Chaudhari Umesh, Nemade Harshal, Gaspar John Antonydas, Hescheler Jürgen, Hengstler Jan G, Sachinidis Agapios
Institute of Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, 50931, Cologne, Germany.
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the Technical University of Dortmund (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany.
Arch Toxicol. 2016 Dec;90(12):3087-3098. doi: 10.1007/s00204-016-1668-0. Epub 2016 Feb 3.
An in depth investigation at the genomic level is needed to identify early human-relevant cardiotoxicity biomarkers that are induced by drugs and environmental toxicants. The main objective of this study was to investigate the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) as cardiotoxicity biomarkers using human-induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) that were exposed to doxorubicin (DOX) as a "gold standard" cardiotoxicant. hiPSC-CMs were exposed to 156 nM DOX for 2 days or for 6 days of repeated exposure, followed by drug washout and incubation in drug-free culture medium up to day 14 after the onset of exposure. The induced miRNAs were profiled using miRNA microarrays, and the analysis of the data was performed using the miRWalk 2.0 and DAVID bioinformatics tools. DOX induced early deregulation of 14 miRNAs (10 up-regulated and 4 down-regulated) and persistent up-regulation of 5 miRNAs during drug washout. Computational miRNA gene target predictions suggested that several DOX-responsive miRNAs might regulate the mRNA expression of genes involved in cardiac contractile function. The hiPSC-CMs exposed to DOX in a range from 39 to 156 nM did not show a significant release of the cytotoxicity marker lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) compared to controls. Quantitative real-time PCR analyses confirmed the early deregulation of miR-187-3p, miR-182-5p, miR-486-3p, miR-486-5p, miR-34a-3p, miR-4423-3p, miR-34c-3p, miR-34c-5p and miR-1303, and also the prolonged up-regulation of miR-182-5p, miR-4423-3p and miR-34c-5p. Thus, we identified and validated miRNAs showing differential DOX-responsive expression before the occurrence of cytotoxicity markers such as LDH, and these miRNAs also demonstrated the significant involvement in heart failure in patients and animal models. These results suggest that the DOX-induced deregulated miRNAs in human CMs may be used as early sensitive cardiotoxicity biomarkers for screening potential drugs and environmental cardiotoxicants with a similar mechanism of action.
需要在基因组水平进行深入研究,以识别由药物和环境毒物诱导的早期人类相关心脏毒性生物标志物。本研究的主要目的是使用人类诱导多能干细胞(hiPSC)衍生的心肌细胞(CM),研究微小RNA(miRNA)作为心脏毒性生物标志物的作用,这些心肌细胞暴露于作为“金标准”心脏毒物的阿霉素(DOX)。将hiPSC-CM暴露于156 nM DOX中2天或重复暴露6天,然后洗脱药物,并在无药物培养基中培养至暴露开始后第14天。使用miRNA微阵列对诱导的miRNA进行分析,并使用miRWalk 2.0和DAVID生物信息学工具对数据进行分析。DOX诱导14种miRNA早期失调(10种上调,4种下调),并在药物洗脱期间持续上调5种miRNA。计算miRNA基因靶点预测表明,几种对DOX有反应的miRNA可能调节参与心脏收缩功能的基因的mRNA表达。与对照组相比,暴露于39至156 nM DOX范围内的hiPSC-CM未显示出细胞毒性标志物乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)的显著释放。定量实时PCR分析证实了miR-187-3p、miR-182-5p、miR-486-3p、miR-486-5p、miR-34a-3p、miR-4423-3p、miR-34c-3p、miR-34c-5p和miR-1303的早期失调,以及miR-182-5p、miR-4423-3p和miR-34c-5p的持续上调。因此,我们鉴定并验证了在细胞毒性标志物如LDH出现之前显示出不同DOX反应性表达的miRNA,并且这些miRNA在患者和动物模型的心力衰竭中也表现出显著参与。这些结果表明,DOX诱导的人类CM中失调的miRNA可作为早期敏感的心脏毒性生物标志物,用于筛选具有相似作用机制的潜在药物和环境心脏毒物。