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MECHANISMS OF EXOCYTOSIS
Volume 1152, Issue -, Pages 174-186Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03994.x
Keywords
action potential; calcium; cAMP; GPCR; lactotrophs; gonadotrophs; dopamine D-2 receptors; endothelin ETA receptors; PI3-kinase; GSK-3
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- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [ZIAHD000195] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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G(i/o) protein-coupled receptors, signaling through G protein-dependent and protein-independent pathways, have prominent effects on secretion by modulating calcium signaling and regulating the size of the releasable secretory pool, the rates of exocytosis and endocytosis, and de novo synthesis. Pituitary cells fire action potentials spontaneously, and the associated calcium influx is sufficient to maintain prolactin (PRL) release but not gonadotropin release at high and steady levels for many hours. Such secretion, termed intrinsic, spontaneous, or basal, reflects fusion of secretory vesicles triggered by the cell type-specific pattern of action potentials. In lactotrophs, activation of endothelin ETA and dopamine D-2 receptors causes inhibition of spontaneous electrical activity and basal adenylyl cyclase activity accompanied with inhibition of basal PRL release. Agonist-induced inhibition of cAMP production and firing of action potentials is abolished in cells with blocked pertussis toxin (PTX)-sensitive G(i/o) signaling pathway. However, agonist-induced inhibition of PRL release is only partially relieved in such treated cells, indicating that both receptors also inhibit exocytosis downstream of cAMP/calcium signaling. The PTX-insensitive step in agonist-induced inhibition of PRL release is not affected by inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase and glycogen synthase kinase-3 but is partially rescued by downregulation of the G(z)alpha expression. Thus, ETA and D-2 receptors inhibit basal PRL release not only by blocking electrical activity but also by desensitizing calcium-secretion coupling.
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