miR-182 Modulates Myocardial Hypertrophic Response Induced by Angiogenesis in Heart

Sci Rep. 2016 Feb 18:6:21228. doi: 10.1038/srep21228.

Abstract

Myocardial hypertrophy is an adaptive response to hemodynamic demands. Although angiogenesis is critical to support the increase in heart mass with matching blood supply, it may also promote a hypertrophic response. Previously, we showed that cardiac angiogenesis induced by placental growth factor (PlGF), promotes myocardial hypertrophy through the paracrine action of endothelium-derived NO, which triggers the degradation of regulator of G protein signaling 4 (RGS4) to activate the Akt/mTORC1 pathways in cardiomyocytes. Here, we investigated whether miRNAs contribute to the development of hypertrophic response associated with myocardial angiogenesis. We show that miR-182 is upregulated concurrently with the development of hypertrophy in PlGF mice, but not when hypertrophy was blocked by concomitant expression of PlGF and RGS4, or by PlGF expression in eNOS(-/-) mice. Anti-miR-182 treatment inhibits the hypertrophic response and prevents the Akt/mTORC1 activation in PlGF mice and NO-treated cardiomyocytes. miR-182 reduces the expression of Bcat2, Foxo3 and Adcy6 to regulate the hypertrophic response in PlGF mice. Particularly, depletion of Bcat2, identified as a new miR-182 target, promotes Akt(Ser473)/p70-S6K(Thr389) phosphorylation and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. LV pressure overload did not upregulate miR-182. Thus, miR-182 is a novel target of endothelial-cardiomyocyte crosstalk and plays an important role in the angiogenesis induced-hypertrophic response.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cardiomegaly / genetics
  • Cardiomegaly / metabolism*
  • Cardiomegaly / pathology
  • Endothelium / metabolism*
  • Endothelium / pathology
  • Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Mice
  • Mice, Knockout
  • MicroRNAs / biosynthesis*
  • MicroRNAs / genetics
  • Multiprotein Complexes / genetics
  • Multiprotein Complexes / metabolism
  • Myocytes, Cardiac / metabolism*
  • Myocytes, Cardiac / pathology
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / genetics
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / metabolism*
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / pathology
  • Nitric Oxide / genetics
  • Nitric Oxide / metabolism
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III / genetics
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III / metabolism
  • Proteins / genetics
  • Proteins / metabolism
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / genetics
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / metabolism
  • RGS Proteins / genetics
  • RGS Proteins / metabolism
  • TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases / genetics
  • TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases / metabolism
  • Up-Regulation*

Substances

  • Membrane Proteins
  • MicroRNAs
  • Mirn182 microRNA, mouse
  • Multiprotein Complexes
  • Pigf protein, mouse
  • Proteins
  • RGS Proteins
  • RGS4 protein
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III
  • Nos3 protein, mouse
  • Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
  • TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases