The II-III loop of the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor is responsible for the bi-directional coupling with the ryanodine receptor
The II-III loop of the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor is responsible for the bi-directional coupling with the ryanodine receptor
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.274.31.21913
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发表时间:
1999-07-30
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Beam, KG
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作者:
Grabner, M;Dirksen, RT;Beam, KG
The dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) in the skeletal muscle plasmalemma functions as both voltage-gated Ca2+ channel and voltage sensor for excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. As voltage sensor, the DHPR regulates intracellular Ca2+ release via the skeletal isoform of the ryanodine receptor (RyR-1). Interaction with RyR-1 also feeds back to increase the Ca2+ current mediated by the DHPR, To identify regions of the DHPR important for receiving this signal from RyR-1, we expressed in dysgenic myotubes a chimera (SkLC) having skeletal (Sk) DHPR sequence except for a cardiac (C) II-III loop (L), Tagging with green fluorescent protein (GFP) enabled identification of expressing myotubes, Dysgenic myotubes expressing GFP-SkLC or SkLC lacked EC coupling and had very small Ca2+ currents. Introducing a short skeletal segment (alpha(1S) residues 720-765) into the cardiac II-III loop (replacing alpha(1C) residues 851-896) of GFP-SkLC restored both EC coupling and Ca2+ current densities like those of the wild type skeletal DHPR. This 46-amino acid stretch of skeletal sequence was recently shown to be capable of transferring strong, skeletal-type EC coupling to an otherwise cardiac DHPR (Nakai, J., Tanabe, T., Konno, T., Adams, B., and Beam, K.G. (1998) J. Biol. Chem, 273, 24983-24986), Thus, this segment of the skeletal II-III loop contains a motif required for both skeletal-type EC coupling and RyR-1-mediated enhancement of Ca2+ current.