Rapid turnover of the "functional" Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in cardiac myocytes revealed by an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide approach
Rapid turnover of the "functional" Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in cardiac myocytes revealed by an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide approach
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10.1016/j.ceca.2004.10.006
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发表时间:
2005-03-01
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4
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Schwaller, B
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作者:
Egger, M;Porzig, H;Schwaller, B
Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (AS-ODNs) were used in combination with transient functional expression of the cardiac Na+-Ca2+ exchanger (NCXI) to correlate suppression of the Na+-Ca2+ exchange function with down-regulation of NCXI protein expression. In a denovo expression system (Sf9 cells), a decrease in both, NCXI mRNA and protein after AS-ODN application was paralleled by diminished NCXI activity, a typical hallmark of a true "antisense effect". Although AS-ODN uptake was also efficient in rat neonatal cardiac myocytes, in whole-cell extracts of these cells treated with AS-ODNs, the amount of NCXI protein determined in a quantitative binding assay remained almost unchanged, despite a prompt loss of NCXI function. Immunocytochemical staining of myocytes revealed that most of the immunoreactivity was not localized in the plasma membrane, but in intracellular compartments and was barely affected by AS-ODN treatment. These results indicate that the "functional half-life" of the NCXI protein in the plasma membrane of neonatal cardiac myocytes is surprisingly short, much shorter than reported half-lifes of about 30 h for other membrane proteins. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.