Suppression of RBFox2 by Multiple MiRNAs Contributed to Progressive Heart Failure (small RNA-Seq)
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ABSTRACT: Heart failure is the final stage of various cardiovascular diseases, which seriously threatens human health. Increasing mediators have been found to be involved in the pathogenesis of heart failure, including RNA binding protein RBFox2. It participates in regulation of cardiac function in multiple aspects and plays a critical role in the process of heart failure. However, how RBFox2 itself is regulated remains unclear. Here, we dissected transcriptomic signatures including mRNAs as well as miRNAs in the mouse model of heart failure after TAC surgery. Global and association analyses revealed that large-scale upregulation of miRNAs occurred at heart failure, which was not only responsible for degradation of numerous mRNA transcripts, but also suppressed the translation of key proteins such as RBfox2. With the aid of Ago2 CLIP-seq data, luciferase assays verified that RBfox2 was targeted by multiple miRNAs including let-7, mir-16 and mir-208b, which were critical for cardiac function and upregulated in heart failure stage. Overexpression of these miRNAs suppressed rbfox2 protein and its downstream effects in cardiomyocytes, evidenced by suppressed alternative splicing of Enah gene and impaired E-C coupling via repression of Jph2 protein. Inhibition of let-7, the most abundant of these miRNAs in the heart, could rescue Rbfox2 protein as well as its downstream effects in dysfunctional cardiomyocytes induced by ISO treatment. These findings not only revealed the mechanism leading to RBFox2 depression in heart failure, but also provided an approach to rescue RBFox2 by miRNAs inhibition for the treatment of heart failure.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE215302 | GEO | 2023/01/25
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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