Role of heterocellular gap junctional communication in endothelium-dependent smooth muscle hyperpolarization: inhibition by a connexin-mimetic peptide

Dora, Kim A., Martin, Patricia E. M., Chaytor, Andrew Thomas, Evans, William Howard, Garland, Christopher J. and Griffith, Tudor M. 1999. Role of heterocellular gap junctional communication in endothelium-dependent smooth muscle hyperpolarization: inhibition by a connexin-mimetic peptide. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 254 (1) , pp. 27-31. 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9877

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Abstract

A synthetic connexin-mimetic peptide (Gap 27 peptide) was used to evaluate the contribution of gap junctional communication to smooth muscle responses mediated by the endothelium-dependent agonist acetylcholine (ACh) in rabbit mesenteric arteries. Hyperpolarizations and relaxations to 0.1 and 1 μM ACh observed in the presence of nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase inhibition were markedly attenuated by the peptide at a concentration of 300 μM, whereas the hyperpolarizing response to levcromakalim, aKATPchannel opener, was unaffected. The peptide also attenuated intercellular transfer of Lucifer yellow in confluent cultures of COS-7 cells, thus confirming its ability to modulate the permeability of gap junctions. The findings demonstrate that heterocellular gap junctional communication contributes to NO- and prostanoid-independent mechanisms of vasorelaxation that are widely attributed to an endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0006-291X
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2021 02:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/66694

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