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Lookup NU author(s): Silvia Gaspar Pereira, Dr Nicola Fullard, Aidan Maxwell, Dr Lindsay Murphy, Dr Ralf Bauer, Professor Jelena Mann, Professor Derek Mann, Professor Fiona OakleyORCiD
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Cardiac remodeling and hypertrophy are the pathological consequences of cardiovascular disease and are correlated with its associated mortality. Activity of the transcription factor NF-kappa B is increased in the diseased heart; however, our present understanding of how the individual subunits contribute to cardiovascular disease is limited. We assign a new role for the c-Rel subunit as a stimulator of cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis. We discovered that c-Rel-deficient mice have smaller hearts at birth, as well as during adult-hood, and are protected from developing cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis after chronic angiotensin infusion. Results of both gene expression and cross-linked chromatin immunoprecipitation assay analyses identified transcriptional activators of hypertrophy, myocyte enhancer family, Gata4, and Tbx proteins as Rel gene targets. We suggest that the p50 subunit could limit the prohypertrophic actions of c-Rel in the normal heart, because p50 overexpression in H9c2 cells repressed c-Rel levels and the absence of cardiac p50 was associated with increases in both c-Rel levels and cardiac hypertrophy. We report for the first time that c-Rel is highly expressed and confined to the nuclei of diseased adult human hearts but is restricted to the cytoplasm of normal cardiac tissues. We conclude that c-Rel-dependent signaling is critical for both cardiac remodeling and hypertrophy. Targeting its activities could offer a novel therapeutic strategy to limit the effects of cardiac disease. (Am J Pathol 2012, 180:929-939; DOI. 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.11.007)
Author(s): Gaspar-Pereira S, Fullard N, Townsend PA, Banks PS, Ellis EL, Fox C, Maxwell AG, Murphy LB, Kirk A, Bauer R, Caamaño JH, Figg N, Foo RS, Mann J, Mann DA, Oakley F
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: American Journal of Pathology
Year: 2012
Volume: 180
Issue: 3
Pages: 929-939
Print publication date: 30/12/2011
ISSN (print): 0002-9440
ISSN (electronic): 1525-2191
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.11.007
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.11.007
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