V Nair, R J Wiechert, D E Vietti, D Singh, R H Stevens
{"title":"Methyl 5'-(6-aminopurin-9-yl)-5'-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranoside 2',3'-cyclic monophosphate: a novel, biologically active, structural analogue of cyclic AMP.","authors":"V Nair, R J Wiechert, D E Vietti, D Singh, R H Stevens","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A novel structural analogue of cyclic AMP has been synthesized. This compound has been found to activate protein kinase from skeletal muscle (Ka 5.0 microM). It is virtually resistant to degradation by beef heart cAMP phosphodiesterase. It is an inhibitor of this enzyme with an [I]50 of 47.0 microM. The proliferation of cancer cells (HT-29) is inhibited by this compound. It represents the first example of a 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide with marked biological activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 3","pages":"189-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17317417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulation of Ca2+ and cyclic AMP during the first meiotic division in amphibian oocytes by progesterone.","authors":"A B Kostellow, D Ziegler, G A Morrill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Progesterone appears to be the physiological inducer of meiosis in amphibian oocytes. In Rana pipiens, dl-propranolol mimics the action of progesterone and both agents have a common action in producing a rapid [45Ca] efflux and a fall in intracellular cAMP followed by nuclear breakdown. Comparison of the rate of hydrolysis of injected [3H]-cAMP and of the conversion of injected [3H]-ATP to [3H]-cAMP followed exposure to meiotic inducers and inhibitors indicates that adenylate cyclase and not phosphodiesterase is the rate-limiting step in regulating [cAMP]i in the oocyte. The results suggest that progesterone initiates the resumption of the meiotic divisions by down-regulation of membrane adenylate cyclase, possibly via Ca2+ release from specific membrane sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 5","pages":"347-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17322726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhibition of cholera toxin activation of the adenylate cyclase system in intact HeLa cells.","authors":"M C Lin, M Taniuchi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cholera toxin treatment activates the adenylate cyclase in intact HeLa cells. However, pretreatment of the cells with chemicals known to inhibit receptor internalization and lysosomal processing blocks the toxin activation. The agents found to inhibit the effect of cholera toxin include methylamine, ammonium chloride, chloroquine and dansylcadaverine. These chemicals did not affect either the binding of )125I)-cholera toxin to HeLa cells nor the ability of A1 peptide to activate the adenylate cyclase in plasma membrane preparations. We conclude that these chemicals act on the processing of the toxin subsequent to its binding and that internalization and lysosomal processing mediate the release of the active fragment from cholera toxin, which activates the adenylate cyclase system.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 5","pages":"359-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18233534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alpha adrenergic receptor mediated formation of cyclic AMP in rat spinal cord.","authors":"D J Jones, L F McKenna","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Methoxamine and phenylephrine (PE), postsynaptic alpha adrenergic agonists stimulated the accumulation of cyclic AMP in spinal cord tissue slices. Naphazoline, oxymetazoline and clonidine, previously shown to have greater efficacy at presynaptic alpha receptors did not alter accumulation and, in fact, blocked the PE response. The PE-stimulation was completely inhibited by postsynaptic alpha antagonists, incompletely by agents which bl ock presynaptic alpha receptors, and slightly by the beta blocker propranolol. Pe-stimulated accumulation was potentiated by phosphodiesterase inhibition (RO 20-1724). In contrast to previous reports on the requirement of the copresence of adenosine for alpha receptor stimulated accumulation of cyclic AMP in neuronal tissue, the PE-stimulation in spinal cord slices was unchanged by adenosine receptor blockade (theophylline), hydrolysis of endogenous adenosine (adenosine deaminase), inhibition of adenosine deaminase (EHNA) or blockade of adenosine uptake (dipyridamole). Added adenosine increased basal accumulation and produced a marked potentiation of the PE response. From this data it is evident that, in spinal cord tissue slices, there occurs a postsynaptic alpha adrenergic receptor linked to cyclic AMP accumulation which does not require the presence of other neurohumoral agents for activation.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 2","pages":"133-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17171934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The turnover of cyclic AMP in cultured fibroblasts.","authors":"R Barber, R W Butcher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The determination of the turnover of cAMP in WI-38 and VA13 cultured fibroblasts stimulated by prostaglandin E1 is reported. The method made use of data obtained from a process of continuously labeling the cellular adenine nucleotide pools by incubation with [3H]-adenine. The turnover of the cAMP was estimated from the delay in appearance of tritium label in the cAMP pool was compared to the cellular ATP. For WI-38 cells the half-life of cAMP when accumulation had reached a steady-state was 1.46 minutes; in the presence of 0.5 mM 1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine (IBMX) the half-life was increased to 9.24 minutes. For VA13 transformed fibroblasts the half-life of cAMP determined by this method was 6.30 minutes. cAMP in these latter cells in the absence of hormone had a half-life of 3.01 minutes. This decrease supports the contention that the hormone has profound effects on phosphodiesterase as well as adenylate cyclase activities in these cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 1","pages":"3-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17221665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temperature effects on cyclic AMP accumulation in cultured fibroblasts.","authors":"R Barber, K P Ray, R W Butcher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The kinetic parameters that determine the accumulation of cAMP in WI-38 cells stimulated with prostaglandin E1 have been determined at 37 degrees C and at lower temperatures. For desensitized cells, a reduction of temperatures from 37 degrees to 25 degrees C reduced both rate of synthesis and rate of elimination of cAMP by about 40%. The steady-state accumulation was, therefore, about the same at both temperatures. The extent of desensitization was also shown to be comparable at the two temperatures. It can be inferred that there was appreciable desensitization at 4 degrees C after a period of stimulation of less than one hour. This is contrasted with the behavior of C6-2B glioma cells at the same temperature. Escape of cAMP through the plasma membrane showed a greater temperature dependence than any of the other processes concerned with cAMP accumulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 1","pages":"15-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17310068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phosphatidic acid inhibition of PGE1-stimulated cAMP accumulation in WI-38 fibroblasts: similarities with carbachol inhibition.","authors":"R B Clark, D M Salmon, T W Honeyman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To test the hypothesis that phosphatidic acid (PhA) is involved in the carbachol inhibition of hormone stimulated accumulation of cAMP we observed the effects of PhA on PGE1-stimulation of cAMP in WI-38 fibroblasts. PhA inhibited PGE1-stimulated cAMP accumulation of WI-38 fibroblasts; maximum inhibition (approximately 50-80%) occurred at a PhA concentration of 1.0 microM and significant inhibition was observed with a concentration of 0.1 microM. The full effects of PhA were evident within 15 sec after the co-addition of PGE1 and PhA. Addition of PhA to cells which had been pre-stimulated with PGE1 resulted in the rapid decay of cAMP levels to a new steady state level with a t 1/2 of approximately 65 sec. The inhibition produced by PhA did not appear to be simply attributable to a depolarization or increased intracellular Ca2+, since addition of either KCl or the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 did not lower PGE1-stimulated cAMP accumulation. When intact cells were pretreated with PhA then lysed and adenylate cyclase immediately assayed, no detectable changes in broken cell adenylate cyclase activities were observed. Also, PhA added directly to adenylate cyclase assays at concentrations as high as 100 microM produced no detectable inhibition of the membrane fraction adenylate cyclase activities. Nonetheless, our results suggest that adenylate cyclase activity in intact cells may be directly affected by physiological levels of PhA . Further, the similarities of carbachol [Butcher, R. W., Journal of Cyclic Nucleotide Research, 4:411 (1978)] and PhA inhibition support the hypothesis that carbachol (acetylcholine) exerts its effect on adenylate cyclase through alterations of the plasma membrane phospholipid composition.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 1","pages":"37-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17310069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Residual cyclic nucleotide associated with tissues after exposure to aqueous buffer analogous to that used in immunocytochemistry.","authors":"R A Ortez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A question concerning cyclic nucleotide immunocytochemical localization has been how much nucleotide remains associated with the tissue section. To answer that question cryostat sections of goldfish eye and mouse spleen, liver and lung were mounted on microscope slides and air dried. Following fixation by a variety of procedures employing heat, paraformaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, acetone, or ethanol, the sections were exposed to buffer (20 microM NaHPO4, 154 microM NaCl, pH 6.1) for 4 hours. The tissues were then scraped from the slides into 0.4N Perchloric Acid and cAMP and cGMP extracted and measured. The results show that fractions of both nucleotides are retained during buffer exposure. However, the amount retained varied with the: i) neucleotide, ii) fixation procedure, and iii) tissue type. Cyclic GMP retention was consistently higher (20-70%) than cAMP (6-30%). Glutaraldehyde was consistently more efficient in fixing cAMP, while cGMP retention was more variable with different fixation procedures. Tissue variability is seen in the example that spleen and liver retained more cGmp (71.4 and 70.6% respectively) than lung and eye (22.8 and 37.7% respectively). Maximum nucleotide loss occured during the first 5-30 minutes of buffer exposure with no additional loss accuring after another 20 hours. Collectively, these results demonstrate that cyclic nucleotides are retained during immunocytochemical staining procedures but that the degree of retention is dependent on several variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 2","pages":"93-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17315123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A rapid direct assay of 3'-5' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase activity using chromatography on immobilized acriflavin.","authors":"C Rochette-Egly, J M Egly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A chromatographic method using immobilized acriflavin has been developed for the separation of unreacted cyclic nucleotides from their corresponding 5'-nucleotides, in a direct assay of 3'-5' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase using [3H]-cyclic nucleotides as substrate. The method based on the so-called charge-transfer overlap recognition between flavin and indol rings, provides a rapid (15-20 min) and sensitive elution of [3H]-5'nucleotides with high recovery (up to 98%) and low blanks, while [3H]-cyclic nucleotides are retarded on the column. By this method, the formation of some secondary products by purine metabolizing enzymes such as 5'-nucleotidases, nucleosidases and/or deaminases is taken into account, using [14C]-5'-AMP thus allowing an accurate determination of phosphodiesterase activity in any preparations.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 5","pages":"335-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17322725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stable cholinergic-muscarinic and alpha-adrenergic inhibition of rat parotid adenylate cyclase.","authors":"Y Oron, S Creacy, J Kellogg, J Larner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>(-) Isoproterenol-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity of washed at parotid membrane preparations from gland slices previously treated with the alpha-adrenergic agonist, methoxamine, was inhibited approximately 30%. The action of methoxamine required exogenous Ca2+ and was blocked by the alpha-adrenergic blocking agent, phentolamine. Incubation of gland slices with carbamylcholine resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition (50%) of (-) isoproterenol-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in washed membranes. The action of carbamylcholine was independent of exogenous Ca2+ and was blocked by preincubation with atropine. Cholinergic inhibition of parotid adenylate cyclase was compared to the cholinergic inhibition of adenylate cyclase in dog heart homogenates. While carbamylcholine caused a limited (20-30%) inhibition of basal and (-) isoproterenol-stimulated activities when added to dog heart homogenates, it failed to produce any effect in parotid homogenates prepared in an identical manner. Cholinergic inhibition of parotid adenylate cyclase activity was stable and persisted in washed particulate fractions while the inhibition in dog heart homogenates was reversible by washing. Cholinergic inhibition of adenylate cyclase was markedly dependent on the presence of GTP and was abolished when Mn2+ was subsituted for Mg2+ in both systems. Guanyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate had little effect on the inhibition in parotid preparations but abolished the inhibition in heart homogenates. It is concluded that, in contrast to the cholinergic action in dog heart homogenates, the exposure of parotid slices to carbamylcholine results in a stable lesion in the adenylate cyclase activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":15497,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cyclic nucleotide research","volume":"6 2","pages":"105-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18420907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}