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Query: EC:4.6.1.1 (adenylate cyclase)
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To investigate whether newborn kidney microvessels and isolated single microvascular cells have the capacity to release renin and/or alter the expression of the renin gene in response to adenylate cyclase stimulation, newborn kidney microvessels were isolated and purified (95%) using an iron perfusion/enzymatic digestion technique. Incubation of microvessels with either vehicle (control; C) or 10(-5) M forskolin (F) in media resulted in an increase in microvessel cAMP (0.67 +/- 0.13 vs. 22 +/- 4.6 pmol/min per mg protein) (P less than 0.005) and renin released into the culture media (1,026 +/- 98 vs. 1,552 +/- 159 pg angiotensin I/h per mg protein) (P = 0.008) (C vs. F). Renin mRNA levels in the newborn kidney microvessels increased 1.6-fold with forskolin treatment. Renin release by isolated, single microvascular cells (with or without forskolin) was assessed using the reverse hemolytic plaque assay. Forskolin administration resulted in an increase in the number of renin-secreting cells without changes in the amount of renin secreted by individual cells. In conclusion, newborn kidney microvessels and isolated renin-releasing microvascular cells possess a functionally active adenylate cyclase whose short-term stimulation results in accumulation of cAMP, a significant increase in renin release, and an enhancement of renin gene expression. The increase in renin release is due to recruitment of microvascular cells secreting renin. Recruitment of hormone-secreting cells in response to stimuli may prove to be a mechanism of general biological importance shared by many endocrine cell types.
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PMID:Renin release and gene expression in intact rat kidney microvessels and single cells. 216 41

Evidence for the expression of genes of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the developing kidney is rapidly accumulating. We have recently demonstrated that the fetal kidney expresses the renin gene and that expression of the gene is developmentally regulated. Kidney renin messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels decrease markedly with maturation, and as maturation unfolds the intrarenal distribution of renin and its mRNA changes from large intrarenal arteries in the fetus to a restricted juxtaglomerular site in the adult animal. These findings demonstrate that renin is synthesized and stored in the aforementioned vascular segments and that expression of the renin gene follows the centrifugal pattern of nephrovascular development. In addition to storing renin, intact kidney microvessels release renin spontaneously and possess a functionally active adenylate cyclase whose stimulation results in a marked increase in renin release. The increase in renin enzymatic activity appears to be due to a recruitment of renin-releasing cells rather than to an increase in the amount of renin secreted per cell. Expression of the angiotensinogen (Ao) gene is also developmentally regulated. Ao mRNA levels are very low in the fetal liver, markedly increasing after parturition, suggesting that some of the complex neurohumoral changes surrounding extrauterine life may regulate the expression of the Ao gene. As in the adult animal, Ao is expressed in fetal kidney, brain and brown adipose tissue. The contribution of these organs to the fetal plasma pool of Ao remains to be determined. However, unlike the adult, the fetal liver may not be the primary source of circulating Ao in the fetus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Molecular biology of components of the renin-angiotensin system during development. 220 11

The human renin gene is expressed in the kidney, placenta, and several other sites. The release of renin or its precursor, prorenin, can be affected by several regulatory agents. In this study, primary cultures of human placental cells were used to examine the regulation of prorenin release and renin mRNA levels and of the transfected human renin promotor linked to chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter sequences. Treatment of the cultures with a calcium ionophore alone, calcium ionophore plus forskolin (that activates adenylate cyclase), or forskolin plus a phorbol ester increased prorenin release and renin mRNA levels 1.3- to 6-fold, but several classes of steroids did not affect prorenin secretion or renin RNA levels. The transfected renin promoter (584 or 100 base pairs of 5'-flanking DNA) initiated at the correct start site in these cells and forskolin increased its expression 2.5- to 4-fold. Constructs containing renin 5'-flanking DNA linked to a heterologous promoter cotransfected into HeLa cells with either glucocorticoid or estrogen receptor expression vectors were not regulated by dexamethasone or 17 beta-estradiol. These results suggest that (i) the first 584 base pairs of the renin gene 5'-flanking DNA do not contain functional glucocorticoid or estrogen response elements, (ii) placental prorenin release and renin mRNA are regulated by calcium ion and by the combinations of cAMP with either C kinase or calcium ion, and (iii) the first 100 base pairs of the human renin 5'-flanking DNA direct accurate initiation of transcription and can be regulated by cAMP. Thus, some control of renin release in the placenta (and by inference in other tissues) occurs via transcriptional influences on its promoter.
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PMID:Regulation of human renin expression in chorion cell primary cultures. 221 88

