scholarly journals Stimulation of hormone-responsive adenylate cyclase activity by a factor present in the cell cytosol

1980 ◽  
Vol 188 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
S MacNeil ◽  
A Crawford ◽  
H Amirrasooli ◽  
S Johnson ◽  
A Pollock ◽  
...  

1. Homogenates of whole tissues were shown to contain both intracellular and extracellular factors that affected particulate adenylate cyclase activity in vitro. Factors present in the extracellular fluids produced an inhibition of basal, hormone- and fluoride-stimulated enzyme activity but factors present in the cell cytosol increased hormone-stimulated activity with relatively little effect on basal or fluoride-stimulated enzyme activity. 2. The existence of this cytosol factor or factors was investigated using freshly isolated human platelets, freshly isolated rat hepatocytes, and cultured cells derived from rat osteogenic sarcoma, rat calvaria, mouse melanoma, pig aortic endothelium, human articular cartilage chondrocytes and human bronchial carcinoma (BEN) cells. 3. The stimulation of the hormone response by the cytosol factor ranged from 60 to 890% depending on the tissue of origin of the adenylate cyclase. 4. In each case the behaviour of the factor was similar to the action of GTP on that particular adenylate cyclase preparation. 5. No evidence of tissue or species specificity was found, as cytosols stimulated adenylate cyclase from their own and unrelated tissues to the same degree. 6. In the human platelet, the inclusion of the cytosol in the assay of adenylate cyclase increased the rate of enzyme activity in response to stimulation by prostaglandin E1 without affecting the amount of prostaglandin E1 required for half-maximal stimulation or the characteristics of enzyme activation by prostaglandin E.

1977 ◽  
Vol 164 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
P V Sulakhe ◽  
N L Leung ◽  
A T Arbus ◽  
S J Sulakhe ◽  
S H Jan ◽  
...  

1. GTP and GMP-P(NH)P (guanyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate) were observed to increase the stimulation of neural adenylate cyclase by dopamine (3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) and noradrenaline. 2. GMP-P(NH)P had a biphasic effect on the enzyme activity. 3. Preincubation of membranes with GMP-P(NH)P activated the enzyme by a process dependent on time and temperature. Catecholamines increased the speed and the extent of this activation. 4. Membrane fractions contained high- and low-affinity sites for GMP-P(NH)P binding: this binding was due to protein(s) of the membrane preparations. 5. Low-affinity-site binding of GMP-P(NH)P appeared to be related to the stimulatory effect on the adenylate cyclase activity.


1982 ◽  
Vol 242 (5) ◽  
pp. F457-F462
Author(s):  
E. Bellorin-Font ◽  
J. Tamayo ◽  
K. J. Martin

Metal ions play important roles in the regulation of the activation of adenylate cyclase. Previous studies have suggested that an important site of action of metal ions is at or closely related to the nucleotide regulatory protein. The present studies examine the nature of the regulation of enzyme activity by divalent cations and the influence of Mn2+ on hormone binding and stimulation of adenylate cyclase. Studies were performed in canine renal cortical membranes. Substitution of Mg2+ by Mn2+ was associated with a progressive decline in the ability of GTP or PTH to stimulate adenylate cyclase activity. Mn2+ did not alter specific binding of an iodinated PTH analogue. However, in spite of the loss of guanine nucleotide stimulation of enzyme activity, the effects of guanine nucleotide on PTH binding were not altered in the presence of Mn2+. Substitution of Mg2+ by Mn2+ abolished the inhibitory effect of Ca2+ on basal adenylate cyclase activity. Similarly, the effects of GTP or PTH to enhance the inhibitory effects of Ca2+ on enzyme activity were abolished in the presence of Mn2+. Since Mg2+ and Ca2+ compete for a common allosteric site and Mn2+ abolished the effects of these cations, it would appear that Mn2+ also competes for the binding site of Mg2+ and Ca2+. The present studies demonstrating that Mn2+ does not affect hormone binding or the actions of guanine nucleotides on hormone binding yet totally eliminates the effect of GTP on enzyme activity indicate that the effect of Mn2+ occurs at the level of the interactions of the nucleotide regulatory component with the catalytic unit. In addition, these data suggest that there are two functionally distinct sites of guanine nucleotides with different ionic requirements.


