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Nongenomic Action of Progesterone: Activation of XenopusOocyte Phospholipase C through a Plasma Membrane-Associated Tyrosine Kinase¹

Biology Department, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado 80217

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Bradley J. Stith, University of Colorado, Biology 171, 1224 Fifth Street, Denver, Colorado 80204-3364. E-mail: bstith{at}carbon.cudenver.edu

Using a plasma membrane-cortex preparation (wherein the nucleus and >90% of the total cell protein are removed), progesterone stimulated tyrosine kinase activity that stimulated phospholipase C. Although it has been known for over 20 yr that progesterone acts at the plasma membrane of Xenopus oocytes to induce oocyte maturation, this is the first report that progesterone stimulates this tyrosine kinase activity that is associated with the oocyte plasma membrane and cortex. A tyrosine kinase inhibitor (tyrphostin B46) inhibited steroid stimulation of tyrosine kinase and phospholipase C (PLC) activities, but did not block lipase C stimulation by G protein activators. A fusion protein that contains tandem N- and C-terminal SH2 domains of PLC also blocked progesterone stimulation of PLC (a fusion protein with the SH2 domain from Shc was ineffective). Lowering the Ca²⁺ concentration in the medium inhibited progesterone, but not guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate), stimulation of PLC, and the effects of progesterone and a G protein agonist were additive. However, neither progesterone nor insulin increased phosphotyrosine on PLC. To evaluate another tyrosine kinase path involving phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, we added wortmannin to our membrane preparation, but wortmannin did not inhibit progesterone’s ability to activate PLC.

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