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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-6-25
pubmed:abstractText
The mechanisms of GnRH-induced desensitization of LH secretion are poorly understood. Protein kinase C (PKC) and protein kinase A (PKA) desensitize some receptors of the 7-membrane type, and the GnRH receptor has consensus phosphorylation sites for PKC in the first and third intracellular loops, and a site for PKA in the first intracellular loop. In the first set of experiments we determined whether synthetic peptides representing the three intracellular loops of the receptor could be phosphorylated in vitro by purified PKC and PKA. As compared with a model substrate peptide for PKC, the third intracellular loop was phosphorylated 74% and the first intracellular loop 21%; PKA-phosphorylated the first intracellular loop peptide 17% as well as a model peptide substrate. In the second set of experiments, we used phorbol 12-myristate 13 acetate (PMA), an established PKC stimulator, and cholera toxin (CTX), established to activate the Gs protein and presumed to activate PKA, to treat cultured rat pituitary cells followed by LH measurements. Treatment with both drugs severely impaired GnRH-stimulated LH secretion whereas neither drug alone reduced LH secretion. Dibutyryl cAMP did not duplicate the effects of cholera toxin suggesting that the CTX action could not be explained by an increase in cAMP. These results suggest that more than one intracellular signaling pathway requires activation in order to induce desensitization; one pathway involves PKC and the other involves a pathway stimulated by cholera toxin, presumably Gs protein, which does not involve PKA.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0024-3205
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2215-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Bucladesine, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Cholera Toxin, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-GTP-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Luteinizing Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Pituitary Gland, Anterior, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Receptors, LHRH, pubmed-meshheading:10374911-Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Dual intracellular pathways in gonadotropin releasing hormone (GNRH) induced desensitization of luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-0005, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article