Distinct functions of down‐regulation‐sensitive and ‐resistant types of protein kinase C in rabbit aortic smooth muscle cells
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In quiescent cultures of rabbit aortic smooth muscle cells, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) induced DNA synthesis to some extent in the presence of rabbit plasma-derived serum but inhibited the rabbit whole blood serum (WBS)-induced DNA synthesis and increase in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration Ca2+]i). Prolonged treatment of the cells with phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu) caused the partial down-regulation of protein kinase C to a level of 25-35% of that in control cells. In these PDBu-pretreated cells, TPA neither induced DNA synthesis nor inhibited the WBS-induced DNA synthesis, but still inhibited the WBS-induced increase in [Ca2+]i. These results suggest that there are down-regulation-sensitive and -resistant types of protein kinase C in rabbit aortic smooth muscle cells; that the down-regulation-sensitive type has the proliferative and antiproliferative actions whereas the down-regulation-resistant type lacks them; and that the down-regulation-resistant type has the activity to inhibit the WBS-induced increase in [Ca2+]i.Keywords:
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