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1 Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cleffler{at}physio1.utmem.edu.
Dilation of piglet pial arterioles to glutamate involves carbon monoxide (CO) produced from heme by heme oxygenase -2 (HO-2). Piglet cerebral microvessels and endothelial and smooth muscle cells grown on microcarrier beads were used to address the hypothesis that glutamate increases endothelial CO production by increasing HO-2 catalytic activity. CO was measured by gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry. Glutamate increased CO production from endogenous heme by cerebral microvessels, endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells. Glutamate increased the conversion of exogenous heme to CO. Protein tyrosine kinase inhibition blocked glutamate stimulation of CO production. Inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatases stimulated CO production. Conversely, neither phorbol myristate acetate nor H-7 changed glutamate stimulation of CO production. The mechanism of HO-2 stimulation by glutamate appears to be independent of cytosolic Ca, since stimulation of CO production by glutamate was the same in Ca replete medium, Ca free medium with ionomycin, and Ca replete medium with ionomycin. Therefore, glutamate appears to increase HO-2 catalytic activity in cerebral microvessels via a tyrosine kinase mediated pathway.
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