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Gao J, Takeuchi H, Umebayashi H, Zhang Z, Matsuda M, Hirata M. Assay of dense-core vesicle exocytosis using permeabilized PC12 cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 50:237-46. [PMID: 19895839 DOI: 10.1016/j.advenzreg.2009.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jing Gao
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Faculty of Dental Science and Station for Collaborative Research, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Maruyama Y, Teraoka H, Iwata H, Kazusaka A, Fujita S. Inhibitory effects of endogenous dopaminergic neurotoxin, norsalsolinol on dopamine secretion in PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cells. Neurochem Int 2001; 38:567-72. [PMID: 11290381 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-0186(00)00121-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Naturally occurring neurotoxins, 6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines (DHTIQs), thought to be the causative agents of Parkinsonism. DHTIQs including norsalsolinol have been found in the mammalian central nervous system. Norsalsolinol can be formed by a non-enzymatic Pictet-Spengler condensation reaction between dopamine and formaldehyde, and has been detected in the urine of Parkinsonian patients. However, the effects of DHTIQs on the secretion of dopamine, as well as other neurotransmitters, are not well understood. This study investigated the effects of norsalsolinol on dopamine secretion from nerve growth factor-differentiated PC12 cells. Norsalsolinol (1-100 microM) pretreatment suppressed both ATP (100 microM)- and K(+) (50 mM)-induced dopamine secretion from PC12 cells in a concentration-dependent fashion, but did not affect basal dopamine secretion. In beta-escin-permeabilized PC12 cells, norsalsolinol pretreatment suppressed Ca(2+) (pCa=4-8)-induced dopamine secretion, but did not inhibit the secretagogue-induced change in intracellular Ca(2+) concentration. These results suggest that norsalsolinol causes the inhibition of secretagogue-induced dopamine secretion from PC12 cells without altering intracellular Ca(2+) concentration. Inhibition of dopamine secretion by norsalsolinol may also be involved in postural abnormality in Parkinson's disease.
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- Y Maruyama
- Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0818 Japan
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Verona M, Zanotti S, Schäfer T, Racagni G, Popoli M. Changes of synaptotagmin interaction with t-SNARE proteins in vitro after calcium/calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation. J Neurochem 2000; 74:209-21. [PMID: 10617122 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0740209.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The regulation of multiple phases of the life cycle of synaptic vesicles is carried out by a complex series of protein-protein interactions. According to the SNARE hypothesis the core of these interactions is a heterotrimeric complex formed by syntaxin, SNAP-25, and VAMP-synaptobrevin. Other proteins interacting with the core of the SNARE complex, such as voltage-activated calcium channels and synaptotagmin (a putative calcium sensor), are considered crucial for the calcium dependence of release and also molecular mediators of synaptic plasticity. Here the interaction of synaptotagmin with SNARE proteins was studied in immunoprecipitated native complexes, and the effects of previous phosphorylation-dephosphorylation on this interaction were analyzed. It is surprising that the interaction of synaptotagmin with syntaxin and SNAP-25 in native complexes was not found to be calcium-dependent. However, previous incubation under dephosphorylating conditions decreased the synaptotagmin-syntaxin interaction. Stimulation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, which endogenously phosphorylates synaptotagmin in synaptic vesicles, increased the interaction of syntaxin and SNAP-25 with synaptotagmin (particularly when measured in the presence of calcium), as well as increasing the binding of the kinase itself. These results suggest that calcium decreases synaptotagmin-t-SNARE interactions after dephosphorylation and increases them after phosphorylation. Overall, these results imply a phosphorylation-dephosphorylation balance in regulation of the synaptotagmin-t-SNARE interaction and suggest a role for protein phosphorylation in the modulation of calcium sensitivity in transmitter release.
