标题：Regulation of ornithine decarboxylase activity by corticotropin in adrenocortical tumor cell clones: roles of cyclic AMP and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1980
卷号：77
期号：5
页码：2767-2771
DOI：10.1073/pnas.77.5.2767
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：In Y1 adrenocortical tumor cells, corticotropin (ACTH), cyclic AMP, and 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (8BrcAMP) stimulated ornithine decarboxylase activity (L-ornithine carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.17 ) and steroidogenesis. The concentrations required for half-maximal activation of ornithine decarboxylase were 60 pM for ACTH and 1 mM for 8BrcAMP; the concentrations required for half-maximal activation of steroidogenesis were 50 pM for ACTH and 0.2 mM for 8BrcAMP. Ornithine decarboxylase activity increased 1.5 hr after the addition of these agents, reached a maximum between 4 and 6 hr, and then declined. Mutant clones with impaired ACTH-responsive adenylate cyclase systems [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1 ]did not respond to ACTH with increased ornithine decarboxylase activity, but they responded normally to added cyclic AMP. These results indicate that adenylate cyclase and cyclic AMP are necessary for the stimulation of ornithine decarboxylase activity by ACTH. In a series of Y1(Kin) mutants with altered cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activities (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37 ), the effects of ACTH on ornithine decarboxylase also were attenuated. These findings suggest that cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase also plays a necessary role in the stimulation of ornithine decarboxylase activity by ACTH. The effects of ACTH on ornithine decarboxylase in the Kin mutants, however, were quantitatively different from the effects on steroidogenesis and did not closely reflect the degree of defect in cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activity. These differences suggest that the pathways of ACTH action leading to stimulation of steroidogenesis and ornithine decarboxylase activity diverge subsequent to activation of the protein kinase.
