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- Title
MicroRNA-22 targeting CBP protects against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury through anti-apoptosis in rats.
- Authors
Yang, Jian; Chen, Lihua; Yang, Jun; Ding, Jiawang; Li, Song; Wu, Hui; Zhang, Jing; Fan, Zhixing; Dong, Wusong; Li, Xinxin
- Abstract
MicroRNAs are extensively involved in the pathogenesis of major cardiovascular diseases by suppressing target gene expression. Recent studies have reported that microRNA-22 (miR-22) may be implicated in ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) induced myocardial injury. However, the specific function of miR-22 in myocardial I/R injury is far from clear nowadays. The present study was designed to determine the role of miR-22 in myocardial I/R injury and investigate the underlying cardio-protective mechanism. The rat myocardial I/R injury model was induced by occluding the left anterior descending coronary artery for 30 min followed by 12 h reperfusion. As predicted, adenovirus-mediated miR-22 overexpression markedly reduced the release of creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase, infarct size and cardiomyocytes apoptosis. Moreover, CREB binding protein (CBP) as a potential miR-22 target by bioinformatics was significantly inhibited after miR-22 transfection. We also found that p53 acetylation activity, pro-apoptotic related genes Bax and p21 levels were all decreased associated with the down-regulation of CBP. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that miR-22 could inhibit apoptosis of cardiomyocytes through one of its targets, CBP. Thus, miR-22 may constitute a new therapeutic target for the prevention of myocardial I/R injury.
- Subjects
MICRORNA; CREB-binding protein; CORONARY heart disease prevention; MYOCARDIAL reperfusion; LABORATORY rats; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; GENE expression; LACTATE dehydrogenase
- Publication
Molecular Biology Reports, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 1, p555
- ISSN
0301-4851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11033-013-2891-x