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Departments of Pharmacological and Physiological Science and Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63104
Previously, we reported that red blood cells (RBCs) of rabbits and humans release ATP in response to mechanical deformation and that this release of ATP requires the activity of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). It was reported that cAMP, acting through a cAMP-dependent protein kinase, PKA, is an activator of CFTR. Here we investigate the hypothesis that cAMP stimulates ATP release from RBCs. Incubation of human and rabbit RBCs with the direct activator of adenylyl cyclase, forskolin (10 or 100 µM), with IBMX (100 µM), resulted in ATP release and increases in intracellular cAMP. In addition, epinephrine (1 µM), a receptor-mediated activator of adenylyl cyclase, stimulated ATP release from rabbit RBCs. Moreover, incubation of human and rabbit RBCs with an active cAMP analog [adenosine 3'5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate Sp-isomer (Sp-cAMP, 100 µM)] resulted in ATP release. In contrast, forskolin and Sp-cAMP were without effect on dog RBCs, cells known not to release ATP in response to deformation. When rabbit RBCs were incubated with the inactive cAMP analog and inhibitor of PKA activity, adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate Rp-isomer (100 µM), deformation-induced ATP release was attenuated. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that adenylyl cyclase and cAMP are components of a signal-transduction pathway relating RBC deformation to ATP release from human and rabbit RBCs.
pulmonary circulation; red blood cells; cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; nitric oxide
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