期刊
ONCOTARGET
卷 7, 期 48, 页码 78516-78531出版社
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.12392
关键词
cardiac fibroblast; myofibroblast; phenoconversion; autophagy; cardiac fibrosis
资金
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) operating grant
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
The incidence of heart failure with concomitant cardiac fibrosis is very high in developed countries. Fibroblast activation in heart is causal to cardiac fibrosis as they convert to hypersynthetic cardiac myofibroblasts. There is no known treatment for cardiac fibrosis. Myofibroblasts contribute to the inappropriate remodeling of the myocardial interstitium, which leads to reduced cardiac function and ultimately heart failure. Elevated levels of autophagy have been linked to stress-induced ventricular remodeling and other cardiac diseases. Previously, we had shown that TGF-beta(1) treatment of human atrial fibroblasts both induced autophagy and enhanced the fibrogenic response supporting a linkage between the myofibroblast phenotype and autophagy. We now demonstrate that with in vitro culture of primary rat cardiac fibroblasts, inhibition of autophagy represses fibroblast to myofibroblast phenoconversion. Culturing unpassaged cardiac fibroblasts for 72 hours on plastic tissue culture plates is associated with elevated a-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) expression. This activation parallels increased microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3 (LC-3 beta II) protein expression. Inhibition of autophagy with bafilomycin-A1 (Baf-A1) and chloroquine (CQ) in cardiac fibroblasts significantly reduces a-SMA and extracellular domain A fibronectin (ED-A FN) protein vs untreated controls. Myofibroblast cell migration and contractility were significantly reduced following inhibition of autophagy. These data support the possibility of a causal link between cardiac fibroblast-to-myofibroblast phenoconversion and autophagy.
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