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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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Although phospholipase C hydrolysis of polyphosphoinositides constitutes one of the major second messenger pathways in animal cells, its participation in signal transduction in higher plants has not been established. To determine whether activation of phosphatidylinositol-directed phospholipase C might be involved in signaling the elicitor-induced oxidative burst in plants, suspension-cultured soybean cells were treated with two stimulants of the H2O2 burst and examined for polyphosphoinositide turnover. Both polygalacturonic acid elicitor and the G protein activator, mastoparan, promoted a transient increase in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) content that exceeded basal IP3 levels (0.9 +/- 0.4 pmol of IP3/10(6) cells, n = 28) by 2.6- and 7-fold, respectively. In each case, intracellular IP3 content reached a maximum at 1 min post-stimulation and declined to near basal levels during the subsequent 5-10 min. Neomycin sulfate, an inhibitor of polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis, blocked the IP3 transient, and Mas-17, an inactive analogue of mastoparan, induced no change in IP3. Thin layer chromatography of lipid extracts of the soybean cells corroborated the above results by revealing a rapid decrease in phosphatidyl-inositol monophosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate following polygalacturonic acid elicitor and mastoparan (but not Mas-17) stimulation. Since the rise in IP3 preceded H2O2 production and since neomycin sulfate inhibited the appearance of both, we hypothesize that phospholipase C activation might constitute one pathway by which elicitors trigger the soybean oxidative burst.
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PMID:Phospholipase C activation during elicitation of the oxidative burst in cultured plant cells. 822 14

Mastoparan has been reported to induce a wide variety of cellular actions by activating GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) in various cells. Here, we demonstrate that mastoparan is able to stimulate the secretion of PRL from rat anterior pituitary tumor GH3 cells in dose- and time-dependent manners. Mastoparan had no effect on the accumulation of intracellular cAMP; however, it induced a rapid increase in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration in GH3 cells. Extracellular Ca2+ was required for mastoparan-induced PRL secretion, which was inhibited by nifedipine, an L-type Ca2+ channel blocker. Incubation of mastoparan with myo-[3H]inositol-labeled GH3 cells also resulted in the increased formation of inositol phosphates (InsPs) compared with control cells. Neomycin sulfate and U73122, both phospholipase C inhibitors, suppressed mastoparan-induced PRL secretion. Guanosine 5'-1beta-thioldiphosphate (GDPbetaS) encapsulated in GH3 cells by reversible electropermeabilization suppressed the response to mastoparan. However, pretreatment with pertussis toxin had no effect on the stimulation of PRL secretion by mastoparan, and both Mas7 (a highly active analogue of mastoparan) and Mas17 (an inactive analogue) enhanced the secretion of PRL to a similar level to that of mastoparan-induced GH3 cells. In contrast, the substance P-related peptide GPant-2A, a Gq antagonist, inhibited mastoparan-induced PRL release, whereas GPant-2, a G(i/o) antagonist, did not in electropermeabilized GH3 cells. Moreover, a specific G(q/11) antibody against the carboxyl terminus of the G(q/11) alpha-subunit blocked the stimulatory effect of mastoparan on secretion and mastoparan-stimulated InsPs production in digitonin-permeabilized GH3 cells. These results indicate that mastoparan induces the Ca2+-regulated secretion of PRL from GH3 cells by activating G(q/11) and the phospholipase C pathway.
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PMID:Mastoparan-stimulated prolactin secretion in rat pituitary GH3 cells involves activation of Gq/11 proteins. 911 92

The relationship between the accumulation in endogenous free salicylic acid (SA) induced by heat acclimation (37 degrees C) and the activity of PIP(2)-phospholipase C (PIP(2)-PLC; EC 3.1.4.3) in the plasma membrane fraction was investigated in pea (Pisum sativum L.) leaves. We focused our attention on the hypothesis that positive SA signals induced by heat acclimation may be relayed by PIP(2)-PLC. Heat acclimation induced an abrupt elevation of free SA preceding the activation of PLC toward PIP(2). Immunoblotting indicated a molecular mass with 66.5kDa PLC plays key role in the development of thermotolerance in pea leaves. In addition, some characterizations of PLC toward PIP(2) isolated from pea leaves with two-phase purification containing calcium concentration, pH and a protein concentration were also studied. Neomycin sulfate, a well-known PIP(2)-PLC inhibitor, was employed to access the involvement of PIP(2)-PLC in the acquisition of heat acclimation induced-thermotolerance. We were able to identify a PIP(2)-PLC, which was similar to a conventional PIP(2)-PLC in higher plants, from pea leaves suggesting that PIP(2)-PLC was involved in the signal pathway that leads to the acquisition of heat acclimation induced-thermotolerance. On the basis of these results, we conclude that the involvement of free SA may function as the upstream event in the stimulation of PIP(2)-PLC in response to heat acclimation treatment.
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PMID:Contributions of PIP(2)-specific-phospholipase C and free salicylic acid to heat acclimation-induced thermotolerance in pea leaves. 1645 54