Affiliation:
1. From the Molecular Physiology Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine & Physiology/Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Abstract
Abstract
We have measured the apparent Ca
2+
sensitivities of force development in skinned cardiac trabeculae at different sarcomere lengths together with shifts in troponin (Tn) T subunits on specimens from the same hearts and drawn insights into the pathogenesis of myocardial dysfunction in the diabetic rat. The Ca
2+
-force relations were measured at a long (2.4-μm) and a short (1.9-μm) sarcomere length. In disease, compared with the control condition, the apparent Ca
2+
sensitivity was greatly diminished at a sarcomere length of 1.9 μm but not affected at all at the long length (2.4 μm). We also examined the alterations in contractile regulatory proteins TnT and TnI by both sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blots. The TnI band was largely unperturbed, but major changes were discerned in TnT. The normal rat heart indicated two major bands (TnT1 and TnT2) and a faint third band (TnT3); in the diabetic rat heart, there was a significant shift in intensity from TnT1 to TnT3. Since myosin isozyme shifts also accompany diabetes in the rat, we used a prototypical hypothyroid rat as well to evaluate the myosin influence in the length-induced effects on Ca
2+
sensitivity. Myosin shifts during hypothyroidism were unaccompanied by significant changes in TnT, and there were also no length-dependent modifications in Ca
2+
sensitivity. The findings raise the possibility that diabetic Ca
2+
-sensitivity changes in the myocardium are coupled with TnT alterations. A plausible explanation is offered whereby these TnT alterations modify the length dependence of Ca
2+
sensitivity.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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