Effects of trifluoperazine on function and structure of toad urinary bladder. Role of calmodulin vasopressin-stimulation of water permeability.
AUTOR(ES)
Levine, S D
RESUMO
Calcium ion plays a major regulatory role in many hormone-stimulated systems. To determine the site of calcium's action in the toad urinary bladder, we examined the effect of trifluoperazine, a compound that binds specifically to the calcium binding protein, calmodulin, and thereby prevents activation of enzymes by the calcium- calmodulin complex. 10 microM trifluoperazine inhibited vasopressin stimulation of water flow, but did not alter vasopressin's effects on urea permeability or short-circuit current. Trifluoperazine also blocked stimulation of water flow by cyclic AMP and methylisobutylxanthine, implying a "postcyclic AMP" site of action. Consistent with these results, trifluoperazine did not decrease epithelial cyclic AMP content or the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activity ratio. Assay of bladder epithelial supernate demonstrated calmodulin-like activity of 1.5 U/microgram protein. Morphologic studies of vasopressin-treated bladders revealed that trifluoperazine did not alter the volume density of cytoplasmic microtubules or significantly decrease the number of fusions between cytoplasmic, aggregate-containing, elongated vesicles and the luminal membrane. Nonetheless, the frequency of luminal membrane aggregates, structures that correlate well with luminal membrane water permeability, was decreased by greater than 50%. Thus, trifluoperazine appears to inhibit the movement of intramembranous particle aggregates from the fused intracellular membranes to the luminal membrane, perhaps by blocking an effect of calcium on microfilament function.
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