PUBLICATION

Frequency of mononuclear diploid cardiomyocytes underlies natural variation in heart regeneration

Authors
Patterson, M., Barske, L., Van Handel, B., Rau, C.D., Gan, P., Sharma, A., Parikh, S., Denholtz, M., Huang, Y., Yamaguchi, Y., Shen, H., Allayee, H., Crump, J.G., Force, T.I., Lien, C.L., Makita, T., Lusis, A.J., Kumar, S.R., Sucov, H.M.
ID
ZDB-PUB-170808-1
Date
2017
Source
Nature Genetics   49(9): 1346-1353 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Barske, Lindsey, Crump, Gage DeKoeyer, Lien, Ching-Ling (Ellen), Sucov, Henry M.
Keywords
Developmental biology, Genetics Stem, cells
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Diploidy*
  • Gene Expression Profiling/methods
  • Heart/physiology*
  • Immunoblotting
  • In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Microscopy, Confocal
  • Myocardium/cytology
  • Myocardium/metabolism*
  • Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology
  • Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism*
  • Protein Kinases/genetics
  • Protein Kinases/metabolism
  • Regeneration/genetics
  • Regeneration/physiology*
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/metabolism
PubMed
28783163 Full text @ Nat. Genet.
Abstract
Adult mammalian cardiomyocyte regeneration after injury is thought to be minimal. Mononuclear diploid cardiomyocytes (MNDCMs), a relatively small subpopulation in the adult heart, may account for the observed degree of regeneration, but this has not been tested. We surveyed 120 inbred mouse strains and found that the frequency of adult mononuclear cardiomyocytes was surprisingly variable (>7-fold). Cardiomyocyte proliferation and heart functional recovery after coronary artery ligation both correlated with pre-injury MNDCM content. Using genome-wide association, we identified Tnni3k as one gene that influences variation in this composition and demonstrated that Tnni3k knockout resulted in elevated MNDCM content and increased cardiomyocyte proliferation after injury. Reciprocally, overexpression of Tnni3k in zebrafish promoted cardiomyocyte polyploidization and compromised heart regeneration. Our results corroborate the relevance of MNDCMs in heart regeneration. Moreover, they imply that intrinsic heart regeneration is not limited nor uniform in all individuals, but rather is a variable trait influenced by multiple genes.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping