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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 3 597-G604, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society
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N. Hashimoto, T. Watanabe, Y. Ikeda, H. Yamada, S. Taniguchi, H. Mitsui and K. Kurokawa
First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
We characterized the proliferative action of prostaglandins (PGs) in relation to their membrane receptors on rat hepatocytes in primary culture. PGs in the order 16,16-dimethyl PGE2 > PGE2 > PGF2alpha >> PGD2 augmented epidermal growth factor (EGF)/insulin-induced DNA synthesis, assessed by [(3)H]thymidine incorporation, in a concentration-dependent manner, whereas PGs alone did not stimulate basal DNA synthesis without EGF and insulin. The cells exhibited [(3)H]PGE2 binding sites that were displaced by unlabeled PGs in the order PGE1 = PGE2 > PGF2alpha > PGD2. PGE2 inhibited glucagon-stimulated adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) accumulation concentration dependently. The mean effective concentration for DNA synthesis, median inhibitory concentration for cAMP accumulation, and dissociation constant for [(3)H]PGE2 binding at 25 degrees C were almost identical (approximately 70 nM). Treatment of the cells with pertussis toxin (100 ng/ml), which ADP-ribosylated most of the 41-kDa substrate, abolished the proliferative effects of PGs. We detected the expression of mRNA of the EP3 subtype PGE2 receptor using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Moreover, an EP3 agonist, enprostil, but not the EP1 agonist 17-phenyl-trinor-PGE2 or the EP2/EP4 agonist 11-deoxy-PGE1, stimulated EGF/insulin-induced DNA synthesis. These results indicate that PGs act as comitogenic growth factors through the EP3 subtype PGE2 receptor coupled with G(i) protein in cultured rat hepatocytes.
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