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Application of Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Nitric Oxide (NO•) Probes, the geNOps, for Real-time Imaging of NO• Signals in Single Cells
Published on: March 16, 2017
Modulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by fibronectin
R I Viji1, V B Sameer Kumar, M S Kiran
1Department of Biochemistry, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695 581, India.
Abstract:
Nitric oxide (NO) produced by the action of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays an important role in the regulation of vascular tone, cell survival, and angiogenesis. Interaction of endothelial cells (ECs) with a fibronectin (FN) rich matrix is important in the regulation of EC function and survival during angiogenesis. The present study was carried out to examine if FN can regulate eNOS and thereby NO levels in ECs. The activity and the levels of mRNA and protein of eNOS were significantly low in HUVECs maintained in culture on FN. Inhibition of p38 MAPK and blocking the interaction of FN with alpha(5)beta(1) integrin using antibody caused the reversal of the FN effect. Immunoblot analysis of Ser/Thr phosphorylation of purified eNOS suggested that FN downregulates post-translational phosphorylation of eNOS at Ser residues. These results suggest that FN negatively modulates eNOS in an alpha(5)beta(1) integrin-p38 MAPK-dependent pathway.
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