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JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
卷 38, 期 6, 页码 900-908出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00005344-200112000-00012
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endothelial cells; quinacrine; adenosine triphosphate transport; exocytosis; adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette proteins
In response to increased shear stress, vascular endothelial cells release adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by an unknown mechanism. We have investigated this mechanism using different approaches. First, we discovered that quinacrine, used to locate intracellular stores of ATP bound to peptides. displayed a granular fluorescence, typical of vesicular storage. Second. we found that two inhibitors of vesicular transport (monensin and N-ethylmaleimide) produced a highly significant reduction in the release of ATP from vascular endothelial cells in response to increased shear stress. Preliminary experiments using inhibitors of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator. the sulfonylurea receptor. and the multidrug resistance protein showed no involvement of these ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins (previously characterized in endothelial cells) in the mechanism of release of ATP. We suggest, therefore, that the release of ATP from vascular endothelial cells, like that of nerve cells, is probably by vesicular exocytosis.
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