Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Disulfide-activated protein kinase G Iα regulates cardiac diastolic relaxation and fine-tunes the Frank–Starling response

  • Jenna Scotcher,
  • Oleksandra Prysyazhna,
  • Andrii Boguslavskyi,
  • Kornel Kistamas,
  • Natasha Hadgraft,
  • Eva D. Martin,
  • Jenny Worthington,
  • Olena Rudyk,
  • Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas,
  • Friederike Cuello,
  • Michael J. Shattock,
  • Michael S. Marber,
  • Maria R. Conte,
  • Adam Greenstein,
  • David J. Greensmith,
  • Luigi Venetucci,
  • John F. Timms,
  • Philip Eaton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13187
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The stroke volume of the heart increases in response to an increase in the blood volume filling the heart. Here the authors reveal that this coordinated process is mediated in part by oxidative activation of the protein kinase G Iα, which phosphorylates phospholamban to enhance diastolic relaxation in mice.