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. 1985 Dec 1;232(2):501–504. doi: 10.1042/bj2320501

Adenosine-receptor-mediated stimulation of low-Km GTPase in guinea-pig cerebral cortex.

V Hausleithner, M Freissmuth, W Schütz
PMCID: PMC1152908  PMID: 3004407

Abstract

Inhibition of receptor-coupled adenylate cyclase by hormones is proposed to be associated with GTP hydrolysis. Since adenosine inhibits cerebral-cortical adenylate cyclase via A1 adenosine receptors, the present study attempts to verify this mechanism for A1-selective adenosine derivatives. In guinea-pig cortical membranes N6-(phenylisopropyl)adenosine (PIA) increased the Vmax. of the low-Km GTPase, with an EC50 (concentration causing 50% of maximal stimulation) of about 0.1 microM, and the stimulatory effect was competitively antagonized by 5 microM-8-phenyltheophylline. The rank order of potency of the stereoisomers of PIA and of 5-(N-ethylcarboxamido)adenosine (NECA) to stimulate GTPase correlated with their ability to inhibit adenylate cyclase activity (R-PIA greater than NECA greater than S-PIA). Competition binding studies with (-)-N6- ([125I]iodo-4-hydroxyphenylisopropyl)adenosine suggest that adenylyl imidodiphosphate (p[NH]ppA), an essential component of the GTPase assay system, is a more potent A1-receptor agonist than ATP, with an IC50 (concentration giving half-maximal displacement of radioligand binding) of 7.9 microM. On the basis of the p[NH]ppA concentration used in the GTPase assay (1.25 mM), enzyme stimulation by adenosine seems to be highly underestimated. Nevertheless, adenosine-induced GTP hydrolysis reflects an increased turnover of guanine nucleotides at the Ni regulatory site and appears to be a crucial step in the sequence of events processing the inhibitory signal to adenylate cyclase.

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