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MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY 52:181-186 (1997).


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Activation of Type II Adenylate Cyclase by D2 and D4 but Not D3 Dopamine Receptors

Val J. Watts and Kim A. Neve

Medical Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201

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The D2-like dopamine receptors couple to a variety of signal transduction pathways, including inhibition of adenylate cyclase, mitogenesis, and activation of potassium channels. Although these effects are mediated via pertussis toxin-sensitive G proteins, Gi/o, it is likely that some of these effects are influenced by the release of G protein beta gamma subunits. Type II adenylate cyclase (ACII) is highly regulated by multiple biochemical stimuli, including protein kinase C, forskolin, G protein alpha  subunits, and G protein beta gamma subunits. The ability of beta gamma subunits to activate this enzyme in the presence of activated alpha s has been particularly well characterized. Although stimulation by beta gamma subunits has been described as conditional on the presence of activated alpha s, beta gamma subunits also potentiate ACII activity after activation of protein kinase C. We created stable cell lines expressing ACII and the D2L receptor, the D3 receptor, or the D4.4 receptor. Activation of D2L or D4.4 receptors, but not D3 receptors, potentiated beta -adrenergic receptor/Gs-stimulated activity of ACII, as measured by the intracellular accumulation of cAMP. Similarly, stimulation of D2L or D4.4 receptors potentiated phorbol ester-stimulated ACII activity in the absence of activated alpha s, whereas stimulation of D3 receptors did not. The effect of D2-like receptor stimulation was blocked by pretreatment with pertussis toxin and by inhibition of protein kinase C. We propose that activation of both D2L and D4.4 dopamine receptors potentiated phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate-stimulated ACII activity through the release of beta gamma subunits from pertussis toxin-sensitive G proteins. In contrast, the lack of D3 receptor-mediated effects suggests that stimulation of D3 receptors does not result in an appreciable release of beta gamma subunits.

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The D2-like receptor family is composed of D2, D3,and D4 dopamine receptors, which share considerable amino acid homology and generally have high affinity for butyrophenone and benzamide ligands. The most striking differences observed among these receptors are found in their ability to activate pertussis toxin-sensitive signaling events. For example, D2 and D3 receptors inhibit dopamine synthesis in a dopamine-producing cell line, whereas D4 receptors do not (1, 2), and D2 and D4 receptors mediate robust inhibition of cAMP accumulation in a variety of cell lines, whereas inhibition of cAMP accumulation by the D3 receptor is modest or absent (2-5).1 On the other hand, D2, D3, and D4 receptors all activate K+ channels in Xenopus laevis oocytes and stimulate mitogenesis in Chinese hamster ovary cells in a pertussis toxin-sensitive manner (3, 6). Thus, all D2-like receptors couple to pertussis toxin-sensitive pathways, but the efficiency and specificity of coupling are not identical for all subtypes.

ACII is widely expressed in the central nervous system, and its activity is regulated by a variety of biochemical signals (7-9). Although ACII is not inhibited by Galpha i (10), it is stimulated by alpha s (11), phorbol esters (12), and G protein beta gamma subunits (13) in reconstituted systems. Additionally, ACII is synergistically activated by alpha s and PMA (8, 12) as well as by alpha s and beta gamma subunits (11, 13, 14). In intact cells, ACII is activated by beta gamma subunits in combination with activated alpha s, whereas beta gamma stimulation alone has no detectable effect on ACII activity (7, 9, 15-17). In those studies beta gamma subunits were supplied by stimulating Gi/o-coupled receptors (e.g., the D2 dopamine receptor), and activated alpha s was provided by stimulating Gs-coupled receptors or by co-transfection with a constitutively active mutant of alpha s, alpha s-Q227L. The synergy between activated alpha s and either PMA or G protein beta gamma subunits has led to ACII being described as a coincidence detector that integrates multiple signals (8, 18). Further, liberation of beta gamma subunits via activation of Gi/o-coupled receptors enhances ACII stimulation by Gq-coupled receptors or phorbol esters (19).

