scholarly journals Effect of adrenaline on 32P incorporation into rat fat-cell phospholipids

1972 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet M. Stein ◽  
C. N. Hales

1. The phospholipid composition of fat-cells prepared from rat epididymal fat-pad was determined. 2. The incorporation of [32P]Pi into the phospholipids of fat-cells incubated in glucose-free medium and the effect of adrenaline and of α- and β-adrenergic blocking agents, were studied. 3. Incorporation of [32P]Pi into fat-cell phospholipid increased with time; incubation with adrenaline resulted in increased incorporation that was related to the concentration of adrenaline. 4. The pattern of incorporation of [32P]Pi into the individual phospholipids of fat-cells after incubation for 1h was determined; adrenaline (5.4μm) resulted in increased incorporation into phosphatidylcholine. 5. Incubation of fat-cells with propranolol (34μm) and adrenaline (5.4μm) resulted in abolition of adrenaline-stimulated lipolysis; there was a decrease in the specific radioactivity of phosphatidylcholine and an increase in the specific radioactivity of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylinositol and cardiolipin compared with cells incubated with adrenaline alone. 6. Incubation of fat-cells with phenoxybenzamine (0.1mm) and adrenaline (5.4μm) resulted in stimulation of lipolysis, and in diminished specific radioactivities of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol and choline plasmalogen compared with cells stimulated with adrenaline alone.

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
J D Vickers ◽  
R L Kinlough-Rathbone ◽  
J F Mustard

Since the inositol phospholipids are present in small amounts in platelets and turn over rapidly during platelet shape change, aggregation and release, they are thought to have a functional rather than structural role in platelets. We have previously reported that within 10 sec of stimulation of prelabeled, washed rabbit platelets with ADP, the amount of triphosphatidylinositol (TPI) is significantly reduced while the specific radioactivity of its [32p]phosphate is increased. One explanation of this result is that ADP- stimulation may divert ATP required for phosphorylation of diphosphatidylinositol (DPI) to TPI, leading to a decrease in the amount of TPI. PGE1 (10 μM) causes conversion of ATP to cAMP and induces a transient platelet shape change. The shape change may be due to the reduction in ATP with a concomitant fall in TPI. We have therefore studied whether PGE1-stimulation of washed rabbit platelets prelabeled with [32P] causes a change in TPI. Within 10 sec the amount of TPI in PGE1-treated platelets was reduced from 2.22 nmoles/ 109 platelets to 1.98 nmoles/109 platelets (p<0.05) although neither the [32P] labeling (51.1 × 103 dpm/109 platelets) nor specific radioactivity (24.1 × 103 dpm/nmole) were significantly changed. These results are compatible with the theory that diversion of ATP by PGE1-stimulation of cAMP formation from ATP, may reduce the amount of TPI. A similar effect was observed previously with ADP-stimulation. PGE1 caused no change in the [32p] labeling of phosphatidic acid (PA) (ADP caused a 290% increase) and caused only a small increase in its specific radioactivity (16% compared to 270% with ADP). If the rates of turnover of TPI and PA which are reflected in their specific radioactivities are Ca2+- dependent, Ca2+ sequestration due to increased cAMP levels induced by PGE1 would, after the initial effects, terminate these changes. The results further support the suggestion that reduction in the amount of TPI may be involved in platelet shape change and initiation of aggregation.


1986 ◽  
Vol 238 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
J D Vickers ◽  
J F Mustard

The labelling of the phosphoinositides and phosphatidic acid in washed rabbit platelets incubated with [32P]phosphate or [3H]glycerol was studied in the presence of isotope and after unincorporated isotope had been removed. With both isotopes the increase in the specific radioactivity of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) lagged behind that of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) but the specific radioactivity remained higher after unincorporated isotope had been removed. This result was consistent with the presence of a second pool of PIP2, which interconverted slowly with the pool of PIP2 which was in direct equilibrium with PIP, proposed to explain the increase in specific radioactivity of PIP2 which accompanies the decrease in amount of PIP2 at 10 s in ADP-stimulated platelets. In platelets labelled with [3H]glycerol, the specific radioactivity of PIP2 became higher than that of PIP and the specific radioactivity of PIP became higher than that of phosphatidylinositol (PI). These results were interpreted to indicate that there were two pools of PIP; of these the pool with the higher specific radioactivity was the precursor of PIP2. Similarly, two pools of PI were proposed. The presence of pools of the phosphoinositides with different specific radioactivities necessitates the measurement of chemical amount of these compounds when studying the effect of stimulation of the platelets, since changes in labelling may not accurately reflect changes in the amount of the phosphoinositides.


