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Xiao F, Zhang X, Morton SU, Kim SW, Fan Y, Gorham JM, Zhang H, Berkson PJ, Mazumdar N, Cao Y, Chen J, Hagen J, Liu X, Zhou P, Richter F, Shen Y, Ward T, Gelb BD, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Pu WT. Functional dissection of human cardiac enhancers and noncoding de novo variants in congenital heart disease. Nat Genet 2024; 56:420-430. [PMID: 38378865 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01669-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
Abstract
Rare coding mutations cause ∼45% of congenital heart disease (CHD). Noncoding mutations that perturb cis-regulatory elements (CREs) likely contribute to the remaining cases, but their identification has been problematic. Using a lentiviral massively parallel reporter assay (lentiMPRA) in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs), we functionally evaluated 6,590 noncoding de novo variants (ncDNVs) prioritized from the whole-genome sequencing of 750 CHD trios. A total of 403 ncDNVs substantially affected cardiac CRE activity. A majority increased enhancer activity, often at regions with undetectable reference sequence activity. Of ten DNVs tested by introduction into their native genomic context, four altered the expression of neighboring genes and iPSC-CM transcriptional state. To prioritize future DNVs for functional testing, we used the MPRA data to develop a regression model, EpiCard. Analysis of an independent CHD cohort by EpiCard found enrichment of DNVs. Together, we developed a scalable system to measure the effect of ncDNVs on CRE activity and deployed it to systematically assess the contribution of ncDNVs to CHD.
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- Feng Xiao
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA
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- Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Atsuta Y, Lee C, Rodrigues AR, Colle C, Tomizawa RR, Lujan EG, Tschopp P, Galan L, Zhu M, Gorham JM, Vannier JP, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Ros MA, Pourquié O, Tabin CJ. Direct reprogramming of non-limb fibroblasts to cells with properties of limb progenitors. Dev Cell 2024; 59:415-430.e8. [PMID: 38320485 PMCID: PMC10932627 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
Abstract
The early limb bud consists of mesenchymal limb progenitors derived from the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM). The LPM also gives rise to the mesodermal components of the flank and neck. However, the cells at these other levels cannot produce the variety of cell types found in the limb. Taking advantage of a direct reprogramming approach, we find a set of factors (Prdm16, Zbtb16, and Lin28a) normally expressed in the early limb bud and capable of imparting limb progenitor-like properties to mouse non-limb fibroblasts. The reprogrammed cells show similar gene expression profiles and can differentiate into similar cell types as endogenous limb progenitors. The further addition of Lin41 potentiates the proliferation of the reprogrammed cells. These results suggest that these same four factors may play pivotal roles in the specification of endogenous limb progenitors.
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- Yuji Atsuta
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA; The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 60 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Zoological Institute, University of Basel, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria, CSIC, SODERCAN- Universidad de Cantabria, 39011 Santander, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria, CSIC, SODERCAN- Universidad de Cantabria, 39011 Santander, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 60 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Sweat ME, Cao Y, Zhang X, Burnicka-Turek O, Perez-Cervantes C, Arulsamy K, Lu F, Keating EM, Akerberg BN, Ma Q, Wakimoto H, Gorham JM, Hill LD, Kyoung Song M, Trembley MA, Wang P, Gianeselli M, Prondzynski M, Bortolin RH, Bezzerides VJ, Chen K, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Moskowitz IP, Pu WT. Tbx5 maintains atrial identity in post-natal cardiomyocytes by regulating an atrial-specific enhancer network. Nat Cardiovasc Res 2023; 2:881-898. [PMID: 38344303 PMCID: PMC10854392 DOI: 10.1038/s44161-023-00334-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
Abstract
Understanding how the atrial and ventricular heart chambers maintain distinct identities is a prerequisite for treating chamber-specific diseases. Here, we selectively knocked out (KO) the transcription factor Tbx5 in the atrial working myocardium to evaluate its requirement for atrial identity. Atrial Tbx5 inactivation downregulated atrial cardiomyocyte (aCM) selective gene expression. Using concurrent single nucleus transcriptome and open chromatin profiling, genomic accessibility differences were identified between control and Tbx5 KO aCMs, revealing that 69% of the control-enriched ATAC regions were bound by TBX5. Genes associated with these regions were downregulated in KO aCMs, suggesting they function as TBX5-dependent enhancers. Comparing enhancer chromatin looping using H3K27ac HiChIP identified 510 chromatin loops sensitive to TBX5 dosage, and 74.8% of control-enriched loops contained anchors in control-enriched ATAC regions. Together, these data demonstrate TBX5 maintains the atrial gene expression program by binding to and preserving the tissue-specific chromatin architecture of atrial enhancers.
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- Mason E. Sweat
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
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Jang MY, Patel PN, Pereira AC, Willcox JA, Haghighi A, Tai AC, Ito K, Morton SU, Gorham JM, McKean DM, DePalma SR, Bernstein D, Brueckner M, Chung WK, Giardini A, Goldmuntz E, Kaltman JR, Kim R, Newburger JW, Shen Y, Srivastava D, Tristani-Firouzi M, Gelb BD, Porter GA, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Contribution of Previously Unrecognized RNA Splice-Altering Variants to Congenital Heart Disease. Circ Genom Precis Med 2023; 16:224-231. [PMID: 37165897 PMCID: PMC10404383 DOI: 10.1161/circgen.122.003924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Known genetic causes of congenital heart disease (CHD) explain <40% of CHD cases, and interpreting the clinical significance of variants with uncertain functional impact remains challenging. We aim to improve diagnostic classification of variants in patients with CHD by assessing the impact of noncanonical splice region variants on RNA splicing. METHODS We tested de novo variants from trio studies of 2649 CHD probands and their parents, as well as rare (allele frequency, <2×10-6) variants from 4472 CHD probands in the Pediatric Cardiac Genetics Consortium through a combined computational and in vitro approach. RESULTS We identified 53 de novo and 74 rare variants in CHD cases that alter splicing and thus are loss of function. Of these, 77 variants are in known dominant, recessive, and candidate CHD genes, including KMT2D and RBFOX2. In 1 case, we confirmed the variant's predicted impact on RNA splicing in RNA transcripts from the proband's cardiac tissue. Two probands were found to have 2 loss-of-function variants for recessive CHD genes HECTD1 and DYNC2H1. In addition, SpliceAI-a predictive algorithm for altered RNA splicing-has a positive predictive value of ≈93% in our cohort. CONCLUSIONS Through assessment of RNA splicing, we identified a new loss-of-function variant within a CHD gene in 78 probands, of whom 69 (1.5%; n=4472) did not have a previously established genetic explanation for CHD. Identification of splice-altering variants improves diagnostic classification and genetic diagnoses for CHD. REGISTRATION URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT01196182.
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- Min Young Jang
- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine (M.Y.J., A.H.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (P.N.P.)
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine (M.Y.J., A.H.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Laboratory for Cardiovascular Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan (K.I.)
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Pediatrics (S.U.M.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Cardiology (S.R.D., C.E.S.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (D.B.)
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- Departments of Genetics (M.B.), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Pediatric Cardiology (M.B.), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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- Departments of Pediatrics (W.K.C.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
- Medicine (W.K.C.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Cardiorespiratory Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom (A.G.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (E.G.)
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- Heart Development and Structural Diseases Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (J.R.K.)
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (R.K.)
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- Department of Cardiology (J.W.N.), Boston Children’s Hospital, MA
- Department of Cardiology (J.W.N.), Boston Children’s Hospital, MA
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- Systems Biology (Y.S.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
- Biomedical Informatics (Y.S.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA (D.S.)
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- Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (M.T.-F.)
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- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute (B.D.G.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
- Department of Pediatrics (B.D.G.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
- Department of Genetics (B.D.G.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
- Department of Genomic Sciences (B.D. co-occurrence G.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY (G.A.P.)
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Cardiology (S.R.D., C.E.S.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD (C.E.S.)
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- Departments of Genetics (M.Y.J., P.N.P., A.C.P., J.A.L.W., A.H., A.C.T., S.U.M., J.M.G., D.M.M., S.R.D., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Sweat ME, Cao Y, Zhang X, Burnicka-Turek O, Perez-Cervantes C, Akerberg BN, Ma Q, Wakimoto H, Gorham JM, Song MK, Trembley MA, Wang P, Lu F, Gianeselli M, Prondzynski M, Bortolin RH, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Moskowitz IP, Pu WT. Tbx5 maintains atrial identity by regulating an atrial enhancer network. bioRxiv 2023:2023.04.21.537535. [PMID: 37131696 PMCID: PMC10153240 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.21.537535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
Understanding how the atrial and ventricular chambers of the heart maintain their distinct identity is a prerequisite for treating chamber-specific diseases. Here, we selectively inactivated the transcription factor Tbx5 in the atrial working myocardium of the neonatal mouse heart to show that it is required to maintain atrial identity. Atrial Tbx5 inactivation downregulated highly chamber specific genes such as Myl7 and Nppa , and conversely, increased the expression of ventricular identity genes including Myl2 . Using combined single nucleus transcriptome and open chromatin profiling, we assessed genomic accessibility changes underlying the altered atrial identity expression program, identifying 1846 genomic loci with greater accessibility in control atrial cardiomyocytes compared to KO aCMs. 69% of the control-enriched ATAC regions were bound by TBX5, demonstrating a role for TBX5 in maintaining atrial genomic accessibility. These regions were associated with genes that had higher expression in control aCMs compared to KO aCMs, suggesting they act as TBX5-dependent enhancers. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing enhancer chromatin looping using HiChIP and found 510 chromatin loops that were sensitive to TBX5 dosage. Of the loops enriched in control aCMs, 73.7% contained anchors in control-enriched ATAC regions. Together, these data demonstrate a genomic role for TBX5 in maintaining the atrial gene expression program by binding to atrial enhancers and preserving tissue-specific chromatin architecture of atrial enhancers.
