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Hinton M, Thliveris JA, Hatch GM, Dakshinamurti S. Nitric oxide augments signaling for contraction in hypoxic pulmonary arterial smooth muscle—Implications for hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1144574. [PMID: 37064915 PMCID: PMC10090299 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1144574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Introduction: Hypoxic persistent pulmonary hypertension in the newborn (PPHN) is usually treated with oxygen and inhaled nitric oxide (NO), both pulmonary arterial relaxants. But treatment failure with NO occurs in 25% of cases. We previously demonstrated that 72 h exposure to hypoxia, modeling PPHN, sensitized pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMC) to the contractile agonist thromboxane and inhibited relaxant adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity.Methods: In this study, we examined the effects of sodium nitroprusside (SNP), as NO donor, on the thromboxane-mediated contraction and NO-independent relaxation pathways and on reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation in PASMC. In addition, we examined the effect of the peroxynitrite scavenger 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis (4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrinato Iron (III) (FeTPPS) on these processes.Results: Exposure of PASMC to 72 h hypoxia increased total intracellular ROS compared to normoxic control cells and this was mitigated by treatment of cells with either SNP or FeTPPS. Total protein nitrosylation was increased in hypoxic PASMC compared to controls. Both normoxic and hypoxic cells treated with SNP exhibited increased total protein nitrosylation and intracellular nitrite; this was reduced by treatment with FeTPPS. While cell viability and mitochondrial number were unchanged by hypoxia, mitochondrial activity was decreased compared to controls; addition of FeTPPS did not alter this. Basal and maximal mitochondrial metabolism and ATP turnover were reduced in hypoxic PASMC compared to controls. Hypoxic PASMC had higher basal Ca2+, and a heightened peak Ca2+ response to thromboxane challenge compared to controls. Addition of SNP further elevated the peak Ca2+ response, while addition of FeTPPS brought peak Ca2+ response down to control levels. AC mediated relaxation was impaired in hypoxic PASMC compared to controls but was normalized following treatment with FeTPPS. Addition of SNP inhibited adenylyl cyclase activity in both normoxic and hypoxic PASMC. Moreover, addition of the Ca2+ chelator BAPTA improved AC activity, but the effect was minimal.Discussion: We conclude that NO independently augments contraction and inhibits relaxation pathways in hypoxic PASMC, in part by a mechanism involving nitrogen radical formation and protein nitrosylation. These observations may partially explain impaired effectiveness of NO when treating hypoxic pulmonary hypertension.
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- Martha Hinton
- Biology of Breathing Group, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Biology of Breathing Group, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- *Correspondence: Shyamala Dakshinamurti,
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O'Sullivan MJ, Jang JH, Panariti A, Bedrat A, Ijpma G, Lemos B, Park JA, Lauzon AM, Martin JG. Airway Epithelial Cells Drive Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype Switching to the Proliferative and Pro-inflammatory Phenotype. Front Physiol 2021; 12:687654. [PMID: 34295265 PMCID: PMC8290262 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.687654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The increased mass of airway smooth muscle (ASM) in the airways of asthmatic patients may contribute to the pathology of this disease by increasing the capacity for airway narrowing. Evidence for the airway epithelium as a participant in ASM remodeling is accruing. To investigate mechanisms by which airway epithelial cells induce ASM cell (ASMC) proliferation, we have employed a co-culture model to explore markers of ASMC proliferative phenotype. Co-culture with epithelial cells led to incorporation of bromodeoxyuridine into ASMCs, indicating augmented proliferation and an associated increase in mRNA of the pro-proliferative co-transcription factor Elk1. Although the mitogen heparin-binding epidermal growth factor (HB-EGF) was augmented in the co-culture supernatant, the ASMC epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), an effector of HB-EGF induced proliferation, did not mediate epithelial-induced proliferation. The co-culture increased the expression of ASMC mRNA for the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-8 as well as the pro-proliferative microRNA miR-210. The transcriptional repressor Max-binding protein (Mnt), a putative target of miR-210, was transcriptionally repressed in co-cultured ASMCs. Together, these data indicate that the airway epithelium-induced proliferative phenotype of ASMCs is not driven by EGFR signaling, but rather may be dependent on miR210 targeting of tumor suppressor Mnt.
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- M J O'Sullivan
- Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.,T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
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- T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Harhun MI, Huggins CL, Ratnasingham K, Raje D, Moss RF, Szewczyk K, Vasilikostas G, Greenwood IA, Khong TK, Wan A, Reddy M. Resident phenotypically modulated vascular smooth muscle cells in healthy human arteries. J Cell Mol Med 2012; 16:2802-12. [PMID: 22862785 PMCID: PMC3492755 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2012.01609.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2012] [Accepted: 07/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Vascular interstitial cells (VICs) are non-contractile cells with filopodia previously described in healthy blood vessels of rodents and their function remains unknown. The objective of this study was to identify VICs in human arteries and to ascertain their role. VICs were identified in the wall of human gastro-omental arteries using transmission electron microscopy. Isolated VICs showed ability to form new and elongate existing filopodia and actively change body shape. Most importantly sprouting VICs were also observed in cell dispersal. RT-PCR performed on separately collected contractile vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and VICs showed that both cell types expressed the gene for smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC). Immunofluorescent labelling showed that both VSMCs and VICs had similar fluorescence for SM-MHC and αSM-actin, VICs, however, had significantly lower fluorescence for smoothelin, myosin light chain kinase, h-calponin and SM22α. It was also found that VICs do not have cytoskeleton as rigid as in contractile VSMCs. VICs express number of VSMC-specific proteins and display features of phenotypically modulated VSMCs with increased migratory abilities. VICs, therefore represent resident phenotypically modulated VSMCs that are present in human arteries under normal physiological conditions.
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- Maksym I Harhun
- Pharmacology and Cell Physiology Research Group, Division of Biomedical Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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Induction of housekeeping gene expression after subarachnoid hemorrhage in dogs. J Neurosci Methods 2008; 172:1-7. [PMID: 18490059 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2008] [Revised: 03/29/2008] [Accepted: 03/30/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Changes in gene expression are commonly assessed relative to the expression of housekeeping genes, which are assumed to remain unchanged. We tested this assumption in cerebral arteries obtained from dogs 4 and 7 days after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) had been created using the double hemorrhage model. Basilar arteries were removed and examined for expression of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Cross-sections of basilar arteries were stained immunohistochemically for proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI). Positively stained cells were counted and numbers obtained were normalized to the cross-sectional area. The results were compared to normal dog basilar arteries contracted pharmacologically in vitro. SAH resulted in significant vasospasm (P<0.001 for each, paired t-tests). There were significant increases in mRNA for beta-actin (441%, P=0.01), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (566%, P=0.007) and 18S ribosomal RNA (320%, P=0.025) 7 days after SAH. Total mRNA was increased 7 days after SAH relative to genomic DNA (157%, P=0.009). There were significant increases in the number of cells in the tunica media and adventitia of arteries after SAH and a significant decrease in the media after contraction in vitro. Cells in the tunica media and adventitia labeled with PCNA were significantly increased at both times after SAH. Transcripts for housekeeping genes are increased after SAH, making standardization to them potentially invalid. The increase is due to proliferation of cells in the adventitia and increased total mRNA in the media and adventitia.
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Tran T, Ens-Blackie K, Rector ES, Stelmack GL, McNeill KD, Tarone G, Gerthoffer WT, Unruh H, Halayko AJ. Laminin-binding integrin alpha7 is required for contractile phenotype expression by human airway myocytes. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2007; 37:668-80. [PMID: 17641293 PMCID: PMC2219552 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2007-0165oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Contractile airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells retain the ability for phenotype plasticity in response to multiple stimuli, which equips them with capacity to direct modeling and remodeling during development, and in disease states such as asthma. We have shown that endogenously expressed laminin is required for maturation of human ASM cells to a contractile phenotype, as occurs during ASM thickening in asthma. In this study, we profiled the expression of laminin-binding integrins alpha3beta1, alpha6beta1, and alpha7beta1, and tested whether they are required for laminin-induced myocyte maturation. Immunoblotting revealed that myocyte maturation induced by prolonged serum withdrawal, which was marked by the accumulation of contractile phenotype marker protein desmin, was also associated with the accumulation of alpha3A, alpha6A, and alpha7B. Flow cytometry revealed that alpha7B expression was a distinct feature of individual myocytes that acquired a contractile phenotype. siRNA knockdown of alpha7, but not alpha3 or alpha6, suppressed myocyte maturation. Thus, alpha7B is a novel marker of the contractile phenotype, and alpha7 expression is essential for human ASM cell maturation, which is a laminin-dependent process. These observations provide new insight into mechanisms that likely underpin normal development and remodeling associated with airways disease.
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- Thai Tran
- Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Kanabar V, Hirst SJ, O'Connor BJ, Page CP. Some structural determinants of the antiproliferative effect of heparin-like molecules on human airway smooth muscle. Br J Pharmacol 2005; 146:370-7. [PMID: 16025136 PMCID: PMC1576283 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0706333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2005] [Accepted: 06/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Accumulation of airway smooth muscle (ASM) and its infiltration by mast cells are key pathological features of airway remodelling in asthma. Heparin, a major component of mast cell granules, inhibits ASM proliferation by an unknown mechanism. Here, unfractionated heparins and related glycosaminoglycans having structurally heterogeneous polysaccharide side chains that varied in molecular weight, sulphation and anionic charge were used to identify features of the heparin molecule that were required for its antiproliferative activity in cultured human ASM cells. Proliferation induced by 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) was abrogated by two unfractionated commercial heparin preparations (Sigma and Multiparin) and this effect was reproduced with each of three low-molecular weight heparin preparations (3, 5 and 6 kDa, respectively), demonstrating that antiproliferative activity resided in at least a 3 kDa heparin fraction. N-desulphated 20% re-acetylated (N-de) heparin (anticoagulant) and O-desulphated heparin (O-de) (non-anticoagulant) fractions also inhibited FBS-dependent proliferation (rank potency: Sigma heparin > O-de > N-de) suggesting that the antiproliferative action of heparin involved N-sulphation but was independent of its anticoagulant activity. Other sulphated molecules with variable anionic charge (dextran sulphate, fucoidan, chondroitin sulphates A or B, heparan sulphate) inhibited proliferation to varying degrees, as did the non-sulphated molecules hyaluronic acid and poly-L-glutamic acid. However, nonsulphated dextran had no effect. In summary, attenuation of FBS-dependent proliferation of human ASM by heparin involves but does not depend upon sulphation, although loss of N-sulphation reduces antiproliferative activity. This antiproliferative effect is independent of anionic charge and the anticoagulant actions of heparin.
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- Varsha Kanabar
- Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, GKT School of Medicine, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London SE1 9RT
- Pharmacology and Therapeutics Division, Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, GKT School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, Guy's Campus, 5th Floor, Hodgkin Building, London SE1 9RT
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- Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, GKT School of Medicine, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London SE1 9RT
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- Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, GKT School of Medicine, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London SE1 9RT
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- Pharmacology and Therapeutics Division, Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, GKT School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, Guy's Campus, 5th Floor, Hodgkin Building, London SE1 9RT
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Govindaraju V, Martin JG, Maghni K, Ferraro P, Michoud MC. The effects of extracellular purines and pyrimidines on human airway smooth muscle cells. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2005; 315:941-8. [PMID: 16099930 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.105.089698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Extracellular ATP and UTP modulate the function of many cell types through the stimulation of specific P2 receptors, and the inhalation of UTP has been proposed as a therapeutic means of increasing mucociliary clearance in cystic fibrosis patients. The aim of this study was to determine whether P2 receptors are present and functional in human airway smooth muscle (HASM) cells. Experiments were conducted on primary cultures of HASM cells. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analysis showed that P2Y(1), P2Y(2), P2Y(4), and P2Y(6) receptor subtypes are expressed. Exposure to extracellular ATP, UTP, ADP, and UDP at concentrations ranging from 10(-6) to 10(-4) M, produced significant increases in intracellular Ca(2+) that peaked to 491 +/- 51 nM (p < 0.001) with ATP 10(-5) M and to 321 +/- 30 nM with UTP 10(-4) M. ATP and UTP also induced HASM cell contraction, decreasing cell length by 9.9 +/- 4.3 and 5.6 +/- 2.0%, respectively. Pretreatment of the cells with UTP for short periods of time (10 and 30 min) enhanced the peak Ca(2+) release to UTP, whereas repeated and prolonged pretreatment with UTP decreased it. These results indicate that several subtypes of P2Y receptors are present and functional in HASM cells. They also show that the response of the receptors is increased after short periods of exposure to UTP and decreased after prolonged and repeated exposure. Considering that ATP and UTP are endogenous mediators and that analogs of UTP could be used as a therapeutic modality, the role of extracellular triphosphate nucleotides in physiological and pathophysiological processes in the airways warrants further investigation.
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- Vasanthi Govindaraju
- Seymour Heisler Laboratory of the Montreal Chest Institute Research Center, McGill University, University of Montreal Hospital Center (PF), Quebec, Canada
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Fernandes DJ, McConville JF, Stewart AG, Kalinichenko V, Solway J. Can we differentiate between airway and vascular smooth muscle? Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2005; 31:805-10. [PMID: 15566398 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.04084.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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1. Airway smooth muscle (ASM) has recently been termed the 'frustrated' cell of the lung given that contraction of ASM has no proven useful physiological function in adults and yet is indelibly associated with pathological conditions by virtue of its unwanted airflow-limiting actions in asthma. In contrast, pulmonary vascular smooth muscle contraction plays an essential role in the control of blood flow through the lung. 2. Little is known of the differences in phenotype between human ASM and pulmonary vascular smooth muscle (VSM) tissues, but differences in contractile protein and transcription factor expression and regulation of contractile protein promoter activity have been documented. Similarly, the embryological signals in mice required for differentiation of ASM versus pulmonary VSM are distinct. 3. Bronchoconstriction in asthma is currently treated with beta2-adrenoceptor agonists, which relax contracted ASM cells. An additional approach may be to use gene therapy to render ASM unable to contract (via disruption of their contractile apparatus organization). 4. Application of ASM-specific gene therapies would rely on minimal actions on other lung smooth muscle tissues, including pulmonary and bronchial vascular smooth muscle. The combination of mRNA analysis of laser-captured microdissected tissue with in situ immunohistochemical staining for protein should be very useful in terms of being able to characterize definitively the differences in mRNA and protein expression between the smooth muscle species of the lung. Any discovery of an ASM-selective target could provide a novel lead for ASM-directed anti-asthma therapy.
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- Darren J Fernandes
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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