In:
Circulation Research, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 125, No. Suppl_1 ( 2019-08-02)
Abstract:
Cardiac microproteins are an emerging class of important regulators of cellular homeostasis, often encoded by presumed long noncoding RNAs. With only few described so far, their prevalence and biological significance largely remains unclear. To create an atlas of cardiac-expressed microproteins, we performed ribosome profiling on 80 human heart samples. This revealed the translation of hundreds of previously undetected microproteins, which we validated in vivo by targeted mass spectrometry. A single heart-specific microprotein caught our attention as it showed strong expression coregulation with components of mitochondrial OXPHOS pathway. We next deleted this microprotein's lncRNA host gene in hiPSCs using CRISPR/Cas9, and, upon differentiation into 30-d old cardiomyocytes, find a strong expression upregulation of genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation and calcium handling. To investigate the impact of the microprotein KO on cardiomyocyte mechanical function, we assessed sarcomere dynamics using an endogenous TTN-GFP tag, enabling live cell imaging analysis with the SarcTrack algorithm. Preliminary analysis sowes a putative increase in sarcomere contraction and relaxation times, suggesting a repressive regulatory function of the eliminated microprotein encoding lncRNA.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0009-7330
,
1524-4571
DOI:
10.1161/res.125.suppl_1.860
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Publication Date:
2019
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1467838-X
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