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Query: EC:4.6.1.1 (adenylate cyclase)
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As it was shown previoulsy by others, the membrane-bound phosphodiesterase (cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate phosphodiesterase) of rat epididymal fat cells was stimulated when intact cells were exposed to insulin. The levels of stimulation observed in the present study in the cell homogenate and microsomal fraction were approximately 2.0- to 2.5-fold and 2.5- to 3.0-fold, respectively, when the initial substrate level was 100 nM and insulin concentration was 1 to 3 nM. When the microsomal fraction was subjected to a sucrose density gradient centrifugation, most of the insulin-sensitive phosphodiesterase activity was fractionated into the "light" microsomal fraction which was rich in NADH2:potassium ferricyanide:oxidoreductase) and low in 5'-AMPase, adenylate cyclase, and insulin-binding activities. The latter three activities were mostly fractionated into the "heavy" microsomal fraction. Both basal and insulin-stimulated phosphodiesterase activities were low when cells were homogenized in the presence of N-ethylmaleimide or p-chloromercuribenzoate. The insulin-stimulated enzyme activity was also low when cells were homogenized in the presence of --SH compounds (e.g. dithiothreitol) or certain metal-chelating agents (e.g. ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ehter)-N,N'-tetraacetate (EGTA)), or in a nitrogen atmosphere. The effect of EGTA was prevented by the addition of certain heavy metal ions but not by the addition of Ca2+ or Ca2+ plus Mg2+ ions. When cells were homogenized in the presence of certain oxidants (e.g. diamide, sodium tetrathionate, or air), a high plus-insulin activity was observed; this activity was not lowered by subsequent treatment of the enzyme with N-ethylmaleimede, EGTA, or fresh cell homogenate that was prepared in the presence of EGTA. However, the activity of an apparently oxidized enzyme could still be lowered by treatment woth dithiothreitol. A partially purified enzyme in the enzyme in the microsomal fraction was fairly stable both in basal and insulin-stimulated states (fully active after 35 days when kept at -20degrees). EGTA added to the homogenization buffer lowered the basal phosphodiesterase activity, but this effect was reversed by the addition of Ca2+ ions. EGTA also decreased the enzyme activity that was stimulated by norepinephrine. However, neither EGTA nor dithiothreitol had any effect on the activities of 5'-AMPase, NADH-dehydrogenase, and malate dehydrogenase of fat cells. The above data indicate that most of the insulin-sensitive phosphodiesterase and the so-called "cell membrane markers" are associated with different subcellular particles in the cell homogenate. In addition, the data seem to indicate that the insulin-stimulated phosphodiesterase has certain --SH groups and that the activity of the enzyme is stabilized when the --SH groups are oxidized by certain oxidants including molecular oxygen. It is suggested that the air oxidation of the enzyme is catalyzed by a trace of certain heavy metal ions and, therefore, can be blocked by a metal-chelating agent.
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PMID:Insulin-sensitive phosphodiesterase. Its localization, hormonal stimulation, and oxidative stabilization. 17 Feb 71

Calcitonin, whatever its origin, produces a decrease in the renal tubular reabsorption of sodium, phosphate and calcium in man and in the rat. Renal receptors for calcitonin have been demonstrated in the membranes of rat tubular cells using 125I salmon calcitonin as a tracer. Hormone-receptor interaction initiates the activation of membrane adenyl cyclase. In the rat and in man, the kidney plays a major role in degradation of both human and salmon calcitonin. Plasma levels of immunoreactive calcitonin are high in chronic renal failure. The question of the physiological role of calcitonin on kidney function is still unsettled.
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PMID:Kidney and calcitonin. 17 May 50

Both human and rat erythrocytes respond to low doses (10(-11)--10(-9) M) of L-isoproterenol and L-epinephrine with an increased degree of hypotonic hemolysis and a decreased rate of filtration through standardized paper filters. The receptors in both cell types have many of the characteristics of beta-receptors for catecholamines. However, hormone-receptor interaction in the human cell does not lead to an increase in intracellular cyclic AMP concentration, but in the rat cell, hormone-receptor interaction does lead to a significant increase in cyclic AMP content. Thus, catecholamine-beta-receptor interaction, at least in the human red cell, leads to a change in red cell properties which are not mediated by adenylate cyclase activation. Likewise, prostaglandin E2, at 10(-12)--10(-10) M, causes are increased degree of hypotonic hemolysis and a decreased rate of filtration through standardized paper filters, but it also does not increase the cycliC AMP content of the human erythrocyte but does increase that of the rat erythrocyte. Nevertheless, exogenous cyclic AMP, when added at a concentration of 10(-8) M to washed human erythrocytes, increases the degree of hypotonic hemolysis. Conversely, prostaglandin E1, at 10(-12)--10(-10) M, causes a decreased degree of hypotonic hemolysis and an increased rate of filtration through a standard filter. Both prostaglandin E2 and the catecholamines decrease the size of a rapidly exchangeable calcium pool, and prostaglandin E1 increases it.
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PMID:The effect of catecholamines and prostaglandins upon human and rat erythrocytes. 17 Sep 99

