| Autor: |
Wolfgang H Dillmann, Majid Ghassemian, Christopher W Benner, Jorge A Suarez, Tanja Diemer, Anzhi Dai, Sven Heinz, Darren E. Casteel, Jorge Suarez, Brian T Scott, Federico Cividini, Ada Admin |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| DOI: |
10.2337/figshare.13342229 |
| Popis: |
The contribution of altered mitochondrial Ca2+ handling to metabolic and functional defects in type 2 diabetic (T2D) mouse hearts is not well understood. Here, we show that the T2D heart is metabolically inflexible and almost exclusively dependent on mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation as a consequence of mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex (MCUC) inhibitory subunit MCUb overexpression. Using a recombinant endonuclease-deficient Cas9 (dCas9)-based gene promoter pull-down approach coupled with mass spectrometry we found that MCUb is upregulated in the T2D heart due to loss of glucose homeostasis regulator nuclear receptor co-repressor 2 (Ncor2) repression, and ChIP assays identified PPARα as a mediator of MCUb gene expression in T2D cardiomyocytes. Upregulation of MCUb limits mitochondrial matrix Ca2+ uptake and impairs mitochondrial energy production via glucose oxidation, by depressing Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC) activity. Gene therapy displacement of endogenous MCUb with a dominant-negative MCUb transgene (MCUbW246R/V251E) in vivo rescued T2D cardiomyocytes from metabolic inflexibility, and stimulated cardiac contractile function and adrenergic responsiveness by enhancing phospholamban (PLN) phosphorylation via Protein Kinase A (PKA). We conclude that MCUb represents one newly-discovered molecular effector at the interface of metabolism and cardiac function, and its repression improves the outcome of the chronically-stressed diabetic heart. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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