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MicroRNA Profiling of Surgical Myectomy Tissue from Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

ABSTRACT: Using a high-throughput gene expression profiling technology, we have illuminated novel potential microRNA (miRNA) components of the molecular disease process underlying human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). It is hoped that this will fuel future research endeavors that will eventually uncover the role miRNAs may play in the phenotypic heterogeneity of the disease, and thus, provide potential tools for identifying patients with benign versus malignant forms of the disease.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE36946 | GEO | 2012/09/01

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA157107

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a complex disease partly explained by the effects of individual gene variants on sarcomeric protein biomechanics. At the cellular level, HCM mutations most commonly enhance force production, leading to higher energy demands. Despite significant advances in elucidating sarcomeric structure-function relationships, there is still much to be learned about the mechanisms that link altered cardiac energetics to HCM phenotypes. In this work, we test the hypothesis that changes in cardiac energetics represent a common pathophysiologic pathway in HCM. We performed a comprehensive multi-omics profile of the molecular (transcripts, metabolites, and complex lipids), ultrastructural, and functional components of HCM energetics using myocardial samples from 27 HCM patients and 13 normal controls (donor hearts). Integrated omics analysis revealed alterations in a wide array of biochemical pathways with major dysregulation in fatty acid metabolism, reduction of acylcarnitines, and accumulation of free fatty acids. HCM hearts showed evidence of global energetic decompensation manifested by a decrease in high energy phosphate metabolites (ATP, ADP, and phosphocreatine) and a reduction in mitochondrial genes involved in the creatine kinase and ATP synthesis. Accompanying these metabolic derangements, quantitative electron microscopy showed an increased fraction of severely damaged mitochondria with reduced cristae density, coinciding with reduced citrate synthase (CS) activity and mitochondrial oxidative respiration. These mitochondrial abnormalities were associated with elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reduced antioxidant defenses. However, despite significant mitochondrial injury, HCM hearts failed to upregulate mitophagic clearance. Overall, our findings suggest that perturbed metabolic signaling and mitochondrial dysfunction are common pathogenic mechanisms in patients with HCM. These results highlight potential new drug targets for attenuation of the clinical disease through improving metabolic function and reducing mitochondrial injury.

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MicroRNA Profiling of Surgical Myectomy Tissue from Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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