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Phosphoinositides and phosphoinositide-utilizing enzymes in detergent-insoluble lipid domains.

Abstract
Recent evidence has implicated caveolae/DIGs in various aspects of signal transduction, a process in which polyphosphoinositides play a central role. We therefore undertook a study to determine the distribution of phosphoinositides and the enzymes that utilize them in these detergent-insoluble domains. We report here that the polyphosphoinositide phosphatase, but not several other phosphoinositide-utilizing enzymes, is highly enriched in a low density, Triton-insoluble membrane fraction that contains caveolin. This fraction is also enriched in polyphosphoinositides, containing approximately one-fifth of the total cellular phosphatidylinositol (4,5)P2. Treatment of cells with the tumor-promoting phorbol ester, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), did not alter the distribution of polyphosphoinositides or the polyphosphoinositide phosphatase. However, PMA treatment did lead to a decrease in the mitogen-activated protein kinase and actin present in these domains. PMA also induced the recruitment of protein kinase C alpha to the caveolae/DIGs fraction. These findings suggest that polyphosphoinositides, the polyphosphoinositide phosphatase and protein kinase C play an important role in the structure or function of detergent-insoluble membrane domains.
AuthorsH R Hope, L J Pike
JournalMolecular biology of the cell (Mol Biol Cell) Vol. 7 Issue 6 Pg. 843-51 (Jun 1996) ISSN: 1059-1524 [Print] United States
PMID8816992 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Detergents
  • Glycosphingolipids
  • Membrane Lipids
  • Phosphatidylinositols
  • Filipin
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases
  • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate
Topics
  • Animals
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases (metabolism)
  • Cell Membrane (drug effects)
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Detergents (pharmacology)
  • Dogs
  • Filipin (pharmacology)
  • Glycosphingolipids (chemistry)
  • Membrane Lipids (chemistry)
  • Phosphatidylinositols (metabolism)
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Solubility
  • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate (pharmacology)

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