Redox modulation of diaphragm contractility: Interaction between DHPR and RyR channels. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Previous reports indicate that reactive oxygen species (ROS) may modulate contractility in skeletal muscle. Although Ca(2+)-sensitivity of the contractile apparatus appears to be a primary site of regulation, dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR or L-type Ca(2+) channels) and calcium efflux in isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles appear to be redox sensitive as well. However, DHPR as a target is poorly understood in intact muscles at body temperature, particularly in the diaphragm, a muscle more dependent on external Ca(2+) than locomotor muscles. Previously, we reported that oxidant challenge via xanthine oxidase (XO) alters the K(+) contractures in diaphragm fiber bundles, suggestive of a role of L-type Ca(2+) channels. Contractility of isolated rat diaphragm fiber bundles revealed a biphasic response to ROS challenge that was dose and time dependent. Potentiation of twitch and low-frequency diaphragm fiber bundle contractility with 0.02 Uml(-1) XO was reversible or partially preventable with washout, dithiothreitol, and the SOD/catalase mimetic EUK-134. The RyR antagonist ruthenium red inhibited xanthine oxidase-induced potentiation, while the RyR agonist caffeine elevated diaphragm twitch and low-frequency tension in a non-additive manner by 55% when introduced simultaneously with ROS challenge. The DHPR antagonist nitrendipine (15 M) inhibited elevation in low-frequency diaphragm tension produced by ROS challenge. Caffeine threshold tension curves were shifted to the left with 0.02 Uml(-1) XO, but this effect was partially reversed with 15 M nitrendipine. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that DHPR redox state and RyR function are modulated in an interactive manner, affecting contractility in intact diaphragm fiber bundles.

published proceedings

  • Free Radic Biol Med

author list (cited authors)

  • Lawler, J. M., Kim, J., Kwak, H., & Barnes, W. S.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Lawler, John M||Kim, Jong-hee||Kwak, Hyo-Bum||Barnes, William S

publication date

  • January 2010