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- Title
Therapeutic role of miR-19a/19b in cardiac regeneration and protection from myocardial infarction.
- Authors
Gao, Feng; Kataoka, Masaharu; Liu, Ning; Liang, Tian; Huang, Zhan-Peng; Gu, Fei; Ding, Jian; Liu, Jianming; Zhang, Feng; Ma, Qing; Wang, Yingchao; Zhang, Mingming; Hu, Xiaoyun; Kyselovic, Jan; Hu, Xinyang; Pu, William T.; Wang, Jian'an; Chen, Jinghai; Wang, Da-Zhi
- Abstract
The primary cause of heart failure is the loss of cardiomyocytes in the diseased adult heart. Previously, we reported that the miR-17-92 cluster plays a key role in cardiomyocyte proliferation. Here, we report that expression of miR-19a/19b, members of the miR-17-92 cluster, is induced in heart failure patients. We show that intra-cardiac injection of miR-19a/19b mimics enhances cardiomyocyte proliferation and stimulates cardiac regeneration in response to myocardial infarction (MI) injury. miR-19a/19b protected the adult heart in two distinctive phases: an early phase immediately after MI and long-term protection. Genome-wide transcriptome analysis demonstrates that genes related to the immune response are repressed by miR-19a/19b. Using an adeno-associated virus approach, we validate that miR-19a/19b reduces MI-induced cardiac damage and protects cardiac function. Finally, we confirm the therapeutic potential of miR-19a/19b in protecting cardiac function by systemically delivering miR-19a/19b into mice post-MI. Our study establishes miR-19a/19b as potential therapeutic targets to treat heart failure. The miR-17-92 cluster has been shown to regulate cardiomyocyte proliferation in vitro and in genetic mutation and overexpression models. Here the authors show that the cluster member miR-19a/19b regulates cardiomyocyte proliferation in vivo, and that delivery of miR-19a/19b to the heart leads to both short-term and long-term protective responses to myocardial infarction.
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-09530-1