scholarly journals The polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase of erythrocyte membranes

1981 ◽  
Vol 198 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Peter Downes ◽  
Robert H. Michell

1. A new assay procedure has been devised for measurement of the Ca2+-activated polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase (phosphatidylinositol polyphosphate phosphodiesterase) activity of erythrocyte ghosts. The ghosts are prepared from cells previously incubated with [32P]Pi. They are incubated under appropriate conditions for activation of the phosphodiesterase and the released32P-labelled inositol bisphosphate and inositol trisphosphate are separated by anion-exchange chromatography on small columns of Dowex-1 (formate form). When necessary, phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate can be deacylated and the released phosphodiesters separated on the same columns. 2. The release of both inositol bisphosphate and inositol trisphosphate was rapid in human ghosts, with half of the labelled membrane-bound phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate broken down in only a few minutes in the presence of 0.5mm-Ca2+. For both esters, optimum rates of release were seen at pH6.8–6.9. Mg2+did not provoke release of either ester. 3. Ca2+provoked rapid polyphosphoinositide breakdown in rabbit erythrocyte ghosts and a slower breakdown in rat ghosts. Erythrocyte ghosts from pig or ox showed no release of inositol phosphates when exposed to Ca2+. 4. In the presence of Mg2+, the inositol trisphosphate released from phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate was rapidly converted into inositol bisphosphate by phosphomonoesterase activity. 5. Neomycin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic that interacts with polyphosphoinositides, inhibited the breakdown of both phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, with the latter process being appreciably more sensitive to the drug. Phenylmethanesulphonyl fluoride, an inhibitor of serine esterases that is said to inhibit phosphatidylinositol phosphodiesterase, had no effect on the activity of the erythrocyte polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase. 6. These observations are consistent with the notion that human, and probably rabbit and rat, erythrocyte membranes possess a single polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase that is activated by Ca2+and that attacks phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate with equal facility. Inhibition of this activity by neomycin seems likely to be due to interactions between neomycin and the polyphosphoinositides, with the greater inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate breakdown consistent with the greater affinity of the drug for this lipid. In addition, erythrocyte membranes possess Mg2+-dependent phosphomonoesterase that converts inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate into inositol bisphosphate.

1986 ◽  
Vol 238 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Palmer ◽  
P T Hawkins ◽  
R H Michell ◽  
C J Kirk

When hepatocytes were incubated with [32P]Pi, the kinetics for the labelling of the monoester phosphate groups of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate were similar to each other and slightly slower than that for the labelling of the gamma-phosphate of ATP. Analysis of the water-soluble 3H-labelled materials derived from [3H]inositol-labelled hepatocytes revealed that, in addition to inositol and its mono-, bis- and tris-phosphates (Ins, InsP, InsP2 and InsP3), these cells contained two unidentified radioactive compounds which co-eluted with InsP on anion-exchange chromatography. When [3H]inositol-labelled hepatocytes were stimulated with 0.23 microM-vasopressin in the presence of 10 mM-Li+, there was an accumulation of radioactivity in InsP, InsP2 and InsP3 but not in Ins or the two unidentified compounds. Further analysis of these inositol phosphates by h.p.l.c. revealed that vasopressin also stimulates the accumulation of inositol tetrakisphosphate (InsP4) in these cells. Vasopressin-stimulated InsP and InsP2 accumulations were maximal in the presence of 1-10 mM-Li+ but InsP3 accumulation continued to increase up to 50 mM-Li+. Accumulated inositol phosphates were retained within the cell. Li+ from 1 to 50 mM did not influence the extent of vasopressin-stimulated inositol lipid degradation in hepatocytes. In the absence of Li+, radioactivity in vasopressin-stimulated hepatocytes accumulated almost entirely in free inositol. The vasopressin-stimulated accumulation of inositol phosphates in the presence of 10 mM-Li+ was abolished by a V1-vasopressin antagonist. Inositol phosphate accumulation was not influenced by ionophore A23187, dimethyl sulphoxide or indomethacin.


1989 ◽  
Vol 264 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Radenberg ◽  
P Scholz ◽  
G Bergmann ◽  
G W Mayr

The spectrum of inositol phosphate isomers present in avian erythrocytes was investigated in qualitative and quantitative terms. Inositol phosphates were isolated in micromolar quantities from turkey blood by anion-exchange chromatography on Q-Sepharose and subjected to proton n.m.r. and h.p.l.c. analysis. We employed a h.p.l.c. technique with a novel, recently described complexometric post-column detection system, called ‘metal-dye detection’ [Mayr (1988) Biochem. J. 254, 585-591], which enabled us to identify non-radioactively labelled inositol phosphate isomers and to determine their masses. The results indicate that avian erythrocytes contain the same inositol phosphate isomers as mammalian cells. Denoted by the ‘lowest-locant rule’ [NC-IUB Recommendations (1988) Biochem. J. 258, 1-2] irrespective of true enantiomerism, these are Ins(1,4)P2, Ins(1,6)P2, Ins(1,3,4)P3, Ins(1,4,5)P3, Ins(1,3,4,5)P4, Ins(1,3,4,6)P4, Ins(1,4,5,6)P4, Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5, and InsP6. Furthermore, we identified two inositol trisphosphate isomers hitherto not described for mammalian cells, namely Ins(1,5,6)P3 and Ins(2,4,5)P3. The possible position of these two isomers in inositol phosphate metabolism and implications resulting from absolute abundances of inositol phosphates are discussed.


1990 ◽  
Vol 271 (3) ◽  
pp. 743-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Camps ◽  
C F Hou ◽  
K H Jakobs ◽  
P Gierschik

Myeloid differentiated human leukaemia (HL-60) cells contain a soluble phospholipase C that hydrolysed phosphatidylinositol 4.5-bisphosphate and was markedly stimulated by the metabolically stable GTP analogue guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]). Half-maximal and maximal (up to 5-fold) stimulation of inositol phosphate formation by GTP[S] occurred at 1.5 microM and 30 microM respectively. Other nucleotides (GTP, GDP, GMP, guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate. ATP, adenosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate, UTP) did not affect phospholipase C activity, GTP[S] stimulation of inositol phosphate accumulation was inhibited by excess GDP, but not by ADP. The effect of GTP[S] on inositol phosphate formation was absolutely dependent on and markedly stimulated by free Ca2+ (median effective concn. approximately 100 nM). Analysis of inositol phosphates by anion-exchange chromatography revealed InsP3 as the major product of GTP[S]-stimulated phospholipase C activity. In the absence of GTP[S], specific phospholipase C activity was markedly decreased when tested at high protein concentrations, whereas GTP[S] stimulation of the enzyme was markedly enhanced under these conditions. As both basal and GTP[S]-stimulated inositol phosphate formation were linear with time whether studied at low or high protein concentration, these results suggest that (a) phospholipase C is under an inhibitory constraint and (b) GTP[S] relieves this inhibition, most likely by activating a soluble GTP-binding protein.


1988 ◽  
Vol 252 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
T K Harden ◽  
P T Hawkins ◽  
L Stephens ◽  
J L Boyer ◽  
C P Downes

Phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns), phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2] of turkey erythrocytes were labelled by using either [32P]Pi or [3H]inositol. Although there was little basal release of inositol phosphates from membranes purified from labelled cells, in the presence of guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]) the rate of accumulation of inositol bis-, tris- and tetrakis-phosphate (InsP2, InsP3 and InsP4) was increased 20-50-fold. The enhanced rate of accumulation of 3H-labelled inositol phosphates was linear for up to 20 min; owing to decreases in 32P specific radioactivity of phosphoinositides during incubation of membranes with unlabelled ATP, the accumulation of 32P-labelled inositol phosphates was linear for only 5 min. In the absence of ATP and a nucleotide-regenerating system, no InsP4 was formed, and the overall inositol phosphate response to GTP[S] was decreased. Analyses of phosphoinositides during incubation with ATP indicated that interconversions of PtdIns to PtdIns4P and PtdIns4P to PtdIns(4,5)P2 occurred to maintain PtdIns(4,5)P2 concentrations; GTP[S]-induced inositol phosphate formation was accompanied by a corresponding decrease in 32P- and 3H-labelled PtdIns, PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2. In the absence of ATP, only GTP[S]-induced decreases in PtdIns(4,5)P2 occurred. Since inositol monophosphate was not formed under any condition, PtdIns is not a substrate for the phospholipase C. The production of InsP2 was decreased markedly, but not blocked, under conditions where Ins(1,4,5)P3 5-phosphomonoesterase activity in the preparation was inhibited. Thus the predominant substrate of the GTP[S]-activated phospholipase C of turkey erythrocyte membranes is PtdIns(4,5)P2. Ins(1,4,5)P3 was the major product of this reaction; only a small amount of Ins(1:2-cyclic, 4,5)P3 was released. The effects of ATP on inositol phosphate formation apparently involve the contributions of two phenomena. First, the P2-receptor agonist 2-methylthioadenosine triphosphate (2MeSATP) greatly increased inositol phosphate formation and decreased [3H]PtdIns4P and [3H]PtdIns(4,5)P2 in the presence of a low (0.1 microM) concentration of GTP[S]. ATP over the concentration range 0-100 microM produced effects in the presence of 0.1 microM-GTP[S] essentially identical with those observed with 2MeSATP, suggesting that the effects of low concentrations of ATP are also explained by a stimulation of P2-receptors. Higher concentrations of ATP also increase inositol phosphate formation, apparently by supporting the synthesis of substrate phospholipids.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)


1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (3) ◽  
pp. F458-F463
Author(s):  
P. Mene ◽  
H. E. Abboud ◽  
G. R. Dubyak ◽  
A. Scarpa ◽  
M. J. Dunn

Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is a potent mitogen and vasoactive polypeptide for aortic smooth muscle. Because contractile glomerular mesangial cells synthesize a PDGF-like molecule and may respond to PDGF released by infiltrating cells at the site of glomerular inflammation, we studied the effects of exogenous, highly purified PDGF on 1) contraction of cultured rat mesangial cells and 2) membrane phosphoinositide turnover and cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i), as putative mechanisms of membrane signal transduction. PDGF, 10(-11) and 10(-10) M, contracted 56.1 +/- 5.2 and 72.9 +/- 6.4% of the cells, respectively, with an average decrease of cross-sectional area of 22.0 +/- 2.6 and 28.1 +/- 2.7% of basal, as assessed by image-analysis microscopy. PDGF also rapidly increased total water-soluble inositol phosphates, measured after anion-exchange chromatography on perchloric acid-extracted cells, and simultaneously raised [Ca2+]i, measured by the fluorescent intracellular probe fura-2, from basal levels of 83.1 +/- 6.8 to a peak of 229.4 +/- 20.0 nM. We conclude that PDGF stimulates contraction of rat mesangial cells via a phospholipase C-dependent pathway, with potential relevance to the control of glomerular hemodynamics and mesangial proliferation in immune-mediated glomerular disease.


1992 ◽  
Vol 262 (6) ◽  
pp. G1087-G1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Hodges ◽  
D. M. Dicker ◽  
P. E. Rose ◽  
D. A. Dartt

The cellular transduction pathways used by alpha 1-adrenergic and cholinergic agonists were compared in isolated acini from rat exorbital lacrimal glands. Peroxidase secretion was the index of protein secretion. Inositol phosphates were measured by anion exchange chromatography, intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) by fluorescence methods using fura-2, cellular adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) levels by protein binding radioassay, and protein kinase C (PKC) activity by [32P]ATP incorporation into exogenous substrate. Protein secretion stimulated by simultaneous addition of the alpha 1-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine and the cholinergic agonist carbachol was additive. Carbachol (10(-3) M) significantly increased the ratios of inositol phosphates to inositol during a 1- or 20-min incubation in contrast to phenylephrine (10(-5) to 10(-2) M), which did not. Phenylephrine (10(-3) M) significantly increased the [Ca2+]i by a maximum of 15 +/- 3 nM compared with carbachol (10(-4) M), which increased [Ca2+]i to a maximum of 90 +/- 14 nM. Phenylephrine (10(-4) M) did not increase cAMP levels. Phenylephrine (10(-5) to 10(-3) M) decreased cytosolic PKC activity in a concentration-dependent manner. Carbachol (10(-3) M) transiently caused a slight decrease in cytosolic PKC activity. Our results indicate that alpha 1-adrenergic and cholinergic agonists use separate and different pathways to stimulate the lacrimal gland.


1984 ◽  
Vol 224 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
R A Akhtar ◽  
A A Abdel-Latif

Rabbit iris smooth muscle was prelabelled with myo-[3H]inositol for 90 min and the effect of carbachol on the accumulation of inositol phosphates from phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2], phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) and phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) was monitored with anion-exchange chromatography. Carbachol stimulated the accumulation of inositol phosphates and this was blocked by atropine, a muscarinic antagonist, and it was unaffected by 2-deoxyglucose. The data presented demonstrate that, in the iris, carbachol (50 microM) stimulates the rapid breakdown of PtdIns(4,5)P2 into [3H]inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) and diacylglycerol, measured as phosphatidate, and that the accumulation of InsP3 precedes that of [3H]inositol bisphosphate (InsP2) and [3H]inositol phosphate (InsP). This conclusion is based on the following findings. Time course experiments with myo-[3H]inositol revealed that carbachol increased the accumulation of InsP3 by 12% in 15s and by 23% in 30s; in contrast, a significant increase in InsP release was not observed until about 2 min. Time-course experiments with 32P revealed a 10% loss of radioactivity from PtdIns(4,5)P2 and a corresponding 10% increase in phosphatidate labelling by carbachol in 15s; in contrast a significant increase in PtdIns labelling occurred in 5 min. Dose-response studies revealed that 5 microM-carbachol significantly increased (16%) the accumulation of InsP3 whereas a significant increase in accumulation of InsP2 and InsP was observed only at agonist concentrations greater than 10 microM. Studies on the involvement of Ca2+ in the agonist-stimulated breakdown of PtdIns(4,5)P2 in the iris revealed the following. Marked stimulation (58-78%) of inositol phosphates accumulation by carbachol in 10 min was observed in the absence of extracellular Ca2+. Like the stimulatory effect of noradrenaline, the ionophore A23187-stimulated accumulation of InsP3 was inhibited by prazosin, an alpha 1-adrenergic blocker, thus suggesting that the ionophore stimulation of PtdIns(4,5)P2 breakdown we reported previously [Akhtar & Abdel-Latif (1978) J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 204, 655-688; Akhtar & Abdel-Latif (1980) Biochem. J. 192, 783-791] was secondary to the release of noradrenaline by the ionophore. The carbachol-stimulated accumulation of inositol phosphates was inhibited by EGTA (0.25 mM) and this inhibition was reversed by excess Ca2+ (1.5 mM), suggesting that EGTA treatment of the tissue chelates extracellular Ca2+ required for polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase activity. K+ depolarization, which causes influx of extracellular Ca2+ in smooth muscle, did not change the level of InsP3.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 363-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Blaine Moore ◽  
Stanley H. Appel

Incubation of erythrocytes with [32P]phosphate resulted in a linear incorporation of the label into PtdIns(4,5)P2 (phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate), PtdIns4P (phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate), and PA (phosphatidic acid) over a period of 2 h at 37 °C. Exposure of 32P-labelled erythrocyte ghosts to calcium caused a loss of label from PtdIns(4,5)P2 and PtdIns4P, but not PA. The concentration of calcium required for half-maximal hydrolyses of both polyphosphoinositides was about 1 μM. Strontium, at higher concentrations, stimulated the hydrolyses of both polyphosphoinositides but barium, up to 1 mM, had little effect. Intact erythrocytes incubated in the presence of Ca–EGTA buffers and the ionophore A23187 did not show marked losses of [32P]PtdIns(4,5)P2 or [32P]PtdIns4P, but rather exhibited a dramatic increase in the level of [32P]PA. In contrast, cells which had been depleted of their ATP lost significant amounts of [32P]PtdIns(4,5)P2 and [32P]PtdIns4P and had less change in their levels of [32P]PA relative to intact cells. The calcium activation curve and the time course for [32P]PA synthesis in intact cells were similar to the calcium activation curve and the time course for the hydrolyses of [32P]PtdIns(4,5)P2 and [32P]PtdIns4P in ATP-depleted erythrocytes. These results strongly support a link between Ca2+-dependent polyphosphoinositide breakdown and PA synthesis in human erythrocytes.


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