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ABSTRACT: Background
Metabolic abnormalities have been implicated as a causal event in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM). However, the mechanisms underlying cardiac metabolic disorder in DCM were not fully understood.Results
Db/db mice, palmitate treated H9c2 cells and primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were employed in the current study. Microarray data analysis revealed that PGC-1β may play an important role in DCM. Downregulation of PGC-1β relieved palmitate induced cardiac metabolism shift to fatty acids use and relevant lipotoxicity in vitro. Bioinformatics coupled with biochemical validation was used to confirm that PGC-1β was one of the direct targets of miR-30c. Remarkably, overexpression of miR-30c by rAAV system improved glucose utilization, reduced excessive reactive oxygen species production and myocardial lipid accumulation, and subsequently attenuated cardiomyocyte apoptosis and cardiac dysfunction in db/db mice. Similar effects were also observed in cultured cells. More importantly, miR-30c overexpression as well as PGC-1β knockdown reduced the transcriptional activity of PPARα, and the effects of miR-30c on PPARα was almost abated by PGC-1β knockdown.Conclusions
Our data demonstrated a protective role of miR-30c in cardiac metabolism in diabetes via targeting PGC-1β, and suggested that modulation of PGC-1β by miR-30c may provide a therapeutic approach for DCM.
SUBMITTER: Yin Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329097 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yin Zhongwei Z Zhao Yanru Y He Mengying M Li Huaping H Fan Jiahui J Nie Xiang X Yan Mengwen M Chen Chen C Wang Dao Wen DW
Cardiovascular diabetology 20190111 1
<h4>Background</h4>Metabolic abnormalities have been implicated as a causal event in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM). However, the mechanisms underlying cardiac metabolic disorder in DCM were not fully understood.<h4>Results</h4>Db/db mice, palmitate treated H9c2 cells and primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were employed in the current study. Microarray data analysis revealed that PGC-1β may play an important role in DCM. Downregulation of PGC-1β relieved palmitate induced cardiac metabolism shif ...[more]