Over-expression of microRNA-1 causes arrhythmia by disturbing intracellular trafficking system

Sci Rep. 2017 Apr 11:7:46259. doi: 10.1038/srep46259.

Abstract

Dysregulation of intracellular trafficking system plays a fundamental role in the progression of cardiovascular disease. Up-regulation of miR-1 contributes to arrhythmia, we sought to elucidate whether intracellular trafficking contributes to miR-1-driven arrhythmia. By performing microarray analyses of the transcriptome in the cardiomyocytes-specific over-expression of microRNA-1 (miR-1 Tg) mice and the WT mice, we found that these differentially expressed genes in miR-1 Tg mice were significantly enrichment with the trafficking-related biological processes, such as regulation of calcium ion transport. Also, the qRT-PCR and western blot results validated that Stx6, Braf, Ube3a, Mapk8ip3, Ap1s1, Ccz1 and Gja1, which are the trafficking-related genes, were significantly down-regulated in the miR-1 Tg mice. Moreover, we found that Stx6 was decreased in the heart of mice after myocardial infarction and in the hypoxic cardiomyocytes, and further confirmed that Stx6 is a target of miR-1. Meanwhile, knockdown of Stx6 in cardiomyocytes resulted in the impairments of PLM and L-type calcium channel, which leads to the increased resting ([Ca2+]i). On the contrary, overexpression of Stx6 attenuated the impairments of miR-1 or hypoxia on PLM and L-type calcium channel. Thus, our studies reveals that trafficking-related gene Stx6 may regulate intracellular calcium and is involved in the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmia, which provides new insights in that miR-1 participates in arrhythmia by regulating the trafficking-related genes and pathway.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • 3' Untranslated Regions
  • Animals
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / genetics*
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / physiopathology*
  • Biological Transport
  • Calcium / metabolism
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression*
  • Gene Ontology
  • Gene Regulatory Networks
  • Hypoxia / genetics
  • Hypoxia / metabolism
  • Intracellular Space
  • Mice
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • MicroRNAs / genetics*
  • Models, Biological
  • Myocardial Ischemia / genetics
  • Myocardial Ischemia / metabolism
  • Myocardial Ischemia / physiopathology
  • Myocytes, Cardiac / metabolism
  • Qa-SNARE Proteins / genetics
  • Qa-SNARE Proteins / metabolism
  • RNA Interference
  • Transcriptome

Substances

  • 3' Untranslated Regions
  • MicroRNAs
  • Mirn1 microRNA, mouse
  • Qa-SNARE Proteins
  • Calcium