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A novel mitochondrial complex of P450c11AS, StAR and Tom22 synthesizes aldosterone in the rat heart

Himangshu S. Bose, Randy M Whittal, Brendan Marshall, Maheshinie S Rajapaksha, Ning Ping Wang, Madhuchanda Bose, Elizabeth W Perry, Zhi-Qing Zhao and Walter L Miller
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1, 2021, JPET-AR-2020-000365; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.120.000365
Himangshu S. Bose
1Biomedical Sciences, Mercer U School of Medicine, United States of America
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Randy M Whittal
2Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada
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Brendan Marshall
3Medical College of Georgia, United States of America
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Maheshinie S Rajapaksha
4Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University, United States of America
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Ning Ping Wang
4Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University, United States of America
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Madhuchanda Bose
5Innovation Center, University of Florida, United States of America
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Elizabeth W Perry
6Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical College of Georgia, United States of America
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Zhi-Qing Zhao
7Basic Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University, United States of America
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Walter L Miller
8Pediatrics, UCSF, United States of America
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Abstract

Aldosterone, which regulates renal salt retention, is synthesized in adrenocortical mitochondria in response to angiotensin II. Excess aldosterone causes myocardial injury and heart failure, but potential intra-cardiac aldosterone synthesis has been controversial. We hypothesized that the stressed heart might produce aldosterone. We used blue native gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting, protein crosslinking, co-immunoprecipitations and mass spectrometry to assess rat cardiac aldosterone synthesis. Chronic infusion of angiotensin II increased circulating corticosterone levels 350-fold and induced cardiac fibrosis. AngII doubled, and telmisartan inhibited, aldosterone synthesis by heart mitochondria, and cardiac production of aldosterone synthase (P450c11AS). Heart aldosterone synthesis required P450c11AS, Tom22 (a mitochondrial translocase receptor), and the intramitochondrial form of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR); protein crosslinking and co-immunoprecipitation studies showed these three proteins form a 110-kDa complex. In steroidogenic cells, extramitochondrial (37-kDa) StAR promotes cholesterol movement from the outer to inner mitochondrial membrane where P450scc (cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme) converts cholesterol to pregnenolone, thus initiating steroidogenesis, but no function has previously been ascribed to intramitochondrial (30-kDa) StAR; our data indicate that intramitochondrial 30-kDa StAR is required for aldosterone synthesis in the heart, forming a tri-molecular complex with Tom22 and P450c11AS. This is the first activity ascribed to intramitochondrial StAR, but how this promotes P450c11AS activity is unclear. The stressed heart did not express P450scc, suggesting that circulating corticosterone (rather than intracellular cholesterol) is the substrate for cardiac aldosterone synthesis. Thus, the stressed heart produced aldosterone using a previously undescribed intramitochondrial mechanism that involves P450c11AS, Tom22 and 30-kDa StAR.

Significance Statement Prior studies of potential cardiac aldosterone synthesis have been inconsistent. We show that the stressed rat heart produces aldosterone by a novel mechanism involving P450c11AS, Tom22 and intramitochondrial StAR apparently using circulating corticosterone as substrate. This study establishes that the stressed rat heart produces aldosterone, and, for the first time, identifies a biological role for intramitochondrial 30-kDa StAR.

  • Adrenal gland
  • aldosterone
  • mass spectrometry
  • membrane-protein interactions
  • mitochondria
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Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1, 2021, JPET-AR-2020-000365; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.120.000365

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Himangshu S. Bose, Randy M Whittal, Brendan Marshall, Maheshinie S Rajapaksha, Ning Ping Wang, Madhuchanda Bose, Elizabeth W Perry, Zhi-Qing Zhao and Walter L Miller
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1, 2021, JPET-AR-2020-000365; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.120.000365
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