Research Article

Angiotensin II Mediates Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy in Atrial Cardiomyopathy via Epigenetic Transcriptional Regulation

Figure 6

Dephosphorylation of HDAC4 and HDAC5 retard their nuclear export and antagonize AngII-induced expression of ANP and BNP. Atrial cardiomyocytes were transduced with the indicated adenoviruses Ad-GFP, Ad-HDAC4-flag, Ad-mut-HDAC4- (S246A, S632A) flag, Ad-GFP, Ad-HDAC5-His, or Ad-mut-HDAC5- (S259A, S498A) His and were stimulated with saline, AngII, or AngII and losartan for 48 h and subjected to western blotting using anti-ANP (b) and BNP (c) antibodies. Data are plotted as fold enrichment over equivalent amounts of β-tubulin and are shown as the . . per group. Statistical significance was determined by one-way ANOVA followed by the Bonferroni posttest.
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