Activin type II receptor signaling in cardiac aging and heart failure

Autor: Christine E. Seidman, Se-Jin Lee, Jonathan G. Seidman, Sammy Elmariah, Federico Damilano, Nicholas E. Houstis, Anthony Rosenzweig, Vassilios J. Bezzerides, Vinita Chaudhari, Estelle Lach-Trifilieff, David J. Glass, Colin Platt, Jason D. Roh, Ryan Hobson, Chunyang Xiao, Ashish Yeri, Daniel A. Zlotoff, Mark D. Benson, Brian R. Lindman, Pablo A. Quintero, Robert E. Gerszten, Michael Biersmith
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Aging
Activin Receptors
Type II

Activin Receptors
Regulator
Constriction
Pathologic

030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Inbred C57BL
Ligands
Cardiovascular
Severity of Illness Index
Medical and Health Sciences
Mice
0302 clinical medicine
80 and over
Myocyte
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
Myocytes
Cardiac

Aetiology
Receptor
Aged
80 and over

biology
Frailty
Chemistry
General Medicine
Activin receptor
Middle Aged
Biological Sciences
Constriction
Cell biology
Ubiquitin ligase
Activins
Heart Disease
Signal transduction
Cardiac
Signal Transduction
Adult
Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
Follistatin-Related Proteins
Systole
Heart Ventricles
Type II
Article
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases
03 medical and health sciences
Pressure
Animals
Humans
Aged
Pressure overload
Pathologic
Heart Failure
Myocytes
Animal
Myocardium
Rats
Mice
Inbred C57BL

Disease Models
Animal

030104 developmental biology
GDF11
Disease Models
Proteolysis
biology.protein
Zdroj: Science translational medicine, vol 11, iss 482
Popis: Activin type II receptor (ActRII) ligands have been implicated in muscle wasting in aging and disease. However, the role of these ligands and ActRII signaling in the heart remains unclear. Here, we investigated this catabolic pathway in human aging and heart failure (HF) using circulating follistatin-like 3 (FSTL3) as a potential indicator of systemic ActRII activity. FSTL3 is a downstream regulator of ActRII signaling, whose expression is up-regulated by the major ActRII ligands, activin A, circulating growth differentiation factor-8 (GDF8), and GDF11. In humans, we found that circulating FSTL3 increased with aging, frailty, and HF severity, correlating with an increase in circulating activins. In mice, increasing circulating activin A increased cardiac ActRII signaling and FSTL3 expression, as well as impaired cardiac function. Conversely, ActRII blockade with either clinical-stage inhibitors or genetic ablation reduced cardiac ActRII signaling while restoring or preserving cardiac function in multiple models of HF induced by aging, sarcomere mutation, or pressure overload. Using unbiased RNA sequencing, we show that activin A, GDF8, and GDF11 all induce a similar pathologic profile associated with up-regulation of the proteasome pathway in mammalian cardiomyocytes. The E3 ubiquitin ligase, Smurf1, was identified as a key downstream effector of activin-mediated ActRII signaling, which increased proteasome-dependent degradation of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) ATPase (SERCA2a), a critical determinant of cardiomyocyte function. Together, our findings suggest that increased activin/ActRII signaling links aging and HF pathobiology and that targeted inhibition of this catabolic pathway holds promise as a therapeutic strategy for multiple forms of HF.
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