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  • Title: beta(2)-Adrenergic receptor signaling complexes in cardiomyocyte caveolae/lipid rafts.
    Author: Steinberg SF.
    Journal: J Mol Cell Cardiol; 2004 Aug; 37(2):407-15. PubMed ID: 15276011.
    Abstract:
    The traditional notion that catecholamine actions are mediated by the predominant beta(1)-adrenergic receptor (beta(1)-AR) subtype linked to the activation of adenylyl cyclase and the accumulation of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) in cardiomyocytes has been challenged by recent studies showing that cardiomyocytes co-express pharmacologically distinct beta(2)-AR subtypes that activate a more broad range of downstream effectors. While beta(1)- and beta(2)-ARs exert largely functionally equivalent cellular actions in heterologous expression systems, signaling by endogenous beta-AR subtypes in highly differentiated cells such as cardiomyocytes can be strikingly different. There is growing evidence that certain features of the signaling phenotypes for beta-AR subtypes in cardiomyocytes are inconsistent with traditional models that attribute signaling specificity to high-affinity protein-protein interactions between receptors, G-proteins, and effectors freely mobile on surface membranes. This chapter summarizes recent studies that focus on membrane microdomains (such as caveolae or lipid rafts) as sites that differentially localizing individual beta-AR subtypes as well as the downstream signaling machinery that generates, propagates, and downregulates the cAMP-protein kinase A signaling pathway. To the extent that this mechanism calibrates beta-AR responses in cardiomyocytes, it would be expected to be pertinent to the pathogenesis of heart failure, where chronic/persistent beta-AR signaling contributes to ventricular remodeling and impacts on long-term survival.
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