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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
Ablation of cardiac myosin-binding protein-C accelerates stretch activation in murine skinned myocardium.
Circulation Research 2006 May 13
Cardiac myosin binding protein-C (cMyBP-C) is a thick filament accessory protein that binds tightly to myosin, but despite evidence that mutations in the cMyBP-C gene comprise a frequent cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, relatively little is known about the role(s) of cMyBP-C in myocardium. Based on earlier studies demonstrating the potential importance of stretch activation in cardiac contraction, we examined the effects of cMyBP-C on the stretch activation responses of skinned ventricular preparations from wild-type (WT) and homozygous cMyBP-C knockout mice (cMyBP-C(-/-)) previously developed in our laboratory. Sudden stretch of skinned myocardium during maximal or submaximal Ca2+ activations resulted in an instantaneous increase in force that quickly decayed to a minimum and was followed by a delayed redevelopment of force (ie, stretch activation) to levels greater than prestretch force. Ablation of cMyBP-C dramatically altered the stretch activation response, ie, the rates of force decay and delayed force transient were accelerated compared with WT myocardium. These results suggest that cMyBP-C normally constrains the spatial position of myosin cross-bridges, which, in turn, limits both the rate and extent of interaction of cross-bridges with actin. We propose that ablation of cMyBP-C removes this constraint, increases the likelihood of cross-bridge binding to actin, and speeds the rate of delayed force development following stretch. Regardless of the specific mechanism, acceleration of cross-bridge cycling in cMyBP-C(-/-) myocardium could account for the abbreviation of systolic ejection in this mouse as a direct consequence of premature stretch activation of ventricular myocardium.
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