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The reduced responsiveness of cultured bovine parathyroid cells to extracellular Ca2+ is associated with marked reduction in the expression of extracellular Ca(2+)-sensing receptor messenger ribonucleic acid and protein

A Mithal, O Kifor, I Kifor, P Vassilev, R Butters, K Krapcho, R Simin, F Fuller, SC Hebert and EM Brown
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

PTH secretion from dispersed bovine parathyroid cells maintained in culture becomes progressively less responsive to changes in the extracellular Ca2+ concentration (Ca2+o) over several days. We have now investigated whether this change in secretory control is associated with alterations in the expression of the Ca2+o-sensing receptor (BoPCaR) recently cloned from bovine parathyroid, which plays a central role in Ca2+o-regulated PTH secretion. BoPCaR messenger RNA levels dropped rapidly in cultured bovine parathyroid cells, as assessed by Northern analysis, decreasing by 78% within 18 h and remaining low for at least 4 days. The level of receptor protein decreased to a comparable extent (approximately 72-82%) after 3-4 days in culture, as determined by immunocytochemistry with specific antibodies directed at the extracellular domain of the receptor. The half-time for the reduction in receptor protein (approximately 2 days) was considerably longer, however, than that for BoPCaR messenger RNA, but was comparable to that for the loss of sensitivity of PTH secretion to Ca2+o. Indeed, there was a close linear correlation between maximal suppressibility of PTH secretion and the intensity of staining for the receptor protein (r = 0.88; P = 0.004). We conclude that alterations in the expression of BoPCaR could explain much of the reduced responsiveness of cultured bovine parathyroid cells to Ca2+o.

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