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Triclosan impairs excitation–contraction coupling and Ca2+ dynamics in striated muscle
Contributed by Bruce D. Hammock, July 13, 2012 (sent for review June 18, 2012)
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Abstract
Triclosan (TCS), a high-production-volume chemical used as a bactericide in personal care products, is a priority pollutant of growing concern to human and environmental health. TCS is capable of altering the activity of type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1), but its potential to influence physiological excitation–contraction coupling (ECC) and muscle function has not been investigated. Here, we report that TCS impairs ECC of both cardiac and skeletal muscle in vitro and in vivo. TCS acutely depresses hemodynamics and grip strength in mice at doses ≥12.5 mg/kg i.p., and a concentration ≥0.52 μM in water compromises swimming performance in larval fathead minnow. In isolated ventricular cardiomyocytes, skeletal myotubes, and adult flexor digitorum brevis fibers TCS depresses electrically evoked ECC within ∼10–20 min. In myotubes, nanomolar to low micromolar TCS initially potentiates electrically evoked Ca2+ transients followed by complete failure of ECC, independent of Ca2+ store depletion or block of RyR1 channels. TCS also completely blocks excitation-coupled Ca2+ entry. Voltage clamp experiments showed that TCS partially inhibits L-type Ca2+ currents of cardiac and skeletal muscle, and [3H]PN200 binding to skeletal membranes is noncompetitively inhibited by TCS in the same concentration range that enhances [3H]ryanodine binding. TCS potently impairs orthograde and retrograde signaling between L-type Ca2+ and RyR channels in skeletal muscle, and L-type Ca2+ entry in cardiac muscle, revealing a mechanism by which TCS weakens cardiac and skeletal muscle contractility in a manner that may negatively impact muscle health, especially in susceptible populations.
Footnotes
↵1G.C., R.Z., and R.A.B. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: bdhammock{at}ucdavis.edu or inpessah{at}ucdavis.edu.
Author contributions: G.C., R.Z., R.A.B., V.T., N.L., E.B.F., W.F., G.C.B., N.H.S., B.D.H., K.G.B., N.C., and I.N.P. designed research; G.C., R.Z., R.A.B., V.T., N.L., E.B.F., W.F., G.C.B., and N.H.S. performed research; N.H.S. and B.D.H. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; G.C., R.Z., R.A.B., V.T., N.L., E.B.F., W.F., G.C.B., N.H.S., B.D.H., K.G.B., N.C., and I.N.P. analyzed data; and G.C., R.Z., R.A.B., E.B.F., N.H.S., B.D.H., K.G.B., N.C., and I.N.P. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1211314109/-/DCSupplemental.