scholarly journals Muscarinic-receptor stimulation enhances polyphosphoinositide breakdown in guinea-pig ileum smooth muscle

1984 ◽  
Vol 223 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Sekar ◽  
B D Roufogalis

Muscarinic-receptor stimulation by 0.1 mM-carbachol in longitudinal muscle of the guinea-pig ileum increases the incorporation of [3H]inositol into inositol-containing phospholipid. This effect was blocked by 16 microM-atropine. After 60 min incubation, carbachol increased the accumulation of total inositol phosphates 20-fold in the presence of 10 mM-Li+. Less than 20% of the total inositol phosphate corresponded to inositol 1-phosphate by ion-exchange chromatography, whereas of the remainder about two-thirds corresponded to inositol bisphosphate and one third to inositol trisphosphate. It is concluded that stimulation of muscarinic receptors in guinea-pig ileum enhances breakdown of polyphosphoinositides, suggesting that this may be a primary event associated with Ca2+ mobilization in the guinea-pig ileum.

1989 ◽  
Vol 260 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
I H Batty ◽  
S R Nahorski

The rapid kinetics of [3H]inositol phosphate accumulation and turnover were examined in rat cerebral-cortex slices after muscarinic-receptor stimulation. Markedly increased [3H]inositol polyphosphate concentrations were observed to precede significant stimulated accumulation of [3H]inositol monophosphate. New steady-state accumulations of several 3H-labelled products were achieved after 5-10 min of continued agonist stimulation, but were rapidly and effectively reversed by subsequent receptor blockade. The results show that muscarinic-receptor activation involves phosphoinositidase C-catalysed hydrolysis initially of polyphosphoinositides rather than of phosphatidylinositol. Furthermore, prolonged carbachol stimulation is shown not to cause receptor desensitization, but to allow persistent hydrolysis of [3H]phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate and permit sustained metabolic flux through the inositol tris-/tetrakis-phosphate pathway.


1988 ◽  
Vol 254 (4) ◽  
pp. G622-G629
Author(s):  
A. Pfeiffer ◽  
H. Rochlitz ◽  
A. Herz ◽  
G. Paumgartner

The muscarinic receptor system involved in hydrogen ion production by enriched rat gastric parietal cells was investigated. Muscarinic receptor density determined by [N-methyl-3H]scopolamine binding was 8,100/cell. The receptor appeared to be of the M2 muscarinic receptor subtype, since it had a low affinity (Kd, 189 nM) for the M1 receptor antagonist pirenzepine compared with atropine (Kd, 0.74 nM). Receptor activation by carbachol rapidly augmented levels of polyphosphoinositides, indicating an activation of a phospholipase C. The dose-response relations for the increase in inositol phosphates closely paralleled the binding of carbachol to muscarinic receptors with a Km of 17 microM. The inositol phosphate response was antagonized by pirenzepine with a Ki of 177 nM. The stimulation of inositol phosphate levels by carbachol correlated well with the stimulation of [14C]aminopyrine uptake, determined as an index of acid secretion. The muscarinic agonists oxotremorine, pilocarpine, and bethanechol elicited partial increases in inositol phosphates at maximal drug concentrations, and these partial increases correlated with their ability to stimulate [14C]aminopyrine uptake. These data indicate that inositol polyphosphates may be a second messenger of M2 receptors stimulating acid secretion.


1990 ◽  
Vol 271 (3) ◽  
pp. 743-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Camps ◽  
C F Hou ◽  
K H Jakobs ◽  
P Gierschik

Myeloid differentiated human leukaemia (HL-60) cells contain a soluble phospholipase C that hydrolysed phosphatidylinositol 4.5-bisphosphate and was markedly stimulated by the metabolically stable GTP analogue guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]). Half-maximal and maximal (up to 5-fold) stimulation of inositol phosphate formation by GTP[S] occurred at 1.5 microM and 30 microM respectively. Other nucleotides (GTP, GDP, GMP, guanosine 5′-[beta-thio]diphosphate. ATP, adenosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate, UTP) did not affect phospholipase C activity, GTP[S] stimulation of inositol phosphate accumulation was inhibited by excess GDP, but not by ADP. The effect of GTP[S] on inositol phosphate formation was absolutely dependent on and markedly stimulated by free Ca2+ (median effective concn. approximately 100 nM). Analysis of inositol phosphates by anion-exchange chromatography revealed InsP3 as the major product of GTP[S]-stimulated phospholipase C activity. In the absence of GTP[S], specific phospholipase C activity was markedly decreased when tested at high protein concentrations, whereas GTP[S] stimulation of the enzyme was markedly enhanced under these conditions. As both basal and GTP[S]-stimulated inositol phosphate formation were linear with time whether studied at low or high protein concentration, these results suggest that (a) phospholipase C is under an inhibitory constraint and (b) GTP[S] relieves this inhibition, most likely by activating a soluble GTP-binding protein.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 1460-1462 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jim ◽  
D. J. Triggle

Praziquantel (10−4 M) and 1-methyladenine (5 × 10−4 M) produced mechanical responses in guinea pig ileal longitudinal smooth muscle that were approximately 20% of those produced by muscarinic receptor stimulation. These responses were insensitive to tetrodotoxin and atropine but were dependent upon the extracellular concentration of Ca2+ and were abolished by D 600 at a concentration (10−6 M) which abolished the Ca2+-dependent muscarinic responses. Thus, praziquantel and 1-methyladenine may act as modulators of Ca2+ channel function in guinea pig ileal muscle.


1985 ◽  
Vol 226 (2) ◽  
pp. 563-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
M P Schrey

The production of inositol phosphates in response to gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) was studied in rat anterior pituitary tissue preincubated with [3H]inositol. Prelabelled paired hemipituitaries from prepubertal female rats were incubated in the presence or absence of GnRH in medium containing 10 mM-Li+ X Li+, which inhibits myo-inositol-1-phosphatase, greatly amplified the stimulation of inositol phosphate production by GnRH (10(-7) M) to 159, 198 and 313% of paired control values for inositol 1-phosphate, inositol bisphosphate and inositol trisphosphate respectively after 20 min. The percentage distribution of [3H]inositol within the phosphoinositides was 91.3, 6.3 and 2.4 for phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate respectively and was unaffected by GnRH. The stimulation of inositol trisphosphate production by GnRH was evident after 5 min incubation, was dose-dependent with a half-maximal effect around 11 nM, and was not inhibited by removal of extracellular Ca2+. Elevation of cytosolic Ca2+ by membrane depolarization with 50 mM-K+ had no significant effect on inositol phosphate production. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that GnRH action in the anterior pituitary involves the hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. The resulting elevation of inositol trisphosphate may in turn lead to intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and subsequent stimulation of gonadotropin secretion.


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