Sarcolipin

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SLN
Protein SLN PDB 1jdm.png
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases SLN , sarcolipin
External IDs OMIM: 602203; GeneCards: SLN; OMA:SLN - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003063

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_003054

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Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 107.71 – 107.72 Mb n/a
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Sarcolipin is a micropeptide protein that in humans is encoded by the SLN gene. [3] [4]

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Function

Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases are transmembrane proteins that catalyze the ATP-dependent transport of Ca2+ from the cytosol into the lumen of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in muscle cells. The SLN gene encodes a small transmembrane proteolipid that regulates several sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases by reducing the accumulation of Ca2+ in the sarcoplasmic reticulum without affecting the rate of ATP hydrolysis. [4]

Ablation of sarcolipin increases atrial Ca2+ transient amplitudes and enhanced atrial contractility. Furthermore, atria from sarcolipin-null mice have blunted response to isoproterenol stimulation, implicating sarcolipin as a mediator of beta-adrenergic responses in atria. [5]


Sarcolipin is an important mediator of muscle based non shivering thermogenesis (NST). It causes the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases to stop pumping Ca2+ ions but continue futilely hydrolysing ATP, thus releasing the energy as heat. [6] [7] Sarcolipin mediated heat production is very important for many organisms to maintain a warm body. In mammals thermogenesis by skeletal muscles is complemented by thermogenesis in the brown adipose tissue and beige adipose tissue. [8] Sarcolipin mediated heat production in contractile muscles helps endothermic fish like the opah heat its body. Some fishes like the billfishes have a specialised brain heater tissue that is derived from muscles that cannot contract but specialise in producing heat using sarcolipin.

Interactions

SLN (gene) has been shown to interact with PLN [9] [10] and ATP2A1. [9] [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000170290 – Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ↑ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. ↑ Odermatt A, Taschner PE, Scherer SW, Beatty B, Khanna VK, Cornblath DR, et al. (November 1997). "Characterization of the gene encoding human sarcolipin (SLN), a proteolipid associated with SERCA1: absence of structural mutations in five patients with Brody disease". Genomics. 45 (3): 541–53. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4967. hdl: 2066/25426 . PMID   9367679. S2CID   41989102.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: SLN sarcolipin".
  5. ↑ Babu GJ, Bhupathy P, Timofeyev V, Petrashevskaya NN, Reiser PJ, Chiamvimonvat N, Periasamy M (November 2007). "Ablation of sarcolipin enhances sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium transport and atrial contractility". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (45): 17867–72. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10417867B. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707722104 . PMC   2077025 . PMID   17971438.
  6. ↑ Bal NC, Periasamy M (March 2020). "Uncoupling of sarcoendoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase pump activity by sarcolipin as the basis for muscle non-shivering thermogenesis". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375 (1793) 20190135. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0135. PMC   7017432 . PMID   31928193.
  7. ↑ Legendre LJ, Davesne D (March 2020). "The evolution of mechanisms involved in vertebrate endothermy". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375 (1793) 20190136. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0136 . PMC   7017440 . PMID   31928191.
  8. ↑ Reilly SM, Saltiel RA (22 October 2015). "A Futile Approach to Fighting Obesity?". Cell. 163 (3): 539–540. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.006 . PMID   26496598. S2CID   10336243.
  9. 1 2 Asahi M, Sugita Y, Kurzydlowski K, De Leon S, Tada M, Toyoshima C, MacLennan DH (April 2003). "Sarcolipin regulates sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) by binding to transmembrane helices alone or in association with phospholamban". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100 (9): 5040–5. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.5040A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0330962100 . PMC   154294 . PMID   12692302.
  10. 1 2 Asahi M, Kurzydlowski K, Tada M, MacLennan DH (July 2002). "Sarcolipin inhibits polymerization of phospholamban to induce superinhibition of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases (SERCAs)". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (30): 26725–8. doi: 10.1074/jbc.C200269200 . PMID   12032137.

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