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Query: EC:4.6.1.2 (guanylate cyclase)
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Cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) stimulates nucleic acid synthesis in lymphocytes, and has been implicated as the intracellular effector of the actions of mitogenic agents on these cells. In the present study, we examined the specificity of the mitogenic activity of cyclic GMP and of its 8-bromo (Br) derivatives, and the effects of the T cell mitogens, concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin, and staphylococcal entertoxin B (SEB) on the cyclic GMP content and guanylate cyclase activity of mouse splenic lymphocytes. Cyclic GMP and guanosine modestly increased the incorporation of [3H] thymidine into DNA by cultured lymphocytes, but were far less effective than their 8-Br-guanosine and 8-Br-5'-GMP exceeded that of 8-Br-cyclic GMP, when tested in the presence and absence of serum in the culture media. Combined addition of maximal doses of these nucleotides did not give additive stimulatory effects, suggesting an action on a common subpopulation of cells, and possibly a common mechanism. By contrast, cyclic AMP, 8-Br-cyclic AMP, 8-Br-adenosine, cholera toxin and prostaglandin E1 suppressed both basal [3H]thymidine incorporation and stimulation of this parameter by T-cell mitogens and the guanine nucleotides. Rapid effects of concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin, SEB, guanosine, 5'-GMP, 8-Br-guanosine, and 8-Br-5'-GMP on the cyclic GMP content of murine lymphocytes could not be demonstrated. Similarly, concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and SEB failed to alter guanylate cyclase activity when added directly to cellular homogenates or pre-incubated with intact cells. Conversely, carbamylcholine rapidly increased lymphocyte cyclic GMP but was not mitogenic. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that cyclic GMP and cyclic AMP are antagonistic in their influence on lymphocyte mitogenesis. However, they also demonstrate that related nucleotides are more potent mitogens than cyclic GMP itself and suggest that activation of murine lymphocytes by concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and SEB may not be mediated by rapid increases in cellular cyclic GMP content. Since high concentrations of exogenous cyclic GMP and related nucleotides must be used to influence DNA synthesis, the biologic significance of this effect remains uncertain.
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PMID:Activation of murine lymphocytes by cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate: specificity and role in mitogen activity. 0 15

Current information is reviewed on the mechanism of secretion in small intestine, including how it is altered by cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate and on the structures and properties of cholera and both heat-labile and heat-stable Escherichia coli enterotoxins. Two separate active ion transport processes are altered by cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate: 1) coupled absorption of NaCl is inhibited in villus cells and 2) active anion secretion is stimulated, probably in crypt cells. Cholera and heat-labile E. coli toxins exert their secretory effect by stimulating intestinal mucosal adenylate cyclase. This stimulation results from the A1 subunit catalyzed transfer of adenosine diphosphate ribose from NAD to a membrane-bound guanosine triphosphatase, thereby inhibiting the enzyme, which normally represses adenylate cyclase. Heat-stable E. coli enterotoxin stimulates intestinal mucosal guanylate cyclase, which appears to be the basis for its enterotoxicity.
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PMID:Mechanisms of action of cholera and Escherichia coli enterotoxins. 3 66

This study was designed to test whether cyclic nucleotides play a role in the regulation of bacterial killing by human monocytes. Agents were tested for their ability to activate monocyte adenylate or guanylate cyclase in cell-free preparations, to increase cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) or cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) in intact human monocytes, and to modulate monocyte-induced killing of Staphylococcus aureus in vitro. Prostaglandin E1 and cholera toxin activated monocyte adenylate cyclase and inhibited monocyte killing of S. aureus. An adenylate cyclase inhibitor, RMI 12330A, reversed the prostaglandin E1-mediated inhibition of bacterial killing, thus implicating cAMP as the intracellular mediator of this inhibition. In contrast, monocyte cGMP levels were increased 5- and 17-fold by 5-hydroxytryptamine and N-methyl-N' -nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, respectively, but neither agent was effective in modulating monocyte bactericidal activity. Thus, modulation of bactericidal activity in human monocytes did not conform to the yin/yang theory of opposing actions by cAMP and cGMP, for although monocyte-mediated killing of S. aureus was inhibited by cAMP agonists, it was not enhanced by cGMP agonists.
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PMID:Human monocyte killing of Staphylococcus aureus: modulation by agonists of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate and cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate. 4 4

Current information on the intestinal secretory mechanism and on the actions of the enterotoxins from Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli are reviewed. These enterotoxins, through their effects on the metabolism of cyclic nucleotides, both inhibit active absorption and stimulate active secretion of water and electrolytes in the small intestine. the enterotoxin of V. chol erae and the heat-labile enterotoxin of E. coli affect these activities by stimulating adenylate cyclase, and the heat-stable enterotoxin of E. coli does so by stimulating guanylate cyclase.
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PMID:Modes of action of enterotoxins from Vibrio cholerae and EScherichia coli. 39 84

