scholarly journals Protein modification during biological aging: selective tyrosine nitration of the SERCA2a isoform of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase in skeletal muscle

1999 ◽  
Vol 340 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa I. VINER ◽  
Deborah A. FERRINGTON ◽  
Todd D. WILLIAMS ◽  
Diana J. BIGELOW ◽  
Christian SCHÖNEICH

The accumulation of covalently modified proteins is an important hallmark of biological aging, but relatively few studies have addressed the detailed molecular-chemical changes and processes responsible for the modification of specific protein targets. Recently, Narayanan et al. [Narayanan, Jones, Xu and Yu (1996) Am. J. Physiol. 271, C1032-C1040] reported that the effects of aging on skeletal-muscle function are muscle-specific, with a significant age-dependent change in ATP-supported Ca2+-uptake activity for slow-twitch but not for fast-twitch muscle. Here we have characterized in detail the age-dependent functional and chemical modifications of the rat skeletal-muscle sarcoplasmic-reticulum (SR) Ca2+-ATPase isoforms SERCA1 and SERCA2a from fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle respectively. We find a significant age-dependent loss in the Ca2+-ATPase activity (26% relative to Ca2+-ATPase content) and Ca2+-uptake rate specifically in SR isolated from predominantly slow-twitch, but not from fast-twitch, muscles. Western immunoblotting and amino acid analysis demonstrate that, selectively, the SERCA2a isoform progressively accumulates a significant amount of nitrotyrosine with age (≈ 3.5±0.7 mol/mol of SR Ca2+-ATPase). Both Ca2+-ATPase isoforms suffer an age-dependent loss of reduced cysteine which is, however, functionally insignificant. In vitro, the incubation of fast- and slow-twitch muscle SR with peroxynitrite (ONOO-) (but not NO/O2) results in the selective nitration only of the SERCA2a, suggesting that ONOO- may be the source of the nitrating agent in vivo. A correlation of the SR Ca2+-ATPase activity and covalent protein modifications in vitro and in vivo suggests that tyrosine nitration may affect the Ca2+-ATPase activity. By means of partial and complete proteolytic digestion of purified SERCA2a with trypsin or Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease, followed by Western-blot, amino acid and HPLC-electrospray-MS (ESI-MS) analysis, we localized a large part of the age-dependent tyrosine nitration to the sequence Tyr294-Tyr295 in the M4-M8 transmembrane domain of the SERCA2a, close to sites essential for Ca2+ translocation.

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Jeanne Loirat ◽  
Brigitte Lucas-Heron ◽  
Béatrice Ollivier ◽  
Claude Leoty

Two Ca2+ sequestering proteins were studied in fast-twitch (EDL) and slow-twitch (soleus) muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) as a function of denervation time. Ca2+-ATPase activity measured in SR fractions of normal soleus represented 5% of that measure in SR fractions of normal EDL. Denervation caused a severe decrease in activity only in fast-twich muscle. Ca2+-ATPase and calsequestrin contents were affected differently by denervation. In EDL SR, Ca2+-ATPase content decreased progressively, whereas in soleus SR, no variation was observed. Calsequestrin showed a slight increase in both muscles as a function of denervation time correlated with increased45Ca-binding. These results indicate first that Ca2+-ATPase activity in EDL was under neural control, and that because of low Ca2+-ATPase activity and content in slow-twitch muscle no variation could be detected, and secondly that greater calsequestrin content might represent a relative increasing of heavy vesicles or decreasing of light vesicles as a function of denervation time in the whole SR fraction isolated in both types of muscles.


1997 ◽  
Vol 273 (3) ◽  
pp. E479 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Sugden ◽  
M J Holness ◽  
L G Fryer

Glucose 6-phosphate (G-6-P)-independent glycogen synthase (GSa) and glycogen synthase (GS) total activities were measured in muscles from 24-h-starved rats. Intravenous glucose tolerance tests (0.5 g/kg body wt) were used to produce physiological, transient increases in insulin and glucose concentrations. GS activation occurred at approximately 10 min after glucose administration with peak activation at approximately 15 min. GS activation was reversed approximately 15 min after insulin and glucose concentrations had returned to basal. No differences existed between fast- and slow-twitch muscles. Hyperinsulinemia (approximately 160 mU/ml) in the absence of hyperglycemia elicited 1.5-fold activation of GS (P < 0.001) in two of three fast-twitch muscles but did not activate GS in slow-twitch muscles. Glucose infusion (glycemia approximately 8 mM; insulin approximately 40 mU/ml) significantly (P < 0.01) increased the percentage of total GS in the GSa form in four of the five muscles. Hyperglycemia with modest hyperinsulinemia evoked greater enhancement of GSa activity in fast-twitch muscle than insulin alone at a higher concentration (P < 0.01). In summary, hyperinsulinemia without hyperglycemia does not result in maximal activation of GS in fast-twitch muscle, and a rise in glycemia is obligatory for GS activation by insulin in slow-twitch muscle. The data support an important role for glycemia in modulating the response of skeletal muscle GS to insulin and provide further evidence of heterogeneity among skeletal muscle types.


1992 ◽  
Vol 263 (2) ◽  
pp. C287-C293 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Rundell ◽  
P. C. Tullson ◽  
R. L. Terjung

AMP deaminase, which hydrolyses AMP to inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) and NH3 at high rates during excessive energy demands in skeletal muscle, is activated when bound to myosin in vitro. We evaluated AMP deaminase binding in vivo during muscle contractions to assess whether binding 1) is inherent to deamination and found only with high rates of IMP production or simply coincident with the contractile process and 2) requires cellular acidosis. AMP deaminase activity (mumol.min-1.g-1) was measured in the supernatant (free) and 10(4)-g pellet (bound) homogenate fractions of muscle of anesthetized rats after in situ contractions to determine the percent bound. In resting muscle, nearly all (approximately 90%) AMP deaminase is free (cytosolic). During contractions when energy balance was well maintained, binding did not significantly differ from resting values. However, during intense contraction conditions that lead to increased IMP concentration, binding increased to approximately 60% (P less than 0.001) in fast-twitch and approximately 50% in slow-twitch muscle. Binding increased in an apparent first-order manner and preceded initiation of IMP formation. Further, binding rapidly declined within 1 min after cessation of intense stimulation, even though the cell remained extremely acidotic. Extensive binding during contractions was also evident without cellular acidosis (iodoacetic acid-treated muscle). Thus the in vivo AMP deaminase-myosin complex association/dissociation is not coupled to changes in cellular acidosis. Interestingly, binding remained elevated after contractions, if energy recovery was limited by ischemia. Our results are consistent with myosin binding having a role in AMP deaminase activation and subsequent IMP formation in contracting muscle.


1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto T. Sudo ◽  
Gisele Zapata ◽  
Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz

The characteristics of transient contractures elicited by rapid cooling of frog or mouse muscles perfused in vitro with solutions equilibrated with 0.5–2.0% halothane are reviewed. The data indicate that these halothane-cooling contractures are dose dependent and reproducible, and their amplitude is larger in muscles containing predominantly slow-twitch type fibers, such as the mouse soleus, than in muscles in which fast-twitch fibers predominate, such as the mouse extensor digitorum longus. The halothane-cooling contractures are potentiated in muscles exposed to succinylcholine. The effects of Ca2+-free solutions, of the local anesthetics procaine, procainamide, and lidocaine, and of the muscle relaxant dantrolene on the halothane-cooling contractures are consistent with the proposal that the halothane-cooling contractures result from synergistic effects of halothane and low temperature on Ca sequestration by the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Preliminary results from skinned rabbit muscle fibers support this proposal. The halothane concentrations required for the halothane-cooling contractures of isolated frog or mouse muscles are comparable with those observed in serum of patients during general anesthesia. Accordingly, fascicles dissected from muscle biopsies of patients under halothane anesthesia for programmed surgery develop large contractures when rapidly cooled. The amplitude of these halothane-cooling contractures declined with the time of perfusion of the muscle fascicles in vitro with halothane-free physiological solutions. It is suggested that the halothane-cooling contractures could be used as a simple experimental model for the investigation of the effects of halothane on Ca homeostasis and contractility in skeletal muscle and for study of drugs of potential use in the management of the contractures associated with the halothane-induced malignant hyperthermia syndrome. It is shown that salicylates, but not indomethacin or mefenamic acid, inhibit the halothane-cooling contractures.


1994 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1753-1758 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bonen ◽  
D. A. Homonko

In the present study, we investigated the hypotheses that 1) skeletal muscle glyconeogenesis will increase after exercise, 2) greater changes in glyconeogenesis will be observed after exercise in fast-twitch muscles than in slow-twitch muscles, and 3) glycogen repletion will reduce the rates of glyconeogenesis. Mouse soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) glycogen depots were reduced to the same levels by treadmill exercise (60 min) or epinephrine injection (75 micrograms/100 g body wt ip). Untreated animals were used as controls. We were able to prevent glycogen repletion by incubating muscles in vitro with sorbitol (75 mM) and to increase glycogen concentrations in vitro by incubating muscles with glucose (75 mM). The experimental results showed that glyconeogenesis was increased by exercise (EDL, +51%; soleus, +82%) when glycogen levels were kept low. When glycogen depots were increased, the rate of glyconeogenesis was lowered in the exercised EDL (P < 0.05) but not in the soleus (P > 0.05). Reductions in muscle glycogen by epinephrine did not change the rate of glyconeogenesis in EDL, either when glycogen depots were kept low or were repleted (P > 0.05). In contrast, in the soleus, epinephrine-induced reductions in glycogen did stimulate glyconeogenesis (P < 0.05). Analyses in EDL showed that in nonexercised muscles glycogen concentrations were minimally effective in altering the rates of glyconeogenesis. A 30% decrement in glycogen increased glyconeogenesis by 5% in resting muscles, whereas the same decrement increased glyconeogenesis by 51% in exercised muscles.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (4) ◽  
pp. C1250-C1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Wada ◽  
T. Okumoto ◽  
K. Toro ◽  
K. Masuda ◽  
T. Fukubayashi ◽  
...  

Myosin of human skeletal muscles was analyzed by means of several electrophoretic techniques. Myosin heavy chain (HC)-IIa-and HC-IIb-based isomyosins were identified by pyrophosphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PP-PAGE). The electrophoretic mobilities of these fast-twitch muscle isomyosins differed in the order HC-IIa triplets < HC-IIb triplets. To determine the subunit composition of myosin molecules that function in intact muscle, two-dimensional electrophoresis in which the first and second dimensions were PP-PAGE and sodium dodecyl sulfate-PAGE, respectively, was also performed. Slow-twitch muscle isomyosin contained, in addition to slow-twitch light chain (LC) and HC-I isoforms, appreciable amounts of LC-2f, HC-IIa, and HC-IIb isoforms, and fast-twitch muscle isomyosin consisted of LC-2s and HC-I isoforms as well as fast-twitch LC and HC isoforms. Without consideration of HC- and slow-twitch alkali LC heterodimers, at least 31 possible isomyosins are derived from these findings on the subunit composition of isomyosins in human skeletal muscle.


2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zimowska ◽  
A. Duchesnay ◽  
P. Dragun ◽  
A. Oberbek ◽  
J. Moraczewski ◽  
...  

When injured by crushing, the repair of the slow-twitch soleus rat muscle, unlike the fast-twitch EDL, is associated with fibrosis. As TGFβ1, whose activity can be controlled by glycosaminoglycans (GAG), plays a major role in fibrosis, we hypothesized that levels of TGFβ1 and GAG contents could account for this differential quality of regeneration. Here we show that the regeneration of the soleus was accompanied by elevated and more sustained TGFβ1 level than in the EDL. Neutralization of TGFβ1 effects by antibodies to TGFβ1 or its receptor TGFβ-R1 improved muscle repair, especially of the soleus muscle, increased in vitro growth of myoblasts, and accelerated their differentiation. These processes were accompanied by alterations of GAG contents. These results indicate that the control of TGFβ1 activity is important to improve regeneration of injured muscle and accelerate myoblast differentiation, in part through changes in GAG composition of muscle cell environment.


1982 ◽  
Vol 208 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Kelly ◽  
David F. Goldspink

The glucocorticoid dexamethasone dramatically altered growth patterns in four muscle types, inducing atrophy of smooth and fast-twitch skeletal muscle, suppressing protein accumulation in slow-twitch muscle and enhancing growth in the heart. These differing responses were explained by steroid-induced changes in RNA content, protein synthesis and protein breakdown.


2006 ◽  
Vol 394 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor S. Sharov ◽  
Elena S. Dremina ◽  
Nadezhda A. Galeva ◽  
Todd D. Williams ◽  
Christian Schöneich

The selective reversible S-glutathiolation of specific SERCA (sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-ATPase) cysteine residues represents a novel physiologic pathway of NO (nitric oxide)-dependent arterial smooth muscle relaxation [Adachi, Weisbrod, Pimentel, Ying, Sharov, Schöneich and Cohen (2004) Nat. Med. 10, 1200–1207]. This mechanism may be impaired through the irreversible oxidation of functionally important cysteine residues as a consequence of oxidative stress and aging. To establish whether in vivo aging and in vitro oxidation by peroxynitrite result in the loss of such functionally important cysteine residues of SERCA, we have developed and optimized a quantitative method to monitor the oxidation state of the individual SERCA cysteine residues using a maleimide-based fluorescence dye, TG1 (ThioGlo® 1), as a label for cysteine residues that have not been altered by oxidation and are not involved in disulphide bridges. A high efficiency for TG1 labelling of such residues and the chemical structure of cysteine–TG1 adducts were validated by MS analysis of model peptides, model proteins and rat skeletal muscle SERCA1. Tryptic peptides containing 18 out of a total of 24 cysteine residues were identified by HPLC–ESI (electrospray ionization)–MS/MS (tandem MS). Two cysteine residues, at positions 344 and 349, were detected in the form of an internal disulphide bridge, and another 16 were found to be labelled with TG1. Using HPLC–ESI–MS, we quantitatively mapped peroxynitrite oxidation of eight cysteine residues (positions 364, 417, 420, 498, 525, 674, 675 and 938), some of which are involved in the control of SERCA activity. Biological aging resulted in the partial modification of cysteine residues 377, 498, 525, 561, 614, 636, 674, 675, 774 and 938. Neither peroxynitrite exposure nor biological aging affected the apparent SERCA1 ATP affinity. Our data show an age-dependent loss of cysteine residues (approx. 2.8 mol of cysteine/mol of SERCA1), which may be partially responsible for the age-dependent decrease in the specific Ca2+-ATPase activity (by 40%).


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