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DUSP8 Regulates Cardiac Ventricular Remodeling by Altering ERK1/2 Signaling
- Source :
- Circulation research. 119(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Rationale: Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling regulates the growth response of the adult myocardium in response to increased cardiac workload or pathological insults. The dual-specificity phosphatases (DUSPs) are critical effectors, which dephosphorylate the MAPKs to control the basal tone, amplitude, and duration of MAPK signaling. Objective: To examine DUSP8 as a regulator of MAPK signaling in the heart and its impact on ventricular and cardiac myocyte growth dynamics. Methods and Results: Dusp8 gene–deleted mice and transgenic mice with inducible expression of DUSP8 in the heart were used here to investigate how this MAPK-phosphatase might regulate intracellular signaling and cardiac growth dynamics in vivo. Dusp8 gene–deleted mice were mildly hypercontractile at baseline with a cardiac phenotype of concentric ventricular remodeling, which protected them from progressing towards heart failure in 2 surgery-induced disease models. Cardiac-specific overexpression of DUSP8 produced spontaneous eccentric remodeling and ventricular dilation with heart failure. At the cellular level, adult cardiac myocytes from Dusp8 gene–deleted mice were thicker and shorter, whereas DUSP8 overexpression promoted cardiac myocyte lengthening with a loss of thickness. Mechanistically, activation of extracellular signal–regulated kinases 1/2 were selectively increased in Dusp8 gene–deleted hearts at baseline and following acute pathological stress stimulation, whereas p38 MAPK and c-Jun N-terminal kinases were mostly unaffected. Conclusions: These results indicate that DUSP8 controls basal and acute stress-induced extracellular signal–regulated kinases 1/2 signaling in adult cardiac myocytes that then alters the length–width growth dynamics of individual cardiac myocytes, which further alters contractility, ventricular remodeling, and disease susceptibility.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
MAPK/ERK pathway
medicine.medical_specialty
Mice, 129 Strain
Physiology
MAP Kinase Signaling System
p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases
Mice, Transgenic
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Biology
Article
Contractility
03 medical and health sciences
Mice
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Myocytes, Cardiac
Ventricular remodeling
Protein kinase A
Cells, Cultured
Mice, Knockout
Ventricular Remodeling
Kinase
Dilated cardiomyopathy
medicine.disease
Rats
Mice, Inbred C57BL
030104 developmental biology
Endocrinology
Animals, Newborn
Heart failure
Dual-Specificity Phosphatases
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244571
- Volume :
- 119
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Circulation research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....981c81a95c2d57c2b8f98f0b1aaadfce