Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

ANGPTL2 activity in cardiac pathologies accelerates heart failure by perturbing cardiac function and energy metabolism

  • Zhe Tian,
  • Keishi Miyata,
  • Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu,
  • Haruki Horiguchi,
  • Hiroyuki Fukushima,
  • Shugo Tohyama,
  • Yoshihiro Ujihara,
  • Takahiro Okumura,
  • Satoshi Yamaguchi,
  • Jiabin Zhao,
  • Motoyoshi Endo,
  • Jun Morinaga,
  • Michio Sato,
  • Taichi Sugizaki,
  • Shunshun Zhu,
  • Kazutoyo Terada,
  • Hisashi Sakaguchi,
  • Yoshihiro Komohara,
  • Motohiro Takeya,
  • Naoki Takeda,
  • Kimi Araki,
  • Ichiro Manabe,
  • Keiichi Fukuda,
  • Kinya Otsu,
  • Jun Wada,
  • Toyoaki Murohara,
  • Satoshi Mohri,
  • Jun K. Yamashita,
  • Motoaki Sano,
  • Yuichi Oike

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Heart responds to increased workload by enlarging cardiomyocytes to preserve function, but in pathologies hypertrophy leads to heart failure. Here the authors show that ANGPTL2 activity in the heart is critical for determining beneficial vs. pathological hypertrophy via its effect on AKT-SERCA2a signaling and myocardial energy.