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Rapid turnover of the “functional” Na⁺–Ca²⁺ exchanger in cardiac myocytes revealed by an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide approach

  • Egger, Marcel Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Porzig, Hartmut Department of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Niggli, Ernst Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Schwaller, Beat Division of Histology, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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    12.01.2005
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  • Cell Calcium. - 2005, vol. 37, no. 3, p. 233-243
sodium–calcium exchange
NCX
antisense oligodeoxynucleotides
cardiac myocyte
heart
intracellular calcium
calcium transport
caged calcium
sf9 cells
English Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (AS-ODNs) were used in combination with transient functional expression of the cardiac Na⁺–Ca²⁺ exchanger (NCX1) to correlate suppression of the Na⁺–Ca²⁺ exchange function with down-regulation of NCX1 protein expression. In a de-novo expression system (Sf9 cells), a decrease in both, NCX1 mRNA and protein after AS-ODN application was paralleled by diminished NCX1 activity, a typical hallmark of a true “antisense effect”. Although AS-ODN uptake was also efficient in rat neonatal cardiac myocytes, in whole-cell extracts of these cells treated with AS-ODNs, the amount of NCX1 protein determined in a quantitative binding assay remained almost unchanged, despite a prompt loss of NCX1 function. Immunocytochemical staining of myocytes revealed that most of the immunoreactivity was not localized in the plasma membrane, but in intracellular compartments and was barely affected by AS-ODN treatment. These results indicate that the “functional half-life” of the NCX1 protein in the plasma membrane of neonatal cardiac myocytes is surprisingly short, much shorter than reported half-lifes of about 30 h for other membrane proteins.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Médecine
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  • English
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Biological sciences
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