title: Early signalling mechanism in colonic epithelial cell response to gastrin.
abstract: The hormone gastrin exerts a growth-promoting effect on gastrointestinal cells. The molecular mechanisms by which colonic epithelial cells respond to gastrin are still poorly understood. In this study, we demonstrate a novel feature of the action of gastrin on normal colonic cells, namely the rapid phosphorylation on tyrosine of phospholipase C gamma 1 (PLC gamma 1). Tyrosine phosphorylation of PLC gamma 1, elicited by gastrin, was transient, concentration-dependent, and was abrogated by pretreating the colonic cells with the gastrin-receptor antagonist proglumide, the tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein, and by removal of the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor orthovanadate from the isolation buffer. Tyrosine phosphorylation of PLC gamma 1 correlated with the time- and concentration-dependent decrease in the mass of membrane phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and the increase in the epithelial concentration of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3). Likewise, the stimulated increase in IP3 was also prevented by proglumide and genistein. Gastrin induced a definite but transient increase in the intracellular concentration of free Ca2+ [Ca2+]i, and increased membrane-translocation of immunoreactive alpha- and beta-protein kinase C. The data thus indicate that gastrin elicits at least one signalling cascade, through rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of PLC gamma 1, leading to the activation of a PIP2-specific PLC pathway.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003106:Colon / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004848:Epithelium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D005755:Gastrins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D051966:Phospholipase C gamma; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000378:metabolism*; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005755:Gastrins; D007527:Isoenzymes; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; D014443:Tyrosine; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D051966:Phospholipase C gamma; D002118:Calcium