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Proteogenomics Integrating Reveal a Complex Network, Alternative Splicing, Hub Genes Regulating Heart Maturation
Huijun Yang1, Weijing Liu2, Shen Song2
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, China.
Abstract:
Heart maturation is an essentially biological process for neonatal heart transition to adult heart, thus illustrating the mechanism of heart maturation may be helpful to explore postnatal heart development and cardiac cardiomyopathy. This study combined proteomic analysis based on isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) and transcriptome analysis based on RNA sequencing to detect the proteins and genes associated with heart maturation in mice. The proteogenomics integrating analysis identified 254 genes/proteins as commonly differentially expressed between neonatal and adult hearts. Functional and pathway analysis demonstrated that these identified genes/proteins contribute to heart maturation mainly by regulating mRNA processing and energy metabolism. Genome-wide alternative splicing (AS) analysis showed that some important sarcomere and energy-associated genes undergo different AS events. Through the Cytoscape plug-in CytoHubba, a total of 23 hub genes were found and further confirmed by RT-qPCR. Next, we verified that the most up-regulated hub gene, Ogdhl, plays an essential role in heart maturation by detecting energy metabolism phenotype changes in the Ogdhl-interfering cardiomyocytes. Together, we revealed a complex gene network, AS genes and patterns, and candidate hub genes controlling heart maturation by proteome and transcriptome combination analysis.
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