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Energetic aspects of the regulation of Ca++ sensitivity of permeabilized rabbit mesenteric artery: possible involvement of a second Ca++ regulatory system in smooth muscle contraction

J Nishimura and C van Breemen

Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, School of Medicine, Florida.

The effects of phosphagen concentrations and adenosine-5'-O-(2- thiodiphosphate)(ADP beta S), a nonhydrolyzable ADP analog, on the pCa++ tension relationships were investigated, using alpha-toxin permeabilized rabbit mesenteric artery. The removal of creatine phosphate (CP) greatly affected the Ca++ sensitivity and induced a leftward shift of the pCa++ tension curve. Addition of ADP beta S (10- 300 microM) also caused a leftward shift of the pCa++ tension curve. Ca++ solutions (0.3-10 microM) containing 0.1 mM ATP did not induce contraction. However, the addition of CP in the presence of 0.1 mM ATP dose-dependently increased force development which reached a maximum around 3 mM CP. A 10 microM Ca++ solution containing 0.1 mM ATP and 1 mM CP was much more effective in inducing contraction than a 10 microM Ca++ solution containing 1.1 mM ATP alone, although the total concentration of phosphagen (ATP + CP) was the same. Application of 0.1 mM ATP solution containing various concentrations of Ca++ after the maximal Ca+(+)-induced contraction relaxed the tissue, with the higher Ca++ concentrations inducing the faster relaxation. The same pattern of the relaxation was seen when the tissue was pretreated with adenosine- 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) beforehand. The contractile state observed in the Ca+(+)-free solution containing 0.1 mM ATP and 0.1 mM CP was completely relaxed by 1 mM vanadate, consistent with the idea that the sustained contraction was due to accumulation of the actomyosin-ADP complex.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Volume 258, Issue 2, pp. 397-402, 08/01/1991
Copyright © 1991 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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