title: Chronic lithium treatment impairs phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis in membranes from rat brain regions.
abstract: Membranes prepared from rat brain regions were used to measure the receptor-coupled and/or guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-mediated hydrolysis of exogenous [3H]phosphatidylinositol ([3H]PI). Guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S) and NaF (in the presence of AlCl3) caused concentration-dependent stimulations of [3H]PI hydrolysis, supporting the conclusion that G proteins mediating [3H]PI hydrolysis can be activated in this preparation. Neither of these responses was altered by in vitro incubation with 8 mM LiCl, but both were reduced in hippocampal, striatal, and cortical membranes from rats that had been treated with lithium for 4 weeks compared with controls. Two cholinergic agonists, carbachol and pilocarpine, induced no hydrolysis of [3H]PI unless GTP gamma S was also present, in which case each equally stimulated [3H]PI hydrolysis above that obtained with GTP gamma S alone. In the presence of GTP gamma S several excitatory amino acid agonists stimulated [3H]PI hydrolysis to an extent similar to that of carbachol. After chronic lithium treatment, [3H]PI hydrolysis stimulated by carbachol was significantly attenuated, but the response to quisqualate was unaffected. Therefore, lithium added in vitro does not have an effect on cholinergic receptor- or G protein-mediated [3H]PI hydrolysis, but each of these is reduced by chronic lithium treatment. Because exogenous [3H]PI was provided as the substrate, it is evident that the inhibitory effect of chronic lithium treatment cannot be due to substrate depletion. Impaired function of G proteins appears to be the most likely mechanism accounting for attenuated [3H]PI hydrolysis after chronic administration of lithium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Jope
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002217:Carbachol / Q000494:pharmacology; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate) / Q000494:pharmacology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006868:Hydrolysis / Q000187:drug effects; D008094:Lithium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D016318:Quisqualic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012969:Sodium Fluoride / Q000494:pharmacology; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D014316:Tritium; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); D016318:Quisqualic Acid; D002217:Carbachol; D012969:Sodium Fluoride; D008094:Lithium; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins