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Thrombin Receptor Actions in Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocytes
From the Departments of Medicine (S.F.S.) and Pharmacology (T.J., V.K., E.P., H.Z., R.B.R., S.F.S.), Columbia University, New York, NY.
Correspondence to Susan F. Steinberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 West 168 St, New York, NY 10032.
Abstract Previous studies established that thrombin stimulates phosphoinositide hydrolysis and modulates contractile function in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. The present study further defines the signaling pathways activated by the thrombin receptor and their role in thrombin's actions in cardiac myocytes. The thrombin receptor–derived agonist peptide (TRAP, a portion of the tethered ligand created by thrombin's proteolytic activity) stimulates the rapid and transient accumulation of inositol bis- and tris-phosphates (IP2 and IP3, respectively), which is followed by the more gradual and sustained accumulation of inositol monophosphate (IP1). TRAP elicits a larger and more sustained accumulation of IP1 than does thrombin. Thrombin and TRAP also activate mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. Differences in the kinetics and magnitude of thrombin- and TRAP-dependent inositol phosphate (IP) accumulation are paralleled by differences in the kinetics and magnitude of thrombin- and TRAP-dependent activation of MAPK. Pretreatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) to downregulate protein kinase C (PKC) attenuates thrombin- and TRAP-dependent activation of MAPK, although small and equivalent effects of thrombin and TRAP to stimulate MAPK persist in PMA-pretreated cells. These results support the notion that the thrombin receptor activates MAPK through PKC-dependent and PKC-independent pathways and that the incremental activation of MAPK by TRAP over that induced by thrombin is the consequence of enhanced activation through the PKC limb of the phosphoinositide lipid pathway. TRAP also increases the beating rate of spontaneously contracting ventricular myocytes and elevates cytosolic calcium in myocytes electrically driven at a constant basic cycle length. The effects of TRAP to modulate contractile function and elevate intracellular calcium are not inhibited by tricyclodecan-9-yl-xanthogenate (D609, to block TRAP-dependent IP accumulation) or pretreatment with PMA (to downregulate PKC). The TRAP-dependent rise in intracellular calcium also is not inhibited by verapamil or removal of extracellular calcium but is markedly attenuated by depletion of sarcoplasmic reticular calcium stores by caffeine. Patch-clamp experiments demonstrate that TRAP elevates intracellular calcium in cells held at a membrane potential of -70 mV. Taken together, these results support the conclusion that the thrombin receptor modulates contractile function by mobilizing intracellular calcium through an IP3-independent mechanism and that this response does not require activation of voltage-gated ion channels.
Key Words: thrombin receptors • inositol phosphates • mitogen-activated protein kinase • Ca2+ • automaticity
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