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- Title
Junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum transmembrane proteins in the heart.
- Authors
Müller, Frank U.; Kirchhefer, Uwe; Begrow, Frank; Reinke, Uta; Neumann, Joachim; Schmitz, Wilhelm
- Abstract
The uptake of calcium into the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and its subsequent release from the SR play a key role in the regulation of the cytosolic calcium concentration and the excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac muscle. While calcium uptake, catalyzed by the calcium-dependent ATPase, is thought to occur throughout the SR, the release of calcium is controlled by a complex of proteins localized to a distinct region, the junctional SR. This complex consists of the calcium release channel or ryanodine receptor (RyR), the high capacity calcium-binding protein calsequestrin located in the lumen of the junctional SR, and the junctional SR transmembrane proteins triadin 1 and junctin which are hypothesized to anchor calsequestrin to the RyR. Transgenic mice with cardiac-specific overexpression of triadin1 or junctin show distinct cardiac phenotypes with altered cellular and subcellular morphology, changes in contractile properties and/or in the expression of junctional SR proteins suggesting that these junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum transmembrane proteins are of functional relevance for the regulation of calcium release in the heart.
- Subjects
SARCOPLASMIC reticulum; MUSCLE cells; PROTEINS; REGULATION of heart contraction; CALCIUM; CARDIAC research
- Publication
Basic Research in Cardiology, 2002, Vol 97, pI52
- ISSN
0300-8428
- Publication type
Article