Phosphoinositides synthesis in desensitized rat pancreatic acinar cells. Lods, Jean-S[acute]ebastien, Bernard Rossignol, Catherine Dreux Et Jean Morisset. D[acute]epartement de biologie, Facult[acute]e des sciences, Universit[acute]e de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Qu[acute]ebec, Canada J1K 2R1, Biochimie des Transports cellulaires
APStracts 2:0031G, 1995.
To help understand the possible role of phosphoinositide turnover in the desensitization process, the availability of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate was investigated in normal and desensitized pancreatic acinar cells treated with carbamylcholine (Cch), caerulein (Cae) and the phorbol ester, 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). In control acini, incorporation of myo-[3H] inositol into total phosphoinositides (PI) was maximal at 120 min, Cch and Cae dose-dependent, and insensitive to TPA. Cch stimulation increased the proportion of myo-[3H] inositol incorporated into phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (Ptd Ins (4,5)P2) whereas caerulein specifically channeled myo[3H] inositol incorporation into Ptd Ins (3,4) P2 and Ptd Ins (3,4,5) P3. In the desensitized cells, preexposure to Cch and Cae but not to TPA increased the subsequent basal rate of myo-[3H] inositol incorporation into total PI by 66% and 50% above control values. There were no subsequent responses to increasing concentrations of Cch, Cae and TPA during a second incubation. Desensitization of the pancreatic secretory responses to Cch, Cae and TPA does not seem to result from a decrease either in total PI or in specific PTd Ins (4,5)P2 synthesis which is needed for IP3 and diacylglycerol production.

Received 10 June 1994; accepted in final form 6 February 1995.
APS Manuscript Number G224-4.
Article publication pending Am. J. Physiol. (Gastrointest. Liver
Physiology).
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1995 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on  7 March 1995.