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Modulation of protein kinase C by endogenous sphingosine: inhibition of phorbol dibutyrate binding in Niemann-Pick C fibroblasts.


ABSTRACT: The abnormal and variable increase in levels of free sphingoid bases recently described in fibroblasts from Niemann-Pick C patients allowed us to investigate the modulation of protein kinase C in vivo by endogenous sphingosine. The specific binding of [20-3H]phorbol 12, 13-dibutyrate to the regulatory domain of membrane-bound protein kinase C was significantly decreased in fibroblasts from patients compared with controls. A pronounced difference between the two groups (P<0.0001) was demonstrated in low-density lipoprotein-supplemented medium, i.e. under conditions known to disclose abnormal mobilization of unesterified cholesterol in Niemann-Pick C fibroblasts. Furthermore the degree of impairment of [3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate binding was highly correlated (r=0.95) with the sphingosine levels measured in fibroblasts from those patients. Scatchard analysis of the binding data indicated that Niemann-Pick C and control fibroblasts contained almost the same number of binding sites per cell. A 8-34-fold increase in Kd was measured in Niemann-Pick C fibroblasts with at least a 5-fold increase in sphingosine levels. Removal, by cell fractionation, of membrane-bound protein kinase C from the bulk of sphingosine induced a normalization of Kd values. The overall results suggest that protein kinase C inhibition is directly related to sphingosine accumulation.

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Lafrasse C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1218624 | biostudies-other | 1997 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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