In vivo adenoviral transfer of sorcin reverses cardiac contractile abnormalities of diabetic cardiomyopathy.

Abstract

In many types of heart failure cardiac myocyte Ca(2+) handling is abnormal because of downregulation of key Ca(2+) - handling proteins like sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+) - ATPase (SERCA)2a and ryanodine receptor (RyR)2. The alteration in SERCA2a and RyR2 expression results in altered cytosolic Ca(2+) transients, leading to abnormal contraction. Sorcin is an EF-hand protein that confers the property of caffeine-activated intracellular Ca(2+) release in nonmuscle cells by interacting with RyR2. To determine whether sorcin could improve the contractile function of the heart, we overexpressed sorcin in the heart of either normal or diabetic mice and in adult rat cardiomyocytes with an adenoviral gene transfer approach. Sorcin overexpression was associated with an increase in cardiac contractility of the normal heart and dramatically rescued the abnormal contractile function of the diabetic heart. These effects could be attributed to an improvement of the Ca(2+) transients found in the cardiomyocyte after sorcin overexpression. Viral vector-mediated delivery of sorcin to cardiac myocytes is beneficial, resulting in improved contractile function in diabetic cardiomyopathy.

• Authors: Jorge Suarez, Darrell D Belke, Bernd Gloss, Thomas Dieterle, Patrick M McDonough, Yun-Kyung Kim, Laurence L Brunton, Wolfgang H Dillmann
• Journal: American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol) Vol. 286 Issue 1 Pg. H68-75 (Jan 2004) ISSN: 0363-6135 [Print] United States
• PMID: 12958030 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Calcium-Binding Proteins
• Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel
• Sri protein, mouse
• phospholamban
• Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases
• Calcium-Transporting ATPases

Topics

• Adenoviridae (genetics)
• Animals
• Calcium-Binding Proteins (metabolism, pharmacology)
• Calcium-Transporting ATPases (metabolism)
• Cardiomyopathies (etiology, physiopathology)
• Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental (complications)
• Gene Transfer Techniques
• Genetic Vectors
• In Vitro Techniques
• Intracellular Membranes (metabolism)
• Mice
• Myocardial Contraction (drug effects)
• Myocardium (metabolism)
• Rats
• Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel (metabolism)
• Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (metabolism)
• Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases