Micrornas mirnas, small noncoding rnas, are implicated as important regulators of vascular function, including endothelial cell differentiation, proliferation, and angiogenesis. Seminal work has recently demonstrated that mir 34a is induced in the ageing heart and in vivo silencing or genetic deletion of mir 34a reduces ageassociated cardiomyocyte cell death. We propose that altered expression of mirnas in the heart during ageing contributes to the agedependent decline in cardiac function. Frontiers generation of microrna34 sponges and tough. Microrna 34a mir 34a is originally identified as a tp53targeted mirna that modulates. Developing mirna therapeutics for cardiac repair in ischemic heart disease. Here we report a regulatory pathway consisting of the rna binding protein rbfox2, a stressinduced microrna mir34a, and the essential ec coupler jph2. Microrna34a regulates the longevityassociated protein. Impaired angiogenesis is a prominent risk factor that contributes to the development of diabetesassociated cardiovascular disease. Upregulated sirtuin 1 by mirna34a is required for smooth. Mar 07, 20 we propose that altered expression of mirnas in the heart during ageing contributes to the agedependent decline in cardiac function.
Together, these results identify age induced expression of mir 34a and inhibition of its target pnuts as a key mechanism that regulates cardiac contractile function during ageing and after acute. Noncoding rnas ncrnas are a class of rna molecules that do not encode proteins. Demonstrates that inhibition of mir34 improves cardiac function in mice with preexisting pressure overloadinduced hypertrophy and dysfunction, and can attenuate pathological remodeling after myocardial infarction. Here we show that mir 34a is induced in the ageing heart and that in vivo. Mirnabased therapies for cardiac regeneration and repair still require validation in models. Pi3kregulated mirnas mir34a, mir34 family, mir652, and mir154 was associated with favorable cardiac function, decreased fibrosis andor increased angiogenesis in mouse models of pressure overload andor myocardial infarction mi bernardo et al. Severe abdominal aortic calcification aac is associated with higher risk of cardiovascular event and of fragility fracture. Mir 34a expression increases during endothelial cell senescence and in older mice.
Mesenchymal stem cells mscs repair infarcted heart through paracrine mechanism. Recent advances in nextgeneration sequencing have reached a stage where it is possible to know from a specific tissue the most abundant transcripts, alternative splicing process. For most cardiac ischemia therapies, the therapeutic result in the elderly is not identical to the young. Here we show that mir 34a is induced in the ageing heart and that in vivosilencing or gene. In a rat myocardial infarction model, we found that mscexo inhibited cardiac fibrosis, inflammation, and improved cardiac function.
Aging attenuates cardiac contractility and affects. Agerelated decay can eventually lead to pathology such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and diabetes. Stem cells have great potential in clinical therapy due to their pluripotency and selfrenewal ability. We speculated that certain mirnas in atrial tissue are related to af, and evaluated the relationship of mirna expression in human atrial tissue in cardiac surgery patients. The therapeutic potential of mirnas regulated in settings. In isolated cardiomyocytes, we found that mir34a directly regulated cell cycle activity.
We found that mir34a was highly expressed in aortas isolated from old mice. Because css contain both primitive cells and committed. Nanovectorbased prolyl hydroxylase domain 2 silencing system enhances the efficiency of stem cell transplantation for infarcted myocardium repair. Despite improvements in diagnosis and treatment, many elderlies suffer from cardiovascular problems that are much more frequent in an older, more fragile organism. In the heart tissue, mir34a is induced by aging and contributes to agingrelated decline in cardiac function and cardiac cell death by downregulation of pnuts, which reduces telomere shortening. Article information, pdf download for mir34a and mir9 are. Inhibition of mir34a improves cardiac function in adult hearts post mi. Microrna34a regulates cardiac ageing and function nature. Effect of aging and sex on circulating micrornas in humans. Sirt1 is a mir 34a target gene in endothelial cells. Microribonucleic acids mirnas are in the spotlight as posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression.
