A human cell atlas of the pressure-induced hypertrophic heart

Autor: Luka Nicin, Sam Michael Schroeter, Simone Franziska Glaser, Ralf Schulze-Brüning, Minh-Duc Pham, Susanne S. Hille, Michail Yekelchyk, Badder Kattih, Wesley Tyler Abplanalp, Lukas Tombor, Oliver J. Müller, Thomas Braun, Benjamin Meder, Christoph Reich, Mani Arsalan, Tomas Holubec, Thomas Walther, Fabian Emrich, Jaya Krishnan, Andreas M. Zeiher, David John, Stefanie Dimmeler
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: Nature Cardiovascular Research. 1:174-185
ISSN: 2731-0590
Popis: Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a leading cause of heart failure, but knowledge of the full repertoire of cardiac cells and their gene expression profiles in the human hypertrophic heart is missing. Here, by using large-scale single-nucleus transcriptomics, we present the transcriptional response of human cardiomyocytes to pressure overload caused by aortic valve stenosis and describe major alterations in cardiac cellular crosstalk. Hypertrophied cardiomyocytes had reduced input from endothelial cells and fibroblasts. Genes encoding Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, particularly EPHB1, were significantly downregulated in cardiomyocytes of the hypertrophied heart. Consequently, EPHB1 activation by its ligand ephrin (EFN)B2, which is mainly expressed by endothelial cells, was reduced. EFNB2 inhibited cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in vitro, while silencing its expression in endothelial cells induced hypertrophy in co-cultured cardiomyocytes. Our human cell atlas of the hypertrophied heart highlights the importance of intercellular crosstalk in disease pathogenesis and provides a valuable resource.
Databáze: OpenAIRE