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. 1988 Apr 1;251(1):47–53. doi: 10.1042/bj2510047

The role of protein kinase C in the inactivation of hepatic glycogen synthase by calcium-mobilizing agonists.

B Bouscarel 1, K Meurer 1, C Decker 1, J H Exton 1
PMCID: PMC1148962  PMID: 3134012

Abstract

The regulation of glycogen synthase by Ca2+-mobilizing hormones was studied by using rat liver parenchymal cells in primary culture. Long-term exposure of hepatocytes to 4 beta-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (TPA) resulted in a decrease in vasopressin or ATP inhibition of glycogen synthesis and glycogen synthase activity, without any change in the activation of glycogen phosphorylase. In contrast, treatment with TPA did not diminish the effects of glucagon, isoprenaline or A23187 on glycogen synthase or phosphorylase. TPA treatment for 18 h did not change specific [3H]vasopressin binding, but abolished protein kinase C activity in a concentration-dependent manner. The effects of TPA to decrease protein kinase C activity and to reverse the inactivation of glycogen synthase by vasopressin were well correlated and were mimicked by mezerein, but not by 4 alpha-phorbol. However, 1 microM-TPA totally inhibited protein kinase C activity, but reversed only 60% of the vasopressin effect on glycogen synthase. It is therefore concluded that Ca2+-mobilizing hormones inhibit glycogen synthase partly, but not wholly, through a mechanism involving protein kinase C.

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