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FRET biosensor uncovers cAMP nano-domains at β-adrenergic targets that dictate precise tuning of cardiac contractility.

Nature communications | 2017

Compartmentalized cAMP/PKA signalling is now recognized as important for physiology and pathophysiology, yet a detailed understanding of the properties, regulation and function of local cAMP/PKA signals is lacking. Here we present a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based sensor, CUTie, which detects compartmentalized cAMP with unprecedented accuracy. CUTie, targeted to specific multiprotein complexes at discrete plasmalemmal, sarcoplasmic reticular and myofilament sites, reveals differential kinetics and amplitudes of localized cAMP signals. This nanoscopic heterogeneity of cAMP signals is necessary to optimize cardiac contractility upon adrenergic activation. At low adrenergic levels, and those mimicking heart failure, differential local cAMP responses are exacerbated, with near abolition of cAMP signalling at certain locations. This work provides tools and fundamental mechanistic insights into subcellular adrenergic signalling in normal and pathological cardiac function.

Pubmed ID: 28425435 RIS Download

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Associated grants

  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL138539
  • Agency: British Heart Foundation, United Kingdom
    Id: RG/12/18/30088
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P01 HL080101
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL092097
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL131517
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL030077
  • Agency: British Heart Foundation, United Kingdom
    Id: PG/15/5/31110
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/L006855/1
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL105242
  • Agency: British Heart Foundation, United Kingdom
    Id: PG/10/75/28537
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL126802
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R37 HL030077
  • Agency: British Heart Foundation, United Kingdom
    Id: RG/12/3/29423

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