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12/G
13 Subunits of Heterotrimeric G Proteins Mediate Parathyroid Hormone Activation of Phospholipase D in UMR-106 Osteoblastic Cells
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry (A.T.K.S., A.G., J.M.R.-H., P.H.S.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611; Cue BIOtech (A.G.), Evanston, Illinois 60201; and Department of Pharmacology (T.V.-Y.), University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Paula H. Stern, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue S-215, Chicago, Illinois 60611. E-mail: p-stern{at}northwestern.edu.
| Abstract |
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12 and G
13 subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins prevented PTH-stimulated activation of PLD, whereas an antagonist minigene to G
s failed to produce this effect. Effects of pharmacological inhibitors (protein kinase inhibitor, Clostridium botulinum exoenzyme C3) were consistent with a role of Rho small G proteins, but not of cAMP, in the effect of PTH on PLD. Expression of constitutively active G
12 and G
13 activated PLD, an effect that was inhibited by dominant-negative RhoA. The results identify G
12 and G
13 as upstream transducers of PTH effects on PLD, mediated through RhoA in osteoblastic cells. | Introduction |
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-containing G proteins is a major downstream effect of PTH (1). However, there is also activation of the membrane phospholipases, phospholipase C (2) and phospholipase D (PLD) (3, 4). Our previous studies have shown that PTH activation of PLD and subsequent phosphatidic acid phosphatase action leads to translocation of protein kinase C
from the cytosol to plasma membranes (5). PLD-dependent signaling also contributes to PTH stimulation of IL-6 promoter activity in the osteoblastic cells (5). PTH activates the small G protein RhoA (6). The actions of PTH on PLD (4) and on protein kinase C
translocation (6) are dependent on RhoA, and small GTPases of the Rho/Ras family are also involved in PTH stimulation of IL-6 promoter activity (6).
Activation of small G proteins of the Rho family and subsequently PLD by membrane receptors can be mediated through the G
12/G
13 family of heterotrimeric GTPases (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), and these interactions are now recognized to play important roles in cell shape changes and cell survival (7, 14, 15, 16, 17). Because our studies of PTH signaling in UMR-106 cells showed that PTH activates PLD in a RhoA-dependent manner (4), it was relevant to investigate the role of G
12 and G
13 subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins in PTH stimulation of PLD in the osteoblastic cells to more fully understand the process of PTH activation of the pathway.
| Materials and Methods |
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12 and G
13 were generated as described previously (18, 19). Minigenes that code for small peptides that act as antagonists of the endogenous G proteins, pcDNA-G
s, pcDNA-G
12, and pcDNA-G
13, were obtained from Cue BIOtech (Evanston, IL) and have been described previously (20, 21).
Cell culture
UMR-106 osteoblastic osteosarcoma cells were purchased from American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD). The cells were cultured to confluence in DMEM supplemented with 15% heat-inactivated horse serum and 100 U/ml K-penicillin G at 37 C in a 5% CO2 environment. Cells were passaged every 35 d in 75-cm2 tissue culture flasks. Cells were then seeded on sterile culture dishes and used the following day. Cells from passages 1218 were used for experiments.
PLD activity/transphosphatidylation
Cells were seeded at 500,000 cells per well in six-well cell culture dishes, allowed to attach overnight, and then prelabeled with [14C] palmitic acid (0.25 µCi/ml) in DMEM containing 15% heat-inactivated horse serum and 100 U/ml K-penicillin G for 24 h at 37 C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere. Cells were washed and then pretreated or treated with the indicated agonists or antagonists for the given times in DMEM containing 20 mM HEPES, 0.1% BSA, and 1% absolute ethanol. To terminate the reaction, media were quickly removed, and 1 ml ice-cold methanol was added to cells. Cells were scraped into chloroform, and lipids were extracted using the method of Folch et al. (22). The extract containing lipids was dried under nitrogen, lipids were re-equilibrated in 100 µl chloroform-methanol (9:1 vol/vol), of which 50 µl was spotted on a thin-layer chromatography plate, and a 10-µl aliquot was used to determine total lipid radioactivity. Phosphatidylethanol (PE) was separated from the total lipid fraction by thin-layer chromatography using chloroform-methanol-acetic acid (70:10:2 vol/vol/vol) as the running solvent. A 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanol standard was run concurrently. Lipids were visualized by exposure to iodine vapor. For autoradiography, thin-layer chromatography plates were incubated at 70 C for 72 h. The PE bands were scraped and radioactivity determined by liquid scintillation counting. The 14C radioactivity recovered in PE at the end of the treatments was expressed as the percentage of total 14C lipid radioactivity and is presented as mean ± SE of three determinations.
Constructs and transfections
UMR-106 cells were seeded at 400,000 cells per well in six-well cell culture dishes, and were transfected 16 h later. For experiments involving G
C-terminal selective antagonist minigenes, 0.5 µg each of pcDNA3 (parental vector), pcDNA-G
12, pcDNA-G
13, pcDNAG-
s, or pcDNA-G
q minigene DNAs were precomplexed with Lipofectamine Plus reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) in OPTI-MEM in the absence of antibiotics and serum. Cells were incubated with the constructs for 3 h at 37 C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere, after which 1 ml OPTI-MEM medium containing 5% fetal bovine serum and 1% penicillin/streptomycin was added to each of the culture dishes. Medium was changed after 6 h, and incubation continued until 48 h. Cells were labeled with [14C] palmitic acid for the final 24 h of the incubation. For experiments with constitutively active (GTPase-deficient) G
constructs, 0.4 µg each of pcDNA3 (control vector), *G
12 (G
12Q226L), or *G
13 (G
13Q223L) were precomplexed with Lipofectamine Plus reagent in OPTI-MEM medium in the absence of antibiotics and serum. Cells were incubated with the constructs for 3 h at 37 C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere, after which 1 ml OPTI-MEM medium containing 5% fetal bovine serum and 1% penicillin/streptomycin was added to each of the culture dishes, which were then incubated overnight. Cells were labeled with [14C] palmitic acid and PLD activity measured as described. For experiments determining the effects of the dominant-negative mutant of RhoA (RhoA19N) on the actions of the constitutively active G
12 and G
13, 0.5 µg each of constitutively active mutants of G
12 and G
13 and dominant-negative mutant of RhoA (RhoA19N) were used, along with 0, 0.5, or 1 µg pcDNA3 (vector control), for a total of 1 µg DNA transfected.
Statistics
For each experiment, triplicate treatments were used, and the mean ± SE was calculated. Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA and Tukey post test (GraphPad Prism Software; GraphPad Software, Inc., San Diego, CA). Treatment effects were confirmed in replicate experiments.
| Results |
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12 or G
13 subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins, but was not prevented when the cells were transfected with minigene vectors that code for small peptide inhibitors of G
s, G
q, or with the pcDNA3 vector alone (Fig. 1
s mutant vector is consistent with our findings using pharmacological agents. Specifically, a 30-min treatment with the protein kinase A antagonist protein kinase inhibitor (PKI) (Fig. 2A
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12 and pcDNA-G
13 minigene vectors inhibited PTH-induced PLD activation, transfection of the UMR-106 cells with constitutively active G
12 and G
13, but not the control vector (pcDNA3), activated PLD independent of PTH stimulation (Fig. 4A
12 and G
13 constructs on PLD activity (Fig. 4C
12 and G
13 on PLD in the osteoblastic cells.
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| Discussion |
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12 and G
13 subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins as upstream regulators of PLD in osteoblastic UMR-106 cells and as mediators of PTH stimulation of the phospholipase. Furthermore, the results show that the Rho small G proteins and specifically RhoA are intermediates in the G
12/G
13 regulation of the PTH-stimulated PLD response.
Studies in other tissues have shown that G
12 and G
13 activate Rho family small GTPases. In COS-7 cells, constitutively active G
12 and G
13 increase Rho-GTP. Constitutively active G
12 and G
13 stimulate formation of actin stress fibers and focal adhesions in Swiss 3T3 cells (7, 23). The effect is prevented by blocking Rho, indicating that Rho is a downstream effector of the actions of these heterotrimeric G protein subunits (7). Neither activated forms of other G
subunits, nor ß
complexes have the cytoskeletal effects of the G
12 and G
13 subunits (7). In CCL39 fibroblasts, G
13 stimulates Na+-H+ exchange through both RhoA-dependent and independent pathways (24). The interaction of the G
subunits and RhoA appears to be through Rho-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factors, including p115 RhoGEF (25, 26), PDZ-RhoGEF (27) and Lbc RhoGEF (28).
Activation of several endogenous receptors leads to stimulation of G
12/G
13-Rho signaling. In neuronal cells this leads to formation of a F-actin cortical structure that effects changes in cell shape (29, 30).
1 Adrenergic receptor-induced cardiac hypertrophy is mediated in part by a G
12/G
13-Rho-JNK pathway (31). The G
subunits can have independent effects. Serotonin 5-HT4(a) receptor activation of a serum response element, mediated through Rho activation, is potentiated by overexpression of G
13, but not G
12 (32). Lysophosphatidic acid activation of Rho in Swiss 3T3 cells involves G
13, but not G
12 (23).
G
12 and G
13 are involved in PLD activation in other tissues. G
12/G
13 transduces signaling from the calcium sensing receptor in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells (12). G
12 is involved in angiotensin II receptor coupling to PLD in vascular smooth muscle cells (11), whereas G
13 mediates PLD activation by 5-hydroxytryptamine 2C receptors in rat choroid plexus epithelial cells (9). Expression of a constitutively active G
13 subunit in COS-7 cells stimulated rat brain PLD (8).
Bone remodeling requires the action of both osteoblasts and osteoclasts. RhoA is already known to play an important role in osteoclast activity (33, 34). C. botulinum C3 exoenzyme disrupts the actin ring and inhibits bone resorption by isolated osteoclasts (33). Expression of a constitutively active RhoA in avian osteoclasts results in increased podosome assembly, formation of stress fibers, increased motility, and bone resorbing activity (34). Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase is also increased. These effects are inhibited by C. botulinum C3 exoenzyme and by expression of dominant-negative RhoA.
PTH action on osteoblasts leads to significant changes in bone, including therapeutically significant anabolic effects that may be mediated through changes in cell survival (35), as well as activation of osteoclastogenesis through production of IL-6 (36) and the membrane cytokine, receptor activator of nuclear factor
B ligand (37). The finding that the G
12/G
13-RhoA-PLD pathway, which is important in cell survival in other tissues, is activated by PTH in osteoblasts suggests that this PTH-stimulated, cAMP-independent pathway is likely to be important in bone biology.
| Acknowledgments |
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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant AR11262 (to P.H.S.). Development of the constitutively active G
constructs was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants GM56159 and GM65160 and a grant from the American Heart Association (to T.V.-Y.).
First Published Online February 10, 2005
Abbreviations: PE, Phosphatidylethanol; PKI, protein kinase inhibitor; PLD, phospholipase D.
Received September 29, 2004.
Accepted for publication February 2, 2005.
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