scholarly journals Guanine nucleotide-dependent pertussis-toxin-insensitive stimulation of inositol phosphate formation by carbachol in a membrane preparation from human astrocytoma cells

1986 ◽  
Vol 239 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
J R Hepler ◽  
T K Harden

The efficacy of muscarinic-receptor agonists for stimulation of inositol phosphate formation and Ca2+ mobilization in intact 1321N1 human astrocytoma cells is correlated with their capacity for formation of a GTP-sensitive high-affinity binding complex in membranes from these cells [Evans, Hepler, Masters, Brown & Harden (1985) Biochem. J. 232, 751-757]. These observations prompted the proposal that a guanine nucleotide regulatory protein serves to couple muscarinic receptors to the phospholipase C involved in phosphoinositide hydrolysis in 1321N1 cells. Inositol phosphate (InsP) formation was measured in a cell-free preparation from 1321N1 cells to provide direct support for this idea. The formation of InsP3, InsP2 and InsP1 was increased in a concentration-dependent manner (K0.5 approximately 5 microM) by guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]) in washed membranes prepared from myo-[3H]inositol-prelabelled 1321N1 cells. Both GTP[S] and guanosine 5′-[beta gamma-imido]triphosphate (p[NH]ppG) stimulated InsP formation by 2-3-fold over control; GTP, GDP and GMP were much less efficacious. Millimolar concentrations of NaF also stimulated the formation of inositol phosphates in membrane preparations from 1321N1 cells. In the presence of 10 microM-GTP[S], the muscarinic cholinergic-receptor agonist carbachol stimulated (K0.5 approximately 10 microM) the formation of InsP above that achieved with GTP[S] alone. The effect of carbachol was completely blocked by atropine. The order of potency of nucleotides for stimulation of InsP formation in the presence of 500 microM-carbachol was GTP[S] greater than p[NH]ppG greater than GTP = GDP. Pertussis toxin, at concentrations that fully ADP-ribosylate and functionally inactivate Gi (the inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein), had no effect on InsP formation in the presence of GTP[S] or GTP[S] plus carbachol. These data are consistent with the idea that a guanine nucleotide regulatory protein that is not Gi is involved in receptor-mediated stimulation of InsP formation in 1321N1 human astrocytoma cells.

1986 ◽  
Vol 239 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
P G Bradford ◽  
R P Rubin

Rabbit neutrophils labelled with [3H]inositol and permeabilized with saponin produced [3H]inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) when incubated with stable analogues of GTP or millimolar concentrations of Ca2+. [3H]InsP3 production elicited by guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate was enhanced by the chemoattractant formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine and inhibited by pertussis-toxin pretreatment. A pertussis-toxin-sensitive stimulation of [3H]InsP3 concentration was also observed with guanosine 5′-[beta gamma-imido]triphosphate, but not with guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate or GTP. Millimolar Ca2+ alone was sufficient to stimulate [3H]InsP3 production; however, in the presence of guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate, the Ca2+ dose-response curve was shifted to submicromolar concentrations. These findings directly confirm the role of a pertussis-toxin-sensitive guanine nucleotide regulatory protein (G protein) in chemoattractant-stimulated phospholipase C activity in rabbit neutrophils. Moreover, the ability of guanine nucleotides to sensitize phospholipase C to physiologically relevant Ca2+ concentrations suggests that the role of the activated G protein may be to enhance the apparent affinity of phospholipase C for Ca2+ and thus to activate the enzyme without an increase in the Ca2+ concentration.


1995 ◽  
Vol 270 (23) ◽  
pp. 13973-13980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monsif Bouaboula ◽  
Bernard Bourrié ◽  
Murielle Rinaldi-Carmona ◽  
David Shire ◽  
Gérard Le Fur ◽  
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1986 ◽  
Vol 238 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
M D Houslay ◽  
D Bojanic ◽  
D Gawler ◽  
S O'Hagan ◽  
A Wilson

The thrombin-stimulated GTPase activity of human platelets was additive with respect to the GTPase stimulation effected by prostaglandin E1, but not with that stimulated by adrenaline, vasopressin and platelet-activating factor (PAF). Treatment of platelet membranes with pertussis toxin partially inhibited the thrombin-stimulated GTPase, but had no effect on the vasopressin-stimulated GTPase activity, whereas cholera toxin treatment had no effect on either of these stimulated GTPase activities. Thrombin, adrenaline and PAF, but not vasopressin, inhibited the adenylate cyclase activity of isolated plasma membranes through the action of Ni only, this being inhibited by pertussis toxin. It is suggested that thrombin exerts effects through both the inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein Ni and through the putative guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, Np, involved in regulating receptor-stimulated inositol phospholipid metabolism. However, vasopressin appears to exert its effects solely through the putative Np.


1985 ◽  
Vol 227 (3) ◽  
pp. 933-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
S B Masters ◽  
M W Martin ◽  
T K Harden ◽  
J H Brown

Pertussis toxin was used to examine the role of the inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, Ni, in muscarinic-receptor-mediated stimulation of phosphoinositide turnover and calcium mobilization. In cultured chick heart cells, pertussis-toxin treatment inhibited muscarinic-receptor-mediated attenuation of isoprenaline-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation. This finding is consistent with the proposal that pertussis toxin blocks the capacity of Ni to couple muscarinic receptors to adenylate cyclase. In contrast, treatment of chick heart cells or 1321N1 human astrocytoma cells with pertussis toxin did not block muscarinic-receptor-mediated stimulation of phosphoinositide hydrolysis, as measured by [3H]inositol phosphate accumulation in the presence of Li+. Pertussis-toxin treatment also had little effect on basal and muscarinic-receptor-stimulated phosphatidylinositol synthesis, as measured by the incorporation of [3H]inositol into phosphatidylinositol. Activation of muscarinic receptors also enhances the rate of unidirectional 45Ca2+ efflux in 1321N1 cells; this response, like phosphoinositide hydrolysis, was not prevented by pertussis-toxin treatment. Our data suggest that muscarinic receptors are not coupled to phosphoinositide hydrolysis or calcium mobilization through Ni.


1987 ◽  
Vol 241 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Cockcroft ◽  
J A Taylor

Fluoride and guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP gamma S) both activate the hepatocyte membrane polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase (PPI-pde) in a concentration-dependent manner. AlCl3 enhances the fluoride effect, supporting the concept that [A1F4]- is the active species. Analysis of the products of inositol lipid hydrolysis demonstrate that phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate is the major lipid to be hydrolysed. Guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate (GDP beta S) is an inhibitor of activation of PPI-pde by both fluoride and GTP gamma S. These observations suggest that the guanine nucleotide regulatory protein (termed Gp) bears a structural resemblance to the well-characterized G-proteins of the adenylate cyclase system and the cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase system in phototransduction.


1986 ◽  
Vol 235 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
C M Heyworth ◽  
A M Grey ◽  
S R Wilson ◽  
E Hanski ◽  
M D Houslay

Treatment of hepatocytes with islet activating protein (pertussis toxin) from Bordetella pertussis blocked the ability of insulin to inhibit adenylate cyclase activity both in broken plasma membranes and in intact hepatocytes. Such treatment of intact hepatocytes with pertussis toxin did not prevent insulin from activating the peripheral plasma membrane cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase although it did inhibit the ability of insulin to activate the ‘dense-vesicle’ cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase. The ability of glucagon pretreatment of hepatocytes to block insulin's activation of the plasma membrane cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase was abolished in pertussis toxin-treated hepatocytes. It is suggested that the ability of insulin to manipulate cyclic AMP concentrations by inhibiting adenylate cyclase and activating the plasma membrane and ‘dense-vesicle’ cyclic AMP phosphodiesterases involves interactions with the guanine nucleotide regulatory protein system occurring in liver plasma membranes.


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