Jul 11, 2019 micrornas mirnas are short, noncoding rnas that posttranscriptionally repress translation or induce mrna degradation of target transcripts through sequencespecific binding. In contrast, microrna27a, microrna28a, and microrna34a were significantly enriched in exosomes derived from tnf. Mir34a was reported to serve an important role in cardiac fibrosis in patients and in mice, and it has been suggested that therapeutic inhibition of members of the mir34 family may attenuate pathological cardiac remodeling and improve cardiac function in patients, as this approach has been proven to be effective in mouse models of cardiac. Expression of microrna 34a in alzheimers disease brain targets genes linked to synaptic plasticity, energy metabolism, and resting state network activity.
Developing insights into cardiac regeneration development. Antiaging treatment has the potential to prevent the development of ischemic injury and improves cardiac function. Microrna34a plays a key role in cardiac repair and. In silico analysis and in vitro studies indicate that silent information regulator 1. Molecular interplay between microrna34a and sirtuin1 in. Micrornas mirnas are small noncoding rna transcripts that affect various cellular pathways by serving as regulators of gene expression at the translational and transcriptional level. Moreover, mir 34a can target multiple molecules to regulate m1m2 polarization phenotype of macrophages 8,9.
Background although microrna mirna regulates initiation and or progression of atrial fibrillation af in canine af models, the underlying mechanism in humans remains unclear. A smallmolecule modulator of the tumorsuppressor mir34a. Genetic deficiency of mir34a protected ageinginduced cardiac dysfunction, but overexpression of myocyte mir155 was linked to protection from necrotic cell death in vitro 16,17. It also regulates normal functions including cell differentiation and organ development. Moreover, mir34a can target multiple molecules to regulate m1m2 polarization phenotype of macrophages 8,9. Cardiac telomere length was longer in the hhr compared with the control strain at 2 days and 38 wk, but shorter at wk. Regulation of microrna expression and function by nuclear. In this study, we used an hcc cellbased mir34a luciferase reporter. We sought to compare the effectiveness of mscs and mscderived exosomes mscexo in repairing infarcted hearts and to identify how mscexo mediated cardiac repair is regulated. Nuclear receptors nrs are ligandactivated transcription factors that regulate gene transcription by binding to the promoter region or by interacting with other transcription factors.
The expression level of the adapter protein p66shc, a key protein that regulates cellular oxidative stress, is relatively low under normal conditions because of the effects of silent mating type. Context microrna mirna regulate posttranscriptionally the expression of osteogenesis and angiogenesis associated genes and emerge as potential noninvasive biomarkers in vascular and bone diseases. Pdf microrna34a regulates cardiac aging and function. Objective to identify mirna linked to the aggravation of aac and to. Novel molecular therapeutic targets in cardiac fibrosis. Microrna34a mir34a has been recently implicated in cardiac, endothelial, and endothelial progenitor cell senescence. Increasing evidence suggests that dihydromyricetin dhm can be used to effectively treat cardiomyopathy. Microrna34a regulates cardiac ageing and function 20 february 20 nature, vol. Integrative annotation of human large intergenic noncoding rnas reveals global properties and specific subclasses. Meanwhile, one study have indicated circulating mir34a level closely correlated with heart failure. Cited2 has been implicated in the regulation of heart development. In patients with acute hf, only mir499 was significantly elevated 2fold. Microrna34a induces endothelial progenitor cell senescence.
They comprise 12% of all genes in worms, flies, and mammals 1, and because each mirna is predicted to regulate hundreds of targets, the majority of protein coding genes is thought to be under. The aging retinal pigment epithelium and oxidative stress, mediated by reactive oxygen species ros accumulation, have been implicated in the mechanisms of agerelated macular degeneration amd. In the present study, we aimed to determine whether the expression levels of circulating mirnas in serum were changed with aging or sex. Dimmeler discussed the function in the adult of microrna34a, which is induced in the aging heart. Jci adipocytesecreted exosomal microrna34a inhibits m2. Aging has a remarkable impact on the function of the heart, and is independently associated with. Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common causes of death in humans and are responsible for billions of dollars in health care expenditures. Old ocscs showed decreased differentiation and proliferation capacities as compared to young ycscs, the. The framingham heart study and the baltimore longitudinal study on aging blsa have shown that, in healthy individuals without concomitant cardiovascular diseases, aging results in an increase in the prevalence of left ventricular lv hypertrophy, a decline in diastolic function, and relatively preserved systolic function at rest but a decline in. Pdf microrna34a regulates cardiac ageing and function. Cited2 regulates proliferation and survival in young and.
Therapeutic potential of targeting micrornas to regulate. Aging is a universal and timedependent biological decline associated with progressive deterioration of cells, tissues, and organs. Research highlights microrna 34a mir 34a regulates senescence and cell cycle progression in endothelial cells. Along similar lines, inhibition of mir34a improved cardiac function after mi in mice, attenuating cardiomyocyte apoptosis and telomere shortening. Cardiospheres css are selfassembling multicellular clusters from the cellular outgrowth from cardiac explants cultured in nonadhesive substrates. Cabili mn, trapnell c, goff l, koziol m, tazonvega b, regev a, rinn jl.
Generally, stem cells are classified into adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells escs and induced pluripotent stem cells ipscs. Microrna34a regulation of endothelial senescence sciencedirect. This includes the potential of mirnas as therapeutic targets in cardiac and vascular. Together, these results identify ageinduced expression of mir34a and inhibition of its target pnuts as a key mechanism that regulates cardiac contractile function during. Frontiers involvement of microrna34a in agerelated. Developing mirna therapeutics for cardiac repair in. Here we show that mir34a is induced in the ageing heart and that in vivo silencing or genetic deletion of mir34a. Aug 29, 20 idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a disease characterized by alveolar epithelial cell injury, inflammatory cell infiltration and deposition of extracellular matrix in lung tissue. Apr 04, 2019 cardiac fibrosis, characterized by excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix, abolishes cardiac contractility, impairs cardiac function, and ultimately leads to heart failure. Together, these results identify ageinduced expression of mir 34a and inhibition of its target pnuts as a key mechanism that regulates cardiac contractile function during ageing and after acute. Apr 12, 2012 microrna 34a regulates the longevityassociated protein sirt1 in coronary artery disease. Micrornas mirna are evolutionary highly conserved noncoding rna molecules, exerting essential functions in a wide range of physiological. Parallel to its roles in cardiac aging, mir 34a was upregulated in the border zone of infarcted heart, and mir 34a inhibition by ant 34a improved remodeling after mi.
Noncoding rnas controlling telomere homeostasis in senescence. More than 1,000 mirnas are encoded in the human genome. The therapeutic potential of mirnas regulated in settings of. The molecular factors that regulate agerelated changes in cardiac physiology and contribute to the increased cardiovascular risk in. To determine whether antagonizing mir34a enhances cardiac regeneration in adult hearts, lnabased antimir34a lna34a or scrambled negative control was delivered intravenously at 6 hours and 2 days after mi in adults online figure iva. Overwhelming evidence accumulated since their discovery 2,3 leaves little doubt regarding their importance.
Here we show that mir34a is induced in the ageing heart and that in vivosilencing or gene. Microrna profiling implicates the insulinlike growth factor. Microrna profiling unveils hyperglycaemic memory in the. We propose that altered expression of mirnas in the heart during ageing contributes to the age dependent decline in cardiac function. The authors identified phosphatase 1 nuclear targeting subunit pnuts as a novel direct target of mir 34a and detected downregulation of pnuts in the aged heart. Developing mirna therapeutics for cardiac repair in ischemic. Jul 17, 2019 cardiac stem cells cscs exhibit agedependent characteristics.
They contain a core of primitive, proliferating cells, and an outer layer of mesenchymalstromal cells and differentiating cells that express cardiomyocyte proteins and connexin 43. Many micrornas are differentially expressed during aging, generating interest in their use as aging. However, the number and function of mscs decline during hypoxia and serum deprivation hsd, reducing their ability to contribute to endogenous injury repair. Diabetes induces the activation of proageing mir34a in. In recent years, significant evidence has emerged that supports the highly dynamic and responsive nature of the cardiac extracellular matrix. Microrna 34a regulates cardiac ageing and function 20 february 20 nature, vol. As mouse models of bleomycininduced pulmonary fibrosis display many of the same phenotypes observed in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, they have been used to study various aspects of the disease.
Harnessing the therapeutic potential of micrornas for. Diabetes induces the activation of proageing mir34a in the heart, but has differential effects on cardiomyocytes and cardiac progenitor cells skip to. Mesenchymal stem cell mscbased therapies have had positive outcomes both in animal models of cardiovascular diseases and in clinical patients. They further reveal that the tumor suppressor mir34a together with numb and notch form a feedforward loop that curbs excessive proliferation by enforcing binary cell fate choice and that disrupting. In the long term, agerelated cardiovascular diseases cvds. Aug 01, 20 mildtomoderate overexpression of sirt1 reduces cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyocyte apoptosis and improves contractile function in aged mice. Dihydromyricetin prevents diabetic cardiomyopathy via mir. Cardiac fibrosis is a crucial factor of heart failure. Remarkably, mir34a expression was significantly augmented in. In this study, we investigated whether dhm affects the expression of mir34a in dcm.
We measured telomere length, tissue activity of telomerase, mrna levels of telomerase reverse transcriptase tert and telomerase rna component terc, and expression of the telomeric regulator microrna mir34a. Sirt1 mediates the effects of mir 34a upon cell senescence in endothelial cells. Frontiers microrna in cardiovascular aging and agerelated. Microrna 34a regulates cardiac ageing and function. A prominent molecular process underlying aging is the progressive shortening of telomeres, the structures that protect the ends of. Micrornas mirnas have been reported as potentially being useful biomarkers for various diseases including cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease, neurological disease and agerelated diseases. Roles of microrna34a targeting sirt1 in mesenchymal stem. Therefore, if possible, rnaseq should be used to find out the mir 34a target genes in order to clarify the inhibition effect of adipocytesecreted exosomal microrna 34a on m2 macrophage polarization. Therapeutic potential of targeting micrornas to regulate cardiac fibrosis. However, whether mir194 participates in the process of. Jun 12, 2017 over the last decades, life expectancy has significantly increased although several chronic diseases persist in the population, with aging as the leading risk factor. Human cardiospheres as a source of multipotent stem and. Microrna profiling implicates the insulinlike growth factor pathway in bleomycininduced pulmonary fibrosis in mice.
Selected serum microrna, abdominal aortic calcification. Injecting these mirnas into rodent hearts after myocardial infarction mi preserved cardiac function. Mir 34a was reported to serve an important role in cardiac fibrosis in patients and in mice, and it has been suggested that therapeutic inhibition of members of the mir34 family may attenuate pathological cardiac remodeling and improve cardiac function in patients, as this approach has been proven to be effective in mouse models of cardiac. Bagchi c a faculty of medicine, university of toronto, toronto, on m5s 1a8, canada b department of human anatomy and cell science, university of manitoba, winnipeg, mb r3t 2n2, canada. Seminal work has recently demonstrated that mir34a is induced in the ageing heart and in vivo silencing or genetic deletion of mir34a reduces ageassociated cardiomyocyte cell death. Cited2 mrna and protein level was downregulated in aging heart tissue and cscs. Heart failure is a major cause of mortality in humans. Aug 06, 2010 research highlights microrna 34a mir 34a regulates senescence and cell cycle progression in endothelial cells. They further reveal that the tumor suppressor mir 34a together with numb and notch form a feedforward loop that curbs excessive proliferation by enforcing binary cell fate choice and that disrupting. Noncoding rnas in cardiac aging fulltext cellular physiology. For example, inhibition of phosphoinositide 3kinase p110. Several endothelialspecific mirnas have been identified as regulators of cardiac and endothelial function and linked to the regulation of angiogenesis and the development of senescence and inflammation.
Myocardial infarctioninduced micrornaenriched exosomes. Cited2 regulates proliferation and survival in young and old. Vascular aging is characterized by impaired endothelial function, chronic. The agerelated change in cardiac contractility influences the therapeutic effect and intervention timepoint. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual. May 23, 2018 microrna34a regulates cardiac ageing and function. Like most other mirnas, mir34a regulates the expression of multiple genes in different tissues. Together, these results identify ageinduced expression of mir34a and inhibition of its target pnuts as a key mechanism that regulates cardiac contractile function during ageing and after acute. In particular, mir34a modulates several important target proteins involved in cell cycle, apoptosis, senescence and differentiation. Bu, shen, and colleagues find that intestinal and colon stem cells, primarily undergoing symmetric division, under conditions of inflammatory stress increase their rate of asymmetric cell division.
Alternative mechanisms of mir34a regulation in cancer cell death. Here we show that mir 34a is induced in the ageing heart and that in vivo silencing or genetic deletion of mir 34a reduces ageassociated cardiomyocyte cell death. Along similar lines, inhibition of mir 34a improved cardiac function after mi in mice, attenuating cardiomyocyte apoptosis and telomere shortening. Lechner s, seeger t, fischer a, heydt s, kaluza d, treguer k, carmona g, bonauer a. Cardiac stem cells cscs exhibit agedependent characteristics. Mesenchymal stem cells confer resistance to doxorubicin. Mir34a was reported to serve an important role in cardiac fibrosis in. Diabetes induces the activation of pro ageing mir 34a in the heart, but has differential effects on cardiomyocytes and cardiac progenitor cells skip to main content thank you for visiting. It has been reported that several micrornas mirnas, mirs were involved in cardiac fibrosis, however, the role and possible regulatory mechanism of microrna5a mir5a in cardiac fibrosis have not been investigated. Ageing is one of the most complex processes in nature. Microrna34a regulates the longevityassociated protein sirt1 in coronary artery disease.
Expression of microrna34a in alzheimers disease brain targets genes linked to synaptic plasticity, energy metabolism, and resting state network activity. Mirnasequence indicates that mesenchymal stem cells and. Cardiac fibrosis is increasingly recognized as a common final pathway in advanced heart diseases. Microrna34a regulates the longevityassociated protein sirt1. Accordingly, mir34a may play a key role in agerelated susceptibility to oxidative stress in arpe19 cells by targeting the sirt1p66shc pathway, leading to amd. Moreover, mir34a inhibition reduces cell death and fibrosis following acute myocardial infarction and improves recovery of myocardial function. Old ocscs showed decreased differentiation and proliferation capacities as compared to young ycscs. Diabetes induces the activation of proageing mir34a in the. Cardiac hypertrophy is characterized by thickening myocardium and decreasing in heart chamber volume in response to mechanical or pathological stress, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain to be defined.
This study investigated altered mirna expression and autophagic activity in pathogenesis of cardiac hypertrophy. Small molecules that restore the expression of growthinhibitory micrornas mirna downregulated in tumors may have potential as anticancer agents. Microrna34a mir34a is originally identified as a tp53targeted mirna that modulates. Mildtomoderate overexpression of sirt1 reduces cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyocyte apoptosis and improves contractile function in aged mice. Microrna21 contributes to myocardial disease by stimulating map kinase signalling in fibroblasts. Microrna34a regulates cardiac ageing and functionboon et alnature. Microrna profiling implicates the insulinlike growth. Microrna34a regulates cardiac ageing and function pubmed.
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