Pressure-induced vascular oxidative stress is mediated through activation of integrin-linked kinase 1/betaPIX/Rac-1 pathway
| Autor: | Umberto Bettarini, Giuseppe Lembo, Carmine Vecchione, Maria Teresa Gentile, Daniela Carnevale, Luca Iorio, Antonio D'Amato, Angelo Maffei, Giovanna Antenucci, Giada Mascio, Germana Cocozza, Alessandro Landolfi, Alba Di Pardo |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Vecchione, Carmine, Carnevale, Daniela, Di Pardo, Alba, Gentile, Maria Teresa, D'Amato, Antonio, Cocozza, Germana, Antenucci, Giovanna, Mascio, Giada, Bettarini, Umberto, Landolfi, Alessandro, Iorio, Luca, Maffei, Angelo, Lembo, Giuseppe |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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rac1 GTP-Binding Protein
medicine.medical_specialty Mechanotransduction Integrin Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases medicine.disease_cause Sensitivity and Specificity Internal medicine Internal Medicine medicine Humans oxidative stress ASK1 Integrin-linked kinase Endothelial dysfunction high pressure mechanotransduction integrin signaling endothelial dysfunction biology medicine.disease Cell biology Integrin signaling High pressure Carotid Arteries Endocrinology Blood pressure biology.protein Blood Vessels Oxidative stre Endothelium Vascular Stress Mechanical Paxillin Oxidation-Reduction Intracellular Oxidative stress Signal Transduction |
| Popis: | High blood pressure induces a mechanical stress on vascular walls and evokes oxidative stress and vascular dysfunction. The aim of this study was to characterize the intracellular signaling causing vascular oxidative stress in response to pressure. In carotid arteries subjected to high pressure levels, we observed not only an impaired vasorelaxation, increased superoxide production, and NADPH oxidase activity, but also a concomitant activation of Rac-1, a small G protein. Selective inhibition of Rac-1, with an adenovirus carrying a dominant-negative Rac-1 mutant, significantly reduced NADPH oxidase activity and oxidative stress and, more importantly, rescued vascular function in carotid arteries at high pressure. The analysis of molecular events associated with mechanotransduction demonstrated at high pressure levels an overexpression of integrin-linked kinase 1 and its recruitment to plasma membrane interacting with paxillin. The inhibition of integrin-linked kinase 1 by small interfering RNA impaired Rac-1 activation and rescued oxidative stress-induced vascular dysfunction in response to high pressure. Finally, we showed that βPIX, a guanine-nucleotide exchange factor, is the intermediate molecule recruited by integrin-linked kinase 1, converging the intracellular signaling toward Rac-1-mediated oxidative vascular dysfunction during pressure overload. Our data demonstrate that biomechanical stress evoked by high blood pressure triggers an integrin-linked kinase 1/βPIX/Rac-1 signaling, thus generating oxidative vascular dysfunction. © 2009 American Heart Association, Inc. |
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