Myofilament incorporation determines the stoichiometry of troponin I in transgenic expression and the rescue of a null mutation
| Autor: | M. Moazzem Hossain, Xu Pei Huang, J. P. Jin, Han Zhong Feng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Heterozygote
Myofilament Biophysics Gene Expression Mice Transgenic macromolecular substances Biochemistry Article Mice Troponin I medicine Animals Myocyte Myocytes Cardiac cardiovascular diseases Molecular Biology Mice Knockout biology Myocardium Cardiac muscle Wild type Skeletal muscle musculoskeletal system Actin cytoskeleton Troponin Peptide Fragments Recombinant Proteins Cell biology Actin Cytoskeleton Muscle Fibers Slow-Twitch medicine.anatomical_structure Mutation cardiovascular system biology.protein |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 487:36-41 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9861 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.abb.2009.05.001 |
| Popis: | The highly organized contractile machinery in skeletal and cardiac muscles requires an assembly of myofilament proteins with stringent stoichiometry. To understand the maintenance of myofilament protein stoichiometry under dynamic protein synthesis and catabolism in muscle cells, we investigated the equilibrium of troponin I (TnI) in mouse cardiac muscle during developmental isoform switching and in under- and over-expression models. Compared with the course of developmental TnI isoform switching in normal hearts, the postnatal presence of slow skeletal muscle TnI lasted significantly longer in the hearts of cardiac TnI (cTnI) knockout (cTnI-KO) mice, in which the diminished synthesis was compensated by prolonging the life of myofilamental TnI. Transgenic postnatal expression of an N-terminal truncated cTnI (cTnI-ND) using alpha-myosin heavy chain promoter effectively rescued the lethality of cTnI-KO mice and shortened the postnatal presence of slow TnI in cardiac muscle. cTnI-KO mice rescued with different levels of cTnI-ND over-expression exhibited similar levels of myocardial TnI comparable to that in wild type hearts, demonstrating that excessive synthesis would not increase TnI stoichiometry in the myofilaments. Consistently, haploid under-expression of cTnI in heterozygote cTnI-KO mice was sufficient to sustain the normal level of myocardial cTnI, indicating that cTnI is synthesized in excess in wild type cardiomyocytes. Altogether, these observations suggest that under wide ranges of protein synthesis and turnover, myofilament incorporation determines the stoichiometry of troponin subunits in muscle cells. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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