Mb. Meyers et al., SORCIN ASSOCIATES WITH THE PORE-FORMING SUBUNIT OF VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT L-TYPE CA2+ CHANNELS, The Journal of biological chemistry, 273(30), 1998, pp. 18930-18935
Intracellular Ca2+ release in muscle is governed by functional communi
cation between the voltage-dependent L-type Ca2+ channel and the intra
cellular Ca2+ release channel by processes that are incompletely under
stood, We previously showed that sorcin binds to cardiac Ca2+ release
channel/ryanodine receptors and decreases channel open probability in
planar lipid bilayers. In addition, we showed that sorcin antibody imm
unoprecipitates ryanodine receptors from metabolically labeled cardiac
myocytes along with a second protein having a molecular weight simila
r to that of the alpha(1) subunit of cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels. We
now demonstrate that sorcin biochemically associates with cardiac and
skeletal muscle L-type Ca2+ channels specifically within the cytoplasm
ically oriented C-terminal region of the alpha(1) subunits, providing
evidence that the second protein recovered by sorcin antibody from car
diac myocytes was the 240-kDa L-type Ca2+ channel alpha(1) subunit, An
ti-sorcin antibody immunoprecipitated full-length alpha(1) subunits fr
om cardiac myocytes, C2C12 myotubes, and transfected non-muscle cells
expressing alpha(1) subunits, In contrast, the anti-sorcin antibody di
d not immunoprecipitate C-terminal truncated forms of alpha(1) subunit
s that were detected in myotubes. Recombinant sorcin bound to cardiac
and skeletal HIS6-tagged alpha(1) C termini immobilized on Ni2+ resin,
Additionally, anti-sorcin antibody immunoprecipitated C-terminal frag
ments of the cardiac alpha(1) subunit exogenously expressed in mammali
an cells. The results identified a putative sorcin binding domain with
in the C terminus of the alpha(1) subunit, These observations, along w
ith the demonstration that sorcin accumulated substantially during phy
siological maturation of the excitation-contraction coupling apparatus
in developing postnatal rat heart and differentiating C2C12 muscle ce
lls, suggest that sorcin may mediate interchannel communication during
excitation-contraction coupling in heart and skeletal muscle.