RGD Reference Report - Cardiomyocyte-Specific Ablation of Med1 Subunit of the Mediator Complex Causes Lethal Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Mice. - Rat Genome Database

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Cardiomyocyte-Specific Ablation of Med1 Subunit of the Mediator Complex Causes Lethal Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Mice.

Authors: Jia, Yuzhi  Chang, Hsiang-Chun  Schipma, Matthew J  Liu, Jing  Shete, Varsha  Liu, Ning  Sato, Tatsuya  Thorp, Edward B  Barger, Philip M  Zhu, Yi-Jun  Viswakarma, Navin  Kanwar, Yashpal S  Ardehali, Hossein  Thimmapaya, Bayar  Reddy, Janardan K 
Citation: Jia Y, etal., PLoS One. 2016 Aug 22;11(8):e0160755. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160755. eCollection 2016.
RGD ID: 13513972
Pubmed: PMID:27548259   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC4993490   (View Article at PubMed Central)
DOI: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0160755   (Journal Full-text)

Mediator, an evolutionarily conserved multi-protein complex consisting of about 30 subunits, is a key component of the polymerase II mediated gene transcription. Germline deletion of the Mediator subunit 1 (Med1) of the Mediator in mice results in mid-gestational embryonic lethality with developmental impairment of multiple organs including heart. Here we show that cardiomyocyte-specific deletion of Med1 in mice (csMed1-/-) during late gestational and early postnatal development by intercrossing Med1fl/fl mice to α-MyHC-Cre transgenic mice results in lethality within 10 days after weaning due to dilated cardiomyopathy-related ventricular dilation and heart failure. The csMed1-/- mouse heart manifests mitochondrial damage, increased apoptosis and interstitial fibrosis. Global gene expression analysis revealed that loss of Med1 in heart down-regulates more than 200 genes including Acadm, Cacna1s, Atp2a2, Ryr2, Pde1c, Pln, PGC1α, and PGC1ß that are critical for calcium signaling, cardiac muscle contraction, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor regulated energy metabolism. Many genes essential for oxidative phosphorylation and proper mitochondrial function such as genes coding for the succinate dehydrogenase subunits of the mitochondrial complex II are also down-regulated in csMed1-/- heart contributing to myocardial injury. Data also showed up-regulation of about 180 genes including Tgfb2, Ace, Atf3, Ctgf, Angpt14, Col9a2, Wisp2, Nppa, Nppb, and Actn1 that are linked to cardiac muscle contraction, cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac fibrosis and myocardial injury. Furthermore, we demonstrate that cardiac specific deletion of Med1 in adult mice using tamoxifen-inducible Cre approach (TmcsMed1-/-), results in rapid development of cardiomyopathy and death within 4 weeks. We found that the key findings of the csMed1-/- studies described above are highly reproducible in TmcsMed1-/- mouse heart. Collectively, these observations suggest that Med1 plays a critical role in the maintenance of heart function impacting on multiple metabolic, compensatory and reparative pathways with a likely therapeutic potential in the management of heart failure.



RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
MED1Humandilated cardiomyopathy  ISOMed1 (Mus musculus) RGD 
Med1Ratdilated cardiomyopathy  ISOMed1 (Mus musculus) RGD 
Med1Mousedilated cardiomyopathy  IMP  RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Med1  (mediator complex subunit 1)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Med1  (mediator complex subunit 1)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
MED1  (mediator complex subunit 1)


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