Project description:The identification of key factors involved in pathological cardiac hypertrophy is crucial to exploring novel treatments for heart failure. In this study, we elucidated the role of Ubiquitin-specific protease 29 (USP29), a deubiquitinase, in pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy. Genetic knockout of USP29 in mice significantly exacerbated TAC-induced heart hypertrophy, dysfunction, and fibrosis; whereas overexpression of USP29 in cardiomyocytes attenuated the hypertrophic response. Similarly, USP29 markedly alleviated PE-induced hypertrophy of primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Mechanistically, the cardio-protective effects mediated by USP29 were attributed to its suppression of transforming growth factor β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1)-JNK/P38 signaling pathway activation. Collectively, our study suggests that targeting either USP29 or its interaction with TAK1 could represent an innovative therapeutic strategy for treating heart failure and cardiac hypertrophy.
Project description:Deubiquitinase JOSD2 improves calcium handling and attenuates cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction through stabilizing SERCA2a in cardiomyocytes
Project description:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most frequent inherited heart condition and a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Although hypertrophy is traditionally regarded as an adaptive response to increased workload caused by physiological or pathological stress, prolonged hypertrophy can lead to heart failure characterized by impaired systolic function, increased apoptosis, fibrosis, ventricular dilation, and impaired metabolic substrate flexibility. While the key regulators for cardiac hypertrophy are well studied, the role of Prdm16 in this process remains poorly understood. In the present study, we demonstrate that Prdm16 is dispensable for cardiac development. However, it is required in the adult heart to preserve mitochondrial function and inhibit hypertrophy with advanced age. Cardiac-specific deletion of Prdm16 results in cardiac hypertrophy, excessive ventricular fibrosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, and impaired metabolic flexibility, leading to heart failure. We demonstrate that Prdm16 and euchromatic histone-lysine N- methyltransferase factors (Ehmts) act together to reduce the expression of fetal genes reactivated in pathological hypertrophy by inhibiting the functions of pro- hypertrophic transcription factor Myc. Although young Prdm16 knockout mice show normal cardiac function, they are predisposed to develop heart failure in response to metabolic stress. Collectively, our results demonstrate that Prdm16 protects the heart against age-dependent cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, adverse metabolic remodeling, and heart failure.
Project description:Numerous studies found intestinal microbiota alterations which are thought to affect the development of various diseases through the production of gut-derived metabolites. However, the specific metabolites and their pathophysiological contribution to cardiac hypertrophy or heart failure progression still remain unclear. N,N,N-trimethyl-5-aminovaleric acid (TMAVA), derived from trimethyllysine through the gut microbiota, was elevated with gradually increased risk of cardiac mortality and transplantation in a prospective heart failure cohort (n=1647). TMAVA treatment aggravated cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction in high-fat diet-fed mice. Decreased fatty acid oxidation (FAO) is a hallmark of metabolic reprogramming in the diseased heart and contributes to impaired myocardial energetics and contractile dysfunction. Proteomics uncovered that TMAVA disturbed cardiac energy metabolism, leading to inhibition of FAO and myocardial lipid accumulation. TMAVA treatment altered mitochondrial ultrastructure, respiration and FAO and inhibited carnitine metabolism. Mice with γ-butyrobetaine hydroxylase (BBOX) deficiency displayed a similar cardiac hypertrophy phenotype, indicating that TMAVA functions through BBOX. Finally, exogenous carnitine supplementation reversed TMAVA induced cardiac hypertrophy. These data suggest that the gut microbiota-derived TMAVA is a key determinant for the development of cardiac hypertrophy through inhibition of carnitine synthesis and subsequent FAO.
Project description:Construction of transcriptome sequencing library and transcriptome sequencing was completed by LC-Bio Technology Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou, China). The expression profile of Machado-joseph deubiquitinases (MJDs) family in heart tissues of Ang II mice.
Project description:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are abundantly expressed during cardiac hypertrophy development, but their influence on pathological hypertrophy and the underlying mechanisms remains to be elucidated. Here, we identified a cardiac-hypertrophy-associated piRNA (CHAPIR), and we found that it regulates pathological hypertrophy. To investigate the molecular mechanisms by which CHAPIR regulates cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, we transfected the biotinylated CHAPIR into cardiomyocytes and performed streptavidin bead pull down assay. The CHAPIR pull-down materials and its control were resolved using SDS-PAGE gel and stained with coomassie blue. Then the entire gel lanes of the CHAPIR pull-down materials and its control were excised and send for liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis.
Project description:Deubiquitinating enzymes have gained more and more attention in the field of pathological cardiac hypertrophy. In this study, we explored the role of a deubiquitinase, OTUD1, in the transverse aortic constriction (TAC) induced cardiac hypertrophy. We found the upregulation of OTUD1 in heart tissues of TAC mice. OTUD1 overexpression promoted cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac fibrosis and apoptosis. Conversely, OTUD1 depletion alleviated these pathological changes both in vivo and in vitro. Mechanistically, ASK1 was identified as one substrate of OTUD1 using co-immunoprecipitation followed with LC-MS/MS. Interestingly, OTUD1 didn’t deubiquitinate ASK1, but increased the phosphorylation level of ASK1 during the process of cardiac hypertrophy. We found that PGAM5, the upper stream regulator of ASK1, was stabilized by OTUD1 in a K63 ubiquitin chain dependent way, which reminded us OTUD1 increased the phosphorylation level of ASK1 by deubiquitinating PGAM5. This study identified the OTUD1-ASK1 axis as a potential therapeutic target for pathological cardiac hypertrophy.
Project description:microRNAs regulate cardiac hypertrophy development, which predicts the risk of heart failure. Here we investigate the role of microRNA-204-5p (miR-204) in developing cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac dysfunction following transaortic constriction. To determine the role of miR-204, we determined the transcriptomic profile of hearts following transaortic constriction.
Project description:RNA-Seq analysis of mouse cardiac transcriptome. Transverse aortic contraction was used to induce cardiac hypertrophy (TAC). To compare wild type and physiological cardiac hypertrophy 'Sendetary' (feeding mouse during 4 weeks) and 'Swim (exercise training to induce the cardiac hypertrophy) samples were analysed.