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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-8-27
pubmed:abstractText
Smooth muscle from guinea pig taenia coli was chemically skinned with Triton X-100 and stored in ATP-salt solution containing 50% glycerol at -20 degrees C. Fiber bundles were relaxed at Ca2+-concentrations below 10(-7) M, but contracted at 10(-6) M Ca2+. The isometric tension developed could be partly relaxed by the addition of c-AMP (in the presence of NaF), and it could also be inhibited following preincubation with the catalytic subunit of c-AMP dependent protein kinase. The inhibitory effect was much more pronounced at intermediate Ca2+-concentrations (e.g. 10(-6)) than at concentrations producing a maximum contraction, suggesting that Ca-sensitivity had been lowered. Sodium fluoride which was required to potentiate the c-AMP effects was found to have a slight relaxing effect per se. The c-AMP effect may be mediated through activation of cyclic AMP-dependent kinase, producing, phosphorylation of the myosin light chain kinase which, according to Adelstein et al. (1978), may result in a net dephosphorylation of the myosin light chains and a concomittant inhibition of the contractile response.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0031-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
390
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
198-201
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
Cyclic-AMP mediated relaxation of chemically skinned fibers of smooth muscle.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't