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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 7:1007-1018, 2008.
© 2008 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Comparative Proteomics Analysis of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Incubated with S- and R-Enantiomers of Atenolol Using iTRAQ-coupled Two-dimensional LC-MS/MS^*,S

Jianjun Sui^,, Jianhua Zhang^,¶, Tuan Lin Tan, Chi Bun Ching^|| and Wei Ning Chen^||

From the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459, Singapore

Atenolol is a β₁-selective drug, which exerts greater blocking activity on β₁-adrenoreceptors than on β₂-adrenoreceptors, with the S-enantiomer being more active than R-enantiomer. The aim of this study was to investigate the proteins with differential protein expression levels in the proteome of vascular smooth muscle cells (A7r5) incubated separately with individual enantiomers of atenolol using an iTRAQ-coupled two-dimensional LC-MS/MS approach. Our results indicated that some calcium-binding proteins such as calmodulin, protein S100-A11, protein S100-A4, and annexin A6 were down-regulated and showed relatively lower protein levels in cells incubated with the S-enantiomer of atenolol than those incubated with the R-enantiomer, whereas metabolic enzymes such as aspartate aminotransferase, glutathione S-transferase P, NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase, and -N-acetylgalactosaminidase precursor were up-regulated and displayed higher protein levels in cells incubated with the S-enantiomer relative to those incubated with the R-enantiomer. The involvement of NADH-cytochrome b₅ reductase in the intracellular anabolic activity was validated by NAD⁺/NADH assay with a higher ratio of NAD⁺/NADH correlating with a higher proportion of NAD⁺. The down-regulation of the calcium-binding proteins was possibly involved in the lower intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration in A7r5 cells incubated with the S-enantiomer of atenolol. Ca²⁺ signals transduced by calcium-binding proteins acted on cytoskeletal proteins such as nestin and β-tropomyosin, which can play a complex role in phenotypic modulation and regulation of the cytoskeletal modeling. Our preliminary results thus provide molecular evidence on the metabolic effect and possible link of calcium-binding proteins with treatment of hypertension associated with atenolol.

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