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A small molecular activator of cardiac hypertrophy uncovered in a chemical screen for modifiers of the calcineurin signaling pathway.


ABSTRACT: The calcium, calmodulin-dependent phosphatase calcineurin, regulates growth and gene expression of striated muscles. The activity of calcineurin is modulated by a family of cofactors, referred to as modulatory calcineurin-interacting proteins (MCIPs). In the heart, the MCIP1 gene is activated by calcineurin and has been proposed to fulfill a negative feedback loop that restrains potentially pathological calcineurin signaling, which would otherwise lead to abnormal cardiac growth. In a high-throughput screen for small molecules capable of regulating MCIP1 expression in muscle cells, we identified a unique 4-aminopyridine derivative exhibiting an embedded partial structural motif of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT). This molecule, referred to as pyridine activator of myocyte hypertrophy, acts as a selective agonist for 5-HT(2A/2B) receptors and induces hypertrophy of cardiac muscle cells through a signaling pathway involving calcineurin and a kinase-dependent mechanism that inactivates class II histone deacetylases, which act as repressors of cardiac growth. These findings identify MCIP1 as a downstream target of 5-HT(2A/2B) receptor signaling in cardiac muscle cells and suggest possible uses for 5-HT(2A/2B) agonists and antagonists as modulators of cardiac growth and gene expression.

SUBMITTER: Bush E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC365712 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A small molecular activator of cardiac hypertrophy uncovered in a chemical screen for modifiers of the calcineurin signaling pathway.

Bush Erik E   Fielitz Jens J   Melvin Lawrence L   Martinez-Arnold Michael M   McKinsey Timothy A TA   Plichta Ryan R   Olson Eric N EN  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040219 9


The calcium, calmodulin-dependent phosphatase calcineurin, regulates growth and gene expression of striated muscles. The activity of calcineurin is modulated by a family of cofactors, referred to as modulatory calcineurin-interacting proteins (MCIPs). In the heart, the MCIP1 gene is activated by calcineurin and has been proposed to fulfill a negative feedback loop that restrains potentially pathological calcineurin signaling, which would otherwise lead to abnormal cardiac growth. In a high-throu  ...[more]

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