title: Suppression of epidermal growth factor-induced phospholipase C activation associated with actin rearrangement in rat hepatocytes in primary culture.
abstract: Hepatocytes maintained in primary culture for periods of 1 to 24 hours exhibited a rapid decline in epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced activation of phospholipase C (PLC), as was evident in a loss of EGF-induced inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3)) formation and mobilization of Ca(2+) from intracellular Ca(2+) stores. The loss of PLC activation was not the result of a decrease in EGF receptor or phospholipase C-gamma1 (PLCgamma1) protein levels, nor the result of a loss of tyrosine phosphorylation of these proteins, but was associated with a decrease in EGF-induced translocation of PLCgamma1 to the Triton-insoluble fraction, presumably reflecting binding to the actin cytoskeleton. Disruption of F-actin by treatment of cultured hepatocytes with cytochalasin D recovered the EGF-induced IP(3) formation and Ca(2+) mobilization to the same level and with the same dose-response relationship as was obtained in freshly isolated cells. Analysis of PLCgamma1 colocalization with F-actin by confocal microscopy showed that PLCgamma1 was mostly distributed diffusely in the cytosol, both in freshly plated cells and in cells in culture for 24 hours, despite marked differences in actin structures. EGF stimulation caused a modest redistribution of PLCgamma1 and a detectable increase in colocalization with cortical actin structures in freshly plated cells or in cytochalasin D-treated cells, but in cells that had been maintained and spread in culture only a limited PLCgamma1 relocation was detected to specific actin-structure associated with lamellipodia and membrane ruffles. We conclude that actin cytoskeletal structures can exert negative control over PLCgamma1 activity in hepatocytes and the interaction of the enzyme with specific actin structures dissociates PLCgamma1 tyrosine phosphorylation from activation of its enzymatic activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nojiri
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hoek
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000502:physiology; D004790:Enzyme Induction / Q000187:drug effects; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000502:physiology; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051966:Phospholipase C gamma; D010766:Phosphorylation; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013997:Time Factors; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000378:metabolism*; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D007527:Isoenzymes; D014443:Tyrosine; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor; D066246:ErbB Receptors; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D051966:Phospholipase C gamma; D002118:Calcium