Single-cell transcriptomics for the assessment of cardiac disease

AMA Miranda, V Janbandhu, H Maatz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally. An advanced understanding
of cardiovascular disease mechanisms is required to improve therapeutic strategies and …

Base editing correction of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human cardiomyocytes and humanized mice

AC Chai, M Cui, F Chemello, H Li, K Chen, W Tan… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The most common form of genetic heart disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM),
which is caused by variants in cardiac sarcomeric genes and leads to abnormal heart …

Nrf1 promotes heart regeneration and repair by regulating proteostasis and redox balance

M Cui, A Atmanli, MG Morales, W Tan, K Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Following injury, cells in regenerative tissues have the ability to regrow. The mechanisms
whereby regenerating cells adapt to injury-induced stress conditions and activate the …

Somatic mutations in single human cardiomyocytes reveal age-associated DNA damage and widespread oxidative genotoxicity

S Choudhury, AY Huang, J Kim, Z Zhou, K Morillo… - Nature aging, 2022 - nature.com
The accumulation of somatic DNA mutations over time is a hallmark of aging in many
dividing and nondividing cells but has not been studied in postmitotic human …

Striated muscle-specific base editing enables correction of mutations causing dilated cardiomyopathy

M Grosch, L Schraft, A Chan, L Küchenhoff… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy is the second most common cause for heart failure with no cure
except a high-risk heart transplantation. Approximately 30% of patients harbor heritable …

Cardiomyocyte ploidy is dynamic during postnatal development and varies across genetic backgrounds

SK Swift, AL Purdy, ME Kolell, KG Andresen… - …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Somatic polyploidization, an adaptation by which cells increase their DNA content to support
growth, is observed in many cell types, including cardiomyocytes. Although polyploidization …

Tbx5 maintains atrial identity in postnatal cardiomyocytes by regulating an atrial-specific enhancer network

ME Sweat, Y Cao, X Zhang, O Burnicka-Turek… - Nature cardiovascular …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding how the atrial and ventricular heart chambers maintain distinct identities is a
prerequisite for treating chamber-specific diseases. In this study, we selectively knocked out …

Cardiac myoediting attenuates cardiac abnormalities in human and mouse models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

A Atmanli, AC Chai, M Cui, Z Wang… - Circulation …, 2021 - ahajournals.org
Rationale: Absence of dystrophin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) results in the
degeneration of skeletal and cardiac muscles. Owing to advances in respiratory …

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies cell-type–specific effects of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors in human myocardial slices

K Schmidt, M Fuchs, N Weber, C Werlein… - European Heart …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
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Thomas@ mh-hannover. de† The first two authors contributed equally to the study and …

Tbx5 maintains atrial identity by regulating an atrial enhancer network

ME Sweat, Y Cao, X Zhang, O Burnicka-Turek… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Understanding how the atrial and ventricular chambers of the heart maintain their distinct
identity is a prerequisite for treating chamber-specific diseases. Here, we selectively …