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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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Recent evidence suggests that insulin induces hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol-glycan (PI-G) and releases inositol-glycan (IG) and diacylglycerol (DAG). These two mediators are speculated to mediate different insulin actions. In this study, we examined metabolic labeling of PI-G in BC3H-1 myocytes with known precursors of PI-G. PI-G was metabolically labeled with [3H]myo-inositol, [3H]glucosamine, [3H]galactose, [3H]glycerol, and [3H]myristic acid. The treatment of 3H-labeled PI-G with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C liberated [3H]myo-inositol, [3H]glucosamine, or [3H]galactosamine-labeled IgGs, and [3H]glycerol or [3H]myristic acid-labeled DAG. In BC3H-1 myocytes, insulin induced phosphodiesteratic hydrolysis of PI-G and stimulated generation of IGs and DAG. Released IGs were labeled with [3H]myo-inositol, [3H]glucosamine, and [3H]galactose. Released DAG was labeled with [3H] glycerol and [3H]myristic acid. The IG had a dose-dependent insulin-like activity on glucose oxidation and lipogenesis without affecting glucose transport in rat adipocytes. Insulin increased 3H radioactivities of IG and insulin-mimicking activities of IG. These results provided further evidence that hydrolysis of PI-G and generation of IGs and DAG might be early steps in some insulin actions.
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PMID:Insulin stimulates the generation of two putative insulin mediators, inositol-glycan and diacylglycerol in BC3H-1 myocytes. 202 33

Hemopoietic cells have an absolute requirement for survival and proliferation for specific growth factors. The growth factors maintain the critical vitality of the cells by stimulating adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis and hexose transport. Intracellular alkalinization also occurs rapidly through the stimulation of the Na+/H+ antiporter. These immediate metabolic events, not initiated by serum components, appear to be necessary for the integrity of cellular viability (Fig. 6). Interleukin-3 has been shown to induce the activation of PK-C through a mechanism(s) not requiring the hydrolysis of phosphoinositol 4,5 bisphosphate. A role for Ca2+ influx or intracellular release in the action of CSFs or interleukins has not been shown. Although downregulation of cAMP has been reported in response to IL-2, the signal transduction process of CSFs and IL-2 appears not to be mediated by upregulation of cyclic nucleotide metabolism or "classical" phospholipid degradative pathways. Protein phosphorylation is clearly modulated by the hemopoietic cytokines, yet only the CSF-1 receptor has any known intrinsic kinase activity. Instead, the IL-3, GM-CSF receptors, and perhaps G-CSF appear to be coupling to kinases of both tyrosine and serine specificities. This may be a direct allosteric interaction with membrane-associated kinases or transduced through an intermediate protein such as those using GTP. Such is the case for many hormone receptors that couple to amplifying "second messenger" enzyme systems (i.e., adenylate cyclase, phospholipase C) or members of the insulin growth factor family that couple to tyrosine kinases in proximity to the receptors (IGF-II). One of the kinase systems that IL-2, IL-3, and other CSFs stimulate appears to have some characteristics similar to PK-C. Direct activators of PK-C stimulate some similar serine-threonine phosphorylation and perhaps even tyrosine phosphorylation. The hemopoietic growth factors, however, stimulate tyrosine phosphorylation of some proteins that are not phosphorylated in response to PK-C activators, suggesting that these kinase systems are independently regulated. Although phorbol esters stimulate many of the same metabolic activities (ATP synthesis in myeloid and lymphoid cell lines), growth-factor abrogation is clearly associated with the action of tyrosine kinase oncogenes or the nuclear oncogene effectors such as v-myc. It is likely, therefore, that tyrosine kinases are playing a critical role in the control of proliferation although the dominant amount of cellular protein phosphorylations are on serine. Both classes of kinases are apparently required for growth-factor action. All the hemopoietic growth factors examined thus far stimulate the steady-state accumulation of the nuclear protooncogenes.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Hematopoietic growth-factor signal transduction and regulation of gene expression. 209 Feb 58

The influence of Ca2+ on the activity of the taurine transport system was investigated in rabbit small intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles. Preincubation of the brush-border membrane vesicles with Ca2+ prepared by the Mg2(+)-aggregation method markedly decreased the NaCl gradient-dependent uptake of taurine in these vesicles. Uptake of glucose and alanine, both dependent on a Na+ gradient, were also decreased by Ca2(+)-treatment, but their reduction was very small compared with that of taurine uptake. The inhibitory effect of Ca2+ was dose- and time-dependent. The inhibition was reduced by the presence of ethylene glycol-bis(beta-amino ethyl ether)-N,N,N'-N'-tetraacetic acid during treatment of the membrane vesicles with Ca2+. Neomycin partially protected the taurine transporter activity from the Ca2(+)-induced inhibition, but indomethacin did not. 5-Nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoate, a Cl(-)-channel blocker, did not increase taurine uptake in the Ca2(+)-treated membrane vesicles. It is concluded that the Ca2(+)-induced inhibition of taurine uptake in rabbit intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles is not due to accelerated dissipation of the ion gradient driving forces across the membrane but rather to a direct effect on the transporter, most likely mediated by the activation of the membrane-bound phospholipase C.
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PMID:Calcium-induced inhibition of taurine transport in brush-border membrane vesicles from rabbit small intestine. 212 7

Recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (rh TNF) when administered intravenously together with the phospholipase C inhibitor tricyclodecan-9-yl-xanthogenate (D609) and lauric acid (C12), leads to the partial regression of various human tumor transplants in athymic mice. Extensive necrosis occurred after a single intravenous infusion, with no detectable side effects. TNF-mediated cytotoxicity was found to be correlated with the depletion of energy in HeLa cells. The activity of rh TNF was enhanced by the absence of glucose, while it was reduced by addition of extraneous ATP. In the presence of rh TNF, D609, and C12, cellular energy metabolism was almost completely switched to glycolysis. Under these conditions the cytocidal activity of rh TNF on HeLa cells was amplified at least 60-fold.
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PMID:Tumor necrosis factor induces necrosis of human carcinoma xenografts in the presence of tricyclodecan-9-yl-xanthogenate and lauric acid. 214 Oct 5

We studied the effects of exogenous, purified phospholipase C (PLC) on neutrophil oxidative metabolism, lysosomal enzyme release and aggregation. We found that PLC inhibited O2- and H2O2 generation and oxygen consumption, but did not alter glucose oxidation via the hexose monophosphate shunt. In contrast, we found a striking stimulation of aggregation and release of the lysosomal enzymes lysozyme and beta-glucuronidase. In experiments designed to further characterize the mechanism of the PLC effect on membrane activation we studied the effect of PLC on intracellular calcium concentration [Ca2+]i and found that PLC did not interfere with the fMLP-mediated rise in [Ca2+]i, suggesting that its inhibitory effect on the respiratory burst does not involve inhibition of early signal transduction events. In addition, we found that PLC alone results in mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ stores, consistent with its stimulatory effect on aggregation and lysosomal enzyme release.
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PMID:Inhibition of polymorphonuclear leukocyte oxidative metabolism by exogenous phospholipase C. 216 37

In this study an insulin-sensitive glycophospholipid from rat adipocytes was isolated and partially characterized. A material that activated pyruvate dehydrogenase was extracted from rat adipocyte membrane supernatants. Its release was stimulated by insulin and phosphatidylinositol-specific-phospholipase C and its activity was destroyed by nitrous acid deamination. These findings suggested that insulin might stimulate breakdown of a glycophospholipid containing inositol and glucosamine, as previously reported for some other cell types [Low & Saltiel (1988) Science 239, 268-275]. A lipid that incorporated [3H]glucosamine, [3H]galactose, [3H]inositol, and [3H]myristate and whose turnover was stimulated by insulin was subsequently isolated from intact adipocytes by sequential t.l.c. using an acidic solvent system followed by a basic solvent system. The effects of insulin on turnover of the lipid in these cells were transient, with maximal effects at 1 min, and there was a typical concentration-response curve to insulin (0.07 nM-7 nM), with effects being detected over the physiological range of insulin concentrations. In contrast with studies in other cells, there was appreciable turnover of the sugar labels. The majority of the [3H]glucosamine and [3H]galactose labels were cycled through to triacylglycerol in the adipocyte. However, of that recovered in the glycophospholipid band, a major proportion (less than 40%) was recovered as the native label. Digestion of the purified molecule with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C generated a material that activated both pyruvate dehydrogenase and low-Km cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase. Impairment in insulin-stimulated breakdown of the molecule in adipocytes of streptozotocin-diabetic rats was found, consistent with the impaired insulin activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase and glucose utilization seen in this model. These findings suggest that insulin stimulates breakdown of this glycophospholipid by stimulating an insulin-sensitive phospholipase in adipocytes. This compound may serve a function as a precursor for intracellular insulin mediators.
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PMID:Isolation of insulin-sensitive phosphatidylinositol-glycan from rat adipocytes. Its impaired breakdown in the streptozotocin-diabetic rat. 217 62

This study investigated the extent to which a purified phosphatidylinositol-specific and a commercial non-specific phospholipase C mimicked acute insulin action in rat adipocytes. The enzymes mimicked insulin stimulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and breakdown of a glycophospholipid proposed as a precursor for an intracellular mediator of insulin action, but were much less effective in stimulating glucose transport and utilization. These observations corroborate recent suggestions that insulin may activate a phospholipase C to generate a mediator that can account for insulin activation of PDH from a mediator precursor with a phosphatidylinositol anchor. This mediator precursor is probably an outer membrane component since effects were obtained with intact cells. It is unlikely that this mechanism accounts fully for insulin action since phosphatidylinositol-specific and commercial phospholipase C stimulation of glucose transport was significantly less than that elicited by insulin.
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PMID:Phospholipase C mimics insulin action on pyruvate dehydrogenase and insulin mediator generation but not glucose transport or utilization. 217 4

