title: Calcium handling and sarcoplasmic-reticular protein functions during heart-failure transition in ventricular myocardium from rats with hypertension.
abstract: The objective of this study was to determine the primary event that occurs in Ca2+-regulatory sarcoplasmic-reticular (SR) proteins during subacute transition from concentric/mechanically-compensated left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy to eccentric/decompensated hypertrophy. Using Dahl salt-sensitive rats with hypertension, changes of myocardial contraction, intracellular Ca2+ transients, SR Ca2+ uptake, protein levels of SR Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA2), phospholamban, and calsequestrin (CSQ), and mRNA levels of SERCA2 and CSQ were serially determined and compared between the established stage of LV hypertrophy (LVH) and the subsequent stage of overt LV dysfunction (CHF). In LVH, isolated LV papillary muscle preparations showed an equal peak-tension level and a mild prolongation of the isometric tension decay compared to those of age-matched controls. The Ca2+ transients as measured by aequorin were unchanged. The Ca2+ uptake of isolated SR vesicles and the protein/mRNA levels of SR proteins were also equivalent to those of the controls. In contrast, in CHF, the failing myocardium showed a further prolongation of the contraction time course and a 39% reduction of the peak-tension development. The Ca2+ transients showed changes consisting of a decrease in the peak level and a prolongation of the time course. In addition, the SR Ca2+ uptake was decreased by 41%. Despite these functional changes, the protein and mRNA levels of the SR components remained equivalent to those of the age-matched controls. Thus, in this hypertensive animal, 1) at the LVH stage, myocardial contractility and intracellular capability to regulate Ca2+ remained normal; 2) at the CHF stage, impaired SR Ca2+ handling and the subsequent reduction of myocardial contraction were in progress; and 3) impairments of SR function occurred at the post-translational protein level rather than at the transcriptional/translational levels. Our findings support the role of SR proteins as the primary determinant of the contractile dysfunction that occurs during the heart-failure transition; however, post-translational modulators of these SR elements may also be critical.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Sakyo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoneda
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kihara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohkusa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iwanaga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inagaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hayashida
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueyama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hisamatsu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hatac
authors.forename: M
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authors.lastname: Matsuzaki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sasayama
mesh_terms: D000331:Aequorin / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D002155:Calsequestrin / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D020303:Rats, Inbred Dahl; D012433:Ryanodine / Q000494:pharmacology; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D053498:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000503:physiopathology; D000099211:Phospholamban
chemical_list: D000331:Aequorin; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor; D002118:Calcium; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D002155:Calsequestrin; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012433:Ryanodine; D053498:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D000099211:Phospholamban; C506948:Atp2a2 protein, rat