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. 1997 Jul 15;502(Pt 2):321–333. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.321bk.x

Receptors couple to L-type calcium channels via distinct Go proteins in rat neuroendocrine cell lines.

V E Degtiar 1, R Harhammer 1, B Nürnberg 1
PMCID: PMC1159552  PMID: 9263913

Abstract

1. The present study examines the hypothesis of G protein subtype selectivity in receptor-induced inhibition of calcium channel currents (ICa) in the insulin-secreting RINm5F and pituitary GH3 rat cell lines. Specificity of receptor coupling to G proteins was studied by infusion of purified G alpha isoforms into cells via a patch pipette. 2. In RINm5F cells, the neuropeptide galanin inhibited dihydropyridine (DHP)- and omega-conotoxin-sensitive components of ICa and slowed down their activation kinetics. In GH3 cells, DHP-sensitive ICa was inhibited by galanin, as well as by somatostatin and carbachol. Agonist-induced ICa inhibition was suppressed by pertussis toxin (PTX) pretreatment of the cells. In PTX-pretreated cells of either cell line, the response to galanin was restored only by the G alpha o1 subunit. Following PTX treatment of GH3 cells, only the G alpha o1 subunit restored carbachol-induced inhibition of ICa, whereas only the G alpha o2 subunit restored somatostatin-induced inhibition of ICa. G(i) subtypes had no effect on ICa inhibition. 3. Both cell lines expressed two distinct immunoreactive Go proteins. Whereas in RINm5F cell membranes Go1 was found to be the predominant isoform, we detected more Go2 than Go1 in GH3 cell membranes. Nevertheless, all agonists stimulated incorporation of the photoreactive GTP analogue [alpha-32P]GTP azidoanilide into both G(o) isoforms. 4. The results indicate that the same Go subtype, i.e. Go1, mediates galanin-induced inhibition of ICa in both cell lines and that the Go subtype specificity of receptor-G protein coupling is confined to intact cells.

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