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Using rat pancreatic acini, we have recently shown that apical endocytosis is inhibited at pH 6.0 and progressively activated as the pH is increased to 8.3. Endocytotic activity correlated with the release of GP2, a GPI-linked protein, from the apical plasma membrane. To determine whether the cleavage of GPI-anchored proteins from the membrane of rat acinar cells was responsible for activation of endocytosis, cells at pH 6.0 were incubated with PI-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC). PI-PLC treatment reversed the inhibition of endocytosis observed at pH 6.0. Reactivation of endocytosis correlated with PI-PLC-induced release of GP2 but not cleavage of phospholipids in cellular membranes. Furthermore, administration of diacylglycerol or phorbol esters had no effect on reactivation of endocytosis. PI-PLC did not alter intracellular pH or calcium levels. Two proteins were identified as GPI-linked proteins on the cell surface. One was GP2, whose release from the apical plasma membrane correlated with apical endocytosis of horseradish peroxidase (HRP). The other protein, identified by Western blotting using an antibody directed against a cryptic determinant exposed on GPI-linked proteins after cleavage with PI-PLC, has a molecular weight of 98000 in nonreducing SDS gels and 54000 in reducing SDS gels. By nondenaturing gel electrophoresis and staining with naphthylphosphate, this protein was found to be alkaline phosphatase. In contrast to GP2, alkaline phosphatase was not endogenously released at pH values of 7.4 or 8.3, conditions that activate endocytosis of HRP under physiological conditions. By electron microscopic evaluation, incubation of cells at pH 6.0 with PI-PLC led to induction of HRP uptake into vesicles at the apical pole of the cell, a reduction in apical plasma membranes, and a concomitant contraction of the acinar lumen space. Internalized HRP accumulated in the Golgi region of the cell. These results suggest that the cleavage of GPI-anchored proteins from the apical plasma membrane activates apical endocytosis.
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PMID:Cleavage of GPI-anchored proteins from the plasma membrane activates apical endocytosis in pancreatic acinar cells. 954 73

Under control incubation conditions, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) binds only a fraction of its receptors in rat-cultivated pituitary cells. Unmasking of the remaining receptors, which have been termed 'cryptic', requires drug- or peptide-induced protein kinase activation. Spontaneous masking however is not observed on pituitary cells sampled from castrated male rats, suggesting the presence of an intrinsic unmasking factor. Many endogenous factors could theoretically account for the effect. Here we attempted to identify the factor involved by taking advantage of their differential dependency upon second messengers and transduction cascades. Spontaneous unmasking of GnRH binding was found reversed by pertussis toxin (PTX), an inhibitor of alphai and alphao subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins, and by U73122, a phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor. In contrast, desensitization of protein kinase C (PKC) or inhibition of tyrosine kinase by herbimycin were ineffective. Among endogenous pituitary factors able to unmask GnRH receptors in pituitary cells from normal male rats, as EGF, NPY or opiate peptides, only the latter were found to correspond to this transduction profile. In an attempt to characterize the pharmacology of opiate effects, naloxone (10 microM), a poorly selective opiate antagonist, restored masking of GnRH binding in cells from castrates. Only the delta antagonist naltrindole (1 microM) was able to mimick the action of naloxone. Conversely, when tested on cells from intact animals, morphine (10 microM), as well as dslet (1 microM) and met-ENK (10 nM), preferential delta agonists, but not dago and beta-endorphin or U50488 H and dynorphin, respectively micro and kappa agonists, were able to suppress masking. Among opioid peptides endogenous to the pituitary, only met-ENK was able to unmask cryptic receptors, an effect antagonized by naltrindole. We conclude that an opiate delta receptor subtype is endogenously activated in the pituitary of castrated male rats to prevent masking of GnRH binding.
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PMID:Delta opiate receptors account for the castration-induced unmasking of gonadotropin-releasing hormone binding sites in the rat pituitary. 987 2


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