ryanodine and 6-anilino-5-8-quinolinedione

In this study, we sought to investigate the effect of dendroaspis natriuretic peptide (DNP) on calcium-activated potassium current (I K(Ca)) and its mechanism in gastric antral circular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. DNP concentration-dependently increased macroscopic I K(Ca) and spontaneous transient outward currents (STOCs) in freshly isolated guinea pig gastric antral circular SMCs. The effects of DNP on I K(Ca) and/or STOCs were not blocked by applying calcium-free bath solution or the ryanodine receptor (RyR) antagonist ryanodine (10 microM), but they were inhibited by the inositol triphosphate receptor (IP3R) inhibitor heparin or the guanylate cyclase inhibitor LY83583. Moreover, a DNP-induced increase in STOCs was potentiated by the cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-sensitive phosphoesterase inhibitor zaprinast. In conclusion, our results suggest that DNP increases I K(Ca) in gastric antral circular SMCs by increasing cGMP production and activating IP3Rs.

Topics: Aminoquinolines; Animals; Calcium; Calcium Channel Blockers; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Interactions; Elapid Venoms; Enzyme Inhibitors; Female; Guinea Pigs; Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Male; Membrane Potentials; Muscle Contraction; Muscle, Smooth; Myocytes, Smooth Muscle; Nicardipine; Peptides; Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors; Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated; Purinones; Pyloric Antrum; Ryanodine; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel

In this study, we highlight a role for the nitric oxide-cGMP-dependent protein kinase (NO-G-kinase) signaling pathway in glial intercellular Ca(2+) wave initiation and propagation. Addition of the NO donor molsidomine (100-500 microM) or puffing aqueous NO onto primary glial cell cultures evoked an increase in [Ca(2+)](i) in individual cells and also local intercellular Ca(2+) waves, which persisted after removal of extracellular Ca(2+). High concentrations of ryanodine (100-200 microM) and antagonists of the NO-G-kinase signaling pathway essentially abrogated the NO-induced increase in [Ca(2+)](i), indicating that NO mobilizes Ca(2+) from a ryanodine receptor-linked store, via the NO-G-kinase signaling pathway. Addition of 10 microM nicardipine to cells resulted in a slowing of the molsidomine-induced rise in [Ca(2+)](i), and inhibition of Mn(2+) quench of cytosolic fura-2 fluorescence mediated by a bolus application of 2 microM aqueous NO to cells, indicating that NO also induces Ca(2+) influx in glia. Mechanical stress of individual glial cells resulted in an increase in intracellular NO in target and neighboring cells and intercellular Ca(2+) waves, which were NO, cGMP, and G-kinase dependent, because incubating cells with nitric oxide synthase, guanylate cyclase, and G-kinase inhibitors, or NO scavengers, reduced Delta[Ca(2+)](i) and the rate of Ca(2+) wave propagation in these cultures. Results from this study suggest that NO-G-kinase signaling is coupled to Ca(2+) mobilization and influx in glial cells and that this pathway plays a fundamental role in the generation and propagation of intercellular Ca(2+) waves in glia.

Topics: Aminoquinolines; Animals; Antineoplastic Agents; Apyrase; Astrocytes; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; Calcium; Calcium Channel Blockers; Cells, Cultured; Chelating Agents; Cyclic GMP; Cyclic N-Oxides; Egtazic Acid; Enzyme Inhibitors; Estrenes; Free Radical Scavengers; GTP-Binding Proteins; Imidazoles; Ionomycin; Ionophores; Neurons; Nicardipine; Nitric Oxide; Nitric Oxide Synthase; omega-N-Methylarginine; Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors; Potassium Chloride; Prosencephalon; Pyrrolidinones; Rats; Receptor, Insulin; Ryanodine; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel; Signal Transduction; Suramin; Thionucleotides; Type C Phospholipases

The effects of nitric oxide on the activities of thapsigargin-sensitive sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) and Ca2+ uptake by sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes prepared from white skeletal muscle of rabbit femoral muscle were studied. Pretreatment of the SR preparations with nitric oxide at concentrations of up to 250 microM for 1 min decreased the SERCA activity concentration dependently, and also decreased their Ca2+ uptake. Both these effects of nitric oxide were reversible. Inhibitors of guanylyl cyclase and protein kinase G (PKG) had no significant effect on the nitric oxide-induced inhibitions of SERCA and Ca2+ uptake. Moreover, dithiothreitol did not reverse the inhibitory effects of nitric oxide on SERCA and Ca2+ uptake. These findings suggest that nitric oxide inhibits SERCA, mainly SERCA 1, of rabbit femoral skeletal muscle by an action independent of the cyclic GMP-PKG system or oxidation of thiols, and probably by a direct action on SERCA protein.

Topics: Aminoquinolines; Animals; Caffeine; Calcium; Calcium Channel Agonists; Calcium Channel Blockers; Calcium-Transporting ATPases; Cyclic GMP; Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; Dithiothreitol; Guanylate Cyclase; Heparin; Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; Nitric Oxide; Ouabain; Rabbits; Ryanodine; Sarcoplasmic Reticulum; Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase; Thapsigargin; Thionucleotides

1. Photoactivated mechanical responses that resulted from exposure to 3-NO2-1,4-dihydropyridines (3-NO2-DHP5) or NO-donors were examined in rat isolated oesophageal smooth muscle with a view to determining the role of calcium and cyclic GMP. 2. Isometric contractile force was recorded in preparations bathed in normal Tyrode or 110 mM K(+)-depolarizing solution. Exposure to (+)-PN 202791, (+/-)-Bay K 8644 and (-)-PN 2020791 or the photodegradable NO-donors, sodium nitroprusside (SNP), streptozotocin (STZ) and sodium nitrite photosensitized precontracted tunica muscularis mucosae preparations in a concentration-dependent fashion. Photosensitizing potency followed the order: (+/-)-PN 202791 > (+/-)-Bay K 8644 > (-)-PN 202791 > SNP > STZ > NaNO2. 3. A low amplitude, slow photorelaxation (slope: 1 mg s-1) was obtained with the L-channel antagonists (-)-PN 202791 and (+)-Bay K 4407. Photosensitization by the agonist enantiomers (+)-PN 202 791 and (-)-Bay K 5407, as well as racemic Bay K 8644, was mimicked by NO donors and showed at least three different components, consisting of (i) a fast relaxation (slope: 140 mg s-1), (ii) a fast "off-contraction', and (iii) a delayed slow relaxation. The fast components, but not the delayed slow relaxation, were abolished by blockade of L-type voltage-operated calcium channels, chelation of extracellular calcium and skinning of the plasmalemma, suggesting their mediation by a process linked to calcium entry through L-channels. 4. Both cyclopiazonic acid (3-30 microM) and ryanodine (30 microM) inhibited the fast response. This inhibition was accelerated in the presence of extracellular calcium and resembled that seen in tissues exposed to the calcium ionophore A 23187 (1 microM). In calcium depleted tissues, cyclopiazonic acid (3 microM) prevented restoration of the cis-dioxolane-induced contraction following re-exposure to a calcium containing high K+ buffer, but failed to inhibit the photoresponse. 5. Both the fast and slow relaxations were potentiated by zaprinast (10 microM) and inhibited by LY B3583 (10 microM). However, in calcium-depleted, calyculin A-precontracted preparations only the slow relaxation was evident. 6. The present results support the conclusion that: (i) functional L-channels are required for the expression of the fast components of the 3-NO2-DHP- or NO-donor-induced photoresponse, (ii) NO photorelease followed by activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase is responsible for the photosensitizing activity o

Topics: 3-Pyridinecarboxylic acid, 1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-5-nitro-4-(2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-, Methyl ester; 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases; Aminoquinolines; Animals; Calcium; Calcium Channel Agonists; Calcium Channel Blockers; Calcium-Transporting ATPases; Chelating Agents; Egtazic Acid; Esophagus; Guanylate Cyclase; In Vitro Techniques; Indoles; Marine Toxins; Muscle, Smooth; Nicotinic Acids; Nitric Oxide; Oxadiazoles; Oxazoles; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; Photosensitizing Agents; Purinones; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Ryanodine