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Major E, Keller I, Horváth D, Tamás I, Erdődi F, Lontay B. Smoothelin-Like Protein 1 Regulates the Thyroid Hormone-Induced Homeostasis and Remodeling of C2C12 Cells via the Modulation of Myosin Phosphatase. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:10293. [PMID: 34638630 PMCID: PMC8508602 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The pathological elevation of the active thyroid hormone (T3) level results in the manifestation of hyperthyroidism, which is associated with alterations in the differentiation and contractile function of skeletal muscle (SKM). Myosin phosphatase (MP) is a major cellular regulator that hydrolyzes the phosphoserine of phosphorylated myosin II light chain. MP consists of an MYPT1/2 regulatory and a protein phosphatase 1 catalytic subunit. Smoothelin-like protein 1 (SMTNL1) is known to inhibit MP by directly binding to MP as well as by suppressing the expression of MYPT1 at the transcriptional level. Supraphysiological vs. physiological concentration of T3 were applied on C2C12 myoblasts and differentiated myotubes in combination with the overexpression of SMTNL1 to assess the role and regulation of MP under these conditions. In non-differentiated myoblasts, MP included MYPT1 in the holoenzyme complex and its expression and activity was regulated by SMTNL1, affecting the phosphorylation level of MLC20 assessed using semi-quantitative Western blot analysis. SMTNL1 negatively influenced the migration and cytoskeletal remodeling of myoblasts measured by high content screening. In contrast, in myotubes, the expression of MYPT2 but not MYPT1 increased in a T3-dependent and SMTNL1-independent manner. T3 treatment combined with SMTNL1 overexpression impeded the activity of MP. In addition, MP interacted with Na+/K+-ATPase and dephosphorylated its inhibitory phosphorylation sites, identifying this protein as a novel MP substrate. These findings may help us gain a better understanding of myopathy, muscle weakness and the disorder of muscle regeneration in hyperthyroid patients.
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary; (E.M.); (I.K.); (D.H.); (I.T.); (F.E.)
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Sanders KM, Kito Y, Hwang SJ, Ward SM. Regulation of Gastrointestinal Smooth Muscle Function by Interstitial Cells. Physiology (Bethesda) 2017; 31:316-26. [PMID: 27488743 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00006.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Interstitial cells of mesenchymal origin form gap junctions with smooth muscle cells in visceral smooth muscles and provide important regulatory functions. In gastrointestinal (GI) muscles, there are two distinct classes of interstitial cells, c-Kit(+) interstitial cells of Cajal and PDGFRα(+) cells, that regulate motility patterns. Loss of these cells may contribute to symptoms in GI motility disorders.
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- Kenton M Sanders
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada; and
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Nabeshima, Japan
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada; and
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada; and
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Zaidel-Bar R, Zhenhuan G, Luxenburg C. The contractome – a systems view of actomyosin contractility in non-muscle cells. J Cell Sci 2015; 128:2209-17. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.170068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Actomyosin contractility is a highly regulated process that affects many fundamental biological processes in each and every cell in our body. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and the accompanying poster, we mined the literature and databases to map the contractome of non-muscle cells. Actomyosin contractility is involved in at least 49 distinct cellular functions that range from providing cell architecture to signal transduction and nuclear activity. Containing over 100 scaffolding and regulatory proteins, the contractome forms a highly complex network with more than 230 direct interactions between its components, 86 of them involving phosphorylation. Mapping these interactions, we identify the key regulatory pathways involved in the assembly of actomyosin structures and in activating myosin to produce contractile forces within non-muscle cells at the exact time and place necessary for cellular function.
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- Ronen Zaidel-Bar
- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, T-lab building #05-01, 5A Engineering Drive 1, 117411, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, T-lab building #05-01, 5A Engineering Drive 1, 117411, Singapore
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Yao H, Duan M, Yang L, Buch S. Nonmuscle myosin light-chain kinase mediates microglial migration induced by HIV Tat: involvement of β1 integrins. FASEB J 2013; 27:1532-48. [PMID: 23292072 DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-219600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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One of the hallmark features of HIV-associated neurological disease is increased activation and migration of microglia. HIV transactivator of transcription (Tat) is released from infected cells and has the ability to recruit microglia. The purpose of this study was to investigate molecular mechanisms by which recombinant Tat₁₋₇₂, but not heated-inactive Tat₁₋₇₂,induces migration of rat primary microglia. Using primary microglia in Boyden chambers, we demonstrated the role of nonmuscle myosin light-chain kinase (nmMYLK) in Tat₁₋₇₂ (14.4 nM)-mediated increased microglial migration (up to 171.85%). These findings were validated using microglia isolated from wild-type (WT) or nmMYLK(-/-) mice in Dunn chamber assays. Tat₁₋₇₂-mediated activation of nmMYLK resulted in "inside-out" activation of β1 integrin, followed by "outside-in" activation of c-Src, Pyk2, and Cdc42-GTP (using G-LISA in primary and nmMYLK(-/-) microglia) and, subsequently, actin polymerization (flow cytometry and Western blot assays). In vivo corroboration of these findings demonstrated decreased migration of nmMYLK(-/-) microglia (2 × 10(5) cells transplanted into corpus callosum) compared with WT microglia toward microinjected Tat₁₋₇₂ (2 μg/mouse) in hippocampus. Up-regulation of nmMYLK in microglia was also detected in sections of basal ganglia from humans with HIV-encephalitis compared with uninfected controls. nmMYLK is thus critical for eliciting microglial migration during the innate immune response.
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- Honghong Yao
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-5880, USA
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Firth AL, Remillard CV, Platoshyn O, Fantozzi I, Ko EA, Yuan JXJ. Functional ion channels in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells: Voltage-dependent cation channels. Pulm Circ 2011; 1:48-71. [PMID: 21927714 PMCID: PMC3173772 DOI: 10.4103/2045-8932.78103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The activity of voltage-gated ion channels is critical for the maintenance of cellular membrane potential and generation of action potentials. In turn, membrane potential regulates cellular ion homeostasis, triggering the opening and closing of ion channels in the plasma membrane and, thus, enabling ion transport across the membrane. Such transmembrane ion fluxes are important for excitation–contraction coupling in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMC). Families of voltage-dependent cation channels known to be present in PASMC include voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channels, voltage-dependent Ca2+-activated K+ (Kca) channels, L- and T- type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels, voltage-gated Na+ channels and voltage-gated proton channels. When cells are dialyzed with Ca2+-free K+- solutions, depolarization elicits four components of 4-aminopyridine (4-AP)-sensitive Kvcurrents based on the kinetics of current activation and inactivation. In cell-attached membrane patches, depolarization elicits a wide range of single-channel K+ currents, with conductances ranging between 6 and 290 pS. Macroscopic 4-AP-sensitive Kv currents and iberiotoxin-sensitive Kca currents are also observed. Transcripts of (a) two Na+ channel α-subunit genes (SCN5A and SCN6A), (b) six Ca2+ channel α–subunit genes (α1A, α1B, α1X, α1D, α1Eand α1G) and many regulatory subunits (α2δ1, β1-4, and γ6), (c) 22 Kv channel α–subunit genes (Kv1.1 - Kv1.7, Kv1.10, Kv2.1, Kv3.1, Kv3.3, Kv3.4, Kv4.1, Kv4.2, Kv5.1, Kv 6.1-Kv6.3, Kv9.1, Kv9.3, Kv10.1 and Kv11.1) and three Kv channel β-subunit genes (Kvβ1-3) and (d) four Kca channel α–subunit genes (Sloα1 and SK2-SK4) and four Kca channel β-subunit genes (Kcaβ1-4) have been detected in PASMC. Tetrodotoxin-sensitive and rapidly inactivating Na+ currents have been recorded with properties similar to those in cardiac myocytes. In the presence of 20 mM external Ca2+, membrane depolarization from a holding potential of -100 mV elicits a rapidly inactivating T-type Ca2+ current, while depolarization from a holding potential of -70 mV elicits a slowly inactivating dihydropyridine-sensitive L-type Ca2+ current. This review will focus on describing the electrophysiological properties and molecular identities of these voltage-dependent cation channels in PASMC and their contribution to the regulation of pulmonary vascular function and its potential role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary vascular disease.
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- Amy L Firth
- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA
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Voltage-gated calcium channels are involved in the regulation of calcium oscillations in vascular smooth muscle cells from isolated porcine retinal arterioles. Exp Eye Res 2010; 91:69-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2009] [Revised: 04/09/2010] [Accepted: 04/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In contrast to striated muscle, both normalized force and shortening velocities are regulated functions of cross-bridge phosphorylation in smooth muscle. Physiologically this is manifested as relatively fast rates of contraction associated with transiently high levels of cross-bridge phosphorylation. In sustained contractions, Ca2+, cross-bridge phosphorylation, and ATP consumption rates fall, a phenomenon termed "latch". This review focuses on the Hai and Murphy (1988a) model that predicted the highly non-linear dependence of force on phosphorylation and a directly proportional dependence of shortening velocity on phosphorylation. This model hypothesized that (i) cross-bridge phosphorylation was obligatory for cross-bridge attachment, but also that (ii) dephosphorylation of an attached cross-bridge reduced its detachment rate. The resulting variety of cross-bridge cycles as predicted by the model could explain the observed dependencies of force and velocity on cross-bridge phosphorylation. New evidence supports modifications for more general applicability. First, myosin light chain phosphatase activity is regulated. Activation of myosin phosphatase is best demonstrated with inhibitory regulatory mechanisms acting via nitric oxide. The second modification of the model incorporates cooperativity in cross-bridge attachment to predict improved data on the dependence of force on phosphorylation. The molecular basis for cooperativity is unknown, but may involve thin filament proteins absent in striated muscle.
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- Richard A Murphy
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Moore KA, Polte T, Huang S, Shi B, Alsberg E, Sunday ME, Ingber DE. Control of basement membrane remodeling and epithelial branching morphogenesis in embryonic lung by Rho and cytoskeletal tension. Dev Dyn 2005; 232:268-81. [PMID: 15614768 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Local alterations in the mechanical compliance of the basement membrane that alter the level of isometric tension in the cell have been postulated to influence tissue morphogenesis. To explore whether cell tension contributes to tissue pattern formation in vivo, we modulated cytoskeletal force generation in embryonic mouse lung (embryonic days 12-14) rudiments using inhibitors of Rho-associated kinase (ROCK), myosin light chain kinase, myosin ATPase, and microfilament integrity, or a Rho stimulator (cytotoxic necrotizing factor-1). Tension inhibition resulted in loss of normal differentials in basement membrane thickness, inhibition of new terminal bud formation, and disorganization of epithelial growth patterns as well as disruption of capillary blood vessels. In contrast, increasing cell tension through Rho activation, as confirmed by quantitation of myosin light chain phosphorylation and immunohistocytochemical analysis of actin organization, accelerated lung branching and increase capillary elongation. These data suggest that changes in cytoskeletal tension mediated by Rho signaling through ROCK may play an important role in the establishment of the spatial differentials in cell growth and extracellular matrix remodeling that drive embryonic lung development.
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- Kimberly A Moore
- Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Bradley KN, Currie S, MacMillan D, Muir TC, McCarron JG. Cyclic ADP-ribose increases Ca2+ removal in smooth muscle. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:4291-306. [PMID: 12966165 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Ca2+ release via ryanodine receptors (RyRs) is vital in cell signalling and regulates diverse activities such as gene expression and excitation-contraction coupling. Cyclic ADP ribose (cADPR), a proposed modulator of RyR activity, releases Ca2+ from the intracellular store in sea urchin eggs but its mechanism of action in other cell types is controversial. In this study, caged cADPR was used to examine the effect of cADPR on Ca2+ signalling in single voltage-clamped smooth muscle cells that have RyR but lack FKBP12.6, a proposed target for cADPR. Although cADPR released Ca2+ in sea urchin eggs (a positive control), it failed to alter global or subsarcolemma [Ca2+]c, to cause Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release or to enhance caffeine responses in colonic myocytes. By contrast, caffeine (an accepted modulator of RyR) was effective in these respects. The lack of cADPR activity on Ca2+ release was unaffected by the introduction of recombinant FKBP12.6 into the myocytes. Indeed in western blots, using brain membrane preparations as a source of FKBP12.6, cADPR did not bind to FKBPs, although FK506 was effective. However, cADPR increased and its antagonist 8-bromo-cADPR slowed the rate of Ca2+ removal from the cytoplasm. The evidence indicates that cADPR modulates [Ca2+]c but not via RyR; the mechanism may involve the sarcolemma Ca2+ pump.
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- Karen N Bradley
- Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Neuroscience and Biomedical Systems, West Medical Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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Moore KA, Huang S, Kong Y, Sunday ME, Ingber DE. Control of embryonic lung branching morphogenesis by the Rho activator, cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1. J Surg Res 2002; 104:95-100. [PMID: 12020126 DOI: 10.1006/jsre.2002.6418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lung development is sensitive to physiological stresses, and its development may be impaired by physical distortion, as in patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Yet, little is known about how mechanical forces can influence lung morphogenesis. Studies with cultured cells suggest that cytoskeletal tension may play a key role in growth control. Since the small GTPase Rho plays an important role in the control of cell tension generation, we carried out studies to test the hypothesis that changes in Rho-mediated cell tension may influence branching morphogenesis. METHODS Embryonic lung buds from timed pregnant Swiss Webster mice were microdissected on Embryonic Day 12 (E12), and whole organs were cultured in serum-free medium in the presence of the Rho activator cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF-1) for 48 h. Serial measurements of the degree of epithelial branch formation and tissue maturation were performed using light microscopy and computerized image analysis. RESULTS At 48 h, embryonic lungs treated with 2 ng/ml CNF-1 increased their terminal bud count by 236 +/- 18% (P = 0.01) compared with 132 +/- 2% for untreated controls. However, dose-response experiments revealed biphasic behavior: at a higher dose of CNF-1 (200 ng/ml), bud number was actually decreased relative to controls (43 +/- 1%, P < 0.001). Histological analysis revealed that individual glands appeared to be more highly developed at low-dose CNF-1, whereas the high dose produced gland contraction. CONCLUSIONS These data support a potential role for Rho and cytoskeletal tension in control of epithelial pattern formation during lung development.
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- Kimberly A Moore
- Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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McDaniel SS, Platoshyn O, Wang J, Yu Y, Sweeney M, Krick S, Rubin LJ, Yuan JX. Capacitative Ca(2+) entry in agonist-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2001; 280:L870-80. [PMID: 11290510 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.2001.280.5.l870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Agonist-induced increases in cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](cyt)) in pulmonary artery (PA) smooth muscle cells (SMCs) consist of a transient Ca(2+) release from intracellular stores followed by a sustained Ca(2+) influx. Depletion of intracellular Ca(2+) stores triggers capacitative Ca(2+) entry (CCE), which contributes to the sustained increase in [Ca(2+)](cyt) and the refilling of Ca(2+) into the stores. In isolated PAs superfused with Ca(2+)-free solution, phenylephrine induced a transient contraction, apparently by a rise in [Ca(2+)](cyt) due to Ca(2+) release from the intracellular stores. The transient contraction lasted for 3-4 min until the Ca(2+) store was depleted. Restoration of extracellular Ca(2+) in the presence of phentolamine produced a contraction potentially due to a rise in [Ca(2+)](cyt) via CCE. The store-operated Ca(2+) channel blocker Ni(2+) reduced the store depletion-activated Ca(2+) currents, decreased CCE, and inhibited the CCE-mediated contraction. In single PASMCs, we identified, using RT-PCR, five transient receptor potential gene transcripts. These results suggest that CCE, potentially through transient receptor potential-encoded Ca(2+) channels, plays an important role in agonist-mediated PA contraction.
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- S S McDaniel
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, California 92103, USA
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Damaser MS, Whitbeck C, Barreto M, Horan P, Benno H, O'Connor LJ, Levin RM. Comparative physiology and biochemistry of rat and rabbit urinary bladder. BJU Int 2000; 85:519-25. [PMID: 10691837 DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410x.2000.00444.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare directly the biochemistry and contractile responses of rat and rabbit bladder to different stimuli. Materials and methods Sexually mature male New Zealand White rabbits and Sprague Dawley rats were compared. Each bladder was excised while the animal was anaesthetized; longitudinal bladder strips were cut and then mounted in an organ bath. Tension (2 g) was placed on all strips and each underwent field stimulation (FS) for a total of 20 s at 1-32 Hz, 1 ms and 80 V and was exposed to carbachol (100 micromol/L), ATP (2 mmol/L) and KCl (120 mmol/L). The tension was monitored continually using a polygraph and data stored digitally in a computer. The responses to each stimulus were determined as the maximum tension generated, maximum rate of tension generation and duration to a maximum response. The Ca2+- ATPase activity of the rat and rabbit bladder was determined. Bladder pressures were then predicted from the strip data using Laplace's law and compared with published values. RESULTS Contractile responses (per unit tissue mass) of rat bladder strips were significantly greater than those of rabbit bladder strips at all frequencies of FS and to carbachol, KCl and ATP. The rate of contractile force generated by rat bladder strips in response to all stimuli were significantly greater than that generated by rabbit strips. Rabbit bladder strips took significantly longer to generate maximum tension than did rat bladder strips in response to pharmacological stimuli. In response to FS, rat strips took significantly longer than rabbit strips to generate maximum tension. Although the predicted rat bladder pressures were significantly greater than those for rabbit, the predicted pressures for both the rat and rabbit were significantly lower than the pressure responses of the isolated whole bladder model. The contractile data correlated well with the Ca2+-ATPase activity data; rat bladder had seven times the enzyme activity of rabbit bladder. CONCLUSION Per unit mass, rat bladder is capable of generating more than five times the tension of rabbit bladder. Similarly, the rate of tension generation by rat bladder is three to five times greater than that by rabbit bladder. The duration to maximum tension generated in response to FS compared with pharmacological stimuli was affected by the inherent difference in the rate of contractile response to electrical activation compared with agents which diffuse through tissue, and by the difference in size between rat and rabbit bladder smooth muscle cells.
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- M S Damaser
- Research Service, Hines VA Hospital, Hines, USA
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Intracellular Ca2+ is normally maintained at submicromolar levels but increases during many forms of cellular stimulation. This increased Ca2+ binds to receptor proteins such as calmodulin (CaM) and alters the cell's metabolism and physiology. Calcium-CaM binds to target proteins and alters their function in such a way as to transduce the Ca2+ signal. Calcium-free or apocalmodulin (ApoCaM) binds to other proteins and has other specific effects. Apocalmodulin has roles in the cell that apparently do not require the ability to bind Ca2+ at all, and these roles appear to be essential for life. Apocalmodulin differs from Ca2+-CaM in its tertiary structure. It binds target proteins differently, utilizing different binding motifs such as the IQ motif and noncontiguous binding sites. Other kinds of binding potentially await discovery. The ApoCaM-binding proteins are a diverse group of at least 15 proteins including enzymes, actin-binding proteins, as well as cytoskeletal and other membrane proteins, including receptors and ion channels. Much of the cellular CaM is bound in a Ca2+-independent manner to membrane structures within the cell, and the proportion bound changes with cell growth and density, suggesting it may be a storage form. Apocalmodulin remains tightly bound to other proteins as subunits and probably hastens the response of these proteins to Ca2+. The overall picture that emerges is that CaM cycles between its Ca2+-bound and Ca2+-free states and in each state binds to different proteins and performs essential functions. Although much of the research focus has been on the roles of Ca2+-CaM, the roles of ApoCaM are equally vital but less well understood.
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- L A Jurado
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Margot S. Damaser
- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Yang KX, Black JL. Protein kinase C induced changes in human airway smooth muscle tone: the effects of Ca2+ and Na+ transport. Eur J Pharmacol 1996; 315:65-71. [PMID: 8960866 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(96)00595-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Activation of protein kinase C by phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDB) (1 nM-3 microM) caused a concentration-dependent contractile response in human isolated bronchus. The mean maximal contraction was 26 +/- 4.4% (n = 11) of that induced by acetylcholine (1 mM). The contraction was increased by the presence of the Ca2+ ionophore (A23187) to 47 +/- 6% (n = 7, P < 0.05) by the Ca2+ channel agonist, Bay K 8644 to 59.5 +/- 4.5% (n = 4, P < 0.05) and by KCl to 47.4 +/- 6%, while it was unaffected by carbachol (28.7 +/- 6.8%, n = 4, P > 0.05). The Ca2+ channel antagonist, verapamil (1 microM) significantly reduced the contraction from 32.3 +/- 4.9 to 12.5 +/- 1% (n = 4, P < 0.05) and in the presence of nifedipine (1 microM), the contractile response was abolished. A single concentration of 10 microM PDB produced a biphasic response-relaxation (6 +/- 1%) followed by contraction (76 +/- 4%, n = 4) which was greater than that produced when responses were obtained cumulatively. The relaxation response was inhibited by the addition of a Na-/K+ exchange antagonist, ouabain (10 microM) which also markedly potentiated the contractile response to 110 +/- 10% (n = 4, P < 0.05). These results suggest that the protein kinase C-mediated contraction in human airway smooth muscle is dependent on extracellular Ca2+ influx. Protein kinase C may also phosphorylate Na+/K(+)-ATPase resulting in a relaxation response.
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- K X Yang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Hirsh AJ, Benishin CG, Jones RL, Pang PK, Man SF. Calcium mobilization and isometric tension in bovine tracheal smooth muscle: effects of salbutamol and histamine. Cell Calcium 1996; 19:73-81. [PMID: 8653757 DOI: 10.1016/s0143-4160(96)90014-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We determined if decreases in relative free intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) caused by salbutamol, a selective beta2-adrenoreceptor agonist, were paralleled by calcium egression from the cytosol in bovine trachealis muscle strips. [Ca2+]i, or tissue-surface extracellular calcium changes (Ts[Ca2+]ext), were monitored using Fluo-3 acetoxymethylester or Fluo-3 pentaammonium salt simultaneously with isometric tension. Salbutamol (1 microM) decreased histamine-induced isometric tension from an average peak tension of 128.5 +/- 18.4 to -4.9 +/- 0.3 mN/mm2, and reduced the associated sustained increases in [Ca2+]i from 100% at peak to 20.4 +/- 7.6%. Both histamine-induced elevation in [Ca2+]i and isometric tension were reversed completely by forskolin (1 microM). In muscle strip at active resting tension, salbutamol caused a decrease (49.6 +/- 12.1%) in [Ca2+]i. Following precontraction with histamine, salbutamol caused an immediate and sustained increase in Ts[Ca2+]ext which was not seen in a Na(+)-free solution. Finally, propranolol (10 microM) blocked both increases in Ts[Ca2+]ext and muscle relaxation caused by salbutamol. These findings indicate that in bovine trachealis muscle, the effect of salbutamol to decrease [Ca2+]i and isometric tension is via a beta2-adrenoceptor, and the changes in [Ca2+]i are by an increase in calcium egression via the Na(+)/Ca2+ exchanger, and reuptake by myoplasmic stores.
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- A J Hirsh
- Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Drescher P. Ca2+ and cyclic adenosine monophosphate involvement in radiographic contrast medium-induced renal vasoconstriction. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1995; 6:813-8. [PMID: 8541690 DOI: 10.1016/s1051-0443(95)71192-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the role of extracellular Ca2+ and cyclic 3'-5' adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), a known second messenger promoting smooth muscle relaxation, in preventing renal vasoconstriction induced by radiographic contrast medium (RCM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Isometric contractions of rabbit renal artery were elicited by potassium chloride and increasing concentrations of meglumine/sodium diatrizoate. To determine the contribution of extracellular Ca2+, nifedipine, a blocker of voltage-dependent L-type Ca2+ channels (VDCC), was applied. The contribution of cAMP was investigated by applying the nonspecific phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors papaverine and theophylline and the specific PDE inhibitor milrinone, all of which prevent degradation of cAMP. Forskolin, an activator of cAMP by stimulating adenylyl cyclase (AC), was also investigated. RESULTS RCM elicited contractions that were 24.5% of the KCl control contraction, which was reduced by nifedipine (100 mumol/L) by 34.7%. Papaverine, theophylline, and milrinone inhibited RCM-induced contractions by 69.8%, 64.3%, and 43.7%, respectively. Forskolin reduced the response by 82.2%. CONCLUSION Ca2+ influx through VDCC partially contributes to RCM-induced renal artery vasoconstriction. Intracellular cAMP appears to be an important second messenger pathway for prevention of this response. These findings emphasize the role of second messenger systems involved in adverse RCM effects and the potential prevention of these effects.
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- P Drescher
- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
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Mandal AK, Lyden TW, Saklayen MG. Heparin lowers blood pressure: biological and clinical perspectives. Kidney Int 1995; 47:1017-22. [PMID: 7783398 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1995.147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- A K Mandal
- Department of Medicine (111W), Wright State University at VA Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio 45428, USA
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Levin RM, Wein AJ, Buttyan R, Monson FC, Longhurst PA. Update on bladder smooth-muscle physiology. World J Urol 1994; 12:226-32. [PMID: 7866423 DOI: 10.1007/bf00191201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The urinary bladder responds to distension induced by a number of different stresses with rapid and substantial increases in bladder mass and concomitant alterations in the contractile responses to neuronal stimulation, pharmacological simulation by autonomic agonists, and membrane depolarization. Furosemide, sucrose, or diabetes-induced diuresis, as well as outlet obstruction and overdistension all produce similar effects on the bladder. Accompanying the increases in bladder mass and contractile changes are increases in DNA synthesis and [3H]-thymidine uptake. Autoradiographic studies have localized the increased DNA synthesis following bladder distension initially to the urothelium, followed by slower increases in labelling of the lamina propria and extramural connective tissue. The net result of these compartmental differences in DNA synthesis is a reorganization of the structural relationships between smooth-muscle cells, the connective-tissue matrix, and the extrinsic connective-tissue lamina. This may contribute to the functional changes which occur after severe overdistension. Increases in the expression of heat-shock protein-70, basic fibroblast growth factor, N-ras, and c-myc, and decreases in transforming growth factor-beta occurred acutely after obstruction, suggesting that these changes may play a role in obstruction-induced bladder hypertrophy. Removal of the obstruction induces apoptosis of urothelial and connective tissue elements in the bladder, accompanied by increases in transforming growth factor-beta and decreases in basic fibroblast growth factor genes, and a reversal of the bladder dysfunction. Therefore the bladder hyperplasia after outlet obstruction and the regression following removal of the obstruction seem to be directly opposing processes governed by gene expression.
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- R M Levin
- Division of Urology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Capdeville-Atkinson C, Oster L, Thorin-Trescases N, Robert A, Boutinet S, Atkinson J. Intracellular free Ca2+ and vasoconstriction determined simultaneously in the perfused rat tail artery. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1993; 265:C1689-702. [PMID: 8279530 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1993.265.6.c1689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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To measure, simultaneously, intracellular free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) and vasoconstriction in a perfused vessel, we used the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura 2 with a dual-wavelength excitation method. One-centimeter-long segments of the caudal artery were dissected from 12-mo-old male Wistar rats. The endothelium was removed by gentle rubbing. The artery was mounted in a specially constructed spectrofluorometer cuvette, perfused with oxygenated physiological saline solution at 37 degrees C, and loaded by perfusion with fura 2 acetoxymethyl ester (5 microM) over a 90-min period. This paper is a description of the technique and the experiments that validate it as a useful method for examining Ca(2+)-related vascular reactivity in an intact perfused vessel.
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- C Capdeville-Atkinson
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Cardio-Vasculaire, Unité de Formation et de Recherche des Sciences, Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Nancy, France
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Zhu L, McKay R, Shortridge R. Tissue-specific expression of phospholipase C encoded by the norpA gene of Drosophila melanogaster. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)82349-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Squalli J, Brule G, Czternasty G, Marlot D, Ronco G, Villa P. [Structure-activity relationship of a new family of calcium antagonist molecules derived from monosaccharides]. ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE PHYSIOLOGIE, DE BIOCHIMIE ET DE BIOPHYSIQUE 1993; 101:197-201. [PMID: 7691213 DOI: 10.3109/13813459309046475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The Ca++ antagonist effects of new drugs derived from monosaccharides were tested in the rat duodenal muscle preparation in vitro. The structure-activity relationship shows that: 1. The monoacetonide products (nR-O-MAG and nR-S-MAG) with alkyl chain from 8 to 9 C atoms induce a maximal reduction of muscular tonus and contraction. 2. The inhibitory effect rapidly decreases when the alkyl chain has a number of C atoms smaller than 7 or larger than 9. 3. The diacetonide (DAG) and acetonide (G) products induce an inhibition of less extent. 4. The Ca++ antagonist effect is very slightly changed by the type of heteroatom (O or S) linking the alkyl chain to the monosaccharide. 5. The type of monosaccharide affects the Ca++ antagonist activity.
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- J Squalli
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire, UFR des Sciences, Université de Picardie
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Shortridge R, Yoon J, Lending C, Bloomquist B, Perdew M, Pak W. A Drosophila phospholipase C gene that is expressed in the central nervous system. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)98923-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Levin RM, Longhurst PA, Wein AJ. Neuropharmacologic investigations of the lower urinary tract. World J Urol 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01580017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Rasmussen H, Rasmussen JE. Calcium as intracellular messenger: from simplicity to complexity. CURRENT TOPICS IN CELLULAR REGULATION 1990; 31:1-109. [PMID: 2173992 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152831-7.50003-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- H Rasmussen
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
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