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MicroRNA-1 regulates sarcomere formation and suppresses smooth muscle gene expression in the mammalian heart.


ABSTRACT: microRNA-1 (miR-1) is an evolutionarily conserved, striated muscle-enriched miRNA. Most mammalian genomes contain two copies of miR-1, and in mice, deletion of a single locus, miR-1-2, causes incompletely penetrant lethality and subtle cardiac defects. Here, we report that deletion of miR-1-1 resulted in a phenotype similar to that of the miR-1-2 mutant. Compound miR-1 knockout mice died uniformly before weaning due to severe cardiac dysfunction. miR-1-null cardiomyocytes had abnormal sarcomere organization and decreased phosphorylation of the regulatory myosin light chain-2 (MLC2), a critical cytoskeletal regulator. The smooth muscle-restricted inhibitor of MLC2 phosphorylation, Telokin, was ectopically expressed in the myocardium, along with other smooth muscle genes. miR-1 repressed Telokin expression through direct targeting and by repressing its transcriptional regulator, Myocardin. Our results reveal that miR-1 is required for postnatal cardiac function and reinforces the striated muscle phenotype by regulating both transcriptional and effector nodes of the smooth muscle gene expression network. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01323.001.

SUBMITTER: Heidersbach A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3833424 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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microRNA-1 regulates sarcomere formation and suppresses smooth muscle gene expression in the mammalian heart.

Heidersbach Amy A   Saxby Chris C   Carver-Moore Karen K   Huang Yu Y   Ang Yen-Sin YS   de Jong Pieter J PJ   Ivey Kathryn N KN   Srivastava Deepak D  

eLife 20131119


microRNA-1 (miR-1) is an evolutionarily conserved, striated muscle-enriched miRNA. Most mammalian genomes contain two copies of miR-1, and in mice, deletion of a single locus, miR-1-2, causes incompletely penetrant lethality and subtle cardiac defects. Here, we report that deletion of miR-1-1 resulted in a phenotype similar to that of the miR-1-2 mutant. Compound miR-1 knockout mice died uniformly before weaning due to severe cardiac dysfunction. miR-1-null cardiomyocytes had abnormal sarcomere  ...[more]

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