Role of RyR2 Phosphorylation at S2814 During Heart Failure Progression

• Published in: Circulation research Vol. 110; no. 11; pp. 1474 - 1483
• Main Authors: Respress, Jonathan L, van Oort, Ralph J, Li, Na, Rolim, Natale, Dixit, Sayali S, deAlmeida, Angela, Voigt, Niels, Lawrence, William S, Skapura, Darlene G, Skårdal, Kristine, Wisløff, Ulrik, Wieland, Thomas, Ai, Xun, Pogwizd, Steven M, Dobrev, Dobromir, Wehrens, Xander H.T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD American Heart Association, Inc 25.05.2012; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Subjects: Adult; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2 - antagonists & inhibitors; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2 - metabolism; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiomegaly - etiology; Cardiomegaly - metabolism; Cardiomyopathy, Dilated - complications; Cardiomyopathy, Dilated - metabolism; Disease Models, Animal; Disease Progression; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene Knock-In Techniques; Heart; Heart Failure - diagnosis; Heart Failure - etiology; Heart Failure - metabolism; Heart Failure - physiopathology; Heart Failure - prevention & control; Heart failure, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Mice; Mice, Transgenic; Middle Aged; Mutation; Myocardial Contraction; Myocardial Ischemia - complications; Myocardial Ischemia - metabolism; Myocardium - metabolism; Phosphorylation; Protein Kinase Inhibitors - pharmacology; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel - genetics; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel - metabolism; Sarcoplasmic Reticulum - metabolism; Serine; Time Factors; Up-Regulation; Ventricular Function, Left; Ventricular Pressure; Ventricular Remodeling; Vertebrates: cardiovascular system; Heart failure; Vertebrata; Phosphorylation; Mammalia; Calcium; Sarcoplasmic reticulum; Heart disease; Ryanodine receptor; Cardiovascular disease; Circulatory system; Inorganic element
• ISSN: 0009-7330; 1524-4571
• DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.268094

RATIONALE:Increased activity of Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is thought to promote heart failure (HF) progression. However, the importance of CaMKII phosphorylation of ryanodine receptors (RyR2) in HF development and associated diastolic sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak is unclear. OBJECTIVE:Determine the role of CaMKII phosphorylation of RyR2 in patients and mice with nonischemic and ischemic forms of HF. METHODS AND RESULTS:Phosphorylation of the primary CaMKII site S2814 on RyR2 was increased in patients with nonischemic, but not with ischemic, HF. Knock-in mice with an inactivated S2814 phosphorylation site were relatively protected from HF development after transverse aortic constriction compared with wild-type littermates. After transverse aortic constriction, S2814A mice did not exhibit pulmonary congestion and had reduced levels of atrial natriuretic factor. Cardiomyocytes from S2814A mice exhibited significantly lower sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak and improved sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca loading compared with wild-type mice after transverse aortic constriction. Interestingly, these protective effects on cardiac contractility were not observed in S2814A mice after experimental myocardial infarction. CONCLUSIONS:Our results suggest that increased CaMKII phosphorylation of RyR2 plays a role in the development of pathological sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak and HF development in nonischemic forms of HF such as transverse aortic constriction in mice.