Insertion of alpha1S II-III loop and C terminal sequences into alpha1H fails to restore excitation-contraction coupling in dysgenic myotubes.
Insertion of alpha1S II-III loop and C terminal sequences into alpha1H fails to restore excitation-contraction coupling in dysgenic myotubes.
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将 alpha1S II-III 环和 C 末端序列插入 alpha1H 无法恢复发育不良肌管中的兴奋-收缩耦合。
DOI:
10.1023/a:1024830132118
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Beam,KurtG
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作者:
Wilkens,ChristinaM;Beam,KurtG
The L-type Ca2+channel in skeletal muscle (α1S) is essential for excitation–contraction (EC) coupling. Previous studies using chimeras composed of α1Stogether with α1Cor α1Mdemonstrated the importance of the α1SII–III loop and of a smaller subdomain (residues 720–764; ‘ECC’) in skeletal EC coupling. However, these chimeras failed to test the significance of regions outside the II–III loop, which are highly conserved between α1Sand α1C. Therefore, we have injected dysgenic (α1S-lacking) myotubes with cDNAs encoding chimeras between α1Sand the highly divergent T-type Ca2+channel, α1H. The chimeras consisted of GFP-tagged α1Hwith one or more of the following substitutions: α1SII–III loop residues 720–764 (‘ECC’), a putative targeting domain of the α1SC terminus (‘target’; residues 1543–1662) or the entire α1SC terminus (‘Cterm’; residues 1382–1873). The presence of eithertargetorCtermaffected the expression and/or kinetics of whole-cell currents recorded from both dysgenic muscle cells and tsa-201 cells. Importantly, substitution ofECCalone into GFP-α1H(GFP-α1H+ ECC), or together with eithertarget(GFP-α1H+ ECC + target) orCterm(GFP-α1H+ ECC + Cterm ), was insufficient to restore electrically evoked contractions. Depolarization-induced fluorescence transients for GFP-α1H+ ECC, GFP-α1H+ ECC + target or GFP-α1H+ ECC + Cterm had a bell shaped dependence upon membrane voltage (inconsistent with skeletal EC coupling) and were also exceedingly small (unlike cardiac EC coupling). The absence of EC coupling for these chimeras raises the possibility that regions of α1Soutside ofECCandtargetare necessary for providing the context that allows these two domains to function in EC coupling and targeting, respectively. Additionally, an inadequate membrane density of the chimeras may have contributed to the lack of coupling.