Type 1 Diabetes Impairs Cardiomyocyte Contractility in the Left and Right Ventricular Free Walls but Preserves It in the Interventricular Septum

  • Anastasia Khokhlova
  • , Tatiana Myachina
  • , Denis Volzhaninov
  • , Xenia Butova
  • , Anastasia Kochurova
  • , Valentina Berg
  • , Irina Gette
  • , Gleb Moroz
  • , Svetlana Klinova
  • , Ilzira Minigalieva
  • , Olga Solovyova
  • , Irina Danilova
  • , Ksenia Sokolova
  • , Galina Kopylova
  • , Daniil Shchepkin

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Abstract

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) leads to ischemic heart disease and diabetic cardiomyopathy. We tested the hypothesis that T1D differently affects the contractile function of the left and right ventricular free walls (LV, RV) and the interventricular septum (IS) using a rat model of alloxan-induced T1D. Single-myocyte mechanics and cytosolic Ca2+ concentration transients were studied on cardiomyocytes (CM) from LV, RV, and IS in the absence and presence of mechanical load. In addition, we analyzed the phosphorylation level of sarcomeric proteins and the characteristics of the actin-myosin interaction. T1D similarly affected the characteristics of actin-myosin interaction in all studied regions, decreasing the sliding velocity of native thin filaments over myosin in an in vitro motility assay and its Ca2+ sensitivity. A decrease in the thin-filament velocity was associated with increased expression of β-myosin heavy-chain isoform. However, changes in the mechanical function of single ventricular CM induced by T1D were different. T1D depressed the contractility of CM from LV and RV; it decreased the auxotonic tension amplitude and the slope of the active tension-length relationship. Nevertheless, the contractile function of CM from IS was principally preserved.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1719
JournalInternational journal of molecular sciences
Volume23
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2022

Keywords

  • Actin-myosin interaction
  • Calcium transients
  • Diabetic cardiomyopathy
  • Interventricular differences
  • Single cardiomyocyte mechanics
  • Tension-length relationship

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