title: Decreased expression of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-pump ATPase in congestive heart failure due to myocardial infarction.
abstract: Myocardial infarction in rats induced by occluding the left coronary artery for 4, 8 and 16 weeks has been shown to result in congestive heart failure (CHF) characterized by hypertrophy of the viable ventricular myocardial tissue. We have previously demonstrated a decreased calcium transport activity in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of post-myocardial infarction failing rat hearts. In this study we have measured the steady state levels of the cardiac SR Ca(2+)-pump ATPase (SERCA2) mRNA using Northern blot and slot blot analyses. The relative amounts of SERCA2 mRNA were decreased with respect to GAPDH mRNA and 28 S rRNA in experimental failing hearts at 4 and 8 weeks post myocardial infarction by about 20% whereas those at 16 weeks declined by about 35% of control values. The results obtained by Western blot analysis, revealed that the immunodetectable levels of SERCA2 protein in 8 and 16 weeks postinfarcted animals were decreased by about 20% and 30%, respectively. The left ventricular SR Ca(2+)-pump ATPase specific activity was depressed in the SR preparations of failing hearts as early as 4 weeks post myocardial infarction and declined by about 65% at 16 weeks compared to control. These results indicate that the depressed SR Ca(2+)-pump ATPase activity in CHF may partly be due to decreased steady state amounts of SERCA2 mRNA and SERCA2 protein in the failing myocardium.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zarain-Herzberg
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Afzal
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Elimban
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Dhalla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D017301:Ca(2+) Mg(2+)-ATPase / Q000378:metabolism; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000201:enzymology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D017301:Ca(2+) Mg(2+)-ATPase; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases