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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-7-2
pubmed:abstractText
Multiple signaling pathways have been implicated in the hypertrophic response of ventricular myocytes, yet the importance of cell-matrix interactions has not been extensively examined. Integrins are cell-surface molecules that link the extracellular matrix to the cellular cytoskeleton. They can function as cell signaling molecules and transducers of mechanical information in noncardiac cells. Given these properties and their abundance in cardiac cells, we evaluated the hypothesis that beta1 integrin function is involved in the alpha1-adrenergic mediated hypertrophic response of neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. The hypertrophic response of this model required interaction with extracellular matrix proteins. Specificity of these results was confirmed by demonstrating that ventricular myocytes plated onto an anti-beta1 integrin antibody supported the hypertrophic gene response. Adenovirus-mediated overexpression of beta1 integrin augmented the myocyte hypertrophic response when assessed by protein synthesis and atrial natriuretic factor production, a marker gene of hypertrophic induction. DNA synthesis was not altered by integrin overexpression. Transfection of cultured cardiac myocytes with either the ubiquitously expressed beta1A integrin or the cardiac/skeletal muscle-specific beta1 isoform (beta1D) activated reporter expression from both the atrial natriuretic factor and myosin light chain-2 ventricular promoters, genetic markers of ventricular cell hypertrophy. Finally, suppression of integrin signaling by overexpression of free beta1 integrin cytoplasmic domains inhibited the adrenergically mediated atrial natriuretic factor response. These findings show that integrin ligation and signaling are involved in the cardiac hypertrophic response pathway.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0009-7330
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1160-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Adenoviridae, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Adrenergic alpha-Agonists, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Antigens, CD29, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Atrial Natriuretic Factor, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Cardiomegaly, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Extracellular Matrix, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Gene Expression Regulation, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Heart Ventricles, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Isomerism, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Phenylephrine, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:9633916-Transfection
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Beta1 integrins participate in the hypertrophic response of rat ventricular myocytes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif 90095-1751, USA. rross@physiology.medsch.ucla.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't