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SUBMITTER: Katanasaka Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10951424 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Katanasaka Yasufumi Y Yabe Harumi H Murata Noriyuki N Sobukawa Minori M Sugiyama Yuga Y Sato Hikaru H Honda Hiroki H Sunagawa Yoichi Y Funamoto Masafumi M Shimizu Satoshi S Shimizu Kana K Hamabe-Horiike Toshihide T Hawke Philip P Komiyama Maki M Mori Kiyoshi K Hasegawa Koji K Morimoto Tatsuya T
Nature communications 20240319 1
Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) is a well-known epigenetic regulatory enzyme. However, the role of PRMT5-mediated arginine methylation in gene transcription related to cardiac fibrosis is unknown. Here we show that fibroblast-specific deletion of PRMT5 significantly reduces pressure overload-induced cardiac fibrosis and improves cardiac dysfunction in male mice. Both the PRMT5-selective inhibitor EPZ015666 and knockdown of PRMT5 suppress α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) expression indu ...[more]