Essential roles of an intercalated disc protein, mXinbeta, in postnatal heart growth and survival.
Essential roles of an intercalated disc protein, mXinbeta, in postnatal heart growth and survival.
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DOI:
10.1161/circresaha.109.212787
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发表时间:
2010-05-14
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
Lin JJ
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作者:
Wang Q;Lin JL;Reinking BE;Feng HZ;Chan FC;Lin CI;Jin JP;Gustafson-Wagner EA;Scholz TD;Yang B;Lin JJ
The Xin repeat-containing proteins, mXinα and mXinβ, localize to the intercalated disc (ICD) of mouse heart and are implicated in cardiac development and function. The mXinα directly interacts with β-catenin, p120-catenin and actin filaments. Ablation of mXinα results in adult late-onset cardiac cardiomyopathy with conduction defects. An up-regulation of the mXinβ in mXinα-deficient hearts suggests a partial compensation. The essential roles of mXinβ in cardiac development and ICD maturation were investigated. Ablation of mXinβ led to abnormal heart shape, ventricular septal defects, severe growth retardation and postnatal lethality with no up-regulation of the mXinα. Postnatal up-regulation of mXinβ in wild type hearts, as well as altered apoptosis and proliferation in mXinβ-null hearts suggest that mXinβ is required for postnatal heart remodeling. The mXinβ-null hearts exhibited a mis-organized myocardium as detected by histological and electron microscopic studies, and an impaired diastolic function as suggested by echocardiography and a delay in switching off the slow skeletal troponin I. Loss of mXinβ resulted in the failure of forming mature ICDs and the mis-localization of mXinα and N-cadherin. The mXinβ-null hearts showed up-regulation of active Stat3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3) and down-regulations of the activities of Rac1, IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1) receptor, Akt and Erk1/2 (extracellular-signal-regulated kinases 1/2). These findings identify not only an essential role of mXinβ in the ICD maturation but also mechanisms of mXinβ modulating N-cadherin-mediated adhesion signaling and its crosstalk signaling for postnatal heart growth and animal survival.