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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 270: C1485-C1492, 1996;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 270, Issue 5 C1485-C1492, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Growth hormone increases calcium uptake in rat fat cells by a mechanism dependent on protein kinase C

S. Gaur, H. Yamaguchi and H. M. Goodman
Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA.

Growth hormone (GH; 500 ng/ml) rapidly doubled cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in rat adipocytes as determined with the Ca2+ indicator fura 2. No response was seen in Ca(2+)-free medium, suggesting that the increase in [Ca2+]i was due to Ca2+ influx. GH also doubled the influx of Mn2- as inferred from the rate of fluorescence quenching. Depolarization with 30 mMK+ also increased [Ca2+]i, and the increase in [Ca2+]i due to either GH or 30 mMK+ was blocked by 100 nM nimodipine, suggesting that GH increases [Ca2+]i by activating voltage-sensitive L-type Ca2+ channels. GH increased [Ca2+]i even when K+ channels were blocked, suggesting that activation of Ca2+ uptake was not secondary to closure of K+ channels and consequent depolarization. A diacylglycerol (PAG) analogue, 1,2-dioctanoyl-sn-glycerol (50 microM), duplicated, and the protein kinase C(PKC) inhibitors calphostin C (100 nM), chelerythrine (1 microM), and bis-indolylmaleimide (250 nM) inhibited the effects of GH on [Ca2+]i. Xanthogenate tricyclodecan-9-yl (D609), a specific inhibitor of phospholipase C(PLC), abolished the increase in [Ca2+]i due to GH but not to DAG. The results suggest that GH increases [Ca2+]i by activation of PLC, release of DAG, and activation of a Ca(2+)-independent isoform of PKC. PKC-catalyzed phosphorylation of either the Ca2+ channels or a protein that regulates them may account for the influx of Ca2+ produced by GH.


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