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  • Title: P2 purinoceptor regulation of mucin release by airway goblet cells in primary culture.
    Author: Kim KC, Lee BC.
    Journal: Br J Pharmacol; 1991 May; 103(1):1053-6. PubMed ID: 1878744.
    Abstract:
    1. The effects of adenine analogues on mucin release by airway goblet cells have been examined in a hamster primary tracheal epithelial cell culture. 2. Adenosine, a P1 receptor agonist, had no effect on mucin release even at 2 mM, while ATP, a P2 receptor agonist, stimulated mucin release in a dose-dependent fashion with an apparent EC50 of 20 microM. The relative potency order among adenine nucleotides was ATP greater than ADP greater than AMP = adenosine. 3. ATP gamma S, a non-hydrolyzable analogue of ATP, was equipotent with ATP in stimulating mucin release. The potency order among some ATP analogues was ATP greater than 2-methylthio ATP greater than alpha, beta-methylene ATP greater than beta, gamma-methylene ATP. Reactive blue 2, a putative P2 gamma-purinoceptor antagonist, did not block the ATP-induced mucin release. 4. The present results indicate that mucin release by airway goblet cells is stimulated by extracellular ATP via P2 receptor-mediated mechanism. We suggest that this mechanism may be important in the physiological regulation of airway goblet cell mucin release in vivo.
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