Histamine alters cadherin-mediated sites of endothelial adhesion

We tested the hypothesis that histamine alters the focal apposition of endothelial cells by acting on sites of cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion. Focal apposition was measured as the impedance of a cell-covered electrode, which was partitioned into a cell-matrix resistance, a cell-cell resistance, and membrane capacitance. Histamine causes an immediate, short-lived decrease in the impedance of an electrode covered with human umbilical vein endothelial (HUVE) cells. ECV304 cells are a line of spontaneously transformed HUVE cells that do not express the endothelial cadherin, cadherin-5. Histamine increased ECV304 cell calcium to 600 nM. Histamine did not increase myosin light chain phosphorylation of control or transfected ECV304 cells. ECV304 cells transfected with either E-cadherin or cadherin-5 on a dexamethasone-responsive plasmid (pLKneo) increased their cell-cell resistance when stimulated with dexamethasone, whereas ECV304 cells transfected with pLKneo-lacZ did not. Histamine did not affect the impedance of ECV304 cells transfected with pLKneo-lacZ. In contrast, histamine decreased the cell-cell resistance of ECV304 cells transfected with either pLKneo-E-cadherin or pLKneo-cadherin-5. From these data, we conclude that histamine acts on sites of cadherin-mediated cell-cell apposition.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1999

Erschienen:

1999

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:277

Enthalten in:

The American journal of physiology - 277(1999), 5 vom: 16. Nov., Seite L988-95

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Winter, M C [VerfasserIn]
Kamath, A M [VerfasserIn]
Ries, D R [VerfasserIn]
Shasby, S S [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Y T [VerfasserIn]
Shasby, D M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

820484N8I3
Cadherins
Calcium
Fluorescent Dyes
Fura-2
Histamine
Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
SY7Q814VUP
TSN3DL106G

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Date Completed 14.12.1999

Date Revised 21.09.2018

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1152/ajplung.1999.277.5.L988

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM104941936