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Role of guanine nucleotide regulatory protein in polyphosphoinositide degradation and activation of phagocytic leukocytes by chemoattractants.

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Verghese, MW; Smith, CD; Snyderman, R
Published in: J Cell Biochem
1986

Leukocyte activation by chemoattractants provides an important model to study the biochemical mechanisms of stimulus-response coupling in these cells. Well-defined chemotactic factors induce readily quantifiable responses in phagocytic leukocytes. These include directed migration and the production and release of toxic substances including oxygen radicals and lysosomal enzymes. The development of radiolabeled synthetic oligopeptides with potent chemotactic activity allowed the demonstration of chemoattractant receptors on polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) as well as macrophages. In membrane preparations from these cells, these receptors exist in high- and low-affinity states which are regulated by guanosine di- and triphosphates. This suggested that chemoattractant receptors interact with guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins (N or G proteins). Although chemoattractants elicit a rapid but transient increase in intracellular cAMP levels, they neither stimulate nor inhibit membrane-bound adenylate cyclase, suggesting a novel role for N proteins in certain receptor-transduction mechanisms. Stimulation of phagocytes by chemoattractants is also associated with a rapid increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([ Ca2+]i) which appears to result from the production of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) as a consequence of the diesteric cleavage of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). Treatment of phagocytes with pertussis toxin (PT), which ADP-ribosylates and thereby inactivates certain N proteins, abolishes the cells' responsiveness to chemoattractants. More direct evidence for a role of a PT-sensitive N protein in leukocyte activation was provided by the demonstration that chemoattractants stimulate the hydrolysis of PIP2 in PMN membranes only in the presence of GTP. This receptor-mediated hydrolysis of PIP2 is not observed in plasma membranes prepared from PT-treated PMNs. Therefore, these studies suggest that occupancy of chemoattractant receptors activates a PT-sensitive N protein. The activated N protein shifts the Ca2+ requirement for phospholipase C activity from supraphysiological levels to ambient cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations. Cleavage of PIP2 results in the formation of the second messenger molecules, IP3 and 1,2-diacylglycerol, which can initiate cellular activation. These messengers also seem to activate responses which feed back to attenuate receptor stimulation of phospholipase.

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J Cell Biochem

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0730-2312

Publication Date

1986

Volume

32

Issue

1

Start / End Page

59 / 69

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Type C Phospholipases
  • Receptors, Immunologic
  • Receptors, Formyl Peptide
  • Phosphatidylinositols
  • Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates
  • Phagocytes
  • Leukocytes
  • Humans
  • GTP-Binding Proteins
  • Chemotactic Factors
 

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Verghese, M. W., Smith, C. D., & Snyderman, R. (1986). Role of guanine nucleotide regulatory protein in polyphosphoinositide degradation and activation of phagocytic leukocytes by chemoattractants. J Cell Biochem, 32(1), 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.240320107
Verghese, M. W., C. D. Smith, and R. Snyderman. “Role of guanine nucleotide regulatory protein in polyphosphoinositide degradation and activation of phagocytic leukocytes by chemoattractants.J Cell Biochem 32, no. 1 (1986): 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.240320107.
Verghese, M. W., et al. “Role of guanine nucleotide regulatory protein in polyphosphoinositide degradation and activation of phagocytic leukocytes by chemoattractants.J Cell Biochem, vol. 32, no. 1, 1986, pp. 59–69. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/jcb.240320107.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Cell Biochem

DOI

ISSN

0730-2312

Publication Date

1986

Volume

32

Issue

1

Start / End Page

59 / 69

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Type C Phospholipases
  • Receptors, Immunologic
  • Receptors, Formyl Peptide
  • Phosphatidylinositols
  • Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates
  • Phagocytes
  • Leukocytes
  • Humans
  • GTP-Binding Proteins
  • Chemotactic Factors