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Nitric oxide suppresses increases in mesangial cell protein kinase C, transforming growth factor beta, and fibronectin synthesis induced by thromboxane

RK Studer, FR DeRubertis and PA Craven
Department of Medicine, VAMC, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240, USA.

Thromboxane (TX) stimulation of fibronectin (FN) synthesis in mesangial cells (MC) is dependent on protein kinase C (PKC)-mediated increases in transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta), and is suppressed by increases in cellular cGMP. The current studies evaluate the role of cGMP-dependent and -independent actions of nitric oxide (NO) in modulating the responses of MC to the TX analogue U46619. TX-stimulated increases in PKC activity, TGF beta, and FN synthesis in MC were suppressed by either 8-Br-PET-cGMP or the NO donor S-nitroso-N- acetylpenicillamine (SNAP). By contrast, NO, but not cGMP, inhibited basal PKC activity, TGF beta bioactivity and FN synthesis. The cGMP- dependent protein kinase 1-alpha inhibitor 8-(4- chlorophenylthio)guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate (Rp) restored the PKC, TGF beta, and the FN synthetic responses to TX when added to MC before exposure of the cells to either cGMP or SNAP. However, neither Rp nor the guanylate cyclase inhibitor Ly83583 significantly altered SNAP inhibition of basal PKC. In addition, Rp failed to alter the decreases in basal TGF beta bioactivity and FN synthesis seen in the presence of SNAP. In contrast to the FN response to U46619, cGMP and SNAP did not affect the stimulation of FN synthesis by exogenous TGF beta. The later findings are consistent with inhibitory actions of NO and cGMP at, or proximal to, U46619-induced increases in TGF beta in the suppression of TX-signaled increases in FN synthesis. Thus, NO depresses basal PKC and TGF beta bioactivity in MC by mechanisms that are largely independent of cGMP, whereas NO inhibition of these MC responses to TX is mediated primarily by increases in cGMP and activation of protein kinase 1-alpha.

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