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Levy S, Sharaf Dabbagh G, Giudicessi JR, Haqqani H, Khanji MY, Obeng-Gyimah E, Betts MN, Ricci F, Asatryan B, Bouatia-Naji N, Nazarian S, Chahal CAA. Genetic mechanisms underlying arrhythmogenic mitral valve prolapse: Current and future perspectives. Heart Rhythm O2 2023; 4:581-591. [PMID: 37744942 PMCID: PMC10513923 DOI: 10.1016/j.hroo.2023.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a heart valve disease that is often familial, affecting 2%-3% of the general population. MVP with or without mitral regurgitation can be associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Research on familial MVP has specifically focused on genetic factors, which may explain the heritable component of the disease estimated to be present in 20%-35%. Furthermore, the structural and electrophysiological substrates underlying SCD/ventricular arrhythmia risk in MVP have been studied postmortem and in the electrophysiology laboratory, respectively. Understanding how familial MVP and rhythm disorders are related may help patients with MVP by individualizing risk and working to develop effective management strategies. This contemporary, state-of-the-art, expert review focuses on genetic factors and familial components that underlie MVP and arrhythmia and encapsulates clinical, genetic, and electrophysiological issues that should be the objectives of future research.
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- Sydney Levy
- Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York
- Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, WellSpan Health, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Divisions of Heart Rhythm Services and Circulatory Failure, Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Pharmacology, and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York
- NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Newham University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, VT and Complex Ablation Program, WellSpan Health, York, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, WellSpan Health, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Fondazione Villaserena per la Ricerca, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Cardiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, WellSpan Health, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, West Smithfield, United Kingdom
- Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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Delwarde C, Toquet C, Aumond P, Kayvanjoo AH, Foucal A, Le Vely B, Baudic M, Lauzier B, Blandin S, Véziers J, Paul-Gilloteaux P, Lecointe S, Baron E, Massaiu I, Poggio P, Rémy S, Anegon I, Le Marec H, Monassier L, Schott JJ, Mass E, Barc J, Le Tourneau T, Merot J, Capoulade R. Multimodality imaging and transciptomics to phenotype mitral valve dystrophy in a unique knock-in Filamin-A rat model. Cardiovasc Res 2022; 119:759-771. [PMID: 36001550 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvac136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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AIMS Degenerative mitral valve dystrophy (MVD) leading to mitral valve prolapse is the most frequent form of MV disease, and there is currently no pharmacological treatment available. The limited understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to MVD limits our ability to identify therapeutic targets. This study aimed to reveal the main pathophysiological pathways involved in MVD via the multimodality imaging and transcriptomic analysis of the new and unique Knock-In (KI) rat model for the FlnA-P637Q mutation associated-MVD. METHODS AND RESULTS WT and KI rats were evaluated morphologically, functionally, and histologically between 3-week-old and 3-to-6-month-old based on Doppler echocardiography, 3D micro-computed tomography (microCT), and standard histology. RNA-sequencing and Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin (ATAC-seq) were performed on 3-week-old WT and KI mitral valves and valvular cells, respectively, to highlight the main signaling pathways associated with MVD. Echocardiographic exploration confirmed MV elongation (2.0 ± 0.1 mm versus 1.8 ± 0.1, p = 0.001), as well as MV thickening and prolapse in KI animals compared to WT at 3 weeks. 3D MV volume quantified by microCT was significantly increased in KI animals (+58% versus WT, p = 0.02). Histological analyses revealed a myxomatous remodeling in KI MV characterized by proteoglycans accumulation. A persistent phenotype was observed in adult KI rats. Signaling pathways related to extracellular matrix homeostasis, response to molecular stress, epithelial cell migration, endothelial to mesenchymal transition, chemotaxis and immune cell migration, were identified based on RNA-seq analysis. ATAC-seq analysis points to the critical role of TGF-β and inflammation in the disease. CONCLUSION The KI FlnA-P637Q rat model mimics human myxomatous mitral valve dystrophy, offering a unique opportunity to decipher pathophysiological mechanisms related to this disease. Extracellular matrix organization, epithelial cell migration, response to mechanical stress, and a central contribution of immune cells are highlighted as the main signaling pathways leading to myxomatous mitral valve dystrophy. Our findings pave the road to decipher underlying molecular mechanisms and the specific role of distinct cell populations in this context.
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- Constance Delwarde
- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Developmental Biology of the Immune System, Life & Medical Sciences (LIMES) Institute, University of Bonn; 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Inserm, CNRS, SFR Santé, Inserm UMS 016, CNRS UAR 3556, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1229, RMeS, CHU Nantes PHU4 OTONN, Nantes Univ, Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France.,Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Inserm, CNRS, SFR Santé, Inserm UMS 016, CNRS UAR 3556, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milano, Italy
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- INSERM UMR 1064-CR2TI, Transgenic Rats ImmunoPhenomic, Nantes, France
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- INSERM UMR 1064-CR2TI, Transgenic Rats ImmunoPhenomic, Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie NeuroCardiovasculaire UR7296, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Developmental Biology of the Immune System, Life & Medical Sciences (LIMES) Institute, University of Bonn; 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du thorax, F-44000 Nantes, France
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Misra S, Ghatak S, Moreno-Rodriguez RA, Norris RA, Hascall VC, Markwald RR. Periostin/Filamin-A: A Candidate Central Regulatory Axis for Valve Fibrogenesis and Matrix Compaction. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:649862. [PMID: 34150753 PMCID: PMC8209548 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.649862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Discoveries in the identification of transcription factors, growth factors and extracellular signaling molecules have led to the detection of downstream targets that modulate valvular tissue organization that occurs during development, aging, or disease. Among these, matricellular protein, periostin, and cytoskeletal protein filamin A are highly expressed in developing heart valves. The phenotype of periostin null indicates that periostin promotes migration, survival, and differentiation of valve interstitial cushion cells into fibroblastic lineages necessary for postnatal valve remodeling/maturation. Genetically inhibiting filamin A expression in valve interstitial cushion cells mirrored the phenotype of periostin nulls, suggesting a molecular interaction between these two proteins resulted in poorly remodeled valve leaflets that might be prone to myxomatous over time. We examined whether filamin A has a cross-talk with periostin/signaling that promotes remodeling of postnatal heart valves into mature leaflets. RESULTS We have previously shown that periostin/integrin-β1 regulates Pak1 activation; here, we revealed that the strong interaction between Pak1 and filamin A proteins was only observed after stimulation of VICs with periostin; suggesting that periostin/integrin-β-mediated interaction between FLNA and Pak1 may have a functional role in vivo. We found that FLNA phosphorylation (S2152) is activated by Pak1, and this interaction was observed after stimulation with periostin/integrin-β1/Cdc42/Rac1 signaling; consequently, FLNA binding to Pak1 stimulates its kinase activity. Patients with floppy and/or prolapsed mitral valves, when genetically screened, were found to have point mutations in the filamin A gene at P637Q and G288R. Expression of either of these filamin A mutants failed to increase the magnitude of filamin A (S2152) expression, Pak1-kinase activity, actin polymerization, and differentiation of VICs into mature mitral valve leaflets in response to periostin signaling. CONCLUSION PN-stimulated bidirectional interaction between activated FLNA and Pak1 is essential for actin cytoskeletal reorganization and the differentiation of immature VICs into mature valve leaflets.
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- Suniti Misra
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering/ND20, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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Kalayinia S, Maleki M, Mahdavi M, Mahdieh N. Whole-Exome Sequencing Reveals a Novel Mutation of FLNA Gene in an Iranian Family with Nonsyndromic Tetralogy of Fallot. Lab Med 2021; 52:614-618. [PMID: 33942857 DOI: 10.1093/labmed/lmab018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is one of the most common congenital abnormalities that need early intervention. Here, for the first time, we report a nonsyndromic form of TOF caused by a novel variant in the FLNA gene in 2 siblings of an Iranian family. METHODS The family underwent a complete workup, including karyotyping, sequencing of 6 common genes in congenital heart diseases (GATA4, NKX2-5, ZIC3, FOXH1, NODAL, and GJA1), array comparative genomic hybridization, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, and whole-exome sequencing. Segregation and in silico analysis were also conducted for the identified variant. RESULTS A variant, c.3415C>T, in the FLNA gene was found in both affected brothers in this family; this variant was heterozygous in their mother. Bioinformatics tools predicted the variant as a pathogenic one. CONCLUSION Many allelic disorders have been reported for FLNA mutations. Mutations in this gene may cause a nonsyndromic congenital form of TOF.
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- Samira Kalayinia
- Cardiogenetic Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Cardiogenetic Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Cardiogenetic Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Cardiogenetic Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Growth and Development Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Bandaru S, Ala C, Ekstrand M, Akula MK, Pedrelli M, Liu X, Bergström G, Håversen L, Borén J, Bergo MO, Akyürek LM. Lack of RAC1 in macrophages protects against atherosclerosis. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0239284. [PMID: 32941503 PMCID: PMC7498073 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The Rho GTPase RAC1 is an important regulator of cytoskeletal dynamics, but the role of macrophage-specific RAC1 has not been explored during atherogenesis. We analyzed RAC1 expression in human carotid atherosclerotic plaques using immunofluorescence and found higher macrophage RAC1 expression in advanced plaques compared with intermediate human atherosclerotic plaques. We then produced mice with Rac1-deficient macrophages by breeding conditional floxed Rac1 mice (Rac1fl/fl) with mice expressing Cre from the macrophage-specific lysosome M promoter (LC). Atherosclerosis was studied in vivo by infecting Rac1fl/fl and Rac1fl/fl/LC mice with AdPCSK9 (adenoviral vector overexpressing proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9). Rac1fl/fl/LC macrophages secreted lower levels of IL-6 and TNF-α and exhibited reduced foam cell formation and lipid uptake. The deficiency of Rac1 in macrophages reduced the size of aortic atherosclerotic plaques in AdPCSK9-infected Rac1fl/fl/LC mice. Compare with controls, intima/media ratios, the size of necrotic cores, and numbers of CD68-positive macrophages in atherosclerotic plaques were reduced in Rac1-deficient mice. Moreover, we found that RAC1 interacts with actin-binding filamin A. Macrophages expressed increased RAC1 levels in advanced human atherosclerosis. Genetic inactivation of RAC1 impaired macrophage function and reduced atherosclerosis in mice, suggesting that drugs targeting RAC1 may be useful in the treatment of atherosclerosis.
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- Sashidar Bandaru
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Västra Götalandregionen, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Pathology, Västra Götalandregionen, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Wade EM, Halliday BJ, Jenkins ZA, O'Neill AC, Robertson SP. The X‐linked filaminopathies: Synergistic insights from clinical and molecular analysis. Hum Mutat 2020; 41:865-883. [DOI: 10.1002/humu.24002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Emma M. Wade
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of MedicineUniversity of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of MedicineUniversity of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of MedicineUniversity of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of MedicineUniversity of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of MedicineUniversity of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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Fulmer D, Toomer KA, Glover J, Guo L, Moore K, Moore R, Stairley R, Gensemer C, Abrol S, Rumph MK, Emetu F, Lipschutz JH, McDowell C, Bian J, Wang C, Beck T, Wessels A, Renault MA, Norris RA. Desert hedgehog-primary cilia cross talk shapes mitral valve tissue by organizing smooth muscle actin. Dev Biol 2020; 463:26-38. [PMID: 32151560 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Non-syndromic mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is the most common heart valve disease affecting 2.4% of the population. Recent studies have identified genetic defects in primary cilia as causative to MVP, although the mechanism of their action is currently unknown. Using a series of gene inactivation approaches, we define a paracrine mechanism by which endocardially-expressed Desert Hedgehog (DHH) activates primary cilia signaling on neighboring valve interstitial cells. High-resolution imaging and functional assays show that DHH de-represses smoothened at the primary cilia, resulting in kinase activation of RAC1 through the RAC1-GEF, TIAM1. Activation of this non-canonical hedgehog pathway stimulates α-smooth actin organization and ECM remodeling. Genetic or pharmacological perturbation of this pathway results in enlarged valves that progress to a myxomatous phenotype, similar to valves seen in MVP patients. These data identify a potential molecular origin for MVP as well as establish a paracrine DHH-primary cilium cross-talk mechanism that is likely applicable across developmental tissue types.
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- Diana Fulmer
- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA; Department of Genetic Medicine, John Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA; Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
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Haataja TJK, Capoulade R, Lecointe S, Hellman M, Merot J, Permi P, Pentikäinen U. Critical Structural Defects Explain Filamin A Mutations Causing Mitral Valve Dysplasia. Biophys J 2019; 117:1467-1475. [PMID: 31542223 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.08.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Revised: 08/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Mitral valve diseases affect ∼3% of the population and are the most common reasons for valvular surgery because no drug-based treatments exist. Inheritable genetic mutations have now been established as the cause of mitral valve insufficiency, and four different missense mutations in the filamin A gene (FLNA) have been found in patients suffering from nonsyndromic mitral valve dysplasia (MVD). The filamin A (FLNA) protein is expressed, in particular, in endocardial endothelia during fetal valve morphogenesis and is key in cardiac development. The FLNA-MVD-causing mutations are clustered in the N-terminal region of FLNA. How the mutations in FLNA modify its structure and function has mostly remained elusive. In this study, using NMR spectroscopy and interaction assays, we investigated FLNA-MVD-causing V711D and H743P mutations. Our results clearly indicated that both mutations almost completely destroyed the folding of the FLNA5 domain, where the mutation is located, and also affect the folding of the neighboring FLNA4 domain. The structure of the neighboring FLNA6 domain was not affected by the mutations. These mutations also completely abolish FLNA's interactions with protein tyrosine phosphatase nonreceptor type 12, which has been suggested to contribute to the pathogenesis of FLNA-MVD. Taken together, our results provide an essential structural and molecular framework for understanding the molecular bases of FLNA-MVD, which is crucial for the development of new therapies to replace surgery.
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- Tatu J K Haataja
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland.
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Duan B, Xu C, Das S, Chen JM, Butcher JT. Spatial Regulation of Valve Interstitial Cell Phenotypes within Three-Dimensional Micropatterned Hydrogels. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2019; 5:1416-1425. [PMID: 33405617 PMCID: PMC10951959 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b01280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is the third leading cause of cardiovascular disease. CAVD exhibits progressive disruption of the normally highly organized and aligned extracellular matrix (ECM) structure within the valve leaflets simultaneously with myofibroblastic and/or osteogenic differentiation of indigenous endogenous valve interstitial cells (VIC). It is unclear how the alignment of VIC within their 3D microenvironment drives VIC phenotype or how alignment affects cellular responses to biochemical cues in physiological or pathological conditions. In this study, we implement a photolithographic technique to control the alignment and elongation of both normal and diseased human aortic VIC (HAVIC) within microengineered 3D hydrogels consisting of methacrylated hyaluronic acid and methacrylated gelatin. Stripe micropatterning created distinct alignment of HAVIC within a 3D culture system, which promoted spreading and enhanced their activation and osteogenic differentiation in pro-osteogenic conditions. HAVIC from a patient with CAVD exhibited greater susceptibility to myofibroblastic and osteogenic differentiation in culture. The roles of conjugated basic fibroblastic growth factor (bFGF) and RhoA/ROCK pathway in regulating HAVIC phenotypes were also investigated in the presence of aligned microtopography. The addition of bFGF was preventative to osteogenic differentiation for healthy HAVIC; however, it promoted osteogenic differentiation in diseased HAVIC. Inhibition of the ROCK pathway only decreased osteogenic differentiation for diseased HAVIC in the aligned formation. Collectively, these results improve our knowledge of the effects that VIC alignment has on VIC phenotypes and valve disease progression. The cell culture platform also enables a better understanding of the interplay between topography, biochemical cues, and VIC differentiation and provides information useful for directing differentiation as well as valve tissue regeneration.
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- Bin Duan
- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Mary & Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle WA, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Ali MS, Wang X, Lacerda CMR. The effect of physiological stretch and the valvular endothelium on mitral valve proteomes. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2019; 244:241-251. [PMID: 30722697 PMCID: PMC6425102 DOI: 10.1177/1535370219829006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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IMPACT STATEMENT This work is important to the field of heart valve pathophysiology as it provides new insights into molecular markers of mechanically induced valvular degeneration as well as the protective role of the valvular endothelium. These discoveries reported here advance our current knowledge of the valvular endothelium and how its removal essentially takes valve leaflets into an environmental shock. In addition, it shows that static conditions represent a mild pathological state for valve leaflets, while 10% cyclic stretch provides valvular cell quiescence. These findings impact the field by informing disease stages and by providing potential new drug targets to reverse or slow down valvular change before it affects cardiac function.
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- Mir S Ali
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3121, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3121, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3121, USA
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Disrupted filamin A/α IIbβ 3 interaction induces macrothrombocytopenia by increasing RhoA activity. Blood 2019; 133:1778-1788. [PMID: 30602618 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2018-07-861427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Filamin A (FLNa) links the cell membrane with the cytoskeleton and is central in several cellular processes. Heterozygous mutations in the X-linked FLNA gene are associated with a large spectrum of conditions, including macrothrombocytopenia, called filaminopathies. Using an isogenic pluripotent stem cell model derived from patients, we show that the absence of the FLNa protein in megakaryocytes (MKs) leads to their incomplete maturation, particularly the inability to produce proplatelets. Reduction in proplatelet formation potential is associated with a defect in actomyosin contractility, which results from inappropriate RhoA activation. This dysregulated RhoA activation was observed when MKs were plated on fibrinogen but not on other matrices (fibronectin, vitronectin, collagen 1, and von Willebrand factor), strongly suggesting a role for FLNa/αIIbβ3 interaction in the downregulation of RhoA activity. This was confirmed by experiments based on the overexpression of FLNa mutants deleted in the αIIbβ3-binding domain and the RhoA-interacting domain, respectively. Finally, pharmacological inhibition of the RhoA-associated kinase ROCK1/2 restored a normal phenotype and proplatelet formation. Overall, this work suggests a new etiology for macrothrombocytopenia, in which increased RhoA activity is associated with disrupted FLNa/αIIbβ3 interaction.
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Toomer K, Sauls K, Fulmer D, Guo L, Moore K, Glover J, Stairley R, Bischoff J, Levine RA, Norris RA. Filamin-A as a Balance between Erk/Smad Activities During Cardiac Valve Development. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2018; 302:117-124. [PMID: 30288957 PMCID: PMC6312478 DOI: 10.1002/ar.23911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Revised: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) affects 2.4% of the population and has poorly understood etiology. Recent genetic studies have begun to unravel the complexities of MVP and through these efforts, mutations in the FLNA (Filamin-A) gene were identified as disease causing. Our in vivo and in vitro studies have validated these genetic findings and have revealed FLNA as a central regulator of valve morphogenesis. The mechanisms by which FLNA mutations result in myxomatous mitral valve disease are currently unknown, but may involve proteins previously associated with mutated regions of the FLNA protein, such as the small GTPase signaling protein, R-Ras. Herein, we report that Filamin-A is required for R-Ras expression and activation of the Ras-Mek-Erk pathway. Loss of the Ras/Erk pathway correlated with hyperactivation of pSmad2/3, increased extracellular matrix (ECM) production and enlarged mitral valves. Analyses of integrin receptors in the mitral valve revealed that Filamin-A was required for β1-integrin expression and provided a potential mechanism for impaired ECM compaction and valve enlargement. Our data support Filamin-A as a protein that regulates the balance between Erk and Smad activation and an inability of Filamin-A deficient valve interstitial cells to effectively remodel the increased ECM production through a β1-integrin mechanism. As a consequence, loss of Filamin-A function results in increased ECM production and generation of a myxomatous phenotype characterized by improperly compacted mitral valve tissue. Anat Rec, 302:117-124, 2019. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Katelynn Toomer
- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Vascular Biology Program and Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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Guo Y, Li M, Bai G, Li X, Sun Z, Yang J, Wang L, Sun J. Filamin A inhibits tumor progression through regulating BRCA1 expression in human breast cancer. Oncol Lett 2018; 16:6261-6266. [PMID: 30405761 PMCID: PMC6202495 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2018.9473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Filamin A (FlnA) is an actin cross-linking protein. Previous studies have demonstrated its role in tumor progression in a wide range of cancer types. It has been reported that FlnA interacts with the DNA damage response protein, breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1), which is a tumor suppressor gene. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no studies evaluating the association of these genes in human carcinomas. In the present study, the immunohistochemistry of a tissue microarray was used to investigate the clinical significance of FlnA and BRCA1 expression in pathological specimens collected from 424 patients treated for breast cancer. In addition, FlnA and BRCA1 expression was downregulated in the breast cancer cell line, MCF-7, through FlnA RNA interference. FlnA expression was exhibited by cancer tissues collected from 137 patients with breast cancer, which also exhibited high expression of BRCA1 and were associated with a relatively long survival time. A significant association was identified between FlnA protein expression and tumor size, and between FlnA protein expression and progesterone receptor expression. These results suggest that BRCA1 expression could be regulated by FlnA in the breast cancer cell line, MCF-7. Overall, the present study demonstrates that FlnA expression was associated with BRAC1 expression and tumor size in breast cancer, which provides important implications for future study of FlnA in the progression of human breast cancer.
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- Yundi Guo
- Suzhou Vocational Health College, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215009, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Suzhou Hospital, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215000, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Suzhou Hospital, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215000, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Vocational Health College, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215009, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Vocational Health College, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215009, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Vocational Health College, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215009, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Suzhou Hospital, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215000, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Vocational Health College, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215009, P.R. China
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Fernández L, Tenorio J, Polo-Vaquero C, Vallespín E, Palomares-Bralo M, García-Miñaúr S, Santos-Simarro F, Arias P, Carnicer H, Giannivelli S, Medina J, Pérez-Piaya R, Solís J, Rodríguez M, Villagrá A, Rodríguez L, Nevado J, Martínez-Glez V, Heath KE, Lapunzina P. Variantes que mantienen el marco de lectura en el dominio Rod 1 proximal del gen FLNA se asocian con un predominio del fenotipo valvular. Rev Esp Cardiol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.recesp.2017.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Le Tourneau T, Le Scouarnec S, Cueff C, Bernstein D, Aalberts JJJ, Lecointe S, Mérot J, Bernstein JA, Oomen T, Dina C, Karakachoff M, Desal H, Al Habash O, Delling FN, Capoulade R, Suurmeijer AJH, Milan D, Norris RA, Markwald R, Aikawa E, Slaugenhaupt SA, Jeunemaitre X, Hagège A, Roussel JC, Trochu JN, Levine RA, Kyndt F, Probst V, Le Marec H, Schott JJ. New insights into mitral valve dystrophy: a Filamin-A genotype-phenotype and outcome study. Eur Heart J 2018; 39:1269-1277. [PMID: 29020406 PMCID: PMC5905589 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2016] [Revised: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Aims Filamin-A (FLNA) was identified as the first gene of non-syndromic mitral valve dystrophy (FLNA-MVD). We aimed to assess the phenotype of FLNA-MVD and its impact on prognosis. Methods and results We investigated the disease in 246 subjects (72 mutated) from four FLNA-MVD families harbouring three different FLNA mutations. Phenotype was characterized by a comprehensive echocardiography focusing on mitral valve apparatus in comparison with control relatives. In this X-linked disease valves lesions were severe in men and moderate in women. Most men had classical features of mitral valve prolapse (MVP), but without chordal rupture. By contrast to regular MVP, mitral leaflet motion was clearly restricted in diastole and papillary muscles position was closer to mitral annulus. Valvular abnormalities were similar in the four families, in adults and young patients from early childhood suggestive of a developmental disease. In addition, mitral valve lesions worsened over time as encountered in degenerative conditions. Polyvalvular involvement was frequent in males and non-diagnostic forms frequent in females. Overall survival was moderately impaired in men (P = 0.011). Cardiac surgery rate (mainly valvular) was increased (33.3 ± 9.8 vs. 5.0 ± 4.9%, P < 0.0001; hazard ratio 10.5 [95% confidence interval: 2.9-37.9]) owing mainly to a lifetime increased risk in men (76.8 ± 14.1 vs. 9.1 ± 8.7%, P < 0.0001). Conclusion FLNA-MVD is a developmental and degenerative disease with complex phenotypic expression which can influence patient management. FLNA-MVD has unique features with both MVP and paradoxical restricted motion in diastole, sub-valvular mitral apparatus impairment and polyvalvular lesions in males. FLNA-MVD conveys a substantial lifetime risk of valve surgery in men.
