Publication Date:
2012-07-20
Description:
Cardiac hypertrophy is initiated as an adaptive response to sustained overload but progresses pathologically as heart failure ensues. Here we report that genetic loss of APJ, a G-protein-coupled receptor, confers resistance to chronic pressure overload by markedly reducing myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure. In contrast, mice lacking apelin (the endogenous APJ ligand) remain sensitive, suggesting an apelin-independent function of APJ. Freshly isolated APJ-null cardiomyocytes exhibit an attenuated response to stretch, indicating that APJ is a mechanosensor. Activation of APJ by stretch increases cardiomyocyte cell size and induces molecular markers of hypertrophy. Whereas apelin stimulates APJ to activate Galphai and elicits a protective response, stretch signals in an APJ-dependent, G-protein-independent fashion to induce hypertrophy. Stretch-mediated hypertrophy is prevented by knockdown of beta-arrestins or by pharmacological doses of apelin acting through Galphai. Taken together, our data indicate that APJ is a bifunctional receptor for both mechanical stretch and the endogenous peptide apelin. By sensing the balance between these stimuli, APJ occupies a pivotal point linking sustained overload to cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3422434/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3422434/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Scimia, Maria Cecilia -- Hurtado, Cecilia -- Ray, Saugata -- Metzler, Scott -- Wei, Ke -- Wang, Jianming -- Woods, Chris E -- Purcell, Nicole H -- Catalucci, Daniele -- Akasaka, Takeshi -- Bueno, Orlando F -- Vlasuk, George P -- Kaliman, Perla -- Bodmer, Rolf -- Smith, Layton H -- Ashley, Euan -- Mercola, Mark -- Brown, Joan Heller -- Ruiz-Lozano, Pilar -- NS05422/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P01 HL085577/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL054732/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL086879/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL054732/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL083463/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL086879/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL28143/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R37 HL028143/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R37HL059502/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Aug 16;488(7411):394-8. doi: 10.1038/nature11263.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22810587" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adipokines
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Animals
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Aorta/pathology
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Arrestins/deficiency/genetics/metabolism
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Blood Pressure
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Cardiomegaly/*metabolism/pathology/physiopathology/prevention & control
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Female
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GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go/metabolism
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Intercellular Signaling Peptides and
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Proteins/deficiency/genetics/metabolism/pharmacology
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Male
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Mechanoreceptors/metabolism
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Mechanotransduction, Cellular/drug effects/physiology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Knockout
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Myocytes, Cardiac/drug effects/pathology
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Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/agonists/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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Signal Transduction/drug effects
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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