Histone methyltransferase Smyd1 regulates mitochondrial energetics in the heart

Autor: Oliver Fiehn, Yong Hwan Han, Li Wang, Bucky K. Lozier, Alexey V. Zaitsev, Keiko M. Cawley, Haley O. Tucker, Dane W. Barton, Shin Ichi Oka, Tatiana Yuzyuk, Marta W. Szulik, Sihem Boudina, Aman Makaju, James E. Cox, Sarah Franklin, Anil Kumar, Christopher M. Tracy, June García Llana, Junco S. Warren, Amira D. Sabry, Mickey R. Miller
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Histone H3 Lysine 4
Knockout
Muscle Proteins
heart
Cardiovascular
Mitochondria
Heart

Muscle hypertrophy
Smyd1
03 medical and health sciences
Mice
medicine
Genetics
Gene silencing
Animals
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
PPAR alpha
Aetiology
Regulation of gene expression
Mice
Knockout

Gene knockdown
Multidisciplinary
Retinoid X Receptor alpha
Chemistry
Myocardium
Cardiac muscle
systems biology
Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase
medicine.disease
Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1-alpha
Cell biology
Mitochondria
DNA-Binding Proteins
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Heart Disease
PNAS Plus
Gene Expression Regulation
Histone methyltransferase
Heart failure
Histone Methyltransferases
PGC-1a
Energy Metabolism
metabolism
Transcription Factors
Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 115, iss 33
Popis: Smyd1, a muscle-specific histone methyltransferase, has established roles in skeletal and cardiac muscle development, but its role in the adult heart remains poorly understood. Our prior work demonstrated that cardiac-specific deletion of Smyd1 in adult mice (Smyd1-KO) leads to hypertrophy and heart failure. Here we show that down-regulation of mitochondrial energetics is an early event in these Smyd1-KO mice preceding the onset of structural abnormalities. This early impairment of mitochondrial energetics in Smyd1-KO mice is associated with a significant reduction in gene and protein expression of PGC-1α, PPARα, and RXRα, the master regulators of cardiac energetics. The effect of Smyd1 on PGC-1α was recapitulated in primary cultured rat ventricular myocytes, in which acute siRNA-mediated silencing of Smyd1 resulted in a greater than twofold decrease in PGC-1α expression without affecting that of PPARα or RXRα. In addition, enrichment of histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (a mark of gene activation) at the PGC-1α locus was markedly reduced in Smyd1-KO mice, and Smyd1-induced transcriptional activation of PGC-1α was confirmed by luciferase reporter assays. Functional confirmation of Smyd1’s involvement showed an increase in mitochondrial respiration capacity induced by overexpression of Smyd1, which was abolished by siRNA-mediated PGC-1α knockdown. Conversely, overexpression of PGC-1α rescued transcript expression and mitochondrial respiration caused by silencing Smyd1 in cardiomyocytes. These findings provide functional evidence for a role of Smyd1, or any member of the Smyd family, in regulating cardiac energetics in the adult heart, which is mediated, at least in part, via modulating PGC-1α.
Databáze: OpenAIRE