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Recent advances in our understanding of the role of inositides in cell signalling have led to the central hypothesis that a receptorstimulated phosphodiesteratic hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2)1,2 results in the formation of two second messengers, diacylglycerol3 and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Ins(l,4,5)P3)4. The existence of another pathway of inositide metabolism was first suggested by the discovery that a novel inositol trisphosphate, Ins(l,3,4)P3, is formed in stimulated tissues5; the metabolic kinetics of Ins(l,3,4)P3 are entirely different from those of Ins(l,4,5)P3 (refs 6, 7). The probable route of formation of Ins(l,3,4)P3 was recently shown to be via a 5-dephosphorylation of inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate (Ins(l,3,4,5)P4), a compound which is rapidly formed on muscarinic stimulation of brain slices, and which can be readily converted to Ins(l,3,4)P3 by a 5-phosphatase in red blood cell membranes8. However, the source of Ins(l,3,4,5)P4 is unclear, and an attempt to detect a possible parent lipid, phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P3), was unsuccessful8. The recent discovery that the higher phosphorylated forms of inositol (InsP5 and InsP6) also exist in animal cells9 suggested that inositol phosphate kinases might not be confined to plant and avian tissues, and here we show that a variety of animal tissues contain an active and specific Ins(l,4,5)P3 3-kinase. We therefore suggest that an inositol tris/tetrakisphosphate pathway exists as an alternative route to the dephosphorylation10,11 of Ins(l,4,5)P3. The function of this novel pathway is unknown.
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Irvine, R., Letcher, A., Heslop, J. et al. The inositol tris/tetrakisphosphate pathway—demonstration of Ins(l,4,5)P3 3-kinase activity in animal tissues. Nature 320, 631–634 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/320631a0
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