title: Striated muscle-specific beta(1D)-integrin and FAK are involved in cardiac myocyte hypertrophic response pathway.
abstract: Alterations in the extracellular matrix occur during the cardiac hypertrophic process. Because integrins mediate cell-matrix adhesion and beta(1D)-integrin (beta1D) is expressed exclusively in cardiac and skeletal muscle, we hypothesized that beta1D and focal adhesion kinase (FAK), a proximal integrin-signaling molecule, are involved in cardiac growth. With the use of cultured ventricular myocytes and myocardial tissue, we found the following: 1) beta1D protein expression was upregulated perinatally; 2) alpha(1)-adrenergic stimulation of cardiac myocytes increased beta1D protein levels 350% and altered its cellular distribution; 3) adenovirally mediated overexpression of beta1D stimulated cellular reorganization, increased cell size by 250%, and induced molecular markers of the hypertrophic response; and 4) overexpression of free beta1D cytoplasmic domains inhibited alpha(1)-adrenergic cellular organization and atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) expression. Additionally, FAK was linked to the hypertrophic response as follows: 1) coimmunoprecipitation of beta1D and FAK was detected; 2) FAK overexpression induced ANF-luciferase; 3) rapid and sustained phosphorylation of FAK was induced by alpha(1)-adrenergic stimulation; and 4) blunting of the alpha(1)-adrenergically modulated hypertrophic response was caused by FAK mutants, which alter Grb2 or Src binding, as well as by FAK-related nonkinase, a dominant interfering FAK mutant. We conclude that beta1D and FAK are both components of the hypertrophic response pathway of cardiac myocytes.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Physiology and Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Pham
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Harpf
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: H T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Vu
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Shai
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Loftus
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D000906:Antibodies; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D048429:Cell Size / Q000502:physiology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000502:physiology; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000378:metabolism; D051417:Focal Adhesion Kinase 1; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology; D019012:Integrin beta1 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology*; D010656:Phenylephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010766:Phosphorylation; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D019012:Integrin beta1; D010656:Phenylephrine; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051417:Focal Adhesion Kinase 1; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C496052:Ptk2 protein, rat