Adrenoceptors of various subtypes mediate the renal functional responses to alterations in efferent renal sympathetic nerve activity, the neural component, and renal arterial plasma catecholamine concentrations, the humoral component, of the sympathoadrenergic nervous system. Under normal physiologic as well as hypertensive conditions, the influence of the renal sympathetic nerves predominates over that of circulating plasma catecholamines. In most mammalian species, increases in efferent renal sympathetic nerve activity elicit renal vasoconstrictor responses mediated predominantly by renal vascular alpha-1 adrenoceptors, increases in renin release mediated largely by renal juxtaglomerular granular cell beta-1 adrenoceptors with involvement of renal vascular alpha-1 adrenoceptors only when renal vasoconstriction occurs, and direct increases in renal tubular sodium and water reabsorption mediated predominantly by renal tubular alpha-1 adrenoceptors. In most mammalian species, alpha-2 adrenoceptors do not play a significant role in the renal vascular or renin release responses to renal sympathoadrenergic stimulation. Although renal tubular alpha-2 adrenoceptors do not mediate the increases in renal tubular sodium and water reabsorption produced by increases in efferent renal sympathetic nerve activity, they may be involved through their inhibitory effect on adenylate cyclase in modulating the response to other hormonal agents that influence renal tubular sodium and water reabsorption via stimulation of adenylate cyclase.
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PMID:Neural control of renal function: role of renal alpha adrenoceptors. 241 43

The most important central autonomic pathways in the control of arterial blood pressure are the baroreceptor reflex pathway and descending pathways from the hypothalamus. Central neurotransmitters in these pathways are L-glutamate, substance P, norepinephrine (NE), gamma-aminobutyric acid, epinephrine, neuropeptide Y, and acetylcholine. At peripheral autonomic neurovascular junctions, there are prejunctional alpha 2- and dopamine-2 receptors, which inhibit NE release, and beta- and serotonin receptors, which stimulate NE release. Postjunctional alpha 1-receptors open sodium channels, open calcium channels via phosphoinositol release, and release intracytoplasmic calcium. Postjunctional alpha 2-receptors, which are extrasynaptic, inhibit adenylate cyclase and also open calcium channels. In animal models of hypertension, changes in alpha-receptor density have been reported. In spontaneously hypertensive rats, increased renal beta- and alpha 2-receptors, respectively, may enhance renin release and cause sodium and water retention. In experimental (renovascular) hypertension, vascular postsynaptic (vasoconstrictor) alpha 1- and alpha 2-receptors are increased. In both models of hypertension, beta-receptors are down-regulated. Selective alpha 1-antagonists, such as indoramin and prazosin, decrease arterial blood pressure by postsynaptic alpha 1-blockade; alpha 2-receptor inhibition of NE release is unaffected so that there is no beta-receptor-mediated tachycardia.
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PMID:Alpha-adrenoreceptors in hypertension. 242 93

The interaction of the renin-angiotensin system and the sympathetic nervous system in patients with congestive heart failure is not well understood. We tested the hypothesis that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors can resensitize the beta-adrenergic receptor system. Guinea pigs were given captopril, isoproterenol, or both for 2 weeks. At death, cardiac sarcolemmal and light vesicle fractions and intact mononuclear leukocytes were prepared. Captopril treatment led to an up-regulation of cardiac beta 1- but not mononuclear leukocyte beta 2-adrenergic receptors and an increase in isoproterenol-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in the heart. Animals treated with isoproterenol developed cardiac hypertrophy, had increased plasma norepinephrine levels, and had a decreased number and responsiveness of both cardiac and mononuclear leukocyte beta-adrenergic receptors. Concomitant treatment with captopril attenuated alterations of heart weight, plasma norepinephrine levels, and cardiac beta-receptor density and function. In contrast to its cardiac effects, captopril treatment did not diminish the down-regulation of mononuclear leukocyte beta 2-adrenergic receptors by isoproterenol. Our data suggest that captopril may resensitize the cardiac but not the mononuclear leukocyte beta-adrenergic receptor-adenylate cyclase system after long-term catecholamine exposure.
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PMID:Regulation of cardiac beta-adrenergic receptors by captopril. Implications for congestive heart failure. 254 69

Basolateral membranes were prepared from rat renal cortex by density gradient centrifugation. Their purity was confirmed by electron microscopy and by marker enzyme enrichment. The basolateral membrane preparation was shown to be derived predominantly from the proximal renal tubule by measurement of hormone-stimulated adenylate cyclase; marked stimulation of adenylate cyclase was found with parathyroid hormone, but not with isoprenaline, antidiuretic hormone or calcitonin. A single class of specific high-affinity [3H]angiotensin II-binding site was identified in the basolateral membrane preparation which, after correction of results for tracer degradation, showed equilibrium dissociation constant of 0.23 nmol/l and binding site concentration of 485.8 fmol/mg protein. Binding sites for [3H]angiotensin II were measured in basolateral membranes prepared from rats fed diets with a low, normal or high sodium content. A trend of increased binding site density with reduced sodium intake was found which did not reach statistical significance. No effect on affinity was demonstrated. Treatment of rats on a low-sodium diet with captopril (500 mg/l drinking water) caused a significant reduction in binding site density; no effect on affinity was demonstrated. These findings suggest that the density of angiotensin II receptors at this site is altered by the activity of the renin-angiotensin system.
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PMID:[3H]angiotensin II binding to basolateral membranes from rat proximal renal tubule: effect of sodium intake and captopril. 254 61

The intracellular messengers that seem to be involved in renin secretion (RS) from juxtaglomerular cells (JG) are calcium (Ca), cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). Unlike the majority of secretory systems, an increase in intracellular Ca concentration and calmodulin and protein kinase C activation inhibit RS. The intracellular Ca concentration in JG cells can be modified if: 1) the normal mechanisms of Ca extrusion of these cells is altered; 2) the calcium output is blocked by lanthanum; 3) the function of the voltage-sensitive Ca-channels is modified; 4) uptake or liberation of Ca from endoplasmic reticulum is modified; 5) plasmatic membrane is bypassed with calcium ionophores such as A 23187. 6) JG cells are stimulated by hormones that increase Ca and activate protein kinase C such as angiotensin II, vasopressin or alpha-1 adrenergic agonists; 7) extracellular Ca concentration increases or decreases. RS is stimulated by dibutyryl cAMP, cAMP phosphodiesterase inhibitors and by hormones and agents that activate adenylate cyclase (beta adrenergic agonists, bradykinin, histamine, forskolin and ethylcarboxamide adenosine). On the contrary, RS is inhibited by hormones and agents that inhibit adenylate cyclase such as: alpha-2 adrenergic agonists, neuropeptide Y, angiotensin II and cyclohexyladenosine. Pertussis toxin increases basal RS, blocks the inhibition by agents and hormones which inhibit adenylate cyclase and potentiate the stimulation produced by beta-adrenergic agonists. In JG cells, atrial natriuretic peptide inhibits RS, increases cGMP and decreases cAMP. The increase in cGMP correlates well with the inhibition of RS.
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PMID:[Intracellular messengers in the regulation of renin secretion]. 255 Oct 26

Effects of dynamic exercise on lymphocyte beta 2-adrenoreceptor density (BARD) and adenylate cyclase activity (ACA) basal and stimulated by isoproterenol (I). Gpp(NH)p, Gpp(NH)p+I, and forskolin (F), on plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline levels, renin activity (PRA) were compared in 6 healthy donors and 12 patients with essential hypertension (EH). Acute stimulation of sympathetic activity by dynamic exercise leads to a rapid increase in lymphocyte BARD in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. The rise in BARD was accompanied by a significant increase in lymphocyte basal ACA in normotensive subjects, but not hypertensive patients. In patients with EH, basal ACA changed after exercise according to their renin status: patients with low baseline PRA showed a decrease in basal ACA after exercise, whereas patients with normal baseline PRA showed an increase as did normotensive subjects. Patients with decreased basal ACA after exercise also showed a lower ACA stimulation by IPR, F, Gpp (NH)p and Gpp(NH)p+IPR, which did not change after exercise. These patients also exhibited substantial rises in PRA with exercise. These was an inverse relationship between exercise-induced changes in PRA and basal ACA. So the acute regulation of lymphocyte BARD-ACA system is changed in a subset of patients with EH. The pattern of the regulation of this lymphocyte system is associated that of baseline renin activity and of its response to exercise in patients with EH.
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PMID:[The effect of a submaximal physical load on the beta 2-adrenoreceptor-dependent adenylate cyclase system of the lymphocytes in hypertension]. 255 57

As many as 118 middle-aged and elderly patients suffering from essential hypertension with different stages of circulatory failure (CF) were examined. In elderly patients suffering from CF, the activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system turned out lower while the adenylate cyclase system was activated earlier than in middle-aged patients. Introduction of verapamil into a complex of therapeutic measures promoted stabilization or reduction of aldosterone concentration in plasma, induced prolonged diuresis, and diminished acute losses of electrolytes. These circumstances formed the basis for combined use of digoxin, furosemide and verapamil in the treatment of elderly patients suffering from circulatory failure.
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PMID:[The use of digoxin, lasix and finoptin in treating circulatory failure in hypertension]. 268 70


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