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Cardiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, U-446 INSERM, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Sud, 92296 Châtenay-Malabry, France
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(Received 15 September 2003;
accepted after revision 4 December 2003;
first published online 5 December 2003)
Corresponding author R. Ventura-Clapier: Cardiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, U-446 INSERM, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Sud, 92296 Châtenay-Malabry, France. Email: renee.ventura{at}cep.u-psud.fr
Metabolic alterations in the heart
Specificity of cardiac metabolism.
Myocardial function depends on a fine equilibrium between the work the heart has to perform to meet the requirements of the body and the energy that it is able to synthesize and transfer in the form of energy-rich phosphate bonds to sustain excitation–contraction coupling. Heart muscle is a highly oxidative tissue that produces more than 90% of its energy from mitochondrial respiration. Mitochondria occupy 
30% of cardiomyocyte space and are well organized under the sarcolemma and in rows between myofilaments such that a constant diffusion distance exists between mitochondria and the core of myofilaments. During maximal exercise the heart uses more than 90% of its oxidative capacity, showing that there is no excess capacity of energy production over energy utilization (Mootha et al. 1997). There is a strict relationship in vitro and in vivo between oxygen consumption and cardiac work that occurs at constant global cellular ATP and phosphocreatine (PCr) concentrations. Therefore, a strong energy signalling pathways should exist to ensure a close matching between oxygen consumption and energy utilization. At present, the nature and function of such signals are still under debate. Oxygen availability, substrate limitation, ATP, ADP and PCr changes, inorganic phosphate, calcium, redox state and phosphotransfer systems have all been considered to play a role. Their relative contribution to energy metabolism homeostasis will depend on the mechanical load and the metabolic conditions the heart has to respond to. Among these factors, two of them have been extensively considered. One of the candidates for coupling aerobic metabolism and cardiac work is calcium as it regulates myosin and sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPases on the one hand, and the major mitochondrial dehydrogenases and F0/F1-ATPase on the other (Balaban, 2002). However, the assumption that respiration and contraction are simultaneously regulated by Ca2+ ions is not completely satisfactory, as parallel increases in cardiac work and oxygen consumption with increase in length (Frank-Starling mechanism) occurs at constant intracellular Ca2+ transients (Shimizu et al. 2002).
On the other hand, the muscle cell is not a well-mixed bag and the reactions involved in ATP generation and utilization are not governed by stochastic events, but are rather comprised within structural and functional entities, which are spatially and temporarily co-ordinated. Glycolytic enzymes are arranged in supramolecular complexes and bound to intracellular structures such as myofilaments and sarcoplasmic reticulum, where they participate in local energy production, more readily used by ion pumps and other membrane structures (Weiss & Hiltbrand, 1985). The presence of high-energy phosphotransfer systems is another essential feature of cardiac or striated muscle energy metabolism. Early in the seventies, Bessman identified the creatine kinase (CK) and adenylate kinase (AK) systems as energy shuttles (Bessman & Geiger, 1981). Since that time, considerable pieces of evidence have been accumulating to understand high-energy transfer in cardiac and muscle cells.
CK is present in variable amounts in heart and skeletal muscles and catalyses the reversible transfer of a phosphate moiety between ATP and creatine. Four different isoforms have been described and are expressed in a tissue-specific and developmentally regulated manner. CK exists as dimers composed of two subunits, M and B, giving three isoenzymes, MM, BB and MB. A fourth isoenzyme specifically found in the mitochondria (mi-CK) can form both octameric and dimeric structures (Wyss et al. 1992) and represents 20–40% of all CK activity in cardiac cells. CK isoenzymes are not evenly distributed and the CK system constitutes an example of a compartmentalized metabolic pathway. Myofibrillar MM-CK is a structural protein of the M-band and is functionally coupled to the myosin ATPase, thus providing enough energy to sustain maximal force and normal kinetics of contraction (Wallimann & Eppenberger, 1985; Ventura-Clapier et al. 1994). MM-CK is also strongly bound to the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes where it is functionally coupled to the Ca2+-ATPase, and ensures efficient energy provision for calcium uptake (for review and further references see Ventura-Clapier et al. 1998). Another local functional coupling takes place in the intermembrane space of mitochondria, where mi-CK is found on the outer surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane, in the vicinity of the ATP–ADP translocator (ANT). During active oxidative phosphorylation, ATP generated in the matrix is exported by ANT in the intermembrane space where it is transphosphorylated by mi-CK to PCr and ADP. ADP is then immediately available for oxidative phosphorylation and further stimulates respiration (for reviews and further references see Wyss et al. 1992; Saks et al. 1994). These localized functional couplings between ATP-generating or -consuming enzymes and CK efficiently control local ATP/ADP ratios that thermodynamically and kinetically favour energy production in mitochondria (low ATP/ADP ratio) and energy consumption in cytosolic compartments (high ATP/ADP ratios). These sites are connected through the near-equilibrium CK reactions that take place in the cytosol, and that result in almost instantaneous transfer of phosphoryl groups to ATPases and of metabolic signal to mitochondria (Dzeja et al. 1998). Until recently, intracellular compartmentation of CK fluxes has been mostly neglected in the analysis of 31P NMR data, mainly because the cell has been considered so far as an homogeneous system. Recently, a new methodological approach allowing the quantification of unidirectional fluxes of localized CKs (Joubert et al. 2002b) and mathematical modelling (Aliev & Saks, 1997; Joubert et al. 2002a) provided strong evidence for the existence of localized adenine nucleotide pools interrelated through intracellular energy transfer by CK.
Among phosphotransfer kinases, the CK system appears the most important, but others such as AK are also present and compartmentalized within the cell (Dzeja & Terzic, 2003). Moreover, it was recently shown that cell architecture is involved in energy regulation. Direct energy cross-talk between mitochondria and energy-consuming organelles (Kaasik et al. 2001) explains that locally produced ADP is more efficient than bulk ADP at stimulating mitochondrial respiration. In oxidative muscle cells, mitochondria with adjacent ADP-producing systems in myofibrils and in sarcoplasmic reticulum can be viewed as functional units representing the basic pattern of organization of muscle–cell energy metabolism (Saks et al. 2001). In CK-deficient muscles, phosphotransfer by other kinases, direct channelling with mitochondria, and glycolytic enzymes provide alternative routes for intracellular high-energy transfer (Dzeja et al. 1998; Boehm et al. 2000; Kaasik et al. 2001, 2003). This explains in part the preserved contractile function of CK–/– mice at moderate workloads (Saupe et al. 1998; Crozatier et al. 2002). These systems may not simply be redundant and more work is needed to understand their redundancy and/or specificity.
All these data show that maintaining energetic homeostasis despite fluctuating energy demand is an important prerequisite for contractile efficiency. This emphasizes the fact that cell architecture and metabolic networks are interrelated to build integrated phosphotransfer systems that improve cellular economy to tightly match cellular functions, and that alterations in this fine regulation can compromise cardiac function.
Heart failure and cardiac metabolism. Mechanisms leading to cardiac pump failure can have multiple origins. This includes pressure overload, ischaemic heart disease resulting from altered coronary artery circulation or infarction, cardiomyopathies and defects in genes encoding proteins of a large panel of cellular functions, such as contractile apparatus, cytoskeleton, intercellular matrix and mitochondrial proteins. These defects result in (1) a mismatch between cardiac ability to eject blood and the needs of the body, and (2) a remodelling of cardiac structure initially to compensate for the impaired function (Fig. 1). In heart failure, the depression of contractile force is not matched by a concomitant depression of energy consumption, leading to mechanoenergetic uncoupling (Schipke, 1994; Saavedra et al. 2002).
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Substrates and oxygen availability. One important abnormality impairing high-energy phosphate synthesis in the failing heart is a decrease in coronary reserve that may limit nutrient and oxygen delivery to the cardiomyocytes at high workloads.
The heart is a metabolic omnivore able to meet its energy requirements from the oxidation of fatty acids, glucose, lactate and other oxidizable substrates. Despite a retrocontrol of fatty acid and glucose utilization, the heart functions best when it oxidizes both substrates simultaneously (Taegtmeyer, 2000). In HF, the chief myocardial energy substrates switch from fatty acids to glucose, with a down-regulation of the enzymes involved in fatty acid oxidation (Sack et al. 1996; Razeghi et al. 2001).
Glycolysis. It is usually accepted that during hypertrophy the chief myocardial energy source switches from fatty acid ß-oxidation to glycolysis, a reversion to the fetal energy substrate preference pattern. Early switch from fatty acid to carbohydrate metabolism in hypertrophy results in improved efficiency of the heart as long as glucose can be oxidized (Taegmeyer, 2000). An increase in glycolysis and in glycolytic enzymes is observed in hypertrophy but rates of glucose oxidation are reduced and more lactate accumulates. As the process of remodelling progresses towards the uncompensated state, metabolic adaptation becomes insufficient with a lower capacity to oxidize glucose leading to decreased efficiency (Leong et al. 2003). In human heart failure, the glucose transporters GLUT-1, GLUT-4 and muscle glycogen synthase mRNA are down-regulated (Razeghi et al. 2001, 2002). Overexpression for the lactate transporter MCT1 in an experimental model of heart failure has been recently described, which could favour lactate transport (Johannsson et al. 2001). Heart failure is not accompanied by overexpression of glycolytic pathways and end-stage heart failure results in decreased glycolytic enzymes (De Sousa et al. 1999; Dzeja et al. 1999). This seems to be true for both hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy (Kalsi et al. 1999).
GLUT-4 ablation induces hypertrophy (Abel et al. 1999), while GLUT-1 overexpression normalizes the PCr/ATP ratio and is protective against the development of heart failure induced by pressure overload (Liao et al. 2002). Although the exact mechanisms are not completely understood, this points towards a more important role of energy metabolism in the pathophysiology of heart failure than previously thought (Taegtmeyer, 2002).
Mitochondria. Chronic heart failure is associated with morphological abnormalities of mitochondria such as increased number, reduced size and compromised structural integrity (Schaper et al. 1991). Mitochondrial injury is positively correlated with indices of heart failure severity such as plasma noradrenaline (norepinephrine), and left ventricle (LV) end-diastolic pressure and ejection fraction (Sabbah et al. 1992).
In human and experimental HF, decreases in the activity of complexes of the respiratory chain or Krebs cycle enzymes have been described. The reduced expression of mitochondrial proteins relates to limited ATP synthesis capacity and high-energy phosphate kinetic abnormalities in HF (Ning et al. 2000). Moreover, defective oxygen consumption rates and blunted mitochondrial regulation by the phosphate acceptors AMP, ADP and creatine are in favour of a lower myocardial energy production in HF via oxidative phosphorylation (Sanbe et al. 1995; Sharov et al. 1998, 2000; De Sousa et al. 1999). Due to the strict correlation between oxygen consumption and work, the decreased oxidative capacity of the failing myocardium will limit cardiac work at least for high workloads. However, even in basal conditions the cellular levels of ATP and PCr as well as the PCr/ATP ratio, all of which are controlled by oxidative phosphorylation, are altered in heart failure.
High-energy phosphates. The failing heart is unable to maintain its energetic reserve. Alterations in myocardial high-energy phosphates were identified in animal models and human hearts with LV hypertrophy or heart failure. A decrease in PCr/ATP ratio is consistently reported in failing human heart and experimental heart failure, even at moderate workloads. Creatine, creatine transporter, PCr and ATP are significantly reduced (Neubauer et al. 1999; Beer et al. 2002), and the decrease in the PCr/ATP ratio is a predictor of mortality in congenital heart failure (CHF) (Neubauer et al. 1997). However, the precise cellular mechanisms by which altered high-energy phosphate levels may compromise energy fluxes and contractility are not well understood. Of major importance, this is accompanied by an increase in ADP concentration and a resulting decrease in the phosphorylation potential that can affect ATPases involved in excitation–contraction coupling both thermodynamically and kinetically (Tian et al. 1997; De Sousa et al. 1999).
Energy transfer and feedback signalling. In addition to decreased energy production, HF also produces impairment in energy transfer and utilization. A generalized alteration of the creatine kinase system has long been observed. A decrease in total enzyme activity, alteration in the isoenzyme pattern and decreased CK fluxes are hallmarks of cardiac failure (Ingwall, 1993; Nascimben et al. 1996; Neubauer et al. 1997; De Sousa et al. 1999; Dzeja et al. 2000; Ye et al. 2001; Spindler et al. 2003). This includes a decrease in the cytosolic free or bound MM-CK and a dramatic drop in mi-CK protein and activity that is linearly correlated with the severity of the reduction of CK flux (Zhang, 2002). Decreased mi-CK coupling to oxidative phosphorylation has been consistently observed in animal models of cardiomyopathies of different origin and was suggested to be a marker of the transition between compensatory hypertrophy and failure (see Veksler & Ventura-Clapier, 1994 for review and further references), suggesting a generalized loss of integration between cytosolic signals and mitochondria, and energy signalling impairment. This is responsible for the altered energy fluxes and the lower PCr/ATP ratio, and for the incapacity of the failing myocardium to adapt its energy production to energy utilization as well as to mobilize its contractile reserve (Ingwall, 1993; Liao et al. 1996). Moreover, mi-CK can modulate mitochondrial permeability transition in the presence of creatine (Dolder et al. 2003). The drop in cardiac mi-CK could make the mitochondrial transition pore more prone to open, then favouring apoptotic cell death that may occur in heart failure.
Furthermore, the efficiency of the ATPases depends on an adequate energy supply and the effective withdrawal of the end products of ATP hydrolysis. Indeed, ATP and ADP exert a kinetic (through affinity and inhibition constants) as well as a thermodynamic (through free energy of ATP hydrolysis) control on energy transduction. In particular, a defect in the capacity of the SR to accumulate calcium is thought to participate in the pathophysiology of heart failure. Although there is evidence for a down-regulation of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+
ATPase (SERCA) in CHF, the drop in MM-CK also compromises the ability of bound CK to stimulate SR calcium uptake (De Sousa et al. 1999). Due to a local lack of SR bound CK, the local ATP/ADP ratio will decrease, a mechanism that affects the kinetic and thermodynamic efficiency of SERCA (De Sousa et al. 1999).
Energy transfer can also be supported by adenylate kinase (AK) and glycolytic enzymes. Both pathways have been recognized as adaptive mechanisms supporting compromised muscle energetics in heart failure. However, the total compensatory potential of these systems is diminished, and the AK-mediated increase in respiration is blunted in heart failure (De Sousa et al. 1999; Dzeja et al. 2000). Moreover, it should be kept in mind that the increased flux through AK may contribute to the decrease in total ATP concentration because it stimulates adenine nucleotide degradation.
At present nothing is known concerning the possible fate of the direct energy cross-talk between mitochondria and intracellular energy-consuming organelles (Kaasik et al. 2001) in heart failure. Nevertheless these organelles are interconnected through the cytoskeleton network, which shows profound alterations in heart failure (Hein et al. 2000; Belmadani et al. 2002). This, together with the alterations in mitochondrial structure discussed above, suggest that the functional cross-talk between organelles will be also disrupted in heart failure, but this needs to be demonstrated. Heart failure is also accompanied by disturbances in ATP-sensing processes such as the cardioprotective KATP channel, gene expression and signalling systems (Dzeja et al. 2000).
In addition to decreased energy production, there is some evidence for energy wasting at the cellular level in cardiac dysfunction. The failing heart has a reduced mechanical efficiency that increases the energy cost of force production and the energy demands of the heart (Schipke, 1994; Ashrafian, 2002, 2003; Saavedra et al. 2002). The main, until now underestimated, consequence could be the thermodynamic limitation for Ca2+ handling that contributes to decreased contractile reserve in rat hearts (Tian et al. 1998; De Sousa et al. 1999). Altered calcium homeostasis is recognized as a key pathophysiological mechanism in heart failure, leading to altered contractile function and transcriptional activity. Calcium homeostasis depends on efficient energy-driven calcium and sodium pumps, while calcium concentration in turn determines energy expenditure through cellular ATPases and mitochondrial dehydrogenases. Disturbances in these finely controlled cellular processes make the myocyte enter a vicious cycle of energy mismatch and calcium dysregulation that may turn out to be highly detrimental, especially in periods of increased workload (De Sousa et al. 1999).
The exact functional consequences of the decreased CK fluxes in heart failure and whether they reflect adaptive or deleterious processes are difficult to assess. As very often observed in heart failure for other remodelling processes, it is highly possible that at first CK remodelling would serve as an adaptive mechanism during compensated hypertrophy. Such a mechanism has been proposed for the increased content of MB-CK in hypertrophy because the B isoenzyme has higher affinity for ADP (Ingwall, 1993). It can also be proposed that decreasing the CK shuttle in heart failure will slightly uncouple excitation–contraction coupling from mitochondrial energy production, and by this means preserve ATP production for other metabolic processes necessary for the survival of critically damaged cardiomyocytes, but at the expense of contractile activity (Ventura-Clapier et al. 1998).
Thus, along with other cellular defects, the generalized drop in metabolic fluxes of the enzymatic systems involved in energy transfer provides a mechanism by which energy limitation may be an important factor underlying cardiac failure (Fig. 2). However, whether these metabolic alterations accompany or even precede the development of heart failure may depend on the aetiology of cardiac diseases.
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Skeletal muscle metabolism. Skeletal muscle is a heterogeneous tissue composed of different fibre types that are characterized by the velocity of contraction and type of energy metabolism. Patterns and velocities of contraction depend on the myosin isoform and on energy production, transfer and utilization. Rapidly contracting muscles need a large amount of energy within a short period of time. Large PCr stores and a high CK activity can rephosphorylate ATP at a rate fast enough to cope with the high myosin-ATPase activity of these fibres. Once energy reserves are exhausted the amplitude and speed of contraction drop rapidly. Energy reserves are subsequently replenished by oxidative metabolism and glycolysis. This mode of contraction is described as ‘twitch now, pay later’ and is found mainly in locomotor muscles (Katz, 2001). Conversely, because postural muscles have to work for prolonged time periods they must permanently adjust their energy production to utilization. As this can only be achieved through mitochondrial respiration, these muscles have high oxidative capacities and efficient energy and signal transfers to fine-tune mitochondrial energy production (Zoll et al. 2002) on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. In addition, skeletal muscle cells also differ in mitochondrial regulation. Because mitochondrial permeability to ADP is restricted in oxidative muscles, mi-CK and AK control mitochondrial respiration. Such a restriction is absent in glycolytic muscles, thus demonstrating a tissue-specific regulation of mitochondrial function (Veksler et al. 1995).
Heart failure and skeletal muscle metabolism. The failing of the cardiac pump induces neurohormonal activation that increases the peripheral resistance and influences cardiac and skeletal muscle function and structure (Fig. 1). Reduced maximal exercise capacity of HF patients correlates poorly with central haemodynamics. This has led to the conclusion that peripheral factors are involved in the muscle weakness and increased fatiguability of the patients. Attention has therefore been focused on factors such as alterations in vascular function and intrinsic skeletal muscle abnormalities that may occur in this disease. They include fibre atrophy, cytoarchitectural remodelling, altered metabolism, and change in the fibre type composition. The main observation is a decreased proportion of type I (fatigue-resistant) fibres, compensated for by an increased proportion of fast type II (fatiguable) fibres and altered mitochondrial volume and enzyme activity (Drexler & Coats, 1996; Poole-Wilson & Ferrari, 1996).
Studies of skeletal muscle function in HF are relatively sparse. Impaired calcium homeostasis, reduced force and slower contractile kinetics were observed that are not related to intrinsic contractile properties and calcium sensitivity of contractile proteins (De Sousa et al. 2000; Lunde et al. 2001; Reiken et al. 2003). Thus, alterations in the contractile protein profile may not be the main determinant of exercise intolerance in HF.
On the other hand, large metabolic defects have been described in skeletal muscles from HF patients and animals. Skeletal muscles in HF exhibit a decreased mitochondrial volume that correlates with the aerobic capacities of the patients, suggesting a major contribution of altered oxidative metabolism to exercise intolerance in HF (Drexler et al. 1992). Decreased physical activity that takes part in muscle deconditioning cannot entirely explain these alterations (Simonini et al. 1996; Sullivan et al. 1997). In an animal model of heart failure, a marked fall in oxidative capacity and perturbations in the control of respiration by phosphate acceptors have been observed in oxidative (slow), glycolytic (fast) and even diaphragm muscles (De Sousa et al. 2000, 2001). Although the focus of fewer studies, the CK system is also clearly altered in skeletal muscle, with both the cytosolic and/or the mitochondrial isoforms of creatine kinase being affected (Hambrecht et al. 1999; De Sousa et al. 2000; Yamauchi et al. 2002). As for myocardium, the CK isoenzyme alterations could alter the functioning of mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum, producing a mismatch between energy production and utilization, and altered calcium homeostasis.
Although decreases in mitochondrial volume and oxidative enzymes are a hallmark of muscle metabolic defects in HF, alterations in skeletal muscle mitochondrial function are not so clear in patients. On the one hand there is rapid phosphocreatine (PCr) depletion and increased lactate production during exercise, whilst PCr recovery is delayed at the end of exercise. Mitochondrial volume density and oxidative enzymes are decreased while glycolytic capacity is enhanced in the skeletal muscle of CHF patients (Drexler et al. 1992). On the other hand, the oxidative capacity of the vastus lateralis muscle of HF patients at the time of heart transplantation was found to be identical to that of sedentary individuals, showing that the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation pathway was preserved in these patients (Mettauer et al. 2001) and suggesting that energy limitation takes place upstream of mitochondria. This occurred despite lower CK and citrate synthase activities, but oxidative phosphorylation rather than the Krebs cycle are limiting mitochondrial respiration in cardiac and muscle cells (Rossignol et al. 1999). In humans, the low level of physical activity plays a role in the decreased oxidative capacity of the skeletal muscle. However, it should also be considered that new treatments of heart failure could have been protective for muscle energy metabolism especially in patients under angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors therapy (Mettauer et al. 2001).
Origins of metabolic alterations
The general consensus is that heart failure markedly affects mitochondrial capacity and regulation, and phosphotransfer systems in both cardiac and skeletal muscles. The fact that heart, fast and slow muscles are all affected argues the case for a generalized metabolic myopathy in heart failure (Coats, 1996; Hardie & Pan, 2002). However, pathophysiological mechanisms underlying altered oxidative capacity and depressed phosphotransfer kinase systems still remain to be established.
These metabolic defects could arise from decreased transcription of mitochondrial proteins or from increased mitochondrial degradation. We recently addressed this question in an article published in this journal (Garnier et al. 2003).
Mitochondrial biogenesis depends on the coordinated expression of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes (Fig. 3). Mitochondria have their own DNA (mtDNA), encoding 13 subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS). The rest of the OXPHOS subunits as well as other mitochondrial proteins are encoded by the nucleus. Two transcription factors play a key role in the nucleo-mitochondrial communication. The nuclear respiratory factors (NRFs) bind and activate the promoters of various nuclear genes that encode for components of OXPHOS as well as for the mitochondrial transcription factor A (mtTFA) that regulate mtDNA replication and transcription (Scarpulla, 2002). Upstream of these transcription factors, a transcriptional coactivator of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR
), known as PGC-1, can coactivate mitochondrial biogenesis through its interaction with NRFs (Lehman & Kelly, 2002; Scarpulla, 2002). Moreover, PGC-1 also coactivates PPAR, the main ligand-dependent transcription factor of fatty acid oxidation (FAO) enzymes. Pressure overload-induced hypertrophy results in deactivation of PPAR and subsequent dysregulation of FAO enzyme gene expression, which sets the stage for abnormalities in cardiac lipid homeostasis and energy production (Barger & Kelly, 2000; Razeghi et al. 2002).
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, NRF-2 and mtTFA gene expression. PGC-1 mRNA level strongly correlated with expression of cytochrome oxidase (COX) subunits, COX I or COX IV and with mitochondrial markers (Fig. 4), suggesting that this factor, could set the tissue-specific oxidative capacity (Garnier et al. 2003). Depressed mitochondrial function in cardiac and skeletal muscles during HF is thus linked in part to a disturbed gene expression of mitochondrial proteins. In addition, increased reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress known to occur in heart failure may also mediate mitochondrial damage (Suematsu et al. 2003).
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Nothing is known at present of the signalling pathways leading to a down-regulation of PGC-1 and decreased energy metabolism in HF. In the progression from compensated hypertrophy to failure, there is a generalized hyperactivation of hormones (renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, endothelin-1, adrenaline (epinephrine)), neuromediators (noradrenaline) and cytokines (interleukins, tumour necrosis factors (TNFs)), but many of the systems activated in hypertrophy have been shown to activate rather than inhibit the expression of PGC-1. On the other hand, signalling pathways that are not activated during the compensated phase of hypertrophy are stimulated after the transition to the decompensated stage, one example being the Akt/PKB pathway (Haq et al. 2001). Cardiac-specific expression of a constitutively active mutant of Akt mediates a nearly threefold down-regulation of PGC-1 mRNA expression (Cook et al. 2002). TNF, angiotensin II and endothelin-1, which are dramatically increased in heart failure, may potentially activate the Akt pathway (Molkentin & Dorn, 2001). This provides a possible link between neurohumoral activation, decreased PGC-1 expression, and altered cardiac and skeletal muscle mitochondrial function in HF, but needs further investigation.
Alterations in the expression of creatine kinase isoenzymes are a hallmark of heart failure but signalling pathway and transcription factors involved in creatine kinase alterations remain to be established.
Recently, observations that spontaneously occurring genetic mutations in the regulatory subunit of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) give rise to a skeletal and cardiac muscle disease associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, including ventricular pre-excitation, progressive conduction system disease and cardiac hypertrophy, emphasizes the potential importance of this signalling pathway in heart failure (Ashrafian et al. 2003). Indeed, AMPK is activated in cardiac hypertrophy (Tian et al. 2001); however, the potential role of this energy sensor in heart failure also remains to be established.
Conclusions
Despite the diversity of origin and of clinical manifestation of heart failure, defects in energy metabolism are increasingly considered as a important determinant in the progression of the disease (Lopaschuk et al. 2002; Ashrafian et al. 2003; Watkins, 2003). Heart failure is a multiorgan syndrome, affecting different cell types and producing multiple neuro-hormonal activations. Within muscle cells, this pathology affects most intracellular organelles and pathways. In myocytes, calcium and energy homeostasis are intrinsically linked so that affecting one will automatically be reflected in the other. The decreased efficiency of mechanotransduction and inadequate calcium uptake and release result in a mismatch between energy production and utilization, and may influence calcium homeostasis and contractility. It is thus not surprising that ameliorating calcium homeostasis results in improved cardiac energetics (del Monte et al. 2001) and that in turn improving myocardial energetics normalizes calcium cycling (Hasenfuss et al. 2002; Liao et al. 2002). Gradual accumulation of defects in various steps in myocardial energetic signalling, along with compromised compensatory mechanisms, precipitates the failure of the whole cardiac energetic system, ultimately contributing to myocardial dysfunction. Improving the understanding of myocardial bioenergetics will provide new perspectives for heart failure therapy.
Although improving symptoms, long-term inotropic therapy has proven somewhat deleterious due to the fact that it simultaneously increases energy demand, thereby exaggerating the mismatch between energy yield and use. Rather, drugs that ultimately result in decreased energy demand and/or increased energy yield such as angiotensin-converting enzymes, ß-adrenergic receptor antagonists and diuretics are the only ones to increase survival in CHF. It emerges that therapy aimed at modulating energy metabolism could be a new alternative approach to the improvement of a failing myocardium. Drugs that shift energy metabolism away from fatty acids to carbohydrates have been developed and are currently under trial (Lopaschuk et al. 2002). Pyruvate, an oxidative substrate, can improve calcium cycling and contractile force (Hasenfuss et al. 2002). Administration of L-carnitine was recently shown to reduce apoptosis in skeletal muscle of CHF rats (Vescovo et al. 2002). Such therapeutic strategy will cope with the proposal that it is worthwhile to ‘feed a tired energy-starved horse’ rather than ‘whip the horse’ with inotropic agents (Katz, 2000). Similarly, the transcriptional cascade and PGC-1 could be new targets for increasing the energetic efficiency of the heart and skeletal muscles. As it is a determining factor in the progression of heart failure and could affect cell metabolism, normalizing neuroendocrine activation may represent a promising therapeutic target for improved energetics.
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