FEBS Letters | |
Ghrelin and growth hormone secretagogue receptor are expressed in the rat adrenal cortex: evidence that ghrelin stimulates the growth, but not the secretory activity of adrenal cells | |
Neri, Giuliano3  Malendowicz, Ludwik K2  Rossi, Gian Paolo1  Spinazzi, Raffaella3  Andreis, Paola G3  Nussdorfer, Gastone G3  Trejter, Marcin2  | |
[1] Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Padua, I-35121 Padua, Italy;Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, PL-60781 Poznan, Poland;Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Section of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Padua, Via Gabelli 65, I-35121 Padua, Italy | |
关键词: Ghrelin; Growth hormone secretagogue receptor; Adrenocortical cell; Steroid hormone secretion; Cell proliferation; Cell apoptosis; | |
DOI : 10.1016/S0014-5793(03)00051-6 | |
学科分类:生物化学/生物物理 | |
来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | |
【 摘 要 】
Ghrelin is an endogenous ligand of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R), which has been originally isolated from rat stomach. Evidence has been previously provided that adrenal gland possesses abundant ghrelin-displaceable GHS-Rs, but nothing is known about the possible role of ghrelin in the regulation of adrenocortical function. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction demonstrated the expression of ghrelin and GHS-R in the rat adrenal cortex, and high adrenal concentrations of immunoreactive ghrelin were detected by radioimmune assay (RIA). Autoradiography localized abundant [125I]ghrelin binding sites in the adrenal zona glomerulosa (ZG) and outer zona fasciculata (ZF). Ghrelin (from 10−10 to 10−8 M) did not affect either basal steroid hormone (pregnenolone, progesterone, 11-deoxycorticosterone, corticosterone, 18-hydroxycorticosterone and aldosterone) secretion from dispersed ZG and zona fasciculata/reticularis (ZF/R) cells (as evaluated by quantitative high pressure liquid chromatography), or basal and agonist-stimulated aldosterone and corticosterone production from cultured ZG and ZF/R cells, respectively (as measured by RIA). Ghrelin (10−8 and 10−6 M) raised basal, but not agonist-stimulated, proliferation rate of cultured ZG cells (percent of cells able to incorporate 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine), without affecting apoptotic deletion rate (percent of cells able to incorporate biotinylated nucleosides into apoptotic DNA fragments). The tyrosine kinase (TK) inhibitor tyrphostin-23 and the p42/p44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitor PD-98059 abolished the proliferogenic effect of 10−8 M ghrelin, while the protein kinase A and C inhibitors H-89 and calphostin-C were ineffective. Ghrelin (10−8 M) stimulated TK and MAPK activity of dispersed ZG cells, and the effect was abolished by preincubation with tyrphostin-23 and PD-98059, respectively. Tyrphostin-23 annulled ghrelin-induced activation of MAPK activity. Taken together, the present findings indicate that (i) ghrelin and GHS-R are both expressed in the rat adrenal cortex, ghrelin binding sites being very abundant in the ZG; (ii) ghrelin does not affect the secretory activity of rat adrenocortical cells, but significantly enhances the proliferation rate of cultured ZG cells, without affecting apoptotic deletion rate; and (iii) the ZG proliferogenic action of ghrelin involves the TK-dependent activation of the p42/p44 MAPK cascade.
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