Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Aging-regulated anti-apoptotic long non-coding RNA Sarrah augments recovery from acute myocardial infarction

  • D. Julia Trembinski,
  • Diewertje I. Bink,
  • Kosta Theodorou,
  • Janina Sommer,
  • Ariane Fischer,
  • Anke van Bergen,
  • Chao-Chung Kuo,
  • Ivan G. Costa,
  • Christoph Schürmann,
  • Matthias S. Leisegang,
  • Ralf P. Brandes,
  • Tijna Alekseeva,
  • Boris Brill,
  • Astrid Wietelmann,
  • Christopher N. Johnson,
  • Alexander Spring-Connell,
  • Manuel Kaulich,
  • Stanislas Werfel,
  • Stefan Engelhardt,
  • Marc N. Hirt,
  • Kaja Yorgan,
  • Thomas Eschenhagen,
  • Luisa Kirchhof,
  • Patrick Hofmann,
  • Nicolas Jaé,
  • Ilka Wittig,
  • Nazha Hamdani,
  • Corinne Bischof,
  • Jaya Krishnan,
  • Riekelt H. Houtkooper,
  • Stefanie Dimmeler,
  • Reinier A. Boon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15995-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Aging induces cardiovascular disease, but which RNA molecules control cardiac aging is poorly understood. Here the authors identified the aging-regulated non-coding RNA Sarrah, which controls cardiomyocyte survival and cardiac function by inducing cardioprotective genes.