Bid maintains mitochondrial cristae structure and protects against cardiac disease in an integrative genomics study
- Vanderbilt University, United States
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States
Abstract
Bcl-2 family proteins reorganize mitochondrial membranes during apoptosis, to form pores and rearrange cristae. In vitro and in vivo analysis integrated with human genetics reveals a novel homeostatic mitochondrial function for Bcl-2 family protein Bid. Loss of full-length Bid results in apoptosis-independent, irregular cristae with decreased respiration. Bid-/- mice display stress-induced myocardial dysfunction and damage. A gene-based approach applied to a biobank, validated in two independent GWAS studies, reveals that decreased genetically determined BID expression associates with myocardial infarction (MI) susceptibility. Patients in the bottom 5% of the expression distribution exhibit >4 fold increased MI risk. Carrier status with nonsynonymous variation in Bid's membrane binding domain, BidM148T, associates with MI predisposition. Furthermore, Bid but not BidM148T associates with Mcl-1Matrix, previously implicated in cristae stability; decreased MCL-1 expression associates with MI. Our results identify a role for Bid in homeostatic mitochondrial cristae reorganization, that we link to human cardiac disease.
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The authors declare that all relevant data are available within the article and its supplementary information files. Publicly available data on coronary artery disease / myocardial infarction have been contributed by CARDIoGRAMplusC4D investigators and have been downloaded from www.CARDIOGRAMPLUSC4D.ORG.GTEx Consortium (v6p) transcriptome/genotype data is available through the GTEx portal (htt://www.gtexportal.org) and through dpGap (GTEx Consortium, Nature 2017). Due to the GTEx Consortium's donor consent agreement, the raw data and attributes which may be used to identify the participants are not publicly available. Requests for access can be made through the dbