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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 264: L1-L6, 1993;
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AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 1 1-L6, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Smooth muscle guanine nucleotides and receptor-effector coupling following inhibition of oxidative energy production

R. F. Coburn, S. Azim, W. S. Fillers and C. B. Baron
Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104.

We measured total concentrations of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and guanosine diphosphate (GDP) in rabbit aortic smooth muscle under several different conditions. We computed free [GDP] and free GTP/GDP (using a Keq of 1.0 for the nucleoside diphosphate kinase reduction) under these conditions. At a time when muscle was contracted by 15 microM norepinephrine (NE) for 5 min under normoxia, [GTP], free [GDP], and free GTP/GDP were 0.29 +/- 0.03 mM, 3.5 microM, and 82, respectively. Following rapid inhibition of oxidative energy production during NE-evoked maintained force, which is associated with slow decreases in mean tissue [PCr], and [ATP] and force relaxation, [GTP] and free GTP/GDP were decreased at relaxation threshold to 0.22 +/- 0.02 (SE) mM and 43, respectively, and progressively fell further, paralleling decreases in force and [ATP] and [PCr]. There were marked decreases in the sum of GTP + GDP contents under conditions where muscle energy stores were decreased (i.e., low [PCr] + [ATP]). Similar data were obtained during a 50 mM KCl-evoked contracture. Free [GDP] increased from normoxic values of 3.5 microM to values as great as 6.0 microM at low energy store states. Free GDP was equivalent to 6% of total GDP under normoxia and increased to 16-21% of total GDP under conditions of low energy stores. Evidence was obtained that decreases in [GTP] or free GTP/GDP seen under conditions of low total energy stores were not sufficient to inhibit heterotrimeric G protein function and uncouple receptor-effector coupling.


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