Abstract
The heart is constantly under stress and cardiomyocytes face enormous challenges to correctly fold nascent polypeptides and keep mature proteins from denaturing. To meet the challenge, cardiomyocytes have developed multi-layered protein quality control (PQC) mechanisms which are carried out primarily by chaperones and ubiquitin-proteasome system mediated proteolysis. Autophagy may also participate in PQC in cardiomyocytes, especially under pathological conditions. Cardiac PQC often becomes inadequate in heart disease, which may play an important role in the development of congestive heart failure.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 11-27 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Autophagy
- Chaperones
- Proteases
- Proteasome
- Signal transduction
- Ubiquitin
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Molecular Biology
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine