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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 284: G1006-G1016, 2003; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00465.2002
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Vol. 284, Issue 6, G1006-G1016, June 2003

Inhibition of sustained smooth muscle contraction by PKA and PKG preferentially mediated by phosphorylation of RhoA

Karnam S. Murthy, Huiping Zhou, John R. Grider, and Gabriel M. Makhlouf

Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298

The role of RhoA in myosin light-chain (MLC)20 dephosphorylation and smooth muscle relaxation by PKA and PKG was examined in freshly dispersed and cultured smooth muscle cells expressing wild-type RhoA, constitutively active RhoV14, and phosphorylation site-deficient RhoA188. Activators of PKA (5,6-dichloro-1-beta -ribofuranosyl benzimidazole 3',5'-cyclic monophosphothionate, Sp-isomer; cBIMPS) or PKG [8-(4-chlorophenylthio)guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8-pCPT-cGMP), sodium nitroprusside (SNP)] or both PKA and PKG (VIP) induced phosphorylation of constitutively active RhoV14 and agonist (ACh)- or GTPgamma S-stimulated wild-type RhoA but not RhoA188. Phosphorylation was accompanied by translocation of membrane-bound wild-type RhoA and RhoV14 to the cytosol and complete inhibition of ACh-stimulated Rho kinase and phospholipase D activities, RhoA/Rho kinase association, MLC20 phosphorylation, and sustained muscle contraction. Each of these events was blocked depending on the agent used, by the PKG inhibitor KT5823 or the PKA inhibitor myristoylated PKI. Inhibitors were used at a concentration (1 µM) previously shown by direct measurement of kinase activity to selectively inhibit the corresponding kinase. In muscle cells overexpressing the active phosphorylation site-deficient mutant RhoA188, MLC20 phosphorylation was partly inhibited by SNP, VIP, cBIMPS, and 8-pCPT-cGMP, suggesting the existence of an independent inhibitory mechanism downstream of RhoA. Results demonstrate that dephosphorylation of MLC20 and smooth muscle relaxation are preferentially mediated by PKG- and PKA-dependent phosphorylation and inactivation of RhoA.

myosin light chain; myosin light chain phosphatase; regulatory myosin light chain; relaxation


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