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Acta Physiologica 2012; Volume 206, Supplement 692
The 63rd National Congress of the Italian Physiological Society
9/21/2012-9/23/2012
Verona, Italy


THE ROLE OF STORE-OPERATED CYCLIC AMP SIGNALLING (SOCAMPS) IN CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
Abstract number: P4.5

CARMONE1 C, GERBINO1 A, HOFER2 AM, LEFKIMMIATIS2 K, DEBELLIS1 L, COLELLA1 M

1Dip. Bioscienze, Biotecnologie e Scienze Farmacologiche, Univ. di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italia
2VA Boston Healthcare System and the Dept of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

Store-Operated Cyclic AMP Signalling (SOcAMPS) represents a novel signalling mechanism in which depletion of Ca2+ in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) leads to a STIM1 (Stromal Interaction Molecule 1)-dependent increase in cAMP levels, independently of cytosolic Ca2+. Here we evaluated whether SOcAMPS was manifest in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVM) and human "iCardiomyocytes" and its potential role in cardiac cell hypertrophy. cAMP and ER [Ca2+] were monitored by live cell fluorescence imaging after transfection with the FRET-based probes, EPACH30 and D1ER cameleon, respectively. The low affinity Ca2+ chelator, TPEN (1mM), able to induce a reduction of SR Ca2+ levels without affecting cytosolic [Ca2+], elicited a significant cAMP increase in the absence and presence of 5 mM forskolin (FRSK) in both NRVM and human iCardiomyocytes. SR depletion by ionomycin (10 mM) was found to exert similar effects, independently of cytosolic Ca2+. The participation of STIM1 in the observed phenomenon was established in NRVMs by the 47% reduction of the [cAMP] response obtained after shRNA-mediated knockdown of STIM1. Interestingly, a significant increase of the TPEN+FRSK-stimulated response was found following "in vitro" induction of cell hypertrophy. These data establish, for the first time, the existence of SOcAMPS in these two cardiac cell models, and suggest a potential role for this new signalling mechanism in cardiac cell hypertrophy.

To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Acta Physiologica 2012; Volume 206, Supplement 692 :P4.5

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