TEA domain transcription factor 1(TEAD1) induces cardiac fibroblasts cells remodeling through BRD4/Wnt4 pathway

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Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are the primary cells tasked with depositing and remodeling collagen and significantly associated with heart failure (HF). TEAD1 has been shown to be essential for heart development and homeostasis. However, fibroblast endogenous TEAD1 in cardiac remodeling remains incompletely understood. Transcriptomic analyses revealed consistently upregulated cardiac TEAD1 expression in mice 4 weeks after transverse aortic constriction (TAC) and Ang-II infusion. Further investigation revealed that CFs were the primary cell type expressing elevated TEAD1 levels in response to pressure overload. Conditional TEAD1 knockout was achieved by crossing TEAD1-floxed mice with CFs- and myofibroblasts-specific Cre mice. Echocardiographic and histological analyses demonstrated that CFs- and myofibroblasts-specific TEAD1 deficiency and treatment with TEAD1 inhibitor, VT103, ameliorated TAC-induced cardiac remodeling. Mechanistically, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analysis identified Wnt4 as a novel TEAD1 target. TEAD1 has been shown to promote the fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition through the Wnt signalling pathway, and genetic Wnt4 knockdown inhibited the pro-transformation phenotype in CFs with TEAD1 overexpression. Furthermore, co-immunoprecipitation combined with mass spectrometry, chromatin immunoprecipitation, and luciferase assays demonstrated interaction between TEAD1 and BET protein BRD4, leading to the binding and activation of the Wnt4 promoter. In conclusion, TEAD1 is an essential regulator of the pro-fibrotic CFs phenotype associated with pathological cardiac remodeling via the BRD4/Wnt4 signalling pathway.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Signal transduction and targeted therapy - 9(2024), 1 vom: 19. Feb., Seite 45

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Song, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiaokai [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zihang [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yongchao [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Shuyang [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Linqi [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Fengze [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tongyao [VerfasserIn]
Pei, Zhiqiang [VerfasserIn]
Weng, Xinyu [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Zilun [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Li [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiaochun [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Aijun [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Junbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brd4 protein, mouse
Bromodomain Containing Proteins
Journal Article
Nuclear Proteins
TEA Domain Transcription Factors
Transcription Factors
Wnt4 Protein
Wnt4 protein, mouse

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Date Completed 21.02.2024

Date Revised 27.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41392-023-01732-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368641996