title: Role of calcium-independent phospholipase A2beta in high glucose-induced activation of RhoA, Rho kinase, and CPI-17 in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells and vascular smooth muscle hypercontractility in diabetic animals.
abstract: Previous studies suggest that high glucose-induced RhoA/Rho kinase/CPI-17 activation is involved in diabetes-associated vascular smooth muscle hypercontractility. However, the upstream signaling that links high glucose and RhoA/Rho kinase/CPI-17 activation is unknown. Here we report that calcium-independent phospholipase A(2)beta (iPLA(2)beta) is required for high glucose-induced RhoA/Rho kinase/CPI-17 activation and thereby contributes to diabetes-associated vascular smooth muscle hypercontractility. We demonstrate that high glucose increases iPLA(2)beta mRNA, protein, and iPLA(2) activity in a time-dependent manner. Protein kinase C is involved in high glucose-induced iPLA(2)beta protein up-regulation. Inhibiting iPLA(2)beta activity with bromoenol lactone or preventing its expression by genetic deletion abolishes high glucose-induced RhoA/Rho kinase/CPI-17 activation, and restoring expression of iPLA(2)beta in iPLA(2)beta-deficient cells also restores high glucose-induced CPI-17 phosphorylation. Pharmacological and genetic inhibition of 12/15-lipoxygenases has effects on high glucose-induced CPI-17 phosphorylation similar to iPLA(2)beta inhibition. Moreover, increases in iPLA(2) activity and iPLA(2)beta protein expression are also observed in both type 1 and type 2 diabetic vasculature. Pharmacological and genetic inhibition of iPLA(2)beta, but not iPLA(2)gamma, diminishes diabetes-associated vascular smooth muscle hypercontractility. In summary, our results reveal a novel mechanism by which high glucose-induced, protein kinase C-mediated iPLA(2)beta up-regulation activates the RhoA/Rho kinase/CPI-17 via 12/15-lipoxygenases and thereby contributes to diabetes-associated vascular smooth muscle hypercontractility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky School of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA.
authors.forename: Zhongwen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Ming C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Dongping
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turk
authors.forename: Zhenheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D054513:Group IV Phospholipases A2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000378:metabolism*; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D054460:rho-Associated Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D020742:rhoA GTP-Binding Protein / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; C107507:PPP1R14A protein, human; C066737:RHOA protein, human; D054460:rho-Associated Kinases; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D054513:Group IV Phospholipases A2; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; D020742:rhoA GTP-Binding Protein; D005947:Glucose; D002118:Calcium