Ryanodine receptor phosphorylation by CaMKII promotes spontaneous Ca2 + release events in a rodent model of early stage diabetes: The arrhythmogenic substrate

Leandro Sommese, Carlos A. Valverde, Paula Blanco, María Cecilia Castro, Omar Velez Rueda, Marcia Kaetzel, John Dedman, Mark E. Anderson, Alicia Mattiazzi, Julieta Palomeque

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Abstract

Background: Heart failure and arrhythmias occur more frequently in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) than in the general population. T2DM is preceded by a prediabetic condition marked by elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) and subclinical cardiovascular defects. Although multifunctional Ca2 + calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is ROS-activated and CaMKII hyperactivity promotes cardiac diseases, a link between prediabetes and CaMKII in the heart is unprecedented. Objectives: To prove the hypothesis that increased ROS and CaMKII activity contribute to heart failure and arrhythmogenic mechanisms in early stage diabetes. Methods-Results: Echocardiography, electrocardiography, biochemical and intracellular Ca2 + (Ca2 +i) determinations were performed in fructose-rich diet-induced impaired glucose tolerance, a prediabetes model, in rodents. Fructose-rich diet rats showed decreased contractility and hypertrophy associated with increased CaMKII activity, ROS production, oxidized CaMKII and enhanced CaMKII-dependent ryanodine receptor (RyR2) phosphorylation compared to rats fed with control diet. Isolated cardiomyocytes from fructose-rich diet showed increased spontaneous Ca2 +i release events associated with spontaneous contractions, which were prevented by KN-93, a CaMKII inhibitor, or addition of Tempol, a ROS scavenger, to the diet. Moreover, fructose-rich diet myocytes showed increased diastolic Ca2 + during the burst of spontaneous Ca2 +i release events. Mice treated with Tempol or with sarcoplasmic reticulum-targeted CaMKII-inhibition by transgenic expression of the CaMKII inhibitory peptide AIP, were protected from fructose-rich diet-induced spontaneous Ca2 +i release events, spontaneous contractions and arrhythmogenesis in vivo, despite ROS increases. Conclusions: RyR2 phosphorylation by ROS-activated CaMKII, contributes to impaired glucose tolerance-induced arrhythmogenic mechanisms, suggesting that CaMKII inhibition could prevent prediabetic cardiovascular complications and/or evolution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)394-406
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Cardiology
Volume202
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

Keywords

  • Arrhythmias
  • CaMKII
  • Impaired glucose tolerance
  • Prediabetes
  • Ryanodine receptor

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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