Nature Communications (May 2021)

The lncRNA Caren antagonizes heart failure by inactivating DNA damage response and activating mitochondrial biogenesis

  • Michio Sato,
  • Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu,
  • Keishi Miyata,
  • Junco S. Warren,
  • Zhe Tian,
  • Shunshun Zhu,
  • Haruki Horiguchi,
  • Aman Makaju,
  • Anna Bakhtina,
  • Jun Morinaga,
  • Taichi Sugizaki,
  • Kaname Hirashima,
  • Kumiko Yoshinobu,
  • Mai Imasaka,
  • Masatake Araki,
  • Yoshihiro Komohara,
  • Tomohiko Wakayama,
  • Shinichi Nakagawa,
  • Sarah Franklin,
  • Koichi Node,
  • Kimi Araki,
  • Yuichi Oike

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22735-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play a role in cardiac physiology and disease. Here the authors identify the lncRNA Caren as a cytoplasmic RNA that decreases the translation of a distant gene encoding Hint1, thereby maintaining cardiomyocyte function due to inactivation of the DNA damage response and activation of mitochondrial bioenergetics.