Suppression of ryanodine receptor function prolongs Ca2+ release refractoriness and promotes cardiac alternans in intact hearts


Por: Zhong, XW, Sun, B, Vallmitjana, A, Mi, T, Guo, WT, Ni, MK, Wang, RW, Guo, A, Duff, HJ, Gillis, AM, Song, LS, Hove-Madsen, L, Benitez, R, Chen, SRW

Publicada: 1 nov 2016
Resumen:
Beat-to-beat alternations in the amplitude of the cytosolic Ca2+ transient (Ca2+ alternans) are thought to be the primary cause of cardiac alternans that can lead to cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death. Despite its important role in arrhythmogenesis, the mechanism underlying Ca2+ alternans remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated the role of cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2), the major Ca2+ release channel responsible for cytosolic Ca2+ transients, in cardiac alternans. Using a unique mouse model harboring a suppression- of-function (SOF) RyR2 mutation (E4872Q), we assessed the effect of genetically suppressing RyR2 function on Ca2+ and action potential duration (APD) alternans in intact hearts, and electrocardiogram (ECG) alternans in vivo. We found that RyR2-SOF hearts displayed prolonged sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release refractoriness and enhanced propensity for Ca2+ alternans. RyR2-SOF hearts/mice also exhibited increased propensity for APD and ECG alternans. Caffeine, which enhances RyR2 activity and the propensity for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), suppressed Ca2+ alternans in RyR2-SOF hearts, whereas carvedilol, a beta-blocker that suppresses RyR2 activity and CPVT, promoted Ca2+ alternans in these hearts. Thus, RyR2 function is an important determinant of Ca2+, APD, and ECG alternans. Our data also indicate that the activity of RyR2 influences the propensity for cardiac alternans and CPVT in an opposite manner. Therefore, overly suppressing or enhancing RyR2 function is pro-arrhythmic.

Filiaciones:
Zhong, XW:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada

Sun, B:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada

Vallmitjana, A:
 Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Automat Control, ES-08034 Barcelona, Spain

Mi, T:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada

 Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Cardiol, Tongji Hosp, Tongji Med Sch, Wuhan 430030, Peoples R China

Guo, WT:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada

Ni, MK:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada

Wang, RW:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada

Guo, A:
 Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Dept Internal Med, Div Cardiovasc Med, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

Duff, HJ:
 Univ Calgary, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, Dept Cardiac Sci, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

Gillis, AM:
 Univ Calgary, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, Dept Cardiac Sci, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

Song, LS:
 Univ Iowa, Carver Coll Med, Dept Internal Med, Div Cardiovasc Med, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

Hove-Madsen, L:
 ICCC, Cardiovasc Res Ctr, CSIC, Barcelona 08025, Spain

 Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, IIB St Pau, Barcelona 08025, Spain

Benitez, R:
 Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Automat Control, ES-08034 Barcelona, Spain

Chen, SRW:
 Univ Calgary, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Libin Cardiovasc Inst Alberta, 3330 Hosp Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
ISSN: 02646021
Editorial
PORTLAND PRESS LTD, CHARLES DARWIN HOUSE, 12 ROGER STREET, LONDON WC1N 2JU, ENGLAND, Reino Unido
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 473 Número:
Páginas: 3951-3964
WOS Id: 000393758200017
ID de PubMed: 27582498
imagen Green Accepted

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