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- Thierry Le Tourneau
- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5208, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5208, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Antonius Hospital Sneek, Sneek, The Netherlands
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114-2696, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur, NRB-741, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology and Department of Genetics, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
- INSERM U970, Paris Cardiovascular Research Center PARCC, Paris, France
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- Department of Cardiology and Department of Genetics, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
- INSERM U970, Paris Cardiovascular Research Center PARCC, Paris, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114-2696, USA
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- l’institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
- l’institut du thorax, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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Le Tourneau T, Mérot J, Rimbert A, Le Scouarnec S, Probst V, Le Marec H, Levine RA, Schott JJ. Genetics of syndromic and non-syndromic mitral valve prolapse. Heart 2018; 104:978-984. [PMID: 29352010 DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Revised: 11/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common condition that affects 2%-3% of the general population. MVP is thought to include syndromic forms such as Marfan syndrome and non-syndromic MVP, which is the most frequent form. Myxomatous degeneration and fibroelastic deficiency (FED) are regarded as two different forms of non-syndromic MVP. While FED is still considered a degenerative disease associated with ageing, frequent familial clustering has been demonstrated for myxomatous MVP. Familial and genetic studies led to the recognition of reduced penetrance and large phenotypic variability, and to the identification of prodromal or atypical forms as a part of the complex spectrum of the disease. Whereas autosomal dominant mode is the common inheritance pattern, an X linked form of non-syndromic MVP was recognised initially, related to Filamin-A gene, encoding for a cytoskeleton protein involved in mechanotransduction. This identification allowed a comprehensive description of a new subtype of MVP with a unique association of leaflet prolapse and paradoxical restricted motion in diastole. In autosomal dominant forms, three loci have been mapped to chromosomes 16p11-p12, 11p15.4 and 13q31-32. Although deciphering the underlying genetic defects is still a work in progress, DCHS1 mutations have been identified (11p15.4) in typical myxomatous disease, highlighting new molecular pathways and pathophysiological mechanisms leading to the development of MVP. Finally, a large international genome-wide association study demonstrated the implication of frequent variants in MVP development and opened new directions for future research. Hence, this review focuses on phenotypic, genetic and pathophysiological aspects of MVP.
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- Thierry Le Tourneau
- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
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Pagnozzi LA, Butcher JT. Mechanotransduction Mechanisms in Mitral Valve Physiology and Disease Pathogenesis. Front Cardiovasc Med 2017; 4:83. [PMID: 29312958 PMCID: PMC5744129 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2017.00083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The mitral valve exists in a mechanically demanding environment, with the stress of each cardiac cycle deforming and shearing the native fibroblasts and endothelial cells. Cells and their extracellular matrix exhibit a dynamic reciprocity in the growth and formation of tissue through mechanotransduction and continuously adapt to physical cues in their environment through gene, protein, and cytokine expression. Valve disease is the most common congenital heart defect with watchful waiting and valve replacement surgery the only treatment option. Mitral valve disease (MVD) has been linked to a variety of mechano-active genes ranging from extracellular components, mechanotransductive elements, and cytoplasmic and nuclear transcription factors. Specialized cell receptors, such as adherens junctions, cadherins, integrins, primary cilia, ion channels, caveolae, and the glycocalyx, convert mechanical cues into biochemical responses via a complex of mechanoresponsive elements, shared signaling modalities, and integrated frameworks. Understanding mechanosensing and transduction in mitral valve-specific cells may allow us to discover unique signal transduction pathways between cells and their environment, leading to cell or tissue specific mechanically targeted therapeutics for MVD.
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- Leah A. Pagnozzi
- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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Fernández L, Tenorio J, Polo-Vaquero C, Vallespín E, Palomares-Bralo M, García-Miñaúr S, Santos-Simarro F, Arias P, Carnicer H, Giannivelli S, Medina J, Pérez-Piaya R, Solís J, Rodríguez M, Villagrá A, Rodríguez L, Nevado J, Martínez-Glez V, Heath KE, Lapunzina P. In-frame Variants in FLNA Proximal Rod 1 Domain Associate With a Predominant Cardiac Valvular Phenotype. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 71:545-552. [PMID: 29146485 DOI: 10.1016/j.rec.2017.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES X-linked cardiac valvular dysplasia is a rare form of male-specific congenital heart defect mainly characterized by myxomatous degeneration of the atrioventricular valves with variable hemodynamic consequences. It is caused by genetic defects in FLNA-encoded filamin A, a widely expressed actin-binding protein that regulates cytoskeleton organization. Filamin A loss of function has also been associated with often concurring neurologic and connective tissue manifestations, with mutations in the first half of the Rod 1 domain apparently expressing the full cardiac phenotype. We contribute to previous genotype-phenotype correlations with a multidisciplinary approach in a newly-described family. METHODS Cardiologic, dysmorphologic, and genetic evaluation of available members were complemented with transcriptional and X-chromosome inactivation studies. RESULTS A novel FLNA mutation c.1066-3C>G cosegregated with a male-expressed, apparently isolated, cardiac phenotype with no skewed X-inactivation pattern in female carriers. This variant was shown to result in an in-frame deletion of 8 amino acid residues near the N-terminal region of the protein. CONCLUSIONS A nonimprinted, partial loss of function of filamin A proximal Rod 1 domain seems to be the pathogenetic mechanism of cardiac valvular dysplasia, with some cases occasionally expressing associated extracardiac manifestations.
