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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Involvement of NRSF-mediated Transcriptional Silencing System in Molecular Mechanism of Chronic Heart Failure

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16390228
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Circulatory organs internal medicine
Research InstitutionNARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SAITO Yoshihiko  Nara Medical University, First Department of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (30250260)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UEMURA Shiro  Nara Medical University, First Department of Medicine, Associate Professor, 医学部, 講師 (80232792)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
KeywordsNRSF / ANP / BNP / CACNA1H / Goα / heart failure
Research Abstract

Neuron Restrictive Silencer Factor (NRSF), a strong transcriptional silencer protein, binds Neuron Restrictive Silencer Element (NRSE) that is located in the transcriptional regulating region of a number of cardiac embryonic genes. Transgenic mice overexpressing dominant negative form of NRSF mutant driven by α-MHC (α-MHC-dnNRSF-Tg) showed left ventricular dilation, ventricular dysfunction and fatal ventricular arrhythmia, which resemble dilated cardiomyopathy.
The present study has investigated which genes regulated by NRSF during development of heart failure. According to the cDNA array analyses of the left ventricle of α-MHC-dnNRSF-Tg, several genes are significantly up-regulated in Tg mice compared with normal control mice. Some of them, such as ANP,BNP,Goα,CACNA1H, neurotensin receptor 2, and dopamine receptor type 2, contain NRSE in their 5' franking region or intron. In experimental heart failure model of acute myocardial infarction or transverse aortic band, ANP and BNP genes were upregulated but, other genes listed above were not uniformly altered, suggesting NRSF is not a solely transcriptional regulator in development of heart failure. Transgenic mice overexpressing either Goa or CACNA1H under control of a-MHC showed similar phenotypes to those of wild type mice. Further studies are necessary to elucidate important roles of NRSF in development of heart failure.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2006 2005

All Journal Article (12 results)

  • [Journal Article] Cardiac expression of placental growth factor predicts the improvement of chronic phase LVEF in patients with acute myocardial infarction2006

    • Author(s)
      Iwama, H et al.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the American College of Cardiology 47(8)

      Pages: 1559-1567

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Inhibitory effect of efonidipine on aldosterone synthesis and secretion in human adrenocarcinoma (H295R) cells.2006

    • Author(s)
      Imagawa, K et al.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology 47(1)

      Pages: 133-138

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cardiac expression of placental growth factor predicts the improvement of chronic phase left ventricular function in patients with acute myocardial infarction.2006

    • Author(s)
      H.Iwama, N.Naya, K.Imagawa, Y.Takemoto, O.Asai, K.Onoue, S.Okayama, S.Somekawa, Y.Kida, Y.Takeda, M.Takaoka, H.Kawata, M.Horii, T.Nakajima, N.Doi, Y.Saito.
    • Journal Title

      J.Am.Coll.Cardiol. 47

      Pages: 1559-1567

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Inhibitory effect of efonidipine on aldosterone synthesis and secretion in human adrenocarcinoma (H295R) cells2006

    • Author(s)
      K.Imagawa, S.Okayama, M.Takaoka, H.Kawata, N.Naya, T.Nakajima, M.Horii, S.Uemura, Y.Saito
    • Journal Title

      J.Cardiovasc.Pharmacol. 47

      Pages: 133-138

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Enhanced functional gap junction neoformaition by protein kinase A-dependent and epac-dependent signal downstream of cAMP in cardiac myocytes2005

    • Author(s)
      Somekawa, S et al.
    • Journal Title

      Circulation Research 97

      Pages: 655-662

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Role of natriuretic peptide receptor guanylyl cyclase-A in myocardial infarction evaluated using genetically engineered mice2005

    • Author(s)
      Nakanishi, M et al.
    • Journal Title

      Hypertension 46

      Pages: 441-447

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Hypertrophic responses to cardiotrophin-1 are not mediated by STAT3,but via a MEK5-ERK5 pathway in cultured cardiomyocytes.2005

    • Author(s)
      Takahashi, N et al.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 38

      Pages: 185-192

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cyclic AMP potentiates VE-cadherin-mediated cell-cell contact to enhance endothelial barrier function through an Epac-Rap1 signaling pathway.2005

    • Author(s)
      Fukuhara, S et al.
    • Journal Title

      Molecular and Cellular Biology 25

      Pages: 136-146

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Enhanced functional gap junction neoformaition by protein kinase A-dependent and epac-dependent signal downstream of cAMP in cardiac myocytes2005

    • Author(s)
      S.Somekawa, S.Fukuhara, Y.Nakaoka, H.fujita, Y.Saito, N.Mochizuki
    • Journal Title

      Circ.Res. 97

      Pages: 655-662

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Role of natriuretic peptide receptor guanylyl cyclase-A in myocardial infarction evaluated using genetically engineered mice2005

    • Author(s)
      M.Nakanishi, Y.Saito, I.Kishimoto, M.Harada, K.Kuwahara, N.Takahashi, R.Kawakami, Y.Nakagawa, K.Tanimoto, S.Yasuno, S.Usami, Y.Li, Y.Adachi, A.Fukamizu, D.L.Garders, K.Nakao
    • Journal Title

      Hypertension 46

      Pages: 441-447

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Hypertrophic responses to cardiotrophin-1 are not mediated by STAT3, but via a MEK5-ERK5 pathway in cultured cardiomyocytes.2005

    • Author(s)
      N.Takahashi, Y.Saito, K.Kuwahara, M.Harada, K.Tanimoto, Y.Nakagawa, R.Kawakami, M.Nakanishi, S.Yasuno, S.Usami, A.Yoshimura, K.Nakao.
    • Journal Title

      J.Mol.Cell.Cardiol. 38

      Pages: 185-192

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cyclic AMP potentiates VE-cadherin-mediated cell-cell contact to enhance endothelial barrier function through an Epac-Rap1 signaling pathway.2005

    • Author(s)
      S.Fukuhara, A.Sakurai, H.Sano, A.Yamagishi, S.Somekawa, N.Takakura, Y.Saito, K.Kangawa, N.Mochizuki.
    • Journal Title

      Mol.Cell.Biol. 25

      Pages: 136-146

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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