Project description:A goal of this study was to identify and investigate previously unrecognized components of the remodeling process in the progression to heart failure by comparing gene expression in ischemic, failing (F) to non-failing (NF) hearts. These results also were compared to the changes observed in a proteomic analysis of F and NF hearts. RNA extracted from the left ventricle was hybridized to Affymetrix arrays to identify gene expression differences in ischemic, end-stage failing versus non-failing hearts. biological replicate: LV_NF_001, LV_NF002, LV_NF004, LV_NF005 biological replicate: LV_F_003, LV_F005, LV_F009, LV_F006
Project description:A goal of this study was to identify and investigate previously unrecognized components of the remodeling process in the progression to heart failure by comparing gene expression in ischemic, failing (F) to non-failing (NF) hearts. These results also were compared to the changes observed in a proteomic analysis of F and NF hearts.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:After myocardial infarction (MI), the heart fails to renew, and the cardiac microenvironment is irreversibly disrupted. Inactivation of the Hippo signaling pathway can rebuild the post ischemic microenvironment and improve cardiac function. We investigated spatially resolved cellular relationships of neonatal and adult renewal-competent hearts to gain insight into inefficient mammalian heart renewal. Spatial transcriptomics (ST) and single-cell sequencing of adult control hearts and hearts expressing YAP5SA, an active version of the Hippo signaling pathway effector YAP, which models heart renewal, revealed a conserved, renewal-competent cardiomyocyte (CM) population in control hearts and amplified in YAP5SA hearts. This CM population was also found in the wildtype, renewal competent neonatal heart after myocardial infarction, as well as the adult human heart. Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs), expressing complement C3, colocalized with these CMs. In YAP5SA hearts and neonatal hearts post-MI, macrophages (MPs) expressing complement receptor C3ar1 also colocalized, creating a pro-renewal niche composed of the CM, CF and MP triad. Both C3 and C3ar1 loss-of-function in YAP5SA hearts similarly suppressed heart renewal, indicating that C3-expressing CFs, C3ar1-expressing MPs, and complement system signaling play a direct role in heart renewal
Project description:The microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton can provide a mechanical resistance that can impede the motion of contracting cardiomyocytes. Yet a role of the MT network in human heart failure is unexplored. Here we utilize mass spectrometry to characterize changes to the cytoskeleton in human heart failure. Proteomic analysis of left ventricle tissue reveals a consistent upregulation and stabilization of intermediate filaments and MTs in human heart failure. This dataset includes left ventricular (LV) myocardium from 34 human hearts – either non-failing (NF) or failing hearts. NF hearts are subdivided into normal or compensated hypertrophy (cHyp), while failing hearts are subdivided into ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with preserved or reduced ejection fraction (HCMpEF and HCMrEF, respectively). Further details on patient classification and in vivo parameters on each heart are listed in sample details.txt.
