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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 284, Issue 6, Pages H2277-H2287Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00142.2002
Keywords
protein kinase A; angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor; isozymes
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The activities of cardiac protein kinase C (PKC) were examined in hemodynamically assessed rats subsequent to myocardial infarction (MI). Both Ca2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent PKC activities increased significantly in left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) homogenates at 1, 2, 4, and 8 wk after MI was induced. PKC activities were also increased in both LV and RV cytosolic and particulate fractions from 8-wk infarcted rats. The relative protein contents of PKC-alpha, -beta, -epsilon, and -zeta isozymes were significantly increased in LV homogenate, cytosolic (except PKC-alpha), and particulate fractions from the failing rats. On the other hand, the protein contents of PKC-alpha, -beta, and -epsilon isozymes, unlike the PKC-zeta isozyme, were increased in RV homogenate and cytosolic fractions, whereas the RV particulate fraction showed an increase in the PKC-alpha isozyme only. These changes in the LV and RV PKC activities and protein contents in the 8-wk infarcted animals were partially corrected by treatment with the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor imidapril. No changes in protein kinase A activity and its protein content were seen in the 8-wk infarcted hearts. The results suggest that the increased PKC activity in cardiac dysfunction due to MI may be associated with an increase in the expression of PKC-alpha, -beta, and -epsilon isozymes, and the improvement of heart function in the infarcted animals by imidapril may be due to partial prevention of changes in PKC activity and isozyme contents.
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