Neurotransmitter-specific profiles of inositol phosphates in rat brain cortex: relation to the mode of receptor activation of phosphoinositide phospholipase C

E Sarri, F Picatoste and E Claro

Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Phosphoinositide breakdown, as stimulated by six different neurotransmitter receptor agonists (carbachol, serotonin, norepinephrine, trans-(+/-)-aminocyclopentyl-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, endothelin-1 and histamine), has been studied in rat brain cortical slices. The accumulation was monitored of total 3H-inositol phosphates (InsPs) and [3H]CDP-diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG) in [3H]inositol or [3H]cytidine-prelabeled tissue, respectively, and the profile of the major InsPs was quantified as the index log [(inositol 4-monophosphate + inositol 1,4-bisphosphate)/inositol 1-monophosphate]. The efficacy of the six agonists to stimulate the accumulation of CDP-DAG, relative to that of InsPs, was not constant, which revealed varying degrees of defective recycling of DAG to CDP-DAG. The value of the index for the profile of InsPs was not constant either but was characteristic of each agonist. Both parameters (ratio of efficacies CDP-DAG/InsPs and InsPs profile) were not independent and defined two groups of agonists as follows: group a, carbachol and serotonin, with balanced CDP-DAG and InsPs responses, and Ins1P prevailing against inositol 4-monophosphate + inositol 1,4-bisphosphate and group b, norepinephrine, trans-(+/-)- aminocyclopentyl-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, endothelin-1 and histamine, with weak CDP-DAG responses and high accumulation of inositol 4- monophosphate + inositol 1,4-bisphosphate compared with that of inositol 1-monophosphate. In a membrane preparation from brain cortex, only agonists in group a stimulated phospholipase C in the presence of guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) and in a receptor antagonist- sensitive fashion, which indicated that brain cortical alpha-1, H1, endothelin and glutamate metabotropic receptors stimulate phospholipase C indirectly.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Volume 272, Issue 1, pp. 77-84, 01/01/1995
Copyright © 1995 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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