PUBLICATION
Live cell screening platform identifies PPARδ as a regulator of cardiomyocyte proliferation and cardiac repair
- Authors
- Magadum, A., Ding, Y., He, L., Kim, T., Vasudevarao, M.D., Long, Q., Yang, K., Wickramasinghe, N., Renikunta, H.V., Dubois, N., Weidinger, G., Yang, Q., Engel, F.B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170618-14
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Cell Research 27(8): 1002-1019 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Weidinger, Gilbert
- Keywords
- cardiac repair, cardiomyocyte proliferation, screening, carbacyclin, PPARδ, GSK3β, Tbx20
- MeSH Terms
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- Cardiomyopathies/drug therapy
- Cardiomyopathies/metabolism*
- Cardiomyopathies/pathology
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- Signal Transduction/drug effects*
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- PPAR delta/metabolism*
- Cell Proliferation/drug effects*
- Myocardium/metabolism*
- Myocardium/pathology
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Epoprostenol/analogs & derivatives*
- Epoprostenol/pharmacology
- Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism*
- Myocytes, Cardiac/pathology
- Animals
- Rats
- PubMed
- 28621328 Full text @ Cell Res.
Citation
Magadum, A., Ding, Y., He, L., Kim, T., Vasudevarao, M.D., Long, Q., Yang, K., Wickramasinghe, N., Renikunta, H.V., Dubois, N., Weidinger, G., Yang, Q., Engel, F.B. (2017) Live cell screening platform identifies PPARδ as a regulator of cardiomyocyte proliferation and cardiac repair. Cell Research. 27(8):1002-1019.
Abstract
Zebrafish can efficiently regenerate their heart through cardiomyocyte proliferation. In contrast, mammalian cardiomyocytes stop proliferating shortly after birth, limiting the regenerative capacity of the postnatal mammalian heart. Therefore, if the endogenous potential of postnatal cardiomyocyte proliferation could be enhanced, it could offer a promising future therapy for heart failure patients. Here, we set out to systematically identify small molecules triggering postnatal cardiomyocyte proliferation. By screening chemical compound libraries utilizing a Fucci-based system for assessing cell cycle stages, we identified carbacyclin as an inducer of postnatal cardiomyocyte proliferation. In vitro, carbacyclin induced proliferation of neonatal and adult mononuclear rat cardiomyocytes via a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ (PPARδ)/PDK1/p308Akt/GSK3β/β-catenin pathway. Inhibition of PPARδ reduced cardiomyocyte proliferation during zebrafish heart regeneration. Notably, inducible cardiomyocyte-specific overexpression of constitutively active PPARδ as well as treatment with PPARδ agonist after myocardial infarction in mice induced cell cycle progression in cardiomyocytes, reduced scarring, and improved cardiac function. Collectively, we established a cardiomyocyte proliferation screening system and present a new drugable target with promise for the treatment of cardiac pathologies caused by cardiomyocyte loss.Cell Research advance online publication 16 June 2017; doi:10.1038/cr.2017.84.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
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Orthology
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