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Angiotensin II–Induced Phosphorylation of the AT1 Receptor From Rat Brain Neurons
From the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Correspondence to Mohan K. Raizada, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, PO Box 100274, Gainesville, FL 32610. E-mail mraizada{at}phys.med.ufl.edu
Abstract The neuronal angiotensin II (Ang II) type 1 (AT1) receptor is coupled to the Ras-Raf-1–mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signal-transduction pathway (Yang H, Lu D, Yu K, Raizada MK. Regulation of neuromodulatory actions of angiotensin II in the brain neurons by the Ras-dependent mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. J Neurosci. 1996;16:4047-4058). In this study we compared the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) on AT1 receptor phosphorylation and the ability of the phosphorylated receptor to bind Ang II in neuronal cultures of Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) brains to further our understanding of the Ang II signaling mechanism. Ang II caused a time-dependent phosphorylation of AT1 receptors in both WKY and SHR brain neurons. The level of phosphorylation was higher in the SHR brain neurons; this finding was consistent with increased AT1 receptors in these cells. MAP kinase was involved in this phosphorylation, a conclusion supported by the following evidence: (1) exogenous MAP kinase phosphorylated the AT1 receptor; (2) PD98059, a MAP kinase kinase inhibitor, attenuated Ang II–stimulated AT1 receptor phosphorylation; and (3) MAP kinase and AT1 receptors were coimmunoprecipitated in Ang II–stimulated neurons. Finally, MAP kinase phosphorylation was associated with the loss of 125I-[Sar1-Ile8]-Ang II binding ability of the AT1 receptor in both strains of neurons. These observations show that Ang II stimulates phosphorylation of the neuronal AT1 receptor by a mechanism involving MAP kinase and that the phosphorylated neuronal AT1 receptor does not exhibit Ang II binding activity in the brains of either WKY or SHR.
Key Words: receptors, angiotensin II • MAP kinase • phosphorylation • angiotensin II • rats, inbred SHR • rats, inbred WKY
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