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ArticleScientific reports2022

BRG1 is a biomarker of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human heart specimens.

Jacob C Scherba, Marc K Halushka, Nicholas D Andersen, Joseph J Maleszewski, Andrew P Landstrom, Nenad Bursac, Carolyn Glass

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Jacob C ScherbaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Marc K HalushkaDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Nicholas D AndersenDivision of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Joseph J MaleszewskiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
Andrew P LandstromDivision of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Nenad BursacDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Carolyn GlassDepartment of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, 217AM Davison Bldg, 40 Duke Medicine Circle, Box 3712 DUHS, Durham, NC, 27710, USA. carolyn.glass@duke.edu.
Duke Medical Center · USDuke University · USDuke University Hospital · USJohns Hopkins University · USMayo Clinic in Arizona · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007171 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KONTOS, CHRISTOPHER D · 1985 to 2021
$31.2M
Integrated Cellular and Tissue Engineering for Ischemic Heart DiseaseU01HL134764 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BURSAC, NENAD, KAMP, TIMOTHY J. · 2016 to 2022
$7.7M
Engineering Human Heart Tissues with Polyploid CardiomyocytesR01HL164013 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL164013NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL134764NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease of the sarcomere that causes otherwise unexplained cardiac hypertrophy and is associated with sudden death. While previous studies showed the role of the epigenetic modifier Brg1 in mouse models of HCM, additional work is needed to identify its role in humans. We tested the hypothesis that BRG1 expression is increased in periods of cardiac remodeling during fetal growth and in development of HCM. We employed immunohistochemical staining to evaluate protein expression of BRG1 in 796 human cardiac specimens (81 from patients with HCM) and describe elevated BRG1 expression in human fetal hearts in early development. In addition, we not only demonstrate increased expression of BRG1 in HCM, but we also show that other diseases that lead to heart failure have similar BRG1 expression to healthy controls. Inhibition of BRG1 in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes significantly decreases MYH7 and increases MYH6, suggesting a regulatory role for BRG1 in the pathological imbalance of the two myosin heavy chain isoforms in human HCM. These data are the first demonstration of BRG1 as a specific biomarker for human HCM and provide foundation for future studies of epigenetics in human cardiac disease.

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Cardiomyopathy, HypertrophicDNA HelicasesInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsNuclear ProteinsTranscription FactorsAnimalsBiomarkersHumansMiceMutationMyosin Heavy ChainsBiomarkersDNA HelicasesMyosin Heavy ChainsNuclear ProteinsSMARCA4 protein, humanTranscription Factors

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PMID35581268
PMCPMC9114001
OpenAlexW4280518422

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