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The antidiuretic action of vasopressin is mediated by activation of adenylate cyclase and generation of cyclic AMP. Radioligand binding and radiation inactivation studies have been done using a pig kidney epithelial cell line in culture to define the sequence of subunit interactions involved in the activation of adenylate cyclase by vasopressin. Based on the results of these studies and the known biochemical properties of the individual adenylate cyclase subunits, a hormonal activation model is proposed. According to this model, activation results from the sequential steps of dissociation of the alpha beta subunits of the guanyl nucleotide regulatory unit followed by the binding of GTP to dissociated alpha. The development of this model would not have been possible without the availability of the intact cultured cell system.
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PMID:Vasopressin receptor-adenylate cyclase interactions. Studies in an intact cultured renal epithelial cell line (LLC-PK1). 300 62

A mutant LLC-PK1 cell line, M18, was isolated after a single treatment of the parent culture with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitroso-guanidine. In contrast to LLC-PK1 cells, the mutant did not exhibit production of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) in response to the hormones calcitonin and vasopressin, but produced the expected levels of uPA upon stimulation by the receptor-independent adenylate cyclase activators forskolin and cholera toxin, as well as by the phosphodiesterase inhibitor isobutylmethylxanthine and the 8-bromo analogue of adenosine cyclic monophosphate, Br8cAMP. The patterns of activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase were identical to those of uPA induction: calcitonin and vasopressin were without effect, but the response to all other agents was normal. In similar fashion, mutant cell homogenates displayed normal activation of adenylate cyclase upon treatment with sodium fluoride, forskolin, or the non-hydrolyzable GTP analogue guanosine 5'-[beta, gamma-imino]triphosphate, but were unresponsive to calcitonin or vasopressin. The ability of M18 cells to bind radioactively labelled calcitonin and vasopressin was measured. The mutant possessed less than 4% of the normal levels of the receptor binding activity for both hormones. Somatic cell hybrids formed between M18 and LLC-PK1 cells were found to retain normal hormone binding activity and responsiveness to hormones, indicating that the defect in M18 cells was recessive. M18 was concluded most probably to contain a single mutation impairing the function of two distinct polypeptide hormone receptors.
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PMID:Isolation of a mutant LLC-PK1 cell line defective in hormonal responsiveness. A pleiotropic lesion in receptor function. 302 58

Rat aortic smooth muscle cells in culture (A-10; ATCC CRL 1476) exhibited low levels of beta-adrenergic receptors as determined by specific binding of [125I]cyanopindolol ([125I]CYP) and marginal stimulation of adenylate cyclase in plasma membranes by (-)isoproterenol. When these cells were exposed to 5 mM sodium butyrate, the number of beta-adrenergic receptors and the beta-agonist-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity increased markedly. However, basal, GTP, Gpp(NH)p, and fluoride-stimulated activities did not change. The induction of beta-adrenergic receptors and beta-agonist stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was time- and dose-dependent, and was relatively specific for sodium butyrate. Propionate and valerate were less effective than butyrate, while isobutyrate, succinate, and malonate were ineffective. The induction involved RNA and protein synthesis because induction was prevented by treatment with cycloheximide, puromycin, and actinomycin D. Butyrate did not cause a general increase in cell surface receptors, because the number of vasopressin receptors did not change. The sustained presence of butyrate appeared to be necessary for the maintenance of the induced beta-receptors. When butyrate was removed, receptor number and beta-agonist-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity were decreased by 90% over 24 hr. We conclude that the poor response of rat aortic smooth muscle cell plasma membranes to beta-adrenergic agonists is due to the presence of a low number of beta-adrenergic receptors. Butyrate markedly increased the number of beta-receptors which resulted in a proportional increase in beta-agonist-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity. The increase in receptor number was dependent on RNA and protein synthesis. Butyrate treatment did not affect the activity of the cyclase unit and the efficiency of coupling between the receptors and the guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, Ns.
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PMID:Induction of functional beta-adrenergic receptors in rat aortic smooth muscle cells by sodium butyrate. 302 40

Insulin stimulated the activity of a high-affinity GTPase activity in human platelet membranes some 62% over that of the basal activity. Half-maximal stimulation (Ka) was achieved with 3.1 nM insulin. The Km for GTP of the insulin-stimulated GTPase was 0.6 microM GTP. Treatment of isolated platelet membranes with cholera toxin, but not pertussis toxin, blocked insulin's ability to stimulate GTPase activity. Cholera toxin acted as a more potent inhibitor of the insulin-stimulated GTPase activity than that of the GTPase activity of the stimulatory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, Gs, as monitored by stimulation using prostaglandin E1 (PGE1). Mixed ligand experiments showed that insulin stimulated GTPase activity in an additive fashion to GTPase activity stimulated by PGE1, due to Gs; by adrenaline (+ propranolol), due to the inhibitory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, G1 and by vasopressin, which stimulates the putative 'Gp', a G-protein suggested to control the stimulation of inositol phospholipid metabolism. Insulin thus appears to stimulate a novel high-affinity GTPase activity in human platelet membranes. This may reflect the functioning of the putative Gins, a guanine nucleotide regulatory protein which has been suggested to mediate certain of insulin's actions on target tissues.
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PMID:Insulin stimulates a novel GTPase activity in human platelets. 303 74

Treatment of intact hepatocytes with glucagon, TH-glucagon [( 1-N-alpha-trinitrophenylhistidine, 12-homoarginine]glucagon), angiotensin or vasopressin led to a rapid time- and dose-dependent loss of the glucagon-stimulated response of the adenylate cyclase activity seen in membrane fractions isolated from these cells. Intracellular cyclic AMP concentrations were only elevated with glucagon. All ligands were capable of causing both desensitization/loss of glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity and stimulation of inositol phospholipid metabolism in the intact hepatocytes. Maximally effective doses of angiotensin precluded any further inhibition/desensitizing action when either glucagon or TH-glucagon was subsequently added to these intact cells, as has been shown previously for the phorbol ester TPA (12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate) [Heyworth, Wilson, Gawler & Houslay (1985) FEBS Lett. 187, 196-200]. Treatment of intact hepatocytes with these various ligands caused a selective loss of the glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in a washed membrane fraction and did not alter the basal, GTP-, NaF- and forskolin-stimulated responses. Angiotensin failed to inhibit glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity when added directly to a washed membrane fraction from control cells. Glucagon GR2 receptor-stimulated adenylate cyclase is suggested to undergo desensitization/uncoupling through a cyclic AMP-independent process, which involves the stimulation of inositol phospholipid metabolism by glucagon acting through GR1 receptors. This action can be mimicked by other hormones which act on the liver to stimulate inositol phospholipid metabolism. As the phorbol ester TPA also mimics this process, it is proposed that protein kinase C activation plays a pivotal role in the molecular mechanism of desensitization of glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase. The site of the lesion in desensitization is shown to be at the level of coupling between the glucagon receptor and the stimulatory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein Gs, and it is suggested that one or both of these components may provide a target for phosphorylation by protein kinase C.
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PMID:The rapid desensitization of glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase is a cyclic AMP-independent process that can be mimicked by hormones which stimulate inositol phospholipid metabolism. 303 85

Growth factors can be divided into two classes which act through distinct signal transduction pathways. One class including epidermal growth factor, platelet derived growth factor and fibroblast growth factor activates receptor tyrosine kinases, and the second class, including thrombin, bombesin, bradykinin and vasopressin activates a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C through GTP-binding proteins which can be inactivated by pertussis toxin. In Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts, thrombin-induced mitogenicity seems to correlate well with phospholipase C activation and both events are sensitive to pertussis toxin. Thrombin, like the other mitogens in this class, simultaneously inhibits adenylate cyclase. This involves an inhibitory G protein (Gi), a well established pertussis toxin substrate. The relative contributions of the two signalling pathways to mitogenicity has not been evaluated so far. We report here that the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine), a contracting agent and mitogen for smooth muscle cells, activates phospholipase C, inhibits adenylate cyclase and stimulates DNA synthesis in fibroblasts. These events are sensitive to pertussis toxin. We show that the mitogenicity of 5-hydroxytryptamine can be uncoupled from phospholipase C activation that is mediated by 5-HT2 receptors, but correlates perfectly with inhibition of adenylate cyclase through 5-HT1B receptor. We propose that inhibition of adenylate cyclase or activation of an undefined effector system by Gi is important in 5-hydroxytryptamine induced DNA synthesis and contributes to the strong mitogenicity of the other members of this family of growth factors.
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PMID:Serotonin stimulates DNA synthesis in fibroblasts acting through 5-HT1B receptors coupled to a Gi-protein. 304 68

The mode of phospholipase C activation initiated with platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) has been studied in comparison with that initiated with vasopressin and bombesin in a rat fibroblast line, WFB. Stimulation of WFB cells by PDGF, vasopressin, and bombesin elicites rapid hydrolysis of polyphosphoinositides and an increase in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i). On stimulation by PDGF, there was a lag period of about 10 s before an increase in [Ca2+]i. No measurable lag period was observed in the [Ca2+]i response induced by vasopressin or bombesin. Pretreatment of WFB cells with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate profoundly inhibited inositol phosphate formation evoked by vasopressin and bombesin, but enhanced to some extent inositol phosphate formation stimulated by PDGF. In membranes prepared from WFB cells, GTP markedly augmented inositol polyphosphate formation induced by vasopressin and bombesin. It was not successful in showing the PDGF-stimulated formation of inositol phosphates in the membrane preparation. The effects of GTP, guanosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) (GDP beta S), and guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S) on polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis stimulated by growth factors were studied in WFB cells made permeable to nucleotides by treatment with either saponin or Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytotoxin. PDGF, vasopressin, and bombesin elicited inositol phosphate production in the permeabilized WFB cells in the absence of added GTP. GDP beta S, a competitive inhibitor of GTP-binding proteins (G-proteins), markedly reduced the bombesin- and vasopressin-stimulated production of inositol phosphates. However, the PDGF-stimulated production of inositol phosphates was not affected by the addition of GDP beta S. GTP gamma S, an agonist of G-proteins, largely enhanced the vasopressin- and bombesin-stimulated hydrolysis of inositol lipids when added at 10-100 microM. In the presence of GTP gamma S, the PDGF-stimulated hydrolysis of inositol lipids was not enhanced, but was reduced: 100 microM GTP gamma S reduced the stimulated hydrolysis to about a half of the control level. Only GTP gamma S, and no other nucleoside triphosphates, was found to have these effects. Activation of G-proteins in WFB cells by fluoroaluminate resulted in the inhibition of inositol phosphate production elicited with not only PDGF, but also with vasopressin and bombesin. These results indicate that a G-protein couples vasopressin and bombesin receptors to the activation of phospholipase C. Moreover, these results suggest that coupling of the PDGF receptor to phospholipase C is not mediated through a G-protein.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Pathway of phospholipase C activation initiated with platelet-derived growth factor is different from that initiated with vasopressin and bombesin. 304 15

The inhibitory GTP-binding protein (Gi) is known to mediate the effects of a number of hormones that act through specific receptors to inhibit adenylate cyclase. In this study we examined the mechanism whereby Gi modulates the response of adenylate cyclase to a stimulatory hormone and its role in desensitization. In membranes prepared from the cultured renal epithelial cell line LLCPK1, adenylate cyclase activity was stimulated 16-fold by 1-2 microM lysine vasopressin. Addition of GTP (1-100 microM) resulted in stimulation of basal activity but inhibition of hormone-stimulated activity (approximately 40% inhibition at 100 microM GTP). This contrasts with the usual effect of GTP to support or augment activation by stimulatory receptors. The inhibitory effect was abolished by pertussis toxin, which had little effect on basal activity in the absence or presence of added GTP or on vasopressin-stimulated activity in the absence of added GTP. GTP-mediated inhibition was vasopressin concentration dependent. At concentrations of vasopressin below the K1/2 for enzyme activation (approximately 0.6 nM), GTP was stimulatory, and at higher concentrations, GTP was inhibitory. The inhibitory effect of GTP was also observed for a V2-receptor agonist and was not abolished by a V1-receptor antagonist, indicating that a distinct V1 receptor did not mediate inhibition of adenylate cyclase. Using the known subunit structure of adenylate cyclase, we developed the minimal mechanism that would incorporate a modulatory role for Gi in determining net activation of adenylate cyclase by a stimulatory hormone. The predicted enzyme activities for basal and maximal hormone stimulation in the presence and absence of GTP were generated, and model parameters were chosen to match the experimental observations.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Cross talk between stimulatory and inhibitory guanosine 5'-triphosphate binding proteins: role in activation and desensitization of the adenylate cyclase response to vasopressin. 310 83

1. In isolated hepatocytes NaF increased the rate of 45Ca2+ exchange, the cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) (monitored by using quin2), and the activity of glycogen phosphorylase a in a Ca2+-dependent manner. 2. In cells previously incubated in the absence of extracellular Ca2+(Ca2+o), NaF caused a pronounced enhancement in the increases in the activity of glycogen phosphorylase and in [Ca2+]i observed when Ca2+ was subsequently added. The effect of NaF on glycogen phosphorylase activity was inhibited by verapamil and deferoxamine, and was potentiated by AlCl3. 3. The actions of NaF were associated with (a) increases in [3H]inositol polyphosphates, which were slower in onset and about half the magnitude of those induced by vasopressin, in hepatocytes labelled with [3H]inositol, and (b) enhanced rates of O2 utilization and decreased concentrations of ATP. The latter effects were not potentiated by AlCl3. 4. Preincubation of hepatocytes with vasopressin in the absence of added Ca2+o for times up to 30 min did not diminish the ability of a subsequent addition of extracellular Ca2+ to activate glycogen phosphorylase. 5. 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate had little effect on 45Ca2+ exchange and did not enhance the activation by Ca2+o of phosphorylase in hepatocytes incubated in the absence of Ca2+o. 6. On the basis of the observation that AlF4- activates GTP-binding regulatory proteins [Sternweiss & Gilman (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79, 4888-4891], it is concluded that the present results provide evidence for the function of a GTP-binding regulatory protein in the mechanism by which hormones stimulate plasma-membrane Ca2+ inflow in the liver cell, and indicate that an increase in [Ca2+]i and the activation of protein kinase C are not part of this mechanism.
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PMID:The stimulation by sodium fluoride of plasma-membrane Ca2+ inflow in isolated hepatocytes. Evidence that a GTP-binding regulatory protein is involved in the hormonal stimulation of Ca2+ inflow. 311 43

Isolated rat hepatocytes responded to a variety of Ca2+-mobilizing agents (vasopressin, angiotensin II, epinephrine, epidermal growth factor, ATP, and ADP) with a rapid increase in phosphatidate mass, as measured by a sensitive new method. When hepatocytes were incubated with vasopressin (10(-8) M), phosphatidate levels increased 2-3-fold in 2 min, but there was no significant increase in diacylglycerol at this time. Changes in the fatty acid composition of phosphatidate also preceded those in diacylglycerol. De novo synthesis of phosphatidate from [3H]glycerol was unaffected by vasopressin in short-term incubation. Incubation of washed rat liver plasma membranes with GTP gamma S caused a time-dependent increase in phosphatidate. When membranes were incubated with GTP gamma S and [gamma-32P]ATP, no incorporation of 32P into phosphatidate was observed. This excludes the phospholipase C-diacylglycerol kinase pathway and suggests that a phospholipase D activity produced the phosphatidate. At submaximal concentrations of GTP gamma S, ATP and ADP stimulated membrane phosphatidate formation, presumably by acting through P2-purinergic receptors. Only phosphatidylcholine, among the major phospholipids, decreased in the membranes in response to GTP gamma S. The fatty acid composition of the phosphatidate produced in response to vasopressin in hepatocytes also suggests that phosphatidylcholine may be the source of hormonally elicited phosphatidate. We conclude that Ca2+-mobilizing hormones mainly increase phosphatidate levels in hepatocytes by a mechanism that does not involve phosphorylation of diacylglycerol or de novo synthesis but involves a guanine nucleotide-binding protein coupled to phospholipase D.
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PMID:Phosphatidate accumulation in hormone-treated hepatocytes via a phospholipase D mechanism. 311 99


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