MicroRNA-1 Regulates Sarcomere Formation and Suppresses Smooth Muscle Gene Expression in the Mammalian Heart

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2013 Nov 21

PMID 24252873

Citations 72

Authors

Amy Heidersbach

Chris Saxby

Karen Carver-Moore

Yu Huang

Yen-Sin Ang

Pieter J de Jong

Kathryn N Ivey

Deepak Srivastava

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Abstract

microRNA-1 (miR-1) is an evolutionarily conserved, striated muscle-enriched miRNA. Most mammalian genomes contain two copies of miR-1, and in mice, deletion of a single locus, miR-1-2, causes incompletely penetrant lethality and subtle cardiac defects. Here, we report that deletion of miR-1-1 resulted in a phenotype similar to that of the miR-1-2 mutant. Compound miR-1 knockout mice died uniformly before weaning due to severe cardiac dysfunction. miR-1-null cardiomyocytes had abnormal sarcomere organization and decreased phosphorylation of the regulatory myosin light chain-2 (MLC2), a critical cytoskeletal regulator. The smooth muscle-restricted inhibitor of MLC2 phosphorylation, Telokin, was ectopically expressed in the myocardium, along with other smooth muscle genes. miR-1 repressed Telokin expression through direct targeting and by repressing its transcriptional regulator, Myocardin. Our results reveal that miR-1 is required for postnatal cardiac function and reinforces the striated muscle phenotype by regulating both transcriptional and effector nodes of the smooth muscle gene expression network. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01323.001.

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