Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 289, Issue 5, Pages H1941-H1950Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01111.2004
Keywords
protein kinase C-epsilon
Funding
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-04759] Funding Source: Medline
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The Z-line represents a critical link between the transverse tubule network and cytoskeleton of cardiac cells with a role in anchoring structural proteins, ion channels, and signaling molecules. Protein kinase C-epsilon (PKC-epsilon) regulates cardiac excitability, cardioprotection, and growth, possibly as a consequence of translocation to the Z-line/T tubule region. To investigate the mechanism of PKC-epsilon translocation, fragments of its NH2-terminal 144-amino acid variable domain, epsilon V1, were fused with green fluorescent protein and evaluated by quantitative Fourier image analysis of decorated myocytes. Deletion of 23 amino acids from the NH2-terminus of epsilon V1, including an EAVSLKPT motif important for binding to a receptor for activated C kinase (RACK2), reduced but did not abolish Z-line binding. Further deletions of up to 84 amino acids from the NH2-terminus of epsilon V1 also did not prevent Z-line decoration. However, deletions of residues 85-144 from the COOH-terminus strongly reduced Z-line binding. COOH-terminal deletions caused 2.5-fold greater loss of binding energy (Delta Delta G) than did NH2-terminal deletions. Synthetic peptides derived from these regions modulated epsilon V1 binding and cardiac myocyte function, but also revealed considerable heterogeneity within populations of adult cardiac myocytes. The COOH-terminal subdomain important for Z-line anchoring maps to a surface in the epsilon V1 crystal structure that complements the eightamino acid RACK2 binding site and two previously identified membrane docking motifs. PKC-epsilon anchoring at the cardiac Z-line/ T tubule appears to rely on multiple points of contact probably involving protein-lipid and protein- protein interactions.
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