@article{f539d5e0789d4d38be8a3a20891ec134,
title = "Calmodulin kinase II inhibition protects against structural heart disease",
abstract = "β-Adrenergic receptor (βAR) stimulation increases cytosolic Ca2+ to physiologically augment cardiac contraction, whereas excessive βAR activation causes adverse cardiac remodeling, including myocardial hypertrophy, dilation and dysfunction, in individuals with myocardial infarction. The Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a recently identified downstream element of the βAR-initiated signaling cascade that is linked to pathological myocardial remodeling and to regulation of key proteins involved in cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. We developed a genetic mouse model of cardiac CaMKII inhibition to test the role of CaMKII in βAR signaling in vivo. Here we show CaMKII inhibition substantially prevented maladaptive remodeling from excessive βAR stimulation and myocardial infarction, and induced balanced changes in excitation-contraction coupling that preserved baseline and βAR-stimulated physiological increases in cardiac function. These findings mark CaMKII as a determinant of clinically important heart disease phenotypes, and suggest CaMKII inhibition can be a highly selective approach for targeting adverse myocardial remodeling linked to βAR signaling.",
author = "Rong Zhang and Khoo, {Michelle S.C.} and Yuejin Wu and Yingbo Yang and Grueter, {Chad E.} and Gemin Ni and Price, {Edward E.} and William Thiel and Silvia Guatimosim and Song, {Long Sheng} and Madu, {Ernest C.} and Shah, {Anisha N.} and Vishnivetskaya, {Tatiana A.} and Atkinson, {James B.} and Gurevich, {Vsevolod V.} and Guy Salama and Lederer, {W. J.} and Colbran, {Roger J.} and Anderson, {Mark E.}",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge support from the US National Institutes of Health (HL070250 and HL046681 to M.E.A., MH63232 to R.J.C., EY11500 and GM63097 to G.S. and HL25675, HL36974, HL70709, HL67849 to W.J.L.) and a US National Institutes of Health training grant (HL70511) for C.E.G., and an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship (M.S.C.K.). Mark E. Anderson is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. J. Yang, M. Bass, Y. Hou, L. Gleaves, C. Perlroth and R. Towne provided technical assistance. J. Robbins provided the αMHC cDNA for creating the transgenic mice. J. Corbin, A. George, J.T. Kimbrough, D.E. Vaughan and D.M. Roden provided criticisms. Echocardiograms and surgery were performed in the Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Core Facility and transgenic mice were engineered in the Vanderbilt Mouse Transgenic Core Facility, both supported by the US National Institutes of Health. Copyright: Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2005",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1038/nm1215",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "11",
pages = "409--417",
journal = "Nature medicine",
issn = "1078-8956",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "4",
}