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Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
Submitted 28 February 2003 ; accepted in final form 6 June 2003
The actin-regulatory protein profilin has been shown to regulate the actin cytoskeleton and the motility of nonmuscle cells. To test the hypothesis that profilin plays a role in regulating smooth muscle contraction, profilin antisense or sense oligodeoxynucleotides were introduced into the canine carotid smooth muscle by a method of reversible permeabilization, and these strips were incubated for 2 days for protein downregulation. The treatment of smooth muscle strips with profilin antisense oligodeoxynucleotides inhibited the expression of profilin; it did not influence the expression of actin, myosin heavy chain, and metavinculin/vinculin. Profilin sense did not affect the expression of these proteins in smooth muscle tissues. Force generation in response to stimulation with norepinephrine or KCl was significantly lower in profilin antisense-treated muscle strips than in profilin sense-treated strips or in muscle strips not treated with oligodeoxynucleotides. The depletion of profilin did not attenuate increases in phosphorylation of the 20-kDa regulatory light chain of myosin (MLC20) in response to stimulation with norepinephrine or KCl. The increase in F-actin/G-actin ratio during contractile stimulation was significantly inhibited in profilin-deficient smooth muscle strips. These results suggest that profilin is a necessary molecule of signaling cascades that regulate carotid smooth muscle contraction, but that it does not modulate MLC20 phosphorylation during contractile stimulation. Profilin may play a role in the regulation of actin polymerization or organization in response to contractile stimulation of smooth muscle.
cytoskeleton; actin-binding proteins; actin polymerization; myosin light chain phosphorylation; contraction
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