Abstract
The complexity of transcriptome and proteome is contributed by alternative splicing of mRNA. Altered mRNA splicing is also implicated in many human diseases including cancer. However, little knowledge is available about the scope of alternative splicing at whole genome level in heart diseases and even less about the mechanisms underlying the regulation of mRNA splicing in response to pathological injury in heart. Using a genome-wide RNA-Seq analysis, we have identified global alternative splicing changes associated with both development and pathological remodeling in mouse heart. Most significantly, the alternative RNA splicing events observed in failing heart mimicked the splicing profile in fetal hearts, suggesting a fetal like RNA splicing remodeling in failing hearts. After examining the expression profiles of splicing regulators in neonatal, normal adult, and failing adult hearts, Fox-1 was identified as one to be significantly down regulated in the failing and fetal hearts. Morpholino mediated Fox-1 knock-down in zebrafish embryos led to lethal phenotype associated with impaired cardiac development and function. This phenotype could be rescued by re-expressing both zebrafish and mouse Fox1 gene. Therefore, our established functional significance of Fox1 mediated RNA alternative splicing serves as a key molecular player in transcriptome remodeling during cardiac development and pathology.
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