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Endocrinology, Vol 127, 2393-2399, Copyright © 1990 by Endocrine Society

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Gonadotropin-releasing hormone modulation of protein kinase-C activity in perifused anterior pituitary cell cultures

WV Andrews, JR Hansen, JA Janovick and PM Conn
Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242-1109.

The ability of GnRH to modulate protein kinase-C (PKC) activity was examined in perifused rat pituitary cell cultures. Under these conditions, LH release and GnRH receptor number remained unchanged after repeated pulses of 1 nM GnRM, whereas PKC (measured both enzymatically and by radioligand assay) showed an initial increase in kinase activity after the first pulse of GnRH (approximately 2-fold), followed by down-regulation of PKC activity with subsequent pulses of the releasing hormone. It was also observed that the GnRH-stimulated down-regulation of PKC was dependent on the presence of extracellular calcium, which was not the case for the initial up-regulation of PKC. These findings are consistent with a modulating role of the GnRH receptor on PKC activity through a Ca2(+)-dependent process. This study also provides further evidence that GnRH-stimulated LH release and PKC activity can be uncoupled.


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