Cardiac splicing as a diagnostic and therapeutic target

Item Type:	Review
Title:	Cardiac splicing as a diagnostic and therapeutic target
Creators Name:	Gotthardt, M. and Badillo Lisakowski, V. and Parikh, V.N. and Ashley, E. and Furtado, M. and Carmo-Fonseca, M. and Schudy, S. and Meder, B. and Grosch, M. and Steinmetz, L. and Crocini, C. and Leinwand, L.
Abstract:	Despite advances in therapeutics for heart failure and arrhythmias, a substantial proportion of patients with cardiomyopathy do not respond to interventions, indicating a need to identify novel modifiable myocardial pathobiology. Human genetic variation associated with severe forms of cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias has highlighted the crucial role of alternative splicing in myocardial health and disease, given that it determines which mature RNA transcripts drive the mechanical, structural, signalling and metabolic properties of the heart. In this Review, we discuss how the analysis of cardiac isoform expression has been facilitated by technical advances in multiomics and long-read and single-cell sequencing technologies. The resulting insights into the regulation of alternative splicing - including the identification of cardiac splice regulators as therapeutic targets and the development of a translational pipeline to evaluate splice modulators in human engineered heart tissue, animal models and clinical trials - provide a basis for improved diagnosis and therapy. Finally, we consider how the medical and scientific communities can benefit from facilitated acquisition and interpretation of splicing data towards improved clinical decision-making and patient care.
Keywords:	Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Molecular Biology, Animals
Source:	Nature Reviews Cardiology
ISSN:	1759-5002
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
Volume:	20
Number:	8
Page Range:	517-530
Date:	August 2023
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-022-00828-0
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