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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 482, Issue 1-2, Pages 66-76Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2008.11.024
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Pulmonary artery; Mitochondria; mu-Calpain; Calpastatin; Na+/Ca2+ exchanger
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Treatment of bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle mitochondria with the calcium ionophore, A23187 (0.2 mu M) stimulates mu-calpain activity and subsequently cleaves Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX). Pretreatment of the A23187 treated mitochondria with the calpain inhibitors, calpeptin or MDL28170 or with Ca2+ chelator, EGTA does not cleave NCX. Treatment of the mitochondria with A23187 increases Ca2+ level in the mitochondria, which subsequently dissociates mu-calpain-calpastatin association leading to the activation of L-Calpain. Immunoblot study of the A23187 treated mitochondria with the NCX polyclonal antibody indicates the degradation of mitochondrial inner membrane NCX (110 kDa) resulting in the doublet of similar to 54-56 kDa NCX fragments. Moreover, in vitro cleavage of mitochondrial purified NCX by mitochondrial purified mu-calpain supports our conclusion. This cleavage of NCX may be interpreted as the main cause of Ca2+ overload and could lay a key role in the activation of apoptotic process in pulmonary smooth muscle. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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