| Literature DB >> 25793527 |
Subbiah Ramasamy1, Ganesan Velmurugan1, K Shanmugha Rajan1, Tharmarajan Ramprasath2, Krishnan Kalpana3.
Abstract
Physiological cardiac hypertrophy is an adaptive mechanism, induced during chronic exercise. As it is reversible and not associated with cardiomyocyte death, it is considered as a natural tactic to prevent cardiac dysfunction and failure. Though, different studies revealed the importance of microRNAs (miRNAs) in pathological hypertrophy, their role during physiological hypertrophy is largely unexplored. Hence, this study is aimed at revealing the global expression profile of miRNAs during physiological cardiac hypertrophy. Chronic swimming protocol continuously for eight weeks resulted in induction of physiological hypertrophy in rats and histopathology revealed the absence of tissue damage, apoptosis or fibrosis. Subsequently, the total RNA was isolated and small RNA sequencing was executed. Analysis of small RNA reads revealed the differential expression of a large set of miRNAs during physiological hypertrophy. The expression profile of the significantly differentially expressed miRNAs was validated by qPCR. In silico prediction of target genes by miRanda, miRdB and TargetScan and subsequent qPCR analysis unraveled that miRNAs including miR-99b, miR-100, miR-19b, miR-10, miR-208a, miR-133, miR-191a, miR-22, miR-30e and miR-181a are targeting the genes that primarily regulate cell proliferation and cell death. Gene ontology and pathway mapping showed that the differentially expressed miRNAs and their target genes were mapped to apoptosis and cell death pathways principally via PI3K/Akt/mTOR and MAPK signaling. In summary, our data indicates that regulation of these miRNAs with apoptosis regulating potential can be one of the major key factors in determining pathological or physiological hypertrophy by controlling fibrosis, apoptosis and cell death mechanisms.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25793527 PMCID: PMC4368613 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121401
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Fig 1Assessment of induction of physiological cardiac hypertrophy.
A. Representative photographs of the hypertrophied and control heart B. Heart weight/ body weight ratio. C. Representative histopathology images of hypertrophied and control cardiomyocytes. D. Cell profiler analysis of cell length and area of the cardiomyocytes. The values represent the mean±SD of six animals. Asterisk represents the statistical significance by Mann-Whitney U test at p-value < 0.005
Fig 2Expression profile of miRNAs and their target genes.
A. Heat map representing the differential expression of miRNAs during physiological cardiac hypertrophy. miRNAs with higher read counts (> 1000) were considered for differential expression analysis. Analysis was statistically evaluated by Poisson distribution. B. Validation of expression profile of miRNAs by qPCR. U87 served as house keeping gene. Data represent the mean of biological triplicates with technical duplicates. Asterisk represents the statistical significance by One way ANOVA test at p-value <0.05. Double asterisk represents statistical significance at p-value < 0.005. C. Expression of target genes of miRNAs. The values were represented as mean±SE of three biological triplicates with technical duplicates. GAPDH served as house keeping gene. Asterisk represents the statistical significance by One way ANOVA test at p-value <0.05. Double asterisk represents statistical significance at p-value < 0.005.
List of significantly upregulated and downregulated genes and their target genes with previous studies in cardiac and other systems.
| miRNA | Target Genes | This Study | Previous Reports in cardiac system |
|---|---|---|---|
| miR-19b | PTEN, MuRF,Bcl2, Atrogin-1, αCryB | miR-19b was significantly upregulated during physiological hypertrophy. The expression of predicted target genes such as PTEN, Bcl2 were validated by qRT-PCR. | Positively regulates cardiac hypertrophy by targeting Atrogin-1 and MuRF-1 [ |
| miR-30 | CaMKIIδ, Egfr1, Bcl2 | miR-30 was significantly upregulated during physiological hypertrophy. The expression of predicted target genes such as Bcl2 were validated by qRT-PCR. | angiotensin II induces down-regulation of miR-30 in cardiomyocytes, which in turn promotes myocardial hypertrophy through excessive autophagy [ |
| miR-133b | CyclinD, Nelf-A, RhoA, Ccd42 | The expression of miR-133 was upregulated during physiological cardiac hypertrophy. | The expression of miR-133 was upregulated during pathological hypertrophy. A single infusion in vivo of an antagomir oligonucleotide suppressing miR-133 induced a marked and sustained cardiac hypertrophy [ |
| miR-208b | THRAP1, Myostatin | The expression of miR-208b was upregulated during physiological cardiac hypertrophy. | Montgomery |
| miR-99b | IGF1R, Akt, mTOR | The expression of miR-99b was highly downregulated during physiological hypertrophy. The expression of its genes like IGF1R, Akt and mTOR were found to be upregulated during physiological hypertrophy. | Coppala |
| miR-100 | IGF1R, Akt, mTOR | The expression of miR-100 was highly downregulated during physiological hypertrophy. The expression of its genes like IGF1R, Akt and mTOR were found to be upregulated during physiological hypertrophy. | miR-100 was reported to be upregulated during heart failure by β-adrenergic receptor mediated repression of adult cardiac genes [ |
| miR-191a | Egr1, Cd4, Casp4, SOCS4, p53 | The exrepssion of miR-191a was downregulated during physiological hypertrophy. The expression of one of its target mRNA—p53 upregulation was confirmed by qRT-PCR. | No previous report on the role of miR-191a in cardiac system. miR-191a that belongs to the miR-191/425 cluster and abnormally expressed during different cancers, diabetes and Alzheimer disease. |
| miR-22 | CDK6, Sir1, Sp1 | The expression of miR-22 was downregulated during physiological hypertrophy | miR-22 is showed sufficient to induce cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and that miR-22 is a key regulator of stress-induced cardiac hypertrophy and remodeling [ |
| miR-181a | MAPK1, TNFα, GATA4 | The expression of miR-181a was downregulated during physiological hypertrophy. miR-181a expression was induced during inflammation. Since, there is no inflammatory response during physiological hypertrophy—there is downregulation. | miR-181a was reported to play a vital role during inflammatory response in cardiovascular system. miR-181a protects the system from inflammation injury by interfering the NF- κB functioning [ |
Fig 3miRNA target genes were analyzed for GO enrichment and mapped for GO category.
Percentage of target genes involved in each GO term. The represented GO terms were significant at p-value > 0.0001. The values at the end of the bars represent the p-values.
Fig 4Regulation of physiological cardiac hypertrophy by miRNAs.
Schematic representation of the miRNAs and their target genes in development of cardiac hypertrophy. The red and green arrow indicates the upregulation and downregulation respectively. The functions of the target mRNAs are also mentioned.