Role of SERCA and the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium content on calcium waves propagation in rat ventricular myocytes
2016
Salazar-Cantú, Ayleen | Pérez-Treviño, Perla | Montalvo-Parra, Dolores | Balderas-Villalobos, Jaime | Gómez-Víquez, Norma L. | García, Noemí | Altamirano, Julio
In Ca2+-overloaded ventricular myocytes, SERCA is crucial to steadily achieve the critical sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ level to trigger and sustain Ca2+ waves, that propagate at constant rate (ʋwave). High luminal Ca2+ sensitizes RyR2, thereby increasing Ca2+ sparks frequency, and the larger RyR2-mediated SR Ca2+ flux (dF/dt) sequentially activates adjacent RyR2 clusters. Recently, it was proposed that rapid SERCA Ca2+ reuptake, ahead of the wave front, further sensitizes RyR2, increasing ʋwave. Nevertheless, this is controversial because rapid cytosolic Ca2+ removal could instead impair RyR2 activation. We assessed whether rapid SR Ca2+ uptake enhances ʋwave by changing SERCA activity (ҡDecay) over a large range (∼175%). We used normal (Ctrl) and hyperthyroid rat (HT; reduced phospholamban by ∼80%) myocytes treated with thapsigargin or isoproterenol (ISO). We found that ʋwave and dF/dt had a non-linear dependency with ҡDecay, while Ca2+ waves amplitude was largely unaffected. Furthermore, SR Ca2+ also showed a non-linear dependency with ҡDecay, however, the relationships ʋwave vs. SR Ca2+ and ʋwave vs. dF/dt were linear, suggesting that high steady state SR Ca2+ determines ʋwave, while rapid SERCA Ca2+ uptake does not. Finally, ISO did not increase ʋwave in HT cells, therefore, ISO-enhanced ʋwave in Ctrl depended on high SR Ca2+.
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