Mitochondrial NNT Promotes Diastolic Dysfunction in Cardiometabolic HFpEF
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Project description:BACKGROUND: Clinical management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is hindered by a lack of disease-modifying therapies capable of altering its distinct pathophysiology. Despite the widespread implementation of a 2-hit model of cardiometabolic HFpEF to inform precision therapy, which utilizes HFD+L-NAME (ad libitum high-fat diet and 0.5% N[ω]-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester), we observe that C57BL6/J mice exhibit less cardiac diastolic dysfunction in response to HFD+L-NAME. METHODS: Genetic strain-specific single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis identified disease-relevant genes that enrich oxidative metabolic pathways within cardiomyocytes. Because C57BL/6J mice are known to harbor a loss-of-function mutation affecting the inner mitochondrial membrane protein Nnt (nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase), we established an isogenic model of Nnt loss-of-function to determine whether intact NNT is necessary for the pathological cardiac manifestations of HFD+L-NAME. Twelve-week-old mice cross-bred to isolate wild-type (Nnt+/+) or loss-of-function (Nnt−/−) Nnt in the C57BL/6N background were challenged with HFD+L-NAME for 9 weeks (N=6–10). RESULTS: Nnt+/+ mice exhibited impaired ventricular diastolic relaxation and pathological remodeling, as assessed via noninvasive echocardiographic quantification of early diastolic pulse-wave velocity (E) to mitral annular velocity (e′) ratio (E/e′) (42.8 versus 21.5, P=1.2×10−10), E/A (early-to-late mitral inflow velocity ratio) (2.3 versus 1.4, P=4.1×10−2), diastolic stiffness (0.09 versus 0.04 mm Hg/μL, P=5.1×10−3), and myocardial fibrosis (P=2.3×10−2). Liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy exposed a 40.0% reduction in NAD+ (P=8.4×10−3) and a 38.8% reduction in the ratio of reduced-to-oxidized glutathione (GSH: GSSG, P=2.6×10−2) among Nnt+/+ mice after HFD+L-NAME feeding. Using single-nucleus ligand-receptor analysis, we implicate Fgf1 (fibroblast growth factor 1) as a putative NNT-dependent mediator of cardiomyocyte-to-fibroblast signaling in myocardial fibrosis. CONCLUSIONS: Together, these findings underscore the pivotal role of mitochondrial dysfunction in HFpEF pathogenesis, implicating both NNT and Fgf1 as novel therapeutic targets.
2025-08-08 | GSE304446 | GEO
Project description:Clinical management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is hindered by a lack of disease-modifying therapies capable of altering its distinct pathophysiology. Despite the widespread implementation of a “two-hit” model of cardiometabolic HFpEF to inform precision therapy, which utilizes ad libitum high-fat and 0.5% N(ω)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (HFD+L-NAME) diet, we observe that C57BL6/J mice exhibit less cardiac diastolic dysfunction in response to HFD+L-NAME. Genetic strain-specific single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis identified disease-relevant genes that enrich oxidative metabolic pathways within cardiomyocytes. Because C57BL/6J mice are known to harbor a loss-of-function mutation affecting the inner mitochondrial membrane protein nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (Nnt), we used an isogenic model of Nnt loss-of-function to determine whether intact NNT is necessary for the pathological cardiac manifestations of HFD+L-NAME. Twelve-week-old mice cross-bred to isolate wild-type (Nnt+/+) or loss-of-function (Nnt-/-) Nnt in the C57BL/6N background, were challenged with HFD+L-NAME for 9 weeks (n = 6-10). Nnt+/+ mice exhibited impaired ventricular diastolic relaxation and pathological remodeling, as assessed via E/e’ (42.8 vs. 21.5, P = 1.2e-10), E/A (2.3 vs 1.4, P = 4.1e-2), diastolic stiffness (0.09 vs 0.04 mmHg/μL, P = 5.1e-3), and myocardial fibrosis (P = 2.3e-2). Liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy exposed a 40.0% reduction in NAD+ (P = 8.4e-3) and a 38.8% reduction in GSH:GSSG (P = 2.6e-2) among Nnt+/+ mice after HFD+L-NAME feeding. Using single-nucleus ligand-receptor analysis, we implicate fibroblast growth factor 1 (Fgf1) as a putative NNT-dependent mediator of cardiomyocyte-to-fibroblast signaling of myocardial fibrosis. Together, these findings underscore the pivotal role of mitochondrial dysfunction in HFpEF pathogenesis and position both NNT and Fgf1 as novel therapeutic targets.
2025-04-12 | GSE225557 | GEO
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Project description:As part of genetic studies of heart failure in mice, we observed that heart mitochondrial DNA levels and function tend to be reduced in females as compared to males. We also observed that expression of genes encoding mitochondrial proteins were higher in males than females in human cohorts. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) exhibits a sex bias, being more common in women than men, and we hypothesized that mitochondrial sex differences might underlie this bias. We tested this in a panel of genetically diverse inbred strains of mice, termed the Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel (HMDP). Indeed, we found that mitochondrial gene expression was highly correlated with diastolic function, a key trait in HFpEF. Consistent with this, studies of a “two-hit” mouse model of HFpEF confirmed that mitochondrial function differed between sexes and was strongly associated with a number of HFpEF traits. By integrating data from human heart failure and the mouse HMDP cohort, we identified the mitochondrial protein Acsl6 as a genetic determinant of diastolic function. We validated its role in HFpEF using adenoviral over-expression in the heart. We conclude that sex differences in mitochondrial function underlie, in part, the sex bias in diastolic function.
2022-01-31 | GSE194151 | GEO
Project description:Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a highly prevalent and intractable form of cardiac decompensation commonly associated with diastolic dysfunction. Here, we show that diastolic dysfunction in patients with HFpEF is associated with a cardiac deficit in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Elevating NAD+ by oral supplementation of its precursor, nicotinamide, improved diastolic dysfunction induced by aging (in 2-year-old C57BL/6J mice), hypertension (in Dahl salt-sensitive rats) or cardiometabolic syndrome (in ZSF1 obese rats). Mechanistically, this effect was mediated partly through alleviated systemic comorbidities and enhanced myocardial bioenergetics, as evidenced by cardiac trasncriptome and metabolome analyses. Simultaneously, nicotinamide directly improved cardiomyocyte passive stiffness and calcium-dependent active relaxation through increased deacetylation of titin and the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase 2a, respectively. In a long-term human cohort study, high dietary intake of naturally occurring NAD+ precursors was associated with lower blood pressure and reduced risk of cardiac mortality. Collectively, these results suggest NAD+ precursors, and especially nicotinamide, as potential therapeutic agents to treat diastolic dysfunction and HFpEF in humans.
2021-02-11 | GSE163665 | GEO
Project description:Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is a hallmark of Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), an escalating global health challenge. We demonstrated selective depletion of the oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) and the rate-limiting enzyme of the NAD+ biosynthetic salvage pathway, nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT), in human myocardium with LV diastolic dysfunction. We showed that NAD+ can be replenished in human myocardium with diastolic impairment ex vivo, despite reduced NAMPT expression. In a murine model of HFpEF [a combination exposure to high-fat diet (HFD) and L-NG-Nitro arginine methyl ester (L-NAME)], we compared the benefits of NAD+ precursor supplementation versus dietary intervention. We tested NAD+ repletion by nicotinamide riboside (NR) supplementation using two clinically-relevant strategies: 1) Prophylactic NR repletion before HFpEF onset, and 2) Therapeutic NR repletion after the development of HFpEF. We found that dietary intervention (replacement of HFD and L-NAME with healthy diet) restored myocardial insulin-dependent glucose uptake and glycolysis but did not rescue HFpEF. In contrast, both NAD+ repletion strategies prevented or rescued HFpEF, respectively, plausibly due to restoration of myocardial iron homeostasis, recoupling of glycolysis to the TCA cycle, and upregulation of antioxidant defense.
2024-08-09 | PXD033027 | Pride
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Project description:Pericyte loss initiates microvascular dysfunction in the development of diastolic dysfunction
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