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Query: EC:2.7.11.13 (protein kinase C)
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Serotonin 5-HT1A receptors have been reported to be negatively coupled to muscarinic receptor-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover in the rat hippocampus. In the present study, we have investigated further the pharmacological specificity of this negative control and attempted to elucidate the mechanism whereby 5-HT1A receptor activation inhibits the carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide response in immature or adult rat hippocampal slices. Various 5-HT1A receptor agonists were found to inhibit carbachol (10 microM)-stimulated formation of total inositol phosphates in immature rat hippocampal slices with the following rank order of potency (IC50 values in nM): 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) (11) greater than ipsapirone (20) greater than gepirone (120) greater than RU 24969 (140) greater than buspirone (560) greater than 1-(m-trifluoromethylphenyl)piperazine (1,500) greater than methysergide (5,644); selective 5-HT1B, 5-HT2, and 5-HT3 receptor agonists were inactive. The potency of the 5-HT1A receptor agonists investigated as inhibitors of the carbachol response was well correlated (r = 0.92) with their potency as inhibitors of the forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase in guinea pig hippocampal membranes. 8-OH-DPAT (10 microM) fully inhibited the carbachol-stimulated formation of inositol di-, tris-, and tetrakisphosphate but only partially antagonized (-40%) inositol monophosphate production. The effect of 8-OH-DPAT on carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover was not prevented by addition of tetrodotoxin (1 microM), by prior destruction of serotonergic afferents, by experimental manipulations causing an increase in cyclic AMP levels (addition of 10 microM forskolin), or by changes in membrane potential (increase in K+ concentration or addition of tetraethylammonium). Prior intrahippocampal injection of pertussis toxin also failed to alter the ability of 8-OH-DPAT to inhibit the carbachol response. Carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover in immature rat hippocampal slices was inhibited by the protein kinase C activators phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (10 microM) and arachidonic acid (100 microM). Moreover, the inhibitory effect of 8-OH-DPAT on the carbachol response was blocked by 10 microM quinacrine (a phospholipase A2 inhibitor) but not by BW 755C (100 microM), a cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase inhibitor. These results collectively suggest that 5-HT1A receptor activation inhibits carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover by stimulating a phospholipase A2 coupled to 5-HT1A receptors, leading to arachidonic acid release. Arachidonic acid could in turn activate a gamma-protein kinase C with as a consequence an inhibition of carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover. This inhibition may be the consequence of a phospholipase C phosphorylation and/or a direct effect on the muscarinic receptor.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Potential mechanisms involved in the negative coupling between serotonin 5-HT1A receptors and carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover in the rat hippocampus. 184 78

The role of GTP-binding proteins (G-proteins) in the secretory process in chromaffin cells was investigated by studying the effects of pertussis toxin (PTX) on catecholamine release and generation of various second messengers. PTX was found to stimulate the catecholamine secretion induced by nicotine, 59 mM-K+ or veratridine. PTX also potentiated Ca2(+)-evoked catecholamine release from permeabilized chromaffin cells, suggesting that PTX substrate(s) regulate the exocytotic machinery at a step distal to the rise in intracellular Ca2+. We have investigated the possible intracellular pathways involved in the stimulation of secretion by PTX. PTX did not modify the translocation of protein kinase C (PKC) to membranes in intact or permeabilized cells; in addition, neither inhibitors nor activators of PKC had any effect on catecholamine release induced by PTX. Thus it seems unlikely that the effect of PTX on secretion is mediated by activation of PKC. The effect of PTX is also cyclic AMP-independent, as PTX did not change cytoplasmic cyclic AMP levels. The relationship between PTX treatment and arachidonic acid release was also examined. We found that an increase in cytoplasmic arachidonic acid concentration enhanced Ca2(+)-evoked catecholamine release in permeabilized cells, but arachidonic acid did not mimic the effect of PTX on the Ca2(+)-dose-response curve for secretion. Furthermore, PTX did not significantly modify the release of arachidonic acid measured in resting or stimulated chromaffin cells, suggesting that the stimulatory effect of PTX on secretion is not mediated by an activation of phospholipase A2. Taken together, these results suggest that PTX may modulate the intracellular machinery of secretion at a step distal to the generation of second messengers. In alpha-toxin-permeabilized cells, full retention of the PTX-induced activation of secretion was observed even 30 min after permeabilization. In contrast, when chromaffin cells were permeabilized with streptolysin-O (SLO), there was a marked progressive loss of the PTX effect. We found that SLO caused the rapid leakage of three G-protein alpha-subunits which are specifically ADP-ribosylated by PTX. We propose that a PTX-sensitive G-protein may play an inhibitory role in the final stages of the Ca2(+)-evoked secretory process in chromaffin cells.
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PMID:A pertussis-toxin-sensitive protein controls exocytosis in chromaffin cells at a step distal to the generation of second messengers. 184 52

We have previously shown that extracellular ATP acts as a mitogen via protein kinase C (PKC)-dependent and independent pathways (Wang, D., Huang, N., Gonzalez, F.A., and Heppel, L.A. Multiple signal transduction pathways lead to extracellular ATP-stimulated mitogenesis in mammalian cells. I. Involvement of protein kinase C-dependent and independent pathways in the mitogenic response of mammalian cells to extracellular ATP. J. Cell. Physiol., 1991). The present aim was to determine if metabolism of arachidonic acid, resulting in prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis and elevation of cAMP levels, plays a role in mitogenesis mediated by extracellular ATP. Addition of ATP caused a marked enhancement of cyclic AMP accumulation in 3T3, 3T6, and A431 cells. Aminophylline, an antagonist of the adenosine A2 receptor, had no effect on the accumulation of cyclic AMP elicited by ATP, while it inhibited the action of adenosine. The accumulation of cyclic AMP was concentration dependent, which corresponds to the stimulation of DNA synthesis by ATP. The maximal accumulation was achieved after 45 min, with an initial delay period of about 15 min. That the activation of arachidonic acid metabolism contributed to cyclic AMP accumulation and mitogenesis stimulated by ATP in 3T3, 3T6, and A431 cells was supported by the following observations: (a) extracellular ATP stimulated the release of [3H]arachidonic acid and PGE2 into the medium; (b) inhibition of arachidonic acid release by inhibitors of phospholipase A2 blocked PGE2 production, cyclic AMP accumulation, and DNA synthesis activated by ATP, and this inhibition could be reversed by adding exogenous arachidonic acid; (c) cyclooxygenase inhibitors, such as indomethacin and aspirin, diminished the release of PGE2 and blocked cyclic AMP accumulation as well as [3H]thymidine incorporation in response to ATP; (d) PGE2 was able to restore [3H]thymidine incorporation when added together with ATP in the presence of cyclooxygenase inhibitors; (e) pertussis toxin inhibited ATP-stimulated DNA synthesis in a time- and dose-dependent fashion as well as arachidonic acid release and PGE2 formation. Other evidence for involvement of a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein(s) in ATP-stimulated DNA synthesis as well as in arachidonic acid release is presented. In A431 cells, the enhancement of arachidonic acid and cyclic AMP accumulation by ATP was partially blocked by PKC down-regulation, implying that the activation of PKC may represent an additional pathway in ATP-stimulated metabolism of arachidonic acid. In all of these studies, ADP and AMP-PNP, but not adenosine, were as active as ATP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Multiple signal transduction pathways lead to extracellular ATP-stimulated mitogenesis in mammalian cells: II. A pathway involving arachidonic acid release, prostaglandin synthesis, and cyclic AMP accumulation. 185 Jul 50

In cultured intact LLC-PK1 renal epithelial cells, a nonhydrolyzable ATP analogue, ATP gamma S, inhibits AVP-stimulated cAMP formation. In LLC-PK1 membranes, several ATP analogues inhibit basal, GTP-, forskolin-, and AVP-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in a dose-dependent manner. The rank order potency of inhibition by ATP analogues suggests that a P2y type of ATP receptor is involved in this inhibition. The compound ATP gamma S inhibits agonist-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in solubilized and in isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) and quinacrine pretreated membranes, suggesting that ATP gamma S inhibition occurs independent of AVP and A1 adenosine receptors and of phospholipase A2 activity. The ATP gamma S inhibition of AVP-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity is not affected by pertussis toxin but is attenuated by GDP beta S, suggesting a possible role for a pertussis toxin insensitive G protein in the inhibition. Exposure of intact LLC-PK cells to ATP gamma S results in a significant increase in protein kinase C activity. However, neither of two protein kinase C inhibitors (staurosporine and H-7) prevents ATP gamma S inhibition of AVP-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity, suggesting that this inhibition occurs by a protein kinase C independent mechanism. These findings suggest the presence of functional P2y purinoceptors coupled to two signal transduction pathways in cultured renal epithelial cells. The effect of P2y purinoceptors to inhibit AVP-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity may be mediated, at least in part, by a pertussis toxin insensitive G protein.
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PMID:ATP receptor regulation of adenylate cyclase and protein kinase C activity in cultured renal LLC-PK1 cells. 185 Jul 60

We studied the in vitro effects of omega-3 fish oils and other fatty acids on the activity of crude protein kinase C from S49 lymphoma cells, on partially purified enzyme from rat cerebrum, on homogeneous protein kinase C from bovine brain, and, for comparison, on type I adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase. In the absence of exogenous phospholipid, the fish oils cis-5,8,11,14,17-eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and acid (DCHA) enhance the catalytic cis-4,7,10,13,16,19-docosahexaenoic activity of protein kinase C and support the binding of [3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate, both to approximately 50% of the level supported by phosphatidylserine. In the presence of phosphatidylserine, the omega-3 fatty acids reduce catalytic activity and [3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate binding by about one-half. The effects of the omega-3 fatty acids on enzyme activity suggest that fish oils act as partial agonists competitively with phosphatidylserine. EPA, DCHA, and arachidonate (but not a variety of saturated fatty acids) inhibit the cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Thus dietary fish oils and cellular fatty acids mobilized by the action of phospholipase A2 may differentially modulate the activities of protein kinase C and cAMP-dependent protein kinase. These data suggest means by which unsaturated fatty acids mobilized within cells may act as second messengers.
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PMID:Differential effects of omega-3 fish oils on protein kinase activities in vitro. 185 66

A peptide mitogen bombesin, which activates the phospholipase C-protein kinase C signaling pathway, induces a mepacrine-sensitive, dose-dependent increase in the release of [3H]arachidonic acid and its metabolites ([3H]AA) from prelabeled Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts. The effect is temporally composed of two phases, i.e. an initial transient burst that is essentially independent of extracellular Ca2+, and a following sustained phase that is absolutely dependent on the extracellular Ca2+. The initial transient [3H]AA liberation occurs concomitantly with bombesin-induced 45Ca efflux from prelabeled cells: both responses being substantially attenuated by loading cells with a Ca2+ chelator quin2. However, bombesin-induced intracellular Ca2+ mobilization by itself is not sufficient as a signal for the initial transient [3H]AA liberation, since A23187 potently stimulates 45Ca efflux to an extent comparable to bombesin but fails to induce [3H]AA release in the absence of extracellular Ca2+. The second sustained phase of the bombesin-induced [3H]AA release is abolished by reducing extracellular Ca2+ to 0.03 mM, although bombesin effects on phospholipase C and protein kinase C activation are barely affected by the same procedure. A protein kinase C activator phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate induces an extracellular Ca(2+)-dependent, slowly developing sustained increase in [3H]AA release, and markedly potentiates both phases of bombesin-induced [3H]AA release. Down-regulation of cellular protein kinase C completely abolishes all of the effects of phorbol dibutyrate, and partially inhibits the second but not the first phase of bombesin-induced [3H]AA release. These results indicate that bombesin-induced receptor-mediated activation of phospholipase A2 involves multiple mechanisms, including intracellular Ca2+ mobilization for the first phase, protein kinase C activation plus Ca2+ influx for the second phase, and as yet unknown mechanism(s) independent of intracellular Ca2+ mobilization or protein kinase C for both of the phases.
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PMID:Mechanisms of bombesin-induced arachidonate mobilization in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts. 186 Aug 38

There is substantial evidence that the tumor promoter 4 beta-12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) elicits enhanced arachidonic acid release and its metabolism to prostaglandins and lipoxygenase products in many cell types. The goal of this study was to determine whether 4 alpha-12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (4 alpha TPA), a stereoisomer of TPA, can induce arachidonic acid release and whether it is by the same mechanism as release induced by TPA. The finding that 10 micrograms/ml 4 alpha TPA produces a response comparable with 1 microgram/ml TPA and with similar kinetics was unexpected. The mechanism mediating the TPA response appears to be the activation of protein kinase C (PKC), which subsequently results in phospholipase A2 activation. This is suggested by the observation that TPA-induced arachidonate release is inhibited 65% by 1-(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine dihydrochloride (H-7), an inhibitor of PKC and that TPA completely down-regulates PKC. In addition, down-regulation or depletion of PKC by prior treatment with TPA results in a 75% loss of response to a second TPA treatment. In vitro activation of partially purified PKC could be demonstrated for TPA but not 4 alpha TPA. 4 alpha TPA thus appears to induce the release of arachidonate by a different but unknown mechanism. The 4 alpha TPA effect is not significantly reduced by the PKC inhibitor H-7, and no evidence of PKC activation or down-regulation was observed. Additionally, 4 alpha TPA is unable to "down-regulate" arachidonate release when the two-treatment protocol is used and the down-regulation of PKC by TPA has little effect on 4 alpha TPA-induced arachidonate release. Cycloheximide inhibited TPA-induced arachidonate release by 80% and 4 alpha TPA-induced release by 50%, indicating a partial requirement for protein synthesis for both phorbol esters. Actinomycin D, on the other hand, inhibited the TPA response by 70%, but enhanced the 4 alpha TPA response by 169%. When used at 10- or 100-micrograms doses, 4 alpha TPA was found to lack activity with respect to ornithine decarboxylase induction, oxidant production, hyperplasia, inflammation, and tumor promotion, suggesting that arachidonate release is not sufficient to induce these events. This may be related to the observation that with TPA the extent of arachidonate metabolism to prostaglandin E2 is four- to fivefold greater than occurred with 4 alpha TPA, even under conditions of equivalent arachidonate release.
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PMID:4 Beta- and 4 alpha-12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate elicit arachidonate release from epidermal cells through different mechanisms. 189 47

Activators of protein kinase C, such as tumor-promoting phorbol esters (e.g., phorbol myristate acetate), mezerein, (-)-indolactam V and 1-oleoyl 2-acetoyl glycerol, potentiate arachidonic acid release caused by elevation of intracellular Ca2+ with ionophores. This action of protein kinase C-activators required protein phosphorylation, and was attributed to enhanced hydrolysis of phospholipids by phospholipase A2 (Halenda, et al. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 7356-7363). Recently Fuse et al. ((1989) J. Biol. Chem 264, 3890-3895) reported that the apparent enhanced release of arachidonate was actually due to inhibition of the processes of re-uptake and re-esterification of released arachidonic acid. They attributed this to loss of arachidonyl-CoA synthetase and arachidonyl-CoA lysophosphatide acyltransferase activities, which were measured in membranes obtained from phorbol myristate acetate-treated platelets. In this paper, we show that phorbol myristate acetate, at concentrations that strongly potentiate arachidonic acid release, does not inhibit either arachidonic acid uptake into platelets or its incorporation into specific phospholipids. Furthermore, the fatty acid 8,11,14-eicosatrienoic acid, a competitive substrate for arachidonyl-CoA synthetase, totally blocks arachidonic acid uptake into platelets, but, unlike phorbol myristate acetate, does not potentiate arachidonic acid release by Ca2+ ionophores. We conclude that the action of phorbol myristate acetate is to promote the process of arachidonic acid release by phospholipase A2.
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PMID:Potentiation of arachidonic acid release by phorbol myristate acetate in platelets is not due to inhibition of arachidonic acid uptake or incorporation into phospholipids. 189 4

The effect of the carcinogen diethylnitrosamine (DEN) on prostaglandins (PGs), leukotrienes (LTs) and reactive oxygen intermediates production by murine peritoneal macrophages was assessed. In vitro exposure to DEN (0.8, 1.6 and 8 mM) resulted in a dose-dependent stimulation of the PGs and LTs generation by macrophages. DEN-exposed peritoneal macrophages demonstrated enhanced production of arachidonic acid (AA) metabolites following stimulation with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) as compared to macrophages stimulated with TPA alone. Studies of [3H]AA release from glycerolipids of prelabelled macrophages and of the distribution of AA metabolites between intra and extracellular compartments indicated that DEN induced de novo synthesis of AA metabolites. The stimulation of AA metabolism by DEN was decreased by H-7 and staurosporine, protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors, and so could be dependent on PKC activation. The generation of PGs by macrophages after DEN exposure was also inhibited by indomethacin (cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor). DEN at high concentrations (1.6-16 mM) inhibited chemiluminescence production by peritoneal macrophages in a dose-dependent manner, triggered by tumour promoter TPA; lower concentrations (0.8 and 1.2 mM) increased this reactive oxygen intermediates dependent chemiluminescence production induced by TPA. The role of AA metabolism in the alteration of chemiluminescence production by murine peritoneal macrophages treated in vitro with DEN and triggered by TPA has been evaluated by using AA metabolism inhibitors. The stimulation of chemiluminescence by TPA was inhibited by the addition of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) inhibitor, 4-p-BPB; this metabolic inhibitor did not affect the decrease of chemiluminescence production induced by DEN. The cyclo-oxygenase (CO) inhibitor, indomethacin, reversed the inhibition of TPA-induced chemiluminescence caused by DEN. These results suggest that AA and/or a lipoxygenase product can potentiate the reactive oxygen intermediates production by macrophages stimulated by TPA. The CO pathway could be involved in the inhibition by DEN of the reactive oxygen intermediates generating enzyme system. It is suggested that this inhibition could be related to AA metabolites issued from the CO pathway or to DEN oxygenated metabolites issued from the co-oxidation of the DEN by the PGs endoperoxide synthase. These results also raise the problem of macrophage dysfunction by chemical carcinogens and the implication of the CO pathway in this process.
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PMID:Possible implication of arachidonic acid metabolism in the decrease of chemiluminescence production after exposure of murine peritoneal macrophages to diethylnitrosamine and tumour promoter, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate. 190 Dec 51

Many lipids or lipid-derived products generated by phospholipases acting on phospholipids in membranes are implicated as mediators and second messengers in signal transduction. Our current understanding of the primary sequence relationships within the class of extracellular phospholipase A2's and among the numerous forms of the mammalian phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C's is reviewed. New results suggesting roles for these phospholipases as well as other phospholipases such as phospholipase C and D acting on phosphatidlycholine in generating arachidonic acid for eicosanoid biosynthesis, inositol phosphates for Ca2+ mobilization, and diglyceride for protein kinase C activation through receptor-mediated processes, are discussed. In addition, the possible role of phospholipases acting on sphingolipids such as sphinglomyelinase in generating lipid mediators is considered.
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PMID:Role of phospholipase in generating lipid second messengers in signal transduction. 190 Dec 88


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