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Previous studies have indicated that
ornithine decarboxylase
(
ODC
) may be involved in the stimulation of Na+/K(+)-
ATPase
activity by arginine vasopressin (AVP) in the rat renal medullary thick ascending limb of Henle's loop. The present study was aimed at establishing the role of the polyamines, the conversion products of
ODC
activity, in the stimulation of Na+/K(+)-
ATPase
by AVP. Using cytochemical methods, we have demonstrated an increase in Na+/K(+)-
ATPase
activity after stimulation with putrescine, spermidine and spermine (each 1 mmol/l) for 2.5, 2 and 1.5 min respectively. The specific inhibitors of spermidine and spermine synthase, bis-cyclohexylammonium sulphate and N-alkylated-1,3-diaminopropane respectively, inhibited the stimulation of Na+/K(+)-
ATPase
by AVP, this inhibition being reversed by spermine. These findings suggest that polyamines are involved in the stimulus-response coupling of the hormone-mediated response.
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PMID:Stimulation of Na+/K(+)-ATPase activity by polyamines in the rat renal medullary cells of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop. 217 62
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) stimulates Na+ K+
ATPase
and
ornithine decarboxylase
(
ODC
) activity in the rat medullary thick ascending limb. The effect of difluoromethyl ornithine (DFMO), a specific inhibitor of
ODC
activity, on AVP-stimulated Na+ K+
ATPase
activity was evaluated using a cytochemical bioassay. Peaks in Na+ K+
ATPase
activity in cultured rat renal segments which occurred after tissue had been exposed to 1 fmol AVP/l were completely inhibited by the addition of 20 mmol DFMO/l to the culture medium containing AVP. The addition of 20 mmol DFMO/l to the culture medium containing AVP in the concentration range 0.001-10 fmol/l inhibited completely the stimulation of Na+ K+
ATPase
activity by AVP. The response of Na+ K+
ATPase
to increasing doses of ATP (10-40 g polypeptide/l) was not influenced by the addition of 20 mmol DFMO/l to the culture medium containing AVP, suggesting that the prevention of AVP-stimulated Na+ K+
ATPase
activity by DFMO was not due to a direct effect on the enzyme.
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PMID:Inhibition of arginine vasopressin-stimulated Na+ K+ ATPase activity by difluoromethyl ornithine in the rat renal medulla. 254 10
Cyanogen bromide-cleaved epidermal growth factor (CNBr-EGF) binds to EGF receptors with reduced affinity compared to the native hormone but fails to induce DNA synthesis. However, at similar receptor occupancy, CNBr-EGF is as potent as EGF in activating early cell responses to the hormone. The phosphorylation of membrane proteins, the stimulation of Na+-K+-
ATPase
as reflected by the ouabain-sensitive uptake of 86Rb of fibroblasts, changes in the organization of microfilaments and in cell-morphology, and the activation of the enzyme ornithine-decarboxylase are all induced by CNBr-EGF as well as EGF Our results are consistent with the notion that EGF-induced phosphorylation could act as a "second messenger" for the action of various EGF-induced responses such as activation of Na+-K+-
ATPase
, changes in the cytoskeleton and cell morphology, and the activation of the enzyme
ornithine decarboxylase
. However, the stimulation of phosphorylation of membrane proteins and other early responses are either not required or necessary but insufficient for the induction of DNA synthesis. Suboptimal concentrations of EGF together with CNBr-EGF stimulate DNA synthesis in human fibroblasts. Other growth factors such as insulin, fibroblast growth factor, and prostaglandin F2 alpha, which potentiate the mitogenic response of EGF, do not effect the response to CNBr-EGF. This suggests that the restoration of the mitogenic properties of CNBr-EGF by suboptimal doses of EGF occurs at the level of EGF receptors or during their processing.
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PMID:A nonmitogenic analogue of epidermal growth factor induces early responses mediated by epidermal growth factor. 628 91
In one experiment Swiss mice were maintained on a 16 or 23% fat diet (laboratory chow with added fat, principally corn oil) or on laboratory chow alone (5.5% fat). In another experiment C57BL/1 mice were given a 23% fat diet (as above) or a low-fat diet (67% laboratory chow, 1.9% corn oil, and 31% starch; 5.5% fat). Colon mucosal samples were analyzed for several enzyme activities. In Swiss mice the analyses revealed the following: 1) Ouabain-insensitive
ATPase
was unaltered in male mice, but it rose significantly in females fed a high-fat diet (this effect was seen when a resuspended high-speed pellet was analyzed but not seen with the initial homogenate); 2) 5'-nucleotidase activity showed a significant stepwise increase with dietary fat; 3) nonspecific esterase activity tended to rise with a high-fat diet (not significant); 4) beta-glucuronidase levels were not altered by diet fat; and 5)
ornithine decarboxylase
levels were not altered by diet fat. In C57BL/1 mice analyses were done on ouabain-insensitive
ATPase
, 5'-nucleotidase, nonspecific esterase, and beta-glucuronidase, but no diet effects were seen. Fecal reductase activity was measured with the use of 2-(p-iodophenyl)-3-(p-nitrophenyl)-5-phenyltetrazolium chloride hydrate). A high-fat diet did not affect the activity in C57BL/1 mice, but it caused a significant rise in Swiss mice.
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PMID:High-fat diets and fecal level of reductase and colon mucosal level of ornithine decarboxylase, beta-glucuronidase, 5'-nucleotidase, ATPase, and esterase in mice. 632 44
Na(+)-K(+)-
adenosinetriphosphatase
(
ATPase
) plays a key role in the absorption of electrolytes, water, and nutrients from the small intestine. The expression of Na(+)-K(+)-
ATPase
was examined in isolated enterocytes during the course of the ileal inflammatory response elicited by intraluminal administration of 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid. The ileal inflammatory response was characterized by a marked cellular infiltrate, villous atrophy, and crypt hyperplasia along with fibrosis and smooth muscle hypertrophy. Peak levels of myeloperoxidase were observed at day 7, and ileal mucosal injury was paralleled by increases in ileal mucosal permeability. Ileal enterocytes were harvested from days 3 to 30 after the induction of ileitis. Decreases in Na(+)-K(+)-
ATPase
functional activity were observed from days 3 to 21 and were accompanied by corresponding decreases in Na(+)-K(+)-
ATPase
pump abundance, alpha 1- and beta 1-protein expression, and mRNA abundance, whereas Na(+)-K(+)-
ATPase
turnover, Michaelis-Menten constant values, and inhibition constant values for Na+ and ouabain, respectively, were unaltered. Alterations in transcriptional and posttranscriptional events may determine the changes in Na(+)-K(+)-
ATPase
activity in this particular model. Additionally observed increases in thymidine kinase and
ornithine decarboxylase
activities appear to signify alterations in the state of differentiation of the ileal epithelium and may determine the phenotypic expression of enterocyte transporters and permeability in the setting of inflammation.
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PMID:Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase alpha 1- and beta 1-mRNA and protein levels in rat small intestine in experimental ileitis. 749 57
The developing brain is particularly susceptible to the neurotoxic effects of lead exposure. The ontological profile of
ornithine decarboxylase
(
ODC
) activity in the cerebellum was examined following lactational exposure of rats to 0.2% lead acetate (Pb). Relative to controls, Pb-exposure induced
ODC
activity levels in a transient manner with a 50% increase at postnatal day (PND) 6, a 20% increase at PND 9, returning to control basal levels by PND 15. These effects were seen at exposure levels of Pb that did not alter the normal growth and body weight of either the lactating dam or the developing pups. Basal cerebellar
ODC
activity in homogenates was increased with addition of low concentrations of Pb acetate (0.01 microM and 0.1 microM), while concentrations of 1 microM or greater were inhibitory. The effects of Pb acetate on tissue
ODC
activity in vitro were not mimicked by the addition of calcium chloride. Unlike tissue
ODC
activity, incubation of these metals with a pure
ODC
protein preparation exhibited fluctuations in
ODC
activity possibly due to the ionic interactions of Pb or calcium chloride. Calcium homeostatic mechanisms appeared to be unchanged with Pb exposure, at this dose, in that neither 45Ca-uptake (both mitochondrial and microsomal) nor synaptosomal Ca(2+)-
ATPase
activity was altered. These data suggest that alterations in
ODC
activity may be indicative of subtle toxicant induced perturbations during early development. Although the precise mechanism by which Pb may induce
ODC
activity in developing tissue is unknown, our results suggest that Pb may specifically alter
ODC
activity via cytosolic interactions.
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PMID:Modulation of developmental cerebellar ornithine decarboxylase activity by lead-acetate. 771 61
The biochemical effects of the non-12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-type tumor promoter thapsigargin (TG), which does not bind to the phorbol-ester receptor, or activate protein kinase C (PKC) or increase inositol polyphosphates, were characterized in mouse epidermis in vivo. The cold scraping method is required to detect the induction of
ornithine decarboxylase
(
ODC
) activity by TG, a response much smaller than that caused by TPA and with a different time course. TG pre-treatments do not alter or cause a refractory state against
ODC
induction by TPA. But TG stimulates hydroperoxide (HPx) production and RNA, protein, and DNA synthesis almost as much as TPA. Moreover, the sequential effects of TG and TPA on DNA synthesis are identical: early inhibition at 8 hr followed by maximal stimulation at 16-32 hr. TG-stimulated HPx production requires protein synthesis and xanthine oxidase, phospholipase A2, and lipoxygenase activities but not RNA and DNA synthesis, and cyclooxygenase and protease activities. The HPx response to TG is not mimicked by the PKC activator prostratin or inhibited by pre-treatments with prostratin or specific PKC inhibitors. However, the Ca(2+)-
ATPase
inhibitor cyclopiazonic acid and the Ca2+ ionophore and weak
ODC
inducer A23187 mimic remarkably the HPx responses to TG and TPA. Since TG and A23187 are known to be, respectively, weak and incomplete tumor promoters as compared with TPA, the present results suggest that the HPx responses common to Ca(2+)-mobilizing and TPA- or non-TPA-type agents are insufficient to achieve tumor promotion in the absence of major
ODC
induction.
