Man overboard! Rescuing myocardium with membrane rafts.
Man overboard! Rescuing myocardium with membrane rafts.
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DOI:
10.1097/aln.0b013e3181d3d812
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Kersten,JudyR
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作者:
Lohr,Nicole;Kersten,JudyR
Volatile anesthetics produce important cardioprotective effects by stimulating a series of intracellular signaling events that ultimately render myocardium resistant to infarction. Anesthetics are known to protect the heart in a temporal manner. An initial early window of myocardial protection lasts hours after exposure to isoflurane or other volatile agents, and myocardial protection reappears again 24 to 48 h later. The mechanisms of early and delayed anesthetic preconditioning differ. Anesthetics activate various intracellular kinases which phosphorylate and subsequently modify the activity of downstream proteins (eg, endothelial nitric oxide synthase [eNOS] and adenosine triphosphate-regulated potassium channels) that are important in mediating cardioprotection. During the early preconditioning phase, modification of preexisting proteins leads to protection, whereas after 24 h, cardioprotection relies on the synthesis of new proteins. The complexity of these signal transduction events requires both functional and spatial organization, and coordination of the activity of a large number of intracellular proteins. In this issue of the Journal, Tsutsumi et al1 demonstrate that isoflurane produces delayed protection against myocardial infarction by modulating a key protein, caveolin-3, found in membrane (lipid) rafts (fig. 1).An extension of the classical fluid lipid bilayer model of the plasma membrane, lipid/membrane rafts are small (10–200 nm) microdomains enriched in sterols, sphingolipids and cholesterol “floating” in a sea of phospholipids. 2 These lipid domains form docking platforms that control the location of intracellular signal transduction events. Rafts are located in the plasma membrane, and are also found in the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria. Membrane rafts function to regulate cellular processes by concentrating proteins to highly specific intracellular locations. The formation of lipid rafts is highly dynamic and this property allows for temporal regulation of protein signaling and trafficking. A subclass of membrane rafts are the caveolae, which are flask-like invaginations of the cellular membrane (60–80 nm), distinguished by the presence of scaffolding proteins caveolin-1,-2, and-3. 3 Caveolins-1 and-2 are highly expressed in adipocytes, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts, whereas, caveolin-3 is expressed predominantly in skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells. Caveolae are disrupted in caveolin-1 and caveolin-3 knock out mice, but are preserved in caveolin-2 mutants. 4 Caveolins bind proteins through a specific domain that enables conformational changes to occur and this action regulates the activity of signal transduction molecules. Caveolins are required for caveolae formation and their expression indirectly regulates the number of caveolae available for functional signal transduction. Caveolins can alter the fluidity of