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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Cell physiology2019

Inhibition of the ubiquitous calpains protects complex I activity and enables improved mitophagy in the heart following ischemia-reperfusion.

Qun Chen, Jeremy Thompson, Ying Hu, Joseph Dean, Edward J Lesnefsky

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Article in American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qun ChenDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.ORCID 0000-0001-5683-7844
Jeremy ThompsonDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Ying HuDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Joseph DeanDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Edward J LesnefskyDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

activation of mitochondrial calpain augments cardiac injury in aged heartsR21AG054975 · NIA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI CHEN, QUN · 2017 to 2018
$433k
BLRD VA I01 BX001355NIA NIH HHS R21 AG054975
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Activation of calpain 1 (CPN1) and calpain 2 (CPN2) contributes to cardiac injury during ischemia (ISC) and reperfusion (REP). Complex I activity is decreased in heart mitochondria following ISC-REP. CPN1 and CPN2 are ubiquitous calpains that exist in both cytosol (cs)-CPN1 and 2 and mitochondria (mit)-CPN1 and 2. Recent work shows that the complex I subunit (NDUFS7) is a potential substrate of the mit-CPN1. We asked whether ISC-REP led to decreased complex I activity via proteolysis of the NDUFS7 subunit via activation of mit-CPN1 and -2. Activation of cs-CPN1 and -2 decreases mitophagy in hepatocytes following ISC-REP. We asked whether activation of cs-CPN1 and -2 impaired mitophagy in the heart following ISC-REP. Buffer-perfused rat hearts underwent 25 min of global ISC and 30 min of REP. MDL-28170 (MDL; 10 µM) was used to inhibit CPN1 and -2. Cytosol, subsarcolemmal mitochondria (SSM), and interfibrillar mitochondria (IFM) were isolated at the end of heart perfusion. Cardiac ISC-REP led to decreased complex I activity with a decrease in the content of NDUFS7 in both SSM and IFM. ISC-REP also resulted in a decrease in cytosolic beclin-1 content, a key component of the autophagy pathway required to form autophagosomes. MDL treatment protected the contents of cytosolic beclin-1 and mitochondrial NDUFS7 in hearts following ISC-REP. These results support that activation of both cytosolic and mitochondrial calpains impairs mitochondria during cardiac ISC-REP. Mitochondria-localized calpains impair complex I via cleavage of a key subunit. Activation of cytosolic calpains contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction by impairing removal of the impaired mitochondria through depletion of a key component of the mitophagy process.

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AnimalsCalpainCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsDipeptidesMitochondria, HeartMitophagyMyocardial Reperfusion InjuryRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyCalpaincalpain inhibitor IIICapn1 protein, ratCapn2 protein, ratCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsDipeptidescalpain inhibitorelectron transport chainmitochondriaNADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase

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PMID31411917
PMCPMC6879877
OpenAlexW2968307322

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