{"title":"Transcriptional pausing as a molecular mechanism of sprouting angiogenesis","authors":"Inês Cebola, Graeme M. Birdsey, Anna M. Randi","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00547-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00547-4","url":null,"abstract":"In-depth in vivo and in vitro functional analyses, along with a series of genomic assays, reveal RNF20 as a molecular rheostat controlling the balance between endothelial VEGF and Notch signaling during sprouting angiogenesis.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 10","pages":"1184-1186"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of cardiac genomic elements in humans and non-human primates","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00552-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00552-7","url":null,"abstract":"Analyses of transcription and translation identify newly evolved genes and translated sequences (open reading frames) unique to hearts from human and non-human primates, suggesting that these genetic innovations might influence cardiac development and disease.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 10","pages":"1187-1188"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142362510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nalan Tetik-Elsherbiny, Adel Elsherbiny, Aadhyaa Setya, Johannes Gahn, Yongqin Tang, Purnima Gupta, Yanliang Dou, Heike Serke, Thomas Wieland, Alexandre Dubrac, Joerg Heineke, Michael Potente, Julio Cordero, Roxana Ola, Gergana Dobreva
{"title":"RNF20-mediated transcriptional pausing and VEGFA splicing orchestrate vessel growth","authors":"Nalan Tetik-Elsherbiny, Adel Elsherbiny, Aadhyaa Setya, Johannes Gahn, Yongqin Tang, Purnima Gupta, Yanliang Dou, Heike Serke, Thomas Wieland, Alexandre Dubrac, Joerg Heineke, Michael Potente, Julio Cordero, Roxana Ola, Gergana Dobreva","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00546-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00546-5","url":null,"abstract":"Signal-responsive gene expression is essential for vascular development, yet the mechanisms integrating signaling inputs with transcriptional activities are largely unknown. Here we show that RNF20, the primary E3 ubiquitin ligase for histone H2B, plays a multifaceted role in sprouting angiogenesis. RNF20 mediates RNA polymerase (Pol II) promoter-proximal pausing at genes highly paused in endothelial cells, involved in VEGFA signaling, stress response, cell cycle control and mRNA splicing. It also orchestrates large-scale mRNA processing events that alter the bioavailability and function of critical pro-angiogenic factors, such as VEGFA. Mechanistically, RNF20 restricts ERG-dependent Pol II pause release at highly paused genes while binding to Notch1 to promote H2B monoubiquitination at Notch target genes and Notch-dependent gene expression. This balance is crucial, as loss of Rnf20 leads to uncontrolled tip cell specification. Our findings highlight the pivotal role of RNF20 in regulating VEGF–Notch signaling circuits during vessel growth, underscoring its potential for therapeutic modulation of angiogenesis. Tetik-Elsherbiny et al. demonstrate that the E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF20 mediates RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pausing and alternative splicing, regulating the bioavailability and signaling of pro-angiogenic factors and angiogenesis.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 10","pages":"1199-1216"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-024-00546-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142333948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lars Lind, Mohsen Mazidi, Robert Clarke, Derrick A. Bennett, Rui Zheng
{"title":"Measured and genetically predicted protein levels and cardiovascular diseases in UK Biobank and China Kadoorie Biobank","authors":"Lars Lind, Mohsen Mazidi, Robert Clarke, Derrick A. Bennett, Rui Zheng","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00545-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00545-6","url":null,"abstract":"Several large-scale studies have measured plasma levels of the proteome in individuals with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)1–7. However, since the majority of such proteins are interrelated2, it is difficult for observational studies to distinguish which proteins are likely to be of etiological relevance. Here we evaluate whether plasma levels of 2,919 proteins measured in 52,164 UK Biobank participants are associated with incident myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke or heart failure. Of those proteins, 126 were associated with all three CVD outcomes and 118 were associated with at least one CVD in the China Kadoorie Biobank. Mendelian randomization and colocalization analyses indicated that genetically determined levels of 47 and 18 proteins, respectively, were associated with CVDs, including FGF5, PROCR and FURIN. While the majority of protein–CVD observational associations were noncausal, these three proteins showed evidence to support potential causality and are therefore promising targets for drug treatment for CVD outcomes. Lind et al. investigate the causal relationship between plasma proteins and cardiovascular disease outcomes in patients of European and Chinese descent, identifying FGF5, PROCR and FURIN as promising targets for the development of new drugs.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 10","pages":"1189-1198"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-024-00545-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142333947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Ruiz-Orera, Duncan C. Miller, Johannes Greiner, Carolin Genehr, Aliki Grammatikaki, Susanne Blachut, Jeanne Mbebi, Giannino Patone, Anna Myronova, Eleonora Adami, Nikita Dewani, Ning Liang, Oliver Hummel, Michael B. Muecke, Thomas B. Hildebrandt, Guido Fritsch, Lisa Schrade, Wolfram H. Zimmermann, Ivanela Kondova, Sebastian Diecke, Sebastiaan van Heesch, Norbert Hübner
{"title":"Evolution of translational control and the emergence of genes and open reading frames in human and non-human primate hearts","authors":"Jorge Ruiz-Orera, Duncan C. Miller, Johannes Greiner, Carolin Genehr, Aliki Grammatikaki, Susanne Blachut, Jeanne Mbebi, Giannino Patone, Anna Myronova, Eleonora Adami, Nikita Dewani, Ning Liang, Oliver Hummel, Michael B. Muecke, Thomas B. Hildebrandt, Guido Fritsch, Lisa Schrade, Wolfram H. Zimmermann, Ivanela Kondova, Sebastian Diecke, Sebastiaan van Heesch, Norbert Hübner","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00544-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00544-7","url":null,"abstract":"Evolutionary innovations can be driven by changes in the rates of RNA translation and the emergence of new genes and small open reading frames (sORFs). In this study, we characterized the transcriptional and translational landscape of the hearts of four primate and two rodent species through integrative ribosome and transcriptomic profiling, including adult left ventricle tissues and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte cell cultures. We show here that the translational efficiencies of subunits of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation chain complexes IV and V evolved rapidly across mammalian evolution. Moreover, we discovered hundreds of species-specific and lineage-specific genomic innovations that emerged during primate evolution in the heart, including 551 genes, 504 sORFs and 76 evolutionarily conserved genes displaying human-specific cardiac-enriched expression. Overall, our work describes the evolutionary processes and mechanisms that have shaped cardiac transcription and translation in recent primate evolution and sheds light on how these can contribute to cardiac development and disease. Ruiz-Orera et al. used comparative transcriptomics and translatomics to analyze the cardiac evolution in primates and discovered species-specific and lineage-specific genomic innovations that might contribute to cardiac development and disease.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 10","pages":"1217-1235"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-024-00544-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142333946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Khanh V. Doan, Timothy S. Luongo, Thato T. Ts’olo, Won Dong Lee, David W. Frederick, Sarmistha Mukherjee, Gabriel K. Adzika, Caroline E. Perry, Ryan B. Gaspar, Nicole Walker, Megan C. Blair, Nicole Bye, James G. Davis, Corey D. Holman, Qingwei Chu, Lin Wang, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Daniel P. Kelly, Thomas P. Cappola, Kenneth B. Margulies, Joseph A. Baur
{"title":"Cardiac NAD+ depletion in mice promotes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias prior to impaired bioenergetics","authors":"Khanh V. Doan, Timothy S. Luongo, Thato T. Ts’olo, Won Dong Lee, David W. Frederick, Sarmistha Mukherjee, Gabriel K. Adzika, Caroline E. Perry, Ryan B. Gaspar, Nicole Walker, Megan C. Blair, Nicole Bye, James G. Davis, Corey D. Holman, Qingwei Chu, Lin Wang, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Daniel P. Kelly, Thomas P. Cappola, Kenneth B. Margulies, Joseph A. Baur","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00542-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00542-9","url":null,"abstract":"Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is an essential co-factor in metabolic reactions and co-substrate for signaling enzymes. Failing human hearts display decreased expression of the major NAD+ biosynthetic enzyme nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt) and lower NAD+ levels, and supplementation with NAD+ precursors is protective in preclinical models. Here we show that Nampt loss in adult cardiomyocytes caused depletion of NAD+ along with marked metabolic derangements, hypertrophic remodeling and sudden cardiac deaths, despite unchanged ejection fraction, endurance and mitochondrial respiratory capacity. These effects were directly attributable to NAD+ loss as all were ameliorated by restoring cardiac NAD+ levels with the NAD+ precursor nicotinamide riboside (NR). Electrocardiograms revealed that loss of myocardial Nampt caused a shortening of QT intervals with spontaneous lethal arrhythmias causing sudden cardiac death. Thus, changes in NAD+ concentration can have a profound influence on cardiac physiology even at levels sufficient to maintain energetics. Doan et al. show that loss of cardiac NAD+ is sufficient to drive metabolic derangements, hypertrophic remodeling and lethal arrhythmias in adult mouse hearts, despite maintenance of ejection fraction and bioenergetics.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 10","pages":"1236-1248"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142247373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Success in heart regeneration depends on endocardial innate immune signaling","authors":"Kazu Kikuchi","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00539-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00539-4","url":null,"abstract":"The endocardium is activated immediately after injury and promotes cardiac muscle regeneration by producing growth factors. Research now shows that innate immune signaling is crucial for the regenerative function of the endocardium.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 9","pages":"1031-1032"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying a gene-regulatory network that drives fibromuscular dysplasia","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00534-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44161-024-00534-9","url":null,"abstract":"Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a poorly understood blood vessel disorder that affects up to 5% of adults. Using a systems genetics approach, we identified an FMD-associated gene co-expression network that governs vascular cell function and developed a mouse model of FMD that recapitulates certain aspects of the human disease.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 9","pages":"1033-1034"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}