Esters of adenosine 5'-phosphate with lipoid hydroxy compounds (adenosine nucleolipids) and their effects on the activity of enzymes of cyclic AMP system

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1645-1650
Author(s):  
Sixtus Hynie ◽  
Jiří Smrt

Esters of adenosine 5'-phosphate with lipoid hydroxy compounds exhibit strong inhibitory effect on adenylate cyclase activity. The activities of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase and protein kinase are moderately inhibited.

1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1122-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. C. Harrow ◽  
J. N. Singh ◽  
G. Jasmin ◽  
N. S. Dhalla

Cyclic AMP content, adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1) activity and phosphodiesterase I (EC 3.1.4.1) activity of the hind leg skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle in 60- and 150-day-old normal and myopathic (UM-X7.1) hamsters were examined. In 60-day-old myopathic animals, cardiac cyclic AMP levels were higher and phosphodiesterase I activity was lower, without any changes in the basal adenylate cyclase activity, whereas in 150-day-old myopathic hamsters, cardiac cyclic AMP and basal adenylate cyclase activity were lower, without any changes in the homogenate phosphodiesterase I activity. On the other hand, basal adenylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase I activities in the skeletal muscle homogenate from 60- and 150-day-old myopathic animals were not different from the normal values but the skeletal muscle cyclic AMP levels were significantly less in 60-day-old myopathic hamsters only. The plasma cyclic AMP levels in 60-day-old myopathic hamsters, unlike 150-day-old myopathic animals, were higher than the normal. Although these results reveal differences in myopathic cardiac and skeletal muscles, it is concluded that changes in adenylate cyclase – cyclic AMP system in myopathy are dependent upon the degree of disease.


1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 511-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Garcia-Morales ◽  
S. P. Dufrane ◽  
A. Sener ◽  
I. Valverde ◽  
W. J. Malaisse

Conflicting opinions were recently expressed concerning the possible effect of α2-adrenergic agonists upon cyclic AMP production in pancreatic islets. In the present: study, clonidine inhibited glucose-induced insulin release from rat pancreatic islets, this inhibitory effect being abolished by idazoxan. Clonidine did not suppress the capacity of forskolin to augment glucose-induced insulin release. In a particulate subcellular fraction derived from the islets, adenylate cyclase was activated by calmodulin (in the presence of Ca2+), NaF, GTP, L-arginine, and forskolin, and slightly inhibited by clonidine. The inhibitory action of clonidine upon basal adenylate cyclase activity was more pronounced in islet crude homogenates. The inhibitory effect of clonidine was antagonized by forskolin whether in the particulate fraction or crude homogenate. At variance with the modest effects of glucagon, D-glucose, L-arginine, or a tumor-promoting phorbol ester upon cyclic AMP production by intact islets, forskolin caused a six-fold increase in cyclic AMP production. Clonidine inhibited cyclic AMP production by intact islets, whether in the absence or presence of forskolin. It is proposed that the inhibitory action of clonidine upon insulin release is attributable, in part at least, to inhibition of adenylate cyclase.


1984 ◽  
Vol 222 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
C M Heyworth ◽  
E Hanski ◽  
M D Houslay

Treatment of intact hepatocytes with islet-activating protein, from Bordatella pertussis, led to a pronounced increase in the ability of glucagon to raise intracellular cyclic AMP concentrations. Islet-activating protein, however, caused no apparent increase in the intracellular concentration of cyclic AMP under basal conditions. These effects were attributed to an enhanced ability of adenylate cyclase, in membranes from hepatocytes treated with islet-activating protein, to be stimulated by glucagon. When forskolin was used to amplify the basal adenylate cyclase activity, elevated GTP concentrations were shown to inhibit adenylate cyclase activity in membranes from control hepatocytes. This inhibitory effect of GTP was abolished if the hepatocytes had been pre-treated with islet activating protein. In isolated liver plasma membranes, islet-activating protein caused the NAD-dependent ribosylation of a Mr-40000 protein, the putative inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, Ni. This effect was inhibited if guanosine 5′-[beta‐thio]diphosphate rather than GTP was present in the ribosylation incubations. The ability of glucagon to uncouple or desensitize the activity of adenylate cyclase in intact hepatocytes was also blocked by pre-treating hepatocytes with islet-activating protein. Islet-activating protein thus heightens the response of hepatocytes to the stimulatory hormone glucagon. It achieves this by both inhibiting the expression of desensitization and also removing a residual inhibitory input expressed in the presence of glucagon.


1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (1) ◽  
pp. C97-C104 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Jones ◽  
J. M. Madison ◽  
M. Tom-Moy ◽  
J. K. Brown

The goal of our study was to test for an inhibitory effect of acetylcholine on adenylate cyclase activity in canine trachealis muscle. Therefore, cells were dispersed from the muscle enzymatically and lysed, and adenylate cyclase activity was assayed in a membrane suspension isolated from the lysates. Maximal beta-adrenergic stimulation, in the presence of GTP (10(-4) M), increased the activity of adenylate cyclase twofold above the activity induced by GTP alone. In the presence of GTP, acetylcholine (10(-4) M) decreased activity from 97 +/- 21 to 55 +/- 13 pmol cyclic AMP X min-1 X mg protein-1 (means +/- SE; n = 5; P less than 0.05); in the presence of GTP plus isoproterenol (10(-4) M), the acetylcholine-induced decreases were from 163 +/- 29 to 101 +/- 15 pmol cyclic AMP X min-1 X mg protein-1 (P less than 0.05). These decreases were dose dependent and they were altered by a series of cholinergic agents in a pattern consistent with a muscarinic effect. Our results suggest that one biochemical effect of vagal stimulation in the central airways of dogs may be attenuated adenylate cyclase activity in the smooth muscle.


1989 ◽  
Vol 262 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
L A Quilliam ◽  
P R M Dobson ◽  
B L Brown

The influence of protein kinase C (PKC) activation on cyclic AMP production in GH3 cells has been studied. The stimulation of cyclic AMP accumulation induced by forskolin and cholera toxin was potentiated by 4 beta-phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu). Moreover, PDBu, which causes attenuation of the maximal response to vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), also induced a small right shift in the dose-response curve for VIP-induced cyclic AMP accumulation. PDBu-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation was unaffected by pretreatment of cells with pertussis toxin or the inhibitory muscarinic agonist, oxotremorine. PDBu stimulation of adenylate cyclase activity required the presence of a cytosolic factor which appeared to translocate to the plasma membrane in response to the phorbol ester. The diacylglycerol-generating agents thyroliberin, bombesin and bacterial phospholipase C each stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation, but, unlike PDBu, did not attenuate the stimulation induced by VIP. These results suggest that PKC affects at least two components of the adenylate cyclase complex. Stimulation of cyclic AMP accumulation is probably due to modification of the catalytic subunit, whereas attenuation of VIP-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation appears to be due to the phosphorylation of a different site, which may be the VIP receptor.


Author(s):  
L.S. Cutler

Many studies previously have shown that the B-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol and the a-adrenergic agonist norepinephrine will stimulate secretion by the adult rat submandibular (SMG) and parotid glands. Recent data from several laboratories indicates that adrenergic agonists bind to specific receptors on the secretory cell surface and stimulate membrane associated adenylate cyclase activity which generates cyclic AMP. The production of cyclic AMP apparently initiates a cascade of events which culminates in exocytosis. During recent studies in our laboratory it was observed that the adenylate cyclase activity in plasma membrane fractions derived from the prenatal and early neonatal rat submandibular gland was retractile to stimulation by isoproterenol but was stimulated by norepinephrine. In addition, in vitro secretion studies indicated that these prenatal and neonatal glands would not secrete peroxidase in response to isoproterenol but would secrete in response to norepinephrine. In contrast to these in vitro observations, it has been shown that the injection of isoproterenol into the living newborn rat results in secretion of peroxidase by the SMG (1).


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