Parathyroid hormone (PTH)-induced intracellular Ca2+ signalling in naive and PTH-desensitized osteoblast-like cells (ROS 17/2.8): pharmacological characterization and evidence for synchronous oscillation of intracellular Ca2+.
We showed recently that the initial peak cytosolic ionized calcium ([Ca2+]i) response to PTH (2-min exposure) is preserved relative to the cAMP response in osteoblast-like rat osteosarcoma cells (ROS 17/2.8) desensitized by 72-h exposure to PTH. We attempted in the present studies to determine the mechanisms for preservation of the [Ca2+]i response and to explore the effects of longer PTH rechallenges. The [Ca2+]i response to a 20-min perifusion with rat PTH [rPTH-(1-34)] was monitored by aequorin luminescence in both naive and PTH-desensitized ROS 17/2.8 cells. The responses of both naive and desensitized cells consisted of two phases: an initial peak, followed by an intermediate plateau that was sustained in the presence of PTH. We observed in the naive cell populations synchronous oscillations in [Ca2+]i concentration during this second phase (amplitude, 10-60 nM; frequency, 1-3/100 sec). These oscillations were maintained through extracellular calcium (EC Ca2+) entry; the initial peak was the result of Ca2+ release from intracellular stores. In desensitized cells, these two phases could not be clearly separated with respect to Ca2+ source, but, as we showed before, exhibited an enhanced dependence on EC Ca2+ entry for the response to PTH. Nevertheless, in the desensitized cells, the sustained [Ca2+]i response was diminished in magnitude and showed little oscillatory behavior. Brief exposure to neomycin sulfate, an inhibitor of phosphoinositide turnover, attenuated the PTH-induced [Ca2+]i rise in both naive and desensitized cells. Protein kinase-C activity did not appear to be required for either phase of the PTH-induced [Ca2+]i response. Exposure to cholera toxin attenuated the [Ca2+]i response to hormone in both naive and desensitized cells, more markedly in the latter. Cholera toxin treatment dramatically increased basal cAMP levels in both cell preparations; PTH-stimulated cAMP production was unchanged in naive cells, but increased nearly 4-fold in desensitized cells. We propose that the preserved PTH-induced peak [Ca2+]i rise in desensitized cells results primarily from the diminished regulation of EC Ca2+ entry by the cAMP response limb. The attenuated sustained oscillatory behavior observed in desensitized cells upon rechallenge with hormone may be the result of reduced phosphoinositide turnover and reduced Ca2+-stimulated Ca2+ release. Thus, the [Ca2+]i response to PTH in osteoblast-like cells is complex and modulable and seems to provide a number of ways to regulate intracellular metabolism under various conditions. We speculate that this plasticity of the [Ca2+]i response to PTH is related to the pleiotropic actions of the hormone on cells of the osteoblast lineage.
Bidwell
J P
JP
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905.
Carter
W B
WB
Fryer
M J
MJ
Heath
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D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers / Q000494:pharmacology; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000494:pharmacology; D004361:Drug Tolerance; D009355:Neomycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D010006:Osteoblasts / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D012516:Osteosarcoma; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010507:Periodicity; D051381:Rats; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; D002772:Cholera Toxin; D009355:Neomycin; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D002118:Calcium