Abstract
The sarcolemmal Na$^+$-Ca$^2+$ exchanger (NCX) is the main
Ca$^2+$ extrusion mechanism in cardiac myocytes and is thus essential
for the regulation of Ca$^2+$ homeostasis and contractile function.
A cytosolic region (f-loop) of the protein mediates regulation of
NCX function by intracellular factors including inhibition by exchanger
inhibitory peptide (XIP), a 20 amino acid peptide matching the
sequence of an autoinhibitory region involved in allosteric regulation
of NCX by intracellular Na$^+$, Ca$^2+$, and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-biphosphate
(PIP2). Previous evidence indicates that the XIP interaction
domain can be eliminated by large deletions of the f-loop that also
remove activation of NCX by intracellular Ca$^2+$. By whole-cell
voltage clamping experiments, we demonstrate that deletion of residues
562-679, but not 440- 456, 498-510, or 680-685 of the f-loop selectively
eliminates XIP-mediated inhibition of NCX expressed either heterologously
(HEK293 and A549 cells) or in guinea pig cardiac myocytes. In contrast,
by plotting I(NCX) against reverse-mode NCX-mediated Ca$^2+$
transients in myocytes, we demonstrate that Ca$^2+$-dependent
regulation of NCX is preserved in Delta562-679, but significantly
reduced in the other three deletion mutants. The findings indicate
that f-loop residues 562-679 may contain the regulatory site for
endogenous XIP, but this site is distinct from the Ca$^2+$-regulatory
domains of the NCX. Because regulation of the NCX by Na$^+$ and
PIP2 involves the endogenous XIP region, the Delta562-679 mutant
NCX may be a useful tool to investigate this regulation in the context
of the whole cardiac myocyte.
- 15550690
- 4,5-diphosphate,
- acid
- action
- adenocarcinoma,
- adenoviridae,
- allosteric
- amino
- animals,
- calcium,
- cardiac,
- cell
- data,
- deletion,
- exchanger,
- extramural,
- fusion
- genetic
- gov't,
- guinea
- humans,
- interaction
- kidney,
- line,
- lung
- mapping,
- molecular
- motifs,
- mutagenesis,
- myocytes,
- n.i.h.,
- neoplasms,
- non-u.s.
- p.h.s.,
- patch-clamp
- peptides,
- phosphatidylinositol
- pigs,
- potentials,
- protein
- proteins,
- recombinant
- regulation,
- research
- sarcolemma,
- sequence
- sequence,
- site-directed,
- sodium,
- sodium-calcium
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