scholarly journals Interferon-γ-stimulated and GTP-binding-proteins-mediated phospholipase A2 activation in human neuroblasts

1993 ◽  
Vol 294 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ponzoni ◽  
P Cornaglia-Ferraris

Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is a potent growth-inhibitory cytokine also endowed with differentiating activity on neural cells. Binding of IFN-gamma to its high-affinity receptor induces a rapid and transient activation of phospholipase A2 (PLA2). The mechanism coupling the IFN-gamma receptor (IFN-gamma-R) to PLA2 activation is not clearly defined, and no information is available on this mechanism in neuroblast cells. We have tested the hypothesis that GTP-binding proteins (G-proteins) may couple the IFN-gamma-R to PLA2 in the human neuroblastoma (NB) cell line LAN-5. Incubation of NB cells with IFN-gamma resulted in a rapid increase in [3H]arachidonic acid (AA) release, and this effect was blocked by pretreatment with anti-IFN-gamma antibodies. IFN-gamma-stimulated AA release was still observed in permeabilized cells that were blocked by pretreatment with anti-IFN-gamma-R antibodies. Exposure of permeabilized LAN-5 cells to guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]), a non-hydrolysable GTP analogue, induced a dose-dependent release of [3H]AA. A non-specific nucleotide effect was excluded, since similar stimulatory effects on AA mobilization were not observed by GTP, ATP, CTP, ADP and GDP. IFN-gamma-stimulated AA release was completely blocked by the guanine nucleotide analogue that inhibits G-protein function, guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate (GDP[S]). A role for G-proteins in IFN-gamma-R coupling to PLA2 was further supported by the inhibition of IFN-gamma-induced [3H]AA release by treatment of permeabilized cells with pertussis toxin and with the antiserum against the common alpha-subunits of G-proteins. To determine a possible contribution to AA mobilization by the phospholipase C and diacyglycerol lipase pathway or by protein kinase C activation, the effects of neomycin, a phospholipase C inhibitor, and PMA (phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate), a direct activator of protein kinase C, were investigated. Neither neomycin nor PMA affected either basal or IFN-gamma-stimulated AA release. Ca2+ concentration, which has been shown to regulate the activity of some PLA2s, does not appear to play an important role in the regulation of the IFN-gamma-stimulated PLA2 activity, since incubating permeabilized cells in different concentrations of Ca2+ induced AA release without affecting the IFN-gamma response. Altogether, these findings suggest the existence of IFN-gamma-R, which couples a Ca(2+)-independent PLA2 activation via pertussis-toxin-sensitive G-proteins.

1988 ◽  
Vol 253 (3) ◽  
pp. 711-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Magnaldo ◽  
J Pouysségur ◽  
S Paris

Previous studies in Chinese-hamster fibroblasts (CCL39 line) indicate that an important signalling pathway involved in thrombin's mitogenicity is the activation of a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C, mediated by a pertussis-toxin-sensitive GTP-binding protein (Gp). The present studies examine the effects of thrombin on the adenylate cyclase system and the interactions between the two signal transduction pathways. We report that thrombin exerts two opposite effects on cyclic AMP accumulation stimulated by cholera toxin, forskolin or prostaglandin E1. (1) Low thrombin concentrations (below 0.1 nM) decrease cyclic AMP formation. A similar inhibition is induced by A1F4-, and both thrombin- and A1F4- –induced inhibitions are abolished by pertussis toxin. (2) Increasing thrombin concentration from 0.1 to 10 nM results in a progressive suppression of adenylate cyclase inhibition and in a marked enhancement of cyclic AMP formation in pertussis-toxin-treated cells. A similar stimulation is induced by an active phorbol ester, and thrombin-induced potentiation of adenylate cyclase is suppressed by down-regulation of protein kinase C. Therefore, we conclude that (1) the inhibitory effect of thrombin on adenylate cyclase is the direct consequence of the activation of a pertussis-toxin-sensitive inhibitory GTP-binding protein (Gi) possibly identical with Gp, and (2) the potentiating effect of thrombin on cyclic AMP formation is due to stimulation of protein kinase C, as an indirect consequence of Gp activation. Our results suggest that the target of protein kinase C is an element of the adenylate cyclase-stimulatory GTP-binding protein (Gs) complex. At low thrombin concentrations, activation of phospholipase C is greatly attenuated by increased cyclic AMP, leading to predominance of the Gi-mediated inhibition.


1994 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Kozawa ◽  
Haruhiko Tokuda ◽  
Atsushi Suzuki ◽  
Jun Kotoyori ◽  
Yoshiaki Ito ◽  
...  

Kozawa O, Tokuda H, Suzuki A, Kotoyori J, Ito Y, Oiso Y. Effect of glucocorticoid on prostaglandin F2α-induced prostaglandin E2 synthesis in osteoblast-like cells: inhibition of phosphoinositide hydrolysis by phospholipase C as well as phospholipase A2. Eur J Endocrinol 1994;131:510–15. ISSN 0804–4643 It is well known that osteoporosis is a common complication of patients with glucocorticoid excess. We showed previously that prostaglandin (PG) F2α stimulates the synthesis of PGE2, a potent bone resorbing agent, and that the activation of protein kinase C amplifies the PGF2α-induced PGE2 synthesis through the potentiation of phospholipase A2 activity in osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells. In the present study, we examined the effect of dexamethasone on PGE2 synthesis induced by PGF2α in MC3T3-E1 cells. The pretreatment with dexamethasone significantly inhibited the PGE2 synthesis in a dose-dependent manner in the range between 0.1 and 10 nmol/l in these cells. This effect of dexamethasone was dependent on the time of pretreatment up to 8 h. Dexamethasone also inhibited PGE2 synthesis induced by melittin, known as a phospholipase A2 activator. Furthermore, dexamethasone significantly inhibited the enhancement of PGF2α- or melittin-induced PGE2 synthesis by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate, known as a protein kinase C activator. In addition, dexamethasone significantly inhibited PGF2α-induced formation of inositol phosphates in a dose-dependent manner between 0.1 and 10 nmol/l in MC3T3-E1 cells. These results strongly suggest that glucocorticoid inhibits PGF2α-induced PGE2 synthesis through the inhibition of phosphoinositide hydrolysis by phospholipase C as well as phospholipase A2 in osteoblast-like cells. Osamu Kozawa, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Prefectural Colony, Kasugai, Aichi 480-03, Japan


1991 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Balda ◽  
L. González-Mariscal ◽  
R. G. Contreras ◽  
M. Macias-Silva ◽  
M. E. Torres-Marquez ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 299 (3) ◽  
pp. 845-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Shimegi ◽  
F Okajima ◽  
Y Kondo

We have described the pertussis toxin (PTX)-sensitive potentiation of P2-purinergic agonist-induced phospholipase C activation, Ca2+ mobilization and arachidonic acid release by an adenosine receptor agonist, N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (PIA), which alone cannot influence any of these cellular activities [Okajima, Sato, Nazarea, Sho and Kondo (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 13029-13037]. In the present study we have found that arachidonic acid release was associated with lysophosphatidylcholine production, and conclude that arachidonic acid is produced by phospholipase A2 in FRTL-5 thyroid cells. This led us to assume that PIA augments P2-purinergic arachidonic acid release by increasing [Ca2+]i which, in turn, activates Ca(2+)-sensitive phospholipase A2. The arachidonic acid-releasing response to PIA was, however, always considerably higher (3.1-fold increase) than the Ca2+ response (1.3-fold increase) to the adenosine derivative. In addition, arachidonic acid release induced by the [Ca2+]i increase caused by thapsigargin, an endoplasmic-reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase inhibitor, or calcium ionophores was also potentiated by PIA without any effect on [Ca2+]i and phospholipase C activity. This action of PIA was also PTX-sensitive, but not affected by the forskolin- or cholera toxin-induced increase in the cellular cyclic AMP (cAMP), suggesting that a PTX-sensitive G-protein(s) and not cAMP mediates the PIA-induced potentiation of Ca(2+)-generated phospholipase A2 activation. Although acute phorbol ester activation of protein kinase C induced arachidonic acid release, P2-purinergic and alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation of arachidonic acid release was markedly increased by the protein kinase C down-regulation caused by the phorbol ester. This suggests a suppressive role for protein kinase C in the agonist-induced activation of arachidonic acid release. We conclude that PIA (and perhaps any of the G1-activating agonists) augments an agonist (maybe any of the Ca(2+)-mobilizing agents)-induced arachidonic acid release by activation of Ca(2+)-dependent phospholipase A2 in addition to enhancement of agonist-induced phospholipase C followed by an increase in [Ca2+]i.


1989 ◽  
Vol 263 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Laurent ◽  
J Mockel ◽  
K Takazawa ◽  
C Erneux ◽  
J E Dumont

The action of carbamoylcholine (Cchol), NaF and other agonists on the generation of inositol phosphates (IPs) was studied in dog thyroid slices prelabelled with myo-[2-3H]inositol. The stimulation by Cchol (0.1 microM-0.1 mM) of IPs accumulation through activation of a muscarinic receptor [Graff, Mockel, Laurent, Erneux & Dumont (1987) FEBS Lett. 210, 204-210] was pertussis- and cholera-toxin insensitive. Ins(1,4,5)P3, Ins(1,3,4)P3 and InsP4 were generated. NaF (5-20 mM) also increased IPs generation (Graff et al., 1987); this effect was potentiated by AlCl3 (10 microM) and unaffected by pertussis toxin. Although phorbol dibutyrate (5 microM) abolished the cholinergic stimulation of IPs generation (Graff et al., 1987), it did not affect the fluoride-induced response. Cchol and NaF did not require extracellular Ca2+ to exert their effect, and neither KCl-induced membrane depolarization nor ionophore A23187 (10 microM) had any influence on basal IPs levels, or on cholinergic stimulation. However, more stringent Ca2+ depletion with EGTA (0.1 or 1 mM) decreased basal IPs levels as well as the amplitude of the stimulation by Cchol without abolishing it. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP, forskolin, cholera toxin and prostaglandin E1 had no effect on basal IPs levels and did not decrease the response to Cchol. Iodide (4 or 40 microM) also strongly decreased the cholinergic action on IPs, this inhibition being relieved by methimazole (1 mM). Our data suggest that Cchol activates a phospholipase C hydrolysing PtdIns(4,5)P2 in the dog thyroid cell in a cyclic AMP-independent manner. This activation requires no extracellular Ca2+ and depends on a GTP-binding protein insensitive to both cholera toxin and requires no extracellular Ca2+ and depends on a GTP-binding protein insensitive to both cholera toxin and pertussis toxin. The data are consistent with a rapid metabolism of Ins(1,4,5)P3 to Ins(1,3,4)P3 via the Ins(1,4,5)P3 3-kinase pathway, followed by dephosphorylation by a 5-phosphomonoesterase. Indeed, a Ca2+-sensitive InsP3 3-kinase activity was demonstrated in tissue homogenate. Stimulation of protein kinase C and an organified form of iodine inhibit the Cchol-induced IPs generation. The negative feedback of activated protein kinase C could be exerted at the level of the receptor or of the receptor-G-protein interaction.


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