TrpC3 regulates hypertrophy-associated gene expression without affecting myocyte beating or cell size.

ABSTRACT: Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is associated with an increased risk of heart failure and cardiovascular mortality. Calcium (Ca(2+)) -regulated gene expression is essential for the induction of hypertrophy, but it is not known how myocytes distinguish between the Ca(2+) signals that regulate contraction and those that lead to cardiac hypertrophy. We used in vitro neonatal rat ventricular myocytes to perform an RNA interference (RNAi) screen for ion channels that mediate Ca(2+)-dependent gene expression in response to hypertrophic stimuli. We identified several ion channels that are linked to hypertrophic gene expression, including transient receptor potential C3 (TrpC3). RNAi-mediated knockdown of TrpC3 decreases expression of hypertrophy-associated genes such as the A- and B-type natriur

SUBMITTER: Brenner JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1950081 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature