Abstract
The effect of Ryanodine receptor2 (RyR2) and its stabilizer on cardiac hypertrophy is not well known. C57/BL6 mice underwent transverse aortic contraction (TAC) or sham surgery were administered dantrolene, the RyR2 stabilizer, or control drug. Dantrolene significantly alleviated TAC-induced cardiac hypertrophy in mice, and RNA sequencing was performed implying calcineurin/NFAT3 and TNF-α/NF-κB/NLRP3 as critical signaling pathways. Further expression analysis and Western blot with heart tissue as well as neonatal rat cardiomyocyte (NRCM) model confirmed dantrolene decreases the activation of calcineurin/NFAT3 signaling pathway and TNF-α/NF-κB/NLRP3 signaling pathway, which was similar to FK506 and might be attenuated by calcineurin overexpression. The present study shows for the first time that RyR2 stabilizer dantrolene attenuates cardiac hypertrophy by inhibiting the calcineurin, therefore downregulating the TNF-α/NF-κB/NLRP3 pathway.
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Schematic diagram of the mechanism of Dantrolene. Dantrolene attenuates cardiac hypertrophy through inhibition of TNF-α/NF-κB/NLRP3 pathway by downregulating Calcineurin/NFAT3 pathway.
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Abbreviations
- ACTA1:
-
Actin, alpha 1
- BW:
-
Body weight
- CH:
-
Cardial hypertrophy
- CPVT:
-
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
- FDR:
-
False discovery rate
- GO:
-
Gene ontology
- HW:
-
Heart weight
- H&E taining:
-
Hematoxylin & Eosin staining
- HDAC:
-
Histone deacetylase
- IκB:
-
Inhibitor of NF-κB
- LVEDP:
-
Left ventricular diastolic pressure
- LVESP:
-
Left ventricular systolic pressure
- LCC:
-
L-type calcium channel
- MH:
-
Malignant hyperthermia
- mTAC:
-
Minimally invasive transverse aortic constriction
- MEF-2:
-
Myocyte enhancer factor-2
- β-MHC:
-
Myosin, heavy polypeptide 7, cardiac muscle, and beta
- NCX:
-
Na+-Ca2+exchanger
- NPPA:
-
Natriuretic peptide type A
- NPPB:
-
Natriuretic peptide type B
- NRCM:
-
Neonatal rat cardiomyocyte
- NF-κB:
-
Nuclear factor kappa-B
- PE:
-
Phenylephrine
- RyR2:
-
Ryanodine receptor 2
- SERCA2:
-
Sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-transporting ATPases 2
- TL:
-
Tibia length
- TAC:
-
Transverse aortic contraction
- WGA taining:
-
Wheat Germ Agglutinin staining
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The expression of eight DEGs in the Treated and Untreated TAC group. The left 2 bars of each figure show the relative gene expression detected by transcriptome sequencing. The right two bars show the gene expression of the same gene verified by qRT-PCR. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. (PNG 591 kb)
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Dose screening test of PE and dantrolene in NRCMs. Cardiomyocytes were treated with various concentrations of PE (0, 1, 10, 50, 100, and 500 μM) for 24 h. (A) The cell viability decreased with an increase in the concentration of PE. B. The expression of hypertrophy markers increased with an increase in PE concentration. (C-E) The PE intervention myocardial hypertrophy group was treated with 50 μM PE. In addition to PE, the dantrolene intervention group was treated with 0, 1, 10, 50, 100, and 500 μM of dantrolene for 24 h. Cell viability (C) and quantitative protein for hypertrophy marker BNP (D, E) were detected to determine the dantrolene concentration. *compared with the control group, P < 0.05, **compared with the control group, P < 0.01, ***compared with the control group, P < 0.001. #compared with the PE group, P < 0.05,##compared with the control group, P < 0.01, ### compared with the control group, P < 0.001. (PNG 458 kb)
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The effects of dantrolene on PE-induced hypertrophy in NRCMs. The changes in protein expression related to calcineurin/NFAT3 pathways in NRCMs under the effect of dantrolene, FK506 or CnA overexpression. **compared with the control group, P < 0.01, ***compared with the control group, P < 0.001. ## compared with the PE control group, P < 0.01, ###compared with the PE control group, P < 0.001. △△compared with the PE + dantrolene group, P < 0.01, △△△compared with the PE+ dantrolene group, P < 0.001. (PNG 484 kb)
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Gao, Y., Li, S., Liu, X. et al. RyR2 Stabilizer Attenuates Cardiac Hypertrophy by Downregulating TNF-α/NF-κB/NLRP3 Signaling Pathway through Inhibiting Calcineurin. J. of Cardiovasc. Trans. Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12265-023-10376-8
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