Calreticulin Induces Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Background Calreticulin, a Ca2+-buffering chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum, is highly expressed in the embryonic heart and is essential for cardiac development. After birth, the calreticulin gene is sharply down regulated in the heart, and thus, adult hearts have negligible levels of calreticulin. In this study we tested the role of calreticulin in the adult heart. Methodology/Principal Findings We generated an inducible transgenic mouse in which calreticulin is targeted to the cardiac tissue using a Cre/loxP system and can be up-regulated in adult hearts. Echocardiography analysis of hearts from transgenic mice expressing calreticulin revealed impaired left ventricular systolic and diastolic function and impaired mitral valve function. There was altered expression of Ca2+ signaling molecules and the gap junction proteins, Connexin 43 and 45. Sarcoplasmic reticulum associated Ca2+-handling proteins (including the cardiac ryanodine receptor, sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase, and cardiac calsequestrin) were down-regulated in the transgenic hearts with increased expression of calreticulin. Conclusions/Significance We show that in adult heart, up-regulated expression of calreticulin induces cardiomyopathy in vivo leading to heart failure. This is due to an alternation in changes in a subset of Ca2+ handling genes, gap junction components and left ventricle remodeling.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2013-02-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0056387PMID 23437120PMCID 3577809
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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