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Expression of ATP-Sensitive KChannel Subunits during Perinatal Maturation in the Mouse Heart
| العنوان: | Expression of ATP-Sensitive KChannel Subunits during Perinatal Maturation in the Mouse Heart |
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| المؤلفون: | MORRISSEY, ALISON, PARACHURU, LAVANYA, LEUNG, MONIKA, LOPEZ, GWENDOLYN, NAKAMURA, TOMOE Y., TONG, XIAOYONG, YOSHIDA, HIDETADA, SRIVASTIVA, SHEKHAR, CHOWDHURY, PIYALI DHAR, ARTMAN, MICHAEL, COETZEE, WILLIAM A. |
| المصدر: | Pediatric Research (Ovid); August 2005, Vol. 58 Issue: 2 p185-192, 8p |
| مستخلص: | Prevailing data suggest that sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive (KATP) channels in the adult heart consist of Kir6.2 and SUR2A subunits, but the expression of other KATPchannel subunits (including SUR1, SUR2B, and Kir6.1) is poorly defined. The situation is even less clear for the immature heart, which shows a remarkable resistance to hypoxia and metabolic stress. The hypoxia-induced action potential shortening and opening of sarcolemmal KATPchannels that occurs in adults is less prominent in the immature heart. This might be due in part to the different biophysical and pharmacological properties of KATPchannels of immature and adult KATPchannels. Because these properties are largely conferred by subunit composition, it is important to examine the relative expression levels of the various KATPchannel subunits during maturation. We therefore used RNAse protection assays, reverse transcription–PCR approaches, and Western blotting to characterize the mRNA and protein expression profiles of KATPchannel subunits in fetal, neonatal, and adult mouse heart. Our data indicate that each of the KATPchannel subunits (Kir6.1, Kir6.2, SUR1, SUR2A, and SUR2B) is expressed in the mouse heart at all of the developmental time points studied. However, the expression level of each of the subunits is low in the fetal heart and progressively increases with maturation. Each of the subunits seems to be expressed in ventricular myocytes with a subcellular expression pattern matching that found in the adult. Our data suggest that the KATPchannel composition may change during maturation, which has important implications for KATPchannel function in the developing heart. |
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Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 00313998 15300447 |
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| DOI: | 10.1203/01.PDR.0000169967.83576.CB |