title: Staurosporine inhibition of zipper-interacting protein kinase contractile effects in gastrointestinal smooth muscle.
abstract: Zipper-interacting protein kinase (ZIPK) is a serine-threonine kinase that has been implicated in Ca2+-independent myosin II phosphorylation and contractile force generation in vascular smooth muscle. However, relatively little is known about the contribution of this kinase to gastrointestinal smooth muscle contraction. The addition of a recombinant version of ZIPK that lacked the leucine zipper domain to permeabilized ileal strips evoked a Ca2+-independent contraction and resulted in myosin regulatory light chain diphosphorylation at Ser19 and Thr18. Neither Ca2+-independent force development nor myosin regulatory light chain phosphorylation was elicited by the addition of kinase-dead ZIPK to the ileal strips. The sensitivity of ZIPK-induced contraction to various kinase inhibitors was similar to the in vitro sensitivity of purified ZIPK to these inhibitors. Staurosporine was the most effective ZIPK inhibitor, with a Ki value calculated to be 2.6 +/- 0.3 micromol/L. Through the use of specific kinase inhibitors, we determined that Rho-associated protein kinase and Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) do not mitigate ZIPK-induced contraction in ileum. Our findings support a role for ZIPK in Ca2+-independent contractile force generation in gastrointestinal smooth muscle.
authors.affiliation: Smooth Muscle Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
authors.forename: Meredith A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Borman
authors.forename: Justin A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: Timothy A J
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Haystead
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D007082:Ileum / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D009154:Mutation; D018994:Myosin Light Chains / Q000502:physiology; D010539:Permeability; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D011817:Rabbits; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019311:Staurosporine / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D018994:Myosin Light Chains; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D019311:Staurosporine; D002118:Calcium