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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol 34, 2023-2032, Copyright © 1993 by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

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Protein kinase C is involved in cyclic adenosine monophosphate formation due to PGF2 alpha desensitization in bovine iris sphincter

SD Tachado, Y Zhang and AA Abdel-Latif
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-2100.

PURPOSE. To examine the mechanisms underlying the effects of PGF2 alpha receptor desensitization on agonist-induced second messenger formation and contraction in bovine iris sphincter. METHODS. Short-term PGF2 alpha receptor desensitization of the bovine iris sphincter was carried out by incubating the tissue in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate buffer containing 25 microM PGF2 alpha for 45 min at 37 degrees C. The effects of PGF2 alpha and other pharmacologic agents on inositol 1,4,5- triphosphate (IP3) production and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) formation in desensitized and nondesensitized tissues were monitored by anion-exchange chromatography and radioimmunoassay. RESULTS. In the isolated bovine iris sphincter, protein kinase C (PKC) is involved in the activation of adenylate cyclase and the desensitization of prostaglandin F2 alpha receptor-mediated responses supported by these findings. (A) Exposure of the tissue to phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate, used to activate PKC, enhanced basal cAMP formation in a dose (EC50 = 8.8 x 10(-8) M) and time (t1/2 = 7.5 min) dependent manner. Phorbol 12,13- dibutyrate increased cAMP levels by twofold and it potentiated the isoproterenol-induced cAMP formation. The biologically inactive phorbol ester, 4 alpha-phorbol had no effect. Staurosporine, a potent PKC inhibitor, inhibited phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate-induced cAMP formation in a dose-dependent manner (IC50 of 0.25 microM). The increase in cAMP levels by phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate results from stimulation of adenylate cyclase, rather than from inhibition of cAMP phosphodiesterase, and it is not mediated through Ca2+ mobilization. Pretreatment of the tissue with phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate inhibited IP3 production in response to PGF2 alpha. (B) Desensitization of the sphincter with PGF2 alpha for 45 min increased cAMP formation and attenuated IP3 production and contraction. The effects of PGF2 alpha desensitization were reversed by pretreatment of the tissue with staurosporine. Down-regulation of PKC prevented the PGF2 alpha- stimulated increase in cAMP formation. In the desensitized tissue, diacylglycerol, the endogenous activator of PKC, may arise from phosphatidylcholine, via phospholipase D. CONCLUSIONS. (A) Activation of PKC in the bovine iris sphincter leads to stimulation of adenylate cyclase and to an increase in cAMP formation. The cAMP formed inhibits IP3 production and muscle contraction. (B) PGF2 alpha desensitization results in adenylate cyclase activation, mediated through PKC. (C) PGF2 alpha desensitization could uncouple the receptor from the Gq and Gi proteins and enhance PG stimulation of adenylate cyclase activity through the Gs protein. (D) Uncoupling of the G proteins from the PG receptor and activation of PKC, both of which result in enhanced cAMP formation, may underlie the mechanism of PGF2 alpha desensitization. (E) These observations demonstrate "cross talk" between the two second messenger systems and their physiologic consequences.


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