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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
59
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-25
pubmed:abstractText
Essential hypertension is a complex, multifactorial disease associated with a high cardiovascular risk and whose genetic-molecular basis is heterogeneous and largely unknown. Although multiple antihypertensive therapies are available, the large individual variability in drug response results in only a modest reduction of the cardiovascular risk and unsatisfactory control of blood pressure in the hypertensive population as a whole. Two mechanisms, among others, are associated with essential hypertension and related organ damage: mutant ?-adducin variants and high concentrations of endogenous ouabain. An antihypertensive agent, rostafuroxin, selectively inhibits these mechanisms in rodents. We investigated the molecular and functional effects of mutant ?-adducin, ouabain, and rostafuroxin in hypertensive rats, human cells, and cell-free systems and demonstrated that both mutant ?-adducin variants and the ouabain-Na,K-ATPase (Na(+)- and K(+)-dependent adenosine triphosphatase) complex can interact with the Src-SH2 (Src homology 2) domain, increasing Src activity and the Src-dependent Na,K-ATPase phosphorylation and activity. Wild-type ?-adducin or Na,K-ATPase in the absence of ouabain showed no interaction with the Src-SH2 domain. Rostafuroxin disrupted the interactions between the Src-SH2 domain and mutant ?-adducin or the ouabain-Na,K-ATPase complex and blunted Src activation and Na,K-ATPase phosphorylation, resulting in blood pressure normalization in the hypertensive rats. We have also shown the translatability of these data to humans in a pharmacogenomic clinical trial, as described in the companion paper.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1946-6242
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
24
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
59ra86
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Androstanols, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Antihypertensive Agents, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Calmodulin-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Cell-Free System, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Mutant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Ouabain, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-src Homology Domains, pubmed-meshheading:21106940-src-Family Kinases
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Adducin- and ouabain-related gene variants predict the antihypertensive activity of rostafuroxin, part 1: experimental studies.
pubmed:affiliation
Prassis sigma-tau Research Institute, Settimo Milanese, Milan 20019, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article