scholarly journals Antibodies against the non-muscle isoform of the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase

1989 ◽  
Vol 264 (3) ◽  
pp. 765-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Wuytack ◽  
J A Eggermont ◽  
L Raeymaekers ◽  
L Plessers ◽  
R Casteels
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Cdna Sequence ◽  
Polyclonal Antiserum ◽  
Transport Atpase ◽  
C Terminus ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Gastric Smooth Muscle ◽  
Liver And Kidney ◽  
Alternatively Spliced

We report here the production of a polyclonal antiserum which specifically recognizes an epitope confined to the ultimate 12-residue-long C-terminus of an alternatively spliced transcript of gene 2 encoding the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump in slow skeletal and cardiac muscle. This alternatively spliced transcript was shown to be mainly represented in non-muscle tissues. These antibodies have enabled us to show the presence of the unique C-terminus of this type of Ca2+ pump, as predicted from the cDNA sequence, in the endoplasmic reticulum of vascular and gastric smooth muscle, liver and kidney.

scholarly journals Evidence for two isoforms of the endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+ pump in pig smooth muscle

1989 ◽  
Vol 260 (3) ◽  
pp. 757-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Eggermont ◽  
F Wuytack ◽  
S De Jaegere ◽  
L Nelles ◽  
R Casteels
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Cdna Clones ◽  
Gene Transcript ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Terminal Amino ◽  
Slow Twitch ◽  
Primary Gene

cDNA clones coding for the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase have been cloned from a pig smooth-muscle cDNA library. The transcripts can be divided into two classes which differ in their 3′ ends due to alternative splicing of the primary gene transcript. The class 1 cDNA encodes a protein of 997 amino acids (Mr 110,000). The class 2 protein (1042 amino acids; Mr 115,000) is completely identical to the class 1 protein except that the four C-terminal amino acids of the class 1 protein are replaced in the class 2 protein with a tail of 49 amino acids. Comparison of these sequences with other Ca2+ pump sequences reveals that the class 1 isoform corresponds to the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump of slow-twitch skeletal/cardiac muscle, whereas the class 2 protein corresponds to a Ca2+ pump recently detected in non-muscle tissues.

Receptor-mediated biological effects of extracts obtained from three Asplenium species

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Venelin H. Petkov ◽  
Raina G. Ardasheva ◽  
Natalia A. Prissadova ◽  
Athanas D. Kristev ◽  
Plamen S. Stoyanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Acetylcholinesterase Activity ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Signaling System ◽  
Concentration Dependent Manner ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Gastric Smooth Muscle ◽  
Combined Pretreatment ◽  
Fern Species

Abstract This study reports the effects of aqueous extracts obtained from three fern species of Bulgarian origin: Asplenium ceterach L., Asplenium scolopendrium L., and Asplenium trichomanes L. on the contractility and bioelectrogenesis of rat gastric smooth muscle tissues. In the concentration range 0.015–0.150 mg/mL the three extracts contracted smooth muscle tissues in a concentration-dependent manner. The contractions caused by A. ceterach L. and A. scolopendrium L. extracts (0.150 mg/mL) were reduced by ketanserin (5 × 10−7 and 5 × 10−6 mol/L), an antagonist of serotonin 5-HT2 receptor. The contraction evoked by A. trichomanes L. (0.150 mg/mL) was significantly reduced by 1 × 10−6 mol/L atropine, an antagonist of muscarinic receptors, and turned into relaxation against the background of 3 × 10−7 mol/L galantamine. After combined pretreatment with galantamine and l-arginine (5 × 10−4 mol/L), this relaxation become more pronounced. The study demonstrates that constituents of A. ceterach L. and A. scolopendrium L. extracts act as agonists of 5-HT2 receptors and cause contraction by activating serotonergic signaling system. A. trichomanes L.-induced reaction is an additive result of two opposite-in-character effects. The dominant contraction is initiated by inhibition of acetylcholinesterase activity. The relaxation develops with pre-inhibited acetylcholinesterase, it is significantly potentiated by l-arginine, and therefore associated with nitrergic signaling pathway.

