Transcription profiling of rat Ren2 left ventricles to generate predictive heart failure expression profile
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ABSTRACT: The intercalated disc of cardiac myocytes is emerging as a crucial structure in the heart. Loss of intercalated disc proteins like N-cadherin causes lethal cardiac abnormalities, mutations in intercalated disc proteins cause human cardiomyopathy. A comprehensive screen for novel mechanisms in failing hearts demonstrated that expression of the lysosomal integral membrane protein-2 (LIMP-2) is increased in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure in both rat and human myocardium. Complete loss of LIMP-2 in genetically engineered mice did not affect cardiac development; however these LIMP-2 null mice failed to mount a hypertrophic response to increased blood pressure but developed cardiomyopathy. Disturbed cadherin localization in these hearts suggested that LIMP-2 has important functions outside lysosomes. Indeed, we also find LIMP-2 in the intercalated disc, where it associates with cadherin. RNAi-mediated knockdown of LIMP-2 decreases the binding of phosphorylated b-catenin to cadherin, while overexpression of LIMP-2 has the opposite effect. Taken together, our data show that lysosomal integrated membrane protein-2 is crucial to mount the adaptive hypertrophic response to cardiac loading. We demonstrate a novel role for LIMP-2 as an important mediator of the intercalated disc. Experiment Overall Design: overall design: Experiment Overall Design: 3 groups of rats, 1 sample per rat: Experiment Overall Design: - compensated = Ren2 rat, hypertensive, no heart failure (N=6) Experiment Overall Design: - failure = Ren2 rat, hypertensive, no heart failure (N=4) Experiment Overall Design: - SD = control group, non-hypertensive (N=4)
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
SUBMITTER: Arie van Erk
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-4286 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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