Popovic, Milica ORCID: 0000-0002-8762-6967 (2024). Role of Complex IV in early postnatal heart development. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Oxidative phosphorylation machinery sits at the core of mitochondrial role in energy production, its function and regulation has far-reaching implications in all energy dependent cellular processes. Recurring motif in mitochondrial research is the contribution of mitochondria and OXPHOS activity to metabolic remodelling that conditions cell proliferation, differentiation, and pathology. However, involvement in OXPHOS in postnatal heart development and differentiation of cardiomyocytes stays elusive. Extensive research conducted on gene expression in heart development so far shows a prominent change of expression for metabolic genes involved in glycolysis and lipid oxidation, describing what we know as the metabolic switch in postnatal heart development. The metabolic switch, where proliferative, glycolytic cardiomyocytes switch to differentiated adult cardiomyocytes reliant mostly on oxidative metabolism is conditioned by changes in oxygen availability, substrate utilisation and energy demands underlying the final developmental stage of the heart. This study aims to dissect OXPHOS complexes during postnatal development of the mouse heart, with specific accent on Complex IV (CIV). CIV is the only OXPHOS complex with heart specific isoform subunits, that exchage during postnatal maturation of mitochondria. We have developed and compared two mouse models for CIV deficiency in the heart, targeting CIV in early postnatal development by deleting Cox7c, or adult heart CIV, by deleting Cox10. By comparing these two mouse models, we have described how CIV might be involved in conditioning metabolic maturation of cardiomyocytes beyond the metabolic switch, finding its involvement in cadiomyocyte maturation. Our data shows that fast and progressive loss of CIV in postnatal development is in part due to stalled assembly of CIV at the initial stage of complex biogenesis. Loss of CIV in these mice leads to metabolic changes propagating rewiring of glucose metabolism, nucleotide synthesis pathway and alterations in BCAA metabolism, with mild involvement of ISR. In comparison, loss of Cox10 lead to a robust ISR activation and extensive remodeling of both proteome and metabolome, while the CIV deficiency between the two models is comparable, indicating that differentiation status of cardiomyocytes could contribute to phenotypical differences. To describe in-depth how OXPHOS changes during postnatal development, we resolved time-series complexome profiling of mouse heart mitochondrial complexes starting from E18.5 to P10. Together with time series metabolome analysis, our aim was to describe how dynamics in OXPHOS could condition the metabolic alterations happening during maturation of cardiomyocytes.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-720043 | ||||||||
Date: | 2024 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | CECAD - Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases | ||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Life sciences Medical sciences Medicine |
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Date of oral exam: | 19 December 2023 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/72004 |
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