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  • Title: Essential role of L-arginine uptake and protein tyrosine kinase activity for NO-dependent vasorelaxation induced by stretch, isometric tension and cyclic AMP in rat pulmonary arteries.
    Author: Hucks D, Khan NM, Ward JP.
    Journal: Br J Pharmacol; 2000 Dec; 131(7):1475-81. PubMed ID: 11090123.
    Abstract:
    1. The NO-dependent component of cyclic AMP-induced vasorelaxation in rat pulmonary arteries is critically dependent on extracellular L-arginine but independent of endothelial cell intracellular [Ca(2+)]. We examined whether L-arginine uptake was also essential for NO production induced by passive stretch or isometric tension, processes also reported to be Ca(2+)-independent. 2. The passive length-tension curve was depressed by physiological concentrations of L-arginine (400 microM; P<0.05). Inhibition of the y(+) transporter with 10 mM L-lysine, NO synthase with L-NAME (100 microM), or protein tyrosine kinase with erbstatin A (30 microM) caused identical upward shifts (P<0.001), alone or in combination. Tyrphostin 23 was similar to erbstatin A, whilst the inactive analogue tyrphostin A1 and genistein were without effect. 3. L-arginine (400 microM) shifted the PGF(2 alpha) concentration-response curve under isometric conditions to the right (P<0.05), whereas L-NAME or L-lysine caused a leftward shift (P<0.001). Tyrphostin 23 (30 microM) more than reversed the L-arginine-induced suppression of PGF(2 alpha)-induced tension; subsequent addition of L-NAME had no effect. The L-lysine-sensitive component of CPT cyclic AMP-induced vasorelaxation was abolished by erbstatin A. 4. ACh-induced vasorelaxation was approximately 80% inhibited by L-NAME, but was not affected by L-lysine or 400 microM L-arginine. Erbstatin A reduced the vasorelaxation by only approximately 25%. 5. We conclude that activation of NO production by stretch, isometric tension, or cyclic AMP in rat pulmonary arteries is critically dependent on the presence and uptake of physiological concentrations of extracellular L-arginine, and protein tyrosine kinase activity. This directly contrasts with ACh-induced vasorelaxation, which was independent of extracellular L-arginine, and relatively unaffected by tyrosine kinase inhibition.
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