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- M Verona
- Center of Neuropharmacology, Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
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Raufman JP, Malhotra R, Raffaniello RD. Regulation of calcium-induced exocytosis from gastric chief cells by protein phosphatase-2B (calcineurin). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1357:73-80. [PMID: 9202177 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(97)00023-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The molecular mechanisms whereby calcium stimulates secretion are uncertain. In the present study, we used streptolysin O (SLO)-permeabilized chief cells from guinea pig stomach to investigate whether protein phosphatase-2B (calcineurin), a calcium/calmodulin-dependent, serine/threonine phosphatase plays a role in mediating calcium-induced pepsinogen secretion. Preincubation of cells with alpha-naphthylphosphate, a non-specific phosphatase inhibitor, decreased calcium-induced secretion. Likewise, specific inhibitors of protein phosphatase-2B (cyclosporin-A and FK-506) caused a dose-dependent reduction in calcium-induced pepsinogen secretion. Moreover, in intact cells, cyclosporin-A and FK-506 inhibited pepsinogen secretion caused by cholecystokinin, carbamylcholine and A23187, agonists known to increase chief cell cytosolic calcium. Okadaic acid, an inhibitor of protein phosphatase-1 and -2A, had no effect on secretion caused by these agonists. Chief cell calcium-dependent phosphatase activity, measured using radiolabeled casein as substrate, was reduced selectively by inhibitors of protein phosphatase-2B. Endogenous substrates for calcium/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase activity were identified by analyzing chief cell lysates using 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Increasing the cytosolic calcium concentration resulted in dephosphorylation of a 55-kDa, acidic cytoskeletal protein. FK-506 inhibited dephosphorylation of this protein. Thus, in permeabilized chief cells, specific inhibitors of protein phosphatase-2B inhibit calcium-induced pepsinogen secretion, calcium/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase activity and calcium-induced dephosphorylation of a 55-kDa, acidic cytoskeletal protein. These results support the hypothesis that protein phosphatase-2B (calcineurin) plays an important role in mediating calcium-induced exocytosis.
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- J P Raufman
- Division of Gastroenterology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock 72205-7199, USA
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Morimoto T, Ogihara S. ATP is required in platelet serotonin exocytosis for protein phosphorylation and priming of secretory vesicles docked on the plasma membrane. J Cell Sci 1996; 109 ( Pt 1):113-8. [PMID: 8834796 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.109.1.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Calcium-evoked secretion generally requires the presence of millimolar concentrations of Mg-ATP. We investigated the role of Mg-ATP in the secretion of serotonin from electropermeabilized bovine platelets. The secretion of serotonin was lost within 5 minutes when the Mg-ATP concentration was diluted to less than 0.1 mM, but was maintained when ATP-gamma S (adenosine 5′-O-3-thiotriphosphate) was used instead of ATP. Okadaic acid, a potent inhibitor of protein phosphatase, could also maintain the exocytotic activity even when ATP was diluted. Decrease in the secretory activity was paralleled by a decrease in phosphorylation level of four proteins after dilution of ATP, but the activity was maintained when the thiophosphorylation level of these proteins was maintained. Two of these proteins were digested by a protease, calpain, which has been shown to lead to a loss in the exocytotic activity. Electron microscopic studies showed that calcium did not induce the formation of distinct bridge-like structures between the granule membrane and the plasma membrane in Mg-ATP-diluted cells, previously shown as the structure transiently formed prior to fusion of the two membranes. Anchorage of the secretory dense granules to the plasma membrane and the presence of the amorphous structures between the granules and the plasma membrane were unchanged by dilution of ATP. These results indicate that ATP is not required for the anchorage itself, but is required to prime anchored granules for calcium-triggered secretion. Maintenance of the phosphorylated state of proteins by ATP enables the calcium trigger to form the bridge-like structures preceding membrane fusion events.
