title: Coupling of two endothelin receptor subtypes to differing signal transduction in transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells.
abstract: We examined the intracellular signal transduction of two endothelin receptor subtypes (ETA and ETB) by transfection and stable expression of individual receptor cDNAs in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Both receptors showed a rapid and marked stimulation of phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis and arachidonic acid release in response to agonist interaction. The two receptors, however, exhibited different responses in the cyclic AMP transduction cascades. ETA mediated the accumulation of cyclic AMP formation, whereas ETB displayed an inhibitory action on the forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation. In both receptors, the responses of phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, arachidonic acid release, and cyclic AMP formation were induced in complete agreement with the endothelin-binding selectivity of each receptor subtype. Endothelin, added together with GTP, activated the adenylate cyclase activity in membrane preparations of ETA-expressing cells, indicating the direct linkage of ETA to the adenylate cyclase system. Pertussis toxin treatment of ETA-expressing cells resulted in partial inhibition of the endothelin-induced cyclic AMP accumulation, whereas the same treatment of ETB-expressing cells completely abolished the endothelin-induced inhibition of cyclic AMP formation. Thus, the two endothelin receptor subtypes are coupled to multiple but distinct signal transduction cascades through different G proteins.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Immunology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aramori
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
mesh_terms: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D016466:CHO Cells; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D006224:Cricetinae; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017466:Receptors, Endothelin; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014162:Transfection; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D017466:Receptors, Endothelin; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D002118:Calcium