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Thrombospondin-1 supports blood pressure by limiting eNOS activation and endothelial-dependent vasorelaxation.


ABSTRACT:

Aims

Thrombospondin-1 (TSP1), via its necessary receptor CD47, inhibits nitric oxide (NO)-stimulated soluble guanylate cyclase activation in vascular smooth muscle cells, and TSP1-null mice have increased shear-dependent blood flow compared with wild-type mice. Yet, the endothelial basement membrane should in theory function as a barrier to diffusion of soluble TSP1 into the arterial smooth muscle cell layer. These findings suggested that endothelial-dependent differences in blood flow in TSP1-null mice may be the result of direct modulation of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) activation by circulating TSP1. Here we tested the hypothesis that TSP1 inhibits eNOS activation and endothelial-dependent arterial relaxation.

Methods and results

Acetylcholine (ACh)-stimulated activation of eNOS and agonist-driven calcium transients in endothelial cells were inhibited by TSP1. TSP1 also inhibited eNOS phosphorylation at serine(1177). TSP1 treatment of the endothelium of wild-type and TSP1-null but not CD47-null arteries inhibited ACh-stimulated relaxation. TSP1-null vessels demonstrated greater endothelial-dependent vasorelaxation compared with the wild type. Conversely, TSP1-null arteries demonstrated less vasoconstriction to phenylephrine compared with the wild type, which was corrected upon inhibition of eNOS. In TSP1-null mice, intravenous TSP1 blocked ACh-stimulated decreases in blood pressure, and both intravenous TSP1 and a CD47 agonist antibody acutely elevated blood pressure in mice.

Conclusion

TSP1, via CD47, inhibits eNOS activation and endothelial-dependent arterial relaxation and limits ACh-driven decreases in blood pressure. Conversely, intravenous TSP1 and a CD47 antibody increase blood pressure. These findings suggest that circulating TSP1, by limiting endogenous NO production, functions as a pressor agent supporting blood pressure.

SUBMITTER: Bauer EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2972685 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Thrombospondin-1 supports blood pressure by limiting eNOS activation and endothelial-dependent vasorelaxation.

Bauer Eileen M EM   Qin Yan Y   Miller Thomas W TW   Bandle Russell W RW   Csanyi Gabor G   Pagano Patrick J PJ   Bauer Philip M PM   Schnermann Jurgen J   Roberts David D DD   Isenberg Jeff S JS  

Cardiovascular research 20100707 3


<h4>Aims</h4>Thrombospondin-1 (TSP1), via its necessary receptor CD47, inhibits nitric oxide (NO)-stimulated soluble guanylate cyclase activation in vascular smooth muscle cells, and TSP1-null mice have increased shear-dependent blood flow compared with wild-type mice. Yet, the endothelial basement membrane should in theory function as a barrier to diffusion of soluble TSP1 into the arterial smooth muscle cell layer. These findings suggested that endothelial-dependent differences in blood flow i  ...[more]

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