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MUSCLE CELL BIOLOGY AND CELL MOTILITY

Blebbistatin specifically inhibits actin-myosin interaction in mouse cardiac muscle

¹Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ²Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Submitted 27 October 2006 ; accepted in final form 2 July 2007

Blebbistatin is a powerful inhibitor of actin-myosin interaction in isolated contractile proteins. To examine whether blebbistatin acts in a similar manner in the organized contractile system of striated muscle, the effects of blebbistatin on contraction of cardiac tissue from mouse were studied. The contraction of paced intact papillary muscle preparations and shortening of isolated cardiomyocytes were inhibited by blebbistatin with inhibitory constants in the micromolar range (1.3–2.8 µM). The inhibition constants are similar to those previously reported for isolated cardiac myosin subfragments showing that blebbistatin action is similar in filamentous myosin of the cardiac contractile apparatus and isolated proteins. The inhibition was not associated with alterations in action potential duration or decreased influx through L-type Ca²⁺ channels. Experiments on permeabilized cardiac muscle preparations showed that the inhibition was not due to alterations in Ca²⁺ sensitivity of the contractile filaments. The maximal shortening velocity was not affected by 1 µM blebbistatin. In conclusion, we show that blebbistatin is an inhibitor of the actin-myosin interaction in the organized contractile system of cardiac muscle and that its action is not due to effects on the Ca²⁺ influx and activation systems.

heart; electrophysiology; permeabilized muscle

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