PMID- 29549296 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20191024 LR - 20231112 IS - 2045-2322 (Electronic) IS - 2045-2322 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 1 DP - 2018 Mar 16 TI - Mechanical stretch induced transcriptomic profiles in cardiac myocytes. PG - 4733 LID - 10.1038/s41598-018-23042-w [doi] LID - 4733 AB - Mechanical forces are able to activate hypertrophic growth of cardiomyocytes in the overloaded myocardium. However, the transcriptional profiles triggered by mechanical stretch in cardiac myocytes are not fully understood. Here, we performed the first genome-wide time series study of gene expression changes in stretched cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVM)s, resulting in 205, 579, 737, 621, and 1542 differentially expressed (>2-fold, P < 0.05) genes in response to 1, 4, 12, 24, and 48 hours of cyclic mechanical stretch. We used Ingenuity Pathway Analysis to predict functional pathways and upstream regulators of differentially expressed genes in order to identify regulatory networks that may lead to mechanical stretch induced hypertrophic growth of cardiomyocytes. We also performed micro (miRNA) expression profiling of stretched NRVMs, and identified that a total of 8 and 87 miRNAs were significantly (P < 0.05) altered by 1-12 and 24-48 hours of mechanical stretch, respectively. Finally, through integration of miRNA and mRNA data, we predicted the miRNAs that regulate mRNAs potentially leading to the hypertrophic growth induced by mechanical stretch. These analyses predicted nuclear factor-like 2 (Nrf2) and interferon regulatory transcription factors as well as the let-7 family of miRNAs as playing roles in the regulation of stretch-regulated genes in cardiomyocytes. FAU - Rysa, Jaana AU - Rysa J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2205-6323 AD - School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. jaana.rysa@uef.fi. AD - Research Unit of Biomedicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. jaana.rysa@uef.fi. FAU - Tokola, Heikki AU - Tokola H AD - Research Unit of Biomedicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. AD - Department of Pathology, Cancer Research and Translational Medicine Research Unit, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland. FAU - Ruskoaho, Heikki AU - Ruskoaho H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8971-1359 AD - Research Unit of Biomedicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. AD - Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180316 PL - England TA - Sci Rep JT - Scientific reports JID - 101563288 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cells, Cultured MH - *Gene Expression Regulation MH - *Gene Regulatory Networks MH - Hypertrophy/*genetics/pathology MH - Male MH - Myocytes, Cardiac/*metabolism/pathology MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - *Stress, Mechanical MH - *Transcriptome PMC - PMC5856749 COIS- The authors declare no competing interests. EDAT- 2018/03/20 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/28 06:00 PMCR- 2018/03/16 CRDT- 2018/03/18 06:00 PHST- 2017/12/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/03/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/03/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/03/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/03/16 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1038/s41598-018-23042-w [pii] AID - 23042 [pii] AID - 10.1038/s41598-018-23042-w [doi] PST - epublish SO - Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 16;8(1):4733. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23042-w.