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. 1988 Dec;82(6):2168–2171. doi: 10.1172/JCI113840

Noncoordinate regulation of cardiac Gs protein and beta-adrenergic receptors by a physiological stimulus, chronic dynamic exercise.

H K Hammond 1, L A Ransnas 1, P A Insel 1
PMCID: PMC442802  PMID: 2848869

Abstract

We used a physiological stimulus, chronic dynamic exercise, in pigs to examine resultant changes in chronotropic responsiveness to catecholamine and biochemical features of cardiac beta-adrenergic receptors and the stimulatory guanine nucleotide-binding protein, GS. Long-term treadmill running resulted in a substantial (44%) down-regulation of right atrial beta-adrenergic receptors, but the dose of isoproterenol yielding a 50% maximal increase in heart rate was decreased by 57% (from 0.07 +/- 0.03 to 0.03 +/- 0.01 microgram/kg; P less than 0.02) despite this decrease in receptor number. This disparity between receptor number and physiological responsiveness suggested altered signal transduction. We therefore quantitated GS in myocardial membranes obtained before and after chronic exercise in a competitive ELISA based on an antipeptide antibody developed to the alpha S portion of GS. We found a 42% increase in the amounts of GS in right atrial membranes (from 11.4 +/- 0.8 to 16.2 +/- 2.0 pmol/mg; P less than 0.05) and a 76% increase in the amounts of GS in left ventricular membranes (from 15.6 +/- 2.6 to 27.4 +/- 5.2 pmol/mg; P = 0.02) after chronic running. These data suggest that in the heart physiological perturbations can result in changes in the levels of GS, that GS and beta-adrenergic receptor number are not coordinately regulated, and that GS may contribute to altered adrenergic responsiveness independently of changes in beta-adrenergic receptor number.

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