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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 121, Issue 7, Pages 2888-2897Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI45023
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- Fondation de France [2006005606]
- Fondation Leducq through the CAERUS network [05CVD03]
- Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche (MESR)
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
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Multidrug resistance-associated protein 4 (MRP4, also known as Abcc4) regulates intracellular levels of cAMP and cGMP in arterial SMCs. Here, we report our studies of the role of MRP4 in the development and progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe vascular disease characterized by chronically elevated pulmonary artery pressure and accompanied by remodeling of the small pulmonary arteries as a prelude to right heart failure and premature death. MRP4 expression was increased in pulmonary arteries from patients with idiopathic PAH as well as in WT mice exposed to hypoxic conditions. Consistent with a pathogenic role for MRP4 in PAH, WT mice exposed to hypoxia for 3 weeks showed reversal of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (PH) following oral administration of the MRP4 inhibitor MK571, and Mrp4(-/-) mice were protected from hypoxic PH. Inhibition of MRP4 in vitro was accompanied by increased intracellular cAMP and cGMP levels and PKA and PKG activities, implicating cyclic nucleotide-related signaling pathways in the mechanism underlying the protective effects of MRP4 inhibition. Our data suggest that MRP4 could represent a potential target for therapeutic intervention in PAH.
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