Ca²⁺-ATPase and function of sarcoplasmic reticulum during cardiac hypertrophy

¹ INSERM U 127, Hopital Lariboisière, 75010 Paris, France; and Laboratory of Membranes and Ion Transport, Institute of Experimental Cardiology, USSR Cardiology Research Center, Moscow 121552, USSR

The properties of the calcium pump system of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) were studied in a series of 34 rats subjected to cardiac overload and 19 sham-operated animals. Total homogenates of left ventricle were analyzed by measuring the oxalate-supported Ca²⁺ uptake rate, the steady-state level of the phosphorylated intermediate of Ca²⁺-adenosine triphosphatase (Ca²⁺-ATPase) (E-P), and the amount of Ca²⁺-ATPase mRNA. All three parameters decreased gradually as a function of the relative left ventricular weight increase. The calcium-sensitivity curves showed that the velocity of Ca²⁺ transport in SR from the hypertrophied heart is diminished at low as well as optimal Ca²⁺ concentrations, with the dissociation constant (K_d) value for Ca²⁺ unchanged from that of the control preparation. Taken together with the results presented in our recent publication (De la Bastie, Levitsky, Mercadier, Marotte, Wisnewsky, Brovkovivh, Schwartz, and Lompré, Circ. Res. 66: 554–564, 1990), these data strongly indicate that differences in the Ca²⁺ pump activities of SR from normal and hypertrophied rat hearts are due to quantitative rather than qualitative changes of the Ca²⁺-ATPase protein.

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