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  • Title: Lysophosphatidylcholine modifies G protein-dependent signaling in porcine endothelial cells.
    Author: Flavahan NA.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1993 Mar; 264(3 Pt 2):H722-7. PubMed ID: 8456975.
    Abstract:
    Certain endothelial receptors are coupled to a pertussis toxin-sensitive inhibitory guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory (Gi) protein. In pigs, hypercholesterolemia causes a selective impairment of this Gi protein-dependent pathway. Recent studies have suggested that hypercholesterolemia-induced endothelial dysfunction may be caused by lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) derived from oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL). The aim of the present study was to determine whether LPC could inhibit the Gi protein-dependent pathway. Isolated rings of porcine coronary arteries were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with physiological salt solution (37 degrees C, 95% O2-5% CO2). In rings with endothelium contracted with prostaglandin F2 alpha, pertussis toxin (100 ng/ml) or LPC (10(-5) M) inhibited the endothelium-dependent relaxations evoked by UK-14,304, an alpha 2-adrenergic agonist, or by serotonin, but not those caused by bradykinin or ADP. LPC also did not inhibit relaxations produced by SIN 1, an endothelium-derived relaxing factor-nitric oxide donor. After treatment of the rings with pertussis toxin, LPC no longer inhibited the endothelium-dependent relaxations to serotonin. Although LPC inhibited the responses of membrane-bound receptors that activate the pertussis toxin-sensitive Gi protein, LPC did not affect the endothelium-dependent relaxations evoked by direct activation of the pertussis toxin-sensitive Gi protein by fluoride. These results suggest that LPC selectively inhibits a Gi protein-dependent pathway in porcine endothelial cells possibly by disrupting receptor-G protein interactions. LPC that is associated with oxidized LDL may mediate in part the dysfunction in the endothelial Gi protein-dependent pathway associated with hypercholesterolemia.
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