1983 ◽  
Vol 214 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
J M Stein ◽  
B R Martin

Adenylate cyclase activity in platelet membrane preparations was measured in the presence of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1), GTP and a non-hydrolysable analogue of GDP, guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate (GDP[beta S]). A dose-dependent inhibition of adenylate cyclase by GDP[beta S] was observed that could be reversed either by adding increased amounts of GTP or of PGE1.


1977 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
D E Snider ◽  
C W Parker

Human peripheral lymphocytes were broken in a Dounce homogenizer and subcellular fractions enriched in plasma membranes or microsomal particles and mitochondria were isolated by centrifugation through a discontinuous sucrose gradient. Various agents that promote cyclic AMP accumulation in intact lymphocytes were compared in their ability to stimulate adenylate cyclase activity in the individual fractions. Plasma-membrane-rich fractions that were essentially free of other subcellular particles as judged by electron microscopy and marker enzyme measurements responded to fluoride, but weakly or not at all to prostaglandin E1 and other prostaglandins. Microsomal and mitochondrial-rich fractions responded markedly to both prostaglandin E1 and fluoride. In some, but not all, experiments phytohaemagglutinin produced a modest increase in enzyme activity in plasma-membrane-rich fractions. Catecholamines, histamine, parathyrin, glucagon and corticotropin produced little or no response. In the absence of theophylline, adenosine (1-10 micronM) stimulated basal enzyme activity, although at higher concentrations the responses to prostaglandin E1 and fluoride were inhibited. GTP (1-100 micronM) and GMP(5-1000 micronM) respectively inhibited or stimulated the response to fluoride, whereas the converse was true with prostaglandin E1.


1980 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Aharon ◽  
Yosef Graziani ◽  
Reuben Chayoth

Abstract. Cyclic AMP levels in liver slices of hamsters exposed to 35°C for 21 days and controls maintained at 22°C was found to be similar in basal conditions. Glucagon (10 μg/ml) caused 3.5 times elevation of cyclic AMP levels in control hamsters and 9 times elevation in 35°C exposed hamsters, thus a difference of 150% of the nucleotide concentration was found between the two experimental groups. When 10−2m theophylline was added, the cyclic AMP levels were 80% higher in 35°C exposed hamsters both in the presence and absence of 10 μg/ml glucagon. The difference between controls and heat exposed animals was found to be the same when various concentrations of both glucagon or prostaglandin E1 were added to the liver slices. Adenylate cyclase activity was similar in both experimental groups, while low Km phosphodiesterase was significantly less active in the liver of 35°C exposed animals when compared to the controls.


1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Matthias ◽  
W. Palinski

In platelets of normal donors and of patients with chronic renal failure the following determinations were performed: 1. prostaglandin-endoperoxide-formation after N-ethylmaleimide stimulation measured as malondialdehyde; 2. the c-AMP level according to the Gilman-method; 3. the adenylate-cyclase activity in response to prostaglandin E1; 4. aggregation in response to collagen.In comparison to’normal donores the prostaglandin-endoperoxide production was reduced in uremic patients. Plasma of uremics depresses the endoperoxide formation of normal platelets. The basal c-AMP level of platelets of’ patients with renal failure was not significantly changed, whereas the plasma c-AMP level was increased; the activation of the platelets adenylate-cyclase was impaired. The adenylate-cyclase activity of platelets from normal donors was reduced by uremic plasma.. The results are of interest as to the explanation of the bleeding tendency of uremic patients.


1986 ◽  
pp. 385-389
Author(s):  
F. Kakezono ◽  
S. Yamashita ◽  
N. Yokoyama ◽  
S. Morita ◽  
S. Okamoto ◽  
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