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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 256: C282-C287, 1989;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 2 C282-C287, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Cross-bridge dephosphorylation and relaxation of vascular smooth muscle

C. M. Hai and R. A. Murphy
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908.

We tested the hypothesis that relaxation in vascular smooth muscle is the result of inactivation of myosin light chain kinase and cross-bridge dephosphorylation. Fast neurally mediated contractions of swine carotid medial strips were induced by electrical field stimulation. Termination of the stimulus resulted in relaxation with a half time of 2 min. Nifedipine (0.1 microM) increased the relaxation rate without significant effects on the contractile response. Cross-bridge dephosphorylation was much faster than stress decay with basal levels reached within 1 min when 73% of the developed stress remained. The time-course data of dephosphorylation and stress were analyzed with a model that predicted the dependences of stress and isotonic shortening velocity on cross-bridge phosphorylation during contraction. Rate constants resolved from contraction data also fitted the relaxation data when the model's prediction was corrected for estimated errors in the phosphorylation measurements. Because Ca2+-dependent cross-bridge phosphorylation was the only postulated regulatory mechanism in the model, these results are consistent with the hypothesis that cross-bridge dephosphorylation is necessary and sufficient to explain relaxation in the swine carotid media.


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