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Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis Is Associated with Contractile Dysfunction in Stem Cell Model of MYH7 E848G Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054909

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hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; dilated cardiomyopathy; MYH7; p53; engineered heart tissue; apoptosis; contractile dysfunction; induced pluripotent stem cells

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This study generated cardiomyocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells to model a pathogenic MYH7 missense variant associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The findings showed that this variant led to enlarged cardiomyocytes and reduced contractile function, as well as increased apoptosis. Interestingly, the apoptosis and contractile dysfunction were independent of p53 activity.
Missense mutations in myosin heavy chain 7 (MYH7) are a common cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but the molecular mechanisms underlying MYH7-based HCM remain unclear. In this work, we generated cardiomyocytes derived from isogenic human induced pluripotent stem cells to model the heterozygous pathogenic MYH7 missense variant, E848G, which is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy and adult-onset systolic dysfunction. MYH7(E848G/+) increased cardiomyocyte size and reduced the maximum twitch forces of engineered heart tissue, consistent with the systolic dysfunction in MYH7(E848G/+) HCM patients. Interestingly, MYH7(E848G/+) cardiomyocytes more frequently underwent apoptosis that was associated with increased p53 activity relative to controls. However, genetic ablation of TP53 did not rescue cardiomyocyte survival or restore engineered heart tissue twitch force, indicating MYH7(E848G/+) cardiomyocyte apoptosis and contractile dysfunction are p53-independent. Overall, our findings suggest that cardiomyocyte apoptosis is associated with the MYH7(E848G/+) HCM phenotype in vitro and that future efforts to target p53-independent cell death pathways may be beneficial for the treatment of HCM patients with systolic dysfunction.

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