title: Phospholemman overexpression inhibits Na+-K+-ATPase in adult rat cardiac myocytes: relevance to decreased Na+ pump activity in postinfarction myocytes.
abstract: Messenger RNA levels of phospholemman (PLM), a member of the FXYD family of small single-span membrane proteins with putative ion-transport regulatory properties, were increased in postmyocardial infarction (MI) rat myocytes. We tested the hypothesis that the previously observed reduction in Na+-K+-ATPase activity in MI rat myocytes was due to PLM overexpression. In rat hearts harvested 3 and 7 days post-MI, PLM protein expression was increased by two- and fourfold, respectively. To simulate increased PLM expression post-MI, PLM was overexpressed in normal adult rat myocytes by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer. PLM overexpression did not affect the relative level of phosphorylation on serine68 of PLM. Na+-K+-ATPase activity was measured as ouabain-sensitive Na+-K+ pump current (Ip). Compared with control myocytes overexpressing green fluorescent protein alone, Ip measured in myocytes overexpressing PLM was significantly (P < 0.0001) lower at similar membrane voltages, pipette Na+ ([Na+]pip) and extracellular K+ ([K+]o) concentrations. From -70 to +60 mV, neither [Na+]pip nor [K+]o required to attain half-maximal Ip was significantly different between control and PLM myocytes. This phenotype of decreased V(max) without appreciable changes in K(m) for Na+ and K+ in PLM-overexpressed myocytes was similar to that observed in MI rat myocytes. Inhibition of Ip by PLM overexpression was not due to decreased Na+-K+-ATPase expression because there were no changes in either protein or messenger RNA levels of either alpha1- or alpha2-isoforms of Na+-K+-ATPase. In native rat cardiac myocytes, PLM coimmunoprecipitated with alpha-subunits of Na+-K+-ATPase. Inhibition of Na+-K+-ATPase by PLM overexpression, in addition to previously reported decrease in Na+-K+-ATPase expression, may explain altered V(max) but not K(m) of Na+-K+-ATPase in postinfarction rat myocytes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, USA.
authors.forename: Xue-Qian
authors.initials: XQ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: J Randall
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Moorman
authors.forename: Belinda A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Ahlers
authors.forename: Lois L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Carl
authors.forename: Douglas E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Lake
authors.forename: Jianliang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: J Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mounsey
authors.forename: Amy L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.forename: Yiu-Mo
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Lawrence I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Rothblum
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Stahl
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.forename: Joseph Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Cheung
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D008297:Male; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000378:metabolism*; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000378:metabolism*; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C069141:phospholemman; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase