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Differential Effects of Calpain Inhibitors on Hypertrophy of Cardiomyocytes

Differential Effects of Calpain Inhibitors on Hypertrophy of Cardiomyocytes

Jay R Pollack, Richard C Witt, Jeffrey T Sugimoto

Mol Cell Biochem. 2003 Sep;251(1-2):47-50.

PMID: 14575303

Abstract:

Two inhibitors of the calcium-dependent cysteine protease, calpain, have markedly different effects on the extent of hypertrophy induced by the alpha-adrenergic agonist, phenylephrine, of cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. E64c, an inhibitor of calpain and other cysteine proteases, stimulated the hypertrophy by 59%. PD 150606, a specific calpain inhibitor, reduced the hypertrophy by 38%. Phenylephrine decreased the proteolysis of a calpain substrate by the cells 1-2 h after its addition but not at 24 h. PD 150606 inhibited proteolytic activity at all times, and the combination of phenylephrine and PD 150606 did not give greater inhibition. This suggests that cysteine proteases of the papain sub-family are involved with the hypertrophic response at two points, promoting hypertrophy at the first and limiting it at the second. Calpain appears to be the protease involved at the first point, and there may be another cysteine protease acting at the second site.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP179528451	PD 150606		179528-45-1	Price

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