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  • Title: Mucin secretion and PKC isoforms in SPOC1 goblet cells: differential activation by purinergic agonist and PMA.
    Author: Abdullah LH, Bundy JT, Ehre C, Davis CW.
    Journal: Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol; 2003 Jul; 285(1):L149-60. PubMed ID: 12588704.
    Abstract:
    SPOC1 cells, which are a mucin-secreting model of rat airway goblet cells, possess a luminal P2Y2 purinoceptor through which UTP, ATP, and ATPgammaS stimulate secretion with EC50 values of approximately 3 microM. PMA elicits mucin secretion with high EC50 (75 nM) and saturation (300 nM) values. For the first time in airway mucin-secreting cells, the PKC isoforms expressed and activated by a secretagogue were determined using RT-PCR/restriction-enzyme mapping and Western blotting. Five isoforms were expressed: cPKCalpha, nPKCdelta and -eta, and aPKCzeta and -iota/lambda. PMA caused cPKCalpha and nPKCdelta to translocate to the membrane fraction of SPOC1 cells; only nPKCdelta so responded to ATPgammaS. Membrane-associated nPKCdelta and mucin secretion increased in parallel with ATPgammaS concentration and yielded EC50 values of 2-3 microM and maximum values of 100 microM. Effects of PMA to increase membrane-associated cPKCalpha and nPKCdelta saturated at 30 nM, whereas mucin secretion saturated at 300 nM, which suggests a significant PKC-independent effect of PMA on mucin secretion. A prime alternate phorbol ester-receptor candidate is the C1-domain protein MUNC13. RT-PCR revealed the expression of ubiquitous (ub)MUNC13-2 and its binding partner, DOC2-gamma. Hence, P2Y2 agonists activate nPKCdelta in SPOC1 cells. PMA activates cPKCalpha and nPKCdelta at high affinity and stimulates a lower affinity PKC-independent pathway that leads to mucin secretion.
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