EVIDENCE FOR INVOLVEMENT OF Ca2+ IN THE INCORPORATION OF 32Pi INTO THE PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL OF RAT DIAPHRAGM |
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Authors: | Ana Maria Lennon H R Steinberg |
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Institution: | Section on Membrane Chemistry, Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism, National Institute of Mental Health, US. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Bethesda, MD 20014, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Abstract— Ethyleneglycol-bis (β-aminoethyl ether)-N-N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) inhibited the incorporation of 32Pi into phosphatidylinositol (PI) in rat diaphragm incubated in Ca2+-free Krebs-Ringer medium. Only the labelling of the PI was altered, and no effects on the pool size of PI or on the incorporation of 32Pi into other phospholipids were observed. The effect of EGTA was concentration-dependent and appeared to be related to its Caa+-chelating properties; the inhibition of the incorporation of 32Pi could be completely reversed by the addition of excess Ca2+ but not Mg2+. The inhibitory effect of the EGTA was progressively enhanced by lengthening the preincubation of the tissue with EGTA, an observation suggesting that chelation of intracellular or membrane-bound Ca2+, rather than extracellular Ca2+, was involved in the effect. In contrast to its inhibition of the incorporation of 32Pi EGTA enhanced the incorporation of 3H]inositol into PI, but this effect was accompanied by an appreciable increase in total uptake of 3Hlinositol by the tissue. Our results suggest that the level of intracellular Ca2+ plays a role in the regulation of the incorporation of 32Pi into PI. Addition of unlabelled α-glycerophosphate to the incubation medium of tissues which had been preincubated with 2-deoxy-d -glucose failed to cause a significant diminution in the inhibition by EGTA of the incorporation of 32Pi into PI. This experiment suggests, but does not prove, that the effect of EGTA was not at the level of incorporation of 32Pi into α-glycerophosphate. |
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