NFAT公司
钙调神经磷酸酶
转录因子
基因沉默
医学
细胞生物学
调节器
生物
分子生物学
内科学
遗传学
移植
基因
作者
Nicolò Mangraviti,Frank Rühle,Lennart Martens,Virginie Kinet,Jana-Charlotte Hegenbarth,S Seyer,Servé Olieslagers,Monika Stoll,León J. De Windt
标识
DOI:10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.3288
摘要
Abstract Background Cardiac hypertrophy precedes many heart diseases and understanding its molecular basis remains one of the greatest challenges in cardiovascular medicine. Recent studies highlighted the sporadic involvement of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cardiac development and disease but our understanding of lncRNAs in heart failure is still limited. Results Expression profiling of lncRNAs in failing mouse hearts revealed dysregulation of “Bigheart”, a novel lncRNA that is evolutionary conserved. Bigheart overexpressed using a serotype 9 adeno-associated virus (AAV) in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (NRCMs) induced spontaneous hypertrophy, while silencing this lncRNA with specific siRNAs blunted the hypertrophic response in agonist-stimulated cardiomyocytes. GapmeR-mediated silencing of Bigheart prevented transverse aortic constriction (TAC)-induced pathological cardiac remodeling in the mouse in vivo. Mechanistically, analysis of the Bigheart genomic locus revealed several binding sites for the transcription factor nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT), a downstream transcription factor of the pro-hypertrophic calcineurin-NFAT signaling cascade. The sensitivity of Bigheart transcriptional induction for calcineurin-NFAT signalling was further demonstrated by luciferase assays using a Bigheart promoter-luciferase construct. Finally, RNA-sequencing of Gapmer-silenced mouse hearts and chromatin isolation by RNA purification (ChIRP) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS), revealed that Bigheart interacts with heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) and High Mobility Group Box 1 (HMGB1) acts in trans to stimulate the transcription of Regulator of calcineurin 1 (Rcan1), a facilitator of calcineurin-NFAT signaling. Conclusions These results indicate that lncRNA Bigheart constitutes a positive feedforward loop in hypertrophic signaling and a promising target to attenuate maladaptive cardiac hypertrophy Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main funding source(s): Maastricht university
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