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- T Morimoto
- Department of Biology, Osaka University, Japan
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Marantz Y, Reiss N, Przedecki F, Naor Z. Involvement of protein phosphatases in gonadotropin releasing hormone regulated gonadotropin secretion. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1995; 111:7-11. [PMID: 7649355 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(95)03540-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The role of persistent protein phosphorylation upon gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) stimulated luteinizing hormone (LH) release was investigated by the use of the selective inhibitors of protein phosphatase type 1 (PP1) and 2A (PP2A), okadaic acid (OA) and calyculin A. Pre-incubation of cultured rat pituitary cells with OA (24 h) or calyculin A (30 min) resulted in inhibition of GnRH-stimulated LH release with significant inhibition being detected at 10 nM and 30 nM for OA and calyculin A, respectively. The inactive OA analog norokadone and the protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor vanadyl hydroperoxide had no significant effect on GnRH-induced LH release. The stimulatory effects of the protein kinase C (PKC) activator 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA, 50 ng/ml) or the Ca2+ ionophore, ionomycin (1 micron), upon LH release were also abolished by pretreatment with OA (10-20 nM) or calyculin A (30 nM). Stimulation of LH release by high K+ (28 mM) or residual LH release stimulated by GnRH in Ca(2+)-free medium were also blocked by OA. These observations indicate that protein dephosphorylation is involved positively in GnRH-stimulated LH release. The site of action of the protein phosphatases PP1 and PP2A is most likely downstream to Ca2+ elevation and PKC activation by GnRH.
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- Y Marantz
- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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Nikodijevic B, Aschkenasy M, Dickens G, Lachance C, Guroff G. Characteristics of the K-252a-induced increase in calcium uptake in PC12 cells. J Neurosci Res 1995; 40:494-8. [PMID: 7616609 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490400408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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K-252a treatment produced a 30-50% increase in the uptake of radioactive calcium by PC12 cells within 3-4 minutes. The increase in uptake was partially blocked by inhibitors of voltage-operated calcium channels, such as nifedipine, but not by inhibitors of receptor-operated calcium channels, such as nickel or suramin. Introduction of phosphatase 2A into the cells completely blocked the effect of K-252a. Long-term treatment of the cells with either K-252a or with nerve growth factor blocked the subsequent actions of either K-252a or nerve growth factor on calcium uptake, but neither altered the subsequent action of the L-channel agonist Bay K 8644 on calcium uptake. Calcium uptake was not stimulated by K-252a in PC12nnr, cells that have little or no high-affinity nerve growth factor receptors; cells expressing increased levels of high-affinity nerve growth factor receptors showed a response to K-252a comparable to that seen in parent PC12. The data suggest that the increased uptake of radioactive calcium produced by K-252a is mediated by a mechanism very similar to that serving the increased calcium uptake produced by nerve growth factor.
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- B Nikodijevic
- Section on Growth Factors, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Chen F, Wagner PD. 14-3-3 proteins bind to histone and affect both histone phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. FEBS Lett 1994; 347:128-32. [PMID: 8033989 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00520-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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14-3-3 proteins appear to play a critical role in Ca(2+)-stimulated secretion in permeabilized chromaffin cells. 14-3-3 proteins have been reported to be both stimulators and inhibitors of protein kinase C (PKC). We have found that 14-3-3 proteins, isolated on the basis of their ability to enhance secretory activity, stimulated histone phosphorylation by PKC, but they had no effect on myosin light chain phosphorylation by PKC. 14-3-3 proteins were also found to inhibit the rate of [32P]histone dephosphorylation but not the rate of [32P]myosin light chain dephosphorylation. Cross-linking experiments and affinity chromatography demonstrated that 14-3-3 proteins bind to histones. These results suggest that at least some of the reported effects of 14-3-3 proteins on PKC activity may result from 14-3-3 proteins binding to histone.
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- F Chen
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Sjöholm A, Honkanen RE, Berggren PO. Characterization of serine/threonine protein phosphatases in RINm5F insulinoma cells. Biosci Rep 1993; 13:349-58. [PMID: 8204804 DOI: 10.1007/bf01150479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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This study investigates the occurrence and regulation of serine/threonine protein phosphatases (PPases) in insulin-secreting RINm5F insulinoma cells. PPases types 1 and 2A were identified in crude RINm5F cell homogenates by both enzymatic assay and Western blot analysis. We then characterized and compared the inhibitory actions of several compounds isolated from cyanobacteria, marine dinoflagellates and marine sponges, (viz. okadaic acid, microcystin-LR, calyculin-A and nodularin) cation-independent PPase activities in RINm5F cell homogenates. It was found that okadaic acid was the least potent inhibitor (IC50 approximately 10(-9) M, IC100 approximately 10(-6) M), while the other compounds exhibited IC50 values of approximately 5 x 10(-10) M and IC100 approximately 5 x 10(-9) M. The findings indicate that the inhibitory substances employed in this study may be used pharmacologically to investigate the role of serine/threonine PPases in RINm5F cell insulin secretion, a process that is likely to be regulated to a major extent by protein phosphorylation.
