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Query: UMLS:C0043167 (pertussis)
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Although prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is known to inhibit glucose-induced insulin secretion, it is uncertain whether PGE2 actions on the beta-cell are direct, whether they are equipotent for both phases of hormone secretion, and whether the same mechanism of action prevails throughout. Study of the HIT cell, a clonal line of pancreatic beta-cells, provides answers to these questions because perifusion with glucose and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine stimulates biphasic insulin secretion. Perifusion with PGE2 decreased both the first and second phases of glucose-induced insulin release to 47 +/- 4% of controls. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin partly prevented PGE2 inhibition to 80 +/- 4% of controls for first phase and 79 +/- 4% of controls for second phase. To evaluate whether the partial prevention of PGE2 inhibition seen with pertussis toxin pretreatment was caused by Gi heterotrimer association between the preincubation period and the end of perifusion, PGE2 actions were also examined during continuous treatment with pertussis toxin. Under these conditions, PGE2 inhibition of both phases was totally prevented. However, no difference was observed in membrane protein ADP ribosylation when cells were examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after pretreatment or continuous treatment with pertussis toxin. Cyclic AMP (cAMP) accumulation was inhibited by PGE2 (from 3263 +/- 153 to 1549 +/- 158 fmol/10(6) cells) but less so after pretreatment with pertussis toxin (correlation between insulin release and cAMP accumulation during perifusion; n = 18, r = .85, P less than .001). Thus, PGE2 equally inhibits both phases of glucose-induced insulin secretion and cAMP generation through a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein-mediated direct effect on the pancreatic beta-cell.
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PMID:Pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein mediation of PGE2 inhibition of cAMP metabolism and phasic glucose-induced insulin secretion in HIT cells. 248 18

The B subunit of cholera toxin, a protein which binds specifically to ganglioside GM1 on the cell surface, stimulates DNA synthesis in quiescent Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts as measured by an increase in [3H]thymidine incorporation. Pertussis toxin pretreatment markedly inhibits B subunit-induced DNA synthesis. The inhibitory effects of pertussis toxin were observed even in the presence of insulin which greatly potentiates the mitogenic response to the B subunit. Treatment with either pertussis toxin or insulin did not alter the binding of the B subunit to the cells. The dose-response for pertussis toxin-induced inhibition of DNA synthesis correlated closely with the dose-response for ADP-ribosylation of a 41-kDa membrane protein, suggesting the involvement of a GTP-binding protein that is a substrate for pertussis toxin (Gi) in mitogenesis induced via cross-linking of endogenous gangliosides. Pertussis toxin, in a similar concentration-dependent manner, also inhibited the mitogenic response to unfractionated fetal calf serum and to bombesin in the absence or presence of insulin. The inhibitory effect of pertussis toxin was clearly unrelated to any effects on known G proteins coupled to adenylate cyclase or phospholipase C. In addition, pertussis toxin did not impair the early increase in cytosolic free Ca2+ induced by the B subunit or bombesin. Pertussis toxin-induced inhibition of DNA synthesis could still be observed even when the toxin was added as late as 6 h after addition of the growth-promoting agents. This suggests the involvement of a GTP-binding protein in a late step of the B subunit- and bombesin-mediated pathways of mitogenesis. The possibility that other growth factors bypass this pathway is shown by their lack of sensitivity to pertussis toxin.
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PMID:Possible involvement of a GTP-binding protein in a late event during endogenous ganglioside-modulated cellular proliferation. 249 20

Brief exposure of hepatocytes to glucagon, angiotensin or the protein kinase C activator TPA (12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate) caused the inactivation of the inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein Gi. Glucagon-mediated desensitization of glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was seen in hepatocytes from both normal rats and those made diabetic with streptozotocin, where Gi is not functionally expressed. Normal glucagon desensitization was seen in hepatocytes from young animals, 6 weeks of age, which had amounts of Gi in their hepatocyte membranes which were some 45% of that seen in mature animals (3.4 pmol/mg of plasma-membrane protein). Streptozotocin-induced diabetes in young animals abolished the appearance of functional Gi in hepatocyte plasma membranes. Pertussis-toxin treatment of hepatocytes from both normal mature animals and those made diabetic, with streptozotocin, blocked the ability of glucagon or angiotensin or TPA to elicit desensitization of adenylate cyclase. The isolated B (binding)-subunit of pertussis toxin was ineffective in blocking desensitization. Neither induction of diabetes nor treatment of hepatocytes with pertussis toxin inhibited the ability of glucagon and angiotensin to stimulate the production of inositol phosphates in intact hepatocytes. Thus (i) Gi does not appear to play a role in the molecular mechanism of glucagon desensitization in hepatocytes, (ii) the G-protein concerned with receptor-stimulated inositol phospholipid metabolism in hepatocytes appears not to be a substrate for the action of pertussis toxin, (iii) in intact hepatocytes, treatment with glucagon and/or angiotensin can elicit the inactivation of the inhibitory G-protein Gi, and (iv) pertussis toxin blocks desensitization by a process which does not involve Gi.
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PMID:Glucagon desensitization of adenylate cyclase and stimulation of inositol phospholipid metabolism does not involve the inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein Gi, which is inactivated upon challenge of hepatocytes with glucagon. 249 30

Hormones have been demonstrated to activate phosphoinositide hydrolysis in plasma membranes in a manner dependent upon or potentiated by GTP. For thyrotropin-releasing hormone activation in GH3 cell membranes, stimulation persisted in membranes from pertussis toxin-treated cells. These observations indicate the presence of a membrane phospholipase C (PL C) and a novel GTP-binding protein (Gp); however, neither of these proteins has been characterized. In this paper, we report studies of GH3 membrane PL C utilizing [3H]phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate liposome substrate. Guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP[S]), but not other nucleotides, was found to stimulate PL C activity and required greater than 1 nM Ca2+. High concentrations of Ca2+ (10 microM) also activated the membrane PL C. Treatment of membranes with N-ethylmaleimide inhibited Ca2+-activated but not GTP[S]-activated PL C. Extraction of membranes with 1 M KCl solubilized the membrane PL C; however, the solubilized PL C was not GTP[S]-stimulated. N-ethylmaleimide-treated, KCl-extracted membranes were markedly deficient in GTP[S]-stimulated PL C activity; however, activity could be restored by incubation with the desalted extracted PL C. Reconstitution appeared to involve the recoupling of membrane-associated Gp with soluble 330- and 110-kDa forms of the PL C. Cytosolic PL Cs failed to substitute for the solubilized membrane PL C. These results indicate that the Gp-regulated PL C in GH3 cell membranes is an extrinsic membrane protein that can be extracted reversibly at high ionic strength. Moreover, the membrane PL C can be distinguished from cytosolic PL C isoenzymes.
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PMID:Reconstitution of a solubilized membrane but not cytosolic phospholipase C with membrane-associated Gp from GH3 cells. 251 86

In this paper we examine the effect of the vasodilator peptide bradykinin on endothelial cell regulation of phosphoinositide (PI) turnover. The data show that the activation of PI turnover by bradykinin in bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells is insensitive to pertussis toxin, which ADP ribosylates a membrane protein of mol wt 40,000. However, this effect of bradykinin can be potentiated by guanosine 5'-O-(3-thio)triphosphate (GTP gamma S), an activator of G proteins, and depressed by guanosine 5'-O-(2-thio)diphosphate (GDP beta S), an inhibitor of G proteins. After endothelial cells were preincubated for 1 h with GTP gamma S, there was a three- to fourfold increase in PI turnover. Preincubation of cells with GDP beta S did not affect the basal level of PI turnover, but completely prevented activation of PI turnover by bradykinin. 4 beta-Phorbol-12 beta-myristate-13 alpha-acetate can block the bradykinin-stimulated inositol monophosphate formation in cultured endothelial cells. The effects of bradykinin on PI turnover were blocked by B2 antagonists but not by B1 antagonists. Taken together, these results indicate that in endothelial cells the bradykinin B2 receptor is coupled to phospholipase C via a G protein (or proteins) that is not a substrate for pertussis toxin (neither Gi nor Go).
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PMID:Guanine nucleotide-dependent, pertussis toxin-insensitive regulation of phosphoinositide turnover by bradykinin in bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells. 253 90

Phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) activity of human platelet membranes was activated by the nonhydrolyzable guanine nucleotide GTP gamma S. This activation did not occur in either membranes prepared from dibutyryl cyclic AMP-pretreated platelets (A-membranes) or those prepared from untreated cells and subsequently incubated with cyclic AMP (cAMP) (B-membranes). This cAMP-mediated inhibition was abolished in the presence of inhibitors of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (A-kinase), suggesting that the inhibition was due to phosphorylation of (a) protein component(s). No significant differences were observed in the basal PLC activity and the extent of pertussis toxin-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation among control membranes and the two types of phosphorylated membranes (A- and B-membranes). GTP-binding activities of Gs, Gi and GTP-binding proteins of lower molecular masses were not altered by the phosphorylation of the membranes. These findings suggest that a GTP-binding protein is involved in the GTP gamma S-mediated activation of PLC and that cAMP (plus A-kinase) inhibits this activation by phosphorylating a membrane protein (probably a 240-kDa protein), rather than the GTP-binding protein or PLC itself. It is likely that this phosphorylation uncouples the GTP-binding protein from PLC.
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PMID:Inhibition by cyclic AMP of guanine nucleotide-induced activation of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C in human platelets. 253 21

Extracellular ATP and other purinergic agonists were found to inhibit cAMP accumulation by depressing adenylate cyclase as an "inhibitory action" and/or to stimulate arachidonate release in association with phospholipase C or A2 activation and Ca2+ mobilization as "stimulatory actions" in FRTL-5 cells. The stimulatory actions of a group of P2-agonists represented by ATP were partially inhibited by the pretreatment of the cells with islet-activating protein (IAP), pertussis toxin, even when an about 41-kDa membrane protein(s) was completely ADP-ribosylated. Only the IAP-sensitive part of the stimulatory actions was antagonized by 1,3-diethyl-8-phenylxanthine (DPX), an adenosine antagonist. GTP and 8-bromoadenosine 5'-triphosphate (Br-ATP) at two to three orders of higher concentrations than ATP also exerted the stimulatory actions, although they were entirely insensitive to both IAP and DPX. Ligand binding experiments with, [35S]ATP gamma S and [3H]DPX showed that ATP occupies both DPX-sensitive and insensitive receptor sites, whereas GTP does only ATP-displaceable DPX-insensitive sites. Thus, lack of sensitivity of GTP action to DPX was associated with its inability to occupy the DPX-sensitive sites. Adenosine 5'-O-(1-thiotriphosphate) (ATP alpha S), adenosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) (ADP beta S) and P1-agonists such as AMP and N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl-adenosine (PIA) did not show any stimulatory action. Nevertheless, the agonists remarkably enhanced the stimulatory actions of GTP or Br-ATP. Such permissive actions of PIA and others were sensitive to both IAP and DPX, as were shown for a part of the stimulatory actions of ATP as well as the "inhibitory actions" of both PIA and ATP. We conclude that an IAP substrate G-protein(s) which mediates the inhibitory action of purinergic agonists via a DPX-sensitive purinergic receptor(s) may not directly link to the phospholipase C or A2 system but enhance the system which links to a DPX-insensitive P2-receptor, in an indirect or permissive manner.
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PMID:A permissive role of pertussis toxin substrate G-protein in P2-purinergic stimulation of phosphoinositide turnover and arachidonate release in FRTL-5 thyroid cells. Cooperative mechanism of signal transduction systems. 254 44

