AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 267, Issue 3 465-G475, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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1,25(OH)2 vitamin D3 activates PKC-alpha in Caco-2 cells: a mechanism to limit secosteroid-induced rise in [Ca2+]i

M. Bissonnette, X. Y. Tien, S. M. Niedziela, S. C. Hartmann, B. P. Frawley Jr, H. K. Roy, M. D. Sitrin, R. L. Perlman and T. A. Brasitus
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637.

Our laboratory recently reported that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3] rapidly increases the breakdown of membrane phosphoinositides, raises intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i), and translocates protein kinase C (PKC) from the cytosolic to the particulate fraction of Caco-2 cells. In the present experiments, we found that Caco-2 cells contained predominantly the alpha- and zeta-isoforms of PKC, with minimally detectable amounts of PKC-beta and -epsilon by Western blotting. 1,25(OH)2D3 and the PKC activator 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) each caused time-dependent translocations of PKC-alpha, but not PKC-zeta. TPA treatment of these cells for 24 h induced a significant concentration-dependent downregulation of PKC-alpha, but not PKC-zeta. Since PKC inhibits phospholipase C-induced mobilization of Ca2+ in other cells, we examined the effects of staurosporine and H-7, PKC inhibitors, and TPA on 1,25(OH)2D3-stimulated increase in [Ca2+]i. As previously demonstrated by our laboratory, 1,25(OH)2D3 caused a biphasic increase in [Ca2+]i, with an initial elevation (transient phase) followed by a sustained increase (plateau phase). We previously demonstrated that the transient phase is mediated, at least in part, by an increase in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate [Ins(1,4,5)P3] stimulated by the secosteroid. Acute pretreatment with staurosporine or H-7 caused a significant stimulation, whereas acute TPA pretreatment caused a significant inhibition of the 1,25(OH)2D3-induced increase in the transient phase of [Ca2+]i. Preincubation of Caco-2 cells with 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid-acetoxy-methyl ester (BAPTA-AM) abolished both the rise in [Ca2+]i and the increase in particulate-associated PKC-alpha stimulated by 1,25(OH)2D3. Moreover, downregulation of PKC-alpha by chronic TPA treatment significantly augmented the transient phase of the 1,25(OH)2D3-stimulated rise in [Ca2+]i but had no effect on the 1,25(OH)2D3-induced change in Ins(1,4,5)P3 concentration. Furthermore, in these PKC-alpha downregulated cells staurosporine no longer increased the secosteroid-stimulated transient rise in [Ca2+]i. These results indicate that 1,25(OH)2D3, which increases [Ca2+]i and diacylglycerol, activates PKC-alpha, but not PKC-zeta. The alpha-isoform, in turn, limits the secosteroid-stimulated rise in [Ca2+]i, at a step distal to Ins(1,4,5)P3 accumulation in Caco-2 cells.

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