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Query: UMLS:C0043167 (pertussis)
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Muscarinic receptors of cardiac pacemaker and atrial cells are linked to a potassium channel (IK.ACh) by a pertussis toxin-sensitive GTP-binding protein. The dissociation of G-proteins leads to the generation of two potential transducing elements, alpha-GTP and beta gamma. IK.ACh is activated by G-protein alpha- and beta gamma-subunits applied to the intracellular surface of inside-out patches of membrane. beta gamma has been shown to activate the membrane-bound enzyme phospholipase A2 in retinal rods. Arachidonic acid, which is produced from the action of phospholipase A2 on phospholipids, is metabolized to compounds which may act as second messengers regulating ion channels in Aplysia. Muscarinic receptor activation leads to the generation of arachidonic acid in some cell lines. We therefore tested the hypothesis that beta gamma activates IK.ACh by stimulation of phospholipase A2. When patches were first incubated with antibody that blocks phospholipase A2 activity, or with the lipoxygenase inhibitor, nordihydroguaiaretic acid, beta gamma failed to activate IK.ACh. Arachidonic acid and several of its metabolites derived from the 5-lipoxygenase pathway, activated the channel. Blockade of the cyclooxygenase pathway did not inhibit arachidonic acid-induced channel activation. We conclude that the beta gamma-subunit of G-proteins activates IK.ACh by stimulating the production of lipoxygenase-derived second messengers.
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PMID:G-protein beta gamma-subunits activate the cardiac muscarinic K+-channel via phospholipase A2. 249 40

[3H]Arachidonic acid is released after stimulation of rabbit neutrophils with fMet-Leu-Phe or platelet-activating factor (PAF). The release is rapid and dose-dependent, and is inhibited in phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)-treated rabbit neutrophils. The protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor 1-(5-isoquinoline-sulphonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H-7) prevents this inhibition. In addition, PMA increases arachidonic acid release in H-7-treated cells stimulated with fMet-Leu-Phe. [3H]Arachidonic acid release, but not the rise in the concentration of intracellular Ca2+, is inhibited in pertussis-toxin-treated neutrophils stimulated with PAF. The diacylglycerol kinase inhibitor R59022 increases the concentration of diacylglycerol and potentiates [3H]arachidonic acid release in neutrophils stimulated with fMet-Leu-Phe. This potentiation is not inhibited by H-7. These results suggest several points. (1) A rise in the intracellular concentration of free Ca2+ is not sufficient for arachidonic acid release in rabbit neutrophils stimulated by physiological stimuli. (2) A functional pertussis-toxin-sensitive guanine nucleotide regulatory protein and/or one or more of the changes produced by phospholipase C activation are necessary for arachidonic acid release produced by physiological stimuli. (3) Agents that stimulate PKC potentiate arachidonic acid release, and this potentiation is not inhibited by H-7. These agents produce their actions in part by direct membrane perturbation.
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PMID:Arachidonic acid release in rabbit neutrophils. 277 41

L929 cells were incubated with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in the presence or absence of various inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism. The addition of either hydrocortisone or nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) decreased the cytotoxic effect of TNF-alpha but exogenously added arachidonate or linoleate, indomethacin and eicosatetraynoic acid (ETYA) were without effect. While it was found that TNF-alpha stimulated arachidonic acid release, no metabolites of this fatty acid could be evidenced. Cytotoxicity of TNF-alpha could also be decreased by the addition of either cholera or pertussis toxin. These results suggest that a GTP-binding protein is involved in the cytotoxic action of TNF-alpha. Arachidonic acid, released possibly by a phospholipase A2, might also play a role, but probably not via its conversion to known metabolites.
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PMID:Modulation of tumor necrosis factor-alpha cytotoxicity in L929 cells by bacterial toxins, hydrocortisone and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism. 312 42

Bombesin-like peptides including neuromedin B have been proposed as autocrine or paracrine growth factors for carcinomas. To examine signal transduction and regulation of cell growth by NMB, transfectants were created with the rat NMB receptor (NMB-R) gene in BALB/3T3 cells which do not express an endogenous bombesin peptide receptor. The resultant cell line, NMB-8, expresses 800,000 NMB binding sites/cell. Addition of NMB has a biphasic effect on [3H]thymidine ([3H]dT) incorporation in confluent and quiescent cells: up to 10 nM of NMB causes a 1.5-3-fold stimulation of [3H]dT incorporation, but at greater than 10 nM there is inhibition of [3H]dT incorporation, and at 100 nM of NMB there is inhibition of cell growth. NMB causes protracted increases in intracellular Ca2+, and pertussis toxin (PT)-insensitive phosphatidylinositol (PI) turnover. NMB-mediated increase in membrane phospholipase-C activity is stimulated by guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate). Arachidonate release is also activated by NMB in a PT-insensitive manner. Brief exposure to 12-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate inhibits NMB-mediated PI turnover but not arachidonate release. Thus, in NMB-8 cells, distinct mechanisms govern NMB-mediated phospholipase-C activation and arachidonate release. Also, neuromedin-B is potentially a bifunctional regulator of cell growth.
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PMID:Neuromedin-B receptor transfected BALB/3T3 cells: signal transduction and effects of ectopic receptor expression on cell growth. 839 94

The present study in purified rat Leydig cells shows that arachidonic acid may act as an intratesticular factor regulating LH-mediated testicular steroidogenesis. Arachidonic acid decreased, in a dose-dependent manner, the LH-stimulated cAMP and testosterone levels, over 2 h incubation. Incubation of Leydig cells with arachidonic acid did not modify 125I-hCG binding to the cells as compared to control, showing that the action of arachidonic acid is not related to a decrease of hCG binding to the cells. Forskolin-stimulated cAMP and testosterone production were inhibited by 51.65 and 70.9%, respectively, in the presence of arachidonic acid (100 microM), although the ED50 for the diterpene was not changed. When isobutyl-methyl-xanthine was added to the incubation medium, the same percentage of inhibition was found indicating that arachidonic acid inhibition of cAMP production is not due to stimulation of Leydig cell phosphodiesterase activity. Pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin, to inactivate Gi, was also without effect on arachidonic acid inhibition of LH-stimulated cAMP production, but pertussis toxin abolished the inhibitory effects of arachidonic acid when adenylate cyclase was stimulated with forskolin. However, arachidonic acid addition resulted in inhibition of LH- and forskolin-stimulated testosterone production, even if the cells were pretreated with pertussis toxin. It can be concluded that: (1) The inhibitory effect of arachidonic acid is neither due to a decrease of hCG binding to Leydig cells nor to a stimulation of cell phosphodiesterase activity; (2) arachidonic acid modulates cAMP production at two different levels, either by activation of Gi protein and by inhibition of Gs protein or adenylate cyclase; (3) the effect of arachidonic acid on steroidogenesis is also beyond cAMP formation.
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PMID:Different sites of action of arachidonic acid on steroidogenesis in rat Leydig cells. 873 5

Glutamate (Glu) uptake is the primary mechanism for its removal from the synapse. In genetic audiogenic seizures (AGS), Glu uptake is elevated prior to the appearance of seizures. Increased Glu uptake is also observed in synaptosomes from normal mice preincubated with lithium or nitroarginine, an NO synthase inhibitor. Pertussis and cholera toxins cause a marked reduction in Glu uptake. In contrast, neither lithium nor nitroarginine affected Glu uptake by synaptosomes from genetic epileptic mice. Arachidonic acid inhibits Glu uptake, whereas synaptosomes from epileptic mouse brain appear to be more sensitive to arachidonic acid as indicated by a shift of the inhibition curve to the left. These observations are indicative of the possible regulation of Glu uptake by second messengers and its alteration in genetic epilepsy.
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PMID:Possible regulation of high-affinity glutamate uptake in synaptosomes of normal and epileptic mice. 887 51

Basal and fatty-acid-modulated G-protein function was studied in 1-3-day-pre-term, fetal guinea-pig, type II (fATII) pneumocyte apical membrane. Unstimulated (tonic) high-affinity GTPase activity (measured as [gamma-32P]GTP hydrolysis rate) was high and 77% pertussis toxin-insensitive. Alteration of this activity was used as a marker of G-protein regulation. Arachidonic acid (AA) showed a dose-dependent (IC50 = 48+/-8 microM) inhibition of activity at concentrations significantly below critical micellar concentrations; this effect was mimicked by other polyunsaturated fatty acids (IC50 for linoleic acid = 47 +/- 2 microM; IC50 for oleic acid = 106 +/- 11 microM). Saturated fatty acids showed no effect. The effect of AA on ouabain-insensitive ATPases in the same preparation was significantly lower, suggesting a specificity of the GTPase modulation effect. AA modulation of GTPase activity was not attenuated by blocking eicosanoid metabolism with inhibitors of 5'-lipoxygenase, cyclo-oxygenase and P-450. In order to explore further the mechanism of AA-G-protein interaction, the effect of AA on the time course and equilibrium binding of [35S]GTP[S] to apical membrane was studied. Consistent with our GTPase assay data, AA inhibited binding with an IC50 value of 71+/-1 microM; stearic acid did not mimic this effect. This is the first report of unsaturated-fatty-acid-specific modulation of lung G-protein function: since AA also up-regulates perinatal lung alveolar Na+ transport, we suggest this lipid/G-protein switch helps maintain pulmonary fluid homoeostasis around birth.
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PMID:Direct modulation of G-proteins by polyunsaturated fatty acids: a novel eicosanoid-independent regulatory mechanism in the developing lung. 930 21

We have previously shown that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) plays a major role in growth zone chondrocyte (GC) differentiation and that this effect is mediated by protein kinase C (PKC). The aim of the present study was to identify the signal transduction pathway used by 1,25(OH)2D3 to stimulate PKC activation. Confluent, fourth passage GC cells from costochondral cartilage were used to evaluate the mechanism of PKC activation. Treatment of GC cultures with 1,25(OH)2D3 elicited a dose-dependent increase in both inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate and diacylglycerol (DAG) production, suggesting a role for phospholipase C and potentially for phospholipase D. Addition of dioctanoylglycerol to plasma membranes isolated from GCs increased PKC activity. Neither pertussis toxin nor choleratoxin had an inhibitory effect on PKC activity in control or 1,25(OH)2D3-treated GCs, indicating that neither Gi nor Gs proteins were involved. Phospholipase A2 inhibitors, quinacrine, OEPC (selective for secretory phospholipase A2), and AACOCF3 (selective for cytosolic phospholipase A2), and the cyclooxygenase inhibitor indomethacin decreased PKC activity, while the phospholipase A2 activators melittin and mastoparan increased PKC activity in GC cultures. Arachidonic acid and prostaglandin E2, two downstream products of phospholipase A2 action, also increased PKC activity. These results indicate that 1,25(OH)2D3-dependent stimulation of PKC activity is regulated by two distinct phospholipase-dependent mechanisms: production of DAG, primarily via phospholipase C and production of arachidonic acid via phospholipase A2.
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PMID:1,25(OH)2D3 regulates protein kinase C activity through two phospholipid-dependent pathways involving phospholipase A2 and phospholipase C in growth zone chondrocytes. 955 56

The mechanism of agonist-activated arachidonate release was studied in segments of rat tail artery. Tail artery segments were prelabeled with [3H]arachidonate and then stimulated with norepinephrine (NE), and the radioactivity of the extracellular medium was determined. NE stimulated arachidonate release from the tissue without increasing arachidonic acid levels within cellular cytosol or crude membranes. About 90% of the extracellular radioactivity was shown to be unmetabolized arachidonate by TLC. Arachidonic acid release was not inhibited by the removal of the endothelium from the artery. NE exerted a half-maximal effect at a concentration of 0.2 microM. NE-stimulated arachidonate release was not inhibited by blockers of phospholipase C (U-73122), diacylglycerol lipase (RHC-80267), secretory phospholipase A2 (manoalide), calcium-insensitive phospholipase A2 (HELSS), or beta-adrenergic receptors (propranolol). NE-stimulated arachidonic acid release was inhibited by blockers of cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2) (AACOCF3), alpha 1-adrenergic receptors (prazosin), and specific G proteins (pertussis toxin). This indicated that NE stimulated arachidonate release from vascular smooth muscle via activation of alpha-adrenergic receptors, either Gi or Go, and cPLA2. NE-activated arachidonic acid release from vascular smooth muscle may play a role in force generation by the tissue. Perhaps arachidonic acid extends the effect of NE on one specific smooth muscle cell to its nearby neighbor cells.
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PMID:Norepinephrine stimulates arachidonic acid release from vascular smooth muscle via activation of cPLA2. 957 10

We show that lipopolysaccharide-free actetylated low-density lipoprotein (LDL), but not native LDL, stimulates tumor-necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) secretion by rat peritoneal macrophages and the signal-transduction pathways involved. The role of the scavenger receptor (SR) in this response was suggested by the absence of an effect induced by native LDL, signal coupling involving pertussis-toxin-dependent guanine-nucleotide-binding regulatory (G) protein, and the complete inhibition of this response by SR ligands [poly(I) and dextran sulfate]. Acetylated LDL induces rapid Ca2+ release from inositol-phosphate-sensitive Ca2+ stores mediated by pertussis-sensitive G proteins and a sustained Ca2+ rise mediated by Ca2+ influx and by Ca2+ release from ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ stores. Acetylated LDL-induced Ca2+ influx and TNF-alpha production were abolished by inhibitors of phospholipase C (U73122) and phospholipase A2 (bromophenacyl bromide), but were not affected by an inhibitor of protein kinase C (calphostine C). Therefore, Ca2+ influx induced by acetylated LDL is dependent on Ca2+ store depletion. Arachidonate released by acetylated LDL acts as a second messenger to activate TNF-alpha secretion via Ca2+ influx. While the Ca2+ signal was not modified by an inhibitor of protein tyrosine kinases (PTK; herbimycin A), this inhibitor completely blocked TNF-alpha production, suggesting the involvement of PTK downstream of the Ca2+ signal. These results suggest that a sustained elevation of intracellular Ca2+, mediated through Ca2+ influx via the phospholipase-A2-dependent pathway, is essential for induction of TNF-alpha secretion. The type of SR class involved in these pathways remains to be identified.
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PMID:Involvement of calcium and arachidonate metabolism in acetylated-low-density-lipoprotein-stimulated tumor-necrosis-factor-alpha production by rat peritoneal macrophages. 957 94


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