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Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication
Barth Syndrome, a rare X-linked disorder affecting 1:300,000 live births, results from defects in Tafazzin, an acyltransferase that remodels cardiolipin and is essential for mitochondrial respiration. Barth Syndrome patients develop cardiomyopathy, muscular hypotonia and cyclic neutropenia during ch...
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author | Perera, Gayani Power, Liam Larson, Amy Codden, Christina J. Awata, Junya Batorsky, Rebecca Strathdee, Douglas Chin, Michael T. |
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description | Barth Syndrome, a rare X-linked disorder affecting 1:300,000 live births, results from defects in Tafazzin, an acyltransferase that remodels cardiolipin and is essential for mitochondrial respiration. Barth Syndrome patients develop cardiomyopathy, muscular hypotonia and cyclic neutropenia during childhood, rarely surviving to middle age. At present, no effective therapy exists, and downstream transcriptional effects of Tafazzin dysfunction are incompletely understood. To identify novel, cell-specific, pathological pathways that mediate heart dysfunction, we performed single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (snRNA-seq) on wild-type (WT) and Tafazzin-knockout (Taz-KO) mouse hearts. We determined differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and inferred predicted cell–cell communication networks from these data. Surprisingly, DEGs were distributed heterogeneously across the cell types, with fibroblasts, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, macrophages, adipocytes and pericytes exhibiting the greatest number of DEGs between genotypes. One differentially expressed gene was detected for the lymphatic endothelial and mesothelial cell types, while no significant DEGs were found in the lymphocytes. A Gene Ontology (GO) analysis of these DEGs showed cell-specific effects on biological processes such as fatty acid metabolism in adipocytes and cardiomyocytes, increased translation in cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells and fibroblasts, in addition to other cell-specific processes. Analysis of ligand–receptor pair expression, to infer intercellular communication patterns, revealed the strongest dysregulated communication involved adipocytes and cardiomyocytes. For the knockout hearts, there was a strong loss of ligand–receptor pair expression involving adipocytes, and cardiomyocyte expression of ligand–receptor pairs underwent reorganization. These findings suggest that adipocyte and cardiomyocyte mitochondria may be most sensitive to mitochondrial Tafazzin deficiency and that rescuing adipocyte mitochondrial dysfunction, in addition to cardiomyocyte mitochondrial dysfunction, may provide therapeutic benefit in Barth Syndrome patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-103809642023-07-29 Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication Perera, Gayani Power, Liam Larson, Amy Codden, Christina J. Awata, Junya Batorsky, Rebecca Strathdee, Douglas Chin, Michael T. Int J Mol Sci Article Barth Syndrome, a rare X-linked disorder affecting 1:300,000 live births, results from defects in Tafazzin, an acyltransferase that remodels cardiolipin and is essential for mitochondrial respiration. Barth Syndrome patients develop cardiomyopathy, muscular hypotonia and cyclic neutropenia during childhood, rarely surviving to middle age. At present, no effective therapy exists, and downstream transcriptional effects of Tafazzin dysfunction are incompletely understood. To identify novel, cell-specific, pathological pathways that mediate heart dysfunction, we performed single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (snRNA-seq) on wild-type (WT) and Tafazzin-knockout (Taz-KO) mouse hearts. We determined differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and inferred predicted cell–cell communication networks from these data. Surprisingly, DEGs were distributed heterogeneously across the cell types, with fibroblasts, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, macrophages, adipocytes and pericytes exhibiting the greatest number of DEGs between genotypes. One differentially expressed gene was detected for the lymphatic endothelial and mesothelial cell types, while no significant DEGs were found in the lymphocytes. A Gene Ontology (GO) analysis of these DEGs showed cell-specific effects on biological processes such as fatty acid metabolism in adipocytes and cardiomyocytes, increased translation in cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells and fibroblasts, in addition to other cell-specific processes. Analysis of ligand–receptor pair expression, to infer intercellular communication patterns, revealed the strongest dysregulated communication involved adipocytes and cardiomyocytes. For the knockout hearts, there was a strong loss of ligand–receptor pair expression involving adipocytes, and cardiomyocyte expression of ligand–receptor pairs underwent reorganization. These findings suggest that adipocyte and cardiomyocyte mitochondria may be most sensitive to mitochondrial Tafazzin deficiency and that rescuing adipocyte mitochondrial dysfunction, in addition to cardiomyocyte mitochondrial dysfunction, may provide therapeutic benefit in Barth Syndrome patients. MDPI 2023-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10380964/ /pubmed/37511352 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241411594 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Perera, Gayani Power, Liam Larson, Amy Codden, Christina J. Awata, Junya Batorsky, Rebecca Strathdee, Douglas Chin, Michael T. Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication |
title | Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication |
title_full | Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication |
title_fullStr | Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication |
title_full_unstemmed | Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication |
title_short | Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication |
title_sort | single cell transcriptomic analysis in a mouse model of barth syndrome reveals cell-specific alterations in gene expression and intercellular communication |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10380964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37511352 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241411594 |
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