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  • 1
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: Phosphatidylinositol(PI)-specific phospholipase C activity was detected on the surface of rat astrocytes, rat C6 glioma cells, and rat embryo (REF52) fibroblasts. The cell surface phospholipase C (ecto-PLC) activity was calcium-dependent, did not result from secreted phopholipase C, and was not released from the cell surface by bacterial PI-specific phospholipase C. Agents known to stimulate intracellular PI turnover, including carbachol, L-glutamic acid, acetylcholine, and orthovanadate, did not induce measurable alterations in the activity of the ecto-PLC. The expression of ecto-PLC activity by REF52 fibroblasts was density-dependent: subconfluent cultures of REF52 exhibited low levels of activity (less than 80 pmol of inositol phosphate formed/min/106 cells), whereas in confluent cultures ecto-PLC activity increased to approximately 300 pmol/min/106 cells. In contrast to this behavior and that exhibited by previously reported ecto-PLC-positive cell types, the ecto-PLC activity exhibited by astrocytes (approximately 1,000 pmol/min/106 cells) and by C6 glioma cells (approximately 100 pmol/min/106 cells) was independent of cell culture density up to confluence. The constitutive expression of ecto-PLC activity of astroglial cells may be related to their function as accessory cells in close association with neurons.
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  • 2
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 483 (1986), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1749-6632
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
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  • 3
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    New York, N.Y. : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 65 (1997), S. 550-564 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: ecto-PLC ; ecto-enzyme ; phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C ; cell surface enzyme ; lyso-PI-cleaving PLC ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: A novel cell surface phosphoinositide-cleaving phospholipase C (ecto-PLC) activity was isolated from cultured cells by exploiting its presumed external exposure. Biotinylation of intact cells followed by solubilization of the biotinylated proteins from a membrane fraction and recovery onto immobilized-avidin beads, allowed assay of this cell surface enzyme activity apart from the background of the substantial family of intracellular PLCs. Several cell lines of differing ecto-PLC expression were examined as well as cells stably transfected to overexpress the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein human placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) as a cell surface enzyme marker. The resulting bead preparations from ecto-PLC positive cells possessed calcium-dependent PLC activity with preference for lysophosphatidylinositol (lysoPI) rather than phosphatidylinositol (PI). The function of ecto-PLC of intact cells evidently is not to release GPI-anchored proteins at the cell surface, as no detectable Ca2+-dependent release of overexpressed PLAP from ecto-PLC-positive cells was observed. To investigate the cell surface linkage of the ecto-PLC itself, intact cells were treated with bacterial PI-PLC to cleave simple GPI anchors, but no decrease in ecto-PLC activity was observed. High ionic strength washes of biotinylated membranes prior to the generation of bead preparations did not substantially reduce the lysoPI-PLC activity. The results verify that the ecto-PLC is truly cell surface-exposed, and unlike other members of the PLC family that are thought to be peripheral membrane proteins, this novel lysoPI-PLC is most likely a true membrane protein. J. Cell. Biochem. 65:550-564. © 1997 Wiley-Liss Inc.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Phorbol ester-induced reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton was investigated in C6 rat glioma cells. Observations by fluorescence microscopy and photoelectron microscopy indicated that pretreatment with the transition metal chelator N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine (TPEN) for 1-2 h at 50 μM reduced the sensitivity of the actin cytoskeleton to disruption by the subsequent addition of 200 nM phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). The protective effect of TPEN was eliminated by adding back Zn2+ prior to PMA addition, implicating chelation of metal ions as the mechanism of action of TPEN. C6 cells exposed to PMA experience potent activation of protein kinase C (PKC) and substantial redistribution of the kinase from a soluble to a particulate cellular fraction (translocation). TPEN pretreatment did not block PKC translocation in PMA-exposed cells. By two-dimensional gel analysis, TPEN also did not reduce, but rather slightly increased, the PMA-stimulated phosphorylation of the acidic 80 kDa endogenous PKC substrate, as well as two other proteins at 18 kDa and 50 kDa. In contrast, TPEN significantly suppressed phosphorylation of a 20 kDa protein, both in cells treated with TPEN only and in TPEN-pretreated PMA-exposed cells. The results indicate that the ability of TPEN to protect against PKC-mediated actin cytoskeletal disruption is not due to either a block of PKC translocation or to general inhibition of PKC activity. Rather, the action of TPEN is more selective and probably involves chelation of Zn2+ at a critical Zn2+ -dependent phosphorylation step downstream from the initial tumor promoter--induced effects on PKC. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Confluent monolayers of four contact-inhibited mouse fibroblast lines (Swiss 3T3, Balb/c 3T3, NIH 3T3, and C3H10T1/2) were found to have substantial levels of a cell surface phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (ecto-PLC). In contrast, confluent cultures of virally, chemically, or spontaneously transformed variants derived from these cell lines expressed undetectable or negligible levels of this enzyme activity. A simple and rapid assay, using lysophosphatidylinositol radio-labeled in the inositol group ([3H]-lysoPI) as the substrate was developed to provide a quantitative measure of the phospholipase C activity present at the external cell surface. For cells testing positive for ecto-PLC activity, rapid uptake of [3H]-lysoPI is accompanied by the simultaneous appearance of [3H]-inositol phosphate in the external medium. Confluent monolayers of the four mouse fibroblast lines exhibiting density-dependent growth inhibition had levels of ecto-PLC activity in the range of 50-800 pmol/min/106 cells (i.e., about 20-50 times greater than the activity observed for the transformed variants). The expression of ecto-PLC activity at the cell surface of the Swiss or Balb/c cells was dependent on the state of cell proliferation. Cultures which had become quiescent through attainment of confluence displayed a tenfold increased activity over that of subconfluent, growing cultures of these cells. Similarly, subconfluent Swiss 3T3 cells which had become quiescent following exposure to low serum conditions also showed increased activity. These results indicate that there may exist a correlation between the control of cell proliferation in contact-inhibited mouse fibroblasts and the expression of inositol phospholipid-specific phospholipase C activity at the external cell surface. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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