title: Impaired protein kinase C activation as one of the possible mechanisms of reduced lymphocyte proliferation in iron deficiency in mice.
abstract: We investigated the effects of iron deficiency in mice on protein kinase C (PKC) activation, an enzyme required for optimal lymphocyte proliferation. C57BL/6 mice were fed either an iron-deficient diet (ID; 10 mg Fe/kg diet), a control diet (C; 50 mg/kg diet), or were pair fed (PF) to ID mice for 34 d. PKC activity was studied in spleen cells by histone phosphorylation. Iron deficiency significantly reduced cytosol activity in unstimulated cells and membrane-bound activity in cells stimulated by concanavalin A (Con A) or phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), and the ratio of membrane-bound over cytosol activity in mitogen-stimulated cells. In PF mice the ratio of membrane-bound activity to cytosol activity was greater than normal in Con A-treated cells and only slightly decreased in PMA-treated cells. PKC activity positively correlated with iron status. We conclude that reduced PKC activity and poor translocation results in aberrant signal transduction, which in turn might be responsible for the impaired lymphocyte proliferation associated with iron deficiency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuvibidila
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Baliga
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Murthy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003208:Concanavalin A; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005260:Female; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism; D000090463:Iron Deficiencies; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism*; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D003208:Concanavalin A; D007501:Iron; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate