MONIQUE ANDRADE BARON
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LIM/19 - Laboratório de Histocompatibilidade e Imunidade Celular, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- MicroRNAs miR-1, miR-133a, miR-133b, miR-208a and miR-208b are dysregulated in Chronic Chagas disease Cardiomyopathy(2014) FERREIRA, Ludmila Rodrigues Pinto; FRADE, Amanda Farage; SANTOS, Ronaldo Honorato Barros; TEIXEIRA, Priscila Camillo; BARON, Monique Andrade; NAVARRO, Isabela Cunha; BENVENUTI, Luiz Alberto; FIORELLI, Alfredo Inacio; BOCCHI, Edimar Alcides; STOLF, Noedir Antonio; CHEVILLARD, Christophe; KALIL, Jorge; CUNHA-NETO, EdecioBackground/methods: Chagas disease is caused by an intracellular parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, and it is a leading cause of heart failure in Latin America. The main clinical consequence of the infection is the development of a Chronic Chagas disease Cardiomyopathy (CCC), which is characterized by myocarditis, hypertrophy and fibrosis and affects about 30% of infected patients. CCC has a worse prognosis than other cardiomyopathies, like idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). It is well established that myocardial gene expression patterns are altered in CCC, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these differences are not clear. MicroRNAs are recently discovered regulators of gene expression, and are recognized as important factors in heart development and cardiovascular disorders (CD). We analyzed the expression of nine different miRNAs inmyocardial tissue samples of CCC patients in comparison to DCM patients and samples from heart transplant donors. Using the results of a cDNA microarray database on CCC and DCM myocardium, signaling networks were built and nodal molecules were identified. Results: We observed that five miRNAs were significantly altered in CCC and three in DCM; importantly, three miRNAs were significantly reduced in CCC as compared to DCM. We observed that multiple gene targets of the differentially expressed miRNAs showed a concordant inverse expression in CCC. Significantly, most gene targets and involved networks belong to crucial disease-related signaling pathways. Conclusion: These results suggest that miRNAs may play a major role in the regulation of gene expression in CCC pathogenesis, with potential implication as diagnostic and prognostic tools.
- Myocardial Infarction-Associated Transcript, a Long Noncoding RNA, Is Overexpressed During Dilated Cardiomyopathy Due to Chronic Chagas Disease(2016) FRADE, Amanda Farage; LAUGIER, Laurie; FERREIRA, Ludmila Rodrigues Pinto; BARON, Monique Andrade; BENVENUTI, Luiz Alberto; TEIXEIRA, Priscila Camillo; NAVARRO, Isabela Cunha; CABANTOUS, Sandrine; FERREIRA, Frederico Moraes; CANDIDO, Darlan da Silva; GAIOTTO, Fabio Antonio; BACAL, Fernando; POMERANTZEFF, Pablo; SANTOS, Ronaldo Honorato Barros; KALIL, Jorge; CUNHA-NETO, Edecio; CHEVILLARD, ChristopheLong noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) modulate gene expression at the epigenetic, transcriptional, and posttranscriptional levels. Dysregulation of the lncRNA known as myocardial infarction-associated transcript (MIAT) has been associated with myocardial infarction. Chagas disease causes a severe inflammatory dilated chronic cardiomyopathy (CCC). We investigated the role of MIAT in CCC. A whole-transcriptome analysis of heart biopsy specimens and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples revealed that MIAT was overexpressed in patients with CCC, compared with subjects with noninflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy and controls. These results were confirmed in a mouse model. Results suggest that MIAT is a specific biomarker of CCC.
- Whole-Genome Cardiac DNA Methylation Fingerprint and Gene Expression Analysis Provide New Insights in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Chagas Disease Cardiomyopathy(2017) LAUGIER, Laurie; FRADE, Amanda Farage; FERREIRA, Frederico Moraes; BARON, Monique Andrade; TEIXEIRA, Priscila Camillo; CABANTOUS, Sandrine; FERREIRA, Ludmila Rodrigues Pinto; LOUIS, Laurence; RIGAUD, Vagner Oliveira Carvalho; GAIOTTO, Fabio Antonio; BACAL, Fernando; POMERANTZEFF, Pablo; BOCCHI, Edimar; KALIL, Jorge; SANTOS, Ronaldo Honorato Barros; CUNHA-NETO, Edecio; CHEVILLARD, ChristopheBackground. Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is endemic in Latin America and affects 10 million people worldwide. Approximately 12 000 deaths attributable to Chagas disease occur annually due to chronic Chagas disease cardiomyopathy (CCC), an inflammatory cardiomyopathy presenting with heart failure and arrythmia; 30% of infected subjects develop CCC years after infection. Genetic mechanisms play a role in differential progression to CCC, but little is known about the role of epigenetic modifications in pathological gene expression patterns in CCC patients' myocardium. DNA methylation is the most common modification in the mammalian genome. Methods. We investigated the impact of genome-wide cardiac DNA methylation on global gene expression in myocardial samples from end-stage CCC patients, compared to control samples from organ donors. Results. In total, 4720 genes were differentially methylated between CCC patients and controls, of which 399 were also differentially expressed. Several of them were related to heart function or to the immune response and had methylation sites in their promoter region. Reporter gene and in silico transcription factor binding analyses indicated promoter methylation modified expression of key genes. Among those, we found potassium channel genes KCNA4 and KCNIP4, involved in electrical conduction and arrythmia, SMOC2, involved in matrix remodeling, as well as enkephalin and RUNX3, potentially involved in the increased T-helper 1 cytokine-mediated inflammatory damage in heart. Conclusions. Results support that DNA methylation plays a role in the regulation of expression of pathogenically relevant genes in CCC myocardium, and identify novel potential disease pathways and therapeutic targets in CCC.