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. 2002 Jul 12;91(1):70-6.
doi: 10.1161/01.res.0000023391.40106.a8.

Impairment of store-operated Ca2+ entry in TRPC4(-/-) mice interferes with increase in lung microvascular permeability

Chinnaswamy Tiruppathi  1 , Marc Freichel, Stephen M Vogel, Biman C Paria, Dolly Mehta, Veit Flockerzi, Asrar B Malik
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Impairment of store-operated Ca2+ entry in TRPC4(-/-) mice interferes with increase in lung microvascular permeability

Chinnaswamy Tiruppathi et al. Circ Res. .

Abstract

We investigated the possibility that the TRPC gene family of putative store-operated Ca2+ entry channels contributes to the increase in microvascular endothelial permeability by prolonging the rise in intracellular Ca2+ signaling. Studies were made in wild-type (wt) and TRPC4 knockout (TRPC4(-/-) mice and lung vascular endothelial cells (LECs) isolated from these animals. RT-PCR showed expression of TRPC1, TRPC3, TRPC4, and TRPC6 mRNA in wt LECs, but TRPC4 mRNA expression was not detected in TRPC4(-/-) LECs. We studied the response to thrombin because it is known to increase endothelial permeability by the activation of G protein-coupled proteinase-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1). In wt LECs, thrombin or PAR-1 agonist peptide (TFLLRNPNDK-NH2) resulted in a prolonged Ca2+ transient secondary to influx of Ca2+. Ca2+ influx activated by thrombin was blocked by La3+ (1 micromol/L). In TRPC4(-/-) LECs, thrombin or TFLLRNPNDK-NH2 produced a similar initial increase of intracellular Ca2+ secondary to Ca2+ store depletion, but Ca2+ influx induced by these agonists was drastically reduced. The defect in Ca2+ influx in TRPC4(-/-) endothelial cells was associated with lack of thrombin-induced actin-stress fiber formation and a reduced endothelial cell retraction response. In isolated-perfused mouse lungs, the PAR-1 agonist peptide increased microvessel filtration coefficient (K(f,c)), a measure of vascular permeability, by a factor of 2.8 in wt and 1.4 in TRPC4(-/-); La3+ (1 micromol/L) addition to wt lung perfusate reduced the agonist effect to that observed in TRPC4(-/-). These results show that TRPC4-dependent Ca2+ entry in mouse LECs is a key determinant of increased microvascular permeability.

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