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Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

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Mitochondrial Pruning by Nix and BNip3: An Essential Function for Cardiac-Expressed Death Factors

Author: Gerald W. Dorn II

Published in: Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research | Issue 4/2010

Abstract

Programmed cardiac myocyte death via the intrinsic, or mitochondrial, pathway is a mechanism of pathological ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction and during chronic pressure overload hypertrophy. Transcriptional upregulation of the closely related proapoptotic Bcl2 family members BNip3 in ischemic myocardium and Nix in hypertrophied myocardium suggested a molecular mechanism by which programmed cell death can be initiated by cardiac stress and lead to dilated cardiomyopathy. Studies using transgenic and gene knockout mice subsequently demonstrated that expression of BNip3 and Nix is both sufficient for cardiomyopathy development and necessary for cardiac remodeling after reversible coronary occlusion and transverse aortic banding, respectively. Here, these data are reviewed in the context of recent findings showing that Nix not only stimulates cardiomyocyte apoptosis but also induces mitochondrial autophagy (mitophagy) and indirectly activates the mitochondrial permeability transition pore, causing cell necrosis. New findings are presented suggesting that Nix and BNip3 have an essential function, “mitochondrial pruning,” that restrains mitochondrial proliferation in cardiomyocytes and without which an age-dependent mitochondrial cardiomyopathy develops.

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Title: Mitochondrial Pruning by Nix and BNip3: An Essential Function for Cardiac-Expressed Death Factors
Author: Gerald W. Dorn II
Publication date: 01-08-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1937-5387
Electronic ISSN: 1937-5395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12265-010-9174-x

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