Pertussis toxin (PT) and cholera toxin (CT) have been shown to modulate lactogenic hormone-stimulated Nb2 cell mitogenesis, a lactogen-dependent cell line. As both toxins have been shown to alter guanylate cyclase activity in other cell systems, cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) analogs, 8-bromo or dibutyryl cGMP, were added to determine if they could reverse the toxin-mediated effects. In the absence of bacterial toxins, both cGMP analogs enhanced lactogen-stimulated Nb2 cell mitogenesis in a multiphasic pattern. At maximal enhancement, the effect was statistically significant but not marked (113 +/- 5%; p less than 0.01). Neither cGMP analog increased lactogenic binding site number or affinity so cGMP must affect lactogen action following receptor binding. Neither analog could stimulation Nb2 cell mitogenesis in the absence of lactogens so cGMP is not a second messenger for lactogens in this cell system. Finally, neither cGMP analog reversed the inhibitory effects of either bacterial toxin on lactogen-stimulated Nb2 cell proliferation. In summary, although bacterial toxins may be capable of altering guanylate cyclase activity, as addition of cGMP analogs do not reverse toxin-mediated effects on lactogen-stimulated mitogenesis, these toxins' actions must be mediated predominantly through other mechanisms that may have significant importance to lactogen signal transduction.
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PMID:Cyclic guanosine monophosphate analogs do not reverse bacterial toxin modulation of lactogen-stimulated NB2 cell mitogenesis. 131 80

Heat-stable enterotoxins activate guanylate cyclase, whereas heat-labile enterotoxins stimulate adenylate cyclase. Both classes of toxins cause secretory diarrhea at least in part by stimulating Cl- secretion in the intestine. The mechanism for regulation of Cl- secretion by guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) was investigated using cultured T84 intestinal cells as a model for intestinal crypt cells. Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) markedly stimulated cGMP production in T84 cells. Cl- secretion across T84 cell monolayers cultured on permeable filters was stimulated by E. coli ST, cholera toxin, or 8-BrcAMP, but 8-BrcGMP was ineffective. cGMP analogues that are known to be potent and specific activators of cGMP-dependent protein kinase (cG-kinase) also had little effect on 36Cl- uptake by T84 cells cultured in plastic dishes. E. coli ST, forskolin, cholera toxin, or membrane-permeant cAMP analogues markedly increased 36Cl- uptake into T84 cells. The general protein kinase inhibitor, staurosporine, inhibited the stimulation of Cl- permeability elicited by E. coli ST, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), or 8-BrcAMP. DEAE-Sephacel chromatography revealed a predominant type II isoform of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cA-kinase) in T84 cells, whereas little or no cytosolic cG-kinase activity was found. Treatment of T84 cells with E. coli ST or VIP resulted in an increase in the cA-kinase activity ratio (-cAMP/+cAMP) if the cytosolic enzyme was assayed at reduced temperature (on ice).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Stimulation of intestinal Cl- transport by heat-stable enterotoxin: activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase by cGMP. 132 20

Heat-stable enterotoxins (ST) activate guanylyl cyclase in T84 cells, rapidly and specifically. Activation is monitored by cGMP production and occurs at lower concentrations of ST than required for eliciting fluid accumulation in suckling mice. Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) neither activates guanylyl cyclase nor modulates the response to ST in T84 cells, indicating the absence of receptors for ANF on T84 cells. Monitoring the production of cGMP under conditions known to alter fluid accumulation in suckling mice is an accurate and quantifiable assay of ST activity and its interaction with the receptor. STs produced by Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae non-01 and Yersinia enterocolitica individually produce elevated levels of cGMP in T84 cells, but to differing extents, suggesting that this model system can be used to elucidate the different events of ST-receptor interactions at the molecular level.
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PMID:Interaction of heat-stable enterotoxins with human colonic (T84) cells: modulation of the activation of guanylyl cyclase. 135 30

