title: Inhibitory and stimulatory effects of neuropeptide Y(17-36) on rat cardiac adenylate cyclase activity. Structure-function studies.
abstract: Neuropeptide Y (NPY) inhibits cardiac adenylate cyclase activity by interacting with specific receptors coupled to a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein. Structure-activity studies revealed that only C-terminal fragments can exhibit an NPY-like inhibitory effect on 125I-NPY binding and adenylate cyclase activity of rat cardiac ventricular membranes. Although NPY(17-36) inhibited 125I-NPY binding with high potency, it produced a biphasic effect on basal (GTP, 10 and 100 microM or guanosine 5'-gamma-O-(thio)triphosphate (GTP gamma S, 10 microM) adenylate cyclase activity. Low concentrations (less than 1 nM) of NPY(17-36) inhibited the adenylate cyclase activity whereas high concentrations (greater than 1 nM) reversed this action. GTP gamma S (100 microM) reversed the biphasic effect of NPY(17-36). NPY(17-36) exhibited only a stimulatory effect in the membranes from pertussis toxin-treated rats and an inhibitory effect with membranes from cholera toxin-treated rats. Low concentrations (less than 1 nM) of NPY(17-36) inhibited isoproterenol-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity whereas high doses (greater than 1 nM) reversed this activity. The cardiac NPY receptor antagonist, NPY(18-36) (1 microM), completely blocked the biphasic effect of NPY(17-36) on isoproterenol-stimulated activity. The inhibitory dose-response curve of NPY on isoproterenol-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was shifted parallel to the right by NPY(17-36) (1 microM), suggesting that it is an antagonist of NPY at high concentrations. N-alpha-acetylated and C-terminally deamidated analogs of NPY(17-36) had no effect on the adenylate cyclase activity. [im-DNP-His26] NPY exhibited a more pronounced biphasic effect whereas N-alpha-myristoyl-NPY(17-36) elicited only a stimulatory effect. These investigations suggest that: 1) the inhibitory and stimulatory effects of NPY(17-36) are mediated by high affinity NPY receptors coupled to a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein and a distinct population of low affinity receptors coupled to a cholera toxin-sensitive G protein, respectively; and 2) the stimulatory effect of NPY(17-36) is dissociable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio 45267.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheriff
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Balasubramaniam
mesh_terms: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000067956:Adenylyl Cyclase Inhibitors; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000494:pharmacology; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate) / Q000378:metabolism; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000201:enzymology; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D009478:Neuropeptide Y / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000494:pharmacology*; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000067956:Adenylyl Cyclase Inhibitors; D009478:Neuropeptide Y; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; C073148:neuropeptide Y (17-36); D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); D002772:Cholera Toxin; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D007545:Isoproterenol