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Gene profiling of Hand2 target genes and transcriptional regulation of Hand2 expression in the postnatal myocardium

ABSTRACT: In humans, cardiac hypertrophy is the principal risk factor for the development of overt heart failure and sudden cardiac death from lethal arrhythmias. Although aberrant reactivation of fetal² gene programs is intricately linked to maladaptive hypertrophy of postnatal cardiomyocytes, loss of cardiac function and heart failure, the transcription factors driving these gene programs remain ill defined. We report that the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor dHAND/Hand2 is re-expressed in the mammalian postnatal myocardium in response to stress signaling. Interestingly, mutant mice overexpressing Hand2 in otherwise healthy ventricular myocytes developed a phenotype of pathological hypertrophy. In contrast, conditional gene-targeted Hand2 mice demonstrated a marked resistance to pressure overload-induced hypertrophy, fibrosis, ventricular dysfunction and induction of a fetal gene program. These data suggest a critical role for the Hand2 transcription factor during hypertrophic remodeling and heart failure. To gain more mechanistically insight in the processes underlying heart failure, we here identified Hand2 target genes by microarray gene expression profiling. RNA samples were collected 4 weeks after sham or TAC surgery (to induce pressure overload) of both tamoxifen-treated Hand2f/f (WT) and MCM-Hand2f/f (KO) mice.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Leon de Windt

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1821 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Nfat and miR-25 cooperate to reactivate the transcription factor Hand2 in heart failure.

Dirkx Ellen E Gladka Monika M MM Philippen Leonne E LE Armand Anne-Sophie AS Kinet Virginie V Leptidis Stefanos S El Azzouzi Hamid H Salic Kanita K Bourajjaj Meriem M da Silva Gustavo J J GJ Olieslagers Servé S van der Nagel Roel R de Weger Roel R Bitsch Nicole N Kisters Natasja N Seyen Sandrine S Morikawa Yuka Y Chanoine Christophe C Heymans Stephane S Volders Paul G A PG Thum Thomas T Dimmeler Stefanie S Cserjesi Peter P Eschenhagen Thomas T da Costa Martins Paula A PA De Windt Leon J LJ

Nature cell biology 20131027 11

Although aberrant reactivation of embryonic gene programs is intricately linked to pathological heart disease, the transcription factors driving these gene programs remain ill-defined. Here we report that increased calcineurin/Nfat signalling and decreased miR-25 expression integrate to re-express the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor dHAND (also known as Hand2) in the diseased human and mouse myocardium. In line, mutant mice overexpressing Hand2 in otherwise healthy heart muscl ...[more]

PMID: 24161931

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Gene profiling of Hand2 target genes and transcriptional regulation of Hand2 expression in the postnatal myocardium

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Nfat and miR-25 cooperate to reactivate the transcription factor Hand2 in heart failure.

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