Direct Activation of AMP-activated Protein Kinase Stimulates Nitric-oxide Synthesis in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells
| Autor: | John M. C. Connell, Ian P. Salt, John R. Petrie, Fabienne Foufelle, Gwyn W. Gould, Valerie A. Morrow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III
Endothelium AMP-Activated Protein Kinases Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases Nitric Oxide Biochemistry Enzyme activator AMP-activated protein kinase Multienzyme Complexes Enos medicine Humans Phosphorylation Protein kinase A Molecular Biology Protein kinase B Aorta Cells Cultured biology Chemistry AMPK Cell Biology Ribonucleotides Aminoimidazole Carboxamide biology.organism_classification Precipitin Tests Cell biology Enzyme Activation medicine.anatomical_structure biology.protein Endothelium Vascular Nitric Oxide Synthase |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278:31629-31639 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
| DOI: | 10.1074/jbc.m212831200 |
| Popis: | Recent studies have indicated that endothelial nitric-oxide synthase (eNOS) is regulated by reversible phosphorylation in intact endothelial cells. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) has previously been demonstrated to phosphorylate and activate eNOS at Ser-1177 in vitro, yet the function of AMPK in endothelium is poorly characterized. We therefore determined whether activation of AMPK with 5'-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleoside (AICAR) stimulated NO production in human aortic endothelial cells. AICAR caused the time- and dose-dependent stimulation of AMPK activity, with a concomitant increase in eNOS Ser-1177 phosphorylation and NO production. AMPK was associated with immunoprecipitates of eNOS, yet this was unaffected by increasing concentrations of AICAR. AICAR also caused the time- and dose-dependent stimulation of protein kinase B phosphorylation. To confirm that the effects of AICAR were indeed mediated by AMPK, we utilized adenovirus-mediated expression of a dominant negative AMPK mutant. Expression of dominant negative AMPK attenuated AICAR-stimulated AMPK activity, eNOS Ser-1177 phosphorylation and NO production and was without effect on AICAR-stimulated protein kinase B Ser-473 phosphorylation or NO production stimulated by insulin or A23187. These data suggest that AICAR-stimulated NO production is mediated by AMPK as a consequence of increased Ser-1177 phosphorylation of eNOS. We propose that stimuli that result in the acute activation of AMPK activity in endothelial cells stimulate NO production, at least in part due to phosphorylation and activation of eNOS. Regulation of endothelial AMPK therefore provides an additional mechanism by which local vascular tone may be controlled. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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