title: Striated muscle tropomyosin isoforms differentially regulate cardiac performance and myofilament calcium sensitivity.
abstract: Tropomyosin (TM) plays a central role in calcium mediated striated muscle contraction. There are three muscle TM isoforms: alpha-TM, beta-TM, and gamma-TM. alpha-TM is the predominant cardiac and skeletal muscle isoform. beta-TM is expressed in skeletal and embryonic cardiac muscle. gamma-TM is expressed in slow-twitch musculature, but is not found in the heart. Our previous work established that muscle TM isoforms confer different physiological properties to the cardiac sarcomere. To determine whether one of these isoforms is dominant in dictating its functional properties, we generated single and double transgenic mice expressing beta-TM and/or gamma-TM in the heart, in addition to the endogenously expressed alpha-TM. Results show significant TM protein expression in the betagamma-DTG hearts: alpha-TM: 36%, beta-TM: 32%, and gamma-TM: 32%. These betagamma-DTG mice do not develop pathological abnormalities; however, they exhibit a hyper contractile phenotype with decreased myofilament calcium sensitivity, similar to gamma-TM transgenic hearts. Biophysical studies indicate that gamma-TM is more rigid than either alpha-TM or beta-TM. This is the first report showing that with approximately equivalent levels of expression within the same tissue, there is a functional dominance of gamma-TM over alpha-TM or beta-TM in regulating physiological performance of the striated muscle sarcomere. In addition to the effect expression of gamma-TM has on Ca(2+) activation of the cardiac myofilaments, our data demonstrates an effect on cooperative activation of the thin filament by strongly bound rigor cross-bridges. This is significant in relation to current ideas on the control mechanism of the steep relation between Ca(2+) and tension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 231 Albert B. Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0524, USA.
authors.forename: Ganapathy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jagatheesan
authors.forename: Sudarsan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajan
authors.forename: Rafeeq P H
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Petrashevskaya
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Boivin
authors.forename: Grace M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Arteaga
authors.forename: Hyun-Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Tae
authors.forename: Stephen B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Liggett
authors.forename: R John
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Solaro
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Wieczorek
mesh_terms: D008841:Actin Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D054792:Muscle, Striated / Q000378:metabolism*; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D014335:Tropomyosin / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D020033:Protein Isoforms; D014335:Tropomyosin; D002118:Calcium
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