Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Mitochondrial CaMKII causes adverse metabolic reprogramming and dilated cardiomyopathy

  • Elizabeth D. Luczak,
  • Yuejin Wu,
  • Jonathan M. Granger,
  • Mei-ling A. Joiner,
  • Nicholas R. Wilson,
  • Ashish Gupta,
  • Priya Umapathi,
  • Kevin R. Murphy,
  • Oscar E. Reyes Gaido,
  • Amin Sabet,
  • Eleonora Corradini,
  • Wen-Wei Tseng,
  • Yibin Wang,
  • Albert J. R. Heck,
  • An-Chi Wei,
  • Robert G. Weiss,
  • Mark E. Anderson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18165-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Little is known about how cardiac metabolism remodels following cardiac injury. Here, the authors show that mitochondrial CaMKII plays an important role in remodeling cardiac metabolism after injury and that replacement of mitochondrial creatine kinase improves energetics and protects against adverse remodeling.