The divergent signaling pathways of the D2-like dopamine receptors and the unique regulatory properties of ACII provide the basis for the current study. We examined and compared the ability of D2, D3, and D4 dopamine receptors to potentiate (presumably via beta gamma subunits) isoproterenol- and PMA-induced activation of ACII. To this end, we created cells stably expressing ACII and the D2L dopamine receptor (ACII/D2L), ACII and the D3 dopamine receptor (ACII/D3), or ACII and the D4.4 dopamine receptor (ACII/D4). We now report that D2 agonists potentiated isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation in HEK293 cells expressing the D2L or the D4.4 dopamine receptor together with ACII, whereas the D3 receptor did not. Consistent with the hypothesis that beta gamma subunits enhance the responsiveness of ACII to a variety of stimuli, we also found that activation of D2L and D4.4 receptors potentiated protein kinase C-activated ACII activity.

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Materials. [3H]cAMP was purchased from Dupont NEN. Spiperone, quinpirole, and forskolin were purchased from Research Biochemicals International. HEK 293 cells expressing ACII (HEK-ACII) were obtained from Dr. Daniel Storm and Mark Nielsen (University of Washington, Seattle). Rat D2L (Dr. Olivier Civelli, University of California at Irvine) and human D4.4 cDNAs (Dr. Hubert Van Tol, University of Toronto, and Dr. David Grandy, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR) were generous gifts. Dopamine (3-hydroxytyramine) and most other reagents were purchased from Sigma Chemical (St. Louis, MO).

Production of cell lines. Creation of HEK-D2L, HEK-D3, and HEK-D4.4 cells was carried out by electroporation (0.17 kV, 950 µF, 0.4-cm cuvette gap). HEK 293 cells (8 × 106) were resuspended in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS and 5 mM N,N-bis-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid in a total volume of 400 µl, including pcDNA1-D2L cDNA (15 µg), pcDNA1-D3 cDNA (15 µg), or pcDNA1-D4.4 cDNA (15 µg) with pBabe Puro (2 µg), to confer resistance to puromycin (20). Transfectants were isolated and screened by radioligand binding as described previously (21). Creation of ACII/D2L, ACII/D3, and ACII/D4 cells, was carried out by transfection of HEK-ACII cells with pcDNA1-D2L, pcDNA1-D3, or pcDNA1-D4.4 as described above.

Cell culture. HEK 293 cells expressing D2-like receptors were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 5% FBS and 5% CBS, penicillin/streptomycin, and puromycin (2 µg/ml). ACII/D2L, ACII/D3, and ACII/D4 cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 5% FBS and 5% CBS, penicillin/streptomycin, puromycin (2 µg/ml), and hygromycin (460 units/ml). HEK-ACII cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 5% FBS and 5% CBS, penicillin/streptomycin, and hygromycin (460 units/ml). Cells were grown in a humidified incubator at 37° in the presence of 10% CO2.

cAMP accumulation assays. Cells were plated at densities between 100,000 and 150,000 cells/well in 48-well tissue culture clusters. Confluent cells were preincubated with 200 µl of assay buffer (Earle's balanced salt solution, containing 0.02% ascorbic acid and 2% CBS) for 10 min, then placed on ice. All drugs were added at 4°, then each cluster was transferred to a 37° water bath. After 15 min, the medium was decanted, and the cells were placed on ice and lysed with 3% trichloroacetic acid. The 48-well plates were then stored at 4° for at least 1 hr and centrifuged at 1000 × g for 15 min before quantification of cAMP. For pertussis toxin experiments, the toxin was added to the growth medium (25 ng/ml) 18 hr before the cAMP accumulation assay. This treatment has been determined to eliminate detectable coupling of D2 dopamine receptors to inhibition of cAMP accumulation (22).

Quantification of cAMP. cAMP was quantified using a competitive binding assay adapted with minor modifications from Nordstedt and Fredholm (23). Duplicate samples of the cell lysate (10-20 µl) were added to reaction tubes containing cAMP assay buffer (100 mM Tris/HCl, pH, 7.4, 100 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA). [3H]cAMP (1 nM final concentration) was added to each tube, followed by cAMP-binding protein ( thicksim 100 µg of crude extract from bovine adrenal cortex in 200 µl of cAMP buffer). The reaction tubes were incubated on ice for 3 hr. The tubes were then harvested by filtration (Whatman GF/C filters) using a 96-well Tomtec cell harvester. Filters were allowed to dry, and BetaPlate scintillation fluid (50 µl) was added to each sample. Radioactivity on the filters was determined using an Wallac BetaPlate scintillation counter. The concentration of cAMP in each sample was estimated in duplicate assays from a standard curve ranging from 0.1 to 100 pmol cAMP/assay.

