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. 1988 Mar;81(3):661–668. doi: 10.1172/JCI113370

Modulation by 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol of the acute change in cytosolic free calcium induced by thyrotropin-releasing hormone in GH4C1 pituitary cells.

J C Chisholm 1, S Kim 1, A H Tashjian Jr 1
PMCID: PMC442512  PMID: 2830313

Abstract

Receptor-mediated regulation of prolactin synthesis by 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)2D3) in the pituitary cell strain GH4C1 is dependent on the concentration of extracellular calcium. We have now investigated the actions of 1,25(OH)2D3 on cytosolic free calcium concentrations [( Ca2+]i) in these cells using the fluorescent indicator quin2. Basal resting [Ca2+]i was unchanged in cells treated with 1 nM 1,25(OH)2D3 either acutely (from 0 to 15 min) or for periods of up to 48 h. However, the initial peak of the biphasic change in [Ca2+]i induced by thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was enhanced more than twofold in cells pretreated for 24 or 48 h with 1,25(OH)2D3. This 1,25(OH)2D3-enhanced calcium response was restricted to the initial phase of TRH action; the secondary plateau phase was unaffected. Neither the affinity nor number of TRH receptors nor the early time course of [3H]MeTRH binding to GH4C1 cells were affected by pretreatment with 1,25(OH)2D3. Because TRH binding was not altered, four sites along the intracellular signal transduction pathway of TRH action were examined. Neither protein kinase C activation nor inositol polyphosphate accumulation were enhanced in response to TRH, in 1,25(OH)2D3 pretreated cells, indicating that phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis was unchanged by pretreatment. A low concentration of ionomycin was used to probe the size of the nonmitochondrial intracellular calcium pool that is sensitive to TRH. Ionomycin was not able to mobilize more calcium from 1,25(OH)2D3 pretreated cells, indicating that TRH-responsive intracellular calcium stores were probably not enhanced by pretreatment. Chelation of extracellular calcium, however, did eliminate enhancement of the TRH response in 1,25(OH)2D3-pretreated cells. We conclude that 1,25(OH)2D3 modulates acute dynamic changes in [Ca2+]i induced by TRH without affecting basal [Ca2+]i. The mechanism of the enhanced response of 1,25(OH)2D3-pretreated cells to TRH appears to depend upon a postreceptor event independent of phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis that involves increased calcium conductance at the level of the plasma membrane. A less likely explanation involves enhancement of intracellular calcium stores in an ionomycin-resistant, EGTA-sensitive, TRH-mobilizable reservoir.

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