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Protective effects of the mechanistic target of rapamycin against excess iron and ferroptosis in cardiomyocytes
- Source :
- American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 314:H659-H668
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- American Physiological Society, 2018.
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Abstract
- Clinical studies have suggested that myocardial iron is a risk factor for left ventricular remodeling in patients after myocardial infarction. Ferroptosis has recently been reported as a mechanism of iron-dependent nonapoptotic cell death. However, ferroptosis in the heart is not well understood. Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) protects the heart against pathological stimuli such as ischemia. To define the role of cardiac mTOR on cell survival in iron-mediated cell death, we examined cardiomyocyte (CM) cell viability under excess iron and ferroptosis conditions. Adult mouse CMs were isolated from cardiac-specific mTOR transgenic mice, cardiac-specific mTOR knockout mice, or control mice. CMs were treated with ferric iron [Fe(III)]-citrate, erastin, a class 1 ferroptosis inducer, or Ras-selective lethal 3 (RSL3), a class 2 ferroptosis inducer. Live/dead cell viability assays revealed that Fe(III)-citrate, erastin, and RSL3 induced cell death. Cotreatment with ferrostatin-1, a ferroptosis inhibitor, inhibited cell death in all conditions. mTOR overexpression suppressed Fe(III)-citrate, erastin, and RSL3-induced cell death, whereas mTOR deletion exaggerated cell death in these conditions. 2′,7′-Dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate measurement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production showed that erastin-induced ROS production was significantly lower in mTOR transgenic versus control CMs. These findings suggest that ferroptosis is a significant type of cell death in CMs and that mTOR plays an important role in protecting CMs against excess iron and ferroptosis, at least in part, by regulating ROS production. Understanding the effects of mTOR in preventing iron-mediated cell death will provide a new therapy for patients with myocardial infarction. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Ferroptosis has recently been reported as a new form of iron-dependent nonapoptotic cell death. However, ferroptosis in the heart is not well characterized. Using cultured adult mouse cardiomyocytes, we demonstrated that the mechanistic target of rapamycin plays an important role in protecting cardiomyocytes against excess iron and ferroptosis. Listen to this article's corresponding podcast at http://ajpheart.podbean.com/e/mtor-prevents-ferroptosis-in-cardiomyocytes/.
- Subjects :
- Male
0301 basic medicine
Programmed cell death
Cell Survival
Physiology
Iron
Mice, Transgenic
Myocardial Reperfusion Injury
Apoptosis
Phenylenediamines
Biology
Ferric Compounds
Piperazines
03 medical and health sciences
Physiology (medical)
Animals
Humans
Myocytes, Cardiac
Mechanistic target of rapamycin
Cells, Cultured
PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
Sirolimus
Cyclohexylamines
Cell Death
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
Ferroptosis
Cell biology
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Death
030104 developmental biology
Biochemistry
biology.protein
Reactive Oxygen Species
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Carbolines
Signal Transduction
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15221539 and 03636135
- Volume :
- 314
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9c2ff22e0e9f5a7821aa687d2e4a19b4