The Ca2+ transient as a feedback sensor controlling cardiomyocyte ionic conductances in mouse populations
- Northeastern University, United States
- University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Abstract
Conductances of ion channels and transporters controlling cardiac excitation may vary in a population of subjects with different cardiac gene expression patterns. However, the amount of variability and its origin are not quantitatively known. We propose a new conceptual approach to predict this variability that consists of finding combinations of conductances generating a normal intracellular Ca2+ transient without any constraint on the action potential. Furthermore, we validate experimentally its predictions using the Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel, a model system of genetically diverse mouse strains that allows us to quantify inter-subject versus intra-subject variability. The method predicts that conductances of inward Ca2+ and outward K+ currents compensate each other to generate a normal Ca2+ transient in good quantitative agreement with current measurements in ventricular myocytes from hearts of different isogenic strains. Our results suggest that a feedback mechanism sensing the aggregate Ca2+ transient of the heart suffices to regulate ionic conductances.
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Gene expression data has been deposited in GEO under accession code GSE48760
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Transcriptomes of the hybrid mouse diversity panel subjected to Isoproterenol challengePublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE48760).
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Funding
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Colin M Rees
- Jun-Hai Yang
- Marc Santolini
- Aldons J Lusis
- James N Weiss
- Alain Karma
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: This study was approved by the UCLA Chancellor's Animal Research Committee (ARC 2003-063-23B) and performed in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH Publication No. 85-23, revised 1996) and with UCLA Policy 990 on the Use of Laboratory Animal Subjects in Research (revised 2010).
Reviewing Editor
- José D Faraldo-Gómez, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States
Version history
- Received: March 16, 2018
- Accepted: September 24, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: September 25, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: October 29, 2018 (version 2)
Copyright
© 2018, Rees et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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The Ca2+ transient as a feedback sensor controlling cardiomyocyte ionic conductances in mouse populations
eLife 7:e36717.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36717
