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Carbachol-induced protein phosphorylation in parietal cells: regulation by [Ca2+]i

M. R. Brown and C. S. Chew
Department of Physiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310.

1,2-Bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid acetoxymethyl ester (BAPTA/AM), an intracellular calcium [( Ca2+]i) chelator, was used to investigate the role of [Ca2+]i in acid secretory activity and protein phosphorylation in parietal cells from rabbit. Chelation of extracellular calcium [( Ca2+]o) with ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid did not prevent the initial carbachol-induced elevation of [Ca2+]i as measured with the fluorescent Ca2+ probe, fura-2, and only partially inhibited [14C]-aminopyrine (AP) accumulation, an indirect indicator of acid secretory activity. [Ca2+]i chelation with BAPTA/AM eliminated carbachol-stimulated increases in [Ca2+]i and AP accumulation but only transiently reduced histamine stimulation of AP accumulation. Carbachol increased phosphorylation of a 36-kDa, pI approximately 7 protein (pp36) and transient phosphorylation of a 28-kDa, pI approximately 5 protein (pp28), whereas histamine increased phosphorylation of 40-kDa, pI approximately 6.5 (pp40) and 27-kDa, pI approximately 6.2 (pp27) proteins. Phosphorylation of pp36 and pp28 were mimicked by the protein kinase C activator, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and the calcium ionophore, ionomycin, respectively. Two other phosphoproteins with molecular weights of 66,000 and pIs of 5.7 and 5.9 were also phosphorylated in response to TPA and carbachol. Chelation of [Ca2+]i and [Ca2+]o blocked carbachol-induced phosphorylation of pp28 and pp36 and ionomycin phosphorylation of pp28 but not TPA-stimulated phosphorylation of pp36 or the two pp66s or histamine-stimulated phosphorylation of pp27 or pp40. Chelation of [Ca2+]i alone did not block increases in [Ca2+]i or phosphorylation of pp28 in response to ionomycin. Both pp28 and pp36 were localized in both microsomal and cytosolic fractions of cells, which suggests involvement in cytoskeleton-membrane interactions. These phosphoproteins could be common elements of Ca2+-dependent stimulus-secretion coupling as similar proteins were phosphorylated by carbachol and cholecystokinin (CCK) in chief cells. Based on data with TPA and ionomycin, both protein kinase C and an as yet unidentified Ca2+-dependent protein kinase(s) appear to be activated upon stimulation with cholinergic agonists and CCK.

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