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Alternative Splicing Mediated by RNA-binding Protein RBM24 Facilitates Cardiac Myofibrillogenesis in a Differentiation Stage-Specific Manner


ABSTRACT: We ablated RBM24 from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) using CRISPR/Cas9 techniques. Although RBM24-/- hESCs still differentiated into sarcomere-hosting cardiomyocytes, they exhibited disrupted sarcomeric structures with punctate Z-lines due to impaired myosin replacement during early myofibrillogenesis. Transcriptomics revealed >4000 genes regulated by RBM24. Among them, core myofibrillogenesis proteins (e.g. ACTN2, TTN, and MYH10) were misspliced. Consequently, MYH6 cannot replace non-muscle myosin MYH10, leading to myofibrillogenesis arrest at the early premyofibril stage and causing disrupted sarcomeres. Intriguingly, we found that the actin-binding domain (ABD; encoded by exon 6) of the Z-line anchor protein ACTN2 is predominantly excluded from early cardiac differentiation, whereas it is consistently included in human adult heart. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletion of exon 6 from ACTN2 in hESCs, as well as forced expression of full-length ACTN2 in RBM24-/- hESCs, further corroborated that inclusion of exon 6 is critical for sarcomere assembly. Overall, we have demonstrated that RBM24-facilitated inclusion of exon 6 in ACTN2 at distinct stages of cardiac differentiation is evolutionarily conserved and crucial to sarcomere assembly and integrity.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE186518 | GEO | 2021/11/22

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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