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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 274: C1206-C1214, 1998;
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Vol. 274, Issue 5, C1206-C1214, May 1998

Serum deprivation induces a unique hypercontractile phenotype of cultured smooth muscle cells

Xuefei Ma, Ying Wang, and Newman L. Stephens

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E 3J7

Chronic asthma is characterized by hypertrophy and hyperplasia of airway smooth muscle cells (SMC) that limit airflow by a geometric effect. Whether contractility of airway SMC is altered is not clear. Cultured cells were used as a model of hyperplasia. Phenotypic changes seen indicated conversion to a synthetic, weakly contractile type. At confluence, although limited reversal of protein changes was seen, no restoration in contractility occurred. Phenotypic modulation of postconfluent cultured airway SMC under prolonged serum deprivation (arrested cells) is reported here. Two phenotypically distinct groups of cells were identified in primary airway SMC cultures: 1) elongated spindle-shaped cells, which expressed large amounts of smooth muscle contractile and regulatory proteins, and 2) flat and stellate cells, which expressed very little. The first group showed a surprising shortening capacity and a velocity that was even greater than that of the freshly isolated cells, whereas the second group became spherical and noncontractile. Even more surprising was that the myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform (SM-B) generally said to be associated with the higher shortening velocity disappeared from the cell, while the content of the key rate-limiting regulating enzyme, myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), increased 30-fold. We conclude that a functional, contractile phenotype of airway SMC can be obtained by prolonged serum deprivation. We speculate that the increased contractility could be the result of increased phosphorylation of the 20-kDa myosin light chain resulting from increased content of smooth muscle MLCK rather than any increase in endogenous MHC ATPase activity. This model may be useful for study of SMC differentiation and contraction.

smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase; smooth muscle myosin heavy chain isoform; airway; asthma


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