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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 281: H1545-H1552, 2001;
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Vol. 281, Issue 4, H1545-H1552, October 2001

Adenylyl cyclase isoforms and signal integration in models of vascular smooth muscle cells

Jerry G. Webb1, Phillip W. Yates1, Qing Yang1, Yurii V. Mukhin2, and Stephen M. Lanier1

1 Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and 2 Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425

Adenylyl cyclases present a potential focal point for signal integration in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) influencing contractile state and cellular responses to vessel wall injury. In the present study, we examined the influence of the vasoactive peptide arginine vasopressin (AVP) on cAMP regulation in primary cultures of rat aortic VSMC and in the A7r5 arterial smooth muscle cell line. In cultured VSMC and A7r5 cells, AVP had no effect on basal cAMP but differentially affected beta -adrenergic receptor-induced activation of adenylyl cyclase. AVP synergistically increased (twofold) isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP production in VSMC but inhibited the effect of isoproterenol (50%) in the A7r5 cell line. The effects of AVP in both preparations were blocked when cells were pretreated with a selective V1 vasopressin receptor antagonist. Moreover, the actions of AVP in both models were dependent on release of intracellular Ca2+ and were mimicked by elevation of Ca2+ with the ionophore A23187, suggesting that the responses to AVP involve Ca2+-mediated regulation of adenylyl cyclase stimulation. Adenylyl cyclase types I, III, and VIII are stimulated by Ca2+/calmodulin, whereas types V and VI are directly inhibited by Ca2+. RNA blot analysis for effector isotypes indicated that both VSMC and A7r5 cells expressed types III, V, and VI. VSMC also expressed mRNA for type IV and VIII effectors, which could account for the cell-specific responses to peptide hormone and Ca2+.

arginine vasopressin; cAMP; calcium


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