endogenous cyclic-AMP levels as well as on the activities of adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1) and cyclic-AMP-dependent and independent protein kinases (EC 2.7.1.37). Administration of isoproterenol (1 mg/kg, ip) resulted in rapid elevation of adenylate cyclase activity (119%) and cyclic-AMP levels (593%). The observed isoproterenol-stimulated changes in cyclic-AMP metabolism of the ventral prostate were time-dependent and maximal stimulation was seen 5 min after treatment with this β-adrenergic agonist. The increases in prostatic adenylate cyclase and cyclic-AMP also were related to the dose of isoproterenol administered and maximal enhancement of these parameters was seen with 1 mg/kg dose of the agonist. Whereas pretreatment of rats with propranolol (3 mg/kg, ip) partially reversed these alterations, administration of an α-adrenergic antagonist, phentolamine, even at a dose of 5 mg/kg, failed to elicit any appreciable effect. Stimulation of prostatic soluble protein kinase by isoproterenol was associated with a decrease (33%) in the activity of the cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase with a concomitant increase (25%) in that of the independent enzyme. Whereas the ability of the enzyme to bind cyclic-[3H] AMP in vitro was decreased (54%) following isoproterenol treatment, the protein kinase activity ratio (−cyclic-AMP/+cyclic-AMP) was significantly elevated from 0.51 ± 0.05 to 0.95 ± 0.08. Although propranolol alone had little or no effect on these parameters, it inhibited partially the isoproterenol-induced alterations in cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase and the cyclic-AMP binding capacity. Treatment with propranolol also blocked the increases in the kinase activity ratio and in the activity of cyclic-AMP-independent enzyme seen with isoproterenol. Data suggest that the concentration of ventral prostate cyclic-AMP as well as the activities of adenylate cyclase and cyclic-AMP-dependent and independent form of protein kinases are subject to modulation by β-adrenergic stimulation.


1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Kikutani ◽  
Tadamitsu Kishimoto ◽  
Nobuo Sakaguchi ◽  
Yoshio Nishizawa ◽  
Peter Ralph ◽  
...  

1973 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Weller ◽  
Richard Rodnight

1. Properties of the stimulation by cyclic AMP of the intrinsic protein kinase activity of membrane fragments from ox brain were studied. 2. Stimulation of activity declined from about 100% at 1min to less than 20% at 10min. The time-course was explained by the observation that cyclic AMP did not stimulate turnover of protein-bound serine phosphate once the membrane protein was fully phosphorylated. 3. Cyclic AMP accelerated the activity of a component of the basal activity rather than activating a different kinase. 4. The pH optimum for both the stimulated and basal activities was 7.2–7.4. NaCl (100mm) and KCl (10–100mm) inhibited the stimulated activity but did not affect the basal activity. 5. Strychnine and theophylline inhibited both activites equally, but the stimulated activity was more sensitive to inhibition by adenosine, bicuculline, vinblastin, veratrine, N-ethylmaleimide and cysteine. 6. No firm evidence for a role for endogenous cyclic AMP in the basal activity was found, but the possibility was not excluded. 7. Some 90% of both the stimulated and basal activities remained in an insoluble form after treatment of the membrane fragments with Triton X-100 (0.5%).


1989 ◽  
Vol 264 (24) ◽  
pp. 14549-14555 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Kübler ◽  
W Pyerin ◽  
O Bill ◽  
A Hotz ◽  
J Sonka ◽  
...  

1977 ◽  
Vol 232 (1) ◽  
pp. F50-F57
Author(s):  
T. P. Dousa ◽  
L. D. Barnes

Results of this study demonstrate that vasopressin activates protein kinase in intact renal medullary cells as detected by measurement of the (-cyclic AMP/+cyclic AMP) protein kinase activity ratios in freshly prepared tissue extracts (40,000 X g supernates) from bovine renal medullary slices. The activation of protein kinase was specific for vasopressin since parathyroid hormone, histamine, angiotensin II, or the inactive analog of vasopressin did not activate protein kinase. There was a direct correlation between the extent of protein kinase activation and the elevation in tissue levels of cyclic AMP elicited by increasing doses of vasopressin or with an increase in incubation time. The elevation of tissue cyclic AMP level and maximum activation of protein kinase reached maximum level at a vasopressin concentration of about 2 X 10(-9) M. Incubation of slices with vasopressin caused a dose-dependent decrease in the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activity in the 40,000 X g supernate of homogenate from the renal medullary slices. This effect of vasopressin was specific for protein kinase since activity of lactate dehydrogenase or a specific [3H]colchicine-binding activity was not affected, and the decrease in the protein kinase was not due to the accumulation of a heat-stable protein kinase inhibitor. There was an increase in protein kinase was not due to the accumulation of a heat-stable protein kinase inhibitor. There was an increase in protein kinase activity extracted from 40,000 X g pellets of homogenate prepared from slices exposed to vasopressin. Results thus provide evidence that cyclic AMP-mediated protein kinase activation in the intact cells is an integral part of cellular response of the mammalian renal medulla to vasopressin.


1973 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 993-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm C. Richardson ◽  
Dennis Schulster

A method has been developed for investigation of the effect of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) on the state of activation of a cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase within cells of the adrenal cortex. Enzyme activity was measured in terms of the quantity of32P transferred from [γ-32P]ATP to histone under conditions in which bound cyclic AMP did not dissociate from the regulatory subunit of the protein kinase ACTH (1×10-2i.u./ml) caused a rapid and complete activation of the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activity within 2min of hormone addition to the isolated cells. In response to a range of ACTH concentrations a sigmoid log dose–response curve for protein kinase activation was obtained, with half-maximal stimulation attained at about 1×10-3i.u./ml. However, some low doses of ACTH that elicited a marked (but submaximal) steroidogenic response failed to cause a clear stimulation of protein kinase activity in isolated adrenal cells. Theophylline (2mm) potentiated the effect of ACTH on protein kinase activity. The results implicate an important role for protein kinase in ACTH action on the adrenocortical cell.


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