scholarly journals Purification of Gastric Mucosal ECL Cells from a Crude Elutriation Fraction

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1643-1645 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Graham

Acid-secreting parietal cells from the gastric mucosa are widely studied as a model in studies on ion transport and the endocrine/paracrine ECL cells effectively control parietal cell function. Discontinuous gradients of iodixanol for the purification of ECL cells were subsequently simplified to the use of a density barrier. This technique is now commonly used following initial centrifugal elutriation.

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1650-1653 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Graham

Acid-secreting parietal cells from the gastric mucosa are widely studied as a model in studies on ion transport. A discontinuous gradient of iodixanol has been found to be superior to earlier protocols using Nycodenz® and this method, which removes a significant amount of contaminating cells and mucus is a very useful prelude to further purification by elutriation.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (6) ◽  
pp. G975-G978 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. O. Adeniyi ◽  
M. O. Olowookorun

The role of thyroid hormones on parietal cell function and number was studied in the rat. Chronic administration of thyroxine (6-8 micrograms/100 g body wt/day) for 35 days significantly increased parietal cell mass (from 21.18 +/- 0.13 x 10(6) to 26.71 +/- 0.14 x 10(6] as well as basal acid secretion (from 3.69 +/- 0.08 to 4.99 +/- 0.16 mueq/10 min) and histamine-stimulated acid secretion (from 2.45 +/- 0.12 to 3.69 +/- 0.21 mueq/10 min). Thyroidectomy decreased the number of parietal cells in the gastric mucosa (to 10.48 +/- 0.09 x 10(6] and basal acid secretion (to 3.09 +/- 0.08 mueq/10 min). Histamine (0.2 mg) injection into the thyroidectomized rats increased acid secretion by only 1.41 +/- 0.06 mueq/10 min as against 2.45 +/- 0.12 mueq/10 min obtained for control rats. The results suggest that thyroid hormones regulate basal and secretagogue-stimulated acid secretion via their effects on parietal cell mass.


2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (6) ◽  
pp. C1599-C1606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Sherry ◽  
Danuta H. Malinowska ◽  
Randal E. Morris ◽  
Georgianne M. Ciraolo ◽  
John Cuppoletti

HCl secretion across the parietal cell apical secretory membrane involves the H+-K+-ATPase, the ClC-2 Cl− channel, and a K+ channel. In the present study, the cellular and subcellular distribution of ClC-2 mRNA and protein was determined in the rabbit gastric mucosa and in isolated gastric glands. ClC-2 mRNA was localized to parietal cells by in situ hybridization and by direct in situ RT-PCR. By immunoperoxidase microscopy, ClC-2 protein was concentrated in parietal cells. Immunofluorescent confocal microscopy suggested that the ClC-2 was localized to the secretory canalicular membrane of stimulated parietal cells and to intracellular structures of resting parietal cells. Immunogold electron microscopy confirmed that ClC-2 is in the secretory canalicular membrane of stimulated cells and in tubulovesicles of resting parietal cells. These findings, together with previous functional characterization of the native and recombinant channel, strongly indicate that ClC-2 is the Cl− channel, which together with the H+-K+-ATPase and a K+ channel, results in HCl secretion across the parietal cell secretory membrane.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (2) ◽  
pp. G356-G363 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Chiba ◽  
S. K. Fisher ◽  
B. W. Agranoff ◽  
T. Yamada

In previous studies we demonstrated that parietal cell stimulation with gastrin and carbamoylcholine (carbachol) is accompanied by increased turnover of membrane inositol phospholipids. We conducted the present studies to examine whether membrane-associated protein kinase C activity is enhanced as a consequence of these events and to explore the role of this enzyme in regulating parietal cell function. We observed that carbachol and gastrin dose dependently increased membrane-associated protein kinase C activity while histamine did not. Furthermore, compounds such as phorbol esters and diacylglycerol, which are known to be direct stimulants of protein kinase C activity, also stimulated parietal cell aminopyrine uptake. In contrast, the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate and the synthetic diacylglycerol 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol inhibited both aminopyrine uptake and membrane inositol phospholipid turnover in parietal cells induced by carbachol and gastrin. The inhibitory effect appeared to result from reduction in the quantity of muscarinic and gastrin receptors without alterations in their specific affinities. These data suggest that protein kinase C mediates stimulation of parietal cells by gastrin and carbachol but also activates an autoregulatory mechanism via downregulation of muscarinic and gastrin receptors.


2007 ◽  
Vol 282 (46) ◽  
pp. 33265-33274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Zavros ◽  
Meghna Waghray ◽  
Arthur Tessier ◽  
Longchuan Bai ◽  
Andrea Todisco ◽  
...  

Sonic hedgehog (Shh) is not only essential to the development of the gastrointestinal tract, but is also necessary to maintain the characteristic acid-secreting phenotype of the adult stomach. Gastrin is the only hormone capable of stimulating gastric acid and is thus required to maintain functional parietal cells. We have shown previously that gastrin-null mice display gastric atrophy and metaplasia prior to progression to distal, intestinal-type gastric cancer. Because reduced levels of Shh peptide correlate with gastric atrophy, we examined whether gastrin regulates Shh expression in parietal cells. We show here that gastrin stimulates Shh gene expression and acid-dependent processing of the 45-kDa Shh precursor to the 19-kDa secreted peptide in primary parietal cell cultures. This cleavage was blocked by the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole and mediated by the acid-activated protease pepsin A. Pepsin A was also the protease responsible for processing Shh in tissue extracts from human stomach. By contrast, extracts prepared from neoplastic gastric mucosa had reduced levels of pepsin A and did not process Shh. Therefore processing of Shh in the normal stomach is hormonally regulated, acid-dependent, and mediated by the aspartic protease pepsin A. Moreover parietal cell atrophy, a known pre-neoplastic lesion, correlates with loss of Shh processing.


2006 ◽  
Vol 291 (4) ◽  
pp. G539-G544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duan Chen ◽  
Takeshi Aihara ◽  
Chun-Mei Zhao ◽  
Rolf Håkanson ◽  
Susumu Okabe

Many physiological functions of the stomach depend on an intact mucosal integrity; function reflects structure and vice versa. Histamine in the stomach is synthesized by histidine decarboxylase (HDC), stored in enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells, and released in response to gastrin, acting on CCK2 receptors on the ECL cells. Mobilized ECL cell histamine stimulates histamine H2 receptors on the parietal cells, resulting in acid secretion. The parietal cells express H2, M3, and CCK2 receptors and somatostatin sst2 receptors. This review discusses the consequences of disrupting genes that are important for ECL cell histamine release and synthesis (HDC, gastrin, and CCK2 receptor genes) and genes that are important for “cross-talk” between H2 receptors and other receptors on the parietal cell (CCK2, M3, and sst2 receptors). Such analysis may provide insight into the functional significance of gastric histamine.


2005 ◽  
Vol 289 (2) ◽  
pp. G320-G331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Chew ◽  
Curtis T. Okamoto ◽  
Xunsheng Chen ◽  
Ruby Thomas

Developmentally regulated brain proteins (drebrins) are highly expressed in brain where they may regulate actin filament formation in dendritic spines. Recently, the drebrin E2 isoform was detected in certain epithelial cell types including the gastric parietal cell. In gastric parietal cells, activation of HCl secretion is correlated with actin filament formation and elongation within intracellular canaliculi, which are the sites of acid secretion. The aim of this study was to define the pattern of drebrin expression in gland units in the intact rabbit oxyntic gastric mucosa and to initiate approaches to define the functions of this protein in parietal cells. Drebrin E2 expression was limited entirely or almost entirely to parietal cells and depended upon the localization of parietal cells along the gland axis. Rabbit drebrin E2 was cloned and found to share 86% identity with human drebrin 1a and to possess a number of cross-species conserved protein-protein interaction and phosphorylation consensus sites. Two-dimensional Western blot and phosphoaffinity column analyses confirmed that drebrin is phosphorylated in parietal cells, and several candidate phosphorylation sites were identified by mass spectrometry. Overexpression of epitope-tagged drebrin E2 led to the formation of microspikes and F-actin-rich ring-like structures in cultured parietal cells and suppressed cAMP-dependent acid secretory responses. In Madin-Darby canine kidney cells, coexpression of epitope-tagged drebrin and the Rho family GTPase Cdc42, which induces filopodial extension, produced an additive increase in the length of microspike projections. Coexpression of dominant negative Cdc42 with drebrin E2 did not prevent drebrin-induced microspike formation. These findings suggest that 1) drebrin can induce the formation of F-actin-rich membrane projections by Cdc42-dependent and -independent mechanisms; and that 2) drebrin plays an active role in directing the secretagogue-dependent formation of F-actin-rich filaments on the parietal cell canalicular membrane. Finally, the differential distribution of drebrin in parietal cells along the gland axis suggests that drebrin E2 may be an important marker of parietal cell differentiation and functionality.


1985 ◽  
Vol 227 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
G P Shaw ◽  
N G Anderson ◽  
P J Hanson

The substrate-dependency of gastric acid secretion was investigated in isolated rat parietal cells by using the accumulation of the weak base aminopyrine as an index of acid secretion. Exogenous substrates enhanced accumulation of aminopyrine in rat parietal cells stimulated by secretagogues, and this effect was probably directly related to the provision of energy for acid secretion. At physiological concentrations, certain of the substrates (glucose, oleate, lactate, D-3-hydroxybutyrate, L-isoleucine, L-valine and acetoacetate) could support acid secretion, with glucose being the most effective. L-Leucine and acetate were only effective stimulators of parietal-cell aminopyrine accumulation at high concentrations (5mM). L-Glutamine was unable to stimulate aminopyrine accumulation even at high concentrations, and glutaminase activity in parietal cells was estimated to be low by comparison with small-intestinal epithelial cells. Variation in the concentrations of D-3-hydroxybutyrate and L-isoleucine, but not of glucose, within the physiological range affected their ability to support aminopyrine accumulation. The presence of 5 mM-L-isoleucine, 5 mM-lactate and combinations of certain substrates at physiological concentrations produced aminopyrine accumulation in stimulated parietal cells that was greater than that obtained in cells incubated with 5 mM-glucose alone. In conclusion, fulfillment of the metabolic requirements of the acid-secreting parietal cell under physiological circumstances requires a combination of substrates, and integration of the results with previous data [Anderson & Hanson (1983) Biochem. J. 210, 451-455; 212, 875-879] suggests that after overnight starvation in vivo metabolism of glucose, D-3-hydroxybutyrate and L-isoleucine may be of particular importance.


1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (5) ◽  
pp. G818-G826 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Chew ◽  
K. Nakamura ◽  
A. C. Petropoulos

Parietal cells in primary culture and freshly isolated parietal cells were used to compare acute and chronic effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) on acid-secretory related activity, measured as accumulation of the weak base, [14C]aminopyrine (AP). EGF and TGF-alpha chronically enhanced basal and agonist-stimulated AP accumulation (mean effective concentration 0.6-0.8 nM) but acutely inhibited responses to histamine and carbachol (half-maximal inhibitory concentration approximately 4 nM). Pertussis toxin (250 ng/ml, 4 h) suppressed acute EGF inhibition of histamine-stimulated AP accumulation but not the chronic enhancement. A subclass of tyrosine kinase inhibitors suppressed chronic EGF effects (genistein > tyrphostin B56 >>> tyrphostin B42), whereas tyrphostin A25, lavendustin A, and the inactive genistein analogue, daidzein, had no significant effect. In contrast, histamine-stimulated AP accumulation was acutely potentiated by genistein, daidzein, and tyrphostin B42, but not tyrphostin B56. Reduced phosphorylation of a 44- to 45-kDa protein with an isoelectric point of approximately 7 [phosphoprotein (pp) 44] was correlated with chronic inhibition but not with acute potentiation by specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Preliminary data indicate that pp44 is a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family of tyrosine/threonine kinases (also known as extracellular signal-related kinases). We propose that 1) EGF and/or TGF-alpha modulates parietal cell function by multiple signaling pathways, 2) a soluble tyrosine kinase may be involved in the mediation of the chronic effects of EGF, and 3) acute potentiation of histamine-stimulated AP accumulation by certain tyrosine kinase inhibitors and daidzein is probably not mediated by receptor-associated tyrosine kinases.


1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (4) ◽  
pp. G646-G654
Author(s):  
W. Schepp ◽  
J. Schmidtler ◽  
C. Tatge ◽  
V. Schusdziarra ◽  
M. Classen

In enzymatically dispersed enriched (76%) rat parietal cells we studied the effect of substance P on acid sequestration as indirectly measured by [14C]aminopyrine accumulation. Substance P (10(-8)-10(-5) M) had no effect on basal [14C]aminopyrine accumulation. Yet, the peptide reduced the response to histamine and to the postreceptor agonists forskolin and dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (DBcAMP). Inhibition by substance P followed noncompetitive kinetics and reduced stimulated parietal cell function by up to 45% at 10(-5) M. The antagonist [D-Pro2, D-Trp7,9]-substance P at 10(-5) M partly reversed the inhibitory effect of substance P. Cholinergic stimulation of [14C]aminopyrine accumulation was not reduced by substance P. Neurokinin A, another tachykinin that is structurally related to substance P, was of comparable potency and efficacy in reducing [14C]aminopyrine accumulation in response to histamine, forskolin, and DBcAMP. Inhibition of forskolin- or DBcAMP-induced [14C]aminopyrine accumulation persisted in the presence of 10(-5) M ranitidine. Inhibition by substance P and neurokinin A of the response to histamine was not sensitive to pertussis toxin. Both tachykinins failed to reduce histamine- and forskolin-stimulated cAMP production. Our data suggest that substance P and neurokinin A exert a direct effect on rat parietal cells. They attenuate histamine-stimulated acid sequestration at an intracellular step that is distal to the adenylate cyclase and that does not involve pertussis toxin-sensitive GTP-binding proteins.


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