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Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada 89557
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) phosphorylate caldesmon in vivo, but the function of caldesmon phosphorylation in smooth muscle physiology is controversial. We hypothesized that ERK MAPKs and caldesmon modulate chemotactic migration of cultured canine pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF; 10 ng/ml) and endothelin-1 (ET-1; 100 nM) transiently activated ERK MAPKs: PDGF produced higher maximal and more potent activation of ERK MAPKs over 5 h. While both PDGF and ET-1 increased caldesmon phosphorylation, only PDGF stimulated migration of cultured cells (13 times over basal migration). At concentrations from 0.01 to 10 nM, ET-1 failed to enhance migration; 100 nM ET-1 produced only a slight increase (1.31 ± 0.18 times basal migration). ET-1 (100 nM) did not potentiate migration triggered by 0.5 or 3 ng/ml PDGF. The MEK1 inhibitor PD-98059 (50 µM) abolished the PDGF-stimulated phosphorylation of ERK MAPKs and caldesmon and reduced cell migration by 50%. We conclude that while ERK MAPK activity is not required to initiate migration, an ERK MAPK-caldesmon pathway may modulate later events necessary for PDGF-stimulated migration of cultured PASMCs.
endothelin-1; PD-98059; extracellular signal-regulated kinase; mitogen-activated protein kinase; platelet-derived growth factor; smooth muscle cells
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