Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 134, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2021.105952
Keywords
Fibrosis; Hypertrophy; Dihydrosphingosine 1 phosphate; Sphingolipid; PI3K; Protein kinase B; Akt; mTOR; Ribosomal protein S6; Cardiac remodelling
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1092642, 1087355]
- Monash University International Post Graduate Research Scholarships
- Monash Graduate Scholarships
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Our study reveals a relationship between the PI3K/Akt-mTOR signaling cascade and collagen synthesis and myocyte hypertrophy induced by exogenous dhS1P in primary neonatal cardiac cells. In addition, PI3K inhibition also affects the gene expression related to S1P receptors and enzymes.
Cardiac fibrosis and myocyte hypertrophy play contributory roles in the progression of diseases such as heart Failure (HF) through what is collectively termed cardiac remodelling. The phosphoinositide 3- kinase (PI3K), protein kinase B (Akt) and mammalian target for rapamycin (mTOR) signalling pathway (PI3K/Akt- mTOR) is an important pathway in protein synthesis, cell growth, cell proliferation, and lipid metabolism. The sphingolipid, dihydrosphingosine 1 phosphate (dhS1P) has been shown to bind to high density lipids in plasma. Unlike its analog, spingosine 1 phosphate (S1P), the role of dhS1P in cardiac fibrosis is still being deciphered. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dhS1P on PI3K/Akt signalling in primary cardiac fibroblasts and myocytes. Our findings demonstrate that inhibiting PI3K reduced collagen synthesis in neonatal cardiac fibroblasts (NCFs), and hypertrophy in neonatal cardiac myocytes (NCMs) induced by dhS1P, in vitro. Reduced activation of the PI3K/Akt- mTOR signalling pathway led to impaired translation of fibrotic proteins such as collagen 1 (Coll1) and transforming growth factor 13 (TGF13) and inhibited the transcription and translation of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP1). PI3K inhibition also affected the gene expression of S1P receptors and enzymes such as the dihydroceramide delta 4 desaturase (DEGS1) and sphingosine kinase 1 (SK1) in the de novo sphingolipid pathway. While in myocytes, PI3K inhibition reduced myocyte hypertrophy induced by dhS1P by reducing skeletal muscle a- actin (aSKA) mRNA expression, and protein translation due to increased glycogen synthase kinase 313 (GSK313) mRNA expression. Our findings show a relationship between the PI3K/AktmTOR signalling cascade and exogenous dhS1P induced collagen synthesis and myocyte hypertrophy in primary neonatal cardiac cells.
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