ABSTRACT: Heart RNA-seq of therapeutic RBM20 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) treatment in a mouse model of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
Project description:Heart RNA-seq of therapeutic RBM20 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) treatment in a mouse model of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
Project description:We report the heart RNA-sequencing of control animals and animals of a mouse model of heart failure treated or not with RBM20 antisense oligonucleotide. This study aims to investigate the therapeutic effect of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-mediated downregulation of the cardiac splice factor RBM20 in a mouse model of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. 8-week old wild type and titin N2B KO mice with increased wall stiffness were subcutaneously injected with 50 mg/kg/week RBM20 ASO for 8 weeks. RNA from 4 left ventricles per group were isolated using TRIzol followed by a clean-up with the QIAGEN RNA micro kit. The cDNA libraries were generated using the Illumina TruSeq Stranded mRNA LT Sample Prep Kit and 2x150 paired end sequenced on HiSeq4000. The RNA-Sequencing analysis confirms that RBM20 ASO treatment increased the expression of compliant titin isoforms and improved impaired ventricular filling and cardiac function. RNA-seq confirmed RBM20 dependent isoform changes of known targets such as Titin, Ldb3, Camk2d, and Ank3, and served as a sensitive indicator of potential side effects, largely limited to genes related to the immune response.
Project description: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.
Project description:Here we provide snRNA-seq datasets from heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction and snRNA-SEQ of the corresponding LAD mouse model (permanent ligation of the left anterior descending artery)
Project description:Cardiac profiling of miR expression levels in a transgenic mouse model of heart failure (MHC-CnA) to identify miRs that are co-regulated with the development of calcineurin-induced heart failure.
Project description: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.
Project description:Heart failure is driven by the interplay between master regulatory transcription factors and dynamic alterations in chromatin structure. Coordinate activation of developmental, inflammatory, fibrotic and growth regulators underlies the hallmark phenotypes of pathologic cardiac hypertrophy and contractile failure. While transactivation in this context is known to be associated with recruitment of histone acetyl-transferase enzymes and local chromatin hyperacetylation, the role of epigenetic reader proteins in cardiac biology is unknown. We therefore undertook a first study of acetyl-lysine reader proteins, or bromodomains, in heart failure. Using a chemical genetic approach, we establish a central role for BET-family bromodomain proteins in gene control during the evolution of heart failure. BET inhibition suppresses cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in a cell-autonomous manner, confirmed by RNA interference in vitro. Following both pressure overload and neurohormonal stimulation, BET inhibition potently attenuates pathologic cardiac remodeling in vivo. Integrative transcriptional and epigenomic analyses reveal that BET proteins function mechanistically as pause-release factors critical to activation of canonical master regulators and effectors that are central to heart failure pathogenesis. Specifically, BET bromodomain inhibition in mice abrogates pathology-associated pause release and transcriptional elongation, thereby preventing activation of cardiac transcriptional pathways relevant to the gene expression profile of failing human hearts. This study implicates epigenetic readers in cardiac biology and identifies BET co-activator proteins as therapeutic targets in heart failure. ChIP-Seq of mouse heart tissues from mice induced with heart failure and treated with JQ1 BET bromodomain inhibitor
Project description:Despite some success of pharmacotherapies targeting primarily neurohormonal dysregulation, heart failure is a growing global pandemic with increasing burden. Treatments that improve the disease by reversing heart failure at the cardiomyocyte level are lacking. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are transcriptional regulators of gene expression, acting through complex biological networks, and playing thereby essential roles in disease progression. Adverse structural remodelling of the left ventricle due to myocardial infarction (MI) is a common pathological feature leading to heart failure. We previously demonstrated increased cardiomyocyte expression of the miR-212/132 family during pathological cardiac conditions. Transgenic mice overexpressing the miR-212/132 cluster (miR-212/132-TG) develop pathological cardiac remodelling and die prematurely from progressive HF. Using both knockout and antisense strategies, we have shown miR-132 to be both necessary and sufficient to drive the pathological growth of cardiomyocytes in a murine model of left ventricular pressure overload. Based on the findings, we proposed that miR-132 may serve as a therapeutic target in heart failure therapy. Here we provide novel mechanistic insight and translational evidence for the therapeutic efficacy in small and large animal models (n=135) of heart failure. We demonstrate strong PK/PD relationship, dose-dependent efficacy and high clinical potential of a novel optimized synthetic locked nucleic acid phosphorothioate backbone antisense oligonucleotide inhibitor of miR-132 (antimiR-132) as a next-generation heart failure therapeutic.
Project description:Heart failure is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality with limited options for treatment. We analyzed whether the anti-ischemic drug ranolazine could retard the progression of heart failure in an experimental model of heart failure induced by 6 months of chronic pressure overload. The study showed that 2 months of ranolazine treatment improved cardiac function of aortic constricted C57BL/6J (B6) mice with symptoms of heart failure as assessed by echocardiography. The microarray gene expression study of heart tissue from failing hearts relative to ranolazine-treated and healthy control hearts identified heart failure-specific genes that were normalized during treatment with the anti-ischemic drug ranolazine. Microarray gene expression profiling was performed with heart tissue isolated from three study groups: (i) untreated 10 month-old C57BL/6J (B6) mice with heart failure induced by 6 months of abdominal aortic constriction (AAC), (ii) 10 month-old B6 mice with 6 months of AAC and two months of treatment with the anti-ischemic drug ranolazine (200 mg/kg), and (iii) age-matched, untreated, sham-operated B6 control mice.
Project description:Heart failure is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality with limited options for treatment. We used 18 month-old apolipoprotein E (apoE)- deficient mice as a model of atherosclerosis-induced heart failure to analyze whether the anti-ischemic drug ranolazine could retard the progression of heart failure. The study showed that 2 months of ranolazine treatment improved cardiac function of 18 month-old apoE-deficient mice with symptoms of heart failure as assessed by echocardiography. To identify changes in cardiac gene expression induced by treatment with ranolazine a microarray study was performed with heart tissue from failing hearts relative to ranolazine-treated and healthy control hearts. The microarray approach identified heart failure-specific genes that were normalized during treatment with the anti-ischemic drug ranolazine. Microarray gene expression profiling was performed with heart tissue isolated from (i) untreated 18 month-old apoE-deficient mice with heart failure relative to (ii) 18 month-old apoE-deficient mice treated for two months with the anti-ischemic drug ranolazine (200 mg/kg), and (iii) age-matched non-transgenic C57BL/6J (B6) control mice.