Inhibition of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1α-Induced Cardiospecific HERNA1 Enhance-Templated RNA Protects From Heart Disease

Autor: Peter Mirtschink, Rahul Sharma, Geetha Rossi, Sanjay Khadayate, Corinne Berthonneche, Eman Hagag, Wilhelm Krek, Corinne Bischof, Jaya Krishnan, Thierry Pedrazzini, Samuel Sossalla, Phillip Grote, Shuyang Traub, Niklaus Fankhauser, Alexandre Sarre, Sebastian Stehr, Stefanie Dimmeler, Minh Duc Pham
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
RNA
Untranslated

heart failure
0302 clinical medicine
Original Research Articles
Gene expression
Myocytes
Cardiac

Promoter Regions
Genetic

Mice
Knockout

0303 health sciences
RNA
hypoxia
3. Good health
Cell biology
Hypoxia-inducible factors
Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING
medicine.symptom
Signal transduction
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Signal Transduction
Cardiomyopathy
Dilated

Animals
Binding Sites
Cardiomyopathy
Dilated/genetics

Cardiomyopathy
Dilated/metabolism

Cardiomyopathy
Dilated/pathology

Cardiomyopathy
Dilated/prevention & control

Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic/genetics

Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic/metabolism

Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic/pathology

Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic/prevention & control

Case-Control Studies
Disease Models
Animal

HEK293 Cells
Humans
Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1
alpha Subunit/deficiency

Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1
alpha Subunit/genetics

Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1
alpha Subunit/metabolism

Mice
Inbred C57BL

Myocytes
Cardiac/metabolism

Myocytes
Cardiac/pathology

Oligonucleotides
Antisense/administration & dosage

RNA
Untranslated/genetics

RNA
Untranslated/metabolism

Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein/genetics
Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein/metabolism
03 medical and health sciences
Physiology (medical)
medicine
Binding site
Enhancer
030304 developmental biology
business.industry
HEK 293 cells
Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic

Oligonucleotides
Antisense

Hypoxia (medical)
Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1
alpha Subunit

business
Zdroj: Circulation, vol. 139, no. 24, pp. 2778-2792
Circulation
Circulation, 139 (24)
Popis: Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.
Background: Enhancers are genomic regulatory elements conferring spatiotemporal and signal-dependent control of gene expression. Recent evidence suggests that enhancers can generate noncoding enhancer RNAs, but their (patho)biological functions remain largely elusive. Methods: We performed chromatin immunoprecipitation–coupled sequencing of histone marks combined with RNA sequencing of left ventricular biopsies from experimental and genetic mouse models of human cardiac hypertrophy to identify transcripts revealing enhancer localization, conservation with the human genome, and hypoxia-inducible factor 1α dependence. The most promising candidate, hypoxia-inducible enhancer RNA (HERNA)1, was further examined by investigating its capacity to modulate neighboring coding gene expression by binding to their gene promoters by using chromatin isolation by RNA purification and λN–BoxB tethering–based reporter assays. The role of HERNA1 and its neighboring genes for pathological stress–induced growth and contractile dysfunction, and the therapeutic potential of HERNA1 inhibition was studied in gapmer-mediated loss-of-function studies in vitro using human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes and various in vivo models of human pathological cardiac hypertrophy. Results: HERNA1 is robustly induced on pathological stress. Production of HERNA1 is initiated by direct hypoxia-inducible factor 1α binding to a hypoxia-response element in the histoneH3-lysine27acetylation marks–enriched promoter of the enhancer and confers hypoxia responsiveness to nearby genes including synaptotagmin XVII, a member of the family of membrane-trafficking and Ca2+-sensing proteins and SMG1, encoding a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase–related kinase. Consequently, a substrate of SMG1, ATP-dependent RNA helicase upframeshift 1, is hyperphoshorylated in a HERNA1- and SMG1-dependent manner. In vitro and in vivo inactivation of SMG1 and SYT17 revealed overlapping and distinct roles in modulating cardiac hypertrophy. Finally, in vivo administration of antisense oligonucleotides targeting HERNA1 protected mice from stress-induced pathological hypertrophy. The inhibition of HERNA1 postdisease development reversed left ventricular growth and dysfunction, resulting in increased overall survival. Conclusions: HERNA1 is a novel heart-specific noncoding RNA with key regulatory functions in modulating the growth, metabolic, and contractile gene program in disease, and reveals a molecular target amenable to therapeutic exploitation.
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