AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 259, Issue 2 157-G164, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Amylase release from streptolysin O-permeabilized pancreatic acini

M. Kitagawa, J. A. Williams and R. C. De Lisle
Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0622.

Intracellular mediators of exocytosis were investigated using isolated mouse pancreatic acini permeabilized with the bacterial toxin streptolysin O (SLO). Permeabilization was demonstrated by fluorescent staining with ethidium bromide and fluorescein diacetate and release of cytoplasmic lactate dehydrogenase. When SLO-permeabilized acini were incubated at 37 degrees C in Ca2(+)-EGTA buffers containing MgATP, amylase secretion was Ca2+ dependent with an EC50 of 0.40 microM Ca2+ and a maximally effective Ca2+ concentration of 1 microM. Maximal amylase secretion was 330% of that in Ca2(+)-free buffer (basal). The nonhydrolyzable GTP analogue guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S; 30 microM) increased the maximal secretion to 451% of basal in the presence of 1 microM Ca2+ and decreased the EC50 to 0.14 microM Ca2+. Removal of ATP plus addition of antimycin A and 2-deoxy-D-glucose inhibited Ca2(+)-dependent, GTP gamma S-enhanced amylase secretion by 56%. The phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA; 1 microM) also enhanced maximal secretion to 450% of basal and decreased the EC50 to 0.18 microM Ca2+. Enhancement of amylase secretion by submaximal concentrations of GTP gamma S or TPA was inhibited by the protein kinase C inhibitor staurosporine. These results suggest that Ca2+ stimulation of amylase secretion is potentiated by activation of protein kinase C. However, the enhancement of secretion by GTP gamma S and TPA was additive at their maximally effective concentrations, suggesting that another G protein(s) maybe involved in the terminal steps of exocytosis.

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