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Artalejo AR, Arribas-Blázquez M, Barahona MV, Llorente-Sáez C, Olivos-Oré LA. María Teresa Miras Portugal: a pioneer in the study of purinoceptors in chromaffin cells. Purinergic Signal 2024; 20:109-113. [PMID: 36941507 PMCID: PMC10997576 DOI: 10.1007/s11302-023-09934-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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María Teresa Miras Portugal devoted most of her scientific life to the study of purinergic signalling. In an important part of her work, she used a model system: the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. It was in these cells that she identified diadenosine polyphosphates, from which she proceeded to the study of adrenomedullary purinome: nucleotide synthesis and degradation, adenosine transport, nucleotide uptake into chromaffin granules, exocytotic release of nucleotides and autocrine regulation of chromaffin cell function via purinoceptors. This short review will focus on the current state of knowledge of the purinoceptors of adrenal chromaffin cells, a subject to which María Teresa made seminal contributions and which she continued to study until the end of her scientific life.
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- Antonio R Artalejo
- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Schuh SM, Hille B, Babcock DF. Adenosine and Catecholamine Agonists Speed the Flagellar Beat of Mammalian Sperm by a Non-Receptor-Mediated Mechanism1. Biol Reprod 2007; 77:960-9. [PMID: 17761644 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.062562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Activation of rapid motility apparently is one of the first steps of sperm capacitation and can be studied in vitro. Previously we found that 2-chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine or the catecholamine isoproterenol activates mouse sperm motility in vitro via a pathway mediated by cAMP that requires extracellular Ca2+, the atypical sperm adenylyl cyclase, and sperm-specific protein kinase A. We now show that several other adenosine analogs and catecholamines accelerate the flagellar beat of mouse and human sperm. Unexpectedly, the potent adenosine receptor agonist CGS21680 does not accelerate the beat, and the adenosine receptor antagonist DPCPX does not diminish the accelerating action of 2-chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine. The pharmacological profile for activation by catecholamines is also unusual. Both agonists and antagonists of beta-adrenergic receptors elevate the beat frequency. Moreover, both l-(-) and d-+ isomers of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and isoproterenol produce similar acceleration of the beat. In contrast, inhibitors of equilibrative nucleoside transporters effectively slow the onset of the accelerating action of adenosine analogs. Replacement of external Na+ with Li+ also diminishes the accumulation of cAMP and slows the resultant accelerating action of 2-chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine, suggesting the involvement of a Na+-dependent concentrative nucleoside transporter. Our results show that adenosine and catecholamine agonists act in a novel signaling pathway that does not involve G protein-coupled cell-surface receptors that link to conventional adenylyl cyclases. Instead, adenosine and analogs may be transported into sperm via equilibrative and concentrative nucleoside transporters to act on unknown intracellular targets.
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- Sonya M Schuh
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Sen RP, Delicado EG, Miras-Portugal MT, Gualix J. Nucleoside transporter and nucleotide vesicular transporter: Two examples of mnemonic regulation. Drug Dev Res 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/ddr.1094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Foga IO, Geiger JD, Parkinson FE. Nucleoside transporter-mediated uptake and release of [3H]L-adenosine in DDT1 MF-2 smooth muscle cells. Eur J Pharmacol 1996; 318:455-60. [PMID: 9016938 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(96)00720-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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[3H]L-Adenosine, an enantiomer of the physiological D-adenosine, was shown previously to be taken up and released, at least in part, through nucleoside transporters in rat brain preparations. In the present study, we used clonal smooth muscle DDT1 MF-2 cells that contain almost exclusively equilibrative inhibitor-sensitive (es) nucleoside transporters to test the hypothesis that L-adenosine is a permeant for these bidirectional nucleoside transporters. DDT1 MF-2 cells accumulated approximately 3 times more [3H]D- than [3H]L-adenosine; 10 microM nitrobenzylthioinosine significantly (P < 0.01) inhibited the accumulation of [3H]D-adenosine by 86% and of [3H]L-adenosine by 63%. The IC50 values for the nitrobenzylthioinosine-sensitive portions of [3H]L- and [3H]D-adenosine accumulation were 1.6 and 2.0 nM, respectively. [3H]D-Adenosine accumulation was significantly (P < 0.05) inhibited by up to 72% with L-adenosine and [3H]L-adenosine accumulation was significantly (P < 0.01) inhibited by up to 52% with D-adenosine. Release of accumulated [3H]L-adenosine was temperature- and time-dependent, and was significantly (P < 0.05) reduced by 47% with dipyridamole, 39% with dilazep, and 45% with nitrobenzylthioinosine; the apparent IC50 value for nitrobenzylthioinosine was < 1 nM. These data indicate that a significant proportion of [3H]L-adenosine uptake and release in DDT1 MF-2 cells is mediated by es nucleoside transporters.
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- I O Foga
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Delicado EG, Casillas T, Sen RP, Miras-Portugal MT. Evidence that adenine nucleotides modulate nucleoside-transporter function. Characterization of uridine transport in chromaffin cells and plasma membrane vesicles. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 225:355-62. [PMID: 7925456 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.00355.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Uridine transport was investigated in cultured chromaffin cells and plasma membrane vesicles from chromaffin tissue. In intact cells, the kinetic parameters for uridine uptake were Km 150 +/- 45 microM, and Vmax 414 +/- 17 pmol . 10(6) cells-1 . min-1. This low affinity for uridine and its inhibition by low concentrations of nitrobenzylthioinosine (Ki 3 nM) and dipyridamole (Ki 54 nM) are consistent with a facilitated diffusion nucleoside transport system. The IC50 value for the adenosine transport inhibition by uridine was very high (240 microM), agreeing with the relative affinities of these nucleosides in the chromaffin cell nucleoside transport system, which was 150-fold higher for adenosine than for uridine. Uridine was significantly metabolized in chromaffin cells but not in plasma membrane vesicles. The affinity of uridine transport measured in these membrane vesicles was reproducible and similar to the affinity found for intact cells with a Km value of 185 +/- 11 microM and a Vmax value of 4.24 +/- 0.10 pmol . mg protein-1 . s-1. These membrane preparations were employed to investigate the regulatory action of ATP and other nucleotide analogues on nucleoside transport. ATP increased the Vmax value but the Km value was not significantly modified. Adenosine 5'-[beta,gamma-imino]triphosphate, 1,N6-ethenoadenosine 5'-triphosphate, and adenosine(5')-tetraphospho(5')adenosine(Ap4A) at 100 microM were able to mimic the ATP effect. These results agree with a regulatory role of ATP, and the uridine transport on chromaffin plasma membrane vesicles is a good model for analyzing the nucleoside-transporter function and regulation.
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- E G Delicado
- Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Casillas T, Delicado EG, Miras-Portugal MT. Adenosine 5'-triphosphate modulation of nitrobenzylthioinosine binding sites in plasma membranes of bovine chromaffin cells. Neurosci Lett 1993; 164:51-4. [PMID: 8152615 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(93)90855-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBTI) is a high affinity probe for facilitated diffusion nucleoside transporters. Kinetic analysis of the binding of [3H]NBTI to plasma membranes of chromaffin cells was conducted in the presence or absence of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP). Similar curvilinear plots with a Hill number of 1.32 were obtained in both conditions. ATP significantly increased the number of NBTI binding sites in these preparations showing Bmax values of 1.62 +/- 0.20 pmol/mg protein for controls and 3.22 +/- 0.31 pmol/mg protein in the presence of ATP. However, the affinity constant (KD) was not significantly modified. The non-metabolizable ATP analogue, 5'-adenylyl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) and diadenosine tetraphosphate (Ap4A) can mimic the stimulatory ATP effect, but adenosine monophosphate (AMP) has no effect on the NBTI binding to plasma membranes. These results indicate a modulatory role for ATP, non-hydrolysis dependent, on nucleoside transport in chromaffin cells. Therefore, a nucleotide binding site on the nucleoside transporter similar to that described for glucose transporter could be suggested.
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- T Casillas
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Fideu MD, Miras-Portugal MT. Steroid-induced inhibition of adenosine transport in cultured chromaffin cells. Cell Mol Neurobiol 1993; 13:493-502. [PMID: 8111821 DOI: 10.1007/bf00711458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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1. Adenosine transport is subjected to regulation by hormones. Glucocorticoids, sexual steroids, and retinoic acid inhibit adenosine transport in chromaffin cells after a long-term incubation period (24 hr). No effects were observed after a short-term incubation period (10 min). 2. The kinetic parameters of transporters were studied. No significant changes were observed for the affinity constant (Km), whose value remains at 1 +/- 0.2 microM after 24-hr incubation in the presence of these compounds. The maximal velocity (Vmax) was significantly modified, with a decrease of about 20% in all cases. 3. NBTI binding was not modified in its affinity constant or maximal bound capacity (Bmax) by the presence of these compounds for a 24-hr incubation period. Thus the efficiency of transporters (quotient Vmax/Bmax) changed from 10.9 +/- 0.08 adenosine molecules transported per transporter per sec in the control cells to 9.1 +/- 0.07 in hormone-treated cultured cells. 4. The thyroid hormone (T3) significantly increased adenosine transport in a long-term incubation period in chromaffin cells (24 hr). This activatory effect is antagonized by steroid hormones and retinoic acid.
