Targeting miRNA-1a and miRNA-15b: A Novel Combinatorial Strategy to Drive Adult Cardiac Regeneration
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Abstract
Despite its promise, cardiac regenerative therapy remains clinically elusive due to the difficulty of spatio-temporal control of proliferative induction, and the need to coordinately reprogram multiple regulatory pathways to overcome the strict post-mitotic state of human adult cardiomyocytes. To address this unmet therapeutic need, a combinatorial miRNA interference screen is performed specifically targeting cardiac-predominant miRNAs regulating key aspects of cardiomyocyte mitotic induction to cell-cycle completion in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. In doing so combinatorial interference of miRNA-1a and miRNA-15b (LNA-1a/15b) is identified as drivers of adult cardiomyocyte proliferation. Due to miRNA-1a/15b function on multiple processes modulating adult cardiomyocyte mitosis, its inhibition augmented adult cardiomyocyte cell-cycle completion and daughter cell formation, and improved contractility in 3D human cardiac organoids, and in a mouse model of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Due to the cardiac-restricted pattern of miRNA-1a/15b expression, this strategy provides a feasible means for specific cardiomyocyte proliferative induction with minimal risk of neoplasm formation and off-target toxicity. The approach further highlights an underutilized therapeutic strategy for simultaneous co-regulation of multiple disease pathways through combinatorial interference of miRNAs.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2414455 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Advanced science |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2025 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| PubMed | 40178022 |
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Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Keywords
- cardiac organoids, cardiomyocyte proliferation, microRNAs, myocardial infarction