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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 290, Issue 1, Pages C66-C76Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00094.2005
Keywords
cell signaling; ischemia; mechanotransduction; K-ATP channels; NADPH oxidase
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- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [P50HL060290] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-60290] Funding Source: Medline
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Acute cessation of flow (ischemia) leads to depolarization of the endothelial cell (EC) membrane mediated by K-ATP channels and followed by production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from NADPH oxidase. We postulated that ROS are a signal for initiating EC proliferation associated with the loss of shear stress. Flow cytometry was used to identify proliferating CD31-positive pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (mPMVECs) from wild-type, Kir6.2(-/-), and gp91(phox-/-) mice. mPMVECs were labeled with PKH26 and cultured in artificial capillaries for 72 h at 5 dyn/cm(2) (flow adaptation), followed by 24 h of stop flow or continued flow. ROS production during the first hour of ischemia was markedly diminished compared with wild-type mice in both types of gene-targeted mPMVECs. Cell proliferation was defined as the proliferation index (PI). After 72 h of flow, >98% of PKH26-labeled wildtype mPMVECs were at a single peak (PI 1.0) and the proportion of cells in the S+G(2)/M phases were at 5.8% on the basis of cell cycle analysis. With ischemia (24 h), PI increased to 2.5 and the ratio of cells in S+G(2)/M phases were at 35%. Catalase, diphenyleneiodonium, and cromakalim markedly inhibited ROS production and cell proliferation in flow-adapted wild-type mPMVECs. Significant effects of ischemia were not observed in Kir6.2(-/-) and gp91(phox-/-) cells. ANG II activation of NADPH oxidase was unaffected by KATP gene deletion. Thus loss of shear stress in flow-adapted mPMVECs results in cell division associated with ROS generated by NADPH oxidase. This effect requires a functioning cell membrane KATP channel.
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