Journal
CELLS
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells7080104
Keywords
microRNAs; autophagy; mitophagy; cardiac diseases; biomarker
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- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M592134]
- Qingdao Postdoctoral Application Research Project [2016074]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81670313]
- fund for Shanxi '1331 Project' Key Subjects Construction (1331KSC)
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Autophagy, which is an evolutionarily conserved process according to the lysosomal degradation of cellular components, plays a critical role in maintaining cell homeostasis. Autophagy and mitochondria autophagy (mitophagy) contribute to the preservation of cardiac homeostasis in physiological settings. However, impaired or excessive autophagy is related to a variety of diseases. Recently, a close link between autophagy and cardiac disorders, including myocardial infarction, cardiac hypertrophy, cardiomyopathy, cardiac fibrosis, and heart failure, has been demonstrated. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs with a length of approximately 21-22 nucleotides (nt), which are distributed widely in viruses, plants, protists, and animals. They function in mediating the post-transcriptional gene silencing. A growing number of studies have demonstrated that miRNAs regulate cardiac autophagy by suppressing the expression of autophagy-related genes in a targeted manner, which are involved in the pathogenesis of heart diseases. This review summarizes the role of microRNAs in cardiac autophagy and related cardiac disorders. Furthermore, we mainly focused on the autophagy regulation pathways, which consisted of miRNAs and their targeted genes.
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