Journal
CIRCULATION
Volume 121, Issue 17, Pages 1912-U78Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.905471
Keywords
apoptosis; carbon monoxide; heart failure; heme oxygenase-1; cardiac remodeling, ventricular
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [HL-78825, ES-11860, HL-55757, HL-70897, HL-76794, HL-55477]
- Veterans Affairs Merit Award
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Background-Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is an inducible stress-response protein that imparts antioxidant and antiapoptotic effects. However, its pathophysiological role in cardiac remodeling and chronic heart failure (HF) is unknown. We hypothesized that induction of HO-1 in HF alleviates pathological remodeling. Methods and Results-Adult male nontransgenic and myocyte-restricted HO-1 transgenic mice underwent either sham operation or coronary ligation to induce HF. Four weeks after ligation, nontransgenic HF mice exhibited postinfarction left ventricular (LV) remodeling and dysfunction, hypertrophy, fibrosis, oxidative stress, apoptosis, and reduced capillary density, associated with a 2-fold increase in HO-1 expression in noninfarcted myocardium. Compared with nontransgenic mice, HO-1 transgenic HF mice exhibited significantly (P<0.05) improved postinfarction survival (94% versus 57%) and less LV dilatation (end-diastolic volume, 46 +/- 8 versus 85 +/- 32 mu L), mechanical dysfunction (ejection fraction, 65 +/- 9% versus 49 +/- 16%), hypertrophy (LV/tibia length 4.4 +/- 0.4 versus 5.2 +/- 0.6 mg/mm), interstitial fibrosis (11.2 +/- 3.1% versus 18.5 +/- 3.5%), and oxidative stress (3-fold reduction in tissue malondialdehyde). Moreover, myocyte-specific HO-1 overexpression in HF promoted tissue neovascularization and ameliorated myocardial p53 expression (2-fold reduction) and apoptosis. In isolated mitochondria, mitochondrial permeability transition was inhibited by HO-1 in a carbon monoxide (CO)-dependent manner and was recapitulated by the CO donor tricarbonylchloro(glycinato)ruthenium(II) (CORM-3). HO-1-derived CO also prevented H2O2-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis and cell death. Finally, in vivo treatment with CORM-3 alleviated postinfarction LV remodeling, p53 expression, and apoptosis. Conclusions-HO-1 induction in the failing heart is an important cardioprotective adaptation that opposes pathological LV remodeling, and this effect is mediated, at least in part, by CO-dependent inhibition of mitochondrial permeability transition and apoptosis. Augmentation of HO-1 or its product, CO, may represent a novel therapeutic strategy for ameliorating HF. (Circulation. 2010;121:1912-1925.)
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