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    Bmi1 mediates chromatin remodeling and pathological fibrosis for cardiac repair after myocardial injury

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2022
    Author
    Kraus, Lindsay cc
    Advisor
    Mohsin, Sadia
    Committee member
    Tilley, Douglas G.
    Scalia, Rosario
    Koch, Walter J.
    McKinsey, Timothy A.
    Department
    Biomedical Sciences
    Subject
    Biology
    Cellular biology
    Cardiac
    Epigenetic
    Fibroblasts
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/8016
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7988
    Abstract
    Myocardial injury leads to scar formation and pathological fibrosis that has a significant impact on the development and progression of cardiac disease. Increasing evidence suggests alteration in the chromatin landscape of cells can exacerbate the extracellular matrix deposition and enhance disease progression. Chromatin alterations and fibrosis mediate several cardiac cellular changes, including scar formation, DNA damage, collagen deposition, and increased TGFB expression which are all disease-driving mechanisms during heart failure. Targeting epigenetic dependent fibrosis pathways is thus a promising strategy for the prevention and treatment after myocardial injury. The polycomb complex protein Bmi1, an epigenetic regulator, is associated with numerous biological functions including mediating DNA damage, cellular fate, and proliferation. However, there is currently a lack of understanding on how Bmi1 mediated epigenetic modifications affect adult heart function after injury. It was previously determined that Bmi1 modulates the epigenetic landscape of cardiac stem cells that mediates various molecular processes during a stress condition. In the present study, using a Bmi1 global and fibroblast specific knockout model, cardiac function was assessed through echocardiography using adult mice following cardiac injury. The loss of Bmi1 caused a significant decrease in heart function after injury, which was associated with increased fibrosis and DNA damage. Specifically, we found that the adult cardiac fibroblasts, isolated from the Bmi1 knockout model, had increased expression of pro-fibrotic genes including TGFB, aSMA, and Collagen1a1. Through multiomic sequencing, we found significant changes in the pathological fibrotic signaling pathways of TGFB, specifically with SMAD3 chromatin accessibility with the loss of Bmi1 epigenetic regulation. Concluding, Bmi1 epigenetic regulation mediates repair during pathological challenge by regulating adult cardiac fibroblasts and pathological fibrosis after cardiac injury.
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