Abstract
AbstractTransverse slices of guinea‐pig hippocampus respond to small increases in extracellular potassium concentration [K +] by showing a marked augmentation in the rate of incorporation of labelled precursor amino acid into protein. We find that this augmentation is manifested equally in superfusing solutions containing low specific activity/high concentration precursor and high specific activity/low concentration precursor. This provides additional evidence that the effect of extracellular [K +] is on the rate of protein synthesis and not on the precursor pool. Extracellular [K +] augments amino acid incorporation normally in the presence of concentrations of α‐amanatin and actinomycin D which are inhibiting RNA synthesis by over 97%. This suggests the effect is exerted post‐transcriptionally. Extracellular [K +] causes an unattenuated increase in protein synthesis in the presence of high Mg2+ (20mm) or low Ca2+ (0 mm) in the superfusate–suggesting this effect of [K +] does not result from an effect on neurotransmitter release. Increases in extracellular [K+] which increase protein synthesis threefold (1.3‐6.4mm‐K +) increase the intracellular [K +]/[Na +] 2‐fold. 3 x 10‐7m‐Ouabain. which lowers incorporation by 40‐50% lowers [K +]/[Na +] by about 50% while having no effect on the uptake of labelled precursor or on the cell concentrations of ATP. These results suggest that protein synthesis in the cell is sensitive to [K. +]/[Na +] and that an alteration in this ratio is the mechanism by which the concentration of extracellular [K +] affects the rate of in vitro hippocampal protein synthesis. This effect of extracellular [K +] on synthesis is not observed in slices from non‐cerebral organs of the guinea pig.
References
42
Referenced
25
10.1002/neu.480060111
10.1016/0006-8993(74)90195-4
10.1113/jphysiol.1969.sp008880
{'key': 'e_1_2_1_5_1', 'volume-title': 'Autoradiography of Diffusible Intermediates', 'author': 'Brown D. A.', 'year': '1969'}
/ Autoradiography of Diffusible Intermediates by Brown D. A. (1969)10.1021/bi00856a002
10.1111/j.1471-4159.1974.tb04300.x
10.1016/0006-8993(75)90031-1
10.1016/0006-3002(62)90836-3
10.1111/j.1471-4159.1968.tb10331.x
10.1113/jphysiol.1965.sp007549
10.1016/0006-8993(72)90399-X
10.1016/0006-8993(75)90286-3
10.1016/S0021-9258(17)33318-5
10.1111/j.1471-4159.1974.tb04371.x
10.1126/science.157.3786.330
{'key': 'e_1_2_1_17_1', 'first-page': '137', 'volume-title': 'Mineral Metabolism', 'author': 'Huxley A. F.', 'year': '1960'}
/ Mineral Metabolism by Huxley A. F. (1960)10.1016/0006-8993(76)90393-0
10.1113/jphysiol.1969.sp008864
10.1016/0014-4827(77)90120-3
10.1113/jphysiol.1956.sp005655
10.1111/j.1471-4159.1977.tb12330.x
10.1016/S0021-9258(19)52451-6
10.1016/S0021-9258(18)51740-3
/ J. biol. Chem. / Effects of ischemia on known substrates and cofactors of the glycolytic pathway in brain by Lowry O. H. (1964)10.1038/213451a0
10.1016/0006-8993(74)90036-5
10.1007/BF00237084
10.1152/jn.1967.30.6.1574
/ J. Neurophysiol. / Distribution of 14C‐labelled sucrose, inulin and dextran in extracellular spaces and in cells of the leech central nervous center by Nicholls J. B. (1967)10.1016/0005-2787(69)90179-8
10.1152/jn.1973.36.5.855
{'key': 'e_1_2_1_31_1', 'first-page': '91', 'article-title': 'Regulation of protein synthesis in the brain', 'volume': '13', 'author': 'Roberts S.', 'year': '1965', 'journal-title': 'Protides Biol. Fluids'}
/ Protides Biol. Fluids / Regulation of protein synthesis in the brain by Roberts S. (1965)10.1042/bj1040524
10.1113/jphysiol.1978.sp012206
10.1002/jcp.1040910215
10.1002/jcp.1040870313
{'key': 'e_1_2_1_36_1', 'first-page': '135', 'article-title': 'Effect of membrane depolarization and biogenic amines on the formation of cyclic ATP in incubated brain slices', 'volume': '3', 'author': 'Shimuzu H.', 'year': '1970', 'journal-title': 'Adv. Biochem. Psychopharmac'}
/ Adv. Biochem. Psychopharmac / Effect of membrane depolarization and biogenic amines on the formation of cyclic ATP in incubated brain slices by Shimuzu H. (1970)10.1016/0006-8993(71)90508-7
{'key': 'e_1_2_1_38_1', 'first-page': '137', 'volume-title': 'Mineral Metabolism', 'author': 'Solomon A. K.', 'year': '1960'}
/ Mineral Metabolism by Solomon A. K. (1960)10.1002/jcp.1040910313
{'key': 'e_1_2_1_40_1', 'first-page': '1021', 'article-title': '[K +] 0 clearance in cortex: A new analytical model', 'volume': '40', 'author': 'Vern B. A.', 'year': '1977', 'journal-title': 'J. Neurophysiol.'}
/ J. Neurophysiol. / [K +] 0 clearance in cortex: A new analytical model by Vern B. A. (1977)10.1042/bj1620257
10.1016/S0021-9258(17)40350-4
/ J. biol. Chem. / Inhibition of protein synthesis by Cl‐ by Weber L. A. (1977)10.1016/0005-2736(73)90301-5
Dates
Type | When |
---|---|
Created | 18 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 5, 2006, 4:30 a.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 10 months ago (Nov. 4, 2023, 3:03 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 10 months ago (Nov. 4, 2023, 3:40 p.m.) |
Issued | 46 years, 10 months ago (Nov. 1, 1978) |
Published | 46 years, 10 months ago (Nov. 1, 1978) |
Published Online | 18 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 5, 2006) |
Published Print | 46 years, 10 months ago (Nov. 1, 1978) |
@article{Lipton_1978, title={MECHANISM OF EXTRACELLULAR POTASSIUM STIMULATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN THE IN VITRO HIPPOCAMPUS1}, volume={31}, ISSN={1471-4159}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1978.tb06255.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1471-4159.1978.tb06255.x}, number={5}, journal={Journal of Neurochemistry}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Lipton, Peter and Heimbach, Catherine J.}, year={1978}, month=nov, pages={1299–1307} }