PI3Kgamma modulates the cardiac response to chronic pressure overload by distinct kinase-dependent and -independent effects

Cell. 2004 Aug 6;118(3):375-87. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.07.017.

Abstract

The G protein-coupled, receptor-activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase gamma (PI3Kgamma) mediates inflammatory responses and negatively controls cardiac contractility by reducing cAMP concentration. Here, we report that mice carrying a targeted mutation in the PI3Kgamma gene causing loss of kinase activity (PI3KgammaKD/KD) display reduced inflammatory reactions but no alterations in cardiac contractility. We show that, in PI3KgammaKD/KD hearts, cAMP levels are normal and that PI3Kgamma-deficient mice but not PI3KgammaKD/KD mice develop dramatic myocardial damage after chronic pressure overload induced by transverse aortic constriction (TAC). Finally, our data indicate that PI3Kgamma is an essential component of a complex controlling PDE3B phosphodiesterase-mediated cAMP destruction. Thus, cardiac PI3Kgamma participates in two distinct signaling pathways: a kinase-dependent activity that controls PKB/Akt as well as MAPK phosphorylation and contributes to TAC-induced cardiac remodeling, and a kinase-independent activity that relies on protein interactions to regulate PDE3B activity and negatively modulates cardiac contractility.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Cell Movement / physiology
  • Class Ib Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase
  • Cyclic AMP / metabolism
  • Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 3
  • Hypertension / metabolism
  • Isoenzymes / genetics
  • Isoenzymes / metabolism*
  • Leukocytes / physiology
  • Mice
  • Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / metabolism
  • Myocardium / enzymology
  • Myocardium / metabolism*
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / genetics
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / metabolism*
  • Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / metabolism
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins / metabolism
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
  • Signal Transduction / physiology

Substances

  • Isoenzymes
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins
  • Cyclic AMP
  • Class Ib Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase
  • Pik3cg protein, mouse
  • Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
  • Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases
  • Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 3
  • Pde3b protein, mouse