人类左心室心肌的时间和生物学老化:microRNAs 贡献的分析。

Chronological and biological aging of the human left ventricular myocardium: Analysis of microRNAs contribution.

机构信息

Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation group (BSICoS), Aragón Institute of Engineering Research, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

BSICoS, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain.

出版信息

Aging Cell. 2021 Jul;20(7):e13383. doi: 10.1111/acel.13383. Epub 2021 Jun 6.

Abstract

Aging is the main risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. In humans, cardiac aging remains poorly characterized. Most studies are based on chronological age (CA) and disregard biological age (BA), the actual physiological age (result of the aging rate on the organ structure and function), thus yielding potentially imperfect outcomes. Deciphering the molecular basis of ventricular aging, especially by BA, could lead to major progresses in cardiac research. We aim to describe the transcriptome dynamics of the aging left ventricle (LV) in humans according to both CA and BA and characterize the contribution of microRNAs, key transcriptional regulators. BA is measured using two CA-associated transcriptional markers: CDKN2A expression, a cell senescence marker, and apparent age (AppAge), a highly complex transcriptional index. Bioinformatics analysis of 132 LV samples shows that CDKN2A expression and AppAge represent transcriptomic changes better than CA. Both BA markers are biologically validated in relation to an aging phenotype associated with heart dysfunction, the amount of cardiac fibrosis. BA-based analyses uncover depleted cardiac-specific processes, among other relevant functions, that are undetected by CA. Twenty BA-related microRNAs are identified, and two of them highly heart-enriched that are present in plasma. We describe a microRNA-gene regulatory network related to cardiac processes that are partially validated in vitro and in LV samples from living donors. We prove the higher sensitivity of BA over CA to explain transcriptomic changes in the aging myocardium and report novel molecular insights into human LV biological aging. Our results can find application in future therapeutic and biomarker research.

摘要

衰老是心血管疾病的主要危险因素。在人类中,心脏衰老仍然特征不明显。大多数研究都是基于年龄(CA)而不考虑生物年龄(BA),即器官结构和功能的衰老速度所决定的实际生理年龄,因此可能会产生不完美的结果。解析心室衰老的分子基础,尤其是通过 BA,可能会在心脏研究方面取得重大进展。我们旨在根据 CA 和 BA 描述人类左心室(LV)衰老的转录组动态,并描述 microRNA(关键转录调节因子)的贡献。BA 是通过两个与 CA 相关的转录标记来测量的:CDKN2A 表达,细胞衰老标志物,和表观年龄(AppAge),一个高度复杂的转录指数。对 132 个 LV 样本的生物信息学分析表明,CDKN2A 表达和 AppAge 比 CA 更好地代表转录组变化。这两个 BA 标志物都与与心脏功能障碍相关的衰老表型(心脏纤维化量)具有生物学相关性。基于 BA 的分析揭示了心脏特异性过程的耗竭,以及其他相关功能,这些在 CA 中是检测不到的。确定了 20 个与 BA 相关的 microRNA,其中两个高度心脏富集的 microRNA 存在于血浆中。我们描述了一个与心脏过程相关的 microRNA-基因调控网络,该网络在体外和活体供体的 LV 样本中得到部分验证。我们证明了 BA 比 CA 更高的敏感性可以解释衰老心肌的转录组变化,并报告了人类 LV 生物衰老的新分子见解。我们的研究结果可以为未来的治疗和生物标志物研究提供应用。

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