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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Comparative proteomic analysis of hearts from mice with high-fat diet-induced metabolic cardiomyopathy

Zongzhe Jiang1 Mingyang Pang2 Wei Huang2,3,4*
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1 Luzhou Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
2 Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA Central War Command General Hospital, Wuhan, 430 010, China
3 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiological Disorders, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430 010, China
4 Gene Therapy Center and the Institute of Hypertension, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430 010, China
Global Translational Medicine 2022, 1(2), 137 https://doi.org/10.36922/gtm.v1i2.137
Submitted: 17 June 2022 | Accepted: 12 August 2022 | Published: 15 September 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

In patients with obesity or type 2 diabetes, the accumulation of lipotoxic by-products in cardiomyocytes leads to apoptosis and contractile dysfunction, eventually resulting in metabolic cardiomyopathy (MC). However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Inb this study, a comparative proteome analysis was conducted to evaluate the differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) in the hearts of normal mice on standard diet (control group) and of high-fat diet (HFD)-induced MC mice (HFD group). We identified 90 DEPs unique to the control group and 18 DEPs unique to the HFD group. In 90 DEPs unique to the control group, only 74 DEPs were annotated in the gene ontology (GO) database. These annotated DEPs are involved in 114 biological processes, 68 molecular functions, and 174 cellular components. In 18 DEPs unique to the HFD group, only 14 DEPs were annotated in the GO database. These annotated DEPs are involved in 24 biological processes, 22 molecular functions, and six cellular components. Protein levels of two fatty acid metabolism-related enzymes, carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B (CPT1B) and acetyl-CoA acyltransferase 2 (ACAA2), in the hearts of the mice in control group and HFD group were analyzed by immunostaining and Western blot. The results showed that the protein levels of CPT1B and ACAA2 were elevated in hearts of the mice in HFD group, which were consistent with the proteomic analysis. Our results reveal the differentially expressed proteome related to the progression of MC, providing a series of potential therapeutic targets for MC.

Keywords
High-fat diet
Metabolic cardiomyopathy
Proteome analysis
Funding
Sichuan Science and Technology Department
Doctoral Research Initiation Fund of Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
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