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KMID : 0620920230550040860
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Experimental & Molecular Medicine
2023 Volume.55 No. 4 p.860 ~ p.869
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Cdyl2-60aa encoded by CircCDYL2 accelerates cardiomyocyte death by blocking APAF1 ubiquitination in rats
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Yunfei Deng
Xiaochen Zeng
Yifei Lv
Zhiyuan Qian
Peijie Guo
Yi Liu
Shaoliang Chen
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Abstract
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The loss of cardiomyocytes (CMs) after myocardial infarction (MI) is widely acknowledged to initiate the development of heart failure (HF). Herein, we found that circCDYL2 (583 nt) derived from chromodomain Y-like 2 (Cdyl2) is significantly upregulated in vitro (oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD)-treated CMs) and in vivo (failing heart post-MI) and can be translated into a polypeptide termed Cdyl2-60aa (~7?kDa) in the presence of internal ribosomal entry sites (IRES). Downregulation of circCDYL2 significantly decreased the loss of OGD-treated CMs or the infarcted area of the heart post-MI. Additionally, elevated circCDYL2 significantly accelerated CM apoptosis via Cdyl2-60aa. We then discovered that Cdyl2-60aa could stabilize protein apoptotic protease activating factor-1 (APAF1) and promote CM apoptosis; heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) mediated APAF1 degradation in CMs by ubiquitinating APAF1, which Cdyl2-60aa could competitively block. In conclusion, our work substantiated the claim that circCDYL2 could promote CM apoptosis via Cdyl2-60aa, which enhanced APAF1 stability by blocking its ubiquitination by HSP70, suggesting that it is a therapeutic target for HF post-MI in rats.
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KEYWORD
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Apoptosis, Heart failure
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