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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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Changes in the [Ca2+]i and/or activation of phospholipase C are thought to participate in the control by several growth factors of the mammalian cell proliferation. It has even been claimed that activation of the Ca(2+)-phosphatidylinositol cascade is sufficient to elicit cell proliferation [Jackson et al. (1988) Nature 335, 437-440; Julius et al. (1989) Science 244, 1057-1062]. In this work, we have evaluated the control of DNA synthesis by this cascade in a differentiated epithelial cell model: the dog thyrocyte in primary culture. We first observed that potent activators of the dog thyrocyte (2+)-phosphatidylinositol cascade such as carbachol or bradykinin failed to promote the onset of DNA synthesis in these cells. Moreover, carbachol inhibited the mitogenic effect of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and of epidermal growth factor (EGF). The mitogenic effect of EGF was also reduced by bradykinin. Nevertheless, carbachol enhanced the expression of the protooncogenes c-fos and c-myc mRNAs. The time course of this enhancement was identical to the time course for the induction of c-fos and c-myc mRNAs by phorbol esters or EGF. On the other hand, in most experiments, TSH and EGF were able to trigger the onset of dog thyrocyte DNA synthesis without affecting their intracellular free Ca2+ concentration [Ca2+]i, 45Ca2+ efflux, or inositol phosphate generation. In several experiments, TSH increased the dog thyrocyte 45Ca2+ release and promoted a rise in the [Ca2+]i or the inositol phosphate accumulation but these effects were weak. In contrast to the effect of carbachol, the TSH effects on the [Ca2+]i and the 45Ca2+ efflux appeared slowly, were sustained, and were extremely sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ depletion. They were observed at hormone concentrations higher than the concentration achieving maximal stimulation of DNA synthesis. Similarly, in a few experiments, a slight increase in the [Ca2+]i or in the inositol trisphosphate generation were provoked by EGF. However, these modifications were not associated with an increased mitogenic potency of EGF. Finally, in all experiments, fetal calf serum slightly accelerated the dog thyrocyte 45Ca2+ efflux and increased their inositol phosphate generation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Lack of correlation between the activation of the Ca(2+)-phosphatidylinositol cascade and the regulation of DNA synthesis in the dog thymocyte. 172 52

Cells expressing mutant epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptors have been used to study mechanisms through which EGF increases phospholipase C (PLC) activity. C-terminal truncation mutant EGF receptors are markedly impaired in their ability to increase inositol phosphate formation compared with wild-type EGF receptors. Mutation of the single tyrosine self-phosphorylation site at residue 992 to phenylalanine in an EGF receptor truncated at residue 1000 abolished the ability of EGF to increase inositol phosphate formation. C-terminal deletion mutant receptors that are impaired in their ability to increase inositol phosphate formation effectively phosphorylate PLC-gamma at the same tyrosine residues as do wild-type EGF receptors. EGF enhances PLC-gamma association with wild-type EGF receptors but not with mutant receptors lacking sites of tyrosine phosphorylation. These results indicate that formation of a complex between self-phosphorylated EGF receptors and PLC-gamma is necessary for enzyme activation in vivo. We propose that both binding of PLC-gamma to activated EGF receptors and tyrosine phosphorylation of the enzyme are necessary to elicit biological responses. Kinase-active EGF receptors lacking sites of tyrosine phosphorylation are unable to signal increased inositol phosphate formation and increases in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration.
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PMID:A site of tyrosine phosphorylation in the C terminus of the epidermal growth factor receptor is required to activate phospholipase C. 172 95

The present studies were carried out to investigate the effect of several growth factors on human endometrial stromal cells. In human endometrial stromal cells, bombesin and bradykinin provoked an increase in intracellular free Ca2+ and in labelled inositol phosphates when pre-incubated with [3H]myoinositol. Some or possibly all of the initial increase in intracellular free Ca2+ represented a mobilization of Ca2+ from intracellular stores and the second phase of the response depended on Ca2+ influx from the extracellular medium. [3H]Thymidine was added to human cultured endometrial stromal cells with bombesin, bradykinin, epidermal growth factor (EGF), prostaglandin F2 alpha, vasopressin and platelet-derived growth factor. Bombesin, bradykinin and EGF stimulated the incorporation of [3H]thymidine into DNA in quiescent cells. In conclusion, bombesin and bradykinin are growth factors which activate phospholipase C in human endometrial stromal cells, while EGF stimulates DNA synthesis without the activation of phospholipase C.
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PMID:Bombesin and bradykinin increase inositol phosphates and cytosolic free Ca2+, and stimulate DNA synthesis in human endometrial stromal cells. 174 75

The binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to its receptor induces tyrosine phosphorylation of phospholipase C gamma (PLC gamma), which appears to be necessary for its activation leading to phosphatidyl inositol (PI) hydrolysis. Moreover, EGF-receptor (EGF-R) activation and autophosphorylation results in binding of PLC gamma to the tyrosine phosphorylated carboxy-terminus of the receptor. To gain further insights into the mechanisms and interactions regulating these processes, we have analyzed transfected NIH-3T3 cells expressing two EGF-R carboxy-terminal deletion mutants (CD63 and CD126) with reduced capacity to stimulate PI hydrolysis, Ca2+ rises, and DNA synthesis. In fact, the CD126 mutant lacking 126 carboxy-terminal amino acids, including four tyrosine autophosphorylation sites, was unable to stimulate PI hydrolysis or Ca2+ rise in response to EGF. Surprisingly, EGF binding to the cell lines expressing CD63 or CD126 mutants was followed by similar stimulation of tyrosine phosphorylation of PLC gamma. Our results suggest that although necessary, tyrosine phosphorylation of PLC gamma may not be sufficient for stimulation and PI hydrolysis. It is clear, however, that the carboxy-terminal region of EGF-R is involved in regulation of interactions with cellular targets and therefore plays a crucial role in postreceptor signaling pathways.
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PMID:Carboxy-terminal truncations of epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor affect diverse EGF-induced cellular responses. 177 6

The interaction of growth factors with their receptors initiates a series of intracellular events that are of critical importance in the control of normal cell proliferation. In this regard considerable attention has focused on the coupling of phospholipase C-gamma to growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases. In contrast, the interaction of growth factors with phospholipase A2 has received less attention, most likely because the arachidonic acid release response has been considered to be an accompaniment of phospholipase C activation. Work from our laboratory using a well defined model system demonstrated a distinct coupling relationship of epidermal growth factor to phospholipase A2. This review focuses on the interaction of the epidermal growth factor receptor with phospholipases involved in both mitogenic and non-mitogenic responses and discusses their possible relation with vasoactive hormones.
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PMID:Interaction of epidermal growth factor with vasoactive hormones in the regulation of phospholipase A2. 179 92

The human T-cell line Jurkat was found to contain at least two immunologically distinct isoforms of inositol phospholipid-specific phospholipase C (PLC), PLC-beta 1 and PLC-gamma 1. Treatment of Jurkat cells with antibody to CD3 led to phosphorylation of PLC-gamma 1 but not of PLC-beta 1. The phosphorylation of PLC-gamma 1 occurred rapidly and transiently on both serine and tyrosine residues; tyrosine phosphorylation reached a maximum level less than 1 min after stimulation and decreased rapidly, both in the presence and in the absence of orthovanadate. Two-dimensional phosphopeptide map analysis revealed that the major sites of tyrosine and serine phosphorylation in PLC-gamma 1 from activated Jurkat cells are the same as those in PLC-gamma 1 from cells treated with peptide growth factors such as epidermal growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor. Previously, it has been shown that multiple phosphorylation of PLC-gamma 1 by the growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases leads to activation of PLC-gamma 1. Thus, the current data suggest that inositol phospholipid hydrolysis triggered by the T-cell antigen receptor-CD3 complex is due, at least in part, to activation of PLC-gamma 1 and that the mechanism by which this activation is achieved involves phosphorylation of multiple tyrosine residues on PLC-gamma 1 by a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase coupled to the T-cell antigen receptor-CD3 complex.
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PMID:CD3 stimulation causes phosphorylation of phospholipase C-gamma 1 on serine and tyrosine residues in a human T-cell line. 182 97

The phospholipase C-mediated hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine has been shown recently to be activated by a number of agonists. Muscarinic receptors, which trigger various signal transduction mechanisms including inhibition of adenylate cyclase through Gi, have been shown to be potent stimulants of this novel phospholipid degradative pathway. We demonstrate here, by exogenous addition of Bacillus cereus phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C, that phosphatidylcholine breakdown mimics the ability of carbachol to inhibit adenylate cyclase. This effect is sensitive to pertussis toxin and is entirely dependent on the presence of protein kinase C. This kinase is also required for the inhibition by carbachol of adenylate cyclase. These results suggest that the activation of phosphatidylcholine breakdown by phospholipase C may play an important role linking or favoring the coupling muscarinic receptors to Gi. Results presented here also show that phospholipase C-mediated hydrolysis of phosphoinositides by exogenous addition of Bacillus thuringiensis phosphoinositide-hydrolyzing phospholipase C does not affect adenylate cyclase, despite the fact that protein kinase C is translocated to an extent similar to that produced by the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine. According to the results shown here, both phospholipases also differ in their ability to down-regulate protein kinase C as well as to phosphorylate p80 and to transmodulate the binding of epidermal growth factor, two well established effects of protein kinase C in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts. This emphasizes the complexity, from a functional point of view, of protein kinase C activation "in vivo."
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PMID:Mechanism of inhibition of adenylate cyclase by phospholipase C-catalyzed hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine. Involvement of a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein and protein kinase C. 184 88

The effect of ethanol on receptor-mediated phospholipase C-linked signal transduction processes was investigated in isolated rat hepatocytes. Pretreatment of the cells with ethanol (6-300 mM) markedly inhibited a subsequent stimulation of phospholipase C by vasopressin, angiotensin II, or epidermal growth factor. By contrast, the effects of the alpha 1-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine and of glucagon were not affected by ethanol pretreatment. Ethanol inhibited the agonist-induced decrease in polyphosphoinositides, the formation of inositol phosphates, and the increase in cytosolic free Ca2+ levels, as detected with the intracellular Ca2+ indicator indo-1. The effects of ethanol were concentration dependent and were pronounced at low concentrations of agonists but were not significant at saturating levels. Pretreatment of the cells with the protein kinase C inhibitor H7 partly prevented the inhibition by ethanol of vasopressin-induced phospholipase C activation. By contrast, pretreatment of the cells with (Rp)-adenosine cyclic 3':5'-phosphorothioate [Rp)-cAMP-S), a competitive inhibitor of protein kinase A, potentiated the inhibitory effect of ethanol on the Ca2+ mobilization by vasopressin. (Rp)-cAMP-S similarly potentiated the inhibition of phospholipase C by the protein kinase C-activating phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). The kinase A inhibitor also made the Ca2+ mobilization by phenylephrine sensitive to ethanol, indicating that the formation of cAMP in the cells played a role in suppressing the sensitivity to ethanol. Pretreatment of the cells with ethanol enhanced the inhibitory effects of TPA on the vasopressin-induced phospholipase C activation at all concentrations of the hormone; however, these synergistic effects were prevented when TPA was added prior to ethanol, a condition that prevents the activation of phospholipase C by ethanol. The data indicate that ethanol causes desensitization of the receptor-mediated phospholipase C secondary to the ethanol-induced activation of phospholipase C and activation of protein kinase C. Ethanol treatment also affects the sensitivity of the phospholipase C system to control by protein kinases A and C. The data indicate that ethanol can affect the control of intracellular signal transduction processes in liver cells under physiologically relevant conditions.
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PMID:Ethanol causes desensitization of receptor-mediated phospholipase C activation in isolated hepatocytes. 184 16

Skin fibroblasts from newborn spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats were cultured to study their growth rate and their reactivity to various agonists in terms of mitogenic potency and inositol phosphate production. A marked enhancement of nuclear 3H-thymidine incorporation, occurring after stimulation of quiescent fibroblasts by fetal calf serum, correlated with the increased growth rate of these cells with regard to WKY ones. Insulin (1 microgram/ml) and epidermal growth factor (10 ng/ml) induced two and four times greater DNA synthesis in SHR fibroblasts compared to WKY cells, without activating the phospholipase C pathway. In contrast, angiotensin II, bradykinin, vasopressin which stimulated inositol phosphate production, and phorbol-12 myristate 13-acetate were unable to stimulate DNA synthesis. Higher levels of tritiated inositol phosphates were produced in SHR cells after serum, bradykinin and angiotensin II stimulation, but not in WKY cells after vasopressin. This enhanced mitogenic response of SHR skin fibroblasts is probably due to a genomic alteration and appears to be independent of the hyperactivation of the phospholipase C to some vasoactive agonists.
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PMID:Enhanced response to growth factors and to angiotensin II of spontaneously hypertensive rat skin fibroblasts in culture. 184 54

The effects of epidermal growth factor on Ca2+ signaling in A431 cells were investigated. Epidermal growth factor induced a transient Ca2+ signal in the absence of external Ca2+ and a sustained response in the presence of extracellular Ca2+, indicating an ability to mobilize intracellular Ca2+ as well as the ability to increase Ca2+ entry from the extracellular space. The Ca(2+)-ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin also activated Ca2+ entry, and neither epidermal growth factor nor the guanine nucleotide-dependent protein-linked receptor agonist bradykinin activated additional Ca2+ entry over that due to thapsigargin. In nominally Ca(2+)-free medium, the addition of bradykinin to A431 cells rapidly but transiently increased inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and, in parallel fashion, transiently increased cytosolic Ca2+. Unexpectedly, under these experimental conditions, epidermal growth factor elicited a small but significant Ca2+ signal after the addition of bradykinin. Experiments were designed to determine whether the Ca2+ response to epidermal growth factor after bradykinin results from mobilization of Ca2+ by an inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-independent mechanism. Epidermal growth factor stimulated additional inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate formation in bradykinin-treated cells. Furthermore, the Ca2+ signals elicited by both bradykinin and epidermal growth factor were blocked in cells microinjected with the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor antagonist heparin, whereas the intracellular Ca(2+)-ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin still mobilized Ca2+. Finally, histamine, a less efficacious guanine nucleotide-dependent protein-linked receptor agonist, as well as photolyzed, microinjected, caged inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate, also mobilized Ca2+ after bradykinin. The results of this study show (i) that epidermal growth factor activates intracellular Ca2+ release as well as Ca2+ entry, the latter most likely resulting from an indirect effect due to the depletion of intracellular Ca2+ pools, (ii) that the actions of epidermal growth factor on Ca2+ homeostasis can be fully accounted for by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate formation, and (iii) that the ability of A431 cells to produce Ca2+ signals when epidermal growth factor is applied after bradykinin can be explained by the rapid and complete desensitization of the bradykinin stimulated phospholipase C activity.
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PMID:Role of inositol (1,4,5)trisphosphate in epidermal growth factor-induced Ca2+ signaling in A431 cells. 187 11


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