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PMID:Ability of the non-phorbol ester-type tumor-promoter thapsigargin to mimic the stimulatory effects of 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate on ornithine decarboxylase activity, hydroperoxide production, and macromolecule synthesis in mouse epidermis in vivo. 825 22
The factors regulating the developmental changes in intestinal morphology and enzyme activity during the postnatal period are incompletely understood. Increased
ornithine decarboxylase
(
ODC
) and polyamine levels occur in association with increased mucosal growth seen just prior to weaning. The present work examines the effects of the polyamine spermidine, administered exogenously during early postnatal development in the rat, on structural and functional differentiation of the intestine. Young rats were fed 6 mumol of spermidine for either 1 day (P1) or 3 days (P3) prior to sacrifice on postnatal day 10. Control littermates were sacrificed at day 10 (C10) or at day 49 (C49) (postweanling [adult] reference). A loss of most of the well-developed characteristic endosomal complex and supranuclear giant lysosome was observed in the absorptive cells of the ileum and proximal colon in the spermidine-treated groups and was accompanied by a decline in N-acetyl-glucosaminidase activity to adult levels. A precocious appearance of sucrase and NaK
ATPase
activities was observed in the P1 group and these activities attained adult levels in the P3 group. This premature appearance of sucrase and NaK
ATPase
activities was associated with a decline in lactase levels. The exogenous administration of spermidine also elicited an increase in mucosal
ODC
activity.
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PMID:Effect of exogenously administered polyamine on the structural maturation and enzyme ontogeny of the postnatal rat intestine. 839 Mar 4
L-Asparagine stimulates bi-directional Ca(2+) flows and induces
ornithine decarboxylase
in Reuber H-35 hepatoma cells. Previously it has been shown that these effects are completely, but reversibly inhibited by lanthanum chloride. In this study we examined the role(s) of Ca(2+) flows using more specific Ca(2+) flow inhibitors. It was shown that
ornithine decarboxylase
induction was inhibited by CdCl(2) and verapamil at concentrations above 1 mu M and 100 mu M respectively, but was unaffected by as much as 300 mu M NiCl(2), 1 mM nifedipine, or 10 mu M omega-conotoxin. Enzyme induction was blocked by the Ca(2+)-
ATPase
pump antagonists vanadate and Compound 48/80 in a dose-dependent manner. These results, taken together with the observations that extracellular Ca(2+) is essential for enzyme induction but a substantial elevation of cytoplasmic [Ca(2+)] is not, suggest that Ca(2+) inflow independent of the receptor-activated Ca(2+) channels, and the Ca(2+)-
ATPase
mediated Ca(2+) out-flow, are both important factors in the action of L-asparagine.
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PMID:Characterization of Ca(2+) flows essential in ornithine decarboxylase induction by L-asparagine in rat hepatoma cells using Ca(2+) flow inhibitors. 913 51
1.
Ornithine decarboxylase
and Na-K
ATPase
activities were studied in rat livers that were treated with different doses of epidermal growth factor (EGF). 2. The
ornithine decarboxylase
activities were studied with spectrophotometry, and results were expressed as micromoles of putrescine per hour per milligram of protein. Na-K
ATPase
activities were studied on the basis of the principle of measuring the amount of inorganic phosphates released by the hydrolysis of ATP, and the results were expressed as micromoles of inorganic phosphate per hour per milligram of protein. 3. When compared with the controls, although the Na-K
ATPase
activities were decreased at low doses of EGF, their activities were found to be increased at high doses of EGF. On the other hand, there was a positive correlation between
ornithine decarboxylase
activities and EGF doses. 4. The results of this study suggest that, whereas the decrease in Na-K
ATPase
activities at low doses of EGF can be due to the utilization of the enzyme, the increase in Na-K
ATPase
activities at high doses of EGF can be attributed to its enhanced synthesis.
...
PMID:The effect of different doses of epidermal growth factor on liver ornithine decarboxylase and Na-K ATPase activities in newborn rats. 968 69
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