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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
卷 83, 期 4, 页码 375-381出版社
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, NRC RESEARCH PRESS
DOI: 10.1139/Y05-022
关键词
CPI-17; bronchial smooth muscle; acetylcholine; ROCK; protein kinase C
It has been demonstrated that CPI-17 provokes an inhibition of myosin light chain phosphatase to increase myosin light chain phosphorylaton and Ca2+ sensitivity during contraction of vascular smooth muscle. However, expression and agonist-mediated regulation of CPI-17 in bronchial smooth muscle have not been documented. Thus, expression and phosphorylation of CPI-17 mediated by PKC and ROCK were investigated using rat bronchial preparations. Acetylcholine (ACh)-induced contraction and Ca2+ sensitization were both attenuated by 10(-6) mol Y-27632 /L, a ROCK inhibitor, 10(-6) mol calphostin C/L, a PKC inhibitor, and their combination. A PKC activator, PDBu, induced a Ca2+ sensitization in alpha-toxin-permeabilized bronchial smooth muscle. In this case, the Ca2+ sensitizing effect was significantly inhibited by caphostin C but not by Y-27632. An immunoblot study demonstrated CPI-17 expression in the rat bronchial smooth muscle. Acetylcholine induced a phosphorylation of CPI-17 in a concentration-dependent manner, which was significantly inhibited by Y-27632 and calphostin C. In conclusion, these data suggest that both PKC and ROCK are involved in force development, Ca2+ sensitization, and CPI-17 phosphorylation induced by ACh stimulation in rat bronchial smooth muscle. As such, RhoA/ROCK, PKC/CPI-17, and RhoA/ROCK/CPI pathways may play important roles in the ACh-induced Ca2+ sensitization of bronchial smooth muscle contraction.
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