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SUBMITTER: Zeng Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5667408 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zeng Yan Y Du William W WW Wu Yingya Y Yang Zhenguo Z Awan Faryal Mehwish FM Li Xiangmin X Yang Weining W Zhang Chao C Yang Qi Q Yee Albert A Chen Yu Y Yang Fenghua F Sun Huan H Huang Ren R Yee Albert J AJ Li Ren-Ke RK Wu Zhongkai Z Backx Peter H PH Yang Burton B BB
Theranostics 20170829 16
As central nodes in cardiomyocyte signaling, nuclear AKT appears to play a cardio-protective role in cardiovascular disease. Here we describe a circular RNA, circ-Amotl1 that is highly expressed in neonatal human cardiac tissue, and potentiates AKT-enhanced cardiomyocyte survival. We hypothesize that circ-Amotl1 binds to PDK1 and AKT1, leading to AKT1 phosphorylation and nuclear translocation. In primary cardiomyocytes, epithelial cells, and endothelial cells, we found that forced circ-Amotl1 ex ...[more]