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. 1977 Nov 15;168(2):277–282. doi: 10.1042/bj1680277

Modulation of the response of bovine adrenocortical adenylate cyclase to corticotropin.

P Glynn, D M Cooper, D Schulster
PMCID: PMC1183761  PMID: 202264

Abstract

An assessment was made of some of the basic parameters responsible for the modulation of adenylate cyclase activity in a bovine adrenocortical plasma-membrane preparation. When determined at 0.1 mM-ATP, basal adenylate cyclase activity increased with increasing MgCl2 concentrations, whereas in the presence of corticotropin activity was essentially maximal at 10mM-MgCl2; high concentrations (25mM) of MgCl2 inhibited adenylate cyclase activity determined in the presence of both corticotropin and GTP. At all MgCl2 concentrations, corticotropin and GTP activated the enzyme in a synergistic fashion. The magnitude of the stimulation of basal activity produced by corticotropin was a function of Mg2+ concentration, whereas that produced by GTP appeared largely independent of Mg2+ concentration. Adenylate cyclase activity in the bovine adrenal membrane was half-maximally stimulated by corticotropin concentrations in the range 0.3--1.0 nM. The concentration of corticotropin evoking half-maximum response was not significantly affected by raising the free Mg2+ concentration from 0.4 to 4.9 mM, nor by the presence of GTP. In the presence of GTP, high concentrations (over 1 micrometer) of corticotropin inhibited adenylate cyclase activity, although no inhibition was apparent in the absence of guanine nucleotide.

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