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Venturini G, Alvim JM, Padilha K, Toepfer CN, Gorham JM, Wasson LK, Biagi D, Schenkman S, Carvalho VM, Salgueiro JS, Cardozo KHM, Krieger JE, Pereira AC, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Cardiomyocyte infection by Trypanosoma cruzi promotes innate immune response and glycolysis activation. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2023; 13:1098457. [PMID: 36814444 PMCID: PMC9940271 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1098457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Introduction Chagas cardiomyopathy, a disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) infection, is a major contributor to heart failure in Latin America. There are significant gaps in our understanding of the mechanism for infection of human cardiomyocytes, the pathways activated during the acute phase of the disease, and the molecular changes that lead to the progression of cardiomyopathy. Methods To investigate the effects of T. cruzi on human cardiomyocytes during infection, we infected induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CM) with the parasite and analyzed cellular, molecular, and metabolic responses at 3 hours, 24 hours, and 48 hours post infection (hpi) using transcriptomics (RNAseq), proteomics (LC-MS), and metabolomics (GC-MS and Seahorse) analyses. Results Analyses of multiomic data revealed that cardiomyocyte infection caused a rapid increase in genes and proteins related to activation innate and adaptive immune systems and pathways, including alpha and gamma interferons, HIF-1α signaling, and glycolysis. These responses resemble prototypic responses observed in pathogen-activated immune cells. Infection also caused an activation of glycolysis that was dependent on HIF-1α signaling. Using gene editing and pharmacological inhibitors, we found that T. cruzi uptake was mediated in part by the glucose-facilitated transporter GLUT4 and that the attenuation of glycolysis, HIF-1α activation, or GLUT4 expression decreased T. cruzi infection. In contrast, pre-activation of pro-inflammatory immune responses with LPS resulted in increased infection rates. Conclusion These findings suggest that T. cruzi exploits a HIF-1α-dependent, cardiomyocyte-intrinsic stress-response activation of glycolysis to promote intracellular infection and replication. These chronic immuno-metabolic responses by cardiomyocytes promote dysfunction, cell death, and the emergence of cardiomyopathy.
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- Gabriela Venturini
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States,Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States,Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom,Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States,Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States,Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, United States,*Correspondence: Christine E. Seidman,
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Reichart D, Newby GA, Wakimoto H, Lun M, Gorham JM, Curran JJ, Raguram A, DeLaughter DM, Conner DA, Marsiglia JDC, Kohli S, Chmatal L, Page DC, Zabaleta N, Vandenberghe L, Liu DR, Seidman JG, Seidman C. Efficient in vivo genome editing prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice. Nat Med 2023; 29:412-421. [PMID: 36797483 PMCID: PMC9941048 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02190-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
Abstract
Dominant missense pathogenic variants in cardiac myosin heavy chain cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a currently incurable disorder that increases risk for stroke, heart failure and sudden cardiac death. In this study, we assessed two different genetic therapies-an adenine base editor (ABE8e) and a potent Cas9 nuclease delivered by AAV9-to prevent disease in mice carrying the heterozygous HCM pathogenic variant myosin R403Q. One dose of dual-AAV9 vectors, each carrying one half of RNA-guided ABE8e, corrected the pathogenic variant in ≥70% of ventricular cardiomyocytes and maintained durable, normal cardiac structure and function. An additional dose provided more editing in the atria but also increased bystander editing. AAV9 delivery of RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease effectively inactivated the pathogenic allele, albeit with dose-dependent toxicities, necessitating a narrow therapeutic window to maintain health. These preclinical studies demonstrate considerable potential for single-dose genetic therapies to correct or silence pathogenic variants and prevent the development of HCM.
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- Daniel Reichart
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
- Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA
- Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA
- Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Quiat D, Timberlake AT, Curran JJ, Cunningham ML, McDonough B, Artunduaga MA, DePalma SR, Duenas-Roque MM, Gorham JM, Gustafson JA, Hamdan U, Hing AV, Hurtado-Villa P, Nicolau Y, Osorno G, Pachajoa H, Porras-Hurtado GL, Quintanilla-Dieck L, Serrano L, Tumblin M, Zarante I, Luquetti DV, Eavey RD, Heike CL, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Damaging variants in FOXI3 cause microtia and craniofacial microsomia. Genet Med 2023; 25:143-150. [PMID: 36260083 PMCID: PMC9885525 DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE Craniofacial microsomia (CFM) represents a spectrum of craniofacial malformations, ranging from isolated microtia with or without aural atresia to underdevelopment of the mandible, maxilla, orbit, facial soft tissue, and/or facial nerve. The genetic causes of CFM remain largely unknown. METHODS We performed genome sequencing and linkage analysis in patients and families with microtia and CFM of unknown genetic etiology. The functional consequences of damaging missense variants were evaluated through expression of wild-type and mutant proteins in vitro. RESULTS We studied a 5-generation kindred with microtia, identifying a missense variant in FOXI3 (p.Arg236Trp) as the cause of disease (logarithm of the odds = 3.33). We subsequently identified 6 individuals from 3 additional kindreds with microtia-CFM spectrum phenotypes harboring damaging variants in FOXI3, a regulator of ectodermal and neural crest development. Missense variants in the nuclear localization sequence were identified in cases with isolated microtia with aural atresia and found to affect subcellular localization of FOXI3. Loss of function variants were found in patients with microtia and mandibular hypoplasia (CFM), suggesting dosage sensitivity of FOXI3. CONCLUSION Damaging variants in FOXI3 are the second most frequent genetic cause of CFM, causing 1% of all cases, including 13% of familial cases in our cohort.
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- Daniel Quiat
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA,Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Servicio de Genética Médica, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia,Centro de Investigación en Anomalías Congénitas y Enfermedades Raras (CIACER), Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
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- Human Genomics Institute, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia,Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN,Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Roland D. Eavey, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN 37232. OR Carrie L. Heike, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Craniofacial Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105. OR Jonathan G. Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. OR Christine Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. c
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- Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA,Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Roland D. Eavey, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN 37232. OR Carrie L. Heike, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Craniofacial Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105. OR Jonathan G. Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. OR Christine Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. c
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Roland D. Eavey, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN 37232. OR Carrie L. Heike, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Craniofacial Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105. OR Jonathan G. Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. OR Christine Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. c
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD,Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Roland D. Eavey, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN 37232. OR Carrie L. Heike, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Craniofacial Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105. OR Jonathan G. Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. OR Christine Seidman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis, Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. c
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Zhang Q, Kim SW, Gorham JM, DeLaughter D, Ward T, Seidman C, Seidman J. Multiplexed Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing Using Lipid-Oligo Barcodes. Curr Protoc 2022; 2:e579. [PMID: 36286606 PMCID: PMC9614549 DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
This protocol describes a robust pipeline for simultaneously analyzing multiple samples by single-nucleus (sn)RNA-seq. cDNA obtained from each single sample are labeled with the same lipid-coupled oligonucleotide barcode (10X Genomics). Nuclei from as many as 12 individual samples can be pooled together and simultaneously processed for cDNA library construction and subsequent DNA sequencing. While previous protocols using lipid-coupled oligonucleotide barcodes were optimized for analysis of samples consisting of viable cells, this protocol is optimized for analyses of quick-frozen cell samples. The protocol ensures efficient recovery of nuclei both by incorporating high sucrose buffered solutions and by including a tracking dye (trypan blue) during nuclei isolation. The protocol also describes a procedure for removing single nuclei 'artifacts' by removing cell debris prior to single nuclear fractionation. This protocol informs the use of computational tools for filtering poorly labeled nuclei and assigning sample identity using barcode unique molecular identifier (UMI) read counts percentages. The computational pipeline is applicable to either cultured or primary, fresh or frozen cells, regardless of their cell types and species. Overall, this protocol reduces batch effects and experimental costs while enhancing sample comparison. © 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Labeling cells with lipid oligo barcodes and generating multiplexed single-nucleus RNA-seq libraries Basic Protocol 2: Bioinformatic deconvolution of the multiplexed snRNAseq libraries.
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- Qi Zhang
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Boston, MA USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Reichart D, Lindberg EL, Maatz H, Miranda AMA, Viveiros A, Shvetsov N, Gärtner A, Nadelmann ER, Lee M, Kanemaru K, Ruiz-Orera J, Strohmenger V, DeLaughter DM, Patone G, Zhang H, Woehler A, Lippert C, Kim Y, Adami E, Gorham JM, Barnett SN, Brown K, Buchan RJ, Chowdhury RA, Constantinou C, Cranley J, Felkin LE, Fox H, Ghauri A, Gummert J, Kanda M, Li R, Mach L, McDonough B, Samari S, Shahriaran F, Yapp C, Stanasiuk C, Theotokis PI, Theis FJ, van den Bogaerdt A, Wakimoto H, Ware JS, Worth CL, Barton PJR, Lee YA, Teichmann SA, Milting H, Noseda M, Oudit GY, Heinig M, Seidman JG, Hubner N, Seidman CE. Pathogenic variants damage cell composition and single cell transcription in cardiomyopathies. Science 2022; 377:eabo1984. [PMID: 35926050 PMCID: PMC9528698 DOI: 10.1126/science.abo1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Pathogenic variants in genes that cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) convey high risks for the development of heart failure through unknown mechanisms. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we characterized the transcriptome of 880,000 nuclei from 18 control and 61 failing, nonischemic human hearts with pathogenic variants in DCM and ACM genes or idiopathic disease. We performed genotype-stratified analyses of the ventricular cell lineages and transcriptional states. The resultant DCM and ACM ventricular cell atlas demonstrated distinct right and left ventricular responses, highlighting genotype-associated pathways, intercellular interactions, and differential gene expression at single-cell resolution. Together, these data illuminate both shared and distinct cellular and molecular architectures of human heart failure and suggest candidate therapeutic targets.
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- Daniel Reichart
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Medicine I, University Hospital, LMU Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, 10785 Berlin, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence and Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Imperial College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada.,Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Walter-Brendel-Centre of Experimental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, MD 20815, USA
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada.,Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Systems Biology Imaging Platform, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Digital Health-Machine Learning group, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam, 14482 Potsdam, Germany.,Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6NR, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6NR, UK
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- Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6NR, UK
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- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, MD 20815, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK
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- Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6NR, UK.,MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6NR, UK.,MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany.,Clinic for Pediatric Allergy, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.,Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
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- Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK.,British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence and Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Imperial College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada.,Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.,Department of Informatics, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), 85748 Munich, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Munich Heart Association, Partner Site Munich, 10785 Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), 13125 Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, 10785 Berlin, Germany.,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, MD 20815, USA
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Quiat D, Kim SW, Zhang Q, Morton SU, Pereira AC, DePalma SR, Willcox JAL, McDonough B, DeLaughter DM, Gorham JM, Curran JJ, Tumblin M, Nicolau Y, Artunduaga MA, Quintanilla-Dieck L, Osorno G, Serrano L, Hamdan U, Eavey RD, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. An ancient founder mutation located between ROBO1 and ROBO2 is responsible for increased microtia risk in Amerindigenous populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2203928119. [PMID: 35584116 PMCID: PMC9173816 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203928119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Microtia is a congenital malformation that encompasses mild hypoplasia to complete loss of the external ear, or pinna. Although the contribution of genetic variation and environmental factors to microtia remains elusive, Amerindigenous populations have the highest reported incidence. Here, using both transmission disequilibrium tests and association studies in microtia trios (parents and affected child) and microtia cohorts enrolled in Latin America, we map an ∼10-kb microtia locus (odds ratio = 4.7; P = 6.78e-18) to the intergenic region between Roundabout 1 (ROBO1) and Roundabout 2 (ROBO2) (chr3: 78546526 to 78555137). While alleles at the microtia locus significantly increase the risk of microtia, their penetrance is low (<1%). We demonstrate that the microtia locus contains a polymorphic complex repeat element that is expanded in affected individuals. The locus is located near a chromatin loop region that regulates ROBO1 and ROBO2 expression in induced pluripotent stem cell–derived neural crest cells. Furthermore, we use single nuclear RNA sequencing to demonstrate ROBO1 and ROBO2 expression in both fibroblasts and chondrocytes of the mature human pinna. Because the microtia allele is enriched in Amerindigenous populations and is shared by some East Asian subjects with craniofacial malformations, we propose that both populations share a mutation that arose in a common ancestor prior to the ancient migration of Eurasian populations into the Americas and that the high incidence of microtia among Amerindigenous populations reflects the population bottleneck that occurred during the migration out of Eurasia.
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Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Quiat
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute, Medical School of University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 05508-060, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239
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- Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 111321, Colombia
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
- HHMI, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Willcox JAL, Geiger JT, Morton SU, McKean D, Quiat D, Gorham JM, Tai AC, DePalma S, Bernstein D, Brueckner M, Chung WK, Giardini A, Goldmuntz E, Kaltman JR, Kim R, Newburger JW, Shen Y, Srivastava D, Tristani-Firouzi M, Gelb B, Porter GA, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Neither cardiac mitochondrial DNA variation nor copy number contribute to congenital heart disease risk. Am J Hum Genet 2022; 109:961-966. [PMID: 35397206 PMCID: PMC9118105 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
The well-established manifestation of mitochondrial mutations in functional cardiac disease (e.g., mitochondrial cardiomyopathy) prompted the hypothesis that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence and/or copy number (mtDNAcn) variation contribute to cardiac defects in congenital heart disease (CHD). MtDNAcns were calculated and rare, non-synonymous mtDNA mutations were identified in 1,837 CHD-affected proband-parent trios, 116 CHD-affected singletons, and 114 paired cardiovascular tissue/blood samples. The variant allele fraction (VAF) of heteroplasmic variants in mitochondrial RNA from 257 CHD cardiovascular tissue samples was also calculated. On average, mtDNA from blood had 0.14 rare variants and 52.9 mtDNA copies per nuclear genome per proband. No variation with parental age at proband birth or CHD-affected proband age was seen. mtDNAcns in valve/vessel tissue (320 ± 70) were lower than in atrial tissue (1,080 ± 320, p = 6.8E-21), which were lower than in ventricle tissue (1,340 ± 280, p = 1.4E-4). The frequency of rare variants in CHD-affected individual DNA was indistinguishable from the frequency in an unaffected cohort, and proband mtDNAcns did not vary from those of CHD cohort parents. In both the CHD and the comparison cohorts, mtDNAcns were significantly correlated between mother-child, father-child, and mother-father. mtDNAcns among people with European (mean = 52.0), African (53.0), and Asian haplogroups (53.5) were calculated and were significantly different for European and Asian haplogroups (p = 2.6E-3). Variant heteroplasmic fraction (HF) in blood correlated well with paired cardiovascular tissue HF (r = 0.975) and RNA VAF (r = 0.953), which suggests blood HF is a reasonable proxy for HF in heart tissue. We conclude that mtDNA mutations and mtDNAcns are unlikely to contribute significantly to CHD risk.
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- Jon A L Willcox
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
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- Departments of Genetics and Pediatric Cardiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10019, USA
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- Cardiorespiratory Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Heart Development and Structural Diseases Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10019, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and Departments of Pediatrics, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02138, USA
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Patel PN, Ito K, Willcox JAL, Haghighi A, Jang MY, Gorham JM, DePalma SR, Lam L, McDonough B, Johnson R, Lakdawala NK, Roberts A, Barton PJR, Cook SA, Fatkin D, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Contribution of Noncanonical Splice Variants to TTN Truncating Variant Cardiomyopathy. Circ Genom Precis Med 2021; 14:e003389. [PMID: 34461741 DOI: 10.1161/circgen.121.003389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Heterozygous TTN truncating variants cause 10% to 20% of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Although variants which disrupt canonical splice signals (ie, invariant dinucleotide of the splice donor site, invariant dinucleotide of the splice acceptor site) at exon-intron junctions are readily recognized as TTN truncating variants, the effects of other nearby sequence variations on splicing and their contribution to disease is uncertain. METHODS Rare variants of unknown significance located in the splice regions of highly expressed TTN exons from 203 DCM cases, 3329 normal subjects, and clinical variant databases were identified. The effects of these variants on splicing were assessed using an in vitro splice assay. RESULTS Splice-altering variants of unknown significance were enriched in DCM cases over controls and present in 2% of DCM patients (P=0.002). Application of this method to clinical variant databases demonstrated 20% of similar variants of unknown significance in TTN splice regions affect splicing. Noncanonical splice-altering variants were most frequently located at position +5 of the donor site (P=4.4×107) and position -3 of the acceptor site (P=0.002). SpliceAI, an emerging in silico prediction tool, had a high positive predictive value (86%-95%) but poor sensitivity (15%-50%) for the detection of splice-altering variants. Alternate exons spliced out of most TTN transcripts frequently lacked the consensus base at +5 donor and -3 acceptor positions. CONCLUSIONS Noncanonical splice-altering variants in TTN explain 1-2% of DCM and offer a 10-20% increase in the diagnostic power of TTN sequencing in this disease. These data suggest rules that may improve efforts to detect splice-altering variants in other genes and may explain the low percent splicing observed for many alternate TTN exons.
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- Parth N Patel
- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (P.N.P., A.H., M.Y.J.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Laboratory for Cardiovascular Genomics and Informatics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan (K.I.)
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (P.N.P., A.H., M.Y.J.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Partners Healthcare Personalized Medicine, Cambridge, MA (A.H.)
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (P.N.P., A.H., M.Y.J.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst (R.J., D.F.).,Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW, Australia (R.J., D.F.)
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (N.K.L., C.E.S.)
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (A.R.)
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- National Heart and Lung Institute (P.J.R.B., S.A.C.).,Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, United Kingdom (P.J.R.B.)
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- National Heart and Lung Institute (P.J.R.B., S.A.C.).,MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London (S.A.C.).,Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School (S.A.C.).,National Heart Research Institute Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore (S.A.C.)
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst (R.J., D.F.).,Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW, Australia (R.J., D.F.).,Cardiology Department, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia (D.F.)
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute (C.E.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (N.K.L., C.E.S.)
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- Department of Genetics (P.N.P., K.I., J.A.L.W., A.H., M.Y.J., J.M.G., S.R.D., L.L., B.M., C.E.S., J.G.S.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Nadelmann ER, Gorham JM, Reichart D, Delaughter DM, Wakimoto H, Lindberg EK, Litviňukova M, Maatz H, Curran JJ, Gutierrez DI, Hübner N, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Isolation of Nuclei from Mammalian Cells and Tissues for Single-Nucleus Molecular Profiling. Curr Protoc 2021; 1:e132. [PMID: 34043278 PMCID: PMC8191490 DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
Both single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNAseq) can be used to characterize the transcriptional profile of individual cells, and based on these transcriptional profiles, help define cell type distribution in mixed cell populations. However, scRNAseq analyses are confounded if some of the cells are large (>50 µm) or if some of cells adhere more tightly to some adjacent cells than to others. Further, single cell isolation for scRNAseq requires fresh tissue, which may not be available for human or animal model tissues. Additionally, the current enzymatic and mechanical methods for single-cell dissociation can lead to stress-induced transcriptional artifacts. Nuclei for snRNAseq, on the other hand, can be isolated from any cell, regardless of size, and from either fresh or frozen tissues, and compared to whole cells, they are more resistant to mechanical pressures and appear not to exhibit as many cell isolation-based transcriptional artifacts. Here, we describe a time- and cost-effective procedure to isolate nuclei from mammalian cells and tissues. The protocol incorporates steps to mechanically disrupt samples to release nuclei. Compared to conventional nuclei isolation protocols, the approach described here increases overall efficiency, eliminates risk of contaminant exposure, and reduces volumes of expensive reagents. A series of RNA quality control checks are also incorporated to ensure success and reduce costs of subsequent snRNAseq experiments. Nuclei isolated by this procedure can be separated on the 10× Genomics Chromium system for either snRNAseq and/or Single-Nucleus ATAC-Seq (snATAC-Seq), and is also compatible with other single cell platforms. © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Sample preparation and quality control check via RNA Isolation and Analysis Basic Protocol 2: Nuclei Isolation.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Sharma A, Wasson LK, Willcox JA, Morton SU, Gorham JM, DeLaughter DM, Neyazi M, Schmid M, Agarwal R, Jang MY, Toepfer CN, Ward T, Kim Y, Pereira AC, DePalma SR, Tai A, Kim S, Conner D, Bernstein D, Gelb BD, Chung WK, Goldmuntz E, Porter G, Tristani-Firouzi M, Srivastava D, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. GATA6 mutations in hiPSCs inform mechanisms for maldevelopment of the heart, pancreas, and diaphragm. eLife 2020; 9:53278. [PMID: 33054971 PMCID: PMC7593088 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Damaging GATA6 variants cause cardiac outflow tract defects, sometimes with pancreatic and diaphragmic malformations. To define molecular mechanisms for these diverse developmental defects, we studied transcriptional and epigenetic responses to GATA6 loss of function (LoF) and missense variants during cardiomyocyte differentiation of isogenic human induced pluripotent stem cells. We show that GATA6 is a pioneer factor in cardiac development, regulating SMYD1 that activates HAND2, and KDR that with HAND2 orchestrates outflow tract formation. LoF variants perturbed cardiac genes and also endoderm lineage genes that direct PDX1 expression and pancreatic development. Remarkably, an exon 4 GATA6 missense variant, highly associated with extra-cardiac malformations, caused ectopic pioneer activities, profoundly diminishing GATA4, FOXA1/2, and PDX1 expression and increasing normal retinoic acid signaling that promotes diaphragm development. These aberrant epigenetic and transcriptional signatures illuminate the molecular mechanisms for cardiovascular malformations, pancreas and diaphragm dysgenesis that arise in patients with distinct GATA6 variants.
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- Arun Sharma
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, United States.,Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute, Medical School of University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States
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Litviňuková M, Talavera-López C, Maatz H, Reichart D, Worth CL, Lindberg EL, Kanda M, Polanski K, Heinig M, Lee M, Nadelmann ER, Roberts K, Tuck L, Fasouli ES, DeLaughter DM, McDonough B, Wakimoto H, Gorham JM, Samari S, Mahbubani KT, Saeb-Parsy K, Patone G, Boyle JJ, Zhang H, Zhang H, Viveiros A, Oudit GY, Bayraktar OA, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Noseda M, Hubner N, Teichmann SA. Cells of the adult human heart. Nature 2020; 588:466-472. [PMID: 32971526 PMCID: PMC7681775 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2797-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 670] [Impact Index Per Article: 167.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Advanced insights into disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies require a deeper understanding of the molecular processes involved in the healthy heart. Knowledge of the full repertoire of cardiac cells and their gene expression profiles is a fundamental first step in this endeavour. Here, using state-of-the-art analyses of large-scale single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomes, we characterize six anatomical adult heart regions. Our results highlight the cellular heterogeneity of cardiomyocytes, pericytes and fibroblasts, and reveal distinct atrial and ventricular subsets of cells with diverse developmental origins and specialized properties. We define the complexity of the cardiac vasculature and its changes along the arterio-venous axis. In the immune compartment, we identify cardiac-resident macrophages with inflammatory and protective transcriptional signatures. Furthermore, analyses of cell-to-cell interactions highlight different networks of macrophages, fibroblasts and cardiomyocytes between atria and ventricles that are distinct from those of skeletal muscle. Our human cardiac cell atlas improves our understanding of the human heart and provides a valuable reference for future studies.
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- Monika Litviňuková
- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,EMBL - EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Cardiology, University Heart & Vascular Center, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany.,Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Institute of Computational Biology (ICB), HMGU, Neuherberg, Germany.,Department of Informatics, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Munich, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biorepository for Translational Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biorepository for Translational Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,Department of Histology and Embryology of Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. .,Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK. .,British Heart Foundation Centre of Regenerative Medicine, British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany. .,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. .,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.
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- Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. .,Deptartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Antolic A, Wakimoto H, Jiao Z, Gorham JM, DePalma SR, Lemieux ME, Conner DA, Lee DY, Qi J, Seidman JG, Bradner JE, Brown JD, Haldar SM, Seidman CE, Burke MA. BET bromodomain proteins regulate transcriptional reprogramming in genetic dilated cardiomyopathy. JCI Insight 2020; 5:138687. [PMID: 32603312 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.138687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
The bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) family comprises epigenetic reader proteins that are important regulators of inflammatory and hypertrophic gene expression in the heart. We previously identified the activation of proinflammatory gene networks as a key early driver of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in transgenic mice expressing a mutant form of phospholamban (PLNR9C) - a genetic cause of DCM in humans. We hypothesized that BETs coactivate this inflammatory process, representing a critical node in the progression of DCM. To test this hypothesis, we treated PLNR9C or age-matched WT mice longitudinally with the small molecule BET bromodomain inhibitor JQ1 or vehicle. BET inhibition abrogated adverse cardiac remodeling, reduced cardiac fibrosis, and prolonged survival in PLNR9C mice by inhibiting expression of proinflammatory gene networks at all stages of disease. Specifically, JQ1 had profound effects on proinflammatory gene network expression in cardiac fibroblasts, while having little effect on gene expression in cardiomyocytes. Cardiac fibroblast proliferation was also substantially reduced by JQ1. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that BRD4 serves as a direct and essential regulator of NF-κB-mediated proinflammatory gene expression in cardiac fibroblasts. Suppressing proinflammatory gene expression via BET bromodomain inhibition could be a novel therapeutic strategy for chronic DCM in humans.
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- Andrew Antolic
- Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Bioinfo, Plantagenet, Ontario, Canada
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, USA.,Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.,Amgen Research, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Richter F, Morton SU, Kim SW, Kitaygorodsky A, Wasson LK, Chen KM, Zhou J, Qi H, Patel N, DePalma SR, Parfenov M, Homsy J, Gorham JM, Manheimer KB, Velinder M, Farrell A, Marth G, Schadt EE, Kaltman JR, Newburger JW, Giardini A, Goldmuntz E, Brueckner M, Kim R, Porter GA, Bernstein D, Chung WK, Srivastava D, Tristani-Firouzi M, Troyanskaya OG, Dickel DE, Shen Y, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Gelb BD. Genomic analyses implicate noncoding de novo variants in congenital heart disease. Nat Genet 2020; 52:769-777. [PMID: 32601476 PMCID: PMC7415662 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0652-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
A genetic etiology is identified for one-third of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), with 8% of cases attributable to coding de novo variants (DNVs). To assess the contribution of noncoding DNVs to CHD, we compared genome sequences from 749 CHD probands and their parents with those from 1,611 unaffected trios. Neural network prediction of noncoding DNV transcriptional impact identified a burden of DNVs in individuals with CHD (n = 2,238 DNVs) compared to controls (n = 4,177; P = 8.7 × 10-4). Independent analyses of enhancers showed an excess of DNVs in associated genes (27 genes versus 3.7 expected, P = 1 × 10-5). We observed significant overlap between these transcription-based approaches (odds ratio (OR) = 2.5, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1-5.0, P = 5.4 × 10-3). CHD DNVs altered transcription levels in 5 of 31 enhancers assayed. Finally, we observed a DNV burden in RNA-binding-protein regulatory sites (OR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.1-1.2, P = 8.8 × 10-5). Our findings demonstrate an enrichment of potentially disruptive regulatory noncoding DNVs in a fraction of CHD at least as high as that observed for damaging coding DNVs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Felix Richter
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, NY, USA
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for External Innovation, Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Sema4, Stamford, CT, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Sema4, Stamford, CT, USA
- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Heart Development and Structural Diseases Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, NY, USA
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
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Hsieh A, Morton SU, Willcox JAL, Gorham JM, Tai AC, Qi H, DePalma S, McKean D, Griffin E, Manheimer KB, Bernstein D, Kim RW, Newburger JW, Porter GA, Srivastava D, Tristani-Firouzi M, Brueckner M, Lifton RP, Goldmuntz E, Gelb BD, Chung WK, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Shen Y. EM-mosaic detects mosaic point mutations that contribute to congenital heart disease. Genome Med 2020; 12:42. [PMID: 32349777 PMCID: PMC7189690 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-020-00738-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The contribution of somatic mosaicism, or genetic mutations arising after oocyte fertilization, to congenital heart disease (CHD) is not well understood. Further, the relationship between mosaicism in blood and cardiovascular tissue has not been determined. METHODS We developed a new computational method, EM-mosaic (Expectation-Maximization-based detection of mosaicism), to analyze mosaicism in exome sequences derived primarily from blood DNA of 2530 CHD proband-parent trios. To optimize this method, we measured mosaic detection power as a function of sequencing depth. In parallel, we analyzed our cohort using MosaicHunter, a Bayesian genotyping algorithm-based mosaic detection tool, and compared the two methods. The accuracy of these mosaic variant detection algorithms was assessed using an independent resequencing method. We then applied both methods to detect mosaicism in cardiac tissue-derived exome sequences of 66 participants for which matched blood and heart tissue was available. RESULTS EM-mosaic detected 326 mosaic mutations in blood and/or cardiac tissue DNA. Of the 309 detected in blood DNA, 85/97 (88%) tested were independently confirmed, while 7/17 (41%) candidates of 17 detected in cardiac tissue were confirmed. MosaicHunter detected an additional 64 mosaics, of which 23/46 (50%) among 58 candidates from blood and 4/6 (67%) of 6 candidates from cardiac tissue confirmed. Twenty-five mosaic variants altered CHD-risk genes, affecting 1% of our cohort. Of these 25, 22/22 candidates tested were confirmed. Variants predicted as damaging had higher variant allele fraction than benign variants, suggesting a role in CHD. The estimated true frequency of mosaic variants above 10% mosaicism was 0.14/person in blood and 0.21/person in cardiac tissue. Analysis of 66 individuals with matched cardiac tissue available revealed both tissue-specific and shared mosaicism, with shared mosaics generally having higher allele fraction. CONCLUSIONS We estimate that ~ 1% of CHD probands have a mosaic variant detectable in blood that could contribute to cardiac malformations, particularly those damaging variants with relatively higher allele fraction. Although blood is a readily available DNA source, cardiac tissues analyzed contributed ~ 5% of somatic mosaic variants identified, indicating the value of tissue mosaicism analyses.
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- Alexander Hsieh
- Columbia University Medical Center, 1130 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, 1130 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, 1130 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institutes and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, 1130 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, 1130 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
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Sharma A, Wasson L, Willcox J, Morton SU, Gorham JM, DeLaughter DM, Neyazi M, Schmid M, Agarwal R, Jang M, Toepfer CN, Ward T, Kim Y, Pereira AC, DePalma SR, Tai A, Kim S, Conner D, Bruneau B, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Abstract 785: Modeling Congenital Heart Disease-Associated Variants in
GATA6
Using CRISPR/Cas9 and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Circ Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1161/res.125.suppl_1.785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
The discovery of damaging gene mutations in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients enables identification of regulators of cardiac development. Exome sequencing identified
de novo
heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) and missense variants in
GATA6
among CHD probands, most with outflow tract malformations. Other subjects with
GATA6
LoF mutations developed pancreatic agenesis. To elucidate the molecular basis for the predominance of this heart defect, we modeled
GATA6
mutations in cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC-CMs).
GATA6
variants were introduced into isogenic hiPSCs using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Genome-wide molecular profiles including chromatin accessibility (ATAC-Seq) and gene expression (single cell and bulk RNA-Seq) were evaluated during hiPSC-CM differentiation. Analyses of
GATA6
mutant hiPSC-CMs showed deficits in hiPSC-CM differentiation, chromatin accessibility and transcriptional profiles. Heterozygous
GATA6
LoF hiPSCs made hiPSC-CMs but exhibited reduced expression of second heart field genes. Homozygous
GATA6
LoF hiPSCs failed to differentiate and adopted fibroblast expression profiles. hiPSCs carrying a homozygous
GATA6
missense variant, R456G, which altered a DNA-binding domain residue, showed enhanced capacity to differentiate into neuroepithelial-like cells. Chromatin-accessibility studies confirmed that GATA6 normally binds to genes in the promoter region and other genes at distal enhancers. Human
GATA6
haploinsufficiency disrupts developmental transcriptional responses driving cardiac morphogenesis. The
HAND2
-dependent genetic program, operant during outflow tract development, is particularly sensitive to
GATA6
dosage. The mixed differentiation patterns observed in mutation-carrying hiPSCs likely contributes to vascular phenotypes observed in CHD patients.
GATA6
haploinsufficiency preferentially alters binding of distal enhancers to promoters in genes where GATA6 normally binds the enhancer rather than the promoter. We speculate that pathogenicity of GATA6 haploinsufficiency is mediated by weaker binding of GATA6 to distal enhancers than to promoter elements, altering expression of these genes in GATA6 haploinsufficient patients.
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Neyazi M, Schmid M, Sharma A, Toepfer CN, Kim Y, Wasson LK, Kim SW, DeLaughter DM, Willcox JA, Agarwal R, Tai A, Gorham JM, DePalma S, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Abstract 104: Identification and Characterization of a
Titin
Enhancer using CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing and hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes. Circ Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1161/res.125.suppl_1.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a leading cause for heart failure and is associated with a rate of mortality of 20% within 5 years of diagnosis. The most common genetic causes for DCM are mutations of the sarcomere protein titin (encoded by
TTN
), which occurs in 10-20% of DCM cases. Dominant DCM mutations truncate titin (TTNtv) and result in haploinsufficiency. Thus, strategies to increase the expression of the wild type
TTN
allele could attenuate damaging effects of TTNtv. Utilizing bioinformatic tools, we identified a putative enhancer for
TTN
in its intron 1. We deleted a 658 bp region from intron 1 which encompasses the region of interest in human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to validate its function. Utilizing RNA sequencing and qPCR of RNA harvested from hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs), we demonstrated that a homozygous deletion in this region leads to a drop in
TTN
expression compared to the wild type (WT) control (0.344-fold change, p < 0.001). To further characterize this region, we subdivided it into three parts which we called E1 (296 bp), E2 (206 bp), and E3 (139 bp). E1 includes a highly conserved region and a region of open chromatin as identified by the Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin Sequencing (ATAC-Seq) performed on hiPSC-CMs. A homozygous E1 deletion resulted in a decreased
TTN
expression of 0.63-fold compared to the WT control (p < 0.001) when performing RNA sequencing on hiPSC-CMs. Both homozygous E2 and E3 deletions resulted in an increased
TTN
expression (1.56-fold change, p < 0.001; 1.19 fold change, p < 0.001). Utilizing a published sarcomere tracking platform, SarcTrack, to investigate hiPSC-CM physiology, we saw a decreased contractility of 6.6% in hiPSC-CMs carrying a homozygous E1 deletion compared to 10.1% in the WT control (p < 0.001). Cells carrying homozygous E2 or E3 deletions were hypercontractile (13.8%, p < 0.001; 13.7%, p < 0.001). Given our results, we hypothesize that
TTN
expression depends on the E1 region. If confirmed, we expect that increasing the activity of this enhancer using small molecules may provide a novel therapeutic target for DCM caused by TTNtv.
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Gonzalez Herrera KN, Zaganjor E, Ishikawa Y, Spinelli JB, Yoon H, Lin JR, Satterstrom FK, Ringel A, Mulei S, Souza A, Gorham JM, Benson CC, Seidman JG, Sorger PK, Clish CB, Haigis MC. Small-Molecule Screen Identifies De Novo Nucleotide Synthesis as a Vulnerability of Cells Lacking SIRT3. Cell Rep 2019; 22:1945-1955. [PMID: 29466723 PMCID: PMC5902027 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 12/20/2017] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) is a NAD+-dependent deacetylase downregulated in aging and age-associated diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration and in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced metabolic disorders. Here, we performed a small-molecule screen and identified an unexpected metabolic vulnerability associated with SIRT3 loss. Azaserine, a glutamine analog, was the top compound that inhibited growth and proliferation of cells lacking SIRT3. Using stable isotope tracing of glutamine, we observed its increased incorporation into de novo nucleotide synthesis in SIRT3 knockout (KO) cells. Furthermore, we found that SIRT3 KO cells upregulated the diversion of glutamine into de novo nucleotide synthesis through hyperactive mTORC1 signaling. Overexpression of SIRT3 suppressed mTORC1 and growth in vivo in a xenograft tumor model of breast cancer. Thus, we have uncovered a metabolic vulnerability of cells with SIRT3 loss by using an unbiased small-molecule screen.
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- Karina N Gonzalez Herrera
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ludwig Center for Cancer Research at Harvard, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Toepfer CN, Wakimoto H, Garfinkel AC, McDonough B, Liao D, Jiang J, Tai AC, Gorham JM, Lunde IG, Lun M, Lynch TL, McNamara JW, Sadayappan S, Redwood CS, Watkins HC, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations in MYBPC3 dysregulate myosin. Sci Transl Med 2019; 11:eaat1199. [PMID: 30674652 PMCID: PMC7184965 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aat1199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Revised: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The mechanisms by which truncating mutations in MYBPC3 (encoding cardiac myosin-binding protein C; cMyBPC) or myosin missense mutations cause hypercontractility and poor relaxation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are incompletely understood. Using genetic and biochemical approaches, we explored how depletion of cMyBPC altered sarcomere function. We demonstrated that stepwise loss of cMyBPC resulted in reciprocal augmentation of myosin contractility. Direct attenuation of myosin function, via a damaging missense variant (F764L) that causes dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), normalized the increased contractility from cMyBPC depletion. Depletion of cMyBPC also altered dynamic myosin conformations during relaxation, enhancing the myosin state that enables ATP hydrolysis and thin filament interactions while reducing the super relaxed conformation associated with energy conservation. MYK-461, a pharmacologic inhibitor of myosin ATPase, rescued relaxation deficits and restored normal contractility in mouse and human cardiomyocytes with MYBPC3 mutations. These data define dosage-dependent effects of cMyBPC on myosin that occur across the cardiac cycle as the pathophysiologic mechanisms by which MYBPC3 truncations cause HCM. Therapeutic strategies to attenuate cMyBPC activity may rescue depressed cardiac contractility in patients with DCM, whereas inhibiting myosin by MYK-461 should benefit the substantial proportion of patients with HCM with MYBPC3 mutations.
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- Christopher N Toepfer
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, 0318 Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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- Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Anderson RL, Trivedi DV, Sarkar SS, Henze M, Ma W, Gong H, Rogers CS, Gorham JM, Wong FL, Morck MM, Seidman JG, Ruppel KM, Irving TC, Cooke R, Green EM, Spudich JA. Deciphering the super relaxed state of human β-cardiac myosin and the mode of action of mavacamten from myosin molecules to muscle fibers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E8143-E8152. [PMID: 30104387 PMCID: PMC6126717 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1809540115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Mutations in β-cardiac myosin, the predominant motor protein for human heart contraction, can alter power output and cause cardiomyopathy. However, measurements of the intrinsic force, velocity, and ATPase activity of myosin have not provided a consistent mechanism to link mutations to muscle pathology. An alternative model posits that mutations in myosin affect the stability of a sequestered, super relaxed state (SRX) of the protein with very slow ATP hydrolysis and thereby change the number of myosin heads accessible to actin. Here we show that purified human β-cardiac myosin exists partly in an SRX and may in part correspond to a folded-back conformation of myosin heads observed in muscle fibers around the thick filament backbone. Mutations that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy destabilize this state, while the small molecule mavacamten promotes it. These findings provide a biochemical and structural link between the genetics and physiology of cardiomyopathy with implications for therapeutic strategies.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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- BioCAT, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
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- BioCAT, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
- Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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- BioCAT, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305;
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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Neyazi M, Schmid M, Sharma A, Wasson LK, Gorham JM, DePalma S, Kim SW, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Abstract 231: Identification of a
Titin
Enhancer using hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes and CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing. Circ Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1161/res.123.suppl_1.231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a disorder that occurs in 1:250 individuals, is associated with rates of mortality of 20% within 5 years of diagnosis and is a leading cause for heart failure and cardiac transplantation. Mutations in the massive sarcomere protein titin (encoded by
TTN
) are the most common genetic cause of DCM, occurring in 10-20% of cases. As dominant DCM mutations truncate titin (TTNtv) and result in haploinsufficiency, we predict that strategies to increase the expression of the wild type (WT)
TTN
allele might attenuate the damaging effects of TTNtv. We used bioinformatic analyses to identify a putative
TTN
enhancer within intron 1. To confirm its function, we deleted 658 bp from intron 1 that encompasses the putative
TTN
enhancer in human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. We used qPCR and RNA sequencing of RNA harvested from hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) and demonstrated that a homozygous deletion in this region leads to decreased
TTN
gene expression compared to the WT control (0.344 fold change, p < 0.001), and also to decreased expression of other sarcomeric genes such as
TNNT2
(0.074 fold change, p < 0.001),
MYH6
(0.18 fold change, p < 0.001),
MYH7
(0.008 fold change, p < 0.001), and
ACTN2
(0.118 fold change, p < 0.001). The expression of transcription factors (TF) that have binding sites in this region is also affected, such as
MEIS2
(0.4 fold change, p < 0.001) and
KLF6
(0.33 fold change, p < 0.001), both of which are known to be involved in cardiogenesis. These TF may act as a link between the deletion in
TTN
Intron 1 and a decreased transcription of other cardiac-relevant genes. We also utilized Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin Sequencing (ATAC-Seq) on WT hiPSC-CMs to identify open regions of chromatin that are accessible for TF binding. This provided additional evidence that this 658 bp region in
TTN
intron 1 has enhancer activity. Ongoing studies are aiming to refine the
TTN
Intron 1 enhancer by further studies using CRISPR/Cas9, CRISPR droplet sequencing (CROP-Seq), and luciferase-based enhancer activity assays. If confirmed, we expect that increasing the activity of this 658 bp region with small molecules may provide a novel therapeutic target for DCM caused by TTNtv.
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- Dept of Genetics, Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA
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Burke MA, Wakimoto H, Jiao Z, Gorham JM, DePalma SR, Conner DA, Qi J, Seidman JG, Bradner JE, Brown JD, Haldar SM, Seidman CE. Epigenomic Control of Cardiac Fibrosis by Bet Bromodomain Proteins in Dilated Cardiomyopathy. J Card Fail 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2018.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Gottlieb Sen D, Halu A, Razzaque A, Gorham JM, Hartnett J, Seidman JG, Aikawa E, Seidman CE. The Transcriptional Signature of Growth in Human Fetal Aortic Valve Development. Ann Thorac Surg 2018; 106:1834-1840. [PMID: 30071238 DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.06.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND In the second trimester of human fetal development, a tenfold increase in fetal size occurs while cardiac valves grow and retain their function. Patterns of transcription in normally growing human aortic valves are unknown. METHODS Discarded human aortic valve samples were collected from the second trimester, 6 from early (14, 15, 17 weeks) and 6 from late (20, 21, 22 weeks) gestation. Network analysis of RNA sequencing data identified subnetworks of significantly increasing and decreasing transcripts. Subsequent cluster analysis identified patterns of transcription through the time course. Pathway enrichment analysis determined the predominant biological processes at each interval. RESULTS We observed phasic transcription over the time course, including an early decrease in cell proliferation and developmental genes (14 to 15 weeks). Pattern specification, shear stress, and adaptive immune genes were induced early. Cell adhesion genes were increased from 14 to 20 weeks. A phase involving cell differentiation and apoptosis (17 to 20 weeks) was followed by downregulation of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transformation genes and then by increased extracellular matrix organization and stabilization (20 to 22 weeks). CONCLUSIONS We present a unique data set, comprehensively characterizing human valve development after valve primordia are formed, focusing on key processes displayed by normal aortic valves undergoing significant growth. We build a time course of genes and processes in second trimester fetal valve growth and observe the sequential regulation of gene clusters over time. Critical valve growth genes are potential targets for therapeutic intervention in congenital heart disease and have implications for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
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- Danielle Gottlieb Sen
- Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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Tai AC, Parfenov M, Gorham JM. Droplet Digital PCR with EvaGreen Assay: Confirmational Analysis of Structural Variants. Curr Protoc Hum Genet 2018; 97:e58. [PMID: 30040209 PMCID: PMC7001142 DOI: 10.1002/cphg.58] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
DNA structural variants can be analyzed by droplet digital PCR (ddPCR), a water-oil microfluidics and fluorescence technology to quantify target nucleic acids with extreme precision and sensitivity. Traditional ddPCR uses expensive fluorescent oligonucleotide probes that require extensive optimization. Here we describe a variation of ddPCR using a DNA-binding dye (EvaGreen), whose properties allow target products to be effectively quantified at a significantly lower cost. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Affiliation(s)
- Angela C. Tai
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,Corresponding author:
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Patel PN, Gorham JM, Ito K, Seidman CE. In vivo and In vitro methods to identify DNA sequence variants that alter RNA Splicing. Curr Protoc Hum Genet 2018; 97:e60. [PMID: 30038698 PMCID: PMC6054316 DOI: 10.1002/cphg.60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Identification of sequence variants that create or eliminate splice sites has proven to be a significant challenge and represents one of many roadblocks in the clinical interpretation of rare genetic variation. Current methods of identifying splice altering sequence variants exist, however, these are limited by an imperfect understanding of splice signals and cumbersome functional assays. We have recently developed a computational tool that prioritizes putative splice-altering sequence variants, and a moderate-throughput minigene assay that confirms the variants which alter splicing. This bioinformatic strategy represents a substantial increase in accuracy and efficiency of historical in vitro splicing assays. In this unit we give detailed instructions on how to organize, run, and interpret various features of this protocol. We expect that splice-altering variants revealed through this protocol can be reliably carried forward for further clinical and biological analyses.
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- Parth N Patel
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115,Corresponding author
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115
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- Laboratory for Cardiovascular Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA 02115
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DeLaughter DM, Bick AG, Wakimoto H, McKean D, Gorham JM, Kathiriya IS, Hinson JT, Homsy J, Gray J, Pu W, Bruneau BG, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Single-Cell Resolution of Temporal Gene Expression during Heart Development. Dev Cell 2016; 39:480-490. [PMID: 27840107 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2015] [Revised: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
Activation of complex molecular programs in specific cell lineages governs mammalian heart development, from a primordial linear tube to a four-chamber organ. To characterize lineage-specific, spatiotemporal developmental programs, we performed single-cell RNA sequencing of >1,200 murine cells isolated at seven time points spanning embryonic day 9.5 (primordial heart tube) to postnatal day 21 (mature heart). Using unbiased transcriptional data, we classified cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and fibroblast-enriched cells, thus identifying markers for temporal and chamber-specific developmental programs. By harnessing these datasets, we defined developmental ages of human and mouse pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes and characterized lineage-specific maturation defects in hearts of mice with heterozygous mutations in Nkx2.5 that cause human heart malformations. This spatiotemporal transcriptome analysis of heart development reveals lineage-specific gene programs underlying normal cardiac development and congenital heart disease.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 92868, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Cardiovascular Division, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Burke MA, Wakimoto H, Gorham JM, Conner DA, Seidman JG, Bradner JE, Haldar SM, Brown JD, Seidman CE. Abstract 417: BET Bromodomain Inhibition Blunts Heart Failure Progression and Fibrosis in Genetic Cardiomyopathy. Circ Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1161/res.119.suppl_1.417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Pathologic gene network activation is a hallmark of DCM and HF. We have used a chemical genetic strategy to study the role of the bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) family of epigenetic reader proteins in the regulation of gene expression in DCM. Transgenic mice carrying a human DCM mutation in phospholamban (PLN
R9C
) develop profound fibrosis and DCM that progresses to symptomatic HF and early death. Temporal RNA-seq and pathway analysis identified pro-fibrotic gene expression as a key early driver of DCM progression. PLN
R9C
and age-matched wild type (WT) mice were treated daily with the potent and specific BET inhibitor JQ1 or vehicle from 8-weeks-of-age (preDCM) to 20-weeks-of-age. Vehicle-treated PLN
R9C
mice developed DCM with severely reduced LV function and negative cardiac remodeling. JQ1-treated PLN
R9C
mice had substantially better fractional shortening (27% vs. 15%, p=7x10
-10
) and less negative remodeling (LV end diastolic diameter 3.9mm vs. 4.5mm, p=1x10
-5
; LV wall thickness 0.69mm vs. 0.62mm, p=6x10
-6
) compared to PLN
R9C
vehicle-treated mice at 20-weeks (n=15). Myocardial fibrosis was also significantly reduced by JQ1 (5.8% PLN
R9C
-JQ1 vs. 18.4% PLN
R9C
-vehicle, p=3x10
-5
; n=3). RNA-seq in preDCM mice treated with JQ1 for 2 weeks demonstrated a decrease in pathologic gene activation. JQ1-treated PLN
R9C
mice versus vehicle treated mice had reduced expression of natriuretic peptides (
Nppa
-31%,
Nppb
-29%; p<0.001), less myosin heavy chain and actin isoform switching (ratio
Myh6
/
Myh7
PLN
R9C
-JQ1=12.2; PLN
R9C
-vehicle=8.8; ratio
Actc1
/
Acta1
PLN
R9C
-JQ1=39.3; PLN
R9C
-vehicle=12.1; p<0.001), and lower pro-inflammatory gene expression (
Tgfb2
-48%,
Tgfb3
-41%,
Ctgf
-21%,
Gdf15
-56%; p<0.001). At 20-weeks-of-age, continued treatment with JQ1 resulted in sustained suppression of cytokine expression with 2-fold lower levels of
Tgfb2
and
Tgfb3
compared to vehicle-treated PLN
R9C
mice. These data suggest that early induction of pro-fibrotic signaling is a key driver of pathologic remodeling in PLN
R9C
DCM. This study also identifies epigenetic control of pathologic gene activation by BET bromodomain proteins as a critical mechanism for cardiomyopathy progression and supports BET inhibition as a possible novel therapeutic strategy for HF.
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Burke MA, Chang S, Wakimoto H, Gorham JM, Conner DA, Christodoulou DC, Parfenov MG, DePalma SR, Eminaga S, Konno T, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Molecular profiling of dilated cardiomyopathy that progresses to heart failure. JCI Insight 2016; 1. [PMID: 27239561 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.86898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined by progressive functional and structural changes. We performed RNA-seq at different stages of disease to define molecular signaling in the progression from pre-DCM hearts to DCM and overt heart failure (HF) using a genetic model of DCM (phospholamban missense mutation, PLNR9C/+). Pre-DCM hearts were phenotypically normal yet displayed proliferation of nonmyocytes (59% relative increase vs. WT, P = 8 × 10-4) and activation of proinflammatory signaling with notable cardiomyocyte-specific induction of a subset of profibrotic cytokines including TGFβ2 and TGFβ3. These changes progressed through DCM and HF, resulting in substantial fibrosis (17.6% of left ventricle [LV] vs. WT, P = 6 × 10-33). Cardiomyocytes displayed a marked shift in metabolic gene transcription: downregulation of aerobic respiration and subsequent upregulation of glucose utilization, changes coincident with attenuated expression of PPARα and PPARγ coactivators -1α (PGC1α) and -1β, and increased expression of the metabolic regulator T-box transcription factor 15 (Tbx15). Comparing DCM transcriptional profiles with those in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) revealed similar and distinct molecular mechanisms. Our data suggest that cardiomyocyte-specific cytokine expression, early fibroblast activation, and the shift in metabolic gene expression are hallmarks of cardiomyopathy progression. Notably, key components of these profibrotic and metabolic networks were disease specific and distinguish DCM from HCM.
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- Michael A Burke
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Green EM, Wakimoto H, Anderson RL, Evanchik MJ, Gorham JM, Harrison BC, Henze M, Kawas R, Oslob JD, Rodriguez HM, Song Y, Wan W, Leinwand LA, Spudich JA, McDowell RS, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. A small-molecule inhibitor of sarcomere contractility suppresses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice. Science 2016; 351:617-21. [PMID: 26912705 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad3456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 423] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited disease of heart muscle that can be caused by mutations in sarcomere proteins. Clinical diagnosis depends on an abnormal thickening of the heart, but the earliest signs of disease are hyperdynamic contraction and impaired relaxation. Whereas some in vitro studies of power generation by mutant and wild-type sarcomere proteins are consistent with mutant sarcomeres exhibiting enhanced contractile power, others are not. We identified a small molecule, MYK-461, that reduces contractility by decreasing the adenosine triphosphatase activity of the cardiac myosin heavy chain. Here we demonstrate that early, chronic administration of MYK-461 suppresses the development of ventricular hypertrophy, cardiomyocyte disarray, and myocardial fibrosis and attenuates hypertrophic and profibrotic gene expression in mice harboring heterozygous human mutations in the myosin heavy chain. These data indicate that hyperdynamic contraction is essential for HCM pathobiology and that inhibitors of sarcomere contraction may be a valuable therapeutic approach for HCM.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- MyoKardia, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.
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Goodwin DG, Marsh KM, Sosa IB, Payne JB, Gorham JM, Bouwer EJ, Fairbrother DH. Interactions of microorganisms with polymer nanocomposite surfaces containing oxidized carbon nanotubes. Environ Sci Technol 2015; 49:5484-5492. [PMID: 25811739 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
In many environmental scenarios, the fate and impact of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) that contain carbon nanotubes (CNT/PNCs) will be influenced by their interactions with microorganisms, with implications for antimicrobial properties and the long-term persistence of PNCs. Using oxidized single-wall (O-SWCNTs) and multi-wall CNTs (O-MWCNTs), we explored the influence that CNT loading (mass fraction≤0.1%-10%) and type have on the initial interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with O-CNT/poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVOH) nanocomposites containing well-dispersed O-CNTs. LIVE/DEAD staining revealed that, despite oxidation, the inclusion of O-SWCNTs or O-MWCNTs caused PNC surfaces to exhibit antimicrobial properties. The fraction of living cells deposited on both O-SWCNT and O-MWCNT/PNC surfaces decreased exponentially with increasing CNT loading, with O-SWCNTs being approximately three times more cytotoxic on a % w/w basis. Although not every contact event between attached microorganisms and CNTs led to cell death, the cytotoxicity of the CNT/PNC surfaces scaled with the total contact area that existed between the microorganisms and CNTs. However, because the antimicrobial properties of CNT/PNC surfaces require direct CNT-microbe contact, dead cells were able to shield living cells from the cytotoxic effects of CNTs, allowing biofilm formation to occur on CNT/PNCs exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa for longer time periods.
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- David G Goodwin
- †Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- ‡Centro de Química, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC), Altos de Pipe, Caracas 1020-A, Miranda, Venezuela
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- §Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- ∥Materials Measurement Science Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- §Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Burke MA, Chang S, Christodoulou DC, Gorham JM, Wakimoto H, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Abstract 290: Proliferation of Cardiac Fibroblasts Defines Early Stages of Genetic Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Precedes Myocardial Metabolic Derangement. Circ Res 2014. [DOI: 10.1161/res.115.suppl_1.290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
The complex molecular networks underpinning DCM remain poorly understood. To study distinct pathways and networks in the longitudinal development of DCM we performed RNAseq on LV tissue from mice carrying a human DCM mutation in phospholamban (PLN
R9C/+
) before phenotype onset (pre-DCM), with DCM, and during overt heart failure (HF), and also on isolated myocytes and non-myocytes from DCM hearts. PLN
R9C/+
mice show progressive fibrosis (20% vs. 1% control, p=6x10
−33
; n=3) associated with proliferation of cardiac non-myocytes (33% increase over control, p=6x10
−4
; n=3). Consistent with this, cardiac non-myocytes have upregulated gene expression and pathways, while these are generally downregulated in myocytes. Non-myocytes were enriched in fibrosis, inflammation, and cell remodeling pathways, from pre-DCM to HF. In contrast, myocytes were enriched for metabolic pathways only with overt DCM and HF. Myocytes showed profound derangement of oxidative phosphorylation with DCM (p=2.5x10
−41
; 44% (53/120) of pathway genes downregulated), suggesting mitochondrial dysfunction. Additionally, we detected probable inhibition of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) signaling by diminished expression of pathway genes (Figure). DCM and hypertrophic remodeling was compared using RNAseq of a mouse model of HCM; similar patterns of fibrosis with myocyte metabolic dysregulation were evident despite unique differential gene expression patterns between models. DCM caused by PLN
R9C/+
is associated with early non-myocyte proliferation and later myocyte metabolic derangement possibly governed by altered PPAR signaling, and is common to DCM and HCM.
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Christodoulou DC, Wakimoto H, Onoue K, Eminaga S, Gorham JM, DePalma SR, Herman DS, Teekakirikul P, Conner DA, McKean DM, Domenighetti AA, Aboukhalil A, Chang S, Srivastava G, McDonough B, De Jager PL, Chen J, Bulyk ML, Muehlschlegel JD, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. 5'RNA-Seq identifies Fhl1 as a genetic modifier in cardiomyopathy. J Clin Invest 2014; 124:1364-70. [PMID: 24509080 DOI: 10.1172/jci70108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 11/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The transcriptome is subject to multiple changes during pathogenesis, including the use of alternate 5' start-sites that can affect transcription levels and output. Current RNA sequencing techniques can assess mRNA levels, but do not robustly detect changes in 5' start-site use. Here, we developed a transcriptome sequencing strategy that detects genome-wide changes in start-site usage (5'RNA-Seq) and applied this methodology to identify regulatory events that occur in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Compared with transcripts from WT mice, 92 genes had altered start-site usage in a mouse model of HCM, including four-and-a-half LIM domains protein 1 (Fhl1). HCM-induced altered transcriptional regulation of Fhl1 resulted in robust myocyte expression of a distinct protein isoform, a response that was conserved in humans with genetic or acquired cardiomyopathies. Genetic ablation of Fhl1 in HCM mice was deleterious, which suggests that Fhl1 transcriptional changes provide salutary effects on stressed myocytes in this disease. Because Fhl1 is a chromosome X-encoded gene, stress-induced changes in its transcription may contribute to gender differences in the clinical severity of HCM. Our findings indicate that 5'RNA-Seq has the potential to identify genome-wide changes in 5' start-site usage that are associated with pathogenic phenotypes.
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Domenighetti AA, Chu PH, Wu T, Sheikh F, Gokhin DS, Guo LT, Cui Z, Peter AK, Christodoulou DC, Parfenov MG, Gorham JM, Li DY, Banerjee I, Lai X, Witzmann FA, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Gomes AV, Shelton GD, Lieber RL, Chen J. Loss of FHL1 induces an age-dependent skeletal muscle myopathy associated with myofibrillar and intermyofibrillar disorganization in mice. Hum Mol Genet 2013; 23:209-25. [PMID: 23975679 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Recent human genetic studies have provided evidences that sporadic or inherited missense mutations in four-and-a-half LIM domain protein 1 (FHL1), resulting in alterations in FHL1 protein expression, are associated with rare congenital myopathies, including reducing body myopathy and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. However, it remains to be clarified whether mutations in FHL1 cause skeletal muscle remodeling owing to gain- or loss of FHL1 function. In this study, we used FHL1-null mice lacking global FHL1 expression to evaluate loss-of-function effects on skeletal muscle homeostasis. Histological and functional analyses of soleus, tibialis anterior and sternohyoideus muscles demonstrated that FHL1-null mice develop an age-dependent myopathy associated with myofibrillar and intermyofibrillar (mitochondrial and sarcoplasmic reticulum) disorganization, impaired muscle oxidative capacity and increased autophagic activity. A longitudinal study established decreased survival rates in FHL1-null mice, associated with age-dependent impairment of muscle contractile function and a significantly lower exercise capacity. Analysis of primary myoblasts isolated from FHL1-null muscles demonstrated early muscle fiber differentiation and maturation defects, which could be rescued by re-expression of the FHL1A isoform, highlighting that FHL1A is necessary for proper muscle fiber differentiation and maturation in vitro. Overall, our data show that loss of FHL1 function leads to myopathy in vivo and suggest that loss of function of FHL1 may be one of the mechanisms underlying muscle dystrophy in patients with FHL1 mutations.
