17β-estradiol reduces the effect of metabolic inhibition on gap junction intercellular communication in rat cardiomyocytes via the estrogen receptor

Tun Hui Chung, Seu Mei Wang, Jiahn Chun Wu

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The effects of 17β-estradiol (E2) on gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC) were assessed by Lucifer yellow dye coupling in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes after metabolic inhibition (MI) using potassium cyanide and sodium iodoacetate. MI significantly reduced dye coupling of cardiomyocytes to 8.5% ± 0.6% of control levels, and pretreatment with E2, but not its inactive isomer 17α-estradiol, dose-dependently (EC 50 = 0.41 μM) increased the dye coupling up to 76% ± 15% of control levels. The effect of E2 on MI-induced dye uncoupling was abolished by tamoxifen, a potent estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist. The ligand, E2-BSA-FITC, labeled the cardiomyocyte surface, whereas BSA-FITC did not, suggesting the presence of membrane-associated E2 receptors. Double immunofluorescence microscopy showed that MI-induced the accumulation of non-phosphorylated Cx43 at the gap junction and that this was prevented by E2 pretreatment. Labeling of Lucifer yellow-microinjected cardiomyocytes with antibodies specific for Ser368-phosphorylated Cx43 (Ser368Cx43) or non-phosphorylated Cx43 confirmed that E2 reduced the MI-induced inhibition of dye coupling and accumulation of non-phosphorylated Cx43 concomitant with the reappearance of Ser368Cx43 at the gap junction. MI caused a decrease in Ser368Cx43 protein levels, and pretreatment with E2 significantly increased the levels of Ser368Cx43. Inhibition of protein kinase C (PKC) with chelerythrine blocked the E2-induced increase of Ser368Cx43 levels in MI-treated cardiomyocytes. These results suggest that E2 attenuates the inhibitory effect of MI on GJIC in cardiomyocytes by affecting the phosphorylation of Cx43, possibly mediated by activation of PKC via a membrane-associated signaling mechanism.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)1013-1022
頁數10
期刊Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
37
發行號5
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 11月 2004

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