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Blockage of transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 prevents postoperative atrial fibrillation by inhibiting NLRP3-inflammasome in sterile pericarditis mice

  • Cell Calcium. 2022 Jun;104:102590. doi: 10.1016/j.ceca.2022.102590.
Shuaitao Yang 1 Zhaoyang Zhao 2 Ning Zhao 1 Jie Liao 3 Yang Lu 1 Shaoshao Zhang 1 Kai Lu 1 Yuwei Wu 1 Qiongfeng Wu 1 Qian Dong 1 Lei Chen 4 Yimei Du 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Research Center of Ion Channelopathy, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Key Lab for Biological Targeted Therapy of Education Ministry and Hubei Province, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
  • 2 Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Research Center of Ion Channelopathy, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Key Lab for Biological Targeted Therapy of Education Ministry and Hubei Province, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Department of Cardiology, Jingzhou Central Hospital, Jingzhou Clinical Medical College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China.
  • 3 Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Research Center of Ion Channelopathy, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Key Lab for Biological Targeted Therapy of Education Ministry and Hubei Province, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Department of Cardiology, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
  • 4 Department of Physiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • 5 Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Research Center of Ion Channelopathy, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China; Key Lab for Biological Targeted Therapy of Education Ministry and Hubei Province, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
Abstract

The incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases after surgery and is associated with the activation of NLRP3-inflammation. Our previous studies have found that transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) blockade reduces the susceptibility to AF, but its molecular mechanisms remains unclear. Therefore, we hypothesized that blockage of TRPV4 reduces the incidence of AF by inhibiting NLRP3-inflammasome in sterile pericarditis (SP) mice. In this study, we established SP mice by dusting talcum powder on atrial surfaces. We first confirmed that genetic or pharmacological TRPV4 inhibition reduced the susceptibility to AF in SP mice. We also found that the expression level of NLRP3-inflammasome and inflammatory cytokines significantly increased in the atria of SP mice, which further increased in application the TRPV4 agonist GSK1016790A (GSK101) and decreased in application the TRPV4 antagonist GSK2193874. More importantly, ERK Inhibitor (U0126) or NF-κB Inhibitor (Bay11-7082) could partially reverse GSK101-induced NLRP3-inflammasome up-regulation. Interestingly, U0126 can reversed GSK101-induced NF-κB phosphorylation, but Bay11-7082 cannot change GSK101-induced ERK phosphorylation. Finally, we shown that the activation of NLRP3-inflammasome and ERK/NF-κB signaling pathway significantly reduced in TRPV4-knockout SP mice. Collectively, our studies indicate that blockage of TRPV4 prevents AF in SP mice by inhibiting NLRP3-inflammasome through the ERK/NF-κB signaling pathway.

Keywords

Atrial fibrillation; ERK; NF-κB; Sterile pericarditis; TRPV4.

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    99.79%, TRPV4 Channel Agonist
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