Digestion of endothelin-1 on cultured vascular smooth muscle cells.

Abstract:

:The degradation of 125I-endothelin-1 (125I-ET-1) was examined on cultured porcine aortic endothelial cell (EC) and rat vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) by HPLC analysis. The degradation of ET-1 was observed on SMC and was slightly observed on EC. Membrane fractions of SMC had a strong potency for the degradation of ET-1 and retained activity even in plasma. This activity was inhibited with some of the noble inhibitors which were known as enkephalinase inhibitors. These results suggest that endothelin degradation enzyme on SMC is related to enkephalinase and that this enzyme plays a significant role in the degradation of ET-1 in vivo.

journal_name

Biol Pharm Bull

authors

Edano T,Arai K,Koshi T,Torii T,Ohshima T,Hirata M,Ohkuchi M,Okabe T

doi

10.1248/bpb.17.376

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-03-01 00:00:00

pages

376-8

issue

3

eissn

0918-6158

issn

1347-5215

journal_volume

17

pub_type

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