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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 288, Issue 3, Pages H1296-H1305Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00687.2004
Keywords
permeability; actin; jasplakinolide; adenosine 3 ',5 '-cylic monophosphate; vascular endothelia cadherin
Funding
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-44485, HL-28607] Funding Source: Medline
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Regulation of actin dynamics is critical for endothelial barrier functions. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 288: H1296-H1305, 2005. First published November 4, 2004; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00687.2004.-We tested the hypothesis that the equilibrium between F- and G-actin in endothelial cells modulates the integrity of the actin cytoskeleton and is important for the maintenance of endothelial barrier functions in vivo and in vitro. We used the actin-depolymerizing agent cytochalasin D and jasplakinolide, an actin filament (F-actin) stabilizing and promoting substance, to modulate the actin cytoskeleton. Low doses of jasplakinolide (0.1 muM), which we have previously shown to reduce the permeability-increasing effect of cytochalasin D, had no influence on resting permeability of single-perfused mesenteric microvessels in vivo as well as on monolayer integrity. The F- actin content of cultured endothelial cells remained unchanged. In contrast, higher doses (10 muM) of jasplakinolide increased permeability (hydraulic conductivity) to the same extent as cytochalasin D and induced formation of intercellular gaps in cultured myocardial endothelial (MyEnd) cell monolayers. This was accompanied by a 34% increase of F-actin and pronounced disorganization of the actin cytoskeleton in MyEnd cells. Furthermore, we tested whether an increase of cAMP by forskolin and rolipram would prevent the cytochalasin D-induced barrier breakdown. Conditions that increase intracellular cAMP failed to block the cytochalasin D-induced permeability increase in vivo and the reduction of vascular endothelial cadherin-mediated adhesion in vitro. Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that the state of polymerization of the actin cytoskeleton is critical for maintenance of endothelial barrier functions and that both depolymerization by cytochalasin D and hyperpolymerization of actin by jasplakinolide resulted in an increase of microvessel permeability in vivo. However, cAMP, which is known to support endothelial barrier functions, seems to work by mechanisms other than stabilizing F-actin.
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