Vero cell cytotoxins and cytotonic enterotoxins produced by E. coli are toxic proteins, which have been implicated in a number of specific diseases in humans and animals. Nomenclature for these toxins is complicated by the existence of different names for the same toxin. The Vero cell cytotoxins are called verotoxins because they are lethal for Vero cells in culture; they are also known as Shiga-like toxins (SLTs) because they are clearly related to Shiga toxin in structure, amino acid sequence, mechanism of action, and biological activity. SLTs belong to two classes. SLT-I is identical with Shiga toxin and is in a class by itself (class I). The other SLTs are closely related to each other and form a second class (class II). Class II SLTs include SLT-II, SLT-IIv, SLT-IIvha, SLT-IIvhb, and SLT-IIva. All SLTs that have been investigated are A-B subunit protein toxins, whose A subunits possess N-glycosidase activity against 28S rRNA and cause inhibition of protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells. These toxins are enterotoxic as well as cytotoxic. SLTs produced in the intestine are absorbed into the blood stream and affect vascular endothelial cells in target organs. They may also have a direct toxic effect on enterocytes. Diseases in which E. coli SLTs have been implicated include diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome in humans and edema disease in pigs. Variation in receptor specificities among SLTs may be the reason for different disease syndromes in different host species. The E. coli enterotoxins belong to three distinct classes: heat-labile enterotoxin (LT), heat-stable enterotoxin type I or type a (STI, STa), and heat-stable enterotoxin type II or type b (STII, STb). There is clear evidence that these cytotonic enterotoxins play an essential role in diarrheal disease. LT is an A-B subunit protein toxin, closely related to cholera toxin. Following binding of LT to receptors in enterocytes the A subunit is internalized. The enzymatically active A subunit transfers ADP-ribose from NAD to a GTP-dependent adenylate cyclase regulatory protein, thereby elevating intracellular levels of adenylate cyclase. The increased levels of cyclic AMP cause stimulation of A kinase and lead to hypersecretion of electrolytes and fluid. STI is a small peptide of 18 or 19 amino acids. It binds to receptors in enterocytes and stimulates particulate guanyl cyclase. Elevated intracellular cyclic GMP stimulates G kinase, resulting in increased Cl- secretion and impaired absorption of Na+Cl-. STII is a peptide toxin whose mechanism of action is unknown.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Escherichia coli cytotoxins and enterotoxins. 139 38

The enterotoxins are macro-proteins, produced by enterotoxic bacterial strains acting in the human or animal intestine during digestive infections. In most cases, they induce diarrhoea (associated or not with tissue damage). These molecules differ in their structure and mechanism of action. Some of them (cholera toxin, Escherichia coli LT) activate a cyclase system (adenylate or guanylate cyclase), inducing water and electrolyte flux in the gut. Conversely, others (toxins A and B, Clostridium difficile; Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin; verotoxin), provoke diarrhoea, intestinal damage associated with inflammatory response acting on cellular functions (protein synthesis, permeability to small molecules). Most enterotoxins act via membrane receptors which they specifically recognize on the surface of the enterocyte.
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PMID:[Bacterial enterotoxins: structure, mode of action]. 189 66

The natriuretic effects of atrial peptide hormones have been attributed, at least in part, to their stimulation of guanylate cyclase activity in renal cell membranes. The effects of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) on stimulation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) accumulation were investigated in cloned human kidney tumor (hKT) cells and parent cells from a human renal tumor epithelial cell line (SK-NEP-1). Human ANF-(99-126) (10(-6)M) stimulated (p less than 0.001) cellular cGMP accumulation in a dose-dependent manner from a basal level of 0.26 +/- 0.04 to 3.73 +/- 0.81 pmol/mg protein/5 mi (mean +/- SEM, n = 13). ANF stimulation of cGMP accumulation was specific, in that high concentrations (10(-6)M) of atriopeptin I [rat ANF-(103-123)], angiotensin II, arginine vasopressin, and amiloride (10(-4)M) did not increase basal cGMP. Amiloride (10(-4)M) enhanced (p less than 0.01, n = 6) the ANF stimulation of cGMP accumulation (1.24 +/- 0.39 pmol/mg protein/5 min), particularly at low doses of ANF (10(-10)M) where stimulation by ANF without amiloride (0.34 +/- 0.08 pmol/mg protein/5 min) was barely distinguishable from a basal level (0.19 +/- 0.02 pmol/mg protein/5 min) of cGMP accumulation. The stimulatory effect of ANF (1.59 +/- 0.07 pmol/mg protein/5 min) was attenuated (0.75 +/- 0.06 pmol/mg protein/5 min, p less than 0.01, n = 6) by preincubation of the cells with pertussis toxin but not by cholera toxin. ANF (4.56 +/- 0.93 pmol/mg protein/5 min, n = 8) did not affect cAMP accumulation (4.32 +/- 0.98 pmol/mg protein/5 min) in hKT cells. This is the first report of an ANF responsive human renal cell line, and its use should facilitate investigation of ANF-receptor interactions.
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PMID:Atrial natriuretic factor effects on cyclic nucleotides in a human renal cell line. 256 5


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