1990 ◽  
Vol 269 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
L R Stephens ◽  
C P Berrie ◽  
R F Irvine

1. A screen for agonists capable of stimulating the formation of inositol phosphates in erythrocytes from 5-day-old chickens revealed the presence of a population of phosphoinositidase C-linked purinergic receptors. 2. If chicken erythrocytes prelabelled with [3H]Ins were exposed to a maximal effective dose of adenosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate for 30 s, the agonist-stimulated increment in total [3H]inositol phosphates was confined to [3H]Ins(1,4,5)P3, Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 and InsP2. After 40 min stimulation, the radiolabelling of nearly all of the [3H]inositol phosphates that have been detected in these extracts [Stephens, Hawkins & Downes (1989) Biochem. J. 262, 727-737] had risen. However, some of these increases [especially those in Ins(3,4,5,6)P4 and Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5] were accountable for almost entirely by increases in specific radioactivity rather than in mass. 3. The effect of purinergic stimulation on the rate of incorporation of [32P]Pi in the medium into the gamma-phosphate group of ATP and InsP4 and InsP5 was also measured. After 40 min stimulation, the incorporation of 32P into Ins(1,3,4,6)P4, Ins(1,3,4,5)P4, Ins(3,4,5,6)P4 and Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 was significantly elevated, whereas the mass of the last two and the specific radioactivity of the gamma-phosphate of ATP were unchanged compared with control erythrocyte suspensions. 4. In control suspensions of avian erythrocytes, the specific radioactivity of the individual phosphate moieties of Ins(1,3,4,6)P4 increased through the series 1, 6, 4 and 3 [Stephens & Downes (1990) Biochem. J. 265, 435-452]. This pattern of 32P incorporation is not the anticipated outcome of 6-hydroxy phosphorylation of Ins(1,3,4)P3 [the assumed route of synthesis of Ins(1,3,4,6)P4]. Although adenosine [beta-thio]diphosphate significantly stimulated the accumulation of [3H]Ins(1,3,4)P3, and despite the fact that avian erythrocyte lysates were shown to possess a chromatographically distinct, soluble, ATP-dependent, Ins(1,3,4)P3 6-hydroxykinase activity, purinergic stimulation of intact cells did not significantly alter the pattern of incorporation of [32P]Pi into the individual phosphate moieties of Ins(1,3,4,6)P4. These results suggest that the route of synthesis of this inositol phosphate species is not changed during the presence of an agonist.


1981 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Shepherd ◽  
E. G. Noble ◽  
G. A. Klug ◽  
P. D. Gollnick

Adenylate cyclase activity is lower in membrane preparations of fat cell homogenates from exercise-trained compared with sedentary rats (J. Appl. Physiol.: Respirat. Environ, Exercise Physiol. 42: 884-888, 1977). In the present investigations lipolysis and cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cAMP) accumulation were measured in isolated parametrial fat cells prepared from sedentary and trained rats. The purpose of these investigations was to determine whether the normal catecholamine-induced increases in cAMP accumulation is affected in isolated adipocytes from endurance-trained rats. The increases in cAMP accumulation in response to isoproterenol (0.01-10 microM) was reduced in fat cells isolated from trained rats. However, glycerol release in response to the same hormonal challenge was greater in these adipocytes. cAMP phosphodiesterase activity measured at 0.125 and 1.025 microM cAMP was greater in the particulate fraction of fat cell homogenates obtained from trained rats as compared with their sedentary counterparts. Hormone-sensitive lipase activity was reduced in crude fat pad homogenate preparations from trained rats if the animals were killed at rest. However, if the animals were run to exhaustion immediately prior to being killed, there were no differences in the hormone-sensitive lipase activity between preparations from trained and nontrained rats. These data indicate that, although cAMP accumulation by isolated fat cells in response to isoproterenol is markedly lower in trained rats, lipolysis and hormone-sensitive lipase activation is not reduced.


1971 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Knight ◽  
N. B. Myant

1. The effect of noradrenaline on the synthesis of glyceride from [U-14C]glucose and on gas exchange in the brown fat of newborn rabbits in vitro was investigated. 2. The specific radioactivity of l-glycerol 3-phosphate was lower than that of lactate, presumably because glycerol derived from glyceride was rephosphorylated by glycerokinase. 3. In the basal state more than 25% of the total respiration was due to pyruvate oxidation. Noradrenaline stimulated glyceride synthesis and total respiration without changing the proportion of the total respiration due to pyruvate oxidation. 4. The extra ADP released by noradrenaline stimulation of glyceride synthesis could not have supported more than 2% of the observed increase in substrate oxidation if mitochondria from brown-fat-cells remain fully coupled in the stimulated state, but could have supported about one-third of the observed increase if they become uncoupled in the presence of noradrenaline.


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.


1983 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 595-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Watanabe ◽  
M Soda ◽  
N Fukamachi ◽  
B Kobayashi

SummaryThrombin-induced platelet release reaction examined with secretion of calcium and N-acetylglucosaminidase was significantly enhanced in the platelets from reserpine-treated rabbits as compared with the control. On the other hand, 32P-incorporation into phosphatidic acid was suppressed in the reserpinized platelets in activated state. Thrombin induced phosphatidylinositol (PI)- breakdown, which was examined by decreases in radioactivity and content of PI, and an increase in diacylglycerol, was not enhanced in the reserpinized platelets as compared with the control. The phosphorylation of the specific protein coupled to thrombin- induced platelet PI-breakdown was not stimulated in the reserpinized platelets as compared with the control. In contrast to PI, PC-degradation by thrombin was significantly stimulated in the reserpinized platelets. Possible existence of pathway(s) other than that associated with an enhancement of Pl-tumover is conceivable as a mechanism involved in platelet release reaction.


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