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Identification of a Putative Microvascular Oxygen Sensor
the Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the Clement Zablocki Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wis.
Correspondence to David R. Harder, PhD, Professor and Director, Cardiovascular Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226.
The vascular response to changes in oxygen levels in the blood and tissue is a highly adaptive physiological response that functions to match tissue oxygen supply to metabolic demand. Defining the cellular mechanisms that can sense physiologically relevant changes in PO2 and adjust vascular diameter are vital to our understanding of this process. A cytochrome P450 (P450) enzyme of the 4A family of 
-hydroxylases was localized in renal microvessels, renal cortex, and a striated muscle microvascular bed (cremaster) of the rat. In the presence of molecular oxygen, this P450 enzyme catalyzes formation of 20-HETE from arachidonic acid (AA). Prior studies have shown that 20-HETE potently contracts renal and cerebral arteries and arterioles. The present study demonstrates that 20-HETE constricts striated muscle arterioles as well. In both intact renal microvessels and enriched renal cortical microsomal enzyme preparations, the formation of 20-HETE was linearly dependent on PO2 between 20 and 140 mm Hg. Homogenates of cremaster tissue produced 20-HETE when incubated with AA. They also expressed message for P450 4A enzyme, as determined by Southern and Western blots. Administration of 17-octadecynoic acid (17-ODYA), which is a P450 4A inhibitor, attenuated the constriction of third-order cremasteric arterioles in response to elevation of superfusion solution PO2 from 
3 to 5 mm Hg to 35 mm Hg. 17-ODYA had no effect on basal vascular tone or response of cremaster arterioles to vasoactive compounds. These results demonstrate the existence of P450 -hydroxylase activity and 20-HETE formation in the vasculature and parenchyma of at least two microvascular beds. Our data suggest that a P450 enzyme of the 4A family has the potential to function as an oxygen sensor in mammalian microcirculatory beds and to regulate arteriolar caliber by generating 20-HETE in an oxygen-dependent manner.
Key Words: cytochrome P450 • microcirculation • oxygen
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