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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 898, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2021.173997
Keywords
SGK1; Proliferation; Vascular smooth muscle cells; Hypotonic solution; ClC-3; CREB
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81230082, 81773721]
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SGK1, a Cl- sensitive kinase, plays a critical role in regulating cell proliferation in response to low osmotic pressure by modulating cell cycle regulators and interacting with CREB. Overexpression of ClC-3 Cl- channel further enhances the effects of SGK1 on cell viability and cell cycle transition induced by hypotonic solutions.
Hypotonic stimulus enlarges cell volume and increased cell proliferation with the exact mechanisms unknown. Glucocorticoid-induced kinase-1 (SGK1) is a serine/threonine kinase that can be regulated by osmotic pressure. We have revealed that SGK1 was activated by hypotonic solution-induced lowering of intracellular Cl- concentration. Therefore, we further examined whether SGK1 mediated hypotonic solution-induced proliferation and the internal mechanisms in basilar smooth muscle cells (BASMCs). In the present study, BrdU incorporation assay, flow cytometry, western blotting were performed to evaluate cell viability, cell cycle transition, and the expression of cell cycle regulators and other related proteins. We found that silence of SGK1 largely blunted hypotonic challenge-induced increase in cell viability and cell cycle transition from G(0)/G(1) phase to S phase, whereas overexpression of SGK1 showed the opposite effects. The effect of SGK1 on proliferation was related to the upregulation of cyclin D1 and cyclin E1, and the downregulation of p27 and p21, which is mediated by the interaction between SGK1 and cAMP responsive element-binding protein (CREB). Moreover, we overexpressed ClC-3 Cl- channel to further verify the role of SGK1 in low Cl environment-induced proliferation. The results revealed that overexpression of ClC-3 further enhanced hypotonic solution-induced cell viability, cell cycle transition, and CREB activation, which were alleviated or potentiated by silencing or overexpression of SGK1. In summary, this study provides compelling evidences that SGK1, as a Cl- sensitive kinase, is a critical link between low osmotic pressure and proliferation in BASMCs, and shed a new light on the treatment of proliferationassociated cardiovascular diseases.
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