Is there something fishy about the regulation of the ryanodine receptor in the fish heart?
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Is there something fishy about the regulation of the ryanodine receptor in the fish heart?
Abstract
What is the topic of this review? Excitation-contraction coupling in fish hearts is maintained over a range of temperatures that would be cardioplegic to most mammals. Here, we review what is known about the fish cardiac ryanodine receptor, and consider how it may be regulated in a different manner from the mammalian cardiac isoforms of this channel. What advances does it highlight? We highlight how a better understanding of the basic gating and conducting properties of fish cardiac ryanodine receptors could provide considerable insight into mechanisms underlying sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release in fish hearts and the role of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in the evolution of the heart. The fish cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) holds large quantities of Ca(2+), but calcium-induced calcium release (CICR) is weak in these myocytes, and contraction and relaxation are largely determined by transsarcolemmal Ca(2+) flux. Many fish species live in a cold and seasonally variable thermal habitat, which could provide challenges to regulation of excitation-contraction coupling. Here, we focus on the cardiac SR Ca(2+)-release channel (RyR2) in fish and ask whether it may be regulated in a different manner from the mammalian RyR2. We review data indicating that fish cardiac RyR are present at lower density, are more spatially separated within the SR membrane and are less responsive to cytosolic Ca(2+) than mammalian RyR2 channels. All of these features would contribute to the weak CICR evident from functional studies. We also consider how CICR can be enhanced in fish myocytes following β-adrenergic stimulation and application of low levels of caffeine, and how acute and chronic temperature change may affect the gating properties of fish RyR2s. It is clear that a lack of insight into the fundamental gating and conductance properties of fish RyR2 channels is hindering our understanding of the role of the SR in fish cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. We conclude by reflecting on how studies that probe the biophysical properties of fish RyR2 channel gating in response to various ligands and temperatures would be very instructive for our understanding of the role of the SR in the evolution of the heart.
© 2015 The Authors. Experimental Physiology © 2015 The Physiological Society.
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