THE CARDIAC CALCIUM PUMP.
THE CARDIAC CALCIUM PUMP.
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心脏钙泵。
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.52.6.1456
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发表时间:
1964
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
M. E. Carsten
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作者:
M. E. Carsten
The literature embodies suggestions' that the sarcotubular system or endoplasmic reticulum, a fine network of channels surrounding the myofibril,2 conducts impulses from the outer membrane of the cell to the contractile apparatus, an activity which may be mediated by the ability to regulate the supply of calcium to the myofibril. Intracellular microapplication of calcium has been shown to produce local contracture in the intact skeletal muscle fiber.3, 4 Furthermore, a granular or microsome fraction, derived by fragmentation of the endoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle has the ability to concentrate calcium actively,5-0 to bring about relaxation of muscle fibers" or of myofibrils,l2 and inhibition of myofibrillar ATPase.13' 14 In the heart, an endoplasmic reticulum has been revealed in electron micrographs, but it seems to be less abundant than in skeletal muscle.2 Preparations of granular fractions from heart muscle have been partially characterized with respect to some enzyme activities,5, 16 but it proved difficult to obtain stable preparations, and calcium uptake proceeded at a low rate. 7 Indeed it appeared that the calcium accumulating rmechanism was more a characteristic of mitochondria than of the microsome fraction.ls In the present communication the preparation and partial purification of a sarcotubular fraction from rabbit hearts will be described, including a characterization of some of its enzymatic properties. It will be shown that calcium uptake in this sarcotubular fraction proceeds at a rate not much lower than in preparations from skeletal muscle and very much higher than in mitochondrial preparations. We suggest that a cardiac "calcium pump" located in the sarcotubular system controls rhythmic contraction and relaxation of the heart.