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Assessment of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Reserve and Intracellular Diastolic Calcium Removal in Isolated Ventricular Cardiomyocytes
Published on: September 18, 2017
Adenylyl cyclase type VI corrects cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium uptake defects in cardiomyopathy
Tong Tang1, Mei Hua Gao, David M Roth
1Department of Medicine, 111A, VA San Diego Healthcare System, 3350 La Jolla Village Dr., San Diego, CA 92161, USA.
Abstract:
Calcium malfunction plays a central role in heart failure. Here, we provide evidence that adenylyl cyclase type VI restores sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum 2a (SERCA2a) affinity for calcium and maximum velocity of cardiac calcium uptake by sarcoplasmic reticulum in murine dilated cardiomyopathy. Restoration of normal SERCA2a affinity for calcium is associated not only with decreased phospholamban protein expression but also with increased phospholamban phosphorylation by PKA activation. The ratio of phosphorylated ryanodine receptor 2 (RyR2) to RyR2 protein was increased, but the amount of phosphorylated RyR2 was unaffected. These data provide a possible mechanism by which adenylyl cyclase type VI (in contrast to other signaling elements associated with increased cAMP generation) has a salutary effect in the failing heart.
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