Testing biological activity of model Maillard reaction products: studies on gastric smooth muscle tissues

Amino Acids ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 797-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana D. Argirova ◽  
Iliyana D. Stefanova ◽  
Athanas D. Krustev ◽  
Valentin I. Turiiski
Keyword(s):  
Biological Activity ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Maillard Reaction ◽  
Maillard Reaction Products ◽  
Reaction Products ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Gastric Smooth Muscle

scholarly journals Inhibitory antibodies to plasmalemmal Ca2+-transporting ATPases. Their use in subcellular localization of (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-dependent ATPase activity in smooth muscle

1985 ◽  
Vol 231 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Verbist ◽  
F Wuytack ◽  
L Raeymaekers ◽  
R Casteels
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Membrane Fraction ◽  
Transport Atpase ◽  
Calmodulin Binding ◽  
Dependent Atpase ◽  
Inhibitory Antibodies ◽  
Stimulation Of

Antibodies directed against the purified calmodulin-binding (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase [(Ca2+ + Mg2+)-dependent ATPase] from pig erythrocytes and from smooth muscle of pig stomach (antral part) were raised in rabbits. Both the IgGs against the erythrocyte (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase and against the smooth-muscle (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase inhibited the activity of the purified calmodulin-binding (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase from smooth muscle. Up to 85% of the total (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity in a preparation of KCl-extracted smooth-muscle membranes was inhibited by these antibodies. The (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity and the Ca2+ uptake in a plasma-membrane-enriched fraction from this smooth muscle were inhibited to the same extent, whereas in an endoplasmic-reticulum-enriched membrane fraction the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity was inhibited by only 25% and no effect was observed on the oxalate-stimulated Ca2+ uptake. This supports the hypothesis that, in pig stomach smooth muscle, two separate types of Ca2+-transport ATPase exist: a calmodulin-binding ATPase located in the plasma membrane and a calmodulin-independent one present in the endoplasmic reticulum. The antibodies did not affect the stimulation of the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase activity by calmodulin.

scholarly journals Smooth muscle expresses a cardiac/slow muscle isoform of the Ca2+-transport ATPase in its endoplasmic reticulum

1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Wuytack ◽  
Y Kanmura ◽  
J A Eggermont ◽  
L Raeymaekers ◽  
J Verbist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Cardiac Muscle ◽  
Muscle Enzymes ◽  
Transport Atpase ◽  
Slow Twitch ◽  
Transport Atpases ◽  
Fast Twitch

Smooth muscle expresses in its endoplasmic reticulum an isoform of the Ca2+-transport ATPase that is very similar to or identical with that of the cardiac-muscle/slow-twitch skeletal-muscle form. However, this enzyme differs from that found in fast-twitch skeletal muscle. This conclusion is based on two independent sets of observations, namely immunological observations and phosphorylation experiments. Immunoblot experiments show that two different antibody preparations against the Ca2+-transport ATPase of cardiac-muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum also recognize the endoplasmic-reticulum/sarcoplasmic-reticulum enzyme of the smooth muscle and the slow-twitch skeletal muscle whereas they bind very weakly or not at all to the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase of the fast-twitch skeletal muscle. Conversely antibodies directed against the fast-twitch skeletal-muscle isoform of the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPase do not bind to the cardiac-muscle, smooth-muscle or slow-twitch skeletal-muscle enzymes. The phosphorylated tryptic fragments A and A1 of the sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPases have the same apparent Mr values in cardiac muscle, slow-twitch skeletal muscle and smooth muscle, whereas the corresponding fragments in fast-twitch skeletal muscle have lower apparent Mr values. This analytical procedure is a new and easy technique for discrimination between the isoforms of endoplasmic-reticulum/sarcoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-transport ATPases.

scholarly journals Evidence for the presence in smooth muscle of two types of Ca2+-transport ATPase

1984 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Wuytack ◽  
L Raeymaekers ◽  
J Verbist ◽  
H De Smedt ◽  
R Casteels
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Acid Medium ◽  
Erythrocyte Membrane ◽  
Proteolytic Degradation ◽  
Transport Atpase ◽  
Degradation Pattern ◽  
Transport Atpases

Membrane fractions prepared from smooth muscle of the pig stomach (antral part) contain two Ca2+-dependent phosphoprotein intermediates belonging to different Ca2+-transport ATPases. These alkali-labile phosphoproteins can be separated by electrophoresis in acid medium. The 130 kDa phosphoprotein resembles a corresponding protein in the erythrocyte membrane, whereas the 100 kDa protein resembles that of the Ca2+-transport ATPase in sarcoplasmic reticulum from skeletal muscle. These resemblances are expressed in terms of Mr, reaction to La3+ and in a similar proteolytic degradation pattern. The presence of the calmodulin-stimulated ATPase in mixed membranes from smooth muscle is confirmed by its binding of calmodulin and antibodies against erythrocyte Ca2+-transport ATPase, whereas such binding does not occur with proteins present in the presumed endoplasmic reticulum from smooth muscle.

scholarly journals Hypoxic conditioning in blood vessels and smooth muscle tissues: effects on function, mechanisms, and unknowns

2018 ◽  
Vol 315 (4) ◽  
pp. H756-H770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmaa M. Almohanna ◽  
Susan Wray
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Contractile Activity ◽  
Smooth Muscles ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Hypoxic Preconditioning ◽  
Visceral Organs ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Force Increase ◽  
Liver And Kidney

Hypoxic preconditioning, the protective effect of brief, intermittent hypoxic or ischemic episodes on subsequent more severe hypoxic episodes, has been known for 30 yr from studies on cardiac muscle. The concept of hypoxic preconditioning has expanded; excitingly, organs beyond the heart, including the brain, liver, and kidney, also benefit. Preconditioning of vascular and visceral smooth muscles has received less attention despite their obvious importance to health. In addition, there has been no attempt to synthesize the literature in this field. Therefore, in addition to overviewing the current understanding of hypoxic conditioning, in the present review, we consider the role of blood vessels in conditioning and explore evidence for conditioning in other smooth muscles. Where possible, we have distinguished effects on myocytes from other cell types in the visceral organs. We found evidence of a pivotal role for blood vessels in conditioning and for conditioning in other smooth muscle, including the bladder, vascular myocytes, and gastrointestinal tract, and a novel response in the uterus of a hypoxic-induced force increase, which helps maintain contractions during labor. To date, however, there are insufficient data to provide a comprehensive or unifying mechanism for smooth muscles or visceral organs and the effects of conditioning on their function. This also means that no firm conclusions can be drawn as to how differences between smooth muscles in metabolic and contractile activity may contribute to conditioning. Therefore, we have suggested what may be general mechanisms of conditioning occurring in all smooth muscles and tabulated tissue-specific mechanistic findings and suggested ideas for further progress.

scholarly journals Expression of endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-pump isoforms and of phospholamban in pig smooth-muscle tissues

1990 ◽  
Vol 271 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Eggermont ◽  
F Wuytack ◽  
J Verbist ◽  
R Casteels
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Pulmonary Artery ◽  
Western Blot ◽  
Mrna Levels ◽  
Protection Assay ◽  
Western Blots ◽  
Specific Antibodies ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Low Levels

The expression of the gene 2 sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2(+)-pump isoforms (SERCA2a and SERCA2b) and of phospholamban was studied in pig smooth muscle of the stomach, longitudinal ileum, pulmonary artery and aorta. mRNA levels were determined using an RNAase protection assay. The SERCA2 isoforms and phospholamban were tested on Western blots with a panel of antibodies, some of which were isoform-specific. The pig smooth-muscle tissues all contained comparable SERCA2 mRNA levels, but these levels were 10-20-fold lower than SERCA2 mRNA levels in cardiac muscle. Of the SERCA2 mRNAs in smooth muscle, 72-81% encoded the non-muscle isoform (SERCA2b), and Western blot analysis with isoform-specific antibodies confirmed that the SERCA2b isoform is the predominant endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2(+)-pump in smooth muscle. In contrast with SERCA2 mRNA levels, phospholamban mRNA levels varied by 12-fold between the different pig smooth-muscle tissues, with low and very low levels in the pig pulmonary artery and the pig aorta respectively. The differential expression of phospholamban was also confirmed on Western blots. The finding that the phospholamban content varied between the different smooth-muscle tissues whereas the SERCA2 expression remained rather constant indicates that, in pig smooth muscle, the expression of phospholamban is not coupled with that of SERCA2.

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