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Chronic exposure to ammonia induces isoform-selective alterations in the intracellular distribution and NMDA receptor-mediated translocation of prote…

2004

Hyperammonemia is responsible for most neurological alterations in patients with hepatic encephalopathy by mechanisms that remain unclear. Hyperammonemia alters phosphorylation of neuronal protein kinase C (PKC) substrates and impairs NMDA receptor-associated signal transduction. The aim of this work was to analyse the effects of hyperammonemia on the amount and intracellular distribution of PKC isoforms and on translocation of each isoform induced by NMDA receptor activation in cerebellar neurons. Chronic hyperammonemia alters differentially the intracellular distribution of PKC isoforms. The amount of all isoforms (except PKC zeta) was reduced (17-50%) in the particulate fraction. The con…

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Rho protein inhibition blocks protein kinase C translocation and activation.

1998

Small GTP-binding proteins of the Ras and Rho family participate in various important signalling pathways. Large clostridial cytotoxins inactivate GTPases by UDP-glucosylation. Using Clostridium difficile toxin B-10463 (TcdB) for inactivation of Rho proteins (RhoA/Rac/Cdc42) and Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin-1522 (TcsL) for inactivation of Ras-proteins (Ras/Rac/Ral, Rap) the role of these GTPases in protein kinase C (PKC) stimulation was studied. Phorbol-myristate-acetate (PMA) induced a rapid PKC translocation to and activation in the particulate cell fraction as determined by PKC-activity measurements and Western blots for PKC alpha. These effects were blocked by TcdB inhibiting Rho …

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