Desensitization and Recovery of Prostaglandin-Stimulated Adenylate Cyclase Activity in a Murine Virus-Induced T Lymphoma Cell Line BL/VL₃

Abstract

Prolonged (16 h) preexposure to prostaglandin E₁ (PGE₁) of cells from a murine virus-induced T lymphoma cell line BL/VL₃ provoked, in their membranes, a dose-dependent reduction of PGE₁-mediated adenylate cyclase stimulation. Smaller (but significant) decreases of helodermin- and isoproterenol-mediated stimulations were also observed. After a 16 h incubation of these cells with 1 µM PGE₁, that reduced by 85%, the PGE₁-mediated adenylate cyclase stimulation in membranes, 50% of the PGE₁ response recovered after 2 h of PGE₁ withdrawal from the incubation medium. Over the following 2 - 24 h time interval, further recovery was limited. Protein synthesis was required for this resensitization mechanism of functional PGE₁ receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase, as judged by the inhibitory effects of cycloheximide.