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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 277, 期 34, 页码 30614-30621出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M204262200
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A Rho-kinase inhibitor increases corpus cavernosum (CC) pressure in an in vivo rat model (Chitaley, K., Wingard, C. J., Webb, R. C., Branam, H., Stopper, V. S., Lewis, R. W., and Mills, T. M. (2001) Nat. Med. 7,119-122) suggesting that Rho-mediated Ca2+ sensitization of CC smooth muscle maintains the flaccid (contracted) state. We directly demonstrate Ca2+ sensitization of permeabilized rabbit and human CC and identify a highly expressed molecular component of this pathway. Ca2+ sensitization of force induced by endothelin or GTPgammaS was significantly greater in CC than in rabbit ileum smooth muscle and was accompanied by a 17-fold higher RhoA content. Pull-down assays with the RhoA binding domain of mDia showed the high RhoA content of CC to be available for activation by GTPgammaS. Ca2+ sensitization induced by endothelin, phenylephrine, or GTPgammaS was completely relaxed by the Rho kinase inhibitor Y-27632. Human and rabbit CC both express the phosphatase inhibitor CPI-17, the myosin phosphatase regulatory (MYPT-1) and catalytic (PP1delta) subunits, and two isoforms of Rho kinase. We suggest that high expression of RhoA contributes, through RhoA-mediated Ca2+ sensitization, to the flaccid state of CC that can be reversed by a water-soluble, orally active Rho kinase inhibitor suitable for therapy of erectile dysfunction.
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