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- A Sjöholm
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu 96813
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Tyrosine phosphorylation of a mitogen-activated protein kinase-like protein occurs at a late step in exocytosis. Studies with tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors and various secretagogues in rat RBL-2H3 cells. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)41586-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Koffer A, Churcher Y. Calcium and GTP-gamma-S as single effectors of secretion from permeabilized rat mast cells: requirements for ATP. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1176:222-30. [PMID: 8471624 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(93)90048-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Treatment with metabolic inhibitors and addition of exogenous MgATP exerted different effects on secretion from streptolysin-O-permeabilized mast cells, responding to calcium and GTP-gamma-S as single effectors (i.e., independently of each other). These effects were also strongly dependent on the experimental conditions. Thus cells, triggered by Ca2+ at the time of permeabilization, did not require MgATP, but after metabolic inhibition rapidly became absolutely dependent on its provision, requiring high (> mM) concentrations. AMP-PNP was not effective. After longer treatment with metabolic inhibitors, the absolute dependence on MgATP was also exhibited by cells responding to dual effectors (i.e., Ca2+ and GTP-gamma-S applied together). In contrast, calcium independent secretion due to GTP-gamma-S was more resistant to metabolic inhibition, exhibiting no absolute requirements for MgATP. Once the responsiveness to GTP-gamma-S had been lost, it could not be restored by addition of MgATP. MgATP, in fact, inhibited the response of permeabilized cells to GTP-gamma-S. This effect could be mimicked by AMP-PNP. When permeabilized cells were washed before triggering, MgATP (0.1-1 mM concentration range) was no longer inhibitory but stimulatory. These differences between Ca(2+)- and GTP-gamma-S-induced responses indicate that ATP utilization is essential to the calcium, but not to the guanine nucleotide, pathway to secretion. The rate of the response to calcium/MgATP was much slower in the absence than in the presence of GTP-gamma-S. The onset of secretion occurred after an initial delay. This lag phase was abolished by addition of GTP-gamma-S, suggesting that a GTP-binding protein may control a reaction which constitutes a rate-limiting step in the secretory process.
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- A Koffer
- Department of Physiology, University College London, UK
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Rhoads AR, Vu ND, Carroll AG. Small membrane-associated GTP-binding proteins of catecholamine-secreting cells. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 25:79-86. [PMID: 8432385 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(93)90492-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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1. Four GTP-binding proteins (23-27 kDa) were identified in membranes from PC12 cells by [alpha 32P]GTP binding to nitrocellulose blots of SDS-polyacrylamide gels. 2. The GTP-binding proteins remained associated with membranes during stimulation of intact cells by K(+)-depolarization or even after addition of Ca2+ to digitonin-permeabilized cells. 3. By two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, six GTP-binding proteins were resolved and based on their mobility, their phosphorylation state appeared independent of Ca2+. 4. Fractionation of PC12 membranes showed that these GTP-binding proteins were broadly distributed in post-nuclear membranes with the plasma membranes containing the highest specific GTP-binding activity. 5. Membrane fractions from bovine adrenal medulla contain similar GTP-binding proteins with GTP-binding intensity also being highest in the plasma membrane. 6. The GTP-binding proteins could be concentrated in the detergent-rich fraction upon Triton X-114 phase separation.
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- A R Rhoads
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard University, College of Medicine, Washington, D.C. 20059
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Wagner AC, Wishart MJ, Yule DI, Williams JA. Effects of okadaic acid indicate a role for dephosphorylation in pancreatic stimulus-secretion coupling. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1992; 263:C1172-80. [PMID: 1282297 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1992.263.6.c1172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Okadaic acid completely inhibits phosphatase 2A at nanomolar concentrations, while complete inhibition of type 1 phosphatases occurs at 1 microM. Phosphatase 2B is significantly inhibited only at concentrations > 1 microM. In rat pancreatic acini, 1 microM okadaic acid shifted the cholecystokinin (CCK) dose-response curve for stimulating amylase release to the right without reducing maximal secretion. At 3 microM, okadaic acid inhibited maximal CCK-induced amylase release to 78 +/- 7% of control, whereas the inactive analogue 1-Nor-okadaone had no effect. Three lines of evidence indicate that this inhibition by okadaic acid occurs at a late step in stimulus-secretion coupling: 1) intracellular Ca2+ signaling in response to agonist stimulation was not appreciably altered by okadaic acid; 2) stimulation with phorbol ester plus thapsigargin (thus by-passing receptor activation), which gave 85 +/- 4% of maximal CCK-induced amylase release, was inhibited 66 +/- 4% by 3 microM okadaic acid; and 3) Ca(2+)-induced amylase secretion in streptolysin O-permeabilized cells was also reduced by 85 +/- 7%. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of 32P-labeled acini and autoradiography demonstrated that okadaic acid dose dependently increased overall protein phosphorylation. Correspondingly, okadaic acid also led to an inhibition of CCK-induced dephosphorylation. These results show that okadaic acid inhibits pancreatic acinar secretion at a step after generation of intracellular messengers and indicate a role for protein dephosphorylation in stimulus-secretion coupling.
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- A C Wagner
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0622
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- J Lucocq
- Institute of Anatomy, University of Berne, Switzerland
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Nishizaki T, Walent J, Kowalchyk J, Martin T. A key role for a 145-kDa cytosolic protein in the stimulation of Ca(2+)-dependent secretion by protein kinase C. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35932-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Armstrong DL, White RE. An enzymatic mechanism for potassium channel stimulation through pertussis-toxin-sensitive G proteins. Trends Neurosci 1992; 15:403-8. [PMID: 1279866 DOI: 10.1016/0166-2236(92)90192-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Many neurotransmitters inhibit secretion from electrically excitable cells by activating pertussis-toxin-sensitive G proteins that modulate voltage-gated ion channels. Recent electrophysiological studies of metabolically intact cells from mammalian and molluscan neuroendocrine systems have implicated protein phosphatases in this process. In this article David Armstrong and Richard White review these studies and suggest a biochemical pathway that might link one of the G proteins to protein phosphatase activity.
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- D L Armstrong
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Nikodijevic B, Guroff G. Nerve growth factor-stimulated calcium uptake into PC12 cells: uniqueness of the channel and evidence for phosphorylation. J Neurosci Res 1992; 31:591-9. [PMID: 1374475 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490310402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Nerve growth factor stimulates the uptake of radioactive calcium into PC12 cells. This stimulation is inhibited by low concentrations of dideoxyforskolin or staurosporine, and by high concentrations of nifedipine or cadmium. On the other hand, neither dideoxyforskolin nor staurosporine inhibited the stimulation of calcium uptake caused by BK-8644 or adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Nickel inhibited only the effect of ATP on calcium uptake, and actually stimulated the effects of either BK-8644 or nerve growth factor. Down-regulation of L-calcium channels by BK-8644 blocked the subsequent stimulation of calcium uptake by this agent, but not the stimulation by nerve growth factor. Conversely, pre-treatment of the cells with nerve growth factor inhibited the subsequent stimulation of calcium uptake by nerve growth factor, but not the stimulation by BK-8644. The effects of BK-8644 and nerve growth factor on calcium uptake were additive, as were the effects of nerve growth factor and ATP. Phosphatase 2A inhibited the effect of nerve growth factor on calcium uptake, but did not influence the action of BK-8644. On the other hand, calcineurin inhibited the effect of BK-8644 on calcium uptake, but potentiated the action of nerve growth factor. Calmidazolium or fluphenazine also inhibited the effect of nerve growth factor on calcium uptake, but okadaic acid stimulated it. A comparison of the effects of these inhibitors on the actions of various calcium channel agonists shows that the channels on which the action of nerve growth factor is exerted are different than either the L-type calcium channels or the ATP-activated calcium channels.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- B Nikodijevic
- Section on Growth Factors, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Michimata T, Iriuchijima T, Mori M. Okadaic acid inhibits the release of TSH in response to TRH and K+ from rat anterior pituitaries. Neurosci Lett 1992; 137:154-6. [PMID: 1316588 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(92)90392-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The effects of okadaic acid, a non-phorbol-12-tetradecanoate-13-acetate (non-TPA)-type tumor promoter and a potent inhibitor of protein phosphatases, on thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion from the rat anterior pituitary were examined. Preincubation of anterior pituitaries with okadaic acid caused a time- and concentration-related decrease in a subsequent thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-stimulated TSH secretion, whereas it did not cause any changes in basal secretion of TSH. In addition, okadaic acid inhibited a subsequent high K(+)-induced TSH secretion. In contrast, ionomycin-induced TSH secretion was not inhibited by pretreatment with okadaic acid. The present results suggest that okadaic acid may block the release of TSH by inhibition of Ca2+ influx through voltage-sensitive and/or receptor-operated Ca2+ channels.
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- T Michimata
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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Holz RW, Bittner MA, Senter RA. Regulated exocytotic fusion I: Chromaffin cells and PC12 cells. Methods Enzymol 1992; 219:165-78. [PMID: 1487990 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(92)19019-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- R W Holz
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109
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Jena B, Padfield P, Ingebritsen T, Jamieson J. Protein tyrosine phosphatase stimulates Ca(2+)-dependent amylase secretion from pancreatic acini. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55188-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Data emerging from a number of different systems indicate that protein phosphatases are highly regulated and potentially responsive to changes in the levels of intracellular second messengers produced by extracellular stimulation. They may therefore be involved in the regulation of many cell functions. The protein phosphatases in the nervous system have not been well studied. However, a number of neuronal-specific regulators (such as DARPP-32 and G-substrate) exist, and brain protein phosphatases appear to have particularly low specific activity, suggesting that neuronal protein phosphatases possess considerable and unique potential for regulation. Several early events following depolarization or receptor activation appear to involve specific dephosphorylations, indicating that regulation of protein phosphatase activity is important for the control of many neuronal functions. This article reviews the current literature concerning the identification, regulation, and function of serine/threonine protein phosphatases in the brain, with particular emphasis on the regulation of the major protein phosphatases, PP1 and PP2A, and their potential roles in modulating neurotransmitter release and postsynaptic responses.
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- A T Sim
- Neuroscience Group, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
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Wu YN, Wagner PD. Effects of phosphatase inhibitors and a protein phosphatase on norepinephrine secretion by permeabilized bovine chromaffin cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1092:384-90. [PMID: 1646643 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(97)90016-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
A protein phosphatase and phosphatase inhibitors were used to examine the role of protein phosphorylation in the regulation of norepinephrine secretion in digitonin-permeabilized bovine chromaffin cells. Addition of okadaic acid, a potent inhibitor of type 1 and type 2A protein phosphatases, or 1-naphthylphosphate, a more general phosphatase inhibitor, to digitonin-permeabilized chromaffin cells caused about a 100% increase in the amount of norepinephrine secreted in the absence of Ca2+ (in 5 mM EGTA) without affecting the amount of norepinephrine secreted in the presence of 10 microM free Ca2+. This stimulation of norepinephrine secretion by protein phosphatase inhibitors suggests that in the absence of Ca2+ there is a slow rate phosphorylation and that this phosphorylation triggers secretion. Addition of an exogenous type 2A protein phosphatase caused almost a 50% decrease in Ca(2+)-dependent norepinephrine secretion. Thus, the amounts of norepinephrine released both in the absence of Ca2+ and in the presence of Ca2+ appear to depend upon the level of protein phosphorylation.
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- Y N Wu
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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