Rapamycin (sirolimus) protects against hypoxic damage in primary heart cultures via Na+/Ca2+ exchanger activation
| Autor: | Michael Arad, Victor Guetta, Dalia El-Ani, Asher Shainberg, Hagit Stav |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Thapsigargin Tetrazolium Salts Biology Pharmacology Sodium-Calcium Exchanger General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Calcium in biology chemistry.chemical_compound medicine Extracellular Animals Homeostasis General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Creatine Kinase Cells Cultured Sirolimus Cardioprotection Sarcolemma Dose-Response Relationship Drug L-Lactate Dehydrogenase Thiourea General Medicine Cell Hypoxia Rats Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Thiazoles chemistry Reperfusion Injury Calcium Intracellular medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Life Sciences. 89:7-14 |
| ISSN: | 0024-3205 |
| Popis: | Aims Rapamycin (sirolimus) is an antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis through mammalian targeting of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling, and is used as an immunosuppressant in the treatment of organ rejection in transplant recipients. Rapamycin confers preconditioning-like protection against ischemic–reperfusion injury in isolated mouse heart cultures. Our aim was to further define the role of rapamycin in intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis and to investigate the mechanism by which rapamycin protects cardiomyocytes from hypoxic damage. Main methods We demonstrate here that rapamycin protects rat heart cultures from hypoxic–reoxygenation (H/R) damage, as revealed by assays of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatine kinase (CK) leakage to the medium, by MTT (3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) measurements, and desmin immunostaining. As a result of hypoxia, intracellular calcium levels ([Ca2+]i) were elevated. However, treatment of heart cultures with rapamycin during hypoxia attenuated the increase of [Ca2+]i. Rapamycin also attenuated 45Ca2+ uptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of skinned heart cultures in a dose- and time-dependent manner. KB-R7943, which inhibits the “reverse” mode of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX), protected heart cultures from H/R damage with or without the addition of rapamycin. Rapamycin decreased [Ca2+]i following its elevation by extracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]o) influx, thapsigargin treatment, or depolarization with KCl. Key findings We suggest that rapamycin induces cardioprotection against hypoxic/reoxygenation damage in primary heart cultures by stimulating NCX to extrude Ca2+ outside the cardiomyocytes. Significance According to our findings, rapamycin preserves Ca2+ homeostasis and prevents Ca2+ overload via extrusion of Ca2+ surplus outside the sarcolemma, thereby protecting the cells from hypoxic stress. |
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