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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H921-H930, 2003; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00421.2003
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KATP channels and myocardial preconditioning: an update

Garrett J. Gross and Jason N. Peart

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226


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Ischemic or myocardial preconditioning (IPC) is a phenomenon whereby brief periods of ischemia have been shown to protect the myocardium against a more sustained ischemic insult. The result of IPC may be manifest as a marked reduction in infarct size, myocardial stunning, or incidence of cardiac arrhythmias. Whereas many endogenous neurotransmitters, peptides, and hormones have been proposed to play a role in the signal transduction pathways mediating the cardioprotective effect of IPC, nearly universal evidence indicates the involvement of the ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel. Initial evidence suggested that the surface or sarcolemmal KATP (sarcKATP) channel triggered or mediated the cardioprotective effects of IPC; however, more recent findings have suggested a major role for a mitochondrial site or possibly a mitochondrial KATP channel (mitoKATP). This review presents evidence that supports a role for these two channels as a trigger and/or downstream mediator in the phenomenon of IPC or pharmacologically induced PC as well as recent evidence that suggests the involvement of a mitochondrial calcium-activated potassium (mitoKca) channel or the electron transport chain in mediating the beneficial effects of IPC or pharmacologically induced PC.

ischemia; electron transport chain


NOMA (35) identified, in 1983, an ATP-sensitive potassium channel (KATP channel) in membrane patches prepared from isolated guinea pig ventricular myocyte. After this landmark finding, KATP channels have also been shown to exist in other tissues, including the brain, smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, intestine, kidney, and pancreas and appears to consist of various subtypes depending on the tissue or organelle studied. It was originally suggested that this channel coupled myocardial metabolism to membrane electrical activity, and it was suggested that opening of the myocardial KATP channel may serve a cardioprotective function against various stresses, including ischemia and hypoxia. Indeed, this hypothesis has been borne out based on published data, which demonstrated that a number of direct openers of the KATP channel have been shown to afford a marked protective effect on the myocardium in numerous models of reversible or irreversible ischemia-reperfusion injury. Furthermore, the KATP channel has been demonstrated to play a central role in the phenomenon termed ischemic preconditioning (IPC).

Structurally, KATP channels are composed of two distinct proteins, an inwardly rectifying potassium channel (Kir) pore subunit and the sulfonylurea receptor (SUR), which may have a regulatory role as well as a function in modulating the sensitivity of the channel to ATP, other nucleotides, and pharmacological agonists or antagonists (69). It is currently known that the cardiac sarcolemmal KATP channel is composed of an octomeric complex of two types of subunits, the Kir6.2 and the SUR2A subunit. There is also evidence to suggest that there are two KATP channels in the cell, a sarcolemmal channel (sarcKATP channel) in which the structure has been clearly delineated and a putative channel in the inner mitochondrial membrane (mitoKATP channel). The mitoKATP channel has been characterized pharmacologically in cells and in isolated lipid bilayers; however, it has not been cloned and its molecular structure remains unknown. In fact, its very existence has been questioned in several recent publications (8, 29) and is currently an area of considerable controversy.

IPC is a phenomenon whereby brief intervals of sublethal ischemia either delay or reduce the extent of necrosis following a subsequent more prolonged episode of ischemia (23). IPC has two distinct phases, an early phase that lasts for 1–3 h following the IPC stimulus and a delayed phase (or second window) of protection that reappears at 18–24 h and persists for 24–72 h. The signaling pathways underlying the two forms of protection most likely share common elements, but the former is thought to primarily involve posttranslational modifications, whereas the latter also involves changes in gene expression and amounts of cardioprotective proteins. The signaling cascade triggered by IPC is still under debate, and there is evidence that the pathways involved in the protection mediated by acute IPC may depend on the stimulus used to elicit IPC and the end point of injury used to demonstrate the protective effect, i.e., infarct size, stunning, and arrhythmias (2). Infarct size reduction has been considered the gold standard when studying the efficacy of a preconditioning stimulus to protect the heart and is always attenuated following IPC. On the other hand, myocardial stunning is most likely not a good index of the efficacy of acute IPC, although it appears to be a more reliable indicator of IPC when studying the second window of protection, particularly in conscious animal models. Protection of IPC against arrhythmias is somewhat controversial and is very species dependent. A variety of "triggers" have also been identified that are activated and/or released during the preconditioning stimulus, including adenosine, catecholamines, bradykinin, opioids, and nitric oxide (NO) (49). These triggers may be species dependent and also dependent on the severity and length of the preconditioning stimulus (15). As an example, Schulz et al. (51) found that bradykinin was the dominant trigger released during a less severe preconditioning stimulus, whereas adenosine was only released during a more intense preconditioning stimulus. In rabbits, opioids, adenosine, and bradykinin all seem to play an equal triggering role. Regardless of these triggers, a number of mediators of IPC have been identified. Recent studies have implicated different protein kinases in the signaling cascade responsible for IPC, including Src tyrosine kinases, protein kinase C (PKC), phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase, p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and the JAK/STAT pathway (2). In recent years, much research has focused on the central involvement of the sarcKATP or mitoKATP channel as both a trigger and distal effector in IPC with equivocal results (26, 49).

Although considerable evidence supporting a role for the KATP channel in acute IPC has been obtained, recent studies suggest that the KATP channel is also intimately involved as either a trigger or end effector in delayed IPC. Therefore, the central theme of this review will be to discuss the evidence for the involvement of the sarcKATP versus the mitoKATP channel or a mitochondrial site of action in both early and late IPC and potential mechanisms responsible for the cardioprotection observed. In addition, we will review recent evidence that supports the possibility of alternate sites of action of IPC and KATP channel openers within the mitochondria.


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Although it is well known that KATP channel antagonists block the infarct-limiting effects of IPC and agonists of the channel mimic the protective effect, the subtype of KATP channel and the cellular mechanism whereby opening of this KATP channel confers its cardioprotective effects is still controversial. It was initially hypothesized by Noma (35) that opening of the sarcKATP channel, induced by hypoxia, ischemia, or pharmacological KATP openers would enhance shortening of the cardiac action potential duration (APD) by accelerating phase 3 repolarization. An enhanced phase 3 repolarization would inhibit Ca2+ entry into the cell via L-type channels and prevent Ca2+ overload. Furthermore, the slowing of depolarization would also reduce Ca2+ entry and slow or prevent the reversal of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. These actions may increase cell viability via a reduction in Ca2+ overload during ischemia and early reperfusion. In this regard, Cole et al. (7) first demonstrated that glibenclamide, a nonselective KATP channel antagonist, attenuated the APD shortening, which occurs during ischemia in an isolated arterially perfused guinea pig right ventricular wall preparation, resulting in an impaired recovery of ventricular function following reperfusion. Moreover, this group (7) also showed an acceleration of APD shortening during ischemia, which resulted in an improved recovery of ventricular function during reperfusion when the tissue was pretreated with the KATP channel opener pinacidil. Furthermore, Tan et al. (57) demonstrated that IPC or KATP channel openers increased the time to electrical uncoupling, which was associated with an enhanced APD shortening. Similarly, Yao and Gross (67) found in the canine heart that IPC resulted in shortening of the APD, both effects being inhibited by glibenclamide. Furthermore, the KATP channel opener aprikalim accelerated the rate and extent of APD shortening and improved segment function during reperfusion, suggesting that activation of KATP channels during ischemia and the subsequent shortening of the APD may be a mechanism affording myocardial protection during ischemia. Subsequently, Yao and Gross (68) further demonstrated that the threshold for IPC could be lowered by the KATP channel opener bimakalim and that this occurred as a result of an enhanced rate of APD shortening. Schulz et al. (52) also found that IPC resulted in an acceleration of APD shortening during ischemia in pigs and that this was associated with a pronounced reduction in infarct size. Finally, Suzuki et al. (55) recently demonstrated in wild-type and KiR6.2 knockout mice that diazoxide had no cardioprotective effect to enhance contractile recovery in knockout mice, and the protection it produced in the wild-type mice was associated with an enhanced APD shortening. This effect was blocked by HMR-1098, a putative sarcKATP channel blocker but not by 5-hydroxydecanoate (5-HD). These results strongly support a major involvement of the sarcKATP channel in IPC in the mouse heart and no role for a mitoKATP channel or mitochondrial site of action.

Additional evidence supporting a protective role for the sarcKATP channel has been provided by using KATP-deficient COS-7 cells. By cotransfection of Kir6.2/SUR2A genes, Jovanovic et al. (23) demonstrated that delivery of Kir6.2 and SUR2A genes into COS-7 cells resulted in a K+ current in the presence of pinacidil. Furthermore, after cotransfection and treatment with pinacidil, the cells became resistant to hypoxia-reoxygenation as a result of inhibition of intracellular Ca2+ loading (23, 24). Given that COS-7 cells are noncontracting, these data provide further credence to the hypothesis that sarcKATP channels may provide cardioprotection independent of APD shortening. A recent study by Suzuki et al. (55) reported a failure of IPC to reduce infarct size in Kir6.2-deficient mice. However, as noted by these authors (55), the relative importance of the sarcKATP channel may have been exaggerated due to the rapid heart rate in the murine model. Neverthless, these results were supported by those of Rajashree et al. (44) who also demonstrated that transgenic mice expressing a mutant Kir6.2 subunit, with a reduced ATP sensitivity, were insensitive to IPC. However, the study of Rajashree et al. (44) performed in isolated hearts, used the measurement of postischemic contractile dysfunction as the end point of ischemic injury rather than infarct size. Because there is not always a good correlation between the extent of stunning and infarct size in isolated hearts (22), it is possible that these investigators may have missed a reduction in infarct size in these mutant mice subjected to IPC.

Although recent results demonstrate that the sarc-KATP channel may trigger IPC, at least in mice, recent preliminary results obtained in the authors' laboratory demonstrated that the sarcKATP channel is the trigger for delayed IPC (see Fig. 1) in rats. In these studies, cardioprotection was induced by an IPC protocol consisting of three 5-min cycles of ischemia interspersed with 5 min of reperfusion, 24 h before the more sustained ischemic insult. The cardioprotective effect observed was blocked by HMR-1098 during the trigger phase rather than during the mediator phase (unpublished results). Furthermore, the results were duplicated by a 24-h pretreatment with SNC-121, a selective {delta}-opioid receptor agonist (42). Treatment with SNC-121 accelerated APD shortening, and its effect to reduce infarct size and APD shortening was abolished by HMR-1098.



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Fig. 1. Delayed preconditioning mediated via opening of sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive K (sarcKATP) channel. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) was instigated via three 5-min cycles of ischemia-reperfusion, 24 h before sustained 30 min of occlusion. IPC resulted in significant reduction in infarct size (IS) as assessed following 2 h of reperfusion (27.5 ± 3.9 %IS/AAR compared with 55.8± 2.3% for sham operated, where AAR is area at risk). 5-Hydroxydecanote (HD, 10 mg/kg) administered 5 min before IPC protocol failed to attenuate IPC-mediated protection (28.8 ± 3.7% IS/AAR); however, HMR-1098 (HMR) abolished IPC-mediated protection (48.8 ± 2.7% IS/AAR). *P < 0.001.

 


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The signaling pathways by which the sarcKATP channel is activated during IPC and how it produces cardioprotection is unclear; however, a number of studies have shed some light on this topic. Liu et al. (30) demonstrated that in isolated rabbit ventricular myocytes, adenosine and PKC activation increased KATP current during metabolic inhibition, an effect abolished by pretreatment with the nonselective adenosine receptor antagonist 8-SPT. Transient ischemia, as utilized for IPC, increases adenosine to concentrations that will activate adenosine A1 and A3 receptors (20). It is possible that this increase in adenosine primes the opening of the sarcKATP channel via adenosine receptor activation. Transient ischemia may open the sarc-KATP channel after a synergistic action produced by PKC phosphorylation and adenosine receptor activation (30). This effect of PKC has also been demonstrated by Light et al. (28). NO has also been shown to activate the sarcKATP channel in both normoxic and hypoxic hearts (3), and indeed, the brief ischemic stress of IPC may lead to an increase in NO via endothelial NO synthase (NOS) (45). However, the majority of studies demonstrate that endogenously released NO is probably not involved in classic IPC, whereas exogenously administered NO has been shown to trigger early IPC. NO appears to be a primary mediator of delayed IPC via an upregulation of inducible NOS as clearly shown by Bolli et al. (4)

PKC has been well established as a major signaling intermediate in IPC. SarcKATP channels have been previously shown to be activated by PKC. Indeed, a recent study by Light et al. (28) demonstrated a functional coupling of PKC to the sarcKATP channel in mediating cardioprotection, and there is evidence that suggests that PKC activation/translocation may be upstream of KATP channel activation.

