title: Attenuation of cAMP accumulation in adult rat cardiac fibroblasts by IL-1beta and NO: role of cGMP-stimulated PDE2.
abstract: Treatment of cultured adult rat cardiac fibroblasts with interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) induces the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression, increases nitric oxide (NO) and cGMP production, and attenuates cAMP accumulation in response to isoproterenol by ~50%. Reduced cAMP accumulation is due to NO production: the effect is mimicked by NO donors and prevented by N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine, an NOS inhibitor. Effects of NO are not restricted to the beta-adrenergic response; the response to forskolin is similarly diminished. NO donors only slightly (12%) decrease forskolin-stimulated adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity in cardiac fibroblast plasma membranes, suggesting that the main effect of NO is not a direct one on AC. An inhibitor of soluble guanylyl cyclase inhibits the effects of IL-1beta and NO donors; inhibition of cGMP-dependent protein kinase is without effect. 3-Isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, a nonspecific phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor, and erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine, a specific inhibitor of the cGMP-stimulated PDE (PDE2), completely restore cAMP accumulation in sodium nitroprusside-treated fibroblasts and largely reverse the attenuated response in IL-1beta-treated fibroblasts. Although NO reportedly acts by reducing AC activity in some cells, in cardiac fibroblasts NO production decreases cAMP accumulation largely by the cGMP-mediated activation of PDE2.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Asa B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Gustafsson
authors.forename: Laurence L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Brunton
mesh_terms: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000318:Adrenergic beta-Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D005576:Colforsin / Q000494:pharmacology; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism*; D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000502:physiology; D017869:Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D054678:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 2; D004790:Enzyme Induction; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase / Q000502:physiology; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000502:physiology*; D020030:Nitric Oxide Donors / Q000494:pharmacology; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000378:metabolism; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D009599:Nitroprusside / Q000494:pharmacology; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D000318:Adrenergic beta-Agonists; D007375:Interleukin-1; D020030:Nitric Oxide Donors; D009599:Nitroprusside; D005576:Colforsin; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat; D017869:Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; D054678:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 2; C517278:Pde2a protein, rat; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase; D006152:Cyclic GMP; D007545:Isoproterenol