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Catecholamines (CAs) had been used for the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF). However, since continuous administration of CAs develops tolerance in hemodynamics presumably due to desensitization of beta-adrenergic receptor (beta AR)-adenylate cyclase (AC) system, beta antagonist, instead of beta agonist, has recently been employed to treat CHF, in that it may recover beta AR-AC system. In this study, the precise mechanisms of alterations in cardiac beta AM-AC system after chronic administration of beta agonist or antagonist, were investigated. The rats were treated continuously for 14 days with saline, isoproterenol (ISO), atenolol (ATENO), or denopamine (DENO), a new positive inotropic agent with beta 1 selective AR agonistic properties, which is reported to hardly cause the tolerance in clinical studies. beta AR density (Bmax) was markedly reduced by ISO and slightly increased by ATENO. Forskolin stimulated cyclase activity was reduced markedly by ISO. Total amount of the pertussis toxin substrates (inhibitory G-protein; Gi) and cholera toxin substrates (stimulatory G-protein; Gs) were not different among 4 groups. However, Gs activity measured by human platelet reconstitutive assay was reduced by ISO and DENO. These results indicate that ISO-induced desensitization in caused by the reduction in Gs and AC-catalytic activity as well as by the down-regulation of beta AR. Furthermore, it is suggested that DENO may cause slight desensitization of beta AR-AC system due to reduced Gs activity.
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PMID:[Isoproterenol, denopamine, and atenolol-induced alterations in beta-adrenergic receptor-adenylate cyclase system of rat myocardium]. 168 39

We constructed five genes encoding mutant human beta 2-adrenergic receptor sequence (beta 2AR) which contained 12-22 amino acid substitutions with corresponding sequence from the human alpha 2AAR in order to assess the receptor domains involved in Gs versus Gi recognition and coupling. Mutant beta 2AR with substitutions in the N (S1)- and C-terminal (S2) portions of the third intracellular loop, the proximal cytoplasmic tail (S3), and two combinations thereof (S2,3 and S1,2,3), were stably expressed in Chinese hamster fibrobasts (CHW-1102), as were the human beta 2AR and alpha 2AAR at comparable receptor levels. All mutant receptors with S2 substitutions (i.e. S2, S2,3, S1,2,3) were significantly (approximately 85%) uncoupled from Gs. Upon exposure to pertussis toxin, which uncouples receptors from Gi, S1,2,3 exhibited a 526 +/- 99% increase in agonist-stimulated adenylylcyclase activity compared with a 59 +/- 13% increase with the wild type receptor. This enhanced ability of S1,2,3 to interact with Gs following pertussis toxin treatment indicates that, in the absence of toxin exposure, substantial coupling occurs between the mutant receptor and Gi. Mutant beta 2AR bearing only one or two alpha 2AAR-substituted sequences showed no such enhancement. Forskolin-stimulated enzyme activities were increased by pertussis toxin treatment to similar degrees in all clones examined, indicating that the observed effects are confined to the receptor-mediated pathway. In the absence of GTP, competition binding experiments with S1,2,3, beta 2AR and alpha 2AAR revealed that approximately 40-50% of the receptors formed a high affinity binding state for agonist. Pertussis toxin treatment markedly reduced this to approximately 19% with S1,2,3, while having no effect on beta 2AR and completely eliminating high affinity agonist binding to alpha 2AAR. These results suggest that S1,2,3 interacts with Gi as well as Gs, and that receptor:G protein coupling requires the concerted participation of multiple cytoplasmic receptor domains.
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PMID:Coupling of a mutated form of the human beta 2-adrenergic receptor to Gi and Gs. Requirement for multiple cytoplasmic domains in the coupling process. 184 26

A rat D2L dopamine receptor, a splice variant of the D2 receptor, has recently been cloned. When transfected into and stably expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells, these receptors mediate the inhibition of both basal and forskolin-stimulated cAMP production, as previously described. We examined what role this receptor might play in the production of the second messenger arachidonic acid. The calcium ionophore A23187 stimulated the release of arachidonic acid, and this release of arachidonic acid was potentiated by dopamine in a concentration-dependent manner. Dopamine alone, however, had no effect on arachidonic acid release. Quinpirole, a D2-selective agonist, augmented A23187-stimulated arachidonic acid release, and sulpiride, a D2-selective antagonist, blocked this augmentation. cAMP analogs and agents that activate adenylyl cyclase were utilized in an attempt to overcome this dopamine effect. Forskolin, prostaglandin E2, dibutyryl-cAMP, 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-cAMP, and pertussis toxin all had no appreciable effect on either A23187-stimulated arachidonic acid release or the dopamine enhancement. Inhibition of protein kinase C using long term phorbol ester desensitization and pharmacological inhibitors diminished the dopamine potentiation of arachidonic acid release. These results suggest that the D2 receptor may be increasing the release of arachidonic acid by a mechanism involving protein kinase C but independent of the D2 receptor's inhibition of adenylyl cyclase.
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PMID:Transfected D2 dopamine receptors mediate the potentiation of arachidonic acid release in Chinese hamster ovary cells. 184 57

Islet-activating protein (IAP), one of the pertussis toxins, serving [alpha-32P]nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) as a substrate for ADP ribosylation, radiolabelled a specific pig epidermal membrane protein. The IAP-specific substrate was detectable by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a single band corresponding to a molecular weight of 40 kDa. The ADP ribosylation catalysed by IAP was inhibited by the addition of Mg2+ to the reaction mixture. IAP is known to work on intact cell systems resulting in the ADP ribosylation using intracellular NAD as the ADP ribose donor. Following IAP pretreatment of intact pig epidermis, the epidermal receptor adenylate cyclase responses were markedly increased; all the stimulatory receptor adenylate cyclase responses (beta-adrenergic, prostaglandin E, adenosine and histamine responses) were significantly increased. Cholera toxin-induced cyclic AMP accumulation was also significantly increased. Forskolin-induced cyclic AMP accumulation was slightly increased after IAP pretreatment, but this was not statistically significant. The IAP-dependent ADP ribosylation of the epidermal 40 kDa membrane protein, which was prepared from the IAP pretreated epidermis, was significantly decreased. It is known that the tumour promoter, phorbol 12-myristate,13-acetate (PMA), decreases stimulatory receptor adenylate cyclase responses of the epidermis. Following the PMA pretreatment, IAP-dependent ADP ribosylation of the epidermal membrane protein was unaffected. Furthermore, following the PMA pretreatment, the IAP-induced increase in the epidermal receptor adenylate cyclase responses still remained. Our results indicate that pig epidermis contains 40 kDa membrane substrate for IAP-dependent ADP ribosylation, which has an inhibitory tonus on the epidermal adenylate cyclase until its ADP ribosylation by IAP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Inhibitory guanine nucleotide binding protein in pig epidermis: regulation of epidermal adenylate cyclase. 196 35

1. Bull-frog dorsal root ganglion cells in primary culture were voltage clamped in the whole-cell configuration. The pipette solution contained ATP (5 mM). 2. Step depolarizations (5-70 mV, 0.1-1 s) from a holding potential close to the resting potential (range, -64 to -79 mV) evoked a non-inactivating potassium current with properties indistinguishable from those which have been reported for the M-current of bull-frog sympathetic neurones. 3. An unhydrolysable ATP analogue APP(NH)P (5 mM), substitute with ATP in the pipette solution, did not support the M-current activation. 4. Bath application of ATP (30 nM-30 microM) reduced the amplitude of the M-current in a concentration-dependent manner, congruent to 50% inhibition of the current occurring with 1 microM-ATP. The main effect of ATP was to reduce the maximum M-conductance without changing the activation and deactivation kinetics of the M-current. 5. Essentially the same results were obtained with ADP (0.1-30 microM) and alpha, beta-methylene-ATP (10-30 microM). AMP (10-100 microM) and adenosine (10-30 microM) were without effect on the M-current. 6. The ATP-induced inhibition of the M-current was irreversible when an unhydrolysable GTP analogue GTP-gamma-S (10-30 microM) was present in the pipette solution. ATP (3 microM) reduced the amplitude of the M-current only by about 10% when GDP-beta-S (100 microM) was present in the pipette solution. Pre-treatment of the cells with pertussis toxin (IAP; 500 ng ml-1) for 24 h at 24 degrees C did not prevent the ATP-induced M-current inhibition. 7. Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA; 1-3 microM) reduced the amplitude of the M-current to about 50%. A reduction in the M-current amplitude by PMA (3 microM) and ATP (10 microM) was attenuated when staurosporine (200 nM) was present in the pipette solution. Forskolin (10 microM) was without effect on the M-current. 8. It is concluded that ATP acting at P2 receptors, associated with an IAP-insensitive GTP-binding protein, inhibits the M-current in amphibian primary afferent neurones.
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PMID:ATP regulates muscarine-sensitive potassium current in dissociated bull-frog primary afferent neurones. 212 60

The short term regulation of the activity of the Na,K-pump (Na+,K(+)-ATPase) is just beginning to be understood. By using single microdissected proximal tubule segments (PCT) (permeabilized in order to clamp Na entry), it was possible to study regulation of Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity in its own environment and in a well defined cell population. The Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity can be regulated over a short term via guanidine triphosphate (GTP) dependent regulatory proteins. However the guanidine proteins are not directly coupled to the Na,K-pump and the mechanism involves the activation of complex intracellular signalling system. Locally produced dopamine induces a dose dependent inhibition of Na+,K+ ATPase activity. This inhibition is mediated by a complex mechanism that requires the activation of both membrane dopamine receptors, DA-1 and DA-2. It involves the activation of a pertussis toxin sensitive GTP-binding protein and activation of protein kinase C. A DA-2 agonist only inhibits Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity when it is incubated together with dibutyryl cAMP or Forskolin. We have therefore concluded that an increase in cellular cAMP levels plays a permissive role for DA-2 inhibition of Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity. A fully differentiated cell is required for dopamine inhibition of Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity. An abnormal regulation of proximal tubule Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity might be of importance in the pathogenesis of certain types of hypertension.
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PMID:Short-term regulation of Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity by dopamine. 216 34

The Nb2 T lymphoma is unique in that these lymphocytes proliferate in response to prolactin as well as in response to interleukin-2. In this study, we have examined the responsiveness of the adenylate cyclase system in Nb2 cells and the role of this signaling system in regulating proliferation and protein phosphorylation. An analog of cAMP inhibited prolactin-stimulated proliferation and blocked a prolactin-induced decrease in protein phosphorylation. Forskolin, a potent activator of adenylate cyclase in T lymphocytes, did not elevate cAMP levels in Nb2 cells and was not an effective inhibitor of prolactin-induced proliferation. In fact, one preparation of forskolin stimulated proliferation of quiescent Nb2 cells. Like forskolin, prostaglandin E2 did not stimulate cAMP production in Nb2 cells even though it increased cAMP in a preparation of rat peripheral blood lymphocytes. Cholera toxin appeared to ADP-ribosylate a stimulatory guanine nucleotide-binding protein in Nb2 cells, but the toxin did not increase intracellular levels of cAMP nor was it a potent anti-mitogenic agent. Pertussis toxin, an agent that can increase cAMP production through suppression of the inhibitory guanine nucleotide-binding protein, exerted only minor anti-proliferative actions on prolactin-stimulated Nb2 cells. These data suggest that cAMP inhibits Nb2 cell proliferation and prolactin-induced changes in protein phosphorylation but that the adenylate cyclase system in our clone of Nb2 cells responds poorly to agents that normally increase cAMP.
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PMID:Growth and protein phosphorylation in the Nb2 lymphoma: effect of prolactin, cAMP, and agents that activate adenylate cyclase. 216 97

Cytosolic free Ca2+ ion concentrations were ([Ca2+]i) measured in single swine granulosa cells using the Ca2(+)-sensitive fluorescent indicator dye fura-2 and digital imaging videomicroscopy with high spatial and temporal resolution. Ovine FSH (oFSH) elicited specific [Ca2+]i increases, which reached their highest value within 5 min of the onset of stimulation and were sustained for 10-15 min. [Ca2+]i usually returned to prestimulated levels and cells regained full responsiveness to a second exposure to oFSH within 20 min. The effect of FSH was not blocked by pretreatment with pertussis toxin. Forskolin and 8-bromo-cAMP were able to mimic similar increases in [Ca2+]i in the presence or absence of extracellular Ca2+. In contrast, the oFSH-induced [Ca2+]i rises were abolished in the absence of extracellular Ca2+. The Ca2+ channel blocker verapamil completely abolished the oFSH-induced [Ca2+]i rise, but not the 8-bromo-cAMP- or the forskolin-induced [Ca2+]i rise. In summary, we have demonstrated that [Ca2+]i is regulated by oFSH in single swine granulosa cells. We propose that the transducing pathway for this FSH effect might not involve cAMP, and that whichever second messenger is responsible for the Ca2+ signal generation acts upon plasma membrane Ca2+ channels.
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PMID:Follicle-stimulating hormone evokes an increase in intracellular free calcium ion concentrations in single ovarian (granulosa) cells. 217 48

In addition to well known direct stimulatory and potentiatory actions of forskolin, we have previously reported that low doses of this diterpene (10(-9), 10(-12) M) markedly inhibit the production of cAMP and testosterone in rat Leydig cells through a pertussis toxin sensitive G-protein (A. Khanum and M. L. Dufau, J. Biol. Chem. 261, 1986). A different type of inhibitory effect of forskolin is described in this study. Forskolin (10(-5) M) markedly stimulates basal adenylate cyclase activity (about 200%) in rat Leydig cell membranes and potentiates the stimulatory effect of gonadotropin (10(-9), 10(-7) M) on adenylate cyclase in presence or in absence of GTP (10(-5) M). Similarly a time-dependent stimulation of forskolin (10(-5) M) alone is noted on all cAMP pools and testosterone production. Using a supramaximal steroidogenic dose of hCG (0.26 nM) or choleragen (0.1 microM), forskolin potentiates the gonadotrophin and toxin-induced responses of all cAMP pools significantly while inhibiting testosterone production. Moreover, forskolin also inhibits 8-Bromo-cAMP stimulated steroidogenesis. In contrast, pregnenolone synthesis was not altered by the diterpene. We have demonstrated in this study that the inhibitory effect of high doses of forskolin on steroidogenesis is distal to cAMP generation, and resulted from a steroidogenic block residing beyond pregnenolone synthesis.
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PMID:A cAMP independent inhibitory action of high doses of forskolin in rat Leydig cells. 217 27

The effects of adenosine on gastrin release were studied in enzymatically dispersed canine antral cells after 24-36 h in primary culture. We found two contrasting actions for adenosine: inhibition of forskolin-stimulated gastrin release and potentiation of bombesin-stimulated gastrin release. These actions appeared to be mediated by A1 and A2 receptors, respectively. Forskolin-stimulated gastrin release was reduced by adenosine and the A1-selective agonist N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (L-PIA) but not by the A2-selective agonist 2-phenylaminoadenosine (CV 1808). This inhibition by adenosine was reversed by the preferential A1-receptor antagonist 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (DPCPX) as well as by the nonselective adenosine receptor antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT). Incubation of the cells with pertussis toxin (200 ng, 8 h) reversed the inhibition by adenosine. In contrast, bombesin stimulation of gastrin release was potentiated by adenosine and CV 1808 but not altered by L-PIA. This effect was enhanced by DPCPX and was not altered by treatment of cells with pertussis toxin. In the absence of exogenous adenosine, 8-PT and DPCPX produced a small increase in basal and stimulated gastrin release. These data suggest dual modulation by adenosine of G-cell function. A1 receptors inhibit adenosine 3,5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-mediated gastrin release via a pertussis toxin-sensitive mechanism, whereas A2 receptors potentiated the response to cAMP-independent stimuli of gastrin release. Enhancement of gastrin release by adenosine antagonists suggests functional restraint by endogenous adenosine.
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PMID:Dual modulation by adenosine of gastrin release from canine G-cells in primary culture. 222 Oct 65


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