IPC has been shown to lessen the inhibition of sarcolemmal Na-K-ATPase activity, which normally occurs in the acute phase of ischemia and increases Na+/Ca+ exchange (34). Haruna et al. (19) reported that the infarct-limiting effect of IPC may be modulated via an interaction between Na-K-ATPase and sarcKATP channels. In this study, the infarct-limiting effect of IPC in anesthetized rabbits was abolished by digoxin, an inhibitor of Na-K-ATPase (19). By inhibiting Na-K-ATPase, digoxin increased the amount of subsarcolemmal ATP, which prevented the opening of the sarcKATP channel during IPC. However, digoxin did not alter the protective effect of the KATP opener cromakalim, because KATP channel openers would be expected to act directly on the channel, thus, having effects independent of intracellular ATP concentrations. Furthermore, diazoxide, a selective mitoKATP channel opener, failed to reduce infarct size when administered at a similar or 10-fold higher dose than that needed for cromakalim to produce its infarct-limiting effects (19). This finding is puzzling, however, because Garlid et al. (12) demonstrated that cromakalim and diazoxide had a similar degree of potency for opening mitoKATP in reconstituted mitochondria in lipid bilayers and elicited a similar degree of cardioprotection against stunning following ischemia-reperfusion in the isolated rat heart. The lack of protection afforded by diazoxide at a dose that would be expected to elicit cardioprotection via opening of the mitoKATP channel is surprising and suggests that the sarcKATP channel is intimately involved in the cardioprotective effects of IPC in this particular model.

Another possible mechanism by which opening of sarcKATP channels confers cardioprotection may be the result of a channel-induced change in a specific intracellular signaling pathway. Hyperpolarization following the activation of the sarcKATP channel may lead to activation of the mitoKATP channel. Waring and colleagues (65) demonstrated that hyperpolarization of rat hippocampal slices increases phospholipase D activity. Phospholiase D has been implicated in IPC (58), and diacylglycerol produced by phospholipase D has been demonstrated to activate and translocate PKC, which has been suggested to potentiate the opening of the sarcKATP and/or mitoKATP channel.

Although it seems possible that activation of the sarcKATP channel may lead to opening of the mitoKATP channel via cross talk or vice versa there is no direct evidence to support this hypothesis, and there have been a number of recent papers that have presented different roles for the sarcKATP and mitoKATP channel in IPC and cardioprotection. In a model of chronic hypoxia, where rabbits were raised from birth in either a normoxic or hypoxic environment, Kong and colleagues (26) demonstrated that either 5-HD, a selective mitoKATP antagonist, or HMR-1098, a putative selective sarcKATP antagonist, failed to completely abolish the protection afforded by chronic hypoxia and that only the combination of 5-HD and HMR-1098 was successful in completely abolishing the protective effects of chronic hypoxia. Furthermore, a recent paper by Sanada et al. (47) demonstrated that glibenclamide, a nonselective KATP channel blocker, completely abolished the protective effects of IPC, whereas 5-HD, a mitochondrial selective blocker, only partially blunted the infarct size-reducing effect in dogs. In a model of adenosine-enhanced IPC, Toyoda et al. (59) presented a temporal involvement of both sarcKATP and mitoKATP channels. These investigators indicated that the infarct size-reducing effects of adenosine-enhanced preconditioning are mediated by mitoKATP channels during ischemia, whereas sarcKATP channels modulate functional recovery during both ischemia and reperfusion. This concept is also supported by Light et al. (28), who reported that the protective effects of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), a PKC activator, were partially inhibited by 5-HD during chemically induced hypoxia but not at reoxygenation, whereas HMR-1098, acting in a PKC and adenosine-dependent manner, was only effective in abolishing protection and the reduction in intracellular Ca2+ overload during reoxygenation. In contrast, recent work of Downey and Cohen's group (39) suggest that adenosine may signal independently of the KATP channel and act directly via a kinase pathway. Taken together, these data suggest that the sarcKATP and mitoKATP channels are independently involved in producing ischemic tolerance provided by IPC and may produce additive effects resulting in cardioprotection. Of course, a caveat in many of these studies is related to the selectivity of the pharmacological agents used as selective blockers of the sarcKATP and mitoKATP channels 5-HD and HMR-1098. There are studies to suggest that both of these so-called selective agents may have effects unrelated to KATP channel blockade or lack selectivity for the channel in question (29).


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Since the first evidence for a role of the KATP channel in acute IPC was presented by Gross and Auchampach (14) in the canine heart, results obtained in a number of studies in different models and species supported a role for the sarcKATP channel as the end effector in IPC. However, recent evidence suggests an alternate site from the sarcKATP channel to a mitochondrial site of action or to a putative mitoKATP channel as a trigger and end effector in IPC or pharmacologically induced PC.

The first report that suggested that an enhanced shortening of the APD as a result of sarcKATP channel activation was not the mechanism responsible for cardioprotection provided by KATP openers was published by Yao and Gross in 1994 (68). This study demonstrated that a low dose of the nonselective KATP channel opener bimakalim, which did not effect APD shortening, still produced a cardioprotective effect comparable to that of two higher doses of bimakalim, which produced a significant shortening of APD. It was hypothesized that an intracellular site of action may have been responsible for the efficacy of bimakalim to reduce infarct size independent of APD shortening. Moreover, Grover et al. (17) added further weight to this hypothesis when they described a lack of correlation between APD shortening and cardioprotection following cromakalim and the protective effects of IPC were not attenuated by dofetilide, a class III antiarrhythmic, which prevented APD shortening in preconditioned hearts (16). Evidence for a role of KATP channel activation mediating the protective effects of IPC and KATP openers in the absence of a ventricular action potential has also been provided from studies in isolated non-beating cardiac myocytes (1). These data all suggested that the sarcKATP channel may not be totally accountable for the protective effects afforded by KATP openers and IPC and suggested a possible intracellular site of action.

Garlid et al. (12) provided the first direct evidence to support a role for the mitoKATP channel in cardioprotection. Utilizing reconstituted bovine heart mitochondria, these investigators found that diazoxide opened mitoKATP with a concentration of drug to produce a 50% increase in KATP channel opening in lipid bilayers of 0.8 µmol/l, whereas 800 µmol/l was required by diazoxide to open the sarcKATP channel. Furthermore, diazoxide, at concentrations that did not activate the sarcKATP channel, produced a pronounced cardioprotective effect comparable to that of cromakalim at similar doses, as evidenced by an increase in time to ischemic contracture and enhanced functional recovery following global ischemia and reperfusion in isolated rat hearts. The effects of diazoxide and cromakalim were abolished by the KATP channel antagonists 5-HD and glibenclamide, suggesting that mitoKATP channels may be responsible for these effects. In a more recent paper, Sasaki et al. (48) identified a novel pharmacological agent, MCC-134, which opens sarcKATP channels and blocks mitoKATP channels in the same molecule. In rabbit ventricular myocytes, MCC-134 blocked diazoxide-induced flavoprotein oxidation and activated sarcKATP channels. Similar results were also observed in mouse ventricular myocytes, and MCC-134 attenuated the effects of IPC in a rabbit myocyte model and in intact mouse hearts. All of these results are consistent with a primary role for the mitoKATP channel or a mitochondrial site of action in IPC and diazoxide-induced cardioprotection and a lesser role for the sarcKATP channel. In contrast, in one of the few studies performed in a large animal species, Schwartz et al. (53) was not able to block IPC in swine hearts subjected to multiple preconditioning cycles with 5-HD pretreatment. f

Whereas it is generally accepted that the mitoKATP channel, or at least a mitochondrial site of action, is involved in the cardioprotection afforded by IPC and diazoxide, it is still unclear as to whether its role is as a trigger or distal effector or both. Indeed, several reports support an involvement for the mitoKATP channel as both a trigger and end effector of IPC and KATP openers such as diazoxide (15, 49).


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Mechanisms by which mitoKATP channels are activated are similar to many of those previously described for the sarcKATP channel. In isolated myocytes, anoxia induces a rapid opening of mitoKATP channels (25). Transient ischemia produces H2O2, and this leads to the activation of mitoKATP channels via a PKC-{epsilon}-mediated pathway (71).

Activation and translocation of specific PKC isoforms, regardless of initiator (adenosine, etc.) appears to be central to opening of mitoKATP channels, and indeed, these two phenomena may be codependent. Gaudette et al. (13) demonstrated in a sheep model that protection provided by direct KATP openers could be abolished by PKC antagonists and that protection mediated via activation of PKC could be abrogated by KATP channel antagonists, implying that activation of PKC and KATP channels are both codependent and necessary for protection in the in vivo heart. Although these data are intriguing, much research has placed PKC-{epsilon} upstream of mitoKATP channel activation. Studying embryonic chick ventricular myocytes, Liang (27) demonstrated that PKC activation with PMA was effective in preconditioning the myocyte, a response abolished by chelerythrine or calphostin C. Furthermore, pretreatment with either glibenclamide or 5-HD attenuated PMA-induced preconditioning, suggesting that the KATP channel was a downstream effector of PKC-mediated preconditioning. In isolated rabbit hearts, Ohnuma et al. (38) demonstrated that IPC leads to a dramatic elevation in PKC-{epsilon}. Pretreatment with 5-HD abolished the protective effects of IPC without altering changes in PKC-{epsilon} activation. In addition, whereas infusion of diazoxide leads to a marked reduction in infarct size, diazoxide treatment failed to translocate PKC-{epsilon} or accelerate its translocation. More recently, Nozawa et al. (36) showed that IPC in rats produced a translocation of both PKC-{delta} and PKC-{epsilon}; however, 5-HD blocked the effect of IPC without blocking the translocation of the two PKC isoforms. These results suggest that the mito KATP channel or site of action of 5-HD is distal to PKC.

