scholarly journals H.p.l.c. analysis of inositol monophosphate isomers formed on angiotensin II stimulation of rat adrenal glomerulosa cells

1987 ◽  
Vol 248 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
I M Bird ◽  
A D Smith ◽  
D Schulster

[3H]Inositol-prelabelled isolated rat adrenal glomerulosa cells were stimulated with 25 nM-AII ([Asp1, Ile5]-angiotensin II) in the presence of 10 mM-Li+, and the resulting inositol monophosphate isomers were separated successfully by using a recently developed h.p.l.c. methodology. Two major peaks of radioactivity were detected which showed the same retention characteristics on h.p.l.c. as inositol 4-phosphate and inositol 1-phosphate and which increased 5-fold and 8-fold respectively on stimulation with AII. In addition, a relatively small peak with the retention characteristics of inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate was seen to undergo a 1.5-fold increase on stimulation. This was not considered sufficient to suggest that cyclic phosphoinositols were a major product of AII-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover. No peaks of radioactive material were detected in the regions expected for inositol 2-phosphate (an acid hydrolysis product of inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate) or inositol 5-phosphate. These results establish the identity of the major inositol phosphate products in AII-stimulated glomerulosa cells and confirm and extend the previous observations of Balla, Baukal, Guillemette, Morgan & Catt [(1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 83, 9323-9327].

1990 ◽  
Vol 271 (3) ◽  
pp. 791-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
E A Woodcock ◽  
P J Little ◽  
J K Tanner

Endothelin has steroidogenic activity in adrenal glomerulosa cells, as do two other vasoconstrictor peptides, angiotensin II and vasopressin. The steroidogenic activities of angiotensin II and vasopressin are probably mediated via the phosphatidylinositol-turnover pathway and associated changes in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration. Endothelin caused a steroidogenic response, which was small compared with that to angiotensin II and quantitatively similar to the vasopressin response. Cytosolic free Ca2+ responses were similarly higher to angiotensin II than to either of the other two peptides. However, total inositol phosphate responses to endothelin and angiotensin II were similar when these were measured over 20 min, and were quantitatively greater than the vasopressin response. A detailed study has been made of the phosphatidylinositol-turnover response to endothelin in comparison with responses to angiotensin II and vasopressin. Each of the three peptides produced a rapid and transient rise in Ins(1,4,5)P3 (max. 5-15 s), followed by a slow sustained rise. Ins(1,4,5)P3 was metabolized by both dephosphorylation and phosphorylation pathways, but the relative importance of the two metabolic pathways was different under stimulation by each of the three peptides. These findings show that adrenal glomerulosa cells can distinguish between the stimulation of phosphatidylinositol turnover by three different effectors. These differences in the pathway may be associated with the observed different steroidogenic and Ca2+ responses to the three peptides.


Endocrinology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 148 (11) ◽  
pp. 5573-5581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés J. Casal ◽  
Stéphane Ryser ◽  
Alessandro M. Capponi ◽  
Carine F. Wang-Buholzer

Angiotensin II (AngII) stimulates aldosterone biosynthesis in the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex. AngII also triggers the MAPK pathways (ERK1/2 and p38). Because ERK1/2 phosphorylation is a transient process, phosphatases could play a crucial role in the acute steroidogenic response. Here we show that the dual specificity (threonine/tyrosine) MAPK phosphatase-1 (MKP-1) is present in bovine adrenal glomerulosa cells in primary culture and that AngII markedly increases its expression in a time- and concentration-dependent manner (IC50 = 1 nm), a maximum of 548 ± 10% of controls being reached with 10 nm AngII after 3 h (n = 3, P < 0.01). This effect is completely abolished by losartan, a blocker of the AT1 receptor subtype. Moreover, this AngII-induced MKP-1 expression is reduced to 250 ± 35% of controls (n = 3, P < 0.01) in the presence of U0126, an inhibitor of ERK1/2 phosphorylation, suggesting an involvement of the ERK1/2 MAPK pathway in MKP-1 induction. Indeed, shortly after AngII-induced phosphorylation of ERK1/2 (220% of controls at 30 min), MKP-1 protein expression starts to increase. This increase is associated with a reduction in ERK1/2 phosphorylation, which returns to control values after 3 h of AngII challenge. Enhanced MKP-1 expression is essentially due to a stabilization of MKP-1 mRNA. AngII treatment leads to a 53-fold increase in phosphorylated MKP-1 levels and a doubling of MKP-1 phosphatase activity. Overexpression of MKP-1 results in decreased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and aldosterone production in response to AngII stimulation. These results strongly suggest that MKP-1 is the specific phosphatase induced by AngII and involved in the negative feedback mechanism ensuring adequate ERK1/2-mediated aldosterone production in response to the hormone.


