title: LTD4 induces hyperresponsiveness to histamine in bovine airway smooth muscle: role of SR-ATPase Ca2+ pump and tyrosine kinase.
abstract: Airway hyperresponsiveness is a key feature of asthma, but its mechanisms remain poorly understood. Leukotriene D(4) (LTD(4)) is one of the few molecules capable of producing airway hyperresponsiveness. In this study, LTD(4), but not leukotriene C(4) (LTC(4)), produced a leftward displacement of the concentration-response curve to histamine in bovine airway smooth muscle strips. Neither LTC(4) nor LTD(4) modified the concentration-response curve to carbachol. In simultaneous measurements of intracellular Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) and contraction, histamine or carbachol produced a transient Ca(2+) peak followed by a plateau, along with a contraction. LTD(4) increased the histamine-induced transient Ca(2+) peak and contraction but did not modify responses to carbachol. Enhanced responses to histamine induced by LTD(4) were not modified by staurosporine or chelerythrine but were abolished by genistein. Western blot showed that carbachol, but not histamine, caused intense phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and that LTD(4) significantly enhanced the phosphorylation induced by histamine, but not by carbachol. L-type Ca(2+) channel participation in the hyperresponsiveness to histamine was discarded because LTD(4) did not modify the [Ca(2+)](i) changes induced by KCl. In tracheal myocytes, LTD(4) enhanced the transient Ca(2+) peak induced by histamine (but not by carbachol) and the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) refilling. Genistein abolished this last LTD(4) effect. Partial blockade of the SR-ATPase Ca(2+) pump with cyclopiazonic acid reduced the Ca(2+) transient peak induced by histamine but not by carbachol. These results suggested that LTD(4) induces hyperresponsiveness to histamine through activation of the tyrosine kinase pathway and an increasing SR-ATPase Ca(2+) pump activity. L-type Ca(2+) channels seemed not to be involved in this phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Farmacología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Carbajal
authors.forename: Mario H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Vargas
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Flores-Soto
authors.forename: Erasmo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martínez-Cordero
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bazán-Perkins
authors.forename: Luis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Montaño
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006632:Histamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000378:metabolism; D017998:Leukotriene D4 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019950:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1 / Q000378:metabolism; D048052:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000187:drug effects*; D032389:Myocytes, Smooth Muscle / Q000187:drug effects; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D010766:Phosphorylation / Q000187:drug effects; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000201:enzymology*; D014132:Trachea / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D017998:Leukotriene D4; D006632:Histamine; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D019950:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1; D048052:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D002118:Calcium