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- M D Fideu
- Department of Biochemistry, Veterinary Faculty, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Fideu MD, Miras-Portugal MT. Long term regulation of nucleoside transport by thyroid hormone (T3) in cultured chromaffin cells. Neurochem Res 1992; 17:1099-104. [PMID: 1461359 DOI: 10.1007/bf00967287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The adenosine transport in cultured chromaffin cells was increased by the presence of triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) throughout the prolonged period studied. The Vmax values of this transport obtained in absence and presence of 1 microM T3 were 36.21 +/- 2.1 and 44.17 +/- 3.5 (means +/- SD) pmol/10(6) cells/min respectively for 26 hours incubation-time with the hormone. The Km values were not significantly modified. The number of adenosine transporters in cultured chromaffin cells, measured by [3H]nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBTI) binding, was increased by 1 microM T3 for 26 hours incubation-time. The values of binding sites per cell were 33,500 +/- 3,000 and 40,153 +/- 3,700 in absence and presence of T3 respectively, without changing the Kd constant. When the transport studies were carried out in presence of cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, the adenosine transport capacity decreased with a half-life values of 23.9 +/- 2.8 and 24.3 +/- 2.1 hours both in the presence or absence of T3 respectively. When cells were incubated in the presence of both T3 and cycloheximide, not only the activatory effect of T3 was completely abolished but also adenosine transport was decreased to the same extent as with cycloheximide alone. These results indicated that T3 activation of adenosine transport in chromaffin cells required the protein-synthesizing mechanism.
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- M D Fideu
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Torres M, Delicado EG, Fideu MD, Miras-Portugal MT. Down-regulation and recycling of the nitrobenzylthioinosine-sensitive nucleoside transporter in cultured chromaffin cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1105:291-9. [PMID: 1586666 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(92)90207-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The dynamics of the nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBTI)-sensitive nucleoside transporter were studied in cultured chromaffin cells. Photolabelling of transporters with [3H]NBTI induced a down-regulation of this protein from the plasma membrane with a half-life value of 2.31 +/- 0.61 h, measured by specific isolation of plasma membrane on polycationic beads. In this internalization step 50-60% of transporters were destroyed. The remaining labelled protein reappeared in plasma membranes and underwent a new disappearance cycle with a longer half-life period (34.65 +/- 3.9 h). A similar pattern of internalization and reappearance of nucleoside transporters was observed in cells cross-linked with non-labelled NBTI, with a half value of reappearance of 33 h. Chromaffin cells cultured in the presence of the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, had a component of disappearance for NBTI binding sites with a half-life value of 24.6 +/- 1.4 h.
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- M Torres
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Delicado EG, Sen RP, Miras-Portugal MT. Effects of phorbol esters and secretagogues on nitrobenzylthioinosine binding to nucleoside transporters and nucleoside uptake in cultured chromaffin cells. Biochem J 1991; 279 ( Pt 3):651-5. [PMID: 1953658 PMCID: PMC1151494 DOI: 10.1042/bj2790651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Secretagogues inhibited adenosine uptake in chromaffin cells without causing apparent changes in the uptake affinity. The inhibition caused by carbachol, nicotine and acetylcholine reached 50%. This inhibition was reproduced by the action of protein kinase C activators such as phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA; 100 nM), phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu; 100 nM), dicaproin (10 micrograms/ml) and tricaprylin (10 micrograms/ml), with inhibitions of Vmax. of 18, 20, 37 and 47% respectively. No changes in the affinity of uptake were observed with these effectors. Down-regulation of protein kinase C by phorbol esters decreased the inhibitory effects of carbachol on adenosine uptake. Binding studies with nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBTI) showed a similar decrease in the number of transporters when chromaffin cells were treated with the same effectors used for the uptake studies. The high-affinity dissociation constants showed minor changes with respect to the control. The ratio between maximal uptake capacity and the transporter number per cell was not significantly modified by the action of secretagogues or direct effectors of protein kinase C. The number of high-affinity binding sites for NBTI was decreased in cellular homogenates by the direct action of protein kinase C activators, with staurosporine able to reverse this action. Protein kinase C from bovine brain in the presence of ATP and effectors, decreased the number of high-affinity NBTI-binding sites in purified chromaffin cell plasma membranes. These data suggest the possibility of a molecular modification at the transporter level.
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- E G Delicado
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Miras-portugal MT, Sen RP, Delicado EG. Nucleoside Transport in Neurons. Regulation by Secretagogues and Effectors of Protein Kinases A and C. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1080/07328319108047234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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