title: Effect of phenobarbital on metabolism of polyphosphoinositides of rat brain synaptosomes.
abstract: Synthesis and degradation of polyphosphoinositides in a rat brain synaptosome preparation were depressed by phenobarbital. Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate kinase (PIP-kinase), the enzyme which synthesizes phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) was most strongly affected (50% inhibition at 3 mM phenobarbital); phosphatidylinositol (PI-kinase) followed (50% at 15 mM). The phosphoesterases were less sensitive: PIP-monoesterase (50% at 39 mM), PIP2-monoesterase (at 47 mM), and, least inhibited, PIP-diesterase (50% at 65 mM) and PIP2-diesterase (at 68 mM). Phenobarbital by inhibiting PIP-kinase may reduce the membrane concentration of PIP2 and thus dampen the stimulus-response which leads to the hydrolysis of PIP2 and the formation of the second messenger, inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), involved in mobilization of intracellular Ca2+.
authors.affiliation: New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island 10314.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Deshmukh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuizon
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brockerhoff
mesh_terms: D019870:1-Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D007295:Inositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); D051381:Rats; D013574:Synaptosomes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007295:Inositol Phosphates; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D010770:Phosphotransferases; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); D019870:1-Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase; C020077:1-phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; D010634:Phenobarbital