The evidence for the involvement of protein kinase C (PKC) in insulin secretion stimulated by glucose and Ca2(+)-mobilizing receptor agonists has been reviewed. Results of phorbol ester binding to intact cells and the measurements of the proportion of PKC associated with the membrane after cell fractionation are presented. Glucose stimulation leads to increased phorbol ester binding without causing membrane insertion of the enzyme which, however, occurs with receptor agonists. It is suggested that the rise in cytosolic Ca2+ in response to glucose favours the apposition of PKC to the membrane whereas intercalation of the enzyme requires phospholipase C-mediated generation of diacylglycerol. It is possible that this effect of glucose on PKC, although not involved in the initiation of secretion, could explain the potentiation of insulin release observed in the presence of the receptor agonists.
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PMID:Protein kinase C in insulin releasing cells. Putative role in stimulus secretion coupling. 220 Jul 18

The hamster islet B cell line HIT retains the ability to secret insulin in response to glucose and several receptor agonists. We used HIT cells to study the initial signaling events in glucose or receptor agonist-stimulated insulin secretion. Glucose stimulated insulin release from HIT cells in a dose-dependent manner with a half-maximal effect seen already at 1 mM. Insulin release was also stimulated by carbachol in a glucose-dependent manner. Glucose depolarized the HIT cell membrane potential as assessed with the fluorescent probe bisoxonol and raised intracellular Ca2+ as revealed by fura-2 measurements. Using a Mn2+ fura-2 quenching technique, we could show that the rise in intracellular Ca2+ was due to Ca2+ influx following opening of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. Glucose is thought to increase the diacylglycerol (DAG) content of insulin-secreting cells. However, although HIT cells respond to glucose in terms of insulin secretion, membrane depolarization, and Ca2+ rise, the hexose was unable to increase the proportion of protein kinase C activity associated with membranes. In contrast, the membrane-associated protein kinase C activity increased in HIT cells exposed to the two receptor agonists carbachol and bombesin. Bombesin was shown to generate DAG with the expected fatty acid composition of activators of phospholipase C. Glucose, in contrast, only caused minor increases in DAG containing myristic and palmitic acid without affecting total DAG mass. The failure to detect stimulation of protein kinase C by glucose could be due to both the limited amount and to the different fatty acid composition of the metabolically generated DAG. The latter was in part supported by experiments performed on protein kinase C partially purified from HIT cells. Indeed, 1,2-dipalmitoylglycerol, presumed to be the main DAG species generated by glucose, was only one-third as active as 1,2-dioleoylglycerol and 1-stearoyl-2-arachidonylglycerol in stimulating the isolated enzyme at physiological Ca2+ concentration. It is therefore unlikely that DAG and protein kinase C play a major role in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.
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PMID:Stimulus-response coupling in insulin-secreting HIT cells. Effects of secretagogues on cytosolic Ca2+, diacylglycerol, and protein kinase C activity. 220 66

Insulin was found to provoke rapid increases in diacylglycerol (DAG) content and [3H]glycerol incorporation into DAG and other lipids during incubations of rat hemidiaphragms and soleus muscles. Insulin also rapidly increased phosphatidic acid and total glycerolipid labeling by [3H]glycerol, suggesting that insulin increases DAG production at least partly through stimulation of the de novo pathway. Increased DAG production may activate protein kinase C (PKC) as reported previously in the rat diaphragm. We also observed apparent insulin-induced translocation of PKC from cytosol to membrane in the rat soleus muscle. The importance of insulin-induced increases in DAG-PKC signaling in the stimulation of glucose transport in rat diaphragm and soleus muscles was suggested by 1) PKC activators phorbol esters and phospholipase C stimulation of [3H]-2-deoxyglucose (DOG) uptake and 2) PKC inhibitors staurosporine and polymixin B inhibition of insulin effects on [3H]-2-DOG uptake. Although phorbol ester was much less effective than insulin in the diaphragm, phospholipase C provoked increases in [3H]-2-DOG uptake that equaled or exceeded those of insulin. In the soleus muscle, phorbol ester, like phospholipase C, was only slightly but not significantly less effective than insulin. Similar variability in effectiveness of phorbol ester has also been noted previously in rat adipocytes (weak) and BC3H1 myocytes (strong), whereas DAG, added exogenously or generated by phospholipase C treatment, stimulates glucose transport to a degree that is quantitatively more comparable to that of insulin in each of the four tissues. Differences in effectiveness of phorbol ester and DAG could not be readily explained by postulating that the latter acts independently of PKC, because DAG provoked the apparent translocation of the enzyme from cytosol to membranes in rat adipocytes, and effects of DAG on [3H]-2-DOG uptake were blocked by inhibitors of PKC in both rat adipocytes and BC3H1 myocytes. Collectively, our findings provide further support for the hypothesis that insulin increases DAG production and PKC activity, and these processes are important in the stimulation of glucose transport in rat skeletal muscle and other tissues.
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PMID:Effects of insulin on diacylglycerol-protein kinase C signaling in rat diaphragm and soleus muscles and relationship to glucose transport. 222 25


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