AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 263, Issue 2 293-F300, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Cellular variability in the development of tight junctions after activation of protein kinase C

B. Ellis, E. E. Schneeberger and C. A. Rabito
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114.

Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) decreases the tight junction conductance (TJC) during the reorganization of LLC-PK1A monolayers, but has the opposite effect in LLC-PK1B4, MDCK, and MDCK4 cells. Because no protein synthesis was required for the effects of PMA on the TJC of LLC-PK1A monolayers, we conclude that the regulation of the tight junction by protein kinase C (PKC) is a posttranslational event. In LLC-PK1A monolayers with existing tight junctions, PMA produced an initial increase in the TJC that reverted later to control values despite the continuous presence of PMA and cycloheximide. The inhibitory effect of PMA on the other cell lines was not revertible. A downregulation of total PKC activity and phorbol ester receptors was only observed during the reorganization of LLC-PK1A monolayers. PMA further increases this downregulation. This indicates that the peculiar response to PMA observed in LLC-PK1A monolayers is the result of two concurrent events: 1) the early activation of the enzyme just before the reorganization of the tight junctions begin, and 2) its late downregulation induced after prolonged exposure to phorbol esters. We conclude that PKC regulates the development of the occluding junctions, but through different mechanisms dependent on the characteristics of the cells.

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