Abstract
To explore the compatibility of skeletal and cardiac programs of gene expression, transgenic mice that express a skeletal muscle myogenic regulator, bmyf5, in the heart were analyzed. These mice develop a severe cardiomyopathy and exhibit a significantly shorter life span than do their nontransgenic littermates. The transgene was expressed from day 7.5 post coitum forward, resulting in activation of skeletal muscle genes not normally seen in the myocardium. Cardiac pathology was not apparent at midgestation but was evident by day 2 of postnatal life, and by 42 days, hearts exhibited multifocal interstitial inflammation, fibrosis, cellular hypertrophy, and occasional myocyte degeneration. All four chambers of the heart were enlarged to varying degrees, with the atria demonstrating the most significant hypertrophy (>100% in 42-day-old mice). The transgene and several skeletal muscle-specific genes were expressed only in patchy areas of the heart in heterozygous mice. However, molecular markers of hypertrophy (such as alpha-skeletal actin and atrial myosin light chain- 1) were expressed with a wider distribution, suggesting that their induction was secondary to the expression of the transgene, In older (28-week-old) mice, lung wei...Continue Reading
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