Post-natal heart adaptation in a knock-in mouse model of calsequestrin 2-linked recessive catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

Academic Article
Publication Date:
2014
abstract:
Cardiaccalsequestrin(CASQ2)contributestointracellularCa2þ homeostasisbyvirtueofitslow- affinity/high-capacityCa2þ bindingproperties,maintainssarcoplasmicreticulum(SR)architectureand regulatesexcitation-contractioncoupling,especiallyorexclusivelyupon ?-adrenergicstimulation. Catecholaminergicpolymorphicventriculartachycardia(CPVT)isaninheritedarrhythmogenicdisease associatedwithcardiacarrestinchildrenoryoungadults.RecessiveCPVTvariantsaredueto mutationsintheCASQ2gene.Molecularandultra-structuralpropertieswerestudiedinheartsof CASQ2R33Q/R33Q and ofCASQ2/ mice frompost-natalday2toweek8.Thedrasticreductionof CASQ2-R33Qisanearlydevelopmentaleventandisaccompaniedbydown-regulationoftriadinand junctin,andmorphologicalchangesofjSRandofSR-transverse-tubulejunctions.Althoughendo- plasmic reticulumstressisactivated,nosignsofeither apoptosisorautophagyaredetected.Theother modelofrecessiveCPVT,theCASQ2/ mouse, doesnotdisplaythesameadaptivepattern. ExpressionofCASQ2-R33Qinfluences molecularandultra-structural heartdevelopment;post-natal, adaptivechangesappearcapableofensuringuntil adulthoodanewpathophysiologicalequilibrium.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
CASQ2 knock-out; CASQ2 mutation; Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; ER stress
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https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/288363
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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
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