{"doi":"10.1093/cvr/cvac096","title":"Myocardial brain-derived neurotrophic factor regulates cardiac bioenergetics through the transcription factor Yin Yang 1","abstract":"AIMS: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is markedly decreased in heart failure patients. Both BDNF and its receptor, tropomyosin-related kinase receptor (TrkB), are expressed in cardiomyocytes; however, the role of myocardial BDNF signalling in cardiac pathophysiology is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the role of BDNF/TrkB signalling in cardiac stress response to exercise and pathological stress. METHODS AND RESULTS: We found that myocardial BDNF expression was increased in mice with swimming exercise but decreased in a mouse heart failure model and human failing hearts. Cardiac-specific TrkB knockout (cTrkB KO) mice displayed a blunted adaptive cardiac response to exercise, with attenuated upregulation of transcription factor networks controlling mitochondrial biogenesis/metabolism, including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha (PGC-1α). In response to pathological stress (transaortic constriction, TAC), cTrkB KO mice showed an exacerbated heart failure progression. The downregulation of PGC-1α in cTrkB KO mice exposed to exercise or TAC resulted in decreased cardiac energetics. We further unravelled that BDNF induces PGC-1α upregulation and bioenergetics through a novel signalling pathway, the pleiotropic transcription factor Yin Yang 1. CONCLUSION: Taken together, our findings suggest that myocardial BDNF plays a critical role in regulating cellular energetics in the cardiac stress response.","journal":"Cardiovascular Research","year":2022,"id":239511,"datarank":0.586803450814222,"base_score":3.912023005428146,"endowment":3.912023005428146,"self_citation_contribution":0.586803450814222,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.586803450814222,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":49,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9594,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":439758,"name":"Manling Zhang","orcid":"0000-0003-2689-1465","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":282225,"name":"Bingxian Xie","orcid":"0000-0001-9816-2670","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":824165,"name":"Zishan Peng","orcid":"0000-0002-2482-6419","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":542479,"name":"Janet R. 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