Data analysis. Dose-response curves for cAMP were analyzed by nonlinear regression using the program Prism 2.0 (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). Statistical comparisons were made using ANOVA followed by Dunnett's post hoc t test comparing control with drug groups, except where indicated in the figure legends.

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We examined cAMP accumulation in HEK 293 cells expressing only the D2L receptor. HEK-D2L cells were treated with isoproterenol (100 nM) or PMA (100 nM) in the absence or presence of dopamine (1 µM) or quinpirole (1 µM), and cAMP accumulation was determined. There was no significant stimulation of cAMP accumulation above basal levels by isoproterenol (100 nM) or PMA (100 nM), reflecting the low level of adenylate cyclase activity that has made the HEK 293 cell line valuable for the characterization of recombinant adenylate cyclases (24) (data not shown). We also examined cAMP accumulation in HEK 293 cells expressing ACII (HEK-ACII). We found that isoproterenol acting via endogenously expressed beta -adrenergic receptors stimulated cAMP accumulation 3-fold above basal levels in HEK-ACII cells (data not shown). PMA, which is thought to bypass Gs and activate ACII by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation of the enzyme (12), stimulated cAMP accumulation 40-fold above basal levels in HEK-ACII cells (data not shown). The D2 agonists, quinpirole or dopamine, had no effect on isoproterenol- or PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation in HEK-ACII cells (data not shown). However, when cAMP accumulation is stimulated by forskolin in HEK-D2L cells, activation of D2L receptors inhibits cAMP accumulation (22).

Potentiation of alpha s-stimulated ACII by D2L, D3, and D4.4 receptors. To study the effects of beta gamma subunits on alpha s-stimulated ACII activity we created cells stably expressing ACII and the Gi/o-coupled dopamine receptors, D2L (ACII/D2L cells), D3 (ACII/D3), or D4.4 (ACII/D4 cells). In ACII/D2L cells, D2 agonists alone did not alter cAMP accumulation (data not shown). In contrast, when dopamine (1 µM) or quinpirole (1 µM) was added in combination with an activator of alpha s (100 nM isoproterenol), there was marked potentiation of isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation (Fig. 1 and Table 1). This potentiation seemed to be mediated via D2L receptors acting through a Gi/o protein because it was blocked by the D2 antagonist, spiperone, and by pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin (25 ng/ml for 18 hr; Table 1). The effect of dopamine on isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation was dose-dependent, with an EC50 value of 32 nM (Fig. 2). Like the D2L receptor, the D4.4 receptor inhibits the activity of endogenous adenylate cyclases in a variety of cell lines (e.g., see Ref. 5); recent work, however, has suggested that the D2 and D4 receptors may act through different pertussis toxin-sensitive G proteins (1). In light of this, we examined whether the D4.4 receptor could stimulate ACII activity. As we observed with the D2L receptor, activation of the D4.4 receptor potentiated isoproterenol activation of ACII in ACII/D4 cells (Fig. 1), and the effects were blocked by spiperone or by pretreatment with pertussis toxin (Table 1). Staurosporine did not prevent the D2-like receptor potentiation of isoproterenol-stimulated activity, indicating that the potentiation is not mediated by dopamine receptor activation of protein kinase C (Table 1). In contrast to the effects of D2L and D4.4 receptors, activation of D3 receptors was without effect on cAMP accumulation (Fig. 1). The lack of a D3-mediated effect does not seem to be due to low receptor density. Although the ACII/D2L and ACII/D4 cells had receptor densities of 600 and 1500 fmol/mg of membrane protein, respectively, we tested nine ACII/D3 clones ranging in receptor density from 200-1300 fmol/mg of protein, and none produced significant potentiation of isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation in the presence of dopamine agonists (data not shown). The data presented in Figs. 1 and 3 are from clone ACII/D3-17, which expressed the D3 receptor at a density of approximately 1100 fmol/mg of membrane protein. Additionally, increasing the concentration of dopamine agonists to 10 µM failed to result in significant potentiation of isoproterenol-stimulated ACII activity in ACII/D3 cells (data not shown).


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Fig. 1.   Potentiation of isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation in ACII/D2L, ACII/D3, and ACII/D4 cells. cAMP accumulation was stimulated with 100 nM isoproterenol in the absence and presence of dopamine (DA, 1 µM) or quinpirole (Quin, 1 µM) for 15 min. Data shown are the mean ± standard error for three or more independent experiments, each conducted with duplicate determinations. *, p < 0.01 compared with control cells (Dunnett's postrepeated measures ANOVA).

                              
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TABLE 1
Blockade of dopamine agonist-mediated potentiation of isoproterenol-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation

cAMP accumulation was stimulated with 100 nM isoproterenol in the absence (control) and presence of dopamine (1 µM) or quinpirole (1 µM) for 15 min. As indicated, some experiments were carried out in the presence of spiperone (1 µM), staurosporine (1 µM), or following treatment with pertussis toxin (25 ng/ml, 18 hr). Data shown are the mean ± standard error for three or more independent experiments, each conducted with duplicate determinations. *p < 0.01 compared to control cells (Dunnett's postrepeated measures ANOVA). **p < 0.01 compared to vehicle pretreatment (paired Student's t test).


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Fig. 2.   Dopamine-stimulated cAMP accumulation in presence of isoproterenol or PMA in ACII/D2L cells. Data are expressed as the percentage of maximal stimulation and represent the average ± standard error of five (+ PMA) or six (+ isoproterenol) independent experiments conducted in duplicate. The resulting EC50 for dopamine + PMA (bullet ) was 132 nM and for dopamine + isoproterenol (open circle ) was 32 nM.


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Fig. 3.   Potentiation of PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation in ACII/D2L, ACII/D3, and ACII/D4 cells. cAMP accumulation was stimulated with 100 nM PMA in the absence and presence of dopamine (DA, 1 µM) or quinpirole (Quin, 1 µM) for 15 min. Data shown are the mean ± standard error for three or more independent experiments, each conducted with duplicate determinations. *, p <0.01 compared with control cells (Dunnett's postrepeated measures ANOVA).

The results of the studies with ACII/D2L and ACII/D4 cells are consistent with studies demonstrating that stimulation of Gi/o-coupled receptors, in combination with activation of alpha s (via Gs-coupled receptors or co-transfection with a constitutively active alpha s, alpha s-Q227L), stimulates ACII (7, 9, 15, 16). The activation of Gi/o-coupled receptors releases beta gamma subunits, which in turn potentiate the activation of ACII by alpha s. The role of beta gamma subunits is supported by the observation that co-expression of alpha t, which presumably sequesters released beta gamma subunits, blocks activation of ACII by Gi/o-coupled receptors (7, 9, 17, 19). Moreover, reconstitution studies indicate that ACII is directly stimulated by beta gamma subunits in combination with activated alpha s (11, 13) and also by beta gamma subunits alone, albeit to a lesser extent (13). The alpha  subunits of Gi/o do not directly modulate ACII, because transfection of constitutively active mutants of these alpha  subunits has little effect on basal or receptor-stimulated activity of ACII in HEK 293 cells (9).

D2 dopaminergic and alpha 2-adrenergic receptors are among the Gi/o-coupled receptors that activate ACII, but they differ in their mode of activation (7). Unlike the D2 receptor, the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor stimulates ACII in the absence of constitutively active alpha s-Q227L. It has been suggested that the ability of the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor to couple to Gs is responsible for this difference between the two receptors (7). Consistent with this suggestion, the activation of ACII by D2 receptors was abolished by pretreatment with pertussis toxin, whereas the activation by alpha 2-adrenergic receptors was not (7). In the present study, we have confirmed the finding that potentiation of Gs-stimulated cAMP accumulation by D2L receptors is blocked by pretreatment with pertussis toxin and have extended this observation to the D4.4 receptor.

Potentiation of PMA-stimulated ACII by D2L, D3, and D4.4 receptors. Results from reconstitution studies have demonstrated that protein kinase C phosphorylates and activates ACII independently of alpha s (12). Furthermore, short term PMA treatment of intact cells does not activate alpha s, as assessed by reconstituted adenylate cyclase activity in the membranes of S49 cyc- cells (25). To examine the hypothesis that beta gamma subunits released by the activation of Gi/o-coupled receptors can potentiate the actions of protein kinase C on ACII, we assessed the ability of dopamine agonists to enhance PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation in ACII/D2L, ACII/D3, and ACII/D4 cells. When stimulation by PMA (100 nM) was conducted in the presence of dopamine (1 µM) or quinpirole (1 µM), cAMP accumulation was 2-4-fold greater, compared with PMA alone, indicating that D2 agonists potentiated the actions of PMA in ACII/D2L cells (Fig. 3 and Table 2). The effects of D2 agonists on PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation were blocked by co-incubation with spiperone (1 µM) and by overnight treatment with pertussis toxin (Table 2). Analysis of dose response curves revealed that the potentiation by dopamine was dose-dependent, with an EC50 value of 132 nM (Fig. 2). Similarly, activation of D4.4 receptors potentiated PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation in ACII/D4 cells, and this effect was blocked by spiperone and by pretreatment with pertussis toxin (Fig. 3 and Table 2). The effect of D4.4 receptor activation on PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation was also blocked by the D4 antagonist clozapine (data not shown). We also observed that pertussis toxin-treatment significantly reduced PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation in ACII/D2L and ACII/D4 cells. There was also a trend for spiperone to decrease PMA-stimulated activity in both cell lines (Table 2), and to decrease isoproterenol-stimulated activity in ACII/D4 cells (Table 1). These results may reflect constitutive activity of the D2-like receptors and further suggest that spiperone is an inverse agonist at these receptors.

                              
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TABLE 2
Blockade of dopamine agonist-mediated potentiation of PMA-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation

cAMP accumulation was stimulated with 100 nM PMA in the absence (control) and presence of dopamine (1 µM) or quinpirole (1 µM) for 15 min. As indicated, some experiments were carried out in the presence of spiperone (1 µM), staurosporine (1 µM), or after treatment with pertussis toxin (25 ng/ml, 18 hr). Data shown are the mean ± standard error for three or more independent experiments, each conducted with duplicate determinations. *p < 0.01 compared to control cells (Dunnett's postrepeated measures ANOVA). **p < 0.05 compared to vehicle pretreatment (Student's t test).

In contrast to the ability of D2 and D4 receptors to potentiate cAMP accumulation, D3 receptor activation did not augment PMA-stimulated cAMP accumulation in ACII/D3 cells (Fig. 3). One difference between the current study and that of Tsu and Wong (19) is that in the latter study the cells were pretreated with PMA before addition of dopamine agonists. In an effort to demonstrate modulation of ACII by D3 receptors, we also completed studies in which ACII/D3 cells were pretreated with PMA for 10 min before ACII stimulation in the presence of dopamine agonists. These studies demonstrated that pretreatment with PMA significantly enhanced basal and stimulated (isoproterenol and PMA) ACII activity, but there was no potentiation of cAMP accumulation by dopamine agonists in ACII/D3 cells (data not shown).

The finding that D2L receptor activation potentiates cAMP accumulation stimulated by either alpha s (i.e., isoproterenol) or protein kinase C (PMA) in a pertussis toxin-sensitive manner strongly suggests that activated alpha s is not an absolute requirement for stimulation of ACII by beta gamma subunits, but that the binding of beta gamma subunits to ACII enhances the effects of other activators. In studies with ACII/D2L and ACII/D4 cells, the protein kinase C inhibitor, staurosporine, abolished both PMA-stimulated ACII activity and the potentiation of that pathway by dopamine agonists (Table 2), further indicating that the activation of ACII by beta gamma subunits requires co-activation of the protein kinase C pathway. PMA activation of ACII was enhanced by beta gamma subunits in both ACII/D2L and ACII/D4 cells, but not in ACII/D3 cells.

The current study adds another divergent signaling pathway to the D2-like dopamine receptor family. The results of these studies are similar to those examining D2, D3, and D4-mediated inhibition of cAMP accumulation in which D2 and D4 receptors display robust inhibition and D3 receptors show little or no effect (2-4). Thus, it seems that the inefficient coupling of D3 receptors to Gi/o proteins provides a concentration of beta gamma subunits that is not sufficient to potentiate alpha s- or PMA-stimulated ACII activity. Although D3 receptors couple to several pertussis toxin-sensitive signaling events including K+ channel conductance, mitogenesis, neurite outgrowth, dopamine synthesis, and dopamine release, in many instances the functional response to D3 receptor activation is reduced compared with the response that is mediated by D2 and D4 receptors (1, 2, 6, 26, 27). Specifically, the muscarinic receptor-gated atrial potassium channel, Girk1, is activated by D2, D3, and D4 dopamine receptors, but the maximal current is 3-fold larger for D2 and D4 receptors than for D3 receptors (6). Because Girk1 is also activated by beta gamma subunits (28), the results of the present study support the hypothesis that smaller current induced by D3 receptor activation could be due to diminished release of beta gamma subunits. The reasons for the functional differences among D2, D3, and D4 receptors are largely unknown, but most likely reflect differences among the receptor subtypes in the efficiency of activation of various G proteins.

The observation that D2L receptors potentiate the actions of PMA on ACII is important considering the evidence that has linked D2 dopamine receptors and the protein kinase C pathway. For example, D2 dopamine receptors have been shown to stimulate phosphoinositide hydrolysis in Ltk- fibroblasts expressing D2 dopamine receptors (29). Thus, in Ltk- fibroblasts expressing ACII and D2 receptors, it is possible that D2 agonists could stimulate cAMP accumulation due to increased protein kinase C activity in combination with the release of beta gamma subunits from Gi/o. The protein kinase C pathway has also been implicated in D2 receptor-potentiated arachadonic acid release in Chinese hamster ovary cells and in inhibition of cell proliferation in GH4ZR7 cells, because inhibitors of protein kinase C block both of these D2 receptor effects (30, 31). Taken together, these observations and the current study suggest that the interactions between the protein kinase C pathway and D2 dopamine receptors are important in modulating neurotransmission in a variety of cell types.

In summary, we have demonstrated that activation of D2L and D4.4 receptors potentiated isoproterenol- and PMA-stimulated cAMP synthesis by ACII, whereas D3 receptors did not. Furthermore, our data confirm that ACII can be synergistically activated by multiple signals, including PMA and beta gamma subunits, alpha s and beta gamma subunits, or PMA and alpha s. However, the activation of ACII by beta gamma subunits is conditional, requiring co-activation by either protein kinase C or alpha s, suggesting that the binding of beta gamma to ACII results in an enhancement of responsiveness of the enzyme to other activators. Potentiation of PMA-stimulated ACII activity by beta gamma subunits represents another example of coincident signal detection and may influence the interactions between D2L and D4.4 dopamine receptors and the protein kinase C pathway.

    Acknowledgments

We acknowledge Drs. Aaron Janowsky and Amy Eshleman for careful reading of the manuscript, and Dr. Brenda Wiens and Mr. Minh Vu for assistance with the D3 and D4.4 receptor cDNAs. We would also like to thank Drs. Hubert Van Tol and David Grandy for providing us with the cDNA for the human D4.4 receptor and Dr. Daniel Storm and Mark Nielsen for providing us with HEK-ACII cells.

    Footnotes

Received March 3, 1997; Accepted April 17, 1997

1   V. J. Watts and K. A. Neve, unpublished observations.

   This work was supported by the Johnson and Johnson Focused Giving Program, the Veterans Affairs Merit Review and Research Career Scientist Programs, a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, and T32 DA07262.

Send reprint requests to: Val J. Watts, Medical Research Service (151LL), VA Medical Center, 3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR 97201. E-mail: wattsv{at}ohsu.edu

    Abbreviations

ACII, type II adenylate cyclase; CBS, calf bovine serum; D2L, long (444-amino acid) form of D2 receptors; D4.4., a variant of the D4 dopamine receptor with four copies of a direct imperfect repeat in the third cytoplasmic loop ; DMEM, Dulbecco's modified Eagle's media; FBS, fetal bovine serum; HEK, human embryonic kidney; PMA, phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate; ANOVA, analysis of variance.

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