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S49 lymphoma tissue culture cells arrest in the G1 phase of the cell cycle when treated with agents that elevate endogenous cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cAMP), such as cholera toxin or exogenously added active congeners of cAMP such as N6,O2'-dibutyryl cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (Bt2cAMP). This phenomenon requires that cells contain the appropriate receptors: Mutant cells deficient in adenylyl cyclase fail to arrest in response to cholera toxin, and another mutant that lacks cAMP-dependent protein kinase does not respond to cholera toxin or to Bt2cAMP. The size distribution of cell populations treated with Bt2cAMP changes in a manner that reflects only the perturbation of cell cycle distribution. Arrested G1 cells in particular have the same volume as the G1 cells of an exponentially growing population. When G1 cells that have been arrested by Bt2cAMP are grown in fresh medium free of Bt2cAMP, they begin to reenter S phase after a delay of about 6 hr and do so with pseudo-first-order kinetics, with a half-life of 5 hr. These and other properties previously described suggest that cAMP regulates S49 cell growth by physiologically significant rather than artifactual mechanisms.
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PMID:Regulation of S49 lymphoma cell growth by cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate. 21 91

LH-induced desensitization of the adenylyl cyclase system in a cell-free membrane preparation from preovulatory porcine follicles exhibits a critical dependence upon Mg and ATP (1). The membrane-rich preparation was found to contain endogenous cAMP-dependent and cAMP-independent protein kinases as well as phosphorprotein phosphatases. Endogenous phosphatase activity was enchanced by by Mn2+ and dithiothreitol. The addition of either Mn2+ or dithiothreitol to the porcine follicular membrane preparation incubated under desensitizing conditions promoted a specific concentration-dependent reversal of the LH-induced desensitization of the adenylyl cyclase system. The addition of exogenous phosphoprotein phosphatase, partially purified from procine follicular cytosol, also reversed LH-induced desensitization in a concentration-dependent manner. Boiling of the phophatase preparation prevented reversal of desensitization. The addition of either exogenous beef heart cAMP-dependent protein kinase or heat-stable protein kinase inhibitor did not modify LH-induced desensitization of the follicular adenylyl cyclase system. These results provide indirect evidence that while LH-induced desensitization is not mediated by a cAMP-dependent protein kinase, reversal of desensitization can be promoted by activation of endogenous phosphatase and the addition of a homologous phosphatase preparation.
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PMID:Resensitization of the desensitized follicular adenylyl cyclase system to luteinizing hormone. 22 Nov 92

Studies on the gonadotrophin-responsive adenylyl cyclase (AC) system of rabbit and porcine ovarian follicles reveal that hCG or LH-induced desensitization of the AC system can be divided into two phases: an initial, LH-specific phase and a second phase which is not specific for LH. The first phase occurs within the first hour after LH-hCG-receptor interaction, is agonist specific, and is not mediated by protein synthetic events or by cAMP. In view of our previous demonstration of the critical dependence of the LH-induced desensitizing process in cell-free membrane preparations of porcine follicles upon Mg2+ and ATP, we investigated the role of a phosphorylation reaction in the first phase of the AC desensitizing process. Porcine follicular membranes rich in LH-sensitive AC activity were found to contain the molecular requirements necessary for a phosphorylation reaction: namely, cAMP-dependent and cAMP-independent protein kinases as well as phosphoprotein phosphatases. The following lines of indirect evidence indicated that reversal or resensitization of the desenzitized AC system to LH was mediated by a dephosphorylation reaction. Activators of endogenous phosphoprotein phosphatases--Mn2+ and dithiothreitol--promoted a specific resensitization of the follicular AC system to LH. Likewise, a partially purified phosphoprotein phosphatase also resensitized the desensitized, LH unresponsive AC to LH, and boiling of the phosphatase prevented its effect. LH-induced desensitization of the AC system, on the other hand, did not appear to be mediated by a cAMP-dependent protein kinase, as evidenced both by the inability of beef heart protein to promote desensitization of AC and by the inability of an inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase to prevent LH-induced densensitization. The second phase of desensitization, which occurs after the first hour following hCG-LH-receptor interaction, is characterized by a loss of responsiveness to FSH as well as to LH and can be promoted by dibutryl cAMP (in the absence of LH). These results provide new evidence on the characteristics and molecular mechanism of LH-induced densensitization of the follicular AC system. These results indicate that the level of phosphorylation of membrane-associated components may, in part, regulate the activity of the AC system during this first phase of homologous desensitization.
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PMID:LH-induced desensitization of the adenylyl cyclase system in ovarian follicles. 22 90

The mechanism of adenylyl cyclase desensitization by carbachol, an agent that stimulates polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis, was studied in thyroid cells. Incubation of cultured dog thyroid cells with 10 microM carbachol for 2-4 hr reduced the subsequent thyrotropic hormone (TSH) stimulation of adenylyl cyclase activity of membrane preparations by approximately 40%. This inhibition was reversed by atropine, occurred even in a Ca(2+)-free medium containing ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethylether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, and was not reproduced by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187. The carbachol effect was not prevented by simultaneous incubation of cells with either isobutylmethylxanthine, an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase, or H-7, an inhibitor of protein kinase. Pretreatment of cells with pertussis toxin to inactivate the Gi inhibitory protein also failed to affect the carbachol inhibition. Although carbachol did not reduce the basal or the TSH-stimulated cyclase activities when added to membranes directly during the assay, exposure of cells to carbachol for 2-4 hr resulted in long lasting inhibition of TSH-stimulated cyclase activity (for at least 24 hr); recovery was seen by 48 hr after its removal. Carbachol pretreatment had no effect on 125I-TSH binding to membranes but reduced the cyclase stimulation by not only TSH but also cholera toxin, guanosine 5'-O-(3-thio)triphosphate, and forskolin; it also significantly reduced the cholera toxin-mediated AD[32P]-ribosylation of Gs in membranes. These data indicate that carbachol-induced inhibition of adenylyl cyclase occurs beyond the level of TSH receptor binding and that Gs is a possible site of its action. Thus, in dog thyroid cells, carbachol, via muscarinic receptors, can reduce the adenylyl cyclase activity by a process that does not involve Ca2+ or activation of phosphodiesterase.
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PMID:Carbachol-induced decrease in thyroid cell adenylyl cyclase activity is independent of calcium and phosphodiesterase activation. 131 Jan 40

To investigate the mechanisms of agonist-promoted desensitization of the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor (alpha 2AR), the human alpha 2AAR and a mutated form of the receptor were expressed in CHW cells. After cells were exposed to epinephrine for 30 min, the ability of the wild type alpha 2AAR to mediate inhibition of forskolin-stimulated adenylyl cyclase was depressed by approximately 78%. To assess the role of receptor phosphorylation during desensitization, cells were incubated with 32Pi, exposed to agonist, and alpha 2AAR purified by immunoprecipitation with a fusion protein antibody. Agonist-promoted desensitization was found to be accompanied by phosphorylation of the alpha 2AAR in vivo. The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK) is known to phosphorylate purified alpha 2AAR in vitro. We found that heparin, a beta ARK inhibitor, ablated short term agonist-induced desensitization of alpha 2AAR, while such desensitization was unaffected by inhibition of protein kinase A. To further assess the role of beta ARK, we constructed a mutated alpha 2AAR which has a portion of the third intracellular loop containing 9 serines and threonines (potential phosphorylation sites) deleted. This mutated alpha 2AAR failed to undergo short term agonist-induced desensitization. Agonist promoted in vivo phosphorylation of this mutated receptor was reduced by 90%, consistent with the notion that receptor phosphorylation at sites in the third intracellular loop plays a critical role in alpha 2AAR desensitization. After 24 h of agonist exposure, an even more profound desensitization of alpha 2AAR occurred, which was not accompanied by a decrease in receptor expression. Rather, long term agonist-induced desensitization was found to be due in part to a decrease in the amount of cellular Gi, which was not dependent on receptor third loop phosphorylation sites.
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PMID:Sites in the third intracellular loop of the alpha 2A-adrenergic receptor confer short term agonist-promoted desensitization. Evidence for a receptor kinase-mediated mechanism. 131 18

Opioid inhibition of adenylyl cyclase is a major second messenger system associated with opioid receptors in brain. To identify membrane phosphoproteins whose phosphorylation state is modulated by opioid inhibition of adenylyl cyclase, rat striatal membranes were preincubated with opioid agonists in the presence of 500 microM 5'-adenylyl-imidodiphosphate (which acted as a substrate for adenylyl cyclase, but not for protein kinase) before addition of [gamma-32P]ATP. Under these conditions, adenylyl cyclase in the membranes formed cyclic AMP, which stimulated cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. This process was confirmed by observing forskolin-stimulated phosphorylation of two bands of MW 85 and 63 kDa, which were also stimulated directly by cyclic AMP. Forskolin-stimulated phosphorylation of these two bands was inhibited by 15 to 30% by opioid agonists such as D-Ala2-Met5-enkephalinamide. This inhibition of phosphorylation was mediated by opioid receptors, because it required both sodium and GTP, and was blocked by naloxone. These results suggest that these two proteins may be primary targets of opioid-inhibited adenylyl cyclase in striatal membranes.
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PMID:Inhibition of protein phosphorylation by opioid-inhibited adenylyl cyclase in rat brain membranes. 131 71

Adenylyl cyclase in rat adipose cells is stimulated by ligands for Rs receptors (e.g. isoproterenol) and inhibited by ligands for Ri receptors (e.g. adenosine). In contrast, Rs receptors mediate inhibition and Ri receptors mediate augmentation of insulin-stimulated glucose transport activity by a process independent of changes in cellular cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity [Kuroda M., Honnor R. C., Cushman S. W., Londos C. and Simpson I. A. (1987) J. biol. Chem. 262, 245-253]. The present study examines the possible role of G-proteins in the regulation of insulin-stimulated glucose transport activity by Rs and Ri receptors. First, conditions were established that permit intoxication of isolated rat adipocytes by cholera and pertussis toxins without compromising cell integrity. Effectiveness of toxin treatment was monitored by examining adenylyl cyclase activity in isolated plasma membranes. Secondly, neither toxin interfered with the ability of a maximal concentration insulin to initiate the glucose transport response. Thirdly, pertussis toxin eliminated the augmenting effects of adenosine on insulin-stimulated glucose transport activity, but enhanced the inhibitory effects of isoproterenol. Findings with ligands for other Ri receptors (nicotinic acid and prostaglandin E2) mirrored those with adenosine. Finally, cholera toxin elicited a modest depression of transport activity, and only in the absence of an Ri ligand (e.g. adenosine). Furthermore, in contrast to the enhanced stimulation of adenylyl cyclase by isoproterenol and GTP, cholera toxin eliminated the inhibitory effect of isoproterenol on transport activity. The augmentative effects of adenosine on transport activity were unchanged. Measurements of (-/+cAMP) cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity ratios reinforce the notion that modulation of glucose transport activity is independent of changes in cAMP. We conclude that regulation of glucose transport activity by Rs and Ri receptors is mediated by the G-proteins, Gs and Gi (or other toxin substrates), respectively. Inasmuch as such regulation occurs at the plasma membrane and appears to be cAMP-independent, it is suggested that glucose transporters may be direct targets for receptor: G-protein interactions.
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PMID:Cholera and pertussis toxins modify regulation of glucose transport activity in rat adipose cells: evidence for mediation of a cAMP-independent process by G-proteins. 131 47

The effects of forskolin (FO) and a water-soluble derivative of FO, L858051 (7 beta-desacetyl-7 beta-[gamma-(N-methylpiperazino)-butyryl] forskolin), were compared on calcium currents (ICa) studied by the whole-cell patch-clamp technique in frog ventricular cardiac myocytes. Both FO and L858051 increased ICa, with half-times of 160 +/- 20 sec and 343 +/- 22 sec, respectively. The stimulation was blocked by internal perfusion with inhibitors of protein kinase A. The EC50 for stimulation of ICa was 0.3 microM for FO and 1.0 microM for L858051. The maximal stimulated current was the same for both drugs, 20.3 microA/cm2 and 23.1 microA/cm2, respectively. Internal perfusion with 30-500 microM guanylyl 5'-imidodiphosphate [Gpp(NH)p] suppressed ICa stimulation by low concentrations of FO or L858051. This suppression was due to a rightward shift in the concentration-response curve, with increases in the EC50 values to 11.4 microM for FO and 28.4 microM for L858051. Isoproterenol (ISO) was ineffective in increasing ICa after the FO-stimulated ICa had been reduced by Gpp(NH)p and FO had been washed out. In contrast, after the L858051-stimulated current had been reduced by Gpp(NH)p, ISO stimulated ICa significantly. This stimulation was blocked by inhibitors of protein kinase A and was due to a positive effect of L858051 not shared by FO. A brief application of L858051 after Gpp(NH)p had blocked the ISO response restored the ISO response for at least 30 min. This effect was mimicked by internal perfusion with low concentrations of L858051. We conclude that the ability of brief exposure of L858051, but not FO, to restore the response to ISO after Gpp(NH)p is due to the accumulation of L858051 intracellularly, due to its hydrophilicity. Because internal L858051 and FO are very ineffective in stimulating adenylyl cyclase, whereas internal L858051 can restore the ISO response blocked by Gpp(NH)p, we propose that FO compounds can affect adenylyl cyclase at two sites, one site that is accessible only from the extracellular side that stimulates catalytic activity and another that is accessible from the intracellular side that increases beta-agonist efficacy in the presence of Gpp(NH)p.
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PMID:Differences in effects of forskolin and an analog on calcium currents in cardiac myocytes suggest intra- and extracellular sites of action. 131 1

Signal transduction by G-protein-coupled receptors is regulated by various mechanisms acting at the receptor level; those studied most thoroughly are from the beta-adrenergic receptor/Gs/adenylyl cyclase system. We report here a regulatory mechanism occurring at the level of the G proteins themselves. A protein with M(r) 33,000 that inhibits Gs-GTPase activity was purified from bovine brain. This protein is very similar or identical to phosducin, a protein previously thought to be specific for retina and pineal gland. Recombinant phosducin inhibited the GTPase activity of several G proteins, and also inhibited Gs-mediated adenylyl cyclase activation. Blockade of its inhibitory effects by protein kinase A suggests that phosducin may be part of a complex regulatory network controlling G-protein-mediated signalling.
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PMID:Phosducin is a protein kinase A-regulated G-protein regulator. 131 56

Corpora lutea of rats, like those of many other species, contain two sub-populations of luteal cells. In this report we sought to determine whether the luteinizing hormone (LH)- and beta-adrenergic cAMP signal transduction pathways known to be present in rat corpora lutea were segregated into separate luteal cell types. Results showed that large rat luteal cells, obtained on day 3 of pregnancy, exhibited elevated LH- and most notably epinephrine-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activities but equivalent cAMP-dependent catalytic protein kinase and total regulatory subunit cAMP binding activities compared to small luteal cells. Progesterone production by the large cell was greater than that by the small cell but both cells were equally sensitive to stimulation of progesterone by LH. However, neither the large nor the small rat luteal cell produced significant progesterone in response to epinephrine despite a marked epinephrine-stimulated adenylyl cyclase in both cell populations. The LH-stimulated progesterone synthetic response of the two sub-populations of rat luteal cells is more similar to that of the developing monkey corpus luteum and contrasts sharply with that of ruminants.
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PMID:The cAMP-dependent signalling cascade in the two luteal cell types of the pregnant rat corpus luteum. 132 69


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