1986 ◽  
Vol 236 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Iida ◽  
E P Widmaier ◽  
P F Hall

The hypothesis that ACTH (corticotropin) stimulates steroidogenesis by a mechanism that involves breakdown of polyphosphoinositides and increase in intracellular Ca2+ (called here the ‘phosphatidylinositide-Ca2+ mechanism’) was tested in Y-1 adrenal-tumour cells and in bovine fasciculata cells, by using incorporation of 32P and myo-[3H]inositol to study phospholipid metabolism, and quin-2 and fura 2 to measure intracellular Ca2+. As a positive control, we repeated experiments showing that angiotensin II stimulates glomerulosa cells by way of the phosphatidylinositide-Ca2+ mechanism, by using the same methods. With Y-1 and fasciculata cells, no change was observed in the incorporation of either of the labelled precursors into any phosphatidylinositide or into any of three major phosphoinositols, i.e. inositol phosphate, bisphosphate and trisphosphate. Moreover, no change in mass of any of these compounds was seen. No change was observed in the concentration of intracellular Ca2+ in Y-1 or fasciculata cells on addition of ACTH, by using either quin-2 or fura 2. By contrast, decreased incorporation of 32P into phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate and an increase in intracellular Ca2+ were seen when glomerulosa cells were treated with angiotensin II. It is concluded that the phosphatidylinositide-Ca2+ mechanism is not used by Y-1 adrenal or bovine fasciculata cells in the steroidogenic response to ACTH unless the mechanism is radically different from that seen with all other hormones so far tested in which this mechanism occurs.


1987 ◽  
Vol 243 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
P T Hawkins ◽  
C P Berrie ◽  
A J Morris ◽  
C P Downes

We have employed a neutral-pH extraction technique to look for inositol 1,2-cyclic phosphate derivatives in [3H]inositol-labelled parotid gland slices stimulated with carbachol. The incubations were terminated by adding cold chloroform/methanol (1:2, v/v), the samples were dried under vacuum and inositol phosphates were extracted from the dried residues by phenol/chloroform/water partitioning. Water-soluble inositol metabolites were separated by h.p.l.c. at pH 3.7. 32P-labelled inositol phosphate standards (inositol 1-phosphate, inositol 1,2-cyclic phosphate, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and inositol 1,2-cyclic 4,5-trisphosphate) were quantitively recovered through both extraction and chromatography steps. Treatment of inositol cyclic phosphate standards with 5% (w/v) HClO4 for 10 min prior to chromatography resulted in formation of the expected non-cyclic compounds. [3H]Inositol 1-phosphate and [3H]inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate were both present in parotid gland slices and both increased during stimulation with 1 mM-carbachol. There was no evidence for significant quantities of [3H]inositol 1,2-cyclic phosphate or [3H]inositol 1,2-cyclic 4,5-trisphosphate in control or carbachol-stimulated glands. Parotid gland homogenates rapidly converted inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate to inositol bisphosphate and inositol tetrakisphosphate, but metabolism of the inositol cyclic trisphosphate was much slower. The results suggest that inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate, but not inositol 1,2-cyclic 4,5-trisphosphate, is the water-soluble product of muscarinic receptor-stimulated phospholipase C in rat parotid glands.


1988 ◽  
Vol 253 (3) ◽  
pp. 765-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Guillon ◽  
N Gallo-Payet ◽  
M N Balestre ◽  
C Lombard

Vasopressin (VP) and angiotensin II (AT II) stimulate the production of inositol phosphates (IP) in rat glomerulosa cells. Guanosine 5′-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]), but not VP or AT II, stimulates IP production in a myo-[3H]inositol-prelabelled glomerulosa-cell membrane preparation. In combination with GTP[S], these hormones potentiate the response to GTP[S], indicating the existence of a G-protein involved in the coupling of the VP and AT II receptor with the phospholipase C. ADP-ribosylation with pertussis toxin (IAP) revealed the specific labelling of a single molecule of 41 kDa. No significant inhibition of VP- or AT II-stimulated IP accumulation was detected in intact cells when the whole 41 kDa molecule was endogenously ADP-ribosylated by IAP treatment. On the contrary, when glomerulosa cells were infected with cholera toxin (CT), both the VP- and AT II-stimulated IP accumulations were inhibited in a dose-dependent manner. Yet these effects were partial even at high concentrations of CT, and could not be related to the ADP-ribosylation of ‘alpha s’ molecules. Similarly, when the cells were infected with 1 microgram of CT/ml, the specific binding of VP and AT II decreased by 50-60%. Such results may signify that the treatment primarily affects the densities of the hormone receptors. When glomerulosa cells were incubated for 15 h in the presence of 10 nM-corticotropin (ACTH), a condition in which the intracellular concentration of cyclic AMP was increased 3-fold, the maximum IP response to 0.1 microM-VP or -AT II was decreased by 50%. When similar experiments were carried out only after a 15 min incubation period with the same concentration of ACTH, the increase in cyclic AMP was more pronounced, but no inhibition of hormone-induced IP accumulation was observed. Altogether, these results may suggest that CT exerts its action on the VP- or AT II-sensitive phospholipase C systems via a prolonged increase in intracellular cyclic AMP.


Endocrinology ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH A. WOODCOCK ◽  
COLIN I. JOHNSTON

1974 ◽  
Vol 185 (1081) ◽  
pp. 375-407 ◽  

The densities of latex spheres and biological cells can be reliably determined from their sedimentation rate in an albumin gradient under unit gravitational force. The densities of zona glomerulosa and fasciculata cells of rat adrenals were found to be 1.072 ± 0.004 and 1.040 ± 0.001 respectively. Purified zona glomerulosa cells of rat adrenals can be prepared by gravitational sedimentation of dispersed cells from capsule strippings of the gland, which originally contain 3 to10% zona fasciculata contamination. Electron and phase microscopic examination of the sedimented glomerulosa cells and their steroidogenic response to ACTH and cyclic AMP indicate that they are reasonably free of contamination from zona fasciculata cells. Electron microscopic examination of the purified glomerulosa cells indicates that most of them are reasonably normal in structure. Their basal production of corticosterone is decreased after sedimentation. However, their maximal response of corticosterone output to serotonin and potassium and their response to all potassium concentrations is not significantly altered, indicating normal function for the cells producing steroids. Their maximal responses to ACTH, valine angiotensin II and cyclic AMP are decreased, but, at the doses used, steroidogenesis by the zona fasciculata contamination in the unfractionated preparation would be stimulated by these substances. Purified zona glomerulosa cells have about the same maximal response of corticosterone output (about twofold) to potassium, valine and isoleucine angiotensin II, serotonin and ACTH. The maximal response of the purified zona glomerulosa cells to cyclic AMP is similar to that elicited by valine and isoleucine angiotensin II, potassium, serotonin or ACTH. This indicates that if these stimuli act by increasing cyclic AMP output, then the maximal response of corticosterone output (about twofold) is defined by the limited response of the biosynthetic pathways to cyclic AMP.


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