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IGF-1 degradation by mouse mast cell protease 4 promotes cell death and adverse cardiac remodeling days after a myocardial infarction

Tejada, Thor; Pejler, Gunnar; Åbrink, Magnus; Husain, Ahsan

Sammanfattning

Heart disease is a leading cause of death in adults. Here, we show that a few days after coronary artery ligation and reperfusion, the ischemia-injured heart elaborates the cardioprotective polypeptide, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which activates IGF-1 receptor prosurvival signaling and improves cardiac left ventricular systolic function. However, this signaling is antagonized by the chymase, mouse mast cell protease 4 (MMCP-4), which degrades IGF-1. We found that deletion of the gene encoding MMCP-4 (Mcpt4), markedly reduced late, but not early, infarct size by suppressing IGF-1 degradation and, consequently, diminished cardiac dysfunction and adverse structural remodeling. Our findings represent the first demonstration to our knowledge of tissue IGF-1 regulation through proteolytic degradation and suggest that chymase inhibition may be a viable therapeutic approach to enhance late cardioprotection in post-ischemic heart disease.

Nyckelord

insulin-like growth factor-1; chymase; mouse mast cell protease 4; ischemia-reperfusion injury; cardioprotection

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2016, Volym: 113, nummer: 25, sidor: 6949-6954
Utgivare: NATL ACAD SCIENCES