Rig1 receptor plays a critical role in cardiac reprogramming via YY1 signaling.
We discovered that innate immunity plays an important role in the reprogramming of fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes. In this report, we define the role of a novel retinoic acid-inducible gene 1 Yin Yang 1 (Rig1:YY1) pathway. We found that fibroblast to cardiomyocyte reprogramming efficacy was enhanced by specific Rig1 activators. To understand the mechanism of action, we performed various transcriptomic, nucleosome occupancy, and epigenomic approaches. Analysis of the datasets indicated that Rig1 agonists had no effect on reprogramming-induced changes in nucleosome occupancy or loss of inhibitory epigenetic motifs. Instead, Rig1 agonists were found to modulate cardiac reprogramming by promoting the binding of YY1 specifically to cardiac genes. To conclude, these results show that the Rig1:YY1 pathway plays a critical role in fibroblast to cardiomyocyte reprogramming.
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- Fibroblasts
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
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Related Subject Headings
- Signal Transduction
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid
- Physiology
- Nucleosomes
- Myocytes, Cardiac
- Humans
- Fibroblasts
- Carrier Proteins
- Animals
- 3208 Medical physiology