Project description:The regeneration potential of the mammalian heart is limited. We found that treatment of beta-blocker robustly enhanced cardiomyocyte proliferation and promoted cardiac regeneration post myocardial infarction. To investigate the gene expression changes, we performed RNA-seq using the hearts treated with beta-blocker for 7 days.
Project description:Rationale: The molecular underpinnings of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) involves a complex remodeling of the contractile, metabolic and electrical functions. Current pharmacotherapy for patients presenting HFrEF includes combination of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and β-adrenergic receptor blockers (β-AR blockers). Yet, a knowledge gap exists regarding the molecular changes accompanying such treatment. Objective: The present study takes an omics approach to study protein and phosphorylation signaling derangement in HFrEF and to define the global changes resulting from treatment with β-AR blocker (metoprolol) and ACE inhibitor (enalapril) in control- and HFrEF hearts.
Project description:The heart of a newborn mouse has an exceptional capacity to regenerate from myocardial injury but lose it after a week of life, which has been utilized as a valuable model to explore the cues for heart regeneration. More and more researches indicated that glycoprotein played an important role in cardiac regeneration. Elucidating the glycosylation processes associated with heart regeneration will be beneficial for the molecular mechanism studies of heart regeneration as well as discovery of potential therapeutic strategies for human cardiac diseases. In this work, an integrated glycoproteomic and proteomic analysis were performed to investigate the differences in glycoprotein abundances and site-specific glycosylation occupancy between neonatal day 1 (P1) and day 7 (P7) of mouse hearts. The intact glycoepeptides were enriched and identified in both P1 and P7 hearts. To screen for differentially regulated glycoproteins, we compared the expression levels of intact glycopeptides between P1 and P7 hearts using label free quantification. Eventually, the glycosylation occupancy of site-specific N-glycans were obtained by comparing the alterations of intact glycopeptides with their corresponding protein expression levels obtained from global proteomic analysis. These altered glycosylation patterns among proteins between P1 and P7 mouse hearts have a significant potential to aid our understanding of the regenerative capacity loss in neonatal mouse hearts during the first week, thus leading to novel therapeutic approaches to recover the capacity.
Project description:Neonatal beta cells are considered developmentally immature and hence less glucose-responsive. To study the acquisition of mature glucose-responsiveness, we compared glucose-regulated redox state, insulin synthesis and secretion of beta cells purified from neonatal or 10-weeks old rats to their transcriptomes and proteomes measured by oligonucleotide and LC-MS/MS profiling. Lower glucose-responsiveness of neonatal beta cells was explained by two distinct properties: higher activity at low glucose and lower activity at high glucose. Basal hyperactivity was associated with higher NAD(P)H, a higher fraction of neonatal beta cells actively incorporating 3H-Tyrosine, and persistently increased insulin secretion below 5 mM glucose. Neonatal beta cells lacked the steep glucose-responsive NAD(P)H rise between 5-10 mM glucose characteristic for adult beta cells, and accumulated less NAD(P)H at high glucose. They had 2-fold lower expression of malate/aspartate-NADH shuttle and most glycolytic enzymes. Genome-wide profiling situated neonatal beta cells at a developmental crossroad: they showed advanced endocrine differentiation when specifically analyzed for their mRNA/protein level of classical neuroendocrine markers. On the other hand, discrete neonatal beta cell subpopulations still expressed mRNAs/proteins typical for developing/proliferating tissues. One example, Delta-like 1 homolog (DLK1) was used to investigate if neonatal beta cells with basal hyperactivity corresponded to a more immature subset with high DLK1, but no association was found. In conclusion, the current study supports the importance of glycolytic NADH-shuttling in stimulus-function coupling, presents basal hyperactivity as novel property of neonatal beta cells, and provides potential markers to recognize intercellular developmental differences in the endocrine pancreas.
Project description:Fetal and neonatal beta cells have poor glucose-induced insulin secretion and only gain robust glucose responsiveness several weeks after birth. This unresponsiveness may be due to a generalized immaturity of the metabolic pathways normally found in beta cells. Gene expression profile of neonatal (1 day old) and young adult (6 weeks old) Sprague-Dawley rat islets were evaluated and compared. Frozen sections were obtained from pancreases of neonatal (1 day old) and young adult (6 weeks old) Sprague-Dawley rats. The beta cell enriched cores of the islets were excised using laser capture microdissection. RNA was extracted, amplified and subjected to microarray analysis.
Project description:Colon and rectal cancer is the second most prevalent malignant disease in the western world, causing significant morbidity, mortality, and healthcare sources use. Treating colon and rectal cancer with curative intent generally includes resection of the primary tumor. Despite its crucial role, surgery by itself induce physiological changes resulting in significant immune depression and other physiological perturbations, which may in turn play a significant role in the initiation of new metastases and the progression of pre-existing dormant metastases. The aim of this study is to assess the use of perioperative medical intervention using a combination of a β-adrenergic blocker (Propranolol) and a COX2 inhibitor (Etodolac), in order to attenuate the surgically induced immunosuppression and other physiological perturbations, aiming to reduce the rate of tumor recurrence and distant metastatic disease.
Project description:The adult mammalian heart is incapable of regeneration following injury. In contrast, the neonatal mouse heart can efficiently regenerate during the first week of life. The molecular mechanisms that mediate the regenerative response and its blockade in later life are not understood. Here, by single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we map the dynamic transcriptional landscape of five distinct cardiomyocyte populations in healthy, injured and regenerating mouse hearts. We identify immature cardiomyocytes that enter the cell-cycle following injury and disappear as the heart loses the ability to regenerate. These proliferative neonatal cardiomyocytes display a unique transcriptional program dependent on NFYa and NFE2L1 transcription factors, which exert proliferative and protective functions, respectively. Cardiac overexpression of these two factors conferred protection against ischemic injury in mature mouse hearts that were otherwise non-regenerative. These findings advance our understanding of the cellular basis of neonatal heart regeneration and reveal a transcriptional landscape for heart repair following injury.