AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 3 C635-C642, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Alpha-adrenergic regulation of phosphoinositide metabolism and protein kinase C in isolated cardiac myocytes

T. Kaku, E. Lakatta and C. Filburn
Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.

alpha 1-Adrenergic regulation of phosphoinositide metabolism and protein kinase C translocation was studied in isolated rat cardiac myocytes. Exposure of [3H]inositol-labeled myocytes to norepinephrine in the presence of propranolol caused a dose-dependent increase in [3H]inositol phosphates. Norepinephrine also increased the level of membrane-associated protein kinase C from approximately 10% of total activity to 18%, with a dose response similar to that for generation of inositol phosphates. Depolarization of myocytes with 30 mM KCl had no effect on inositol phosphates or membrane-associated protein kinase C but potentiated the effect of submaximal norepinephrine on both parameters. The potentiation of protein kinase C translocation was amplified when extracellular Ca2+ was increased to 4 mM, resulting in membrane association of one-third of the total cellular activity. These data show that activation of protein kinase C occurs during alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation of cardiac myocytes and that elevation of intracellular Ca2+ amplifies this effect at least in part through increased phosphoinositide metabolism.

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