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  • Title: Regulation of PKA binding to AKAPs in the heart: alterations in human heart failure.
    Author: Zakhary DR, Moravec CS, Bond M.
    Journal: Circulation; 2000 Mar 28; 101(12):1459-64. PubMed ID: 10736293.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) regulates a broad range of cellular responses in the cardiac myocyte. Downstream regulation of the PKA pathway is mediated by a class of scaffolding proteins called A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs), which sequester PKA to specific subcellular locations through binding to its regulatory subunit (R). However, the effect of RII autophosphorylation on AKAP binding and the degree of RII autophosphorylation in failing and nonfailing human hearts remains unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS: We investigated AKAP-RII binding by overlay analysis and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and measured RII autophosphorylation in human hearts by backphosphorylation. Binding of Ht31 peptide (representing the RII-binding region of AKAPs) to cardiac RII was increased approximately 145% (P<0.01) for autophosphorylated RII relative to unphosphorylated control. By surface plasmon resonance, RII autophosphorylation significantly increased binding affinity to Ht31 by approximately 200% (P<0.01). Baseline PKA-dependent phosphorylation of RII was significantly decreased approximately 30% (P<0.05) in human hearts with dilated cardiomyopathy compared with nonfailing controls. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that AKAP binding of PKA in the heart is regulated by RII autophosphorylation. Therefore AKAP targeting of PKA may be reduced in patients with end-stage heart failure. This mechanism may be responsible for the decreased cAMP-dependent phosphorylation of proteins in dilated cardiomyopathy that we and others have previously observed.
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