Shinichi Okuda1, Yoko Sufu-Shimizu2, Takayoshi Kato2, Masakazu Fukuda2, Shigehiko Nishimura2, Tetsuro Oda2, Shigeki Kobayashi2, Takeshi Yamamoto3, Sachio Morimoto4, Masafumi Yano2. 1. Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minamikogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan. Electronic address: sokuda@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp. 2. Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minamikogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan. 3. Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minamikogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan. 4. Department of Health Sciences Fukuoka, International University of Health and Welfare, 131-7 Enokizu, Okawa, Fukuoka 831-8501, Japan.
Abstract
AIMS: Cardiac Troponin T (TnT) mutation-linked familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is known to cause sudden cardiac death at a young age. Here, we investigated the role of the Ca2+ release channel of the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), ryanodine receptor (RyR2), in the pathogenic mechanism of lethal arrhythmia in FHC-related TnT-mutated transgenic mice (TG; TnT-delta160E). METHODS AND RESULTS: In TG cardiomyocytes, the Ca2+ spark frequency (SpF) was much higher than that in non-TG cardiomyocytes. These differences were more pronounced in the presence of isoproterenol (ISO; 10 nM). This increase in SpF was largely reversed by a CaMKII inhibitor (KN-93), but not by a protein kinase A inhibitor (H89). CaMKII phosphorylation at Ser2814 in RyR2 was increased significantly in TG. Spontaneous Ca2+ transients (sCaTs) after cessation of a 1-5 Hz pacing, frequently observed in ISO-treated TG cardiomyocytes, were also attenuated by KN-93, but not by H89. The RyR2 stabilizer dantrolene attenuated Ca2+ sparks and sCaTs in ISO-treated TG cardiomyocytes, indicating that the mutation-linked aberrant Ca2+ release is mediated by destabilized RyR2. CONCLUSIONS: In FHC-linked TnT-mutated hearts, RyR2 is susceptible to CaMKII-mediated phosphorylation, presumably because of a mutation-linked increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i, causing aberrant Ca2+ release leading to lethal arrhythmia.
AIMS: Cardiac Troponin T (TnT) mutation-linked familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is known to cause sudden cardiac death at a young age. Here, we investigated the role of the Ca2+ release channel of the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), ryanodine receptor (RyR2), in the pathogenic mechanism of lethal arrhythmia in FHC-related TnT-mutated transgenic mice (TG; TnT-delta160E). METHODS AND RESULTS: In TG cardiomyocytes, the Ca2+ spark frequency (SpF) was much higher than that in non-TG cardiomyocytes. These differences were more pronounced in the presence of isoproterenol (ISO; 10 nM). This increase in SpF was largely reversed by a CaMKII inhibitor (KN-93), but not by a protein kinase A inhibitor (H89). CaMKII phosphorylation at Ser2814 in RyR2 was increased significantly in TG. Spontaneous Ca2+ transients (sCaTs) after cessation of a 1-5 Hz pacing, frequently observed in ISO-treated TG cardiomyocytes, were also attenuated by KN-93, but not by H89. The RyR2 stabilizer dantrolene attenuated Ca2+ sparks and sCaTs in ISO-treated TG cardiomyocytes, indicating that the mutation-linked aberrant Ca2+ release is mediated by destabilized RyR2. CONCLUSIONS: In FHC-linked TnT-mutated hearts, RyR2 is susceptible to CaMKII-mediated phosphorylation, presumably because of a mutation-linked increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i, causing aberrant Ca2+ release leading to lethal arrhythmia.
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