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Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase of rat pancreatic islets. Effects of Ca2+, calmodulin and trifluoperazine.


ABSTRACT: Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase activity towards cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP was studied in extracts of rat islets of Langerhans. Biphasic Eadie plots [Eadie (1942) J. Biol. Chem. 146, 85-93] were obtained with either substrate suggesting the presence of both 'high'- and 'low'-Km components. The apparent Km values were 6.2 +/- 0.5 (n = 8) microM and 103.4 +/- 13.5 (6) microM for cyclic AMP and 3.6 +/- 0.3 (12) microM and 61.4 +/- 7.5 (13) microM for cyclic GMP. With cyclic AMP as substrate, phosphodeisterase activity was increased by calmodulin and Ca2+ and decreased by trifluoperazine, a specific inhibitor of calmodulin. With cyclic GMP as substrate, phosphodiesterase activity was decreased by omission of Ca2+ or addition of trifluoperazine. Addition of exogenous calmodulin had no effect on activity. The data suggest that Ca2+ may influence the islet content of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP via effects on calmodulin-dependent cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase(s).

SUBMITTER: Sugden MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1163146 | biostudies-other | 1981 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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