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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 283: H533-H539, 2002. First published April 4, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00002.2002
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Vol. 283, Issue 2, H533-H539, August 2002

Direct biomechanical induction of endogenous calcineurin inhibitor Down Syndrome Critical Region-1 in cardiac myocytes

Yanlin Wang1, Gilles W. De Keulenaer1, Ellen O. Weinberg1, Suphi Muangman1, Antonio Gualberto2, Katherine T. Landschulz2, Thomas G. Turi2, John F. Thompson2, and Richard T. Lee1

1 Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusets 02115; and 2 Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, Connecticut 06340

Signaling through the protein phosphatase calcineurin may play a critical role in cardiac hypertrophy. The gene for Down Syndrome Critical Region-1 (DSCR1) encodes a protein that is an endogenous calcineurin inhibitor. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that DSCR1 is directly induced by biomechanical stimuli. Neonatal rat cardiac myocytes were exposed to biaxial cyclic mechanical strain; mechanical strain upregulated DSCR1 mRNA expression in a time- and amplitude-dependent manner (3.4 ± 0.2-fold at 8% strain for 6 h, n = 11, P < 0.01), and this induction was angiotensin II and endothelin I independent. Biomechanical induction of DSCR1 mRNA was partially blocked by calcineurin inhibition with cyclosporine A (30 ± 5%, n = 3, P < 0.01). DSCR1 promoter-reporter experiments showed that mechanical strain induced DSCR1 promoter activity by 2.3-fold and that this induction was completely inhibited by cyclosporin A. Furthermore, DSCR1 gene expression was increased in the left ventricles of mice with pressure-overload hypertrophy induced by transverse aortic banding. These data demonstrate that biomechanical strain directly induces gene expression for the calcineurin inhibitor DSCR1 in cardiac myocytes, indicating that mechanically induced DSCR1 may regulate the hypertrophic response to mechanical overload.

hypertrophy; mechanical strain


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