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Rabphilin silencing causes dilated cardiomyopathy in a Drosophila model of nephrocyte damage

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العنوان: Rabphilin silencing causes dilated cardiomyopathy in a Drosophila model of nephrocyte damage
المؤلفون: Estela Selma-Soriano, Carlos Casillas-Serra, Rubén Artero, Beatriz Llamusi, Juan Antonio Navarro, Josep Redón
المصدر: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Nature Portfolio, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: Abstract Heart failure (HF) and the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a direct association. Both can be cause and consequence of the other. Many factors are known, such as diabetes or hypertension, which can lead to the appearance and/or development of these two conditions. However, it is suspected that other factors, namely genetic ones, may explain the differences in the manifestation and progression of HF and CKD among patients. One candidate factor is Rph, a gene expressed in the nervous and excretory system in mammals and Drosophila, encoding a Rab small GTPase family effector protein implicated in vesicular trafficking. We found that Rph is expressed in the Drosophila heart, and the silencing of Rph gene expression in this organ had a strong impact in the organization of fibers and functional cardiac parameters. Specifically, we observed a significant increase in diastolic and systolic diameters of the heart tube, which is a phenotype that resembles dilated cardiomyopathy in humans. Importantly, we also show that silencing of Rabphilin (Rph) expression exclusively in the pericardial nephrocytes, which are part of the flies' excretory system, brings about a non-cell-autonomous effect on the Drosophila cardiac system. In summary, in this work, we demonstrate the importance of Rph in the fly cardiac system and how silencing Rph expression in nephrocytes affects the Drosophila cardiac system.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2045-2322
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94710-7
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/db828bf2c4714b54b3f66373160ac357
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.b828bf2c4714b54b3f66373160ac357
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20452322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-94710-7