Rho/ROCK pathway contributes to the activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase/GATA-4 during myocardial cell hypertrophy.
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The low molecular weight GTPase Rho mediates a variety of cytoskeleton-dependent cell functions and stretch- and G(q) protein-induced hypertrophic responses in cardiac myocytes. Although ROCK, one of Rho's effectors, has been suggested to mediate hypertrophic signals, the relationship of Rho/ROCK with downstream signals is unknown. A zinc finger transcription factor, GATA-4, is activated by extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and is required for the up-regulation of the endothelin-1 gene during myocardial cell hypertrophy. However, it is unknown whether Rho/ROCK signals are linked to downstream GATA-4. By transient transfection assays using a dominant-negative mutant and an activated derivative of ROCK-I, we showed that ROCK-I participates in GATA-4-dependent endothelin-1 transcription. Inhibition of the Rho/ROCK pathway by Y-27632, a selective inhibitor of ROCK, suppressed phenylephrine-stimulated phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and increased the DNA binding activity of cardiac GATA-4. Interestingly, latrunculin B, which inhibits actin polymerization, also prevents phenylephrine-induced responses. These findings demonstrate that the Rho/ROCK pathway is linked to downstream GATA-4 via the activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases during myocardial cell hypertrophy. The results also suggest that changes in actin dynamics provide a convergence point for Rho/ROCK to the downstream signals during this process.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of biological chemistry
دوره 277 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002