In contrast, a recent study by Liu et al. (31) demonstrated that PKC-{epsilon} was downstream from mitoKATP activation in apoptosis-limiting effects of IPC. Using ventricular myocytes from chick embryos, Liu and colleagues (31) reported that both IPC and diazoxide treatment reduced apoptosis in cardiac myocytes and that both of these effects were abolished by pretreatment with specific PKC inhibitors. In addition, both IPC and diazoxide treatment activated PKC-{epsilon} in the particulate fraction. These results were also supported by the data provided by Wang and Ashraf (63) who demonstrated a marked reduction in contractile function in hearts treated with both chelerythrine and diazoxide (possibly via a Ca2+-dependent mechanism) and that pretreatment with diazoxide did indeed mediate translocation of specific PKC isoforms.

Diazoxide also induces early and late preconditioning via a NO-dependent pathway. In an in vivo rabbit heart model, Ockaili et al. (37) demonstrated that diazoxide treatment induces both early and late preconditioning, an effect blocked by administration of 5-HD, confirming that the anti-ischemic effect was due to opening of mitoKATP channels. Interestingly, the diazoxide-mediated protection was also abolished by NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, an inhibitor of NOS, suggesting a dependency on NO. NO has also been shown to modulate the sensitivity of the KATP channel to intracellular ATP (54). Furthermore, NO has been demonstrated to activate certain PKC isoforms (43, 70).

The general assumption given to mitoKATP activation is that during transient ischemia a preconditioned state is triggered via various mechanisms. These "triggers" then lead to activation/translocation of PKC and other downstream kinases (p38MAPK, JUNK, and ERK1/2). MitoKATP channels are then subsequently phosphorylated and opened earlier to provide protection via unknown mechanisms during the sustained ischemic insult. A recent study by Carroll and Yellon (6) described that delayed protection in a cardiomyocyte-derived cell line involves p38 MAPK and the opening of mitoKATP channels. In this model, the protective effects of IPC were abolished when cells were pretreated with SB-203580, a p38 MAPK inhibitor, before the preconditioning stimuli. Furthermore, protection was attenuated when cells were treated with 5-HD 30 min before lethal simulated ischemia on the second day following preconditioning. These results suggest that mitoKATP channel opening is downstream from p38 MAPK activation (6). However, another study places MAPK activation downstream from mitoKATP channel opening. Using THP-1 cells, Samavati et al. (46) demonstrated that diazoxide induces mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, as evidenced by an increased rate of dihydroethidium and dichlorofluorescein flouresence. Moreover, the increase in ROS resulted in an increase in the phosphorylation of ERK, a member of the MAPK family. Thus, opening of mitoKATP channels was associated with the downstream activation of ERK. The results of Wang and Ashraf (63), Samavati et al. (46), and Liu et al. (31) suggest that mitoKATP activation may also act as a trigger of cardioprotection. In agreement, Pain et al. (41) demonstrated that in isolated rabbit hearts, protection afforded by diazoxide could only be abolished when KATP channel blockers were given during diazoxide treatment, not after treatment. Furthermore, free radical scavengers given during the trigger phase also abolished the protective effects of diazoxide (10). Diazoxide has been previously shown to mediate cardioprotection in cells via a redox-sensitive mechanism whereby it initiates a burst of free radicals (5, 10), a known trigger leading to a preconditioned state, possibly through activation of specific kinases. Vanden Hoek et al. (60) presented evidence in isolated chick myocytes that a brief period of hypoxia generated ROS, which triggered a preconditioning-like response and attenuated a more marked release of ROS following a more prolonged period of ischemia and reoxygenation (61). They also found that PKC and the mitoKATP channel appeared to be an important part of the trigger phase of this response (60).

The answer to the question "is the mitoKATP channel the trigger or the mediator of IPC?" may be quite simple indeed, it may be both. A study by Wang et al. (64) examined the mitoKATP channel as both a trigger and a mediator. In an isolated rabbit heart model, the protective effects of diazoxide pretreatment (with a washout period) were eliminated by coadministration of either 5-HD, the L-type Ca2+ channel blocker nifedipine or by the PKC inhibitor chelerythrine. In contrast, when given following diazoxide treatment, chelerythrine was unsuccessful and 5-HD was only able to block the protection at a fourfold higher dose. Thus it was proposed that the trigger phase may be mediated by the elevation of intracellular Ca2+ and PKC activation, whereas mitoKATP opening invokes protection during the mediator phase via unknown mechanisms, which are independent of PKC activation/translocation. Thus there is considerable evidence that the mitoKATP may have a role as a trigger and/or distal effector in IPC-mediated cardioprotection. However, recently Schulz et al. (50) presented data in anesthetized pigs to suggest that the KATP channel only served a trigger role in this species because glibenclamide only blocked IPC when given before the brief ischemic stimulus and not 10 min after IPC. This study did not use 5-HD to determine whether the mitoKATP or sarcKATP channel was involved in the trigger phase (50).

It appears that the mitochondria have an intimate role in cell survival through maintaining or enhancing ATP synthesis and maintenance of Ca2+ homeostasis as well as regulation of mitochondrial volume. Ischemia-reperfusion impairs mitochondrial function through an alteration of membrane potential, imbalance of cytosolic ions, electron transport, and an increased production of free radicals. In an isolated cell model, anoxiareoxygenation may lead to a hyperpolarization of mitochondria. This hyperpolarization may indeed drive Ca2+ into the mitochondria, leading to Ca2+ overload. Xu and associates (66) demonstrated that treatment with diazoxide stabilized the mitochondrial membrane potential through limiting the decrease of membrane potential and by inhibition of the high polarization observed during anoxia-reoxygenation. Depolarization of the membrane potential may reduce Ca2+ influx, limiting Ca2+ overload and myocyte injury. Although having no effect on total intracellular Ca2+ levels, IPC has been shown to inhibit the ischemia-induced elevation of mitochondrial Ca2+ concentrations, an effect attributed to mitoKATP channel opening. Diazoxide reduced mitochondrial Ca2+ concentration and 5-HD inhibited the reduction in mitochondrial Ca2+ concentration provided by IPC and diazoxide in isolated rat hearts (63). The study by Xu and colleagues (66) reported that diazoxide treatment also prevented ATP depletion. In a model using arterially perfused guinea pig right ventricular walls, McPherson et al. (32) reported that KATP channel opening with pinacidil inhibited ischemia-induced depletion of high-energy phosphates. This pinacidil-induced preservation of creatine phosphate and ATP was abolished by glibenclamide pretreatment and glibenclamide alone enhanced the ischemia-induced depletion of ATP. MitoKATP channel opening may partially restore the membrane potential, allowing further extrusion of H+, forming a more favorable electrochemical gradient (56) for ATP synthesis. In this regard, diazoxide has recently been found to exert a unique protective action on mitochondrial membrane potential and membrane integrity (9). In cultured cardiac myocytes exposed to H2O2, diazoxide decreased the number of cells undergoing membrane depolarization and delayed the loss in membrane potential. In combination with cyclosporin A, diazoxide also exhibited an additive effect to inhibit the progression to cell death. These effects were selectively blocked by 5-HD, whereas other cardioprotective mechanisms, such as those produced by the adenine nucleotide translocase inhibitor bongkrekic acid were not blocked by 5-HD. Although not measured in this study, these effects would reduce ATP depletion, which will maintain ATP-dependent ion pumps such as the Na-K pump and Ca2+ pumps. Thus maintenance of ATP levels may further support Ca2+ homeostasis. Diazoxide increases the half-saturation constant for ADP stimulation of respiration and limits ATP hydrolysis, thus effectively preserving the adenine nucleotide pool during ischemia and the energy transfer during reperfusion (56). Recent studies by Garlid et al. (11), suggested that the reported changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and Ca2+ accumulation are merely "epiphenomena" produced by high concentrations of mitoKATP openers. Garlid et al. (11) hypothesized that the critical effect resulting from opening mitoKATP channels is in the regulation of mitochondrial matrix volume. Mitochondrial volume has been shown to regulate the electron transport chain and preserve the architecture of the intermembrane space, permitting a more efficient energy transfer between mitochondria and cellular ATPases. Indeed, opening of the mitoKATP channel may maintain the structure of the intermembrane space during ischemia, preserving the low permeability to ADP and ATP. In contrast, Lim et al. (29) and Das et al. (8) both recently suggested that changes in mitochondrial volume could not explain the beneficial effects produced by IPC and diazoxide treatment.


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Although it is well known that diazoxide is an effective inhibitor of succinate oxidation in mitochondria at higher concentrations (40), it has not been recognized until recently that this effect could also translate into a myocardial protective effect and give an alternate mechanism to opening of a mitoKATP channel whose existence has still not been validated by molecular cloning techniques. Recently, Hanley and co-workers (18) have shown in submitochondrial particles isolated from pig hearts that diazoxide concentration dependently (10–100 µM) decreased succinate oxidation without any effect on NADH oxidation. Furthermore, these authors also showed that pinacidil, another KATP opener, inhibited NADH oxidation without any effect on succinate oxidation. They showed that these effects produced by diazoxide and pinacidil occurred in the absence of any changes in mitochondrial membrane potential. Using HPLC and electron spray ionization, these investigators also showed that the selective mitoKATP blocker 5-HD was converted to 5-HD CoA, which may exert effects on electron transport that would inhibit the actions of diazoxide and pinacidil. These results suggest that there may be an alternate mechanism occurring within mitochondria that may produce cardioprotection independent of a mitoKATP channel (Fig. 2). Lim et al. (29) have recently presented new evidence to support this view. These investigators showed that changes in matrix volume that were produced by diazoxide and IPC were similar; however, the changes produced by IPC were accompanied by increases in ADP-stimulated and uncoupled 2-oxoglutarate and succinate oxidation, whereas diazoxide produced decreases in succinate and oxoglutarate oxidation. Treatment of hearts with 100 or 300 µM of 5-HD also increased mitochondrial volume and inhibited respiration. These authors also demonstrated that 5-HD was rapidly converted to 5-HD CoA by mitochondrial fatty acyl CoA synthetase in isolated mitochondria, and they further showed that this metabolite of 5-HD was either a weak substrate or inhibitor of mitochondrial respiration. These results strongly suggest that 5-HD and diazoxide may not be selective modulators of mitoKATP channels in the heart and that changes in mitochondrial volume are most likely not responsible for the cardioprotective effects of IPC or KATP openers. Further studies are necessary to resolve these conflicting theories.



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Fig. 2. Schematic diagram depicting sites of action of various drugs on the mitochondrial electron transport chain independent of their proposed effects on a mitochondrial KATP channel (Reprinted with permission from Hanley et al. J Physiol 542.3: 735–741, 2002).

 

In conclusion, recent data suggest that both the sarcKATP and mitoKATP channels play complimentary roles in the protection afforded by IPC. On the basis of recent evidence, activation of the mitoKATP channel appears to limit cell death, whereas opening of the sarcKATP channel appears to limit stunning. Regardless, direct activation of either the sarcKATP or mitoKATP channels provide significant cardioprotection, and the possible signaling pathways involved are schematically shown in Fig. 3. Activation, especially of the mitoKATP, may be involved in acute IPC as either a trigger and mediator, end effector, or both. Opening of the mitoKATP channel may result in a ROS "burst," which may in itself have a preconditioning effect. Translocation/activation of PKC and other kinases may lie both upstream and downstream of the mitoKATP channel, perhaps acting as a positive feedback to elicit a more robust opening of the channel. As a potential end effector, the role that opening of the mitoKATP plays in increasing mitochondrial cell volume may be intimately involved in the protective effects of both IPC and direct activation of the channel. Following that, the sarcKATP channel may indeed act as a trigger for the opening of the mitoKATP channel or confer its own cardioprotective effect via a PKC-dependent mechanism, which ultimately leads to a reduction in Ca2+ overload during ischemia. Moreover, Kir6.2-deficient mice are insensitive to IPC. Thus it appears that both the sarcKATP and mitoKATP have complimentary roles in the cardioprotection afforded by IPC and certain KATP openers, indeed, they may act together to elicit beneficial effects on the myocardium.



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Fig. 3. Schematic diagram outlining proposed mechanisms whereby opening of the sarcKATP or mitochondrial KATP (mitoKATP) channel may lead to cardioprotection. NO, nitric oxide; DAG, diacylglycerol; PLC, phospholipase C; PLD, phospholipase D; PKC, protein kinase C; ROS, reactive oxygen species.

 


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