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Maillet A, Tan K, Chai X, Sadananda SN, Mehta A, Ooi J, Hayden MR, Pouladi MA, Ghosh S, Shim W, Brunham LR. Modeling Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived-Cardiomyocytes. Sci Rep 2016; 6:25333. [PMID: 27142468 PMCID: PMC4855185 DOI: 10.1038/srep25333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Doxorubicin is a highly efficacious anti-cancer drug but causes cardiotoxicity in many patients. The mechanisms of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (DIC) remain incompletely understood. We investigated the characteristics and molecular mechanisms of DIC in human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs). We found that doxorubicin causes dose-dependent increases in apoptotic and necrotic cell death, reactive oxygen species production, mitochondrial dysfunction and increased intracellular calcium concentration. We characterized genome-wide changes in gene expression caused by doxorubicin using RNA-seq, as well as electrophysiological abnormalities caused by doxorubicin with multi-electrode array technology. Finally, we show that CRISPR-Cas9-mediated disruption of TOP2B, a gene implicated in DIC in mouse studies, significantly reduces the sensitivity of hPSC-CMs to doxorubicin-induced double stranded DNA breaks and cell death. These data establish a human cellular model of DIC that recapitulates many of the cardinal features of this adverse drug reaction and could enable screening for protective agents against DIC as well as assessment of genetic variants involved in doxorubicin response.
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Affiliation(s)
- Agnes Maillet
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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- Center for Computational Biology, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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- National Heart Research Institute, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore.,Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Program, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.,Department of Medical Genetics, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.,Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Center for Computational Biology, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.,Program in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- National Heart Research Institute, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore.,Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Program, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.,Department of Medicine, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Chaudhari U, Nemade H, Wagh V, Gaspar JA, Ellis JK, Srinivasan SP, Spitkovski D, Nguemo F, Louisse J, Bremer S, Hescheler J, Keun HC, Hengstler JG, Sachinidis A. Identification of genomic biomarkers for anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes: an in vitro repeated exposure toxicity approach for safety assessment. Arch Toxicol 2015; 90:2763-2777. [PMID: 26537877 PMCID: PMC5065579 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-015-1623-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
The currently available techniques for the safety evaluation of candidate drugs are usually cost-intensive and time-consuming and are often insufficient to predict human relevant cardiotoxicity. The purpose of this study was to develop an in vitro repeated exposure toxicity methodology allowing the identification of predictive genomics biomarkers of functional relevance for drug-induced cardiotoxicity in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs). The hiPSC-CMs were incubated with 156 nM doxorubicin, which is a well-characterized cardiotoxicant, for 2 or 6 days followed by washout of the test compound and further incubation in compound-free culture medium until day 14 after the onset of exposure. An xCELLigence Real-Time Cell Analyser was used to monitor doxorubicin-induced cytotoxicity while also monitoring functional alterations of cardiomyocytes by counting of the beating frequency of cardiomyocytes. Unlike single exposure, repeated doxorubicin exposure resulted in long-term arrhythmic beating in hiPSC-CMs accompanied by significant cytotoxicity. Global gene expression changes were studied using microarrays and bioinformatics tools. Analysis of the transcriptomic data revealed early expression signatures of genes involved in formation of sarcomeric structures, regulation of ion homeostasis and induction of apoptosis. Eighty-four significantly deregulated genes related to cardiac functions, stress and apoptosis were validated using real-time PCR. The expression of the 84 genes was further studied by real-time PCR in hiPSC-CMs incubated with daunorubicin and mitoxantrone, further anthracycline family members that are also known to induce cardiotoxicity. A panel of 35 genes was deregulated by all three anthracycline family members and can therefore be expected to predict the cardiotoxicity of compounds acting by similar mechanisms as doxorubicin, daunorubicin or mitoxantrone. The identified gene panel can be applied in the safety assessment of novel drug candidates as well as available therapeutics to identify compounds that may cause cardiotoxicity.
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- Umesh Chaudhari
- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
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- Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany
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- Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the Technical University of Dortmund (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Robert-Koch-Str. 39, 50931, Cologne, NRW, Germany.
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Patel AK, Celiz AD, Rajamohan D, Anderson DG, Langer R, Davies MC, Alexander MR, Denning C. A defined synthetic substrate for serum-free culture of human stem cell derived cardiomyocytes with improved functional maturity identified using combinatorial materials microarrays. Biomaterials 2015; 61:257-65. [PMID: 26005764 PMCID: PMC4780257 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Cardiomyocytes from human stem cells have applications in regenerative medicine and can provide models for heart disease and toxicity screening. Soluble components of the culture system such as growth factors within serum and insoluble components such as the substrate on which cells adhere to are important variables controlling the biological activity of cells. Using a combinatorial materials approach we develop a synthetic, chemically defined cellular niche for the support of functional cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESC-CMs) in a serum-free fully defined culture system. Almost 700 polymers were synthesized and evaluated for their utility as growth substrates. From this group, 20 polymers were identified that supported cardiomyocyte adhesion and spreading. The most promising 3 polymers were scaled up for extended culture of hESC-CMs for 15 days and were characterized using patch clamp electrophysiology and myofibril analysis to find that functional and structural phenotype was maintained on these synthetic substrates without the need for coating with extracellular matrix protein. In addition, we found that hESC-CMs cultured on a co-polymer of isobornyl methacrylate and tert-butylamino-ethyl methacrylate exhibited significantly longer sarcomeres relative to gelatin control. The potential utility of increased structural integrity was demonstrated in an in vitro toxicity assay that found an increase in detection sensitivity of myofibril disruption by the anti-cancer drug doxorubicin at a concentration of 0.05 µM in cardiomyocytes cultured on the co-polymer compared to 0.5 µM on gelatin. The chemical moieties identified in this large-scale screen provide chemically defined conditions for the culture and manipulation of hESC-CMs, as well as a framework for the rational design of superior biomaterials.
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- Asha K Patel
- Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modeling, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK; David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modeling, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
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- Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modeling, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
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Della Pina P, Vizzardi E, Raddino R, Gavazzoni M, Caretta G, Gorga E, Dei Cas L. Biological Drugs: Classic Adverse Effects and New Clinical Evidences. Cardiovasc Toxicol 2012; 12:285-97. [DOI: 10.1007/s12012-012-9173-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Gratia S, Kay L, Michelland S, Sève M, Schlattner U, Tokarska-Schlattner M. Cardiac phosphoproteome reveals cell signaling events involved in doxorubicin cardiotoxicity. J Proteomics 2012; 75:4705-16. [PMID: 22348821 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2011] [Revised: 02/02/2012] [Accepted: 02/03/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The successful use of anthracyclines like doxorubicin in chemotherapy is limited by their severe cardiotoxicity. Despite decades of clinical application, a satisfying description of the molecular mechanisms involved and a preventive treatment have not yet been achieved. Here we address doxorubicin-induced changes in cell signaling as a novel potential mediator of doxorubicin toxicity by applying a non-biased screen of the cardiac phosphoproteome. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, phosphospecific staining, quantitative image analysis, and MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry were combined to identify (de)phosphorylation events occurring in the isolated rat heart upon Langendorff-perfusion with clinically relevant (5 μM) and supraclinical concentrations (25 μM) of doxorubicin. This approach identified 22 proteins with a significantly changed phosphorylation status and these results were validated by immunoblotting for selected phosphosites. Overrepresentation of mitochondrial proteins (>40%) identified this compartment as a prime target of doxorubicin. Identified proteins were mainly involved in energy metabolism (e.g. pyruvate dehydrogenase and acyl-CoA dehydrogenase), sarcomere structure and function (e.g. desmin) or chaperone-like activities (e.g. α-crystallin B chain and prohibitin). Changes in phosphorylation of pyruvate dehydrogenase, regulating pyruvate entry into the Krebs cycle, and desmin, maintaining myofibrillar array, are relevant for main symptoms of cardiac dysfunction related to doxorubicin treatment, namely energy imbalance and myofibrillar disorganization. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Translational Proteomics.
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- Séverine Gratia
- University Joseph Fourier, Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Bioenergetics, Environmental and Systems Biology, Grenoble, France
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Liu Q, Molkentin JD. Protein kinase Cα as a heart failure therapeutic target. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2011; 51:474-8. [PMID: 20937286 PMCID: PMC3204459 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2010.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2010] [Revised: 10/01/2010] [Accepted: 10/04/2010] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Heart failure afflicts ~5 million people and causes ~300,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. Heart failure is defined as a deficiency in the ability of the heart to pump sufficient blood in response to systemic demands, which results in fatigue, dyspnea, and/or edema. Identifying new therapeutic targets is a major focus of current research in the field. We and others have identified critical roles for protein kinase C (PKC) family members in programming aspects of heart failure pathogenesis. More specifically, mechanistic data have emerged over the past 6-7 years that directly implicate PKCα, a conventional PKC family member, as a nodal regulator of heart failure propensity. Indeed, deletion of the PKCα gene in mice, or its inhibition in rodents with drugs or a dominant negative mutant and/or inhibitory peptide, has shown dramatic protective effects that antagonize the development of heart failure. This review will weigh all the evidence implicating PKCα as a novel therapeutic target to consider for the treatment of heart failure. This article is part of a special issue entitled "Key Signaling Molecules in Hypertrophy and Heart Failure."
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- Qinghang Liu
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
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Monsuez JJ, Charniot JC, Vignat N, Artigou JY. Cardiac side-effects of cancer chemotherapy. Int J Cardiol 2010; 144:3-15. [PMID: 20399520 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2010.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2009] [Revised: 02/27/2010] [Accepted: 03/06/2010] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The spectrum of cardiac side-effects of cancer chemotherapy has expanded with the development of combination, adjuvant and targeted chemotherapies. Their administration in multiple regimens has increased greatly, including in older patients and in patients with cardiovascular and/or coronary artery disease (CAD). Cardiac toxicity of anthracyclines involves oxidative stress and apoptosis. Early detection combines 2D-echocardiography and/or radionuclide angiography and recent methods such as tissue Doppler imaging, strain rate echocardiography and sampling of serial troponin and/or NT-proBNP levels. Dexrazoxane has proven effective in the prevention of dose-related toxicity in children and adults. High doses of the alkylating drugs cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide may result in a reversible heart failure and in life-threatening arrhythmias. Myocardial ischemia induced by the antimetabolites 5-fluorouracil and capecitabine impacts prognosis of patients with prior CAD. Severe arrhythmias may complicate administration of microtubule inhibitors. Targeted therapies with the antibody-based tyrosine kinases (TK) inhibitors trastuzumab and, to a lesser extent, alemtuzumab induce heart failure or asymptomatic LV dysfunction in 1-4% and 10%, respectively. Cetuximab and rituximab induce hypotension, whereas bevacizumab may promote severe hypertension and venous thromboembolism. Small molecule TK inhibitors may also elicit LV dysfunction, in only few patients treated with imatinib mesylate, but in a substantially higher proportion of those receiving the multitargeted TK inhibitor sunitinib or the recently approved drugs erlotinib, lapatinib and dasatinib. Management of patients at increased cardiovascular risk associated with advancing age, previous CAD or targeted therapies may be optimized by referral to a cardiologist in a cross-specialty teamwork.
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- Jean-Jacques Monsuez
- AP-HP, Hôpital René Muret, Cardiologie, Policlinique médicale, Université Paris-13, Faculté de Médecine de Bobigny, 93270 Sevran, France.
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Poizat C, Puri PL, Bai Y, Kedes L. Phosphorylation-dependent degradation of p300 by doxorubicin-activated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in cardiac cells. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:2673-87. [PMID: 15767673 PMCID: PMC1061628 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.7.2673-2687.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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p300 and CBP are general transcriptional coactivators implicated in different cellular processes, including regulation of the cell cycle, differentiation, tumorigenesis, and apoptosis. Posttranslational modifications such as phosphorylation are predicted to select a specific function of p300/CBP in these processes; however, the identification of the kinases that regulate p300/CBP activity in response to individual stimuli and the physiological significance of p300 phosphorylation have not been elucidated. Here we demonstrate that the cardiotoxic anticancer agent doxorubicin (adriamycin) induces the phosphorylation of p300 in primary neonatal cardiomyocytes. Hyperphosphorylation precedes the degradation of p300 and parallels apoptosis in response to doxorubicin. Doxorubicin-activated p38 kinases alpha and beta associate with p300 and are implicated in the phosphorylation-mediated degradation of p300, as pharmacological blockade of p38 prevents p300 degradation. p38 phosphorylates p300 in vitro at both the N and C termini of the protein, and enforced activation of p38 by the constitutively active form of its upstream kinase (MKK6EE) triggers p300 degradation. These data support the conclusion that p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates p300 protein stability and function in cardiomyocytes undergoing apoptosis in response to doxorubicin.
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- Coralie Poizat
- Institute for Genetic Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2250 Alcazar St., CSC 245, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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Liu FF, Stone JR, Schuldt AJT, Okoshi K, Okoshi MP, Nakayama M, Ho KKL, Manning WJ, Marchionni MA, Lorell BH, Morgan JP, Yan X. Heterozygous knockout of neuregulin-1 gene in mice exacerbates doxorubicin-induced heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2005; 289:H660-6. [PMID: 15833803 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00268.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Neuregulins and their erbB receptors are essential for cardiac development and postulated to be cardioprotective in the presence of injury in the postnatal heart. We tested the hypothesis that the development of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in vivo is more severe in mice with heterozygous knockout of the neuregulin-1 gene (NRG-1(+/-)) compared with wild-type mice (WT). Three-month old NRG-1(+/-) and WT mice were injected with a single dose of doxorubicin (20 mg/kg ip). Survival was analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier approach. Left ventricular (LV) function and signaling pathways were analyzed 4 days after treatment. Fifteen days after treatment, survival was significantly lower in doxorubicin-treated NRG-1(+/-) mice (NRG-1(+/-)-Dox) compared with doxorubicin-treated WT mice (WT-Dox) (15% vs. 33%, P < 0.01). LV mass was significantly lower in NRG-1(+/-)-Dox but not in WT-Dox compared with nontreated animals. LV systolic pressure and LV midwall fractional shortening were significantly lower in NRG-1(+/-)-Dox compared with WT-Dox mice. LV protein levels of NRG-1, erbB2, and erbB4 receptors were similar in WT-Dox and NRG-1(+/-)-Dox mice. However, levels of phosphorylated erbB2, Akt, and ERK-1/2 were significantly decreased in NRG-1(+/-)-Dox compared with WT-Dox mice. A significant decrease in phosphorylated P70S6K levels was also observed in NRG-1(+/-)-Dox compared with nontreated NRG-1(+/-) mice. These results demonstrate that heterozygous knockout of the neuregulin-1 gene worsens survival and LV function in the presence of doxorubicin-induced cardiac injury in vivo. This is associated with the depression of activation of the erbB2 receptor as well as Akt, p70S6K, and ERK-1/2 pathways.
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- Fen-Fen Liu
- Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave., Rm. SL-221, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Lim CC, Zuppinger C, Guo X, Kuster GM, Helmes M, Eppenberger HM, Suter TM, Liao R, Sawyer DB. Anthracyclines induce calpain-dependent titin proteolysis and necrosis in cardiomyocytes. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:8290-9. [PMID: 14676206 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308033200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Titin, the largest myofilament protein, serves as a template for sarcomere assembly and acts as a molecular spring to contribute to diastolic function. Titin is known to be extremely susceptible to calcium-dependent protease degradation in vitro. We hypothesized that titin degradation is an early event in doxorubicin-induced cardiac injury and that titin degradation occurs by activation of the calcium-dependent proteases, the calpains. Treatment of cultured adult rat cardiomyocytes with 1 or 3 micromol/liter doxorubicin for 24 h resulted in degradation of titin in myocyte lysates, which was confirmed by a reduction in immunostaining of an antibody to the spring-like (PEVK) domain of titin at the I-band of the sarcomere. The elastic domain of titin appears to be most susceptible to proteolysis because co-immunostaining with an antibody to titin at the M-line was preserved, suggesting targeted proteolysis of the spring-like domain of titin. Doxorubicin treatment for 1 h resulted in approximately 3-fold increase in calpain activity, which remained elevated at 48 h. Co-treatment with calpain inhibitors resulted in preservation of titin, reduction in myofibrillar disarray, and attenuation of cardiomyocyte necrosis but not apoptosis. Co-treatment with a caspase inhibitor did not prevent the degradation of titin, which precludes caspase-3 as an early mechanism of titin proteolysis. We conclude that calpain activation is an early event after doxorubicin treatment in cardiomyocytes and appears to target the degradation of titin. Proteolysis of the spring-like domain of titin may predispose cardiomyocytes to diastolic dysfunction, myofilament instability, and cell death by necrosis.
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- Chee Chew Lim
- Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Torrado M, López E, Centeno A, Medrano C, Castro-Beiras A, Mikhailov AT. Myocardin mRNA is augmented in the failing myocardium: expression profiling in the porcine model and human dilated cardiomyopathy. J Mol Med (Berl) 2003; 81:566-77. [PMID: 12920479 DOI: 10.1007/s00109-003-0470-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2003] [Accepted: 07/07/2003] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The implication of myocardin and homeodomain only protein (HOP) in combinatorial molecular pathways that guide heart development and cardio-specific gene expression has recently been reported. However, expression of these genes in the failing heart has not yet been investigated. This study was designed to elaborate a molecular profile of myocardin and HOP expression in the failing ventricular myocardium through the use of both explanted human heart samples and heart biopsies from neonatal piglets with doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy (Dox-CM). Myocardin and HOP mRNA levels were estimated by both northern blot hybridization and semiquantitative RT-PCR in human ventricular preparations in end-stage failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), as well as in nonfailing donor hearts. Similar experiments were performed with ventricular samples from normal and Dox-treated neonatal piglets. The gene expression of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) was used as a molecular marker of myocardial damage and failure. The study revealed the following novel findings: (1) myocardin transcripts are detected in neonatal human and pig hearts at lower levels than in mature cardiac tissues, (2) the myocardin transcript pool is significantly augmented in the failing human and porcine myocardium as compared to that in nonfailing heart samples, (3) in the failing human myocardium, increased levels of myocardin mRNA are associated with a diminished HOP transcript content, and (4) the inverse proportion in cardiac myocardin/HOP mRNA pools observed in explanted human hearts is also traceable in normal human heart and aorta. A possible dual consequence of increased myocardin and decreased HOP expression levels on serum response factor-dependent cardiac-specific expression in the normal heart and at heart failure is discussed. Therefore, increased abundance of the myocardin mRNA pool is judged to be a novel CM-related feature which, alone or in association with decreased HOP transcript levels, can be responsible for dysregulation of myocardin-mediated gene expression in failing myocardium.
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- Mario Torrado
- Developmental Biology Unit, Institute of Health Sciences, University of La Coruña, Campus de Oza, Bldg. El Fortín, As Xubias s/n, 15006, La Coruña, Spain
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Konorev EA, Zhang H, Joseph J, Kennedy MC, Kalyanaraman B. Bicarbonate exacerbates oxidative injury induced by antitumor antibiotic doxorubicin in cardiomyocytes. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2000; 279:H2424-30. [PMID: 11045980 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2000.279.5.h2424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Doxorubicin, a broad-spectrum antitumor antibiotic, causes dose-dependent cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Although the exact molecular mechanisms of cardiotoxicity are not well established, oxidative mechanisms involving doxorubicin-induced superoxide anion production have been proposed. In this study, we show that bicarbonate, a physiologically relevant tissue component, greatly amplified doxorubicin-induced cardiomyocyte injury. Bicarbonate also enhanced inactivation of aconitase, a crucial tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme, in cardiomyocytes exposed to doxorubicin. The cell-permeable superoxide dismutase mimetic, Mn(III)tetrakis (4-benzoic acid) porphyrin, reversed doxorubicin-induced cardiomyocyte injury. Bicarbonate enhanced the inactivation of purified mitochondrial aconitase in the xanthine/xanthine oxidase system, generating superoxide. The results suggest that bicarbonate amplifies the prooxidant effect of superoxide. Bicarbonate also caused an increased loading of cardiomyocytes with doxorubicin. We conclude that the bicarbonate-mediated increase in doxorubicin toxicity is due to increased intracellular loading of doxorubicin in cardiomyocytes and subsequent exacerbation of superoxide-mediated cardiomyocyte injury.
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- E A Konorev
- Biophysics Research Institute and Free Radical Reseach Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
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Kotamraju S, Konorev EA, Joseph J, Kalyanaraman B. Doxorubicin-induced apoptosis in endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes is ameliorated by nitrone spin traps and ebselen. Role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:33585-92. [PMID: 10899161 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003890200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 289] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Doxorubicin (DOX) is a broad spectrum anthracycline antibiotic used to treat a variety of cancers. Redox activation of DOX to form reactive oxygen species has been implicated in DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. In this work we investigated DOX-induced apoptosis in cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes isolated from adult rat heart. Exposure of bovine aortic endothelial cells or myocytes to submicromolar levels of DOX induced significant apoptosis as measured by DNA fragmentation and terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated nick-end labeling assays. Pretreatment of cells with 100 microm nitrone spin traps, N-tert-butyl-alpha-phenylnitrone (PBN) or alpha-(4-pyridyl-1-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone (POBN) dramatically inhibited DOX-induced apoptosis. Ebselen (20-50 microm), a glutathione peroxidase mimetic, also significantly inhibited apoptosis. DOX (0.5-1 microm) inactivated mitochondrial complex I by a superoxide-dependent mechanism. PBN (100 microm), POBN (100 microm), and ebselen (50 microm) restored complex I activity. These compounds also inhibited DOX-induced caspase-3 activation and cytochrome c release. PBN and ebselen also restored glutathione levels in DOX-treated cells. We conclude that nitrone spin traps and ebselen inhibit the DOX-induced apoptotic signaling mechanism and that this antiapoptotic mechanism may be linked in part to the inhibition in formation or scavenging of hydrogen peroxide. Therapeutic strategies to mitigate DOX cardiotoxicity should be reexamined in light of these emerging antiapoptotic mechanisms of antioxidants.
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- S Kotamraju
- Biophysics Research Institute and Free Radical Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
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Horenstein MS, Vander Heide RS, L'Ecuyer TJ. Molecular basis of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity and its prevention. Mol Genet Metab 2000; 71:436-44. [PMID: 11001837 DOI: 10.1006/mgme.2000.3043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Anthracyclines are a class of highly potent antitumor antibiotics utilized against hematologic and solid tumors in children and in adults. Their use has been limited primarily by their cardiotoxic side effects, which may lead to congestive heart failure. Although there is a linear relationship between the cumulative dose received and the incidence of cardiotoxicity, in some patients cardiotoxicity may develop at doses below the generally accepted threshold level. Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity is believed to be related to the generation of highly reactive oxygen species, which, by means of membrane lipid peroxidation, cause direct damage to cardiac myocyte membranes. Another important factor may be the relatively poor antioxidant defense system of the heart. In an attempt to circumvent these toxic effects, a wide variety of antioxidants have been used in cell culture, animal, and human studies without consistent beneficial effects. Moreover, none of the agents used to date are designed to act selectively upon the heart. If the cardiac complications resulting from anthracyclines could be reduced and/or prevented, higher doses could potentially be used, thereby increasing cancer cure rates. Furthermore, the incidence of cardiac toxicity resulting in congestive heart failure or even heart transplantation would be reduced, therefore increasing the quality and extent of life for cancer survivors. This article will review the basic science of free radical biology, the biology of oxygen-derived free radicals and antioxidant proteins, and explore some new and innovative approaches to limiting and/or preventing anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity.
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- M S Horenstein
- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
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Ojima K, Lin Z, Bang ML, Holtzer S, Matsuda R, Labeit S, Sweeney H, Holtzer H. Distinct families of Z-line targeting modules in the COOH-terminal region of nebulin. J Cell Biol 2000; 150:553-66. [PMID: 10931867 PMCID: PMC2175182 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.3.553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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To learn how nebulin functions in the assembly and maintenance of I-Z-I bands, MYC- and GFP- tagged nebulin fragments were expressed in primary cultured skeletal myotubes. Their sites of incorporation were visualized by double staining with anti-MYC, antibodies to myofibrillar proteins, and FITC- or rhodamine phalloidin. Contrary to expectations based on in vitro binding studies, none of the nebulin fragments expressed in maturing myotubes were incorporated selectively into I-band approximately 1.0-micrometer F-alpha-actin-containing thin filaments. Four of the MYC/COOH-terminal nebulin fragments were incorporated exclusively into periodic approximately 0.1-micrometer Z-bands. Whereas both anti-MYC and Rho-phalloidin stained intra-Z-band F-alpha-actin oligomers, only the latter stained the pointed ends of the polarized approximately 1.0-micrometer thin filaments. Z-band incorporation was independent of the nebulin COOH-terminal Ser or SH3 domains. In vitro cosedimentation studies also demonstrated that nebulin SH3 fragments did not bind to F-alpha-actin or alpha-actinin. The remaining six fragments were not incorporated into Z-bands, but were incorporated (a) diffusely throughout the sarcoplasm and into (b) fibrils/patches of varying lengths and widths nested among normal striated myofibrils. Over time, presumably in response to the mediation of muscle-specific homeostatic controls, many of the ectopic MYC-positive structures were resorbed. None of the tagged nebulin fragments behaved as dominant negatives; they neither blocked the assembly nor induced the disassembly of mature striated myofibrils. Moreover, they were not cytotoxic in myotubes, as they were in the fibroblasts and presumptive myoblasts in the same cultures.
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- K. Ojima
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Cell Biology, Beijing Institute for Cancer Research, Beijing Medical University, Beijing 100034, China
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Life Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 153-8092
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Operative Care, Klinikum, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, The School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Babu GJ, Lalli MJ, Sussman MA, Sadoshima J, Periasamy M. Phosphorylation of elk-1 by MEK/ERK pathway is necessary for c-fos gene activation during cardiac myocyte hypertrophy. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2000; 32:1447-57. [PMID: 10900171 DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2000.1185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cardiac hypertrophy is associated with specific alterations in myocardial gene expression; however, the exact mechanisms responsible for altered gene expression are poorly defined. The goal of this study was to investigate whether signaling kinases that are activated during cardiac hypertrophy directly modulate transcription factor activity and regulate gene expression. In an effort to understand this process, we focused our studies on the transcriptional activation of c-fos gene through the serum response element (SRE)/ternary complex factor (TCF) element, during phenylephrine-induced myocyte hypertrophy. In this study, we show that phosphorylated Elk-1, a TCF, binds to c-fos SRE and its binding to SRE is increased upon phenylephrine stimulation. Phenylephrine treatment activates phosphorylation of Elk-1 in the nucleus within five minutes and Elk-1-dependent transcriptional activation is abolished by inhibitors selective for MEK/ERK kinases. These studies implicate that phosphorylation of Elk-1 by ERK kinase pathway is important for early gene activation during phenylephrine-induced myocyte hypertrophy.
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- G J Babu
- Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Sakoda T, Kasahara N, Hamamori Y, Kedes L. A high-titer lentiviral production system mediates efficient transduction of differentiated cells including beating cardiac myocytes. J Mol Cell Cardiol 1999; 31:2037-47. [PMID: 10591030 DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.1999.1035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, lentivirus) type-1 based vectors have a number of attractive features for gene therapy, including the ability to transduce non-dividing cells and long term transgene expression. We used a three-plasmid expression system to generate pseudotyped lentivirus-based vectors by transient transfection of human embryonic kidney 293T cells in the presence of sodium butyrate, which is known to activate the long terminal repeat-directed expression of HIV. Using this system we successfully generated versatile high titer lentivirus at titers of up to 2 x 10(8) transducing units/ml (TU/ml), and improved transduction efficiency in various cell types from seven to over twenty fold. We demonstrate its applicability of these vectors for the efficient transduction of non-dividing cells, including post mitotic beating rat cardiac myocytes and well-differentiated rat L6 myofibers. While both lentivirus-based and murine retrovirus-based vectors effectively transduced dividing cardiac fibroblasts and L6 muscle myoblasts in culture, lentivirus-based vectors also efficiently transduced cardiac myocytes and yielded titers of (6.3 +/- 1.2) x 10(5) TU/ml; however murine retrovirus-based vectors showed low transduction efficiency with titers reaching only (8.9 +/- 2.1) x 10(2) TU/ml. Furthermore, even 12 days after induction of differentiation of L6 myofibers, lentivirus-mediated transduction of beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) at approximately 30-40% of the maximum expression levels achieved in replicating myoblasts. In contrast, the expression of beta-Gal following transduction of the myofibers by murine retrovirus-based vectors fell to less than 1% of an already reduced level of transduction in undifferentiated confluent myoblasts. These results demonstrate that lentivirus-based vectors can efficiently transduce both well-differentiated cardiac myocytes and differentiated myofibers. This appears to be an efficient method and provides a new tool for research and therapy for cardiovascular diseases.
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- T Sakoda
- Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033, USA
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Aihara Y, Kurabayashi M, Arai M, Kedes L, Nagai R. Molecular cloning of rabbit CARP cDNA and its regulated expression in adriamycin-cardiomyopathy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1447:318-24. [PMID: 10542334 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(99)00171-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A full-length rabbit cDNA of cardiac adriamycin responsive protein (CARP) has been cloned. It shows high levels of identity at the amino acid sequence level (>86%) with the rat, mouse and human homologues. CARP mRNA levels are highly regulated in adriamycin-cardiomyopathy in rabbits.
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- Y Aihara
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-15, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
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Konorev EA, Kennedy MC, Kalyanaraman B. Cell-permeable superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase mimetics afford superior protection against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity: the role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates. Arch Biochem Biophys 1999; 368:421-8. [PMID: 10441396 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The use of the potent antitumor antibiotic doxorubicin (DOX) is hampered because of its severe cardiac toxicity that leads to the development of cardiomyopathy and heart failure. In this study, we have developed a cell culture model for DOX-induced myocardial injury using primary adult rat cardiomyocytes that were cultured in serum-free medium and exposed to 1 to 40 microM DOX. DOX caused a dose-dependent release of sarcosolic enzyme lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from cultured myocytes. The release of LDH was prevented by the cell-permeable superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetic (MnTBAP), but was unaffected by either cell-impermeable SOD enzyme, or manganese (II) sulfate. Ebselen, a glutathione peroxidase (GPx) mimetic, enhanced the protection of cardiomyocytes afforded by MnTBAP. DOX caused the increased formation of oxidants in cardiomyocytes, and MnTBAP lowered the amount of intracellular oxidants induced by DOX. In addition, DOX selectively inactivated aconitase in cardiomyocytes, and MnTBAP partially reversed this inactivation. Ebselen further amplified the protective effect of MnTBAP on aconitase activity. These results suggest that the SOD mimetic MnTBAP prevents DOX-induced damage to cardiomyocytes and that the GPx mimetic ebselen synergistically enhanced the cardioprotection afforded by MnTBAP. Relevance of these findings to minimizing cardiotoxicity in cancer treatment is discussed.
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- E A Konorev
- Biophysics Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226, USA
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Jeyaseelan R, Poizat C, Wu HY, Kedes L. Molecular mechanisms of doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy. Selective suppression of Reiske iron-sulfur protein, ADP/ATP translocase, and phosphofructokinase genes is associated with ATP depletion in rat cardiomyocytes. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:5828-32. [PMID: 9038198 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.9.5828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Doxorubicin, a cardiotoxic antineoplastic, disrupts the cardiac-specific program of gene expression (Kurabayashi, M., Dutta, S., Jeyaseelan, R., and Kedes, L. (1995) Mol. Cell. Biol. 15, 6386-6397). We have now identified neonatal rat cardiomyocyte mRNAs rapidly sensitive to doxorubicin, or its congener daunomycin, including transcripts of nuclear genes encoding enzymes critical in production of energy in cardiomyocytes: ADP/ATP translocase, a heart- and muscle-specific isoform; Reiske iron-sulfur protein (RISP), a ubiquitously expressed electron transport chain component; and a muscle isozyme of phosphofructokinase. Loss of these mRNAs following doxorubicin or daunomycin is evident as early as 2 h and precedes significant reduction of intracellular ATP. ATP levels in control cardiomyocytes (17.9 +/- 2.9 nM/mg of protein) fall only after 14 h and reach residual levels of 10.4 +/- 0.9 nM (doxorubicin; p = <0.006) and 6.7 +/- 1.9 nM (daunomycin; p = <0. 001) by 24 h. Loss of mRNAs generating ATP was highly selective since mRNAs for other energy production enzymes, (cytochrome c, cytochrome b, and malate dehydrogenase), and genes important in glycolysis (pyruvate kinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase) were unaffected even at 24 and 48 h. The drugs had no effect on levels of ubiquitously expressed RISP mRNA in fibroblasts. These findings could link doxorubicin-induced damage to membranes and signaling pathways with 1) suppression of transcripts encoding myofibrillar proteins and proteins of energy production pathways and 2) depletion of intracellular ATP stores, myofibrillar degeneration, and related cardiotoxic effects.
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- R Jeyaseelan
- Institute for Genetic Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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