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TRPC-mediated actin-myosin contraction is critical for BBB disruption following hypoxic stress.


ABSTRACT: Hypoxia-induced disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the result of many different mechanisms, including alterations to the cytoskeleton. In this study, we identified actin-binding proteins involved in cytoskeletal dynamics with quantitative proteomics and assessed changes in subcellular localization of two proteins involved in actin polymerization [vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP)] and cytoskeleton-plasma membrane cross-linking (moesin). We found significant redistribution of both VASP and moesin to the cytoskeletal and membrane fractions of BBB endothelial cells after 1-h hypoxic stress. We also investigated activation of actin-myosin contraction through assessment of phosphorylated myosin light chain (pMLC) with confocal microscopy. Hypoxia caused a rapid and transient increase in pMLC. Blocking MLC phosphorylation through inhibition of myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) with ML-7 prevented hypoxia-induced BBB disruption and relocalization of the tight junction protein ZO-1. Finally, we implicate the transient receptor potential (TRP)C family of channels in mediating these events since blockade of TRPC channels and the associated calcium influx with SKF-96365 prevents hypoxia-induced permeability changes and the phosphorylation of MLC needed for actin-myosin contraction. These data suggest that hypoxic stress triggers alterations to cytoskeletal structure that contribute to BBB disruption and that calcium influx through TRPC channels contributes to these events.

SUBMITTER: Hicks K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889642 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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TRPC-mediated actin-myosin contraction is critical for BBB disruption following hypoxic stress.

Hicks Kali K   O'Neil Roger G RG   Dubinsky William S WS   Brown Rachel C RC  

American journal of physiology. Cell physiology 20100217 6


Hypoxia-induced disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the result of many different mechanisms, including alterations to the cytoskeleton. In this study, we identified actin-binding proteins involved in cytoskeletal dynamics with quantitative proteomics and assessed changes in subcellular localization of two proteins involved in actin polymerization [vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP)] and cytoskeleton-plasma membrane cross-linking (moesin). We found significant redistribution  ...[more]

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