The gene encoding a human alpha 2-adrenergic receptor was isolated from a human genomic DNA library using a 367-base pair fragment of Drosophila genomic DNA that exhibited 54% identity with the human beta 2-adrenergic receptor and 57% identity with the human alpha 2-adrenergic receptor. The nucleotide sequence of a fragment containing the human alpha 2-receptor gene and 2.076 kilobases of untranslated 5' sequence was determined, and potential upstream regulatory regions were identified. This gene encodes a protein of 450 amino acids and was identified as an alpha 2-adrenergic receptor by homology with published sequences and by pharmacological characterization of the protein expressed in cultured cells. Permanent expression of the alpha 2-receptor was achieved by transfecting Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells which lack adrenergic receptors with a 1.5-kilobase NcoI-HindIII fragment of the genomic clone containing the coding region of the gene. The alpha 2-receptor expressed in CHO cells displayed pharmacology characteristic of an alpha 2 A-receptor subtype with a high affinity for yohimbine (Ki = 1 nM) and a low affinity for prazosin (Ki = 10,000 nM). Agonists displayed a rank order of potency in radioligand binding assays of para-aminoclonidine greater than or equal to UK-14304 greater than (-)-epinephrine greater than (-)-norepinephrine greater than (-)-isoproterenol, consistent with the identification of this protein as an alpha 2-receptor. The role of the alpha 2-receptor in modulating intracellular cyclic AMP concentrations was investigated in three transfected cell lines expressing 50, 200, and 1200 fmol of receptor/mg membrane protein. At low concentrations (1-100 nM), (-)-epinephrine attenuated forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation by up to 60% in a receptor density-dependent manner. At epinephrine concentrations above 100 nM, cyclic AMP levels were increased up to 140% of the forskolin-stimulated level. Pertussis toxin pretreatment of cells eliminated alpha 2-receptor-mediated attenuation of forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP levels and enhanced the receptor density-dependent potentiation of forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP concentrations from 3 to 8-fold. Potentiation of forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP levels was also elicited by the alpha 2-adrenergic agonists, UK-14304 and para-aminoclonidine, and blocked by the alpha 2-adrenergic antagonist yohimbine, but not by the alpha 1-adrenergic antagonist prazosin or the beta-adrenergic antagonist propranolol.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Cloning, sequence analysis, and permanent expression of a human alpha 2-adrenergic receptor in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Evidence for independent pathways of receptor coupling to adenylate cyclase attenuation and activation. 256 56

Mutants of Bordetella pertussis deficient in virulence-associated factors were identified by using the transposon Tn5 lac. Tn5 lac is a derivative of Tn5 which generates promoter fusions for beta-galactosidase. Tn5 lac insertions in the vir-regulated genes of B. pertussis were identified by selecting for kanamycin-resistant mutants that expressed beta-galactosidase when the vir-regulated genes were expressed but not when the vir-regulated genes were turned off. Fourteen different mutations in vir-regulated genes were identified. Two mutants were deficient in the production of the filamentous hemagglutinin, two mutants were deficient in the production of adenylate cyclase toxin and hemolysin, and one mutant was deficient in the production of dermonecrotic toxin. One insertion mapped adjacent to the pertussis toxin gene, but the mutant produced pertussis toxin. The phenotypes of the remaining eight mutants were not determined, but the mutants did not appear to be deficient in the production of the 69,000-dalton outer membrane protein (agglutinogen 3) or the capsule. Screening for mutations in either of the fimbrial genes proved to be problematic since the parental strain was found to switch from a fimbriated to a nonfimbriated state at a high frequency, which was suggestive of the metastable expression of pili in other bacteria. We used Southern blot analysis with a 30-mer specific for the fimbrial sequences. No bands with the predicted increase in size due to the 12 kilobases from Tn5 lac were observed, which suggests that none of these genes were mutated. Southern blot analysis also revealed that seven of the eight unidentified mutations mapped to different restriction fragments, which suggests that they could be deficient in as many as seven different genes.
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PMID:Use of the promoter fusion transposon Tn5 lac to identify mutations in Bordetella pertussis vir-regulated genes. 256 47

Stimulation of NG115-401L neuronal cells with bradykinin produces a dose-dependent increase in inositol phosphate production which is not blocked, rather slightly increased, after treatment with pertussis toxin. Nevertheless, pertussis toxin stimulates ADP-ribosylation of a 41K membrane protein, and blocks opioid receptor-mediated inhibition of stimulated cAMP production in these cells. These results suggest that bradykinin responses in the NG115-401L cells are pertussis-insensitive, unlike bradykinin responses reported in other neuronal cell lines.
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PMID:Bradykinin stimulation of inositol phosphate and calcium responses in insensitive to pertussis toxin in NG115-401L neuronal cells. 282 11


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