Regulation of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity by particulate protein tyrosine kinase and phosphotyrosine phosphatase activities sensitive to sodium orthovanadate.

Sodium orthovanadate (vanadate) stimulated cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) and protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activities and inhibited the phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) activity in the particulate of isolated rat fat pads. Okadaic acid never showed any increase in the PDE activity up to 1 microM. Amiloride inhibited in part both stimulations of PDE and PTK activities by vanadate. The particulate PTK activity had an optimal divalent ion requirement of 15 mM Mg+2+2 mM Mn+2 in the assay medium and was not inhibited by 1 mM N-ethylmaleimide, suggesting it to be a different type from the insulin receptor and cytosolic PTK activities. The PDE, PTK, and PTPase active fractions were separated from the solubilized particulate fraction on a DEAE-Sephacel column. PDE activity was increased by the addition of the PTK active fraction. A further increase was observed by using the PTK active fraction pretreated with 1 mM vanadate. In contrast, the addition of PTPase active fraction decreased the PDE activity. This decrease disappeared by using the PTPase active fraction pretreated with 1 mM vanadate. These results suggest that the PDE activity is in part regulated through a process involving the particulate PTK and PTPase activities sensitive to vanadate.