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Peripartum-Associated Heart Failure Develops Independently of RHOT Proteins.

📚 期刊: International journal of molecular sciences 📅 发表: 0000-00-00 🔬 PMID: 42278517 🔗 DOI: 10.3390/ijms27114991 👁️ 浏览: 4

👤 作者: Froese N, Sina E, Galuppo P, Werlein C, Gigina A, Hegermann J, Geffers R, Scholz T, Kamp JC, Neubert L

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Pregnancy-associated hemodynamic overload and hormonal changes induce hypertrophy and metabolic remodeling of the maternal heart. Mitochondrial motility, mediated by ras homolog family member T (RHOT) 1 and RHOT2, is essential for cardiac adaptation to increased workload, cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, and sarcomere maturation. To test the hypothesis that Rhot1/2 expression is required for pregnancy- and postpartum-associated adaptations of the maternal heart, female mice with tamoxifen-inducible, cardiomyocyte-selective deletion of Rhot1 and Rhot2 (iRhot1/2-KO) were mated. Following gene deletion in adult mice, cardiac tissue and function were analyzed after three to five successive pregnancies and postpartum nursing periods. Age-matched nulliparous iRhot1/2-KO mice and age-matched mice expressing Rhot1 and Rhot2 served as controls. Motility of mitochondria isolated from iRhot1/2-KO hearts was impaired, as determined by the number of mobile mitochondria in an in vitro motor protein-driven single mitochondrion motility assay performed on surface-immobilized microtubules. Despite loss of Rhot1/2 expression, contractile function assessed by transthoracic echocardiography, mRNA expression of peripartum-associated heart failure markers, cardiac structure, mitochondrial morphology, mitochondrial enzymatic activity, and mitochondrial DNA content were all comparable to controls expressing Rhot1/2 at the investigated time points. RNA sequencing-based gene profiling identified a transcriptional program through which RHOT proteins preserve cardiac energetic and contraction gene expression during pregnancy and postpartum. Together, cardiomyocyte-selective loss of Rhot1/2 expression in the adult heart does not cause peripartum-associated heart failure, despite reduced cardiac energetic and contraction gene expression.
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