Abstract
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a myocardial disease associated with mutations in sarcomeric genes. Three mutations were found in ANKRD1, encoding ankyrin repeat domain 1 (ANKRD1), a transcriptional co-factor located in the sarcomere. In the present study, we investigated whether expression of HCM-associated ANKRD1 mutations affects contraction parameters after gene transfer in engineered heart tissues (EHTs). EHTs were generated from neonatal rat heart cells and were transduced with adeno-associated virus encoding GFP or myc-tagged wild-type (WT) or mutant (P52A, T123M, or I280V) ANKRD1. Contraction parameters were analyzed from day 8 to day 16 of culture, and evaluated in the absence or presence of the proteasome inhibitor epoxomicin for 24 h. Under standard conditions, only WT- and T123M-ANKRD1 were correctly incorporated in the sarcomere. T123M-ANKRD1-transduced EHTs exhibited higher force and velocities of contraction and relaxation than WT- P52A- and I280V-ANKRD1 were highly unstable, not incorporated into the sarcomere, and did not induce contractile alterations. After epoxomicin treatment, P52A and I280V were both stabilized and incorporated into the sarcomere. I280V-transduced EHTs showed prolonged relaxation. These data suggest different impacts of ANKRD1 mutations on cardiomyocyte function: gain-of-function for T123M mutation under all conditions and dominant-negative effect for the I280V mutation which may come into play only when the proteasome is impaired.
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We would like to thank Sebastian Schaaf (Hamburg) for technical help in video-optical recordings of EHTs, Oliver Müller (Heidelberg, Germany) for providing the dsAAV-CMVenh-MLC260-EGFP plasmid, and Evelyn Bendrat (HEXT, Hamburg) for production of AAVs. We would also like to thank S. Sadayappan (Chicago, OH, USA) and S. Labeit (Mannheim, Germany) for the anti-cMyBP-C antibody and the anti-ANKRD1 antibody, respectively. This work was supported in part by Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, a research grant on measures of intractable diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, a research grant from the Association Française contre les Myopathie, follow-up grants provided from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Joint Usage/Research Program of Medical Research Institute Tokyo Medical and Dental University, as well as by the seventh Framework Program of the European Union (Health-F2-2009-241577; Big-Heart project).
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Crocini, C., Arimura, T., Reischmann, S. et al. Impact of ANKRD1 mutations associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy on contraction parameters of engineered heart tissue. Basic Res Cardiol 108, 349 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00395-013-0349-x
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