The mechanism of skeletal refractoriness to parathyroid hormone (PTH) in vitamine D-deficient animals was studied in terms of the adenylate cyclase-cyclic AMP system in rat calvaria. In vitamin D-deficient, thyroparathyroidectomized rats, plasma calcium concentration was not elevated by iv administration of PTH, while responsiveness to the hormone was recovered within 24 h after a single dose (2.5 mug) of vitamin D3. In spite of the remarkable dependency of PTH on vitamin D for mobilization of calcium from bone, PTH stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in particulate bone cell fractions in vitro. PTH also enhanced the levels of cyclic AMP in the skeletal tissues of vitamin D-deficient rats in vivo and in vitro to an extent similar to those found in rats given 2.5 mug of D3. Administration of theophylline or dibutyryl cyclic AMP to the vitamin D-deficient rats did not cause any significant hypercalcemic effects, while these drugs enhanced plasma calcium concentration significantly in the rats given vitamin D3. These data strongly indicate that the cause of the skeletal refractoriness to PTH in vitamin D-deficient animals is not a defective activation of adenylate cyclase, but must be related to a later step or steps in the biochemical events leading to bone cell activation.
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PMID:Effects of parathyroid hormone on the accumulation of cyclic AMP in bone of vitamin D-deficient rats. 17 Nov 52

Recent data on the effects of neurohypophysial peptides at the cellular level are discussed with respect to the two basic processes involved in peptide hormone action--i.e., specific recognition of the information contained in the hormonal molecule and the transformation of this information into a stimulus leading to the final biological response. Four main aspects of this general problem are considered. A. Hormone-Receptor Interaction: Recent contributions in this field concern partial analysis of the three-dimensional conformation of oxytocin and vasopressin moleculal cells of the mammalian kidney. Conformational analysis of oxytocin and vasopressin molecules leads to the conclusion that, in solution, these peptides probably have a compact and highly stabilized three-dimensional configuration. Models have been proposed that provide a valuable clue to the interpretation of structure-activity relationships among natural hormones and many structural analogues. Binding studies with tritiated oxytocin and vasopressin have permitted determination of the kinetic parameters of hormone-receptor interaction in amphibian epithelial cells and mammalian kidney. B. Stimulus Generation: The nature of the primary stimulus generated by hormone-receptor interaction is still unknown. In the epithelial target cells of the amphibian skin and bladder and of the mammalian kidney, one of the first consequences of hormone-receptor interaction is the activation of membrane-bound adenylate cyclase. Analysis of the correlations between hormonal binding and adenylate cyclase activation suggests that activation is a function of receptor occupation rather than of the number of hormonal molecules interacting with the receptor per unit of time. On medullary adenylate cyclase of pig kidney, the relation between receptor occupancy and enzyme activation was found to be complex and nonlinear. The effects of several agents (calcium, nucleotides) on receptor occupancy and adenylate cyclase activation have been described. In mammalian uterus and other smooth muscle target cells, there is no evidence for direct involvement of cyclic AMP in the contractile response to oxytocin and other neurohypophysial peptides.
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PMID:Stimulus-response coupling in neurohypophysial peptide target cells. 17 91

Catecholamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase, cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP)-dependent protein kinase, kinase substrate, and phosphoprotein phosphatase have variously been reported to be present in preparations of myocardial cellular membranes that function in the movement of Ca2+ in and out of the cell and in intracellular Ca2+ translocations, indicating that these membranees possess the equipment for the formation and destruction of cyclic Amp as well as for the initiation, effectuation, and termination of a possible membrane action of the nucleotide. It has also been observed that phosphorylation of seryl residues of protein in sarcolemma- and sarcotubule-rich myocardial subcellular fractions by cyclic AMP activated intrinsic and extrinsic protein kinases confers upon these membran structures an enhanced ability to bind or take up Ca2+ and that dibutyryl cyclic AMP, like adrenaline, produces in intact cardiac muscle simultaneous increases in contractile force and in the uptake of extracellular Ca2+. These findings are suggestive of a second messenger role of cyclic AMP in the beta-adrenoreceptor-mediated actions of catecholamines on myocardial contractile force and relaxation, in which Ca2+ would serve as a third messenger and be subject, respectively, to more effective removal from its binding sites on troponin. An alternative interpretation regards Ca2+ and cyclic AMP as interdependent twin second messengers in the catecholamine-induced inotropism. Since the physiological meaning of the reported effects of cyclic AMP on isolated myocardial membrane preparations is far from established an instances of a dissociation between the effects of catecholamines on myocardial contractile force and cyclic AMP levels have been observed, there is still room for hypotheses that relegate cyclic AMP to a nonobligatory, at most, supportive role in the action of the catecholamines on cardiac contraction.
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PMID:Adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, the myocardial cell membrane, and calcium. 17 10

Many hormones interact with their target cells by binding to receptors located on the external surface of the target cells' plasma membrane and subsequently stimulating the enzyme, adenyl cyclase, which is located within the plasma membrane. Stimulation of adenyl cyclase results in formation of cyclic AMP which is released from the membrane into the cell and acts within the cell to regulate a wide variety of cellular processes. In this review, the characteristics of hormone receptors and the relationship between receptor occupancy and adenyl cyclase stimulation are discussed. Our current understanding of the roles of hormones, substrate, magnesium, calcium, and guanine nucleotides as regulators of adenyl cyclase activity is summarized. Because of the central importance of adenyl cyclase and cyclic AMP as mediators of the cellular response to hormones, it is to be expected that many diseases may result from defects in this enzyme system. Indeed, several adenyl cyclase related diseases have been identified and the molecular bases for these diseases are discussed in this review.
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PMID:Adenyl cyclase. 17 34

The influence of magnesium deficiency on cyclic AMP metabolism was investigated in rats on diets of normal and low calcium content. Magnesium deficiency itself did not significantly affect either the basal concentration or the parathyroid hormone-stimulated formation of cyclic AMP in the renal cortex. Magnesium-deficient rats with hypercalcaemia excreted more cyclic AMP in the urine, but similar rats that developed hypocalcaemia on low calcium intake excreted less than their respective controls. The former type of animals also tended to accumulate more cyclic AMP in the renal cortex in response to the injection of a standard dose of parathyroid hormone, whereas rats of the latter type accumulated less. The activity of parathyroid hormone-stimulated renal cortical adenylate cyclase in vitro was increased by magnesium and reduced by calcium under most conditions, but with low concentrations of magnesium small amounts of calcium had a stimulatory effect. These observations suggest that cyclic AMP metabolism is influenced by metabolic disorders developing secondary to magnesium deficiency.
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PMID:Effect of magnesium deficiency and parathyroid hormone on cyclic AMP metabolism in rat renal cortex. 17 79

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of methoxamine on force development and adenyl cyclase activity in cat ventricular myocardium. Methoxamine produced a dose-related increase in force development of isometrically contracting cat papillary muscles. The positive inotropic effects of methoxamine were not altered by beta-adrenergic blockade (propranolol), or catecholamine depletion by prior reserpinization, but were completely prevented by alpha-adrenergic blockade (phentolamine or ergotamine). Neither ergotamine, phentolamine, nor methoxamine had any direct effects on adenyl cyclase activity. Phentolamine did not attenuate the increase in force development produced by paired electrical stimulation, suggesting that it does not block the entry of calcium into the muscle. In summary, methoxamine produced a dose-related increase in force development of the cat papillary muscle that was selectively blocked by alpha-adrenergic receptors in ventricular myocardium.
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PMID:Positive inotropic effects of methoxamine: evidence for alpha-adrenergic receptors in ventricular myocardium. 17 42

Studies of TSH release and production were performed in short term monolayer cultures of transplantable, thyroid hormone responsive, thyrotropin (TSH) producing mouse pituitary tumors. These tumors contained large amounts of TSH, small amounts of growth hormone (GH) and no detectable luteinizing hormone (LH), indicating that the predominant hormone product of tumor cells was TSH. The TSH content per tumor cell was similar to that of the normal pituitary where thyrotrophs represent a small fraction of the total cells, suggesting that the TSH content per tumor cell was less than that of the normal thyrotroph. There was a time dependent release and production of TSH by tumor cells in monolayer culture. Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) increased the release into the media and the production of TSH in a dose dependent manner. Maximum effects were noted at 0.2 ng/ml. Thyroid hormones and somatostatin inhibited both basal and TRH induced effects on both TSH release and production. TSH release as induced by TRH was calcium dependent. TSH release was stimulated by ouabain (10(-3)M) and potassium (57 mM), agents known to promote cellular calcium uptake in a calcium dependent manner. These studies indicate that tumor derived cells function in monolayer culture in a similar fashion to normal thyrotrophs. Studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that TRH action is mediated by adenosine 3',5' monophosphate (cAMP). Dibutyryl cAMP (6 mM) and theophylline (10 mM) increased TSH release suggesting that cAMP is involved in TSH release. However, TRH had no detectable effect on tumor cell adenylate cyclase activity or levels of cAMP. In contrast, PGE1 (1-10 mug/ml) stimulated adenylate cyclase activity and elevated cellular levels of cAMP without increasing TSH release. Thus, we are unable to confirm the postulate that cAMP is the intracellular mediator of TRH action.
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PMID:Regulation of thyrotropin (TSH) release and production in monolayer cultures of transplantable TSH-producing mouse tumors. 17 85


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