AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 2 695-H706, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Rate-dependent abbreviation of Ca2+ transient in rat heart is independent of phospholamban phosphorylation

M. Hussain, G. A. Drago, J. Colyer and C. H. Orchard
Department of Physiology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

The mechanisms underlying the accelerated decline of the intracellular Ca2+ transient that occurs in cardiac muscle when stimulation rate is increased have been investigated in ventricular myocytes from rat hearts. Increasing stimulation rate from 0.1 to 0.5 and 1 Hz decreased the time taken for the Ca2+ transient to decline from its peak to 50% of its peak value in cells generating action potentials, when the duration of depolarization was held constant by voltage clamp, and when Na/Ca exchange was inhibited. The sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ adenosinetriphosphatase inhibitor thapsigargin inhibited rate-dependent abbreviation of the Ca2+ transient. However, neither a chemical inhibitor of Ca(2+)-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (KN62) nor a peptide inhibitor of this enzyme (calmodulin-binding domain peptide) had a significant effect on rate-dependent abbreviation of the Ca2+ transient. Analysis of the phosphorylation of the regulatory sites Ser16 and Thr17 of phospholamban showed no significant change in phosphorylation with changes of stimulation rate. These data suggest that rate-dependent shortening of the Ca2+ transient is due predominantly to enhanced Ca2+ uptake by the sarcoplasmic reticulum without changes in phospholamban phosphorylation.

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