title: Pancreatic polypeptide inhibits calcium channels in rat sympathetic neurons via two signaling pathways.
abstract: 1. We studied modulation of N-type Ca2+ channels in adult rat superior cervical ganglion (SCG) neurons by pancreatic polypeptide (PP) using whole cell clamp. In large (> 20 pF) SCG neurons, PP inhibited ICa (35 +/- 2%, mean +/- SE) in a concentration-dependent fashion, with one-half maximal inhibition at 19 nM. 2. One-third of the inhibition was blocked by pertussis toxin, about one-half was blocked by N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) treatments, and about one-half was voltage dependent. The NEM-insensitive component of the PP inhibition was voltage independent and not significantly blocked by intracellular Ca2+ chelators. 3. The NEM-insensitive component was only weakly attenuated by GDP-beta-S, and moderately reversible with guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP)-gamma-S, in the whole cell pipette, leaving open the possibility that it is not mediated by a G protein. 4. Hence, PP inhibits ICa via two mechanisms: one G-protein-mediated and the other possibly G-protein independent. The former pathway is sensitive to pertussis toxin (PTX) and NEM, voltage dependent, and shared by several other transmitters in these cells. The latter pathway is PTX-and NEM-insensitive, not voltage dependent, and not affected by the presence of intracellular Ca2+ chelators.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Wollmuth
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hille
mesh_terms: D000320:Adrenergic Fibers / Q000187:drug effects*; D000818:Animals; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000187:drug effects*; D002478:Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004533:Egtazic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D010191:Pancreatic Polypeptide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013997:Time Factors; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; D004533:Egtazic Acid; D010191:Pancreatic Polypeptide; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; C025603:1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid