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Springhorn, J.P. et al.

Transcriptional regulation in cardiac muscle. Coordinate expression of Id with a neonatal phenotype during development and following a hypertrophic stimulus in adult rat ventricular myocytes in vitro.

The transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in heart muscle that direct cardiac development and allow for a flexible, adaptive response to physiologic stress are not well understood. We demonstrate that a negative regulator of gene transcription termed Id that has been described predominantly in proliferating cell lines and in undifferentiated tissue during growth, is expressed in freshly isolated terminally differentiated adult rat ventricular myocytes, in contrast to most other tissues in the adult rat. Id mRNA expression is regulated in ventricular myocytes during post-natal development, peaking at the transition from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth at day 17 in the rat, declining subsequently to lower, stable levels in adult myocytes. Although Id mRNA becomes undetectable in adult ventricular myocytes 48 h following isolation in the absence of serum, it can be rapidly reinduced by an alpha-adrenergic agonist, accompanied by increased protein synthesis and the reexpression, in defined media, of the neonatal genes prepro-ANP and skeletal muscle alpha-actin. Thus, the differential regulation of Id during cardiac development, the presence of Id mRNA in normal cardiac myocytes, and its increased expression following a hypertrophic stimulus all suggest a role for this transcriptional regulator in the control of cardiac muscle cell phenotype.[1]

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Transcriptional regulation in cardiac muscle. Coordinate expression of Id with a neonatal phenotype during development and following a hypertrophic stimulus in adult rat ventricular myocytes in vitro. Springhorn, J.P., Ellingsen, O., Berger, H.J., Kelly, R.A., Smith, T.W. J. Biol. Chem. (1992) [Pubmed]

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