title: Enhanced G protein activation in immortalized lymphoblasts from patients with essential hypertension.
abstract: Epstein-Barr virus-immortalized B lymphoblasts obtained from hypertensive patients with enhanced Na+/H+ exchanger activity (HT cells) proliferate distinctly faster upon serum stimulation than those from normotensive controls with low exchanger activity (NT cells) (Rosskopf, D., E. Frömter, and W. Siffert. 1993. J. Clin. Invest. 92:2553-2559). Stimulation with platelet-activating factor (PAF) as well caused an enhanced proliferation of HT cells. In analyzing possible differences in signal transduction between the immortalized NT and HT lymphoblasts, we observed that cell stimulation with PAF and somatostatin caused a twofold higher increase in [Ca2+]i in HT than in NT cell lines. This difference was completely abrogated by pertussis toxin (PTX) treatment. Furthermore, PAF-stimulated formation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) was twofold enhanced in HT cell lines. On the other hand, PAF receptor density and affinity, total cellular phospholipase C activity, expression of PTX-sensitive G proteins, and control binding of the stable GTP analogue, guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP gamma S), to membrane G proteins were not different in NT and HT cell lines. However, PAF- and mastoparan-stimulated binding of GTP gamma S to G proteins, which was fully PTX-sensitive, was 2.5-fold higher in HT than NT cell lines. These data suggest an enhanced receptor-mediated activation of PTX-sensitive G proteins despite unchanged receptor and G protein expression. Thus, this study not only suggests that enhanced signal transduction and cell proliferation are abnormalities in a certain group of patients with essential hypertension but also explains these findings as a result of an enhanced G protein activation in this common disorder.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pharmakologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Siffert
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rosskopf
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moritz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wieland
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaldenberg-Stasch
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kettler
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hartung
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beckmann
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Jakobs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001790:Blood Physiological Phenomena; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate) / Q000378:metabolism; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D017923:Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers / Q000378:metabolism*; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000494:pharmacology; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D010972:Platelet Activating Factor; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D017923:Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; C039351:platelet activating factor receptor; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); D013004:Somatostatin; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D002118:Calcium