Inhibition of ERK activation attenuates endothelin-stimulated airway smooth muscle cell proliferation

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
A WhelchelJ Posada

Abstract

Endothelin is a small peptide that is a potent bronchoconstrictor, mitogen for airway smooth muscle (ASM), and is believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of asthma. To understand how endothelin stimulates the proliferation of ASM cells in culture, we evaluated the relationship between mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinase activation and cell proliferation. Endothelin is a potent stimulator of the extracellular regulated kinase 2 (ERK2) subgroup of MAP kinases, and ERK2 activation was tightly correlated with the proliferation of rat ASM cells. PD98059, a small molecule inhibitor of MEK (MAP or ERK kinase) was used to establish the role of ERK2 activation in the endothelin-stimulated signal transduction pathway leading to cell proliferation. While PD98059 significantly inhibited the ability of endothelin to activate ERK, the drug did not appear to effect the catalytic activity of an activated MEK mutant, or ERK in vitro. The data suggest that the mechanism of PD98059 inhibition of the ERK2 pathway in ASM cells may involve inhibition of MEK activation. The endothelin signal transduction pathway that culminates in ERK2 activation was dependent on protein kinase C (PKC), since depletion of PKC significantly inhibited the abilit...Continue Reading

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