HEAT-STABLE ENTEROTOXIN OF ESCHERICHIA-COLI - INVITRO EFFECTS ON GUANYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVITY, CYCLIC-GMP CONCENTRATION, AND ION-TRANSPORT IN SMALL-INTESTINE
HEAT-STABLE ENTEROTOXIN OF ESCHERICHIA-COLI - INVITRO EFFECTS ON GUANYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVITY, CYCLIC-GMP CONCENTRATION, AND ION-TRANSPORT IN SMALL-INTESTINE
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.75.6.2800
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
SMITH, PL
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作者:
FIELD, M;GRAF, LH;SMITH, PL
A partially purified preparation of the heat-stable enterotoxin of E. coli caused a rapid and persistent increase in electric potential difference and short-circuit current when added in vitro to the luminal surface of isolated rabbit ileal mucosa. As little as 1 ng/ml produced an easily detectable response. Under short-circuit condition, the enterotoxin abolished net Cl- absorption; this change was half that produced by theophylline, which stimulated net secretion. The enterotoxin did not change cyclic AMP concentration but caused large and persistent increases in cyclic[c]GMP concentration. The electrical and nucleotide responses exhibited similar and unusually broad concentration-dependences and maximal effects could not be demonstrated. Theophylline elevated cGMP concentration 3-fold both in the presence and absence of the enterotoxin, suggesting no effect of the toxin on cGMP phosphodiesterase. Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphatelyase(cyclizing); EC 4.6.1.2] activity in a crude membrane fraction from intestinal epithelial cells was stimulated 7-fold by the enterotoxin. Guanylate cyclase stimulation is probably the basis for the toxin''s diarrheagenic effect.