Histamine H1 and Endothelin ETB Receptors Mediate Phospholipase D Stimulation in Rat Brain Hippocampal Slices |
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Authors: | Elisabet Sarri Fernando Picatoste Enrique Claro |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | Abstract: Different neurotransmitter receptor agonists [carbachol, serotonin, noradrenaline, histamine, endothelin-1, and trans -(1 S ,3 R )-aminocyclopentyl-1,3-dicarboxylic acid ( trans -ACPD)], known as stimuli of phospholipase C in brain tissue, were tested for phospholipase D stimulation in [32P]Pi-prelabeled rat brain cortical and hippocampal slices. The accumulation of [32P]phosphatidylethanol was measured as an index of phospholipase D-catalyzed transphosphatidylation in the presence of ethanol. Among the six neurotransmitter receptor agonists tested, only noradrenaline, histamine, endothelin-1, and trans -ACPD stimulated phospholipase D in hippocampus and cortex, an effect that was strictly dependent of the presence of millimolar extracellular calcium concentrations. The effect of histamine (EC50 18 µ M ) was inhibited by the H1 receptor antagonist mepyramine with a K i constant of 0.7 n M and was resistant to H2 and H3 receptor antagonists (ranitidine and tioperamide, respectively). Endothelin-1-stimulated phospholipase D (EC50 44 n M ) was not blocked by BQ-123, a specific antagonist of the ETA receptor. Endothelin-3 and the specific ETB receptor agonist safarotoxin 6c were also able to stimulate phospholipase D with efficacies similar to that of endothelin-1, and EC50 values of 16 and 3 n M , respectively. These results show that histamine and endothelin-1 stimulate phospholipase D in rat brain through H1 and ETB receptors, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Phospholipase D Phosphatidylethanol Histamine Endothelins Phospholipase C |
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