Kate M Herum1, Ida G Lunde2, Biljana Skrbic3, William E Louch4, Almira Hasic4, Sigurd Boye5, Andreas Unger6, Sverre-Henning Brorson7, Ivar Sjaastad4, Theis Tønnessen3, Wolfgang A Linke6, Maria F Gomez8, Geir Christensen4. 1. Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway KG Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway k.l.m.herum@medisin.uio.no. 2. Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway KG Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 3. Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway KG Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway. 4. Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway KG Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 5. Clinical and Biomedical Engineering, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway. 6. Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. 7. Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway. 8. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Abstract
AIMS: Diastolic dysfunction is central to the development of heart failure. To date, there is no effective treatment and only limited understanding of its molecular basis. Recently, we showed that the transmembrane proteoglycan syndecan-4 increases in the left ventricle after pressure overload in mice and man, and that syndecan-4 via calcineurin/nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) promotes myofibroblast differentiation and collagen production upon mechanical stress. The aim of this study was to investigate whether syndecan-4 affects collagen cross-linking and myocardial stiffening in the pressure-overloaded heart. METHODS AND RESULTS: Aortic banding (AB) caused concentric hypertrophy and increased passive tension of left ventricular muscle strips, responses that were blunted in syndecan-4(-/-) mice. Disruption of titin anchoring by salt extraction of actin and myosin filaments revealed that the effect of syndecan-4 on passive tension was due to extracellular matrix remodelling. Expression and activity of the cross-linking enzyme lysyl oxidase (LOX) increased with mechanical stress and was lower in left ventricles and cardiac fibroblasts from syndecan-4(-/-) mice, which exhibited less collagen cross-linking after AB. Expression of osteopontin (OPN), a matricellular protein able to induce LOX in cardiac fibroblasts, was up-regulated in hearts after AB, in mechanically stressed fibroblasts and in fibroblasts overexpressing syndecan-4, calcineurin, or NFAT, but down-regulated in fibroblasts lacking syndecan-4 or after NFAT inhibition. Interestingly, the extracellular domain of syndecan-4 facilitated LOX-mediated collagen cross-linking. CONCLUSIONS: Syndecan-4 exerts a dual role in collagen cross-linking, one involving its cytosolic domain and NFAT signalling leading to collagen, OPN, and LOX induction in cardiac fibroblasts; the other involving the extracellular domain promoting LOX-dependent cross-linking. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
AIMS: Diastolic dysfunction is central to the development of heart failure. To date, there is no effective treatment and only limited understanding of its molecular basis. Recently, we showed that the transmembrane proteoglycan syndecan-4 increases in the left ventricle after pressure overload in mice and man, and that syndecan-4 via calcineurin/nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) promotes myofibroblast differentiation and collagen production upon mechanical stress. The aim of this study was to investigate whether syndecan-4 affects collagen cross-linking and myocardial stiffening in the pressure-overloaded heart. METHODS AND RESULTS: Aortic banding (AB) caused concentric hypertrophy and increased passive tension of left ventricular muscle strips, responses that were blunted in syndecan-4(-/-) mice. Disruption of titin anchoring by salt extraction of actin and myosin filaments revealed that the effect of syndecan-4 on passive tension was due to extracellular matrix remodelling. Expression and activity of the cross-linking enzyme lysyl oxidase (LOX) increased with mechanical stress and was lower in left ventricles and cardiac fibroblasts from syndecan-4(-/-) mice, which exhibited less collagen cross-linking after AB. Expression of osteopontin (OPN), a matricellular protein able to induce LOX in cardiac fibroblasts, was up-regulated in hearts after AB, in mechanically stressed fibroblasts and in fibroblasts overexpressing syndecan-4, calcineurin, or NFAT, but down-regulated in fibroblasts lacking syndecan-4 or after NFAT inhibition. Interestingly, the extracellular domain of syndecan-4 facilitated LOX-mediated collagen cross-linking. CONCLUSIONS:Syndecan-4 exerts a dual role in collagen cross-linking, one involving its cytosolic domain and NFAT signalling leading to collagen, OPN, and LOX induction in cardiac fibroblasts; the other involving the extracellular domain promoting LOX-dependent cross-linking. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
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