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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20327-5
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- National Institute of Health [P01HL134599, R01HL145060]
- Riley Children Foundation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81500241, 31571527]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- CSC
- Innovative Research Team of High-Level Local Universities in Shanghai
- Haiju program of National Children's Medical Center [EK1125180102]
The RNA-binding protein Quaking (QKI) plays a crucial role in cardiac development and contractile physiology through its regulation of alternative splicing in genes involved in Z-disc formation and contractile physiology. Deficiency of QKI results in the failure of cardiomyocytes to mature into functional cells, highlighting its importance in cardiac pathophysiology.
The RNA-binding protein QKI belongs to the hnRNP K-homology domain protein family, a well-known regulator of pre-mRNA alternative splicing and is associated with several neurodevelopmental disorders. Qki is found highly expressed in developing and adult hearts. By employing the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) to cardiomyocyte differentiation system and generating QKI-deficient hESCs (hESCs-QKI(del)) using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, we analyze the physiological role of QKI in cardiomyocyte differentiation, maturation, and contractile function. hESCs-QKI(del) largely maintain normal pluripotency and normal differentiation potential for the generation of early cardiogenic progenitors, but they fail to transition into functional cardiomyocytes. In this work, by using a series of transcriptomic, cell and biochemical analyses, and the Qki-deficient mouse model, we demonstrate that QKI is indispensable to cardiac sarcomerogenesis and cardiac function through its regulation of alternative splicing in genes involved in Z-disc formation and contractile physiology, suggesting that QKI is associated with the pathogenesis of certain forms of cardiomyopathies. RNA binding protein Quaking (QKI) is known for its broad function in pre-mRNA splicing and modification and its association with several neurodevelopmental disorders. Here the authors reveal that QKI-mediated regulation of RNA splicing is indispensable to cardiac development and contractile physiology.
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