Project description:Global and phosphoproteomic data from mouse primary cardiac endothelial cells treated with oxygen deprivation and/or ultrasound. Samples were digested with trypsin, then analyzed by LC-MS/MS. Data was searched with MS-GF+ using PNNL's DMS processing pipeline.
Project description:During acute sympathetic stress, the overeactivation of β-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) caused cardiac fibrosis, by triggering inflammation and cytokine expression. It is unknown whether exercise training inhibited acute β-AR overactivation-induced cytokine expression and cardiac injury. Here, we reported that running exercise inhibited cardiac fibrosis and improved cardiac function in mice treated by isoproterenol, a β-AR agonist. Cytokine antibody array revealed that exercise prevented the expression changes of most cytokines induced by isoproterenol. Specifically, 18 ISO-upregulated and 3 ISO-downregulated cytokines belonged to six families (eg. chemokine) were prevented. A further KEGG analysis of these cytokines revealed that Hedgehog and Rap1 signaling pathways were involved in the regulation of cytokine expression by exercise. The expression changes of some cytokines that were prevented by exercise were verified by ELISA and real-time PCR. In conclusion, running exercise prevented the cytokine changes following acute β-AR overactivation and therefore attenuated cardiac fibrosis.
Project description:Functional oncogenic links between ErbB2 and ERRα in HER2+ breast cancer patients support a therapeutic benefit of co-targeted therapies. However, ErbB2 and ERRα also play key roles in heart physiology, and this approach could pose a potential liability to cardiovascular health. Herein, using integrated phosphoproteomic, transcriptomic and metabolic profiling, we uncovered molecular mechanisms associated with the adverse remodeling of cardiac functions in mice with combined attenuation of ErbB2 and ERRα activity. Genetic disruption of both effectors results in profound effects on cardiomyocyte architecture, inflammatory response and metabolism, the latter leading to a decrease in fatty acyl-carnitine species further increasing the reliance on glucose as a metabolic fuel, a hallmark of failing hearts. Furthermore, integrated omics signatures of ERRα loss-of-function and doxorubicin treatment exhibit common features of chemotherapeutic cardiotoxicity. These findings thus reveal potential cardiovascular risks in discrete combination therapies in the treatment of breast and other cancers.
Project description:Alterations of serine/threonine phosphorylation of the cardiac proteome are a hallmark of heart failure. However, the contribution of tyrosine phosphorylation (pTyr) to the pathogenesis of cardiac hypertrophy remains unclear. We use global mapping to discover and quantify site-specific pTyr in two cardiac hypertrophic mouse models, i.e., cardiac overexpression of ErbB2 (TgErbB2) and myosin heavy chain R403Q (R403Q-aMyHC Tg), compared to control hearts. From this, there are significant phosphoproteomic alterations in TgErbB2 mice in right ventricular cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) pathways. On the other hand, R403Q-aMyHC Tg mice indicated that the EGFR1 pathway is central for cardiac hypertrophy, along with angiopoietin, ErbB, growth hormone, and chemokine signaling pathways activation. Surprisingly, most myofilament proteins have downregulation of pTyr rather than upregulation. Kinase-substrate enrichment analysis (KSEA) shows a marked downregulation of MAPK pathway activity downstream of k-Ras in TgErbB2 mice and activation of EGFR, focal adhesion, PDGFR, and actin cytoskeleton pathways. In vivo ErbB2 inhibition by AG-825 decreases cardiomyocyte disarray. Serine/threonine and tyrosine phosphoproteome confirms the above-described pathways and the effectiveness of AG-825 treatment. Thus, altered pTyr may play a regulatory role in cardiac hypertrophic models.
Project description:This study employs a factorial design to delineate the combinatorial effects of cardiac-specific conditional gene knockout and pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy via transverse aortic constriction (TAC). Four experimental cohorts were established: (1) conditional knockout mice subjected to TAC (CKO_TAC), (2) knockout controls with Sham surgery (CKO_Sham), (3) floxed control mice receiving TAC (ff_TAC), and (4) floxed Sham-operated controls (ff_Sham). Following a 5-week pressure overload (TAC), myocardial tissue underwent parallel proteomic and phosphoproteomic profiling using TMT-based quantitative mass spectrometry. This dual-omics approach specifically interrogates: (a) the intrinsic genetic perturbation effect (CKO_ Sham vs ff_ Sham), (b) the pure pressure overload response (ff_TAC vs ff_Sham), and critically, (c) the genotype-by-environment interaction through synergistic/antagonistic divergence between observed versus predicted additive effects in CKO_TAC relative to genetic and surgical controls. Phosphoproteomic data further resolve signaling pathway dynamics underlying phenotypic modulation.
Project description:Kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation plays crucial roles in numerous biological processes. CDC-like kinases (CLKs) are a group of evolutionarily conserved dual-specificity kinases that have been implicated in RNA splicing, glucose metabolism, diet-induced thermogenesis and so on. However, it is still largely unknown whether CLKs are involved in pathologic cardiac hypertrophy. This study aimed to investigate the role of CLKs in pathologic cardiac hypertrophy and the underlying mechanisms. Using small RNA interference, we discovered that defects in CLK4, but not CLK1, CLK2 or CLK3, were associated with the pathogenesis of pathological cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, while overexpression of CLK4 exerted resistance to isoproterenol-induced pathological cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Moreover, the expression of CLK4 was significantly reduced in the failed myocardia of mice subjected to either transverse aortic constriction or isoproterenol infusion. Through the Cre/loxP system, we constructed cardiac-specific Clk4-knockout (Clk4-cKO) mice, which manifested pathological myocardial hypertrophy with progressive left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart dilation. Phosphoproteomic analysis revealed significant changes in phosphorylation of sarcomere-related proteins in Clk4-cKO mice. Further experiments identified nexilin (NEXN), an F-actin binding protein, as the direct substrate of CLK4, and overexpression of a phosphorylation-mimic mutant of NEXN was sufficient to reverse the hypertrophic growth of cardiomyocytes induced by Clk4 knockdown. Importantly, restoring the phosphorylated NEXN significantly ameliorated the myocardial hypertrophy in Clk4-cKO mice. CLK4 phosphorylates NEXN to regulate the development of pathological cardiac hypertrophy. CLK4 may serve as a potential intervention target for the prevention and treatment of heart failure.
Project description:Formyl peptide receptors (FPR) play a critical role in the regulation of resolution of inflammation, an important mediator of hypertension-induced cardiac damage. We have previously discovered an FPR small-molecule prototype Cmpd17b exhibit cardioprotective effects against acute and severe cardiac inflammatory insults, but its impact on chronic cardiac inflammatory insult, such as hypertension, has not been explored. To investigate the therapeutic potential of our FPR agonist on mean arterial pressure (MAP), cardiac remodelling and function in hypertensive mice.
Project description:Identifying lineage-specific markers is pivotal for understanding developmental processes and developing cell therapies. Here, we report a new cardiomyogenic cell surface marker latrophilin-2 (Lphn2), an adhesion G protein-coupled receptor. When mouse and human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) were stimulated with BMP4, Activin A, and bFGF, they differentiated into cardiac lineage cells. Lphn2 was selectively expressed on cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) and cardiomyocytes (CMCs) during the differentiation of mouse PSCs, and cell sorting with an anti-Lphn2 antibody promoted the isolation of populations highly enriched in CPCs and CMCs. Lphn2 knock-down or knock-out PSCs did not express cardiac genes. To investigate the molecular mechanism underlying the induction of cardiac differentiation by Lphn2, we used the Phospho Explorer Antibody Array, which encompasses nearly all known signaling pathways. Lphn2-dependent phosphorylation was strongest for cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) at Tyr15. We identified CDK5, Src, and P38MAPK as key downstream molecules of Lphn2. These findings provide a valuable tool for isolating cardiomyogenic progenitors and CMCs from PSCs and shed light on the still-unknown mechanisms of cardiac differentiation.