Stimulatory effects of arachidonic acid on myosin ATPase activity and contraction of smooth muscle via myosin motor domain

American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Takeshi KatayamaKazuhiro Kohama

Abstract

We have been searching for a mechanism to induce smooth muscle contraction that is not associated with phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain (RLC) of smooth muscle myosin (Nakamura A, Xie C, Zhang Y, Gao Y, Wang HH, Ye LH, Kishi H, Okagaki T, Yoshiyama S, Hayakawa K, Ishikawa R, Kohama K. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 369: 135-143, 2008). In this article, we report that arachidonic acid (AA) stimulates ATPase activity of unphosphorylated smooth muscle myosin with maximal stimulation (R(max)) of 6.84 +/- 0.51 relative to stimulation by the vehicle and with a half-maximal effective concentration (EC(50)) of 50.3 +/- 4.2 microM. In the presence of actin, R(max) was 1.72 +/- 0.08 and EC(50) was 26.3 +/- 2.3 microM. Our experiments with eicosanoids consisting of the AA cascade suggested that they neither stimulated nor inhibited the activity. Under conditions that did not allow RLC to be phosphorylated, AA stimulated contraction of smooth muscle tissue with an R(max) of 1.45 +/- 0.07 and an EC(50) of 27.0 +/- 4.4 microM. In addition to the ATPase activities of the myosin, AA stimulated those of heavy meromyosin, subfragment 1 (S1), S1 from which the RLC was removed, and a recombinant heavy chain consisting of the myosin head. T...Continue Reading

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