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Determining The Absolute Requirement Of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 5 For Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy: Short Communication., Jessica I Gold, Erhe Gao, Xiying Shang, Richard T Premont, Walter J Koch
Determining The Absolute Requirement Of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 5 For Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy: Short Communication., Jessica I Gold, Erhe Gao, Xiying Shang, Richard T Premont, Walter J Koch
Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers
RATIONALE: Heart failure (HF) is often the end phase of maladaptive cardiac hypertrophy. A contributing factor is activation of a hypertrophic gene expression program controlled by decreased class II histone deacetylase (HDAC) transcriptional repression via HDAC phosphorylation. Cardiac-specific overexpression of G proteinen-coupled receptor kinase-5 (GRK5) has previously been shown to possess nuclear activity as a HDAC5 kinase, promoting an intolerance to in vivo ventricular pressure overload; however, its endogenous requirement in adaptive and maladaptive hypertrophy remains unknown.
OBJECTIVE: We used mouse models with global or cardiomyocyte-specific GRK5 gene deletion to determine the absolute requirement of endogenous GRK5 for cardiac hypertrophy …