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Reduced cardiac muscle power with low ATP simulating heart failure

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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 121, Issue 17, Pages 3213-3223

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.07.029

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  1. Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Award [I01BX000740]
  2. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Insti- tute [R01 HL154624]

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For patients with heart failure, the reduced ATP levels in the myocardium may impair the pump function of the failing heart, even though the reduction in ATP does not directly affect the function of contractile proteins.
For patients with heart failure, myocardial ATP level can be reduced to one-half of that observed in healthy controls. This marked reduction (from =8 mM in healthy controls to as low as 3-4 mM in heart failure) has been suggested to contribute to impaired myocardial contraction and to the decreased pump function characteristic of heart failure. However, in vitro measures of maximum myofilament force generation, maximum shortening velocity, and the actomyosin ATPase activity show effective KM values for MgATP ranging from =10 mM to 150 mM, well below the intracellular ATP level in heart failure. Thus, it is not clear that the fall of myocardial ATP observed in heart failure is sufficient to impair the function of the contractile proteins. Therefore, we tested the effect of low MgATP levels on myocardial contraction using demembranated cardiac muscle preparations that were exposed to MgATP levels typical of the range found in non-failing and failing hearts. Consistent with previous studies, we found that a 50% reduction in MgATP level (from 8 mM to 4 mM) did not reduce maximum force generation or maximum velocity of shortening. However, we found that a 50% reduction in MgATP level caused a 20%-25% reduction in maximal power generation (measured during muscle shortening against a load) and a 20% slowing of cross-bridge cycling kinetics. These results suggest that the decreased cellular ATP level occurring in heart failure contributes to the impaired pump function of the failing heart. Since the ATP-myosin ATPase dissociation constant is estimated to be submillimolar, these findings also suggest that MgATP concentration affects cross-bridge dynamics through a mechanism that is more complex than through the direct dependence of MgATP concentration on myosin ATPase activity. Finally, these studies suggest that therapies targeted to increase adenine nucleotide pool levels in cardiomyocytes might be beneficial for treating heart failure.

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