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Nguyen T, Pellegrin B, Bernard C, Rabb S, Stuztman P, Gorham JM, Gu X, Yu LL, Chin JW. Characterization of surface accumulation and release of nanosilica during irradiation of polymer nanocomposites by ultraviolet light. J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2012; 12:6202-6215. [PMID: 22962727 DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2012.6442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Polymer nanocomposites are increasingly used in applications that are subjected to harsh environments. Owing to polymer's susceptibility to photodegradation, nanofillers in a polymer nanocomposite may be released into the environments during the composite's life cycle. Such release potentially poses an environmental health and safety problem and may hinder commercialization of these advanced materials. This study investigated the fate and release of nanosilica from epoxy/nanosilica composites. Specially-designed holders containing nanocomposite specimens were irradiated with UV light in a well-controlled environmental chamber. UV irradiated samples were removed for measurements of polymer chemical degradation, mass loss, surface morphology, nanosilica accumulation on the composite surface, and nanosilica release. Epoxy matrix underwent rapid photodegradation, resulting in substantial accumulation of silica nanofillers on the composite surface and also release from the composite. A conceptual model for surface accumulation and release of nanosilica during UV irradiation of epoxy nanocomposites is presented.
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- T Nguyen
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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Christodoulou DC, Gorham JM, Herman DS, Seidman JG. Construction of normalized RNA-seq libraries for next-generation sequencing using the crab duplex-specific nuclease. Curr Protoc Mol Biol 2011; Chapter 4:Unit4.12. [PMID: 21472699 DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb0412s94] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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RNA-seq is a method for studying the transcriptome of cells or tissues by massively parallel sequencing of tens of millions of short DNA fragments. However, the broad dynamic range of gene expression levels, which span more than five orders of magnitude, necessitates considerable over-sequencing to characterize low-abundance RNAs at sufficient depth. Here, we describe a method that enables efficient sequencing of low-abundance RNAs by normalizing or reducing the range spanned by the most abundant RNA species to the least abundant RNA species. This normalization is achieved using an approach that was developed for generating expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries that uses the crab duplex-specific nuclease and exploits the kinetics of DNA annealing. That is, double-stranded cDNA is denatured, then allowed to partially re-anneal, and the most abundant species, which re-anneal most rapidly, are digested with crab duplex-specific nuclease. This procedure substantially decreases the proportion of sequence reads from highly expressed RNAs, facilitating assessment of the full spectrum of the sequence and structure of transcriptomes.
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Nguyen T, Pellegrin B, Bernard C, Gu X, Gorham JM, Stutzman P, Stanley D, Shapiro A, Byrd E, Hettenhouser R, Chin J. Fate of nanoparticles during life cycle of polymer nanocomposites. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/304/1/012060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Chang S, Christodoulou D, Gorham JM, Wakimoto H, Sparks L, Seidman J, Seidman CE. IDENTIFYING NOVEL MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY: INSIGHTS INTO TREATMENT AND PREVENTION. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(11)60335-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Christodoulou DC, Gorham JM, Kawana M, DePalma SR, Herman DS, Wakimoto H. Quantification of gene transcripts with deep sequencing analysis of gene expression (DSAGE) using 1 to 2 µg total RNA. Curr Protoc Mol Biol 2011; Chapter 25:Unit25B.9. [PMID: 21225638 DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb25b09s93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Deep sequencing analysis of gene expression (DSAGE) measures global gene transcript levels from only 1 to 2 µg total RNA by massively parallel sequencing of cDNA tags. This unit describes the construction of 21-bp cDNA tag libraries appropriate for massively parallel sequencing and analysis of the resulting sequence data. The adapter oligonucleotides used are optimized for sequencing with current Illumina massively parallel sequencers, and a step-by-step implementation of the analysis protocol is described. The expression profiles obtained are highly reproducible, enabling sensitive detection of differences between experimental conditions as well as assessment of the relative transcript abundance of different genes.
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Teekakirikul P, Eminaga S, Toka O, Alcalai R, Wang L, Wakimoto H, Nayor M, Konno T, Gorham JM, Wolf CM, Kim JB, Schmitt JP, Molkentin JD, Norris RA, Tager AM, Hoffman SR, Markwald RR, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Cardiac fibrosis in mice with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is mediated by non-myocyte proliferation and requires Tgf-β. J Clin Invest 2010; 120:3520-9. [PMID: 20811150 DOI: 10.1172/jci42028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 336] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2009] [Accepted: 07/14/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Mutations in sarcomere protein genes can cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a disorder characterized by myocyte enlargement, fibrosis, and impaired ventricular relaxation. Here, we demonstrate that sarcomere protein gene mutations activate proliferative and profibrotic signals in non-myocyte cells to produce pathologic remodeling in HCM. Gene expression analyses of non-myocyte cells isolated from HCM mouse hearts showed increased levels of RNAs encoding cell-cycle proteins, Tgf-β, periostin, and other profibrotic proteins. Markedly increased BrdU labeling, Ki67 antigen expression, and periostin immunohistochemistry in the fibrotic regions of HCM hearts confirmed the transcriptional profiling data. Genetic ablation of periostin in HCM mice reduced but did not extinguish non-myocyte proliferation and fibrosis. In contrast, administration of Tgf-β-neutralizing antibodies abrogated non-myocyte proliferation and fibrosis. Chronic administration of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist losartan to mutation-positive, hypertrophy-negative (prehypertrophic) mice prevented the emergence of hypertrophy, non-myocyte proliferation, and fibrosis. Losartan treatment did not reverse pathologic remodeling of established HCM but did reduce non-myocyte proliferation. These data define non-myocyte activation of Tgf-β signaling as a pivotal mechanism for increased fibrosis in HCM and a potentially important factor contributing to diastolic dysfunction and heart failure. Preemptive pharmacologic inhibition of Tgf-β signals warrants study in human patients with sarcomere gene mutations.
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- Polakit Teekakirikul
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Greenway SC, Pereira AC, Lin JC, DePalma SR, Israel SJ, Mesquita SM, Ergul E, Conta JH, Korn JM, McCarroll SA, Gorham JM, Gabriel S, Altshuler DM, Quintanilla-Dieck MDL, Artunduaga MA, Eavey RD, Plenge RM, Shadick NA, Weinblatt ME, De Jager PL, Hafler DA, Breitbart RE, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. De novo copy number variants identify new genes and loci in isolated sporadic tetralogy of Fallot. Nat Genet 2009; 41:931-5. [PMID: 19597493 PMCID: PMC2747103 DOI: 10.1038/ng.415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 311] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2009] [Accepted: 06/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), the most common severe congenital heart malformation, occurs sporadically, without other anomaly, and from unknown cause in 70% of cases. A genome-wide survey of 114 TOF patients and their unaffected parents identified 11 de novo copy number variants (CNVs) that were absent or extremely rare (<0.1%) in 2,265 controls. A second, independent TOF cohort (n = 398) was then examined for additional CNVs at these loci. In 1% (5/512, p = 0.0002, OR = 22.3) of non-syndromic sporadic TOF cases we identified CNVs at chromosome 1q21.1. Recurrent CNVs were also identified at 3p25.1, 7p21.3 and 22q11.2. CNVs in a single TOF case occurred at six loci, two that encode known (NOTCH1, JAG1) disease genes. Our data predicts that at least 10% (4.5–15.5, 95% CI) of sporadic, non-syndromic TOF reflects de novo CNVs and implicates mutations within these loci as etiologic in other cases of TOF.
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- Steven C Greenway
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Kim JB, Porreca GJ, Song L, Greenway SC, Gorham JM, Church GM, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Polony Multiplex Analysis of Gene Expression (PMAGE) in Mouse Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Science 2007; 316:1481-4. [PMID: 17556586 DOI: 10.1126/science.1137325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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We describe a sensitive mRNA profiling technology, PMAGE (for "polony multiplex analysis of gene expression"), which detects messenger RNAs (mRNAs) as rare as one transcript per three cells. PMAGE incorporates an improved ligation-based method to sequence 14-nucleotide tags derived from individual mRNA molecules. One sequence tag from each mRNA molecule is amplified onto a separate 1-micrometer bead, denoted as a polymerase colony or polony, and about 5 million polonies are arrayed in a flow cell for parallel sequencing. Using PMAGE, we identified early transcriptional changes that preceded pathological manifestations of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice carrying a disease-causing mutation. PMAGE provided a comprehensive profile of cardiac mRNAs, including low-abundance mRNAs encoding signaling molecules and transcription factors that are likely to participate in disease pathogenesis.
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- Jae Bum Kim
- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Arad M, Maron BJ, Gorham JM, Johnson WH, Saul JP, Perez-Atayde AR, Spirito P, Wright GB, Kanter RJ, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Glycogen storage diseases presenting as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. N Engl J Med 2005; 352:362-72. [PMID: 15673802 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa033349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 397] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy often prompts the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a sarcomere-protein gene disorder. Because mutations in the gene for AMP-activated protein kinase gamma2 (PRKAG2) cause an accumulation of cardiac glycogen and left ventricular hypertrophy that mimics hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, we hypothesized that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy might also be clinically misdiagnosed in patients with other mutations in genes regulating glycogen metabolism. METHODS Genetic analyses performed in 75 consecutive unrelated patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy detected 40 sarcomere-protein mutations. In the remaining 35 patients, PRKAG2, lysosome-associated membrane protein 2 (LAMP2), alpha-galactosidase (GLA), and acid alpha-1,4-glucosidase (GAA) genes were studied. RESULTS Gene defects causing Fabry's disease (GLA) and Pompe's disease (GAA) were not found, but two LAMP2 and one PRKAG2 mutations were identified in probands with prominent hypertrophy and electrophysiological abnormalities. These results prompted the study of two additional, independent series of patients. Genetic analyses of 20 subjects with massive hypertrophy (left ventricular wall thickness, > or =30 mm) but without electrophysiological abnormalities revealed mutations in neither LAMP2 nor PRKAG2. Genetic analyses of 24 subjects with increased left ventricular wall thickness and electrocardiograms suggesting ventricular preexcitation revealed four LAMP2 and seven PRKAG2 mutations. Clinical features associated with defects in LAMP2 included male sex, severe hypertrophy, early onset (at 8 to 17 years of age), ventricular preexcitation, and asymptomatic elevations of two serum proteins. CONCLUSIONS LAMP2 mutations typically cause multisystem glycogen-storage disease (Danon's disease) but can also present as a primary cardiomyopathy. The glycogen-storage cardiomyopathy produced by LAMP2 or PRKAG2 mutations resembles hypertrophic cardiomyopathy but is distinguished by electrophysiological abnormalities, particularly ventricular preexcitation.
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- Michael Arad
- Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
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