细胞器
夹层盘
神经科学
缝隙连接
联轴节(管道)
生物物理学
纳米技术
生物
分子机器
化学
解剖
细胞生物学
材料科学
细胞内
冶金
作者
Morten Schak Nielsen,Chantal J.M. van Opbergen,Toon A.B. van Veen,Mario Delmar
标识
DOI:10.1152/physrev.00021.2022
摘要
The intercalated disc (ID) is a highly specialized structure that connects cardiomyocytes via mechanical and electrical junctions. Although described in some detail by light microscopy in the 19th century, it was in 1966 that electron microscopy images showed that the ID represented apposing cell borders and provided detailed insight into the complex ID nanostructure. Since then, much has been learned about the ID and its molecular composition, and it has become evident that a large number of proteins, not all of them involved in direct cell-to-cell coupling via mechanical or gap junctions, reside at the ID. Furthermore, an increasing number of functional interactions between ID components are emerging, leading to the concept that the ID is not the sum of isolated molecular silos but an interacting molecular complex, an “organelle” where components work in concert to bring about electrical and mechanical synchrony. The aim of the present review is to give a short historical account of the ID’s discovery and an updated overview of its composition and organization, followed by a discussion of the physiological implications of the ID architecture and the local intermolecular interactions. The latter will focus on both the importance of normal conduction of cardiac action potentials as well as the impact on the pathophysiology of arrhythmias.
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