Prolonged cross-bridge binding triggers muscle dysfunction in a fly model of myosin-based hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

  1. William A Kronert
  2. Kaylyn M Bell
  3. Meera C Viswanathan
  4. Girish C Melkani
  5. Adriana S Trujillo
  6. Alice Huang
  7. Anju Melkani
  8. Anthony Cammarato
  9. Douglas M Swank  Is a corresponding author
  10. Sanford I Bernstein  Is a corresponding author
  1. San Diego State University, United States
  2. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
  3. Johns Hopkins University, United States

Abstract

K146N is a dominant mutation in human β-cardiac myosin heavy chain, which causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We examined how Drosophila muscle responds to this mutation and integratively analyzed the biochemical, physiological and mechanical foundations of the disease. ATPase assays, actin motility, and indirect flight muscle mechanics suggest at least two rate constants of the cross-bridge cycle are altered by the mutation: increased myosin attachment to actin and decreased detachment, yielding prolonged binding. This increases isometric force generation, but also resistive force and work absorption during cyclical contractions, resulting in decreased work, power output, flight ability and degeneration of flight muscle sarcomere morphology. Consistent with prolonged cross-bridge binding serving as the mechanistic basis of the disease and with human phenotypes, 146N/+ hearts are hypercontractile with increased tension generation periods, decreased diastolic/systolic diameters and myofibrillar disarray. This suggests that screening mutated Drosophila hearts could rapidly identify hypertrophic cardiomyopathy alleles and treatments.

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  1. William A Kronert

    Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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  2. Kaylyn M Bell

    Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States
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  3. Meera C Viswanathan

    Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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  4. Girish C Melkani

    Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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  5. Adriana S Trujillo

    Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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  6. Alice Huang

    Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States
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  7. Anju Melkani

    Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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  8. Anthony Cammarato

    Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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  9. Douglas M Swank

    Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States
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    swankd@rpi.edu
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  10. Sanford I Bernstein

    Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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    sbernstein@sdsu.edu
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (R37GM032443)

  • Sanford I Bernstein

National Institutes of Health (R01HL124091)

  • Anthony Cammarato

National Institutes of Health (R01AR064274)

  • Douglas M Swank

Rees-Steely Research Foundation (Graduate Student Fellowship)

  • Adriana S Trujillo

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  1. Lee Sweeney

Version history

  1. Received: May 3, 2018
  2. Accepted: August 10, 2018
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: August 13, 2018 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: September 17, 2018 (version 2)

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© 2018, Kronert et al.

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  1. William A Kronert
  2. Kaylyn M Bell
  3. Meera C Viswanathan
  4. Girish C Melkani
  5. Adriana S Trujillo
  6. Alice Huang
  7. Anju Melkani
  8. Anthony Cammarato
  9. Douglas M Swank
  10. Sanford I Bernstein
(2018)
Prolonged cross-bridge binding triggers muscle dysfunction in a fly model of myosin-based hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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