Selection of microRNA and target protein involved in cardiac function in infarcted rats in response to aerobic training

Author(s)

Stéphano Freitas Soares Melo

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Educação Física e Esportes (EEFE/BT)
• Defense date: 2014-04-11

Examining board members

Edilamar Menezes de Oliveira; Julio Cesar Batista Ferreira; Maria Claudia Costa Irigoyen; Alessandra Medeiros; Luciana dos Reis Vasques

• Advisor: Edilamar Menezes de Oliveira

Abstract

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a disease caused by partial or total blockage of the myocardial coronary arteries. It is known that after MI, physical training (PT) improves and promotes beneficial adaptations to the cardiovascular system. The aim of this study was to analyse the microRNAs profile in the remaining area to MI in rats submitted to PT by microarray and select a specific microRNA by bioinformatics software that has targets involved with the improvement of cardiac function by PT. Also, the aim of this study was to verify the expression of the microRNA-1, microRNA-29 and microRNA-214 and its targets, such as collagen, NCX and SERCA2a. For this, rats were divided into four groups: SEDENTARY SHAM (SHAM - SED), INFARCTED SEDENTARY (SED-MI), TRAINED SHAM (TR-SHAM) and INFARCTED TRAINED (TR-IM). Ventricular function was monitored with echocardiography before and after eight weeks of the PT. The animals were sacrificed, the RNA was extracted and traced the profile of microRNAs. For selection of microRNAs were stipulated two patterns of expression between the groups. The first standard, 6 microRNAs were selected and in the second standard, 3 microRNAs were selected to satisfy all criteria. The microRNA- 339-5p was chosen because of pronounced differential expression with PT and have two target genes selected by bioinformatics programs (TargetScan, Miranda and PicTar) Myo1c and the PGC-1 ? are involved in the regulation of cardiac function. In this study, we found that the SHAM group and the group with MI undergoing PT increased expression of Myo1c in contrast to a decreased expression of microRNA-339- 5p. Our results also showed that PT induced increased expression of microRNA-29a/c, which is associated with a significant decrease in gene expression of COLIAI, COLIIIAI, the hydroxyproline xvii concentration and collagen volume fraction of rats with MI. Another result of this study is that the PT induced decrease in the expression of microRNA-1 and microRNA-214, which is related to the increase in protein expression of the targets SERCA-2a and NCX of rats with MI. These effects are associated with improved ventricular function assessed by FEAT % (systolic function) and E/A ratio (diastolic function), performed by echocardiography after the period of PT (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/09438-0 - THERAPEUTIC USE OF microRNA RESPONSIBLE FOR REGULATING CARDIAC CONTRACTILITY ASSOCIATED WITH EXERCISE TRAINING AEROBIC IN RATS WITH HEART FAILURE
• Grantee: Stéphano Freitas Soares Melo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate