Quantitative analysis of the cardiac fibroblast transcriptome implications for NO/cGMP signaling

  • Cardiac fibroblasts regulate tissue repair and remodeling in the heart. To quantify transcript levels in these cells we performed a comprehensive gene expression study using serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE). Among 110,169 sequenced tags we could identify 30,507 unique transcripts. A comparison of SAGE data from cardiac fibroblasts with data derived from total mouse heart revealed a number of fibroblast-specific genes. Cardiac fibroblasts expressed a specific collection of collagens, matrix proteins and metalloproteinases, growth factors, and components of signaling pathways. The NO/cGMP signaling pathway was represented by the mRNAs for α1 and β1 subunits of guanylyl cyclase, cGMP-dependent protein kinase type I (cGK I), and, interestingly, the G-kinase-anchoring protein GKAP42. The expression of cGK I was verified by RT-PCR and Western blot. To establish a functional role for cGK I in cardiac fibroblasts we studied its effect on cell proliferation. Selective activation of cGK I with a cGMP analog inhibited the proliferation of serum-stimulated cardiac fibroblasts, which express cGK I, but not higher passage fibroblasts, which contain no detectable cGK I. Currently, our data suggest that cGK I mediates the inhibitory effects of the NO/cGMP pathway on cardiac fibroblast growth. Furthermore the SAGE library of transcripts expressed in cardiac fibroblasts provides a basis for future investigations into the pathological regulatory mechanisms underlying cardiac fibrosis.

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Author:Albert SmolenskiGND, Jan Schultess, Oliver Danielewski, Maisa I. Garcia Arguinzonis, Petra Thalheimer, Susanne Kneitz, Ulrich Walter, Suzanne M. Lohmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-344221
Handle:http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.10.002
ISSN:1089-8646
ISSN:0888-7543
Parent Title (English):Genomics
Publisher:Academic Press
Place of publication:San Diego, Calif.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/11/25
Year of first Publication:2004
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/11/25
Tag:Cardiac fibroblast; Gene expression; Proliferation; Protein kinase; SAGE; cGMP
Volume:83
Issue:4
Page Number:29
First Page:577
Last Page:587
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HeBIS-PPN:353832308
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
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