期刊
CIRCULATION
卷 101, 期 11, 页码 1319-1323出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.11.1319
关键词
vasospasm; muscle, smooth; kinase; myosin; phosphorylation
Background-We recently demonstrated that the Rho-kinase-mediated pathway plays an important role for coronary artery spasm in our porcine model with interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta). In this study, we examined whether or not Rho-kinase is upregulated at the spastic site and if so, how it induces vascular smooth muscle hypercontraction. Methods and Results-Segments of the left porcine coronary artery were chronically treated from the adventitia with IL-1 beta-bound microbeads. Two weeks after the operation, as reported previously, intracoronary serotonin repeatedly induced coronary hypercontractions at the IL-1 beta-treated site both in vivo and in vitro, which were. markedly inhibited by Y-27632, one of the specific inhibitors of Rho-kinase, Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis demonstrated that the expression of Rho-kinase mRNA was significantly increased in the spastic compared with the control segment. Western blot analysis showed that during the serotonin-induced contractions, the extent of phosphorylation of the myosin-binding subunit of myosin phosphatase (MBS), one of the major substrates of Rho-kinase, was significantly greater in the spastic than in the control segment and that the increase in MBS phosphorylations was also markedly inhibited by Y-27632. There was a highly significant correlation between the extent of MBS phosphorylations and that of contractions. Conclusions-These results indicate that Rho-kinase is upregulated at the spastic site and plays a key role in inducing vascular smooth muscle hypercontraction by inhibiting myosin phosphatase through the phosphorylation of MBS in our porcine model.
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