Mapping Calcium Dynamics in the Heart of Zebrafish Embryos with Ratiometric Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators - Sorbonne Université
Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Molecular Sciences Année : 2020

Mapping Calcium Dynamics in the Heart of Zebrafish Embryos with Ratiometric Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators

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Zebrafish embryos have been proposed as a cost-effective vertebrate model to study heart function. Many fluorescent genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators (GECIs) have been developed, but those with ratiometric readout seem more appropriate to image a moving organ such as the heart. Four ratiometric GECIs based on troponin C, TN-XXL, Twitch-1, Twitch-2B, and Twitch-4 were expressed transiently in the heart of zebrafish embryos. Their emission ratio reported the Ca2+ levels in both the atrium and the ventricle. We measured several kinetic parameters of the Ca2+ transients: systolic and diastolic ratio, the amplitude of the systolic Ca2+ rise, the heart rate, as well as the rise and decay times and slopes. The systolic ratio change decreased in cells expressing high biosensor concentration, possibly caused by Ca2+ buffering. The GECIs were able to report the effect of nifedipine and propranolol on the heart, which resulted in changes in heart rate, diastolic and systolic Ca2+ levels, and Ca2+ kinetics. As a result, Twitch-1 and Twitch-4 (Kd 0.25 and 2.8 µM, respectively) seem the most promising GECIs for generating transgenic zebrafish lines, which could be used for modeling heart disorders, for drug screening, and for cardiotoxicity assessment during drug development.
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hal-02988333 , version 1 (04-11-2020)

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Jussep Salgado-Almario, Manuel Vicente, Pierre Vincent, Beatriz Domingo, Juan Llopis. Mapping Calcium Dynamics in the Heart of Zebrafish Embryos with Ratiometric Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21 (18), pp.6610. ⟨10.3390/ijms21186610⟩. ⟨hal-02988333⟩
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