NIRO, Francesco, Soraia FERNANDES, Marco CASSANI, Monica APOSTOLICO, Jorge Oliver-De La CRUZ, Daniel PEREIRA DE SOUSA, Stefania PAGLIARI, Vladimir VINARSKY, Zbyněk ZDRÁHAL, David POTĚŠIL, Václav PUSTKA, Giulio POMPILIO, Elena SOMMARIVA, Davide ROVINA, Angela Serena MAIONE, Luca BERSANINI, Malin BECKER, Marco RASPONI and Giancarlo FORTE. Fibrotic extracellular matrix impacts cardiomyocyte phenotype and function in an iPSC-derived isogenic model of cardiac fibrosis. Translational Research. NEW YORK: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2024, vol. 273, November 2024, p. 58-77. ISSN 1931-5244. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trsl.2024.07.003.
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Original name Fibrotic extracellular matrix impacts cardiomyocyte phenotype and function in an iPSC-derived isogenic model of cardiac fibrosis
Authors NIRO, Francesco (380 Italy, belonging to the institution), Soraia FERNANDES, Marco CASSANI, Monica APOSTOLICO, Jorge Oliver-De La CRUZ, Daniel PEREIRA DE SOUSA (620 Portugal, belonging to the institution), Stefania PAGLIARI, Vladimir VINARSKY, Zbyněk ZDRÁHAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), David POTĚŠIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Václav PUSTKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Giulio POMPILIO, Elena SOMMARIVA, Davide ROVINA, Angela Serena MAIONE, Luca BERSANINI, Malin BECKER, Marco RASPONI and Giancarlo FORTE (380 Italy).
Edition Translational Research, NEW YORK, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2024, 1931-5244.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30201 Cardiac and Cardiovascular systems
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 7.800 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trsl.2024.07.003
UT WoS 001275554600001
Keywords in English Decellularized extracellular matrix;Cardiac fibrosis modelling;Induced pluripotent stem cells;iPSC-derived-cardiac fibroblasts;iPSC-derived-cardiomyocytes
Tags 14110513
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Cardiac fibrosis occurs following insults to the myocardium and is characterized by the abnormal accumulation of non-compliant extracellular matrix (ECM), which compromises cardiomyocyte contractile activity and eventually leads to heart failure. This phenomenon is driven by the activation of cardiac fibroblasts (cFbs) to myofibroblasts and results in changes in ECM biochemical, structural and mechanical properties. The lack of predictive in vitro models of heart fibrosis has so far hampered the search for innovative treatments, as most of the cellular-based in vitro reductionist models do not take into account the leading role of ECM cues in driving the progression of the pathology. Here, we devised a single-step decellularization protocol to obtain and thoroughly characterize the biochemical and micro-mechanical properties of the ECM secreted by activated cFbs differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). We activated iPSC-derived cFbs to the myofibroblast phenotype by tuning basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1) signalling and confirmed that activated cells acquired key features of myofibroblast phenotype, like SMAD2/3 nuclear shuttling, the formation of aligned alpha-smooth muscle actin (α−SMA)-rich stress fibres and increased focal adhesions (FAs) assembly. Next, we used Mass Spectrometry, nanoindentation, scanning electron and confocal microscopy to unveil the characteristic composition and the visco-elastic properties of the abundant, collagen-rich ECM deposited by cardiac myofibroblasts in vitro. Finally, we demonstrated that the fibrotic ECM activates mechanosensitive pathways in iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes, impacting on their shape, sarcomere assembly, phenotype, and calcium handling properties. We thus propose human bio-inspired decellularized matrices as animal-free, isogenic cardiomyocyte culture substrates recapitulating key pathophysiological changes occurring at the cellular level during cardiac fibrosis.
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LM2023042, research and development projectName: Česká infrastruktura pro integrativní strukturní biologii
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, CIISB - Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology
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