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Activation of glycogen phosphorylase by hormones was examined in hepatocytes isolated from euthyroid and hypothyroid female rats and incubated by Ca2+-free buffer containing 1 mM-EGTA. Basal glycogen phosphorylase activity was decreased in Ca2+-free buffer. However, the activation of hepatocyte glycogen phosphorylase, in the absence of extracellular Ca2+, in response to adrenaline, glucagon or phenylephrine was slightly lower, whereas that by vasopressin was abolished. The activation of glycogen phosphorylase by phenylephrine, adrenaline or isoproterenol (isoprenaline) in hepatocytes from euthyroid rats incubated in the absence of Ca2+ was not accompanied by any detectable increase in total cyclic AMP. The log-dose/response curves for activation of phosphorylase by phenylephrine or low concentrations of adrenaline were the same in hepatocytes from hypothyroid as compared wit euthyroid rats, whereas the response to isoproterenol was greater in hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats. However, the increases in total cyclic AMP accumulation caused by adrenaline or isoproterenol were greater in hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats than in hepatocytes from euthyroid rats. The increases in cyclic AMP accumulation caused by adrenaline or isoproterenol in Ca2+-depleted hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats were blocked by propranolol, a beta-adrenergic antagonist. In contrast, propranolol was only partially effective asan inhibitor of the activation of glycogen phosphorylase by phenylephrine or adrenaline in hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats and ineffective on phosphorylase activation in cells from euthyroid rats. These data indicate that the alpha-adrenergic activation of glycogen phosphorylase is not affected by the absence of extracellular Ca2+, and the extent to which total cyclic AMP was increased by adrenergic amines did not correlate with glycogen phosphorylase activation.
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PMID:Hormonal stimulation of cyclic AMP accumulation and glycogen phosphorylase activity in calcium-depleted hepatocytes from euthyroid and hypothyroid rats. 625 57

Perfusion of livers from fed rats with medium containing glucagon (2 x 10(-10) or 1 x 10(-8) M) resulted in both time- and concentration-dependent inactivation of glycogen synthase phosphatase. Expected changes occurred in cAMP, cAMP-dependent protein kinase, glycogen synthase, and glycogen phosphorylase. The effect of glucagon on synthase phosphatase was partially reversed by simultaneous addition of insulin (4 x 10(-8) M), an effect paralleled by a decrease in cAMP. Addition of arginine vasopressin (10 milliunits/ml) resulted in a similar inactivation of synthase phosphatase and activation of phosphorylase, but independent of any changes in cAMP or its kinase. Phosphorylase phosphatase activity was unaffected by any of these hormones. Synthase phosphatase activity, measured as the ability of a crude homogenate to catalyze the conversion of purified rat liver synthase D to the I form, was no longer inhibited by glucagon or vasopressin when phosphorylase antiserum was added to the phosphatase assay mixture in sufficient quantity to inhibit 90-95% of the phosphorylase a activity. These data support the following conclusions: 1) hepatic glycogen synthase phosphatase activity is acutely modulated by hormones, 2) hepatic glycogen synthase phosphatase and phosphorylase phosphatase are regulated differently, 3) the hormone-mediated changes in synthase phosphatase cannot be explained by an alteration of the synthase D molecule affecting its behavior as a substrate, and 4) glycogen synthase phosphatase activity is at least partially controlled by the level of phosphorylase a.
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PMID:Hormonal regulation of hepatic glycogen synthase phosphatase. 625 45

The effects of hypothyroidism on the hepatic alpha 1-receptor system were studied in isolated rat liver cells. Phenylephrine and vasopressin caused concentration-dependent activation of glycogen phosphorylase and release of 45Ca from 45Ca-loaded cells in either normal or thyroidectomized rats. However, the magnitude of both responses to phenylephrine was markedly suppressed after thyroidectomy and could be restored to near normal levels by in vivo treatment with 1-triiodothyronine (0.25 mg/kg/day) for 4 days. The potency of vasopressin to induce phosphorylase activation and 45Ca release was only slightly reduced by thyroidectomy. Binding of [3H]prazosin to putative alpha 1-receptors in purified liver plasma membranes revealed that the above changes were accompanied by a decrease in the density of binding sites from 567 +/- 51 fmol/mg of protein in controls to 326 +/- 51 fmol/mg in thyroidectomized rats and a return to 498 +/- 23 fmol/mg in thyroidectomized rats treated with 1-triiodothyronine. The affinity of binding sites for [3H]prazosin or for alpha-receptor agonists was the same in the three groups of rats and affinity for epinephrine was unaffected by the presence of guanyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate (30-100 microM). From these findings, it appears that a reduction in the number of hepatic alpha 1-receptors is responsible for the selective decrease in alpha-adrenergic responses in the hypothyroid rat liver. These changes are opposite to those previously reported for hepatic beta-receptors.
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PMID:Decreased alpha 1-adrenoceptor responsiveness and density in liver cells of thyroidectomized rats. 627 32

Rat hepatocytes rapidly incorporate [32P]Pi into phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2]; their monoester phosphate groups approach isotopic equilibrium with the cellular precursor pools within 1 h. Upon stimulation of these prelabelled cells with Ca2+-mobilizing stimuli (V1-vasopressin, angiotensin, alpha 1-adrenergic, ATP) there is a rapid fall in the labelling of PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2. Pharmacological studies suggest that each of the four stimuli acts at a different population of receptors. Insulin, glucagon and prolactin do not provoke disappearance of labelled PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2. The labelling of PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2 in cells stimulated with vasopressin or angiotensin initially declines at a rate of 0.5-1.0% per s, reaches a minimum after 1-2 min and then returns towards the initial value. The dose-response curves for the vasopressin- and angiotensin-stimulated responses lie close to the respective receptor occupation curves, rather than at the lower hormone concentrations needed to evoke activation of glycogen phosphorylase. Disappearance of labelled PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2 is not observed when cells are incubated with the ionophore A23187. The hormone-stimulated polyphosphoinositide disappearance is reduced, but not abolished, in Ca2+-depleted cells. These hormonal effects are not modified by 8-bromo cyclic GMP, cycloheximide or delta-hexachlorocyclohexane. The absolute rate of polyphosphoinositide breakdown in stimulated cells is similar to the rate previously reported for the disappearance of phosphatidylinositol [Kirk, Michell & Hems (1981) Biochem. J. 194, 155-165]. It seems likely that these changes in polyphosphoinositide labelling are caused by hormonal activation of the breakdown of PtdIns(4,5)P2 (and may be also PtdIns4P) by the action of a polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase. We therefore suggest that the initial response to hormones is breakdown of PtdIns(4,5)P2 (and PtdIns4P?), and that the simultaneous disappearance of phosphatidylinositol might be a result of its consumption for the continuing synthesis of polyphosphoinositides.
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PMID:Rapid breakdown of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in rat hepatocytes stimulated by vasopressin and other Ca2+-mobilizing hormones. 630 53

For the mechanism of glycogen metabolism in the liver hormonal action of epinephrine, norepinephrine, glucagon, vasopressin and angiotensin II is of importance. The potential importance of hormonal regulation for interpreting the changes in glycogen metabolism under conditions of stress is underlined. Own results show an acute increase of glycogen phosphorylase activity in stress within 1-2 minutes. 24 hours fasting decreases the sensibility of this enzyme towards the hormonal influence.
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PMID:[Hormonal activity control of liver glycogen phosphorylases with special reference to their significance within the scope of a stress reaction]. 631 84

A detailed study of the control of liver pyruvate dehydrogenase activity by various hormones was carried out with perfused liver and isolated hepatocytes. Vasopressin produced a significant increase in the enzyme activity in fed rats, and the time course and sensitivity of the response was similar to that of glycogen phosphorylase a. The enzyme from starved animals was resistant to hormonal activation. The possible factors involved in the above effects are discussed. Angiotensin and phenylephrine also increased pyruvate dehydrogenase activity, and the magnitude of the response was of the same order as that to vasopressin by the liver enzyme. The effects of these hormones on pyruvate dehydrogenase activity were critically dependent on extracellular Ca2+, thus suggesting a role for this ion in the mechanism of action of the hormones. Insulin did not appear to have a role in the control of the enzyme activity, as shown by its lack of effect on the enzyme. Glucagon, in contrast with previous reports, produced a rapid, transient and significant increase in pyruvate dehydrogenase activity. The physiological importance of the above effects is discussed.
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PMID:Hormonal control of pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in rat liver. 639 71

The combination of 1.6 microM 4 beta phorbol, 12 beta myristate, 13 alpha acetate (PMA) and 1 microM A23187 produced a five-fold greater stimulation of rat hepatocyte glycogen phosphorylase activity than was seen with PMA alone. Vasopressin activation of glycogen phosphorylase was comparable to that seen with PMA plus A23187. Glycogen phosphorylase activity due to PMA plus A23187 was increased significantly after 30 sec, maximal at 120 and sustained at elevated levels for 240 sec. In contrast, activation due to vasopressin was maximal at 30 sec followed by a decrease. The addition of PMA 5 min prior to the A23187 abolished the synergism between these two agents. These data are compatible with the hypothesis that diacylglycerol and Ca2+ synergistically increase glycogen phosphorylase activity in rat hepatocytes.
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PMID:Synergistic activation of rat hepatocyte glycogen phosphorylase by A23187 and phorbol ester. 642 39

The influences of changes in cellular Ca2+ level on membrane phospholipid turnover and cellular function (monitored by glycogen phosphorylase a activity) were investigated in vasopressin- and ionophore A23187-stimulated rat hepatocytes. Addition of vasopressin or A23187 to rat hepatocytes in the presence of extracellular Ca2+ enhanced the phosphorylase a activity by 3 to 4-fold within 1 min, returning to initial activity with further incubation. There was the marked generation of 1,2-diacylglycerol resulted from phospholipase C activation, which followed the transient activation of phosphorylase a. When the incorporation of [32P]phosphate into phospholipids was examined, phosphatidylinositol (PI) labeling due to vasopressin-stimulation remained rather unchanged up to 5 min but then rose gradually. On the other hand, A23187 had little effect on the incorporation into phosphatidylinositol although marked phosphatidic acid (PA) labeling was consequently produced, showing inhibitory effect on the conversion of PA to PI. Deprivation of extracellular Ca2+, which also reduced slightly the intracellular Ca2+ from 3.33 micrograms to 1.38 micrograms/10(7) cells, suppressed but not abolished stimuli-induced phosphorylase a activation without affecting the enhancement of phospholipid metabolism. Hepatocytes depleted of intracellular Ca2+ (0.50 microgram/10(7) cells) no longer showed both phosphorylase a activation and the enhancement of phospholipid metabolism. These findings seem to indicate that phosphorylase a activity is more sensitive than membrane phospholipid turnover to changes of intracellular Ca2+ concentration. The results demonstrate that marked and selective changes in membrane phospholipids depending on the type of stimulants occur upon stimulation of hepatocytes and provide the possibility that these reactions do not trigger glycogen phosphorylase a activation through Ca2+ mobilization.
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PMID:Effects of cellular Ca2+ depletion on phospholipid turnover and glycogen phosphorylase a in rat hepatocytes. 644 Oct 46

Stimulation of hepatocytes with vasopressin (10 nM) in the presence of 1.25 mM extracellular Ca2+ increased glycogen phosphorylase activity 4-fold within 15s and provoked a rapid efflux of cell-associated Ca2+. Vasopressin also caused a transient increase in the Ca content of a mitochondria-rich fraction separated within seconds of hormone stimulation by a rapid fractionation technique [Shears & Kirk (1984) Biochem. J. 219, 375-382]. The Ca content of this fraction was restored to the control value within 2 min of hormone addition. These results indicate that mitochondria are not the source of the cell-associated Ca which is mobilized in the cytosol of vasopressin-stimulated hepatocytes. Rather, these organelles buffer the increase in cytosol [Ca2+] attributable to Ca mobilization from non-mitochondrial sources.
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PMID:Determination of mitochondrial calcium content in hepatocytes by a rapid cellular fractionation technique. Vasopressin stimulates mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake. 674 79

A heterologous and homologous desensitization of the glycogenolytic response against 3',5'-cAMP independent hormones in isolated hepatocytes has been reported [Biochem. J. (1981) 200, 509-514]. We re-examined this phenomenon in isolated perfused rat livers, isolated hepatocytes during stationary incubation and in isolated perifused hepatocytes. The release of glucose and the activation of glycogen phosphorylase were followed in the presence of phenylephrine (10(-5) M) or vasopressin (2.5 X 10(-8) M). A desensitization against these hormones could not be observed in the presence of exogenous calcium (1.3 mM). When calcium-free media were applied, the perfused liver became successively resistant toward the action of phenylephrine (or vasopressin), but regained sensitivity immediately after addition of 1.3 mM calcium to the medium. It is concluded that in isolated hepatocytes desensitization against hormones acting via mobilization of intracellular calcium is an artifact resulting from the experimental conditions.
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PMID:Lack of desensitization against alpha-agonists and vasopressin in the liver. 682 58


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