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Synergism between cAMP and ATP in signal transduction in cardiac myocytes

J. S. Zheng, A. Christie, M. B. De Young, M. N. Levy and A. Scarpa
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

ATP transiently increases the intracellular Ca2+ concentration in cardiac myocyte suspensions. Pretreatment with norepinephrine (NE) greatly potentiates the ATP response. We performed experiments on adult rat myocyte suspensions loaded with fura-2 to investigate the mechanism of NE potentiation. We found that forskolin (an activator of adenylate cyclase), 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase), and permeative adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) analogues potentiate the increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration induced by ATP. NE, forskolin, and 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-cAMP all increase Vmax of the Ca2+ response curve of ATP. Measurement of cAMP by radioimmunoassay confirmed that the changes in the ATP response were accompanied by an increase in cAMP. These results suggest that the noradrenergic potentiation of the ATP-induced Ca2+ mobilization involves cAMP as a second messenger. Patch-clamp studies of isolated myocytes showed that neither NE nor forskolin alters the inward current elicited by ATP, but rather they increase the duration of secondary slow action potentials elicited by ATP. NE also increases the Ca2+ current through L-type Ca2+ channels in the myocytes. We conclude that NE potentiates the ATP-induced Ca2+ transient by increasing cAMP levels and that one of the early events is the increase of the inward Ca2+ current during the action potential.

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