AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 270, Issue 3 1031-H1037, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Phospholipase D is activated by G protein and not by calcium ions in vascular smooth muscle

E. F. LaBelle, R. M. Fulbright, R. J. Barsotti, H. Gu and E. Polyak
Bockus Research Institute, Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19146, USA.

We assessed the sensitivity of phospholipase D (PLD) activity in vascular smooth muscle to cytosolic Ca2+ by increasing cytosolic Ca2+ levels independently of agonist stimulation. When rat tail artery was preloaded with the Ca2+ indicator fluo 3 pentaacetoxymethyl ester, the addition of high extracellular K+, caffeine, or norepinephrine rapidly enhanced cytosolic Ca2+ levels. Neither increased extracellular K+ nor caffeine addition increased phosphatidylethanol production, indicating that cytosolic Ca2+ elevation alone did not stimulate PLD. In contrast, norepinephrine stimulated phosphatidylethanol production in this tissue. In strips of tail artery permeabilized with alpha-toxin and incubated in solutions containing free Ca2+ concentrations observed during physiological stimulation (pCa 6.4), PLD was not stimulated, whereas incubation with guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) at pCa 7.0 activated this enzyme. Aluminum fluoride (AlF4-) stimulated PLD, and this activity was insensitive to pertussis toxin after stimulation by either norepinephrine or AlF4-. These results indicate that PLD in vascular smooth muscle is activated by norepinephrine via stimulation of a pertussis toxin-insensitive G protein and not via an increase in intracellular Ca2+ levels.

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