Abstract
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) enhances ATP-stimulated inositol phosphate (InsP) formation in bovine chromaffin cells through an unknown mechanism. Chromaffin cells were transduced with the carboxyl terminus of β-adrenergic receptor kinase 1 (βARK1CT), a Gβγ subunits scavenger, using a recombinant adenovirus system. The adenovirus also expresses a green fluorescent protein (GFP) which serves as an index of transduction. Flow cytometry showed that up to 80% of chromaffin cells were transduced by the virus. There was a direct correlation between the βARK1CT inhibition of the NPY enhancement of ATP-stimulated InsP formation and the percent of cells expressing GFP (r2=0.9993). These results demonstrate that Gβγ subunits are required for the NPY enhancement of ATP-stimulated InsP formation in bovine chromaffin cells.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 267-274 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Peptides |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2004 |
Keywords
- ATP
- CAMP
- Chromaffin cell
- Cyclic AMP
- DMEM
- Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium
- GFP
- Green fluorescent protein
- Inositol phosphate
- InsP
- MOI
- Multiplicity of infection
- Neuropeptide Y
- NPY
- NPY receptor
- P2Y
- Purinergic
- Purinergic receptor
- Y1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Physiology
- Endocrinology
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience