Sirt1 inhibits the recruitment of RNA polymerase II to metabolic gene promoter during pressure overload through competition with the preinitiation complex on Sub1
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2026
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Abstract
AIMS: Heart failure is marked by suppression of fatty acid oxidation (FAO) and mitochondrial ATP production gene expression. While transcriptional downregulation via PGC-1 and PPARα/ERRα has been well documented, the involvement of the general transcriptional machinery remains insufficiently understood. Distinct from its salutary role in many cardiac conditions, endogenous Sirt1 negatively affects cardiac function during pressure overload (PO). This study investigates how Sirt1 modulates preinitiation complex (PIC) assembly and RNA polymerase II (Pol II) recruitment during pathological PO. METHODS AND RESULTS: Cardiac-specific Sirt1 knock-out (Sirt1 cKO) mice were subjected to PO. Interaction between Sirt1 and Sub1, a protein recruiting GTFs to the gene promoter, was assessed with co-immunoprecipitation, protein pull-down and molecular docking. Pol II recruitment was evaluated with ChIP-sequencing and -qPCR analyses. The binding affinity of Sirt1 and GTF to the Sub1 GTF binding domain was assessed by immunoprecipitation and protein pull-down assays. Unbiased ChIP-sequencing and -qPCR analyses showed that Pol II binding to metabolic gene promoters was downregulated during PO, which was reversed in Sirt1 cKO mice. PO upregulated Sirt1 in the heart and increased its binding to Sub1, which interacts PPARα and ERRα, but not NF-kB. The Sirt1 binding to Sub1 competitively displaced the interaction between Sub1 and GTFs, thereby inhibiting the PIC formation at the Sub1-PPARα/ERRα complex. CONCLUSIONS: Sirt1 impairs metabolic gene transcription during PO by competitively inhibiting Sub1-mediated recruitment of GTFs and PIC formation. This repression of general transcriptional machinery contributes to the metabolic disturbance and may represent a maladaptive component of the heart failure phenotype.
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| Authors | Shinichi Oka, Youssef Mourad, Samta Veera, Peiyong Zhai, Ralph Alcendor, Yunping Guo, Jamie Ades, Sanchita Kashyap, Xiaoyong Xu, Chengchen Hu, Toshihide Kashihara, Takanobu Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Ikeda, Akihiro Shirakabe, Shohei Ikeda, Wataru Mizushima, Yasuki Nakada, Danish Sayed, Zhi Yang, Maha Abdellatif, Junichi Sadoshima |
| Journal | cardiovascular research |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/cvr/cvag178
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