Dietary copper deficiency up‐regulates selected cardiac copper chaperone proteins

Select Cardiac Copper Chaperone Proteins Are up - Regulated by Dietary Copper Deficiency

Copper deficiency has been linked with many health problems, among them cardiac hypertrophy. Because of its potential for causing oxidative damage, copper within the cell must be bound to chaperone proteins. In this thesis, we examined the role of dietary copper deficiency in the regulation of select copper chaperone proteins in cardiac tissue of rats. Sixteen weanling male Long-Evans rats were...

Cardiac nitric oxide synthases are elevated in dietary copper deficiency.

Dietary copper (Cu) deficiency leads to cardiac morphological and functional defects suggestive of heart failure. However, simultaneous cytoprotective events also appear to occur. The molecular mechanisms responsible for this complex alteration of cardiac function by Cu deficiency have not been elucidated. Because prior work has implicated altered nitric oxide (NO) metabolism in this altered fu...

Copper deficiency.

Conserved residues modulate copper release in human copper chaperone Atox1.

It is unclear how the human copper (Cu) chaperone Atox1 delivers Cu to metal-binding domains of Wilson and Menkes disease proteins in the cytoplasm. To begin to address this problem, we have characterized Cu(I) release from wild-type Atox1 and two point mutants (Met(10)Ala and Lys(60)Ala). The dynamics of Cu(I) displacement from holo-Atox1 were measured by using the Cu(I) chelator bicinchonic a...

Dietary interaction of high fat and marginal copper deficiency on cardiac contractile function.

OBJECTIVE High-fat and marginally copper-deficient diets impair heart function, leading to cardiac hypertrophy, increased lipid droplet volume, and compromised contractile function, resembling lipotoxic cardiac dysfunction. However, the combined effect of the two on cardiac function is unknown. This study was designed to examine the interaction between high-fat and marginally copper-deficient d...