PMID- 16617122 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060926 LR - 20211020 IS - 0363-6135 (Print) IS - 1522-1539 (Electronic) IS - 0363-6135 (Linking) VI - 291 IP - 3 DP - 2006 Sep TI - Activation of endoplasmic reticulum stress response during the development of ischemic heart disease. PG - H1411-20 AB - Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has been found to be associated with neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes mellitus. Whether ER stress is involved in the development of heart disease is not known. Cardiac-specific expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in mice causes the development of ischemic heart disease. Here we report that microarray analysis of gene expression changes in the heart of these transgenic mice revealed that a cluster of ER stress-related genes was transcriptionally activated in the heart during the development of ischemic heart disease. The gene array results were verified by quantitative real-time PCR that showed highly elevated transcript levels of genes involved in unfolded protein response such as ER and cytoplasmic chaperones, oxidoreductases, protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) family, and ER-associated degradation system such as ubiquitin. Immunoblot analysis confirmed the expression of chaperones, PDI, and ubiquitin. Immunohistochemical analyses showed that ER stress proteins were associated mainly with the degenerating cardiomyocytes. A novel ubiquitin fold modifier (Ufm1) that has not been previously associated with ER stress and not found to be induced under any condition was also found to be upregulated in the hearts of MCP mice (transgenic mice that express MCP-1 specifically in the heart). The present results strongly suggest that activation of ER stress response is involved in the development of ischemic heart disease in this murine model. FAU - Azfer, Asim AU - Azfer A AD - Biomolecular Science Center, Burnett College of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Bldg. 20, Rm. 136, Orlando, FL 32816-2364, USA. FAU - Niu, Jianli AU - Niu J FAU - Rogers, Linda M AU - Rogers LM FAU - Adamski, Frances M AU - Adamski FM FAU - Kolattukudy, Pappachan E AU - Kolattukudy PE LA - eng GR - R01 HL069458/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 HL069458/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - HL-69458/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20060414 PL - United States TA - Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol JT - American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology JID - 100901228 RN - 0 (Ccl2 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - 0 (Ubiquitin) RN - 0 (Ufm1 protein, mouse) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) RN - EC 1.- (Oxidoreductases) RN - EC 5.3.4.1 (Protein Disulfide-Isomerases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis/physiology MH - Chemokine CCL2/genetics/metabolism MH - DNA/genetics MH - Endoplasmic Reticulum/*physiology MH - Gene Expression Profiling MH - Gene Expression Regulation/genetics/*physiology MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Molecular Chaperones/genetics/metabolism MH - Myocardial Ischemia/*genetics/pathology/*physiopathology MH - Myocardium/metabolism/pathology MH - Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis MH - Oxidoreductases/genetics/metabolism MH - Protein Disulfide-Isomerases/genetics/metabolism MH - Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Stress, Physiological/*physiopathology MH - Ubiquitin/genetics/metabolism PMC - PMC1575464 MID - NIHMS11971 EDAT- 2006/04/18 09:00 MHDA- 2006/09/27 09:00 PMCR- 2008/02/01 CRDT- 2006/04/18 09:00 PHST- 2006/04/18 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/09/27 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/04/18 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2008/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 01378.2005 [pii] AID - 10.1152/ajpheart.01378.2005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2006 Sep;291(3):H1411-20. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.01378.2005. Epub 2006 Apr 14.