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Molecular mechanisms of homologous desensitization and internalization of muscarinic receptors in primary cultures of neonatal corticostriatal neurons

C Eva, SR Gamalero, E Genazzani and E Costa

Institute of Pharmacology, University of Turin, Italy.

Homologous desensitization of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) was studied using primary cultures of corticostriatal neurons from neonatal rats. Prolonged incubation with carbachol attenuated phospholipase C responsiveness to muscarinic agonists and decreased the number of cell surface mAChR, as measured by binding of N-[3H] methylscopolamine to neuronal monolayers. When neurons were exposed to carbachol for 15 min, 40% of the mAChR lost from the membrane domain was recovered in the cytosol; a decrease of the total neuronal receptors was detected following an incubation with the agonist lasting longer than 15 min. Both 8-Br-cyclic AMP and forskolin neither affected N-[3H]methylscopolamine binding to cell monolayers or did they prevent the agonist-mediated mAChR desensitization. 8-Br-cyclic GMP also failed to decrease mAChR number. Pertussis toxin failed to prevent the homologous desensitization of mAChR under conditions that blocked the agonist-mediated inhibition of forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP formation. The phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-12, 13-acetate induced a concentration-dependent decrease of N-[3H]methylscopolamine binding to neuronal monolayers. However, the protein kinase C inhibitors sphingosine and the ganglioside monosialosyl- gangliotetraglicosylceramide inhibited the 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol- 12,13-acetate-induced but not the agonist-induced desensitization of mAChRs. Furthermore, incubation with muscarinic agonists failed to translocate protein kinase C from cytosol to plasma membranes, as measured by binding of the phorbol ester [3H]-4-beta-phorbol-12,13- dibutyrate to neuronal monolayers. In corticostriatal neurons the agonist-induced desensitization and internalization of mAChR involves neither protein kinase C and protein kinase A activation nor changes in cyclic GMP and cyclic AMP content.

Volume 253, Issue 1, pp. 257-265, 04/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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