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Intracellular acidification, guanine-nucleotide binding proteins, and cytoskeletal actin

✍ Scribed by Molski, T. F. P. ;Sha'afi, R. I.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
599 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0886-1544

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✦ Synopsis

The addition of propionic acid to rabbit neutrophils causes cell acidification and increases the amount of actin associated with the cytoskeleton. Both responses are rapid, and while the cell acidification is somewhat long-lasting, the increase in cytoskeletal actin is transient. It reaches a maximum value within 15 seconds and then returns to the basal level. Unlike fMet-Leu-Phe, however, propionic acid does not cause a rise in the intracellular concentration of free calcium. Pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin inhibits the propionic acid-produced increase in cytoskeletal actin but not the decrease in intracellular pH. However, the rate of return to the base line of the cell acidification produced by propionic acid is diminished in cells pretreated with pertussis toxin. On the other hand, both the decrease in intracellular pH and the increase in cytoskeletal actin produced by fMet-Leu-Phe are inhibited by pertussis toxin treatment. The results presented here suggest two important points. First, while cell acidification may trigger directly or indirectly the association of actin with the cytoskeleton, it is certainly not sufficient. Second, a functional guanine-nucleotide regulatory protein is required for stimulated cytoskeletal actin. One or more components of the G-protein and/or their effects on phosphoinositide hydrolysis may increase the number of actin monomers and the availability of preexisting actin filaments to these monomers.

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