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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 283, Issue 17, Pages 11210-11217Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M710048200
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- Medical Research Council [G84/6589, G0400874] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G84/6589, G0400874] Funding Source: UKRI
- British Heart Foundation Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0400874, G84/6589] Funding Source: Medline
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The thiazolidinedione anti-diabetic drugs increase activation of endothelial nitric-oxide (NO) synthase by phosphorylation at Ser-1177 and increase NO bioavailability, yet the molecular mechanisms that underlie this remain poorly characterized. Several protein kinases, including AMP-activated protein kinase, have been demonstrated to phosphorylate endothelial NO synthase at Ser-1177. In the current study we determined the role of AMP-activated protein kinase in rosiglitazone-stimulated NO synthesis. Stimulation of human aortic endothelial cells with rosiglitazone resulted in the time- and dose-dependent stimulation of AMP-activated protein kinase activity and NO production with concomitant phosphorylation of endothelial NO synthase at Ser-1177. Rosiglitazone stimulated an increase in the ADP/ATP ratio in endothelial cells, and LKB1 was essential for rosiglitazone-stimulated AMPK activity in HeLa cells. Infection of endothelial cells with a virus encoding a dominant negative AMP-activated protein kinase mutant abrogated rosiglitazone-stimulated Ser-1177 phosphorylation and NO production. Furthermore, the stimulation of AMP-activated protein kinase and NO synthesis by rosiglitazone was unaffected by the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma inhibitor GW9662. These studies demonstrate that rosiglitazone is able to acutely stimulate NO synthesis in cultured endothelial cells by an AMP-activated protein kinase-dependent mechanism, likely to be mediated by LKB1.
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