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Transcriptomic analysis of the cardiac left ventricle in a rodent model of diabetic cardiomyopathy: molecular snapshot of a severe myocardial disease

¹ School of Biological Sciences
² Department of Statistics
³ Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Faculty of Science
⁴ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Heart disease is the major cause of death in diabetes, a disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and cardiovascular complications. Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to diastolic dysfunction and heart failure in diabetes, but its molecular basis has remained obscure, in part because of its multifactorial origins. Here we employed comparative transcriptomic methods with quantitative verification of selected transcripts by reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR to characterize the molecular basis of DCM in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes of 16-wk duration. Diabetes caused left ventricular disease that was accompanied by significant changes in the expression of 1,614 genes, 749 of which had functions assignable by Gene Ontology classification. Genes corresponding to proteins expressed in mitochondria accounted for a disproportionate number of those whose expression was significantly modified in DCM, consistent with the idea that the mitochondrion is a key target of the pathogenic processes that cause myocardial disease in diabetes. Diabetes also induced global perturbations in the expression of genes regulating cardiac fatty acid metabolism, whose dysfunction is likely to play a key role in the promotion of oxidative stress, thereby contributing to the pathogenesis of diabetic myocardial disease. In particular, these data point to impaired regulation of mitochondrial ß-oxidation as central in the mechanisms that generate DCM pathogenesis. This study provides a comprehensive molecular snapshot of the processes leading to myocardial disease in diabetes.

fuel metabolism; gene expression analysis; mitochondria; diastolic heart failure

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