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Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
Thrombin-induced Ca2+ mobilization, activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent myosin light chain (MLC) kinase (MLCK), and increased phosphorylation of MLCs precede and are critical to endothelial cell (EC) barrier dysfunction. Net MLC dephosphorylation after thrombin is nearly complete by 60 min and involves type 1 phosphatase (PPase 1) activity. We now report that thrombin does not alter total PPase 1 activity in EC homogenates but rather decreases myosin-associated PPase 1 activity. The PPase 1 inhibitor calyculin fails to prevent thrombin-induced MLC dephosphorylation. However, thrombin significantly increased the activity of Ca2+-dependent PPase 2B in EC homogenates (~1.5- to 2-fold), with PPase 2B activation correlating with phosphorylation of the PPase 2B catalytic subunit. Western immunoblotting revealed PPase 2B to be present in cytoskeletal EC fractions, with specific PPase 2B inhibitors such as cyclosporin (200 nM) and deltamethrin (100 nM to 1 µM) attenuating thrombin-induced cytoskeletal protein dephosphorylation, including EC MLC dephosphorylation. These results suggest a model whereby thrombin-inducible contraction is determined by the phosphorylation status of EC MLC regulated by the balance between EC MLCK, PPase 1 (constitutive), and PPase 2B (inducible) activities.
bovine pulmonary artery endothelium; thrombin-stimulated endothelial cell permeability; thrombin-stimulated myosin light chain phosphorylation; selective phosphatase 2B inhibitors
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