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      Protein Turnover in Compensated Chronic Aortic Regurgitation

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          We recently demonstrated dynamic alterations in protein turnover 3 days and 1 month after surgical induction of aortic regurgitation (AR). To characterize protein synthesis and degradation during the long-term plateau phase, we performed [<sup>3</sup>H]-leucine infusion 2.5 years after induction of AR in 10 New Zealand White rabbits and 12 sham-operated controls. Protein fractional synthesis rates were obtained by analyses of plasma and protein hydrolysates, growth rates from protein concentration and heart weight measurements, and degradation rates by subtraction of growth from synthesis rates. AR (regurgitant fraction 25 ± 11%) caused a 57% increase in left ventricular (LV) weight in comparison with controls (7.4 ± 1.7 vs. 4.7 ± 0.6 g, p < 0.001) and no evidence of heart failure. Although concentrations of total cardiac protein, myosin heavy chain and actin were similar, the enlarged AR hearts had increased amounts of total cardiac protein (1,009 ± 312 vs. 682 ± 120mg/LV, p < 0.05), myosin heavy chain (148 ± 91 vs. 81 ± 29 mg/LV, p < 0.05), and actin (73 ± 42 vs. 44 ± 16 mg/LV, p < 0.06). Individual protein fractional synthesis and degradation rates were closely balanced. However, myosin fractional synthesis rates were 152% (p < 0.01) greater than those of total cardiac protein in AR animals, while only 52% (p < 0.05) greater in controls (AR vs. controls, p = 0.05). Variations in actin turnover between AR and control animals did not attain statistical significance. Myosin and actin fractional synthesis rates correlated closely in AR rabbits (R = 0.81 p < 0.02), but not among controls (R = 0.41, NS). Thus, selective alterations in myofibrillar protein turnover contribute to the maintenance of increased myofibrillar protein content in the ‘compensatory’ LV hypertrophy of chronic AR.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1997
          1997
          21 November 2008
          : 88
          : 6
          : 518-525
          Affiliations
          Division of, Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N.Y., USA
          Article
          177402 Cardiology 1997;88:518–525
          10.1159/000177402
          9397305
          ec2e3ca8-98e0-4735-8ef1-64d10d7eb0be
          © 1997 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 07 August 1996
          : 16 October 1996
          Page count
          Pages: 8
          Categories
          General Cardiology, Basic Science

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Rabbit,Experimental model,Proteolysis,Volume overload,Valvular heart disease,Protein synthesis,Cardiac hypertrophy

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