Correction
for
Minshall et al., Circ Res 81 (5) 848-856.
Circulation Research. 1998;82:137
(Circulation Research. 1998;82:137.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
Correction
In the article by Minshall et
al, "Potentiation of the Actions
of Bradykinin by Angiotensin
I-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors:
The Role of Expressed Human Bradykinin
B
2 Receptors and Angiotensin
I-Converting Enzyme in CHO
Cells" (
Circ Res. 1997;81:848-856),
paragraph 2 of page
855 should read as follows: Even if ACE
expression is
relatively low, the inhibitor still potentiates
BK. Because in
cotransfection experiments ACE was expressed
in lower concentration
than B
2 receptor, we carried out experiments
to determine
whether this would influence the results (B. Marcic,
S. Danilov, P.
Deddish, F. Tan, E.G. Erdös, unpublished
data). In those
experiments, we did not use the coexpression
system, but we
sequentially transfected the cells first with
full-size cDNA for ACE.
By clonal selection, cells with high
ACE activity were transfected with
B
2 receptor cDNA. The experiments
reversed the molar ratio
between the ACE and the B
2 receptor
molecule to 5:1, but
enalaprilat potentiated BK the same way
as before, established by
measuring arachidonic acid release.