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Query: UNIPROT:P01185 (vasopressin)
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Treatment of isolated hepatocytes with F- produced a concentration-dependent activation of phosphorylase, efflux of Ca2+, rise in [Ca2+]i, increase in Ins 1,4,5-P3 levels, decrease in PI-4,5-P2 levels, and increase in DAG levels. The levels of intracellular cAMP were decreased by NaF. The effects of NaF were potentiated by AlCl3. This potentiation was abolished by the Al3+ chelator deferoxamine. These results illustrate that AlF4- can mimic the effects of Ca2+-mobilizing hormones in hepatocytes and suggest that the coupling of the receptors for these hormones to the hydrolysis of PI-4,5-P2 is through a guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein. This is because AlF4- is known to modulate the activity of other guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins (Gi, Gs, and transducin). Calcium-sensitive inositide release in a purified rat liver plasma membrane preparation was increased by calcium-mobilizing hormones in the presence of guanine nucleotides. Vasopressin-stimulated inositide release was evident in the presence of GTP or GTP gamma S. The guanine nucleotide and hormonal stimulation was evident on both inositide production and PI 4,5-P2 degradation. Treatment of plasma membranes with cholera toxin or islet activating protein or prior injection of animals with islet activating protein did not affect stimulation of inositide release by GTP gamma S or GTP gamma S plus vasopressin. The results suggest that calcium-mobilizing hormones stimulate polyphosphoinositide breakdown in rat liver plasma membranes through a novel guanine nucleotide binding protein. The GTPase activity of rat liver plasma membranes was stimulated 20% by 10(-8) M vasopressin. The vasopressin-stimulated GTPase activity was not inhibited in plasma membranes that had been ADP-ribosylated with either cholera toxin or pertussis toxin. When membranes that had been solubilized after preincubation with [3H]vasopressin were subjected to sucrose gradient centrifugation, most of the protein-bound [3H]vasopressin migrated as a single band, also, there was a GTPase activity that migrated with the bound [3H]vasopressin. This peak of bound [3H]vasopressin was decreased 90% when the sucrose gradient centrifugation was run in the presence of 10 M GTP gamma S. Direct evidence that a GTP-binding protein was present in the [3H]vasopressin peak was obtained by the immuno-detection of a 35 kDa beta subunit of a GTP-binding protein and a 40 kDa alpha subunit. These results support the conclusion that liver plasma membranes contain a GTP-binding protein that can complex with the vasopressin receptor.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Role of guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins and inositol phosphates in the hormone induced mobilization of hepatocyte calcium. 314 79

LLC-PK1L cells, a kidney-derived cell line, were able to grow in a chemically defined medium. Growth of the cells in the presence of retinol, ergocalciferol, d-alpha-tocopherol, 3,3',5-triiodothyronine, hydrocortisone, l-carnitine, d-l-methionine-S-methylsulfonium chloride, insulin, transferrin, cholesterol, and sodium linoleate increased the number of vasopressin receptors by 20- to 40-fold. All the newly detectable vasopressin receptors were coupled to the adenylate cyclase activity with similar efficiency. The same growth conditions did not alter the basal adenylate cyclase activity or the responses to calcitonin, parathyroid hormone, prostaglandin, adenosine, and GTP. In contrast, the increased responsiveness of the adenylate cyclase to vasopressin was associated with a reduced response to isoproterenol. Such an inverse correlation was also found when the time course of vasopressin receptor induction was studied. The supplemented medium permitted the growth of cells for several weeks. The effects of the enriched medium were fully reversible when we returned to the original cell growth medium. Thus such a cellular system appears as a useful tool for further work in cellular and kidney endocrinology and for detailing the molecular mechanisms of receptor-adenylate cyclase regulations.
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PMID:Regulation of hormonal responsiveness in LLC-PK1L cells grown in defined medium. 315 11

Calcium has been implicated as an important factor in prostaglandin production. Phospholipase A2, the enzyme believed to be rate limiting for prostaglandin synthesis, is stimulated by Ca2+; however, the levels of Ca2+ necessary to stimulate phospholipase A2 in cell-free systems are higher than levels achieved in intact cells in response to agonists that stimulate prostaglandin synthesis. We examined the calcium dependency of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis in the glomerular mesangial cell. Vasopressin enhanced PGE2 synthesis by mechanisms independent of extracellular Ca2+ concentration. The Ca2+ concentration dependency of PGE2 production was established by rendering cells permeable with digitonin and clamping Ca2+ concentration at various levels. When cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]f) was set at levels equal to those measured after stimulation with vasopressin in the intact cell, the PGE2 production by the Ca2+-clamped permeabilized cells was approximately one-half of that obtained in nonpermeabilized cells stimulated with vasopressin. Since stimulation of mesangial cells with vasopressin increases protein kinase C activation as well as [Ca2+]f the effects on PGE2 production of protein kinase C activation with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) were examined. When permeabilized cells were exposed to Ca2+ concentrations in the range of [Ca2+]f measured in cells treated with vasopressin the addition of PMA approximately doubled PGE2 production. No increase in PGE2 production was observed with PMA when Ca2+ concentration was fixed at basal levels of less than 100 nM. Ca2+-dependent acylhydrolase activity and PGE2 production were inhibited by calmodulin inhibitors, W-7 and compound 48/80. Thus, vasopressin-induced PGE2 production could be explained by a synergistic effect of protein kinase C activation together with an increase in [Ca2+]f. A synergistic action of Ca2+ and PMA on acylhydrolase activity could also be observed in nonpermeabilized cells where A23187 was used to increase [Ca2+]f. The effect of PMA was mimicked by another stimulant of protein kinase C, 1-oleoyl 2-acetylglycerol, albeit with lower potency. Neither PMA nor 1-oleoyl 2-acetylglycerol alone had any effect on acylhydrolase activity. Vasopressin, in the presence of GTP gamma S, stimulated phospholipase C in permeabilized cells when [Ca2+]f was fixed at less than 100 nM, without an associated increase in acylhydrolase activity. This evidence, together with inhibition of acylhydrolase activity with phospholipase A2 inhibitors, dibucaine and mepacrine, indicates that the primary acylhydrolase activity was due to phospholipase A2. The enhanced phospholipase A2 activity observed with protein kinase C activation when [Ca2+]f is increased may be related to phosphorylation of phospholipase A2 itself or phospholipase A2 modulatory proteins. These experiments demonstrate that both Ca2+ and protein kinase C play important roles in the regulation of phospholipase A2 and PGE2 synthesis.
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PMID:Calcium dependency of prostaglandin E2 production in rat glomerular mesangial cells. Evidence that protein kinase C modulates the Ca2+-dependent activation of phospholipase A2. 316 26

Utilizing a digitonin-permeabilized cell system, we have studied the release of calcium from a non-mitochondrial intracellular compartment in cultured human fibroblasts (HSWP cells). Addition of 1 mM MgATP to a monolayer of permeabilized cells in a cytosolic media buffered to 150 nM Ca with EGTA rapidly stimulates 45Ca uptake, and the subsequent addition of the putative intracellular messenger inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) induces rapid release of 85% (+/- 6% n = 6) of the 45Ca taken up in response to ATP. Mitogenic peptides (bradykinin, vasopressin, epidermal growth factor [EGF], and insulin) and orthovanadate, which are effective in mobilizing intracellular Ca in intact cells, have little or no effect when added alone to permeabilized cells. However, in the presence of GTP these agents stimulate accumulation of inositol phosphates and release Ca from the InsP3-sensitive pool. These data suggest that a GTP binding protein is involved in receptor mediated activation of phospholipase C, which leads to release of inositol phosphates. The GTP-dependent release of InsP3 and the mobilization of 45Ca from the intracellular compartment are inhibited by pretreatment of cells, prior to permeabilization, with the protein kinase C activator 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA). TPA pretreatment does not affect the InsP3 stimulated Ca release. These results suggest that protein kinase C is involved in down-regulation or inhibition of phospholipase C, or the GTP binding protein responsible for relaying the mitogenic signal from the cell surface receptor to the phospholipase C activity.
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PMID:Calcium mobilization in permeabilized fibroblasts: effects of inositol trisphosphate, orthovanadate, mitogens, phorbol ester, and guanosine triphosphate. 349 99

1. In hepatocytes, epidermal growth factor (EFG) (a) increased the rate of 45Ca2+ exchange in cells incubated at 1.3 mM extracellular Ca2+, (b) increased the activity of glycogen phosphorylase a and the intracellular free Ca2+ concentration (measured with quin2) in a process dependent on the concentration of extracellular Ca2+, and (c) enhanced the increase in glycogen phosphorylase activity which follows the addition of Ca2+ to cells previously incubated in the absence of Ca2+. It is concluded that EGF stimulates plasma-membrane Ca2+ inflow. 2. The effects of the combination of EGF and vasopressin on the rate of 45Ca2+ exchange and on the rate of increase in glycogen phosphorylase activity were the same as those of vasopressin alone. 3. The amount of 45Ca2+ released by EGF from internal stores was about 30% of that released by vasopressin. No detectable increase in [3H]inositol mono-, bis- or tris-phosphate was observed after the addition of EGF to cells labelled with myo-[3H]inositol. 4. In hepatocytes isolated from rats treated with pertussis toxin, the effects of EGF and vasopressin on phosphorylase activity (measured at 1.3 mM-Ca2+) and on the rate of Ca2+ inflow (measured with quin2) were markedly decreased compared with those in normal cells. 5. Treatment with pertussis toxin did not impair the ability of vasopressin to release Ca2+ from internal stores, but decreased vasopressin-stimulated [3H]inositol polyphosphate formation by 50%. 6. It is concluded that the mechanism(s) by which vasopressin and EGF stimulate plasma-membrane Ca2+-inflow transporters in hepatocytes involves a GTP-binding regulatory protein sensitive to pertussis toxin, and does not require an increase in the concentration of inositol trisphosphate comparable with that which induces the release of Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum.
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PMID:Evidence that a pertussis-toxin-sensitive substrate is involved in the stimulation by epidermal growth factor and vasopressin of plasma-membrane Ca2+ inflow in hepatocytes. 350 16

Radiation inactivation was used to examine the mechanism of activation of adenylate cyclase in the cultured renal epithelial cell line LLC-PK1 with hormonal (vasopressin) and nonhormonal (GTP, forskolin, fluoride, and chloride) activating ligands. Intact cells were frozen, irradiated at -70 degrees C (0-14 Mrad), thawed, and assayed for adenylate cyclase activity in the presence of activating ligands. The ln (adenylate cyclase activity) vs. radiation dose relation was linear (target size 162 kDa) for vasopressin- (2 microM) stimulated activity and concave downward for unstimulated (10 mM Mn2+), NaF- (10 mM) stimulated, and NaCl- (100 mM) stimulated activities. Addition of 2 microM vasopressin did not alter the ln activity vs. dose relation for NaF- (10 mM) stimulated activity. The dose-response relations for adenylate cyclase activation and for transition in the ln activity vs. dose curve shape were measured for vasopressin and NaF. On the basis of our model for adenylate cyclase subunit interactions reported previously [Verkman, A. S., Skorecki, K. L., & Ausiello, D. A. (1986) Am. J. Physiol. 260, C103-C123] and of new mathematical analyses, activation mechanisms for each ligand are proposed. In the unstimulated state, equilibrium between alpha beta and alpha + beta favors alpha beta; dissociated alpha binds to GTP (rate-limiting step), which then combines with the catalytic (C) subunit to form active enzyme. Vasopressin binding to receptor provides a rapid pathway for GTP binding to alpha. GTP and its analogues accelerate the rate of alpha GTP formation. Forskolin inhibits the spontaneous deactivation of activated C. Activation by fluoride may occur without alpha beta dissociation or GTP addition through activation of C by an alpha beta-F complex.
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PMID:Mechanisms of nonhormonal activation of adenylate cyclase based on target analysis. 376 98

Radiation inactivation is used to probe the sequence of subunit interactions involved in the activation of adenylate cyclase by vasopressin in cultured renal epithelial cells (LLC-PK1) based on our previous analysis of the radiation inactivation of multimeric enzymes [Verkman et al., Am. J. Physiol. 250 (Cell Physiol. 19): C103-C114, 1986]. For basal adenylate cyclase activity, a concave downward ln(activity) vs. dose relation was observed with limiting slope corresponding to a molecular weight of (169-196) X 10(3). Similar results were obtained with NaF. In contrast, addition of vasopressin, guanylyl imidodiphosphate, or forskolin resulted in transition to a linear ln(activity) vs. dose relation with a slope corresponding to a molecular weight similar to that observed for basal activity. These findings were incorporated into a cyclic dissociation model for the hormonal activation of adenylate cyclase (graph see text) where H is hormone, R is receptor, C is catalytic unit, alpha and beta are subunits of guanyl nucleotide-regulatory protein (G), GTP is guanosine triphosphate, and GDP is guanosine diphosphate. The addition of H favors the dissociation of G into alpha and beta subunits by providing a rapid pathway for addition of GTP to dissociated alpha subunits. The observed target size of the active enzyme species formed corresponds to the composite molecular weights of alpha GTP with C. This model consolidates the radiation inactivation findings as well as the known biochemical characteristics for adenylate cyclase.
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PMID:Evidence for vasopressin activation of adenylate cyclase by subunit dissociation. 394 2

Vasopressin stimulates the liberation of labelled inositol phosphate in partially purified plasma membranes prepared from myo-[3H]inositol prelabelled WRK1 cells. This stimulatory effect was very rapid (165% stimulation of inositol trisphosphate accumulation after a 10 s incubation period in the presence of 1 microM vasopressin), concentration dependent (EC50 = 12 nM) and was abolished by an antagonist of the vasopressor response to vasopressin. GTP, even at high concentrations (0.1 mM), did not increase inositol phosphate release: it was found to be absolutely necessary for hormonal stimulation of phospholipase C activity. Non-hydrolysable analogues of GTP may also stimulate this enzyme activity.
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PMID:Activation of membrane phospholipase C by vasopressin. A requirement for guanyl nucleotides. 394 28

To understand the molecular mechanism of action of the novel class of diuretic agents, the antidiuretic hormone antagonists ["aquaretics" (specific water-losing activity as caused by vasopressin antagonists, as distinguished from the saluresis of conventional diuretics)], in the dog studies were made of the properties of the vasopressin-responsive adenylate cyclase system and the antagonist potencies of the vasopressin analogs [1-(beta-mercapto-beta, beta-cyclopentamethylenepropionic acid), 2-(O-ethyl)tyrosine,4-valine,8-arginine]vasopressin; [1-(beta-mercapto-beta-mercapto-beta, beta-cyclopentamethylenepropionic acid), 2-D-phenylalanine,4-valine,8-arginine]vasopressin; and [1-(beta-mercapto-beta, beta-cyclopenta-methylenepropionic acid), 2-D-(O-ethyl)tyrosine,4-valine,8-arginine]vasopressin (SK&F 100398, 101071 and 101498, respectively) using plasma membranes prepared from cortex, medulla and papilla of dog kidney. It was observed that the greatest sensitivity for vasopressin was in the papilla (concentration of 8-arginine vasopressin required for 50% activation of adenylate cyclase [Kact] was 2.0 X 10(-9)M, 1.1 X 10(-9)M and 5.1 X 10(-10) M in the cortex, medulla and papilla, respectively). The addition of 10(-5)M GTP did not alter the Kact of the cortex but enhanced 10-fold the vasopressin sensitivity of the papilla to 5.2 X 10(-11) M. The vasopressin analogs were competitive antagonists of vasopressin-stimulated adenylate cyclase of cortex and papilla with the greatest potency for the papillary enzyme (Ki in papilla was 3.6 X 10(-9)M, 4.6 X 10(-9)M and 1.0 X 10(-9)M for SK&F 100398, 101071 and 101498, respectively).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Antidiuretic hormone antagonists and aquaresis in dogs: different vasopressin sensitivity and antagonist potency in renal cortex and papilla. 396 88

1. Homogenates of neural lobes of bovine pituitary glands were fractionated by differential and density-gradient ultracentrifugation and the distribution of adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity was studied. It was shown that all the activity was membrane-bound. 2. On the basis of ionic requirements the ATPase activity was grouped into three categories: (a) Mg(2+)-dependent, (b) Ca(2+)-dependent and (c) Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-dependent (ouabain-sensitive) ATPases. The activity in the absence of bivalent cations was negligible. The ratio between the activities of the three ATPases varied between the different subcellular fractions. 3. Preincubation of the subcellular fractions with deoxycholate increased the activity of the Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-dependent enzyme, whereas the Mg(2+)- and Ca(2+)-activated ATPases were either unaffected or slightly inhibited. Triton X-100 solubilized the Mg(2+)- and Ca(2+)-ATPases; however, the activity of the Mg(2+)+Na(+)+K(+)-ATPase was abolished by the concentration of Triton X-100 used. 4. All the subfractions displayed unspecific nucleotide triphosphatase activity towards GTP, ITP and UTP. These substrates inhibited the hydrolysis of ATP by all three ATPases. ADP also inhibited the ATPases. 5. Polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of extracts containing the Mg(2+)- and Ca(2+)-dependent ATPase activity solubilized by Triton X-100 revealed the presence of two enzymes; one activated by either Mg(2+) or Ca(2+) and the other activated only by Ca(2+). 6. In sucrose density gradients the distribution of vasopressin was different from that of all three types of ATPases. It is therefore suggested that the neurosecretory granules do not possess ATPase activity.
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PMID:Adenosine triphosphatase activity in the neural lobe of the bovine pituitary gland. 428 6


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