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- Luis Fernández
- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Cardiología Infantil, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Cardiología Infantil, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio Clínico, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain; Unidad de Genética Clínica, Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe, Madrid, Spain
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Burrage LC, Guillerman RP, Das S, Singh S, Schady DA, Morris SA, Walkiewicz M, Schecter MG, Heinle JS, Lotze TE, Lalani SR, Mallory GB. Lung Transplantation for FLNA-Associated Progressive Lung Disease. J Pediatr 2017; 186:118-123.e6. [PMID: 28457522 PMCID: PMC5534178 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Revised: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To describe a series of patients with pathogenic variants in FLNA and progressive lung disease necessitating lung transplantation. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a retrospective chart review of 6 female infants with heterozygous presumed loss-of-function pathogenic variants in FLNA whose initial presentation was early and progressive respiratory failure. RESULTS Each patient received lung transplantation at an average age of 11 months (range, 5-15 months). All patients had pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic respiratory failure requiring tracheostomy and escalating levels of ventilator support before transplantation. All 6 patients survived initial lung transplantation; however, 1 patient died after a subsequent heart-lung transplant. The remaining 5 patients are living unrestricted lives on chronic immunosuppression at most recent follow-up (range, 19 months to 11.3 years post-transplantation). However, in all patients, severe ascending aortic dilation has been observed with aortic regurgitation. CONCLUSIONS Respiratory failure secondary to progressive obstructive lung disease during infancy may be the presenting phenotype of FLNA-associated periventricular nodular heterotopia. We describe a cohort of patients with progressive respiratory failure related to a pathogenic variant in FLNA and present lung transplantation as a viable therapeutic option for this group of patients.
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- Lindsay C. Burrage
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine,Texas Children’s Hospital
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- Section of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
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- Division of Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York - Buffalo
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- Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine
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- Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
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- Section of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine,Texas Children’s Hospital
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- Section of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
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Hu J, Lu J, Goyal A, Wong T, Lian G, Zhang J, Hecht JL, Feng Y, Sheen VL. Opposing FlnA and FlnB interactions regulate RhoA activation in guiding dynamic actin stress fiber formation and cell spreading. Hum Mol Genet 2017; 26:1294-1304. [PMID: 28175289 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddx047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Filamins are a family of actin-binding proteins responsible for diverse biological functions in the context of regulating actin dynamics and vesicle trafficking. Disruption of these proteins has been implicated in multiple human developmental disorders. To investigate the roles of different filamin isoforms, we focused on FlnA and FlnB interactions in the cartilage growth plate, since mutations in both molecules cause chondrodysplasias. Current studies show that FlnA and FlnB share a common function in stabilizing the actin cytoskeleton, they physically interact in the cytoplasm of chondrocytes, and loss of FlnA enhances FlnB expression of chondrocytes in the growth plate (and vice versa), suggesting compensation. Prolonged FlnB loss, however, promotes actin-stress fiber formation following plating onto an integrin activating substrate whereas FlnA inhibition leads to decreased actin formation. FlnA more strongly binds RhoA, although both filamins overlap with RhoA expression in the cell cytoplasm. FlnA promotes RhoA activation whereas FlnB indirectly inhibits this pathway. Moreover, FlnA loss leads to diminished expression of β1-integrin, whereas FlnB loss promotes integrin expression. Finally, fibronectin mediated integrin activation has been shown to activate RhoA and activated RhoA leads to stress fiber formation and cell spreading. Fibronectin stimulation in null FlnA cells impairs enhanced spreading whereas FlnB inhibited cells show enhanced spreading. While filamins serve a primary static function in stabilization of the actin cytoskeleton, these studies are the first to demonstrate a dynamic and antagonistic relationship between different filamin isoforms in the dynamic regulation of integrin expression, RhoGTPase activity and actin stress fiber remodeling.
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- Jianjun Hu
- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Ritelli M, Morlino S, Giacopuzzi E, Carini G, Cinquina V, Chiarelli N, Majore S, Colombi M, Castori M. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with lethal cardiac valvular dystrophy in males carrying a novel splice mutation in FLNA. Am J Med Genet A 2016; 173:169-176. [PMID: 27739212 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.38004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Filamin A is an X-linked, ubiquitous actin-binding protein whose mutations are associated to multiple disorders with limited genotype-phenotype correlations. While gain-of-function mutations cause various bone dysplasias, loss-of-function variants are the most common cause of periventricular nodular heterotopias with variable soft connective tissue involvement, as well as X-linked cardiac valvular dystrophy (XCVD). The term "Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) with periventricular heterotopias" has been used in females with neurological, cardiovascular, integument and joint manifestations, but this nosology is still a matter of debate. We report the clinical and molecular update of an Italian family with an X-linked recessive soft connective tissue disorder and which was described, in 1975, as the first example of EDS type V of the Berlin nosology. The cutaneous phenotype of the index patient was close to classical EDS and all males died for a lethal cardiac valvular dystrophy. Whole exome sequencing identified the novel c.1829-1G>C splice variation in FLNA in two affected cousins. The nucleotide change was predicted to abolish the canonical splice acceptor site of exon 13 and to activate a cryptic acceptor site 15 bp downstream, leading to in frame deletion of five amino acid residues (p.Phe611_Gly615del). The predicted in frame deletion clusters with all the mutations previously identified in XCVD and falls within the N-terminus rod 1 domain of filamin A. Our findings expand the male-specific phenotype of FLNA mutations that now includes classical-like EDS with lethal cardiac valvular dystrophy, and offer further insights for the genotype-phenotype correlations within this spectrum. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Marco Ritelli
- Division of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Genetics, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Division of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Division of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Division of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Division of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Genetics, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Division of Biology and Genetics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Genetics, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Gould RA, Yalcin HC, MacKay JL, Sauls K, Norris R, Kumar S, Butcher JT. Cyclic Mechanical Loading Is Essential for Rac1-Mediated Elongation and Remodeling of the Embryonic Mitral Valve. Curr Biol 2015; 26:27-37. [PMID: 26725196 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2015] [Revised: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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During valvulogenesis, globular endocardial cushions elongate and remodel into highly organized thin fibrous leaflets. Proper regulation of this dynamic process is essential to maintain unidirectional blood flow as the embryonic heart matures. In this study, we tested how mechanosensitive small GTPases, RhoA and Rac1, coordinate atrioventricular valve (AV) differentiation and morphogenesis. RhoA activity and its regulated GTPase-activating protein FilGAP are elevated during early cushion formation but decreased considerably during valve remodeling. In contrast, Rac1 activity was nearly absent in the early cushions but increased substantially as the valve matured. Using gain- and loss-of-function assays, we determined that the RhoA pathway was essential for the contractile myofibroblastic phenotype present in early cushion formation but was surprisingly insufficient to drive matrix compaction during valve maturation. The Rac1 pathway was necessary to induce matrix compaction in vitro through increased cell adhesion, elongation, and stress fiber alignment. Facilitating this process, we found that acute cyclic stretch was a potent activator of RhoA and subsequently downregulated Rac1 activity via FilGAP. On the other hand, chronic cyclic stretch reduced active RhoA and downstream FilGAP, which enabled Rac1 activation. Finally, we used partial atrial ligation experiments to confirm in vivo that altered cyclic mechanical loading augmented or restricted cushion elongation and thinning, directly through potentiation of active Rac1 and active RhoA, respectively. Together, these results demonstrate that cyclic mechanical signaling coordinates the RhoA to Rac1 signaling transition essential for proper embryonic mitral valve remodeling.
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- Russell A Gould
- The Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Qatar Cardiovascular Research Center (QCRC), Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dogus University, Istanbul 34722, Turkey
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center, Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- The Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Krebs K, Ruusmann A, Simonlatser G, Velling T. Expression of FLNa in human melanoma cells regulates the function of integrin α1β1 and phosphorylation and localisation of PKB/AKT/ERK1/2 kinases. Eur J Cell Biol 2015; 94:564-75. [PMID: 26572583 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2015.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2015] [Revised: 10/23/2015] [Accepted: 10/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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FLNa is a ubiquitous cytoskeletal protein that links transmembrane receptors, including integrins, to F-actin and functions as a signalling intermediate. We investigated FLNa's role in the function of integrin-type collagen receptors, EGF-EGFR signalling and regulation of PKB/Akt and ERK1/2. Using FLNa-deficient M2 human melanoma cells, and same cells expressing EGFP-FLNa (M2F) or its Ig-like repeats 1-8+24, 8-15+24 and 16-24, we found that in M2F and M2 8-15+24 cells, EGF induced the increased phosphorylation of PKB/Akt and ERK1/2. In M2F cells EGF induced the localisation of these kinases to cell nucleus and lamellipodia, respectively, and the ERK1/2 phosphorylation-dependent co-immunoprecipitation of FLNa with ERK1/2. Only M2F and M2 8-15+24 cells adhered to and spread on type I collagen whereas on fibronectin all cells behaved similarly. α1β1 and α2β1 were the integrin-type collagen receptors expressed on these cells with primarily α1β1 localising to focal contacts and affecting cell adhesion and migration in a manner dependent on FLNa or its Ig-like repeats 8-15. Our results suggest a role for FLNa repeats 8-15 in the α1-subunit-dependent regulation of integrin α1β1 function, EGF-EGFR signalling to PKB/Akt and ERK1/2, identify ERK1/2 in EGF-induced FLNa-associated protein complexes, and show that the function of different integrins is subjected to differential regulation by FLNa.
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- Kristi Krebs
- Institute of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia.
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Levine RA, Hagége AA, Judge DP, Padala M, Dal-Bianco JP, Aikawa E, Beaudoin J, Bischoff J, Bouatia-Naji N, Bruneval P, Butcher JT, Carpentier A, Chaput M, Chester AH, Clusel C, Delling FN, Dietz HC, Dina C, Durst R, Fernandez-Friera L, Handschumacher MD, Jensen MO, Jeunemaitre XP, Le Marec H, Le Tourneau T, Markwald RR, Mérot J, Messas E, Milan DP, Neri T, Norris RA, Peal D, Perrocheau M, Probst V, Pucéat M, Rosenthal N, Solis J, Schott JJ, Schwammenthal E, Slaugenhaupt SA, Song JK, Yacoub MH. Mitral valve disease--morphology and mechanisms. Nat Rev Cardiol 2015; 12:689-710. [PMID: 26483167 DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2015.161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Mitral valve disease is a frequent cause of heart failure and death. Emerging evidence indicates that the mitral valve is not a passive structure, but--even in adult life--remains dynamic and accessible for treatment. This concept motivates efforts to reduce the clinical progression of mitral valve disease through early detection and modification of underlying mechanisms. Discoveries of genetic mutations causing mitral valve elongation and prolapse have revealed that growth factor signalling and cell migration pathways are regulated by structural molecules in ways that can be modified to limit progression from developmental defects to valve degeneration with clinical complications. Mitral valve enlargement can determine left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and might be stimulated by potentially modifiable biological valvular-ventricular interactions. Mitral valve plasticity also allows adaptive growth in response to ventricular remodelling. However, adverse cellular and mechanobiological processes create relative leaflet deficiency in the ischaemic setting, leading to mitral regurgitation with increased heart failure and mortality. Our approach, which bridges clinicians and basic scientists, enables the correlation of observed disease with cellular and molecular mechanisms, leading to the discovery of new opportunities for improving the natural history of mitral valve disease.
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- Robert A Levine
- Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Yawkey 5E, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- University of Nantes, Thoracic Institute, INSERM UMR 1097, CNRS UMR 6291, Nantes, France
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- Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Hospital Universitario HM Monteprincipe and the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- University of Nantes, Thoracic Institute, INSERM UMR 1097, CNRS UMR 6291, Nantes, France
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- University of Nantes, Thoracic Institute, INSERM UMR 1097, CNRS UMR 6291, Nantes, France
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- University of Nantes, Thoracic Institute, INSERM UMR 1097, CNRS UMR 6291, Nantes, France
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Aix-Marseille University, INSERM UMR 910, Marseille, France
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université René Descartes, UMR 970, Paris, France
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- University of Nantes, Thoracic Institute, INSERM UMR 1097, CNRS UMR 6291, Nantes, France
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- Aix-Marseille University, INSERM UMR 910, Marseille, France
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- Hospital Universitario HM Monteprincipe and the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- University of Nantes, Thoracic Institute, INSERM UMR 1097, CNRS UMR 6291, Nantes, France
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- Center for Human Genetic Research, MGH Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Although the genetic basis of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) has now been clearly established, the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the pathological processes associated to a specific mutation often remain to be determined. The FLNA gene (encoding Filamin A; FlnA) was the first gene associated to non-syndromic X-linked myxomatous valvular dystrophy, but the impacts of the mutations on its function remain un-elucidated. Here, using the first repeats (1-8) of FlnA as a bait in a yeast two-hybrid screen, we identified the tyrosine phosphatase PTPN12 (PTP-PEST) as a specific binding partner of this region of FlnA protein. In addition, using yeast two-hybrid trap assay pull down and co-immunoprecipitation experiments, we showed that the MVP-associated FlnA mutations (G288R, P637Q, H743P) abolished FlnA/PTPN12 interactions. PTPN12 is a key regulator of signaling pathways involved in cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) crosstalk, cellular responses to mechanical stress that involve integrins, focal adhesion transduction pathways, and actin cytoskeleton dynamics. Interestingly, we showed that the FlnA mutations impair the activation status of two PTPN12 substrates, the focal adhesion associated kinase Src, and the RhoA specific activating protein p190RhoGAP. Together, these data point to PTPN12/FlnA interaction and its weakening by FlnA mutations as a mechanism potentially involved in the physiopathology of FlnA-associated MVP.
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Bowen CJ, Zhou J, Sung DC, Butcher JT. Cadherin-11 coordinates cellular migration and extracellular matrix remodeling during aortic valve maturation. Dev Biol 2015; 407:145-57. [PMID: 26188246 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2015] [Revised: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Proper remodeling of the endocardial cushions into thin fibrous valves is essential for gestational progression and long-term function. This process involves dynamic interactions between resident cells and their local environment, much of which is not understood. In this study, we show that deficiency of the cell-cell adhesion protein cadherin-11 (Cad-11) results in significant embryonic and perinatal lethality primarily due to valve related cardiac dysfunction. While endocardial to mesenchymal transformation is not abrogated, mesenchymal cells do not homogeneously cellularize the cushions. These cushions remain thickened with disorganized ECM, resulting in pronounced aortic valve insufficiency. Mice that survive to adulthood maintain thickened and stenotic semilunar valves, but interestingly do not develop calcification. Cad-11 (-/-) aortic valve leaflets contained reduced Sox9 activity, β1 integrin expression, and RhoA-GTP activity, suggesting that remodeling defects are due to improper migration and/or cellular contraction. Cad-11 deletion or siRNA knockdown reduced migration, eliminated collective migration, and impaired 3D matrix compaction by aortic valve interstitial cells (VIC). Cad-11 depleted cells in culture contained few filopodia, stress fibers, or contact inhibited locomotion. Transfection of Cad-11 depleted cells with constitutively active RhoA restored cell phenotypes. Together, these results identify cadherin-11 mediated adhesive signaling for proper remodeling of the embryonic semilunar valves.
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- Caitlin J Bowen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, United States.
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Tang S, Lv J, Chen X, Bai L, Li H, Chen C, Wang P, Xu X, Lu J. Prenatal Diagnosis of DNA Copy Number Variations by Genomic Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Array in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Defects. Fetal Diagn Ther 2015; 39:64-73. [DOI: 10.1159/000431320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Objectives: To evaluate the usefulness of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array for prenatal genetic diagnosis of congenital heart defect (CHD), we used this approach to detect clinically significant copy number variants (CNVs) in fetuses with CHDs. Methods: A HumanCytoSNP-12 array was used to detect genomic samples obtained from 39 fetuses that exhibited cardiovascular abnormalities on ultrasound and had a normal karyotype. The relationship between CNVs and CHDs was identified by using genotype-phenotype comparisons and searching of chromosomal databases. All clinically significant CNVs were confirmed by real-time PCR. Results: CNVs were detected in 38/39 (97.4%) fetuses: variants of unknown significance were detected in 2/39 (5.1%), and clinically significant CNVs were identified in 7/39 (17.9%). In 3 of the 7 fetuses with clinically significant CNVs, 3 rare and previously undescribed CNVs were detected, and these CNVs encompassed the CHD candidate genes FLNA (Xq28 dup), BCOR (Xp11.4 dup), and RBL2 (16q12.2 del). Conclusion: Compared with conventional cytogenetic genomics, SNP array analysis provides significantly improved detection of submicroscopic genomic aberrations in pregnancies with CHDs. Based on these results, we propose that genomic SNP array is an effective method which could be used in the prenatal diagnostic test to assist genetic counseling for pregnancies with CHDs.
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Ghatak S, Misra S, Norris RA, Moreno-Rodriguez RA, Hoffman S, Levine RA, Hascall VC, Markwald RR. Periostin induces intracellular cross-talk between kinases and hyaluronan in atrioventricular valvulogenesis. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:8545-61. [PMID: 24469446 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.539882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Periostin (PN), a novel fasciclin-related matricellular protein, has been implicated in cardiac development and postnatal remodeling, but the mechanism remains unknown. We examined the role of PN in mediating intracellular kinase activation for atrioventricular valve morphogenesis using well defined explant cultures, gene transfection systems, and Western blotting. The results show that valve progenitor (cushion) cells secrete PN into the extracellular matrix, where it can bind to INTEGRINs and activate INTEGRIN/focal adhesion kinase signaling pathways and downstream kinases, PI3K/AKT and ERK. Functional assays with prevalvular progenitor cells showed that activating these signaling pathways promoted adhesion, migration, and anti-apoptosis. Through activation of PI3K/ERK, PN directly enhanced collagen expression. Comparing PN-null to WT mice also revealed that expression of hyaluronan (HA) and activation of hyaluronan synthase-2 (Has2) are also enhanced upon PN/INTEGRIN/focal adhesion kinase-mediated activation of PI3K and/or ERK, an effect confirmed by the reduction of HA synthase-2 in PN-null mice. We also identified in valve progenitor cells a potential autocrine signaling feedback loop between PN and HA through PI3K and/or ERK. Finally, in a three-dimensional assay to simulate normal valve maturation in vitro, PN promoted collagen compaction in a kinase-dependent fashion. In summary, this study provides the first direct evidence that PN can act to stimulate a valvulogenic signaling pathway.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shibnath Ghatak
- From the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology
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