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ArticlePloS one2023

Cardiac RNase Z edited via CRISPR-Cas9 drives heart hypertrophy in Drosophila.

Ekaterina Migunova, Saathvika Rajamani, Stefania Bonanni, Fei Wang, Chao Zhou, Edward B Dubrovsky

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Article in PloS one, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ekaterina MigunovaDepartment of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, United States of America.
Saathvika RajamaniDepartment of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, United States of America.
Stefania BonanniDepartment of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, United States of America.
Fei WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America.
Chao ZhouDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America.
Edward B DubrovskyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-0640-5538
Fordham University · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

High-throughput integrated live imaging and optogenetic pacing platform to assess hypoxia responsiveness in the fly heartR01HL156265 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, CHAO · 2021 to 2024
$2.1M
High throughput optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based imaging platform for label-free, non-invasive characterization of 3D tumor spheroids.R01EB025209 · NIBIB · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, CHAO · 2017 to 2021
$1.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL156265NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiomyopathy (CM) is a group of diseases distinguished by morphological and functional abnormalities in the myocardium. It is etiologically heterogeneous and may develop via cell autonomous and/or non-autonomous mechanisms. One of the most severe forms of CM has been linked to the deficiency of the ubiquitously expressed RNase Z endoribonuclease. RNase Z cleaves off the 3'-trailer of both nuclear and mitochondrial primary tRNA (pre-tRNA) transcripts. Cells mutant for RNase Z accumulate unprocessed pre-tRNA molecules. Patients carrying RNase Z variants with reduced enzymatic activity display a plethora of symptoms including muscular hypotonia, microcephaly and severe heart hypertrophy; still, they die primarily due to acute heart decompensation. Determining whether the underlying mechanism of heart malfunction is cell autonomous or not will provide an opportunity to develop novel strategies of more efficient treatments for these patients. In this study, we used CRISPR-TRiM technology to create Drosophila models that carry cardiomyopathy-linked alleles of RNase Z only in the cardiomyocytes. We found that this modification is sufficient for flies to develop heart hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction. These observations support the idea that the RNase Z linked CM is driven by cell autonomous mechanisms.

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DrosophilaRNA PrecursorsAnimalsCardiomegalyCRISPR-Cas SystemsEndoribonucleasesRNA, TransferEndoribonucleasesRNA PrecursorsRNase ZRNA, Transfer

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PMID37228086
PMCPMC10212119
OpenAlexW4378195412

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