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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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In [3H]inositol-labeled membranes prepared from Swiss mouse 3T3 and human small cell lung carcinoma cells, [Tyr4]-bombesin stimulated production of water-soluble inositol phosphates. The reaction was stimulated by guanosine 5'-O-[3-thiotriphosphate] and was specifically inhibited by both [Leu13-psi-CH2NHLeu14]-bombesin and the antibombesin antibody 2A11. [Tyr4]-bombesin-induced activation of phospholipase C is most apparent in Ca2(+)-depleted conditions (less than 1 microM[Ca2+]free). The kinetics of activation by ligand also demonstrate that [Tyr4]-bombesin-dependent phospholipase C activation is most apparent at [Mg2+]free of approximately 0.2 microM. At millimolar concentrations of [Mg2+]free, there is considerably less dependence on [Tyr4]-bombesin for activation of phospholipase C. ATP is not necessary for initial activation of phospholipase C, and beta, gamma-imidoadenosine-5'-triphosphate does not inhibit the reaction. These results demonstrate that in these cell types [Tyr4]-bombesin activates phospholipase C in conjunction with guanine nucleotides. Phospholipase C-coupled guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins would be appropriately considered as novel targets for the development of therapeutic strategies in small cell lung carcinoma.
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PMID:Effect of guanine and adenine nucleotides on bombesin-stimulated phospholipase C activity in membranes from Swiss 3T3 and small cell lung carcinoma cells. 216 51

Cholera toxin (CT) inhibited the in vitro growth of three of four human small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) cell lines with a 50% inhibitory concentration of 27-242 ng/ml. Loss of surface membrane ruffling and the capacity of [Tyr4]-bombesin, vasopressin, and fetal calf serum to stimulate increases in intracellular free calcium clearly preceded effects on cellular metabolic activity and cell growth. 125I-[Tyr4]-bombesin binding was unaffected by CT treatment but [Tyr4]-bombesin stimulated phospholipase C activity was decreased in membranes from CT-treated SCLC cells. CT stimulated a rapid but transient increase in intracellular cyclic AMP ([cAMP]i) in SCLC. The effects of CT on susceptible SCLC were not reproduced by elevations of [cAMP]i induced by forskolin or cyclic AMP analogues. GM1 ganglioside, the cellular binding site for CT, was highly expressed in the CT-sensitive but not the CT-resistant SCLC cell lines. In contrast, expression of guanine nucleotide binding protein substrates for ADP-ribosylation by CT was similar. These data demonstrate the existence of a CT-sensitive growth inhibitory pathway in SCLC-bearing GM1 ganglioside. Addition of CT results in decreased responsiveness to several mitogenic stimuli. These results suggest novel therapeutic approaches to human SCLC.
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PMID:Cholera toxin inhibits signal transduction by several mitogens and the in vitro growth of human small-cell lung cancer. 217 11

The human small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) cell line NCI-H345 constitutively produces gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP), a peptide homologous to the mitogen bombesin. In addition, NCI-H345 cells express bombesin receptors and respond to bombesin with rapid activation of phospholipase C and mobilization of intracellular Ca2+. Treatment of NCI-H345 cells with a novel potent bombesin receptor antagonist [Leu13-psi-CH2NH-Leu14]bombesin blocked the increase in phosphatidylinositol turnover and cytoplasmic free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) stimulated by bombesin. Furthermore [Leu13-psi-CH2NH-Leu14]bombesin inhibited NCI-H345 colony formation in defined semisolid medium in the absence of exogenous GRP. The rapid, hormone-induced accumulation of inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate was markedly more sensitive to antagonist inhibition than the hormone-induced Ca2+ transient, the sustained accumulation of inositol monophosphates, or colony formation in soft agarose. These data demonstrated inhibition of transmembrane signals associated with autocrine growth control in SCLC by a novel peptide receptor antagonist.
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PMID:A novel bombesin receptor antagonist inhibits autocrine signals in a small cell lung carcinoma cell line. 284 33

The potent tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) enhanced the adherence of low-metastatic Lewis lung carcinoma cells (P-29) to the surface of plastic culture dishes and to monolayers of endothelial cells. This effect was transient, being apparent within 15 min and maximal within 1 h after treatment with TPA. Biologically active analogues of TPA and mezerein also enhanced attachment of P-29 cells, whereas inactive analogues of TPA did not. TPA-treated P-29 cells formed many more pulmonary nodules than did untreated P-29 cells when injected i.v. into C57BL/6 mice. The kinetics of enhancement of attachment of P-29 cells after TPA treatment coincided well with that of enhancement of their lung-colonizing ability. Addition of TPA to P-29 cells stimulated phosphorylation of a cellular protein with a molecular weight of 54,000. The possibility that this phosphorylation was related to activation of Ca2+ phospholipid-dependent protein kinase was suggested by the fact that phospholipid breakdown induced by exogenous treatment of the cells with Clostridium perfringens phospholipase C and 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol also enhanced Mr 54,000 cellular protein phosphorylation. However, neither phospholipase C nor 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol enhanced attachment of P-29 cells or their lung-colonizing ability.
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PMID:Effects of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate on adhesiveness and lung-colonizing ability of Lewis lung carcinoma cells. 394 Feb 3

Since a considerably high incidence of allelic loss on chromosome 2q was detected in lung carcinoma and a homozygous deletion at chromosome 2q33 was detected in a small cell lung carcinoma cell line, NCI-H82, a novel tumor suppressor gene has been suggested to be present in this chromosomal region. In the present study, we constructed a cosmid contig map covering the homozygous deleted region, which was estimated as being 220 kbp in size, and identified a gene from the deleted region. All of the coding exons of this gene were homozygously deleted in this cell line, while a 5'-non-coding exons was retained. Since the gene encodes a protein with striking similarity to several members of a family of phospholipase C, we designated this gene as PLC-L (phospholipase C-deleted in lung carcinoma). The PLC-L gene was expressed in a variety of fetal and adult organs including the lung. However, its expression was greatly reduced in seven of 13 (53.8%) of small cell lung carcinoma and 13 of 15 (86.7%) of non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines. Since its homology to phospholipase C genes suggests the involvement of the PLC-L gene in inositol phospholipid-based intracellular signaling cascade, it is possible that aberrant expression of the PLC-L gene contributes to the genesis or progression of human lung carcinoma.
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PMID:Identification of a novel phospholipase C family gene at chromosome 2q33 that is homozygously deleted in human small cell lung carcinoma. 763 16

Until recently, the signal transduction pathways involved in the processes of tumor growth have been poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated cell surface receptors which utilize phosphatidylinositol (Pl) turnover/Ca2+ mobilization as a signal transduction pathway to regulate cell growth in a metastatic human lung carcinoma cell line, PG. We found that purinoceptor agonists, including ATP and its analogs, and bombesin, an amphibian tetradeca-peptide of mammalian homology gastrin-releasing peptide, induced rapid transient increase of cytoplasmic-free Ca2+ in PG cells loaded with fura-2. The Ca2+ responses were derived both from release from internal stores and the opening of plasma membrane Ca2+ channels. HPLC analysis of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P3) and its isomers showed a receptor-linked phospholipase C activation by ATP and bombesin. Although ATP and bombesin were both able to induce Pl turnover and Ca2+ mobilization in PG cells, they had differential growth regulatory effects on PG cells. Treatment with bombesin stimulated PG cell growth while treatment with ATP inhibited significantly PG cell growth. Pharmacological studies showed that the purinoceptors on PG cells were of the P2 subtype. Other hydrolysis-resistant P2 purinoceptor agonists, including ATP gamma S and AMP-PNP, were as effective as ATP in stimulating Pl turnover and Ca2+ mobilization as well as in inhibiting PG cell growth in vitro, suggesting the potential usefulness of such ATP analogs in clinical trials. Preliminary results suggest G protein involvement in the differential regulation of ATP and bombesin signal transduction pathways.
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PMID:Differential growth regulation of a metastatic human lung carcinoma cell line through activation of phosphatidyl inositol turnover signal transduction pathway. 831 79

Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) accounts for 20-25% of primary lung cancers and is rapidly growing, widely metastatic, and rarely curable. Autocrine stimulation of multiple G protein-coupled neuropeptide receptor systems contributes to the transformed growth of SCLC. The ability of neuropeptide receptors to stimulate phospholipase C and mobilize intracellular Ca2+ indicates that Gq family members of heterotrimeric G proteins are a convergence point mediating autocrine signaling by multiple neuropeptides in SCLC. Expression of a GTPase-deficient, constitutive active form of an alpha q family member, alpha 16Q212L, in SCLC markedly inhibited growth of the cells in soft agar and tumor formation in nude mice. SCLC lines expressing alpha 16Q212L exhibited 2-4-fold elevated basal phospholipase C activity, but neuropeptide and hormone-regulated intracellular Ca2+ mobilization was nearly abolished. The data suggest that Ca2+ mobilization is an obligatory signal in neuropeptide-stimulated growth of SCLC. In addition, the proline-directed c-Jun NH2-terminal kinases/stress-activated protein kinases, which are members of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family, were stimulated approximately 2-fold in parental SCLC in response to exogenous neuropeptides and muscarinic agonists and were constitutively activated to the same degree in alpha 16Q212L-expressing SCLC. Thus, alpha 16Q212L expression induced desensitizaton of neuropeptide-stimulated Ca2+ signaling and persistent activation of the c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase/stress-activated protein kinase pathway. We propose that the induction of discordant signaling by selective perturbation of receptor-regulated effector systems leads to the inhibition of SCLC cell growth.
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PMID:Discordant signal transduction and growth inhibition of small cell lung carcinomas induced by expression of GTPase-deficient G alpha 16. 855 May 85

Mammalian bombesin-like peptides gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) and neuromedin B (NMB) are regulatory neuropeptides involved in numerous physiologic processes, and have been implicated as autocrine and/or paracrine growth factors in human lung carcinoma. Three structurally and pharmacologically distinct bombesin receptor subtypes have been isolated and characterized: the gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRP-R), the neuromedin B receptor (NMB-R), and bombesin receptor subtype-3 (BRS-3). The three receptors are structurally related, sharing about 50% amino acid identity. They are members of the G-protein coupled receptor superfamily with a seven predicted transmembrane segment topology characteristic of receptors in this family. The signal transduction pathway for GRP-R and NMB-R involves coupling to a pertussis-toxin insensitive G-protein, activation of phospholipase C (PLC), generation of inositol trisphosphate (IP3), release of intracellular calcium, and activation of protein kinase C. While all three bombesin receptors are activated by bombesin agonists, GRP-R, NMB-R, and BRS-3 have very different affinities for the mammalian bombesin-like peptides GRP and NMB, as well as bombesin receptor antagonists. The three bombesin receptor subtypes are expressed in an overlapping subset of human lung carcinoma cell lines. Any therapeutic strategy based on modulation of bombesin growth responses in human lung carcinoma would be well served to take into account the pharmacologic heterogeneity of the relevant receptors.
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PMID:Bombesin receptor structure and expression in human lung carcinoma cell lines. 880 6

P-selectin (CD62P) is a Ca2+-dependent endogenous lectin that can be expressed by vascular endothelium and platelets. The major ligand for P-selectin on leukocytes is P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1). P-selectin can also bind to carcinoma cells, but the nature of the ligand(s) on these cells is unknown. Here we investigated the P-selectin binding to a breast and a small cell lung carcinoma cell line that are negative for PSGL-1. We report that CD24, a mucin-type glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked cell surface molecule on human neutrophils, pre B lymphocytes, and many tumors can promote binding to P-selectin. Latex beads coated with purified CD24 from the two carcinoma cell lines but also neutrophils could bind specifically to P-selectin-IgG. The binding was dependent on divalent cations and was abolished by treatment with O-sialoglycoprotein endopeptidase but not endoglycosidase F or sialidase. The beads were stained with a monoclonal antibody (MoAb) to CD57 (HNK-1 carbohydrate epitope) but did not react with MoAbs against the sialylLe(x/a) epitope. The carcinoma cells and CD24-beads derived from these cells could bind to activated platelets or P-selectin transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells (P-CHO) in a P-selectin-dependent manner and this binding was blocked by soluble CD24. Transfection of human adenocarcinoma cells with CD24 enhanced the P-selectin-dependent binding to activated platelets. Treatment of the carcinoma cells or the CD24 transfectant with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C reduced CD24 expression and P-selectin-IgG binding concomitantly. These results establish a role of CD24 as a novel ligand for P-selectin on tumor cells. The CD24/P-selectin binding pathway could be important in the dissimination of tumor cells by facilitating the interaction with platelets or endothelial cells.
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PMID:CD24, a mucin-type glycoprotein, is a ligand for P-selectin on human tumor cells. 912 46

Vasopressin and other neuropeptides are believed to serve as autocrine growth factors for small-cell carcinoma of the lung (SCCL), and these mitogenic influences are reported to involve increases in intracellular Ca2+. Of the classical and variant forms of SCCL, the latter is not only more drug-resistant but also refractory to vasopressin, and other peptides, with respect to changes in intracellular Ca2+. It is currently unclear if this refractiveness of variant SCCL is due to the absence of involved peptide receptors, to the production of abnormal receptors, or to abnormalities in components of induced transduction cascades. In this study, the presence of structurally-normal and functional vasopressin V1a receptors, was examined in a classical SCCL cell line (NCI H345) that is Ca(2+)-responsive to vasopressin, and a variant SCCL cell line (NCI H82) that is unresponsive in this regard to the peptide. Both cell lines were shown to express an mRNA of 1.9 Kb for the vasopressin V1a receptor. RT-PCR, cloning, and DNA sequencing revealed the structure of the mRNA was identical for both cell lines, and, in turn, identical to the mRNA expressed for this receptor by human liver cells. In both cell lines and liver, this mRNA was shown by Western analysis and RIA to generate major protein products of approximately 70,000 and 43,000 daltons. Vasopressin action on NCI H82 cells resulted in a substantial rise in the levels of total inositol phosphates. However, it was reaffirmed that these changes in inositol phosphates were not accompanied by a rise in Ca2+ levels. All of these data indicate that variant SCCL, as well as classical SCCL, expresses structurally-normal and functional vasopressin V1a receptors, but their activation in variant SCCL raises IP3 levels without a corresponding rise in intracellular Ca2+. This difference between the two SCCL sub-types therefore involves either steps in the inositol triphosphate cascade beyond the activation of phospholipase C, or alternatively, components of other transduction events that might be involved with changes in intracellular Ca2+.
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PMID:Functional vasopressin V1 type receptors are present in variant as well as classical forms of small-cell carcinoma. 935 56


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