Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Abd, Alla, J; Langer, A; Wolf, S; Fu, X; Rageh, MA; Quitterer, U.
BBLN triggers CAMK2D pathology in mice under cardiac pressure overload and potentially in unrepaired hearts with tetralogy of Fallot.
Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2023; 2(11): 1044-1059.
Doi: 10.1038/s44161-023-00351-6
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- Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is one of the most prevalent congenital heart defects, with adverse cardiac remodeling and long-term cardiac complications. Here, searching for pathomechanisms, we find upregulated bublin coiled-coil protein (BBLN) in heart specimens of TOF patients with cyanosis, which positively correlates with cardiac remodeling pathways. Human BBLN, a protein with largely unknown function, promoted heart failure features, with increased mortality when overexpressed in mice, in a protein dosage-dependent manner. BBLN enhanced cardiac inflammation, fibrosis and necroptosis by calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II delta (CAMK2D) activation, whereas a BBLN mutant with impaired CAMK2D binding was inert. Downregulation of CAMK2D by an interfering RNA retarded BBLN-induced symptoms of heart failure. Endogenous BBLN was induced by hypoxia as a major TOF feature in human patients and by chronic pressure overload in mice, and its downregulation decreased CAMK2D hyperactivity, necroptosis and cardiovascular dysfunction. Thus, BBLN promotes CAMK2D-induced pathways to pathological cardiac remodeling, which are triggered by hypoxia in TOF.