Contractile activity modulates myosin heavy chain-beta expression in neonatal rat heart cells.
Contractile activity modulates myosin heavy chain-beta expression in neonatal rat heart cells.
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收缩活性调节新生大鼠心脏细胞中肌球蛋白重链β的表达。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpheart.1991.261.4.h1067
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1991
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Engelmann,GL
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作者:
Samarel,AM;Engelmann,GL
To determine whether spontaneous contractile activity affected the expression of myosin heavy chain isoenzymes in cultured neonatal rat heart cells, ventricular myocytes were isolated from 2-day-old rat pups by collagenase digestion and cultured for 24-96 h in the presence and absence of verapamil (10 microM), KCl (50 mM), or dihydropyridine receptor antagonists that produced contractile arrest. Inhibition of spontaneous contractile activity was associated with significant reductions in total myosin heavy chain (MHC) content and synthetic rates. Electrophoretic analysis of MHC isoenzymes indicated that MHC-beta protein rapidly disappeared from arrested cells, whereas MHC-alpha isoenzyme levels were less affected. In association with these protein changes, mRNA transcript levels for MHC-beta were markedly reduced in quiescent cells, whereas mRNA transcript levels for several other contractile protein genes were relatively less affected. Inhibition of contractile activity and MHC-beta expression were reversible upon removal of the arresting agents. Furthermore, the decrease in MHC-beta mRNA levels in arrested myocytes could be prevented by direct activation of protein kinase C with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (without restoration of contractile activity). Conversely, MHC-beta mRNA levels in beating cells were reduced by treatment with staurosporine (a selective protein kinase C inhibitor). Thus contractile arrest (produced by either L-channel blockade or membrane depolarization) inhibited the accumulation of MHC-beta in cultured neonatal rat heart cells via a pretranslational mechanism. These effects may occur in response to the modulation of signaling system(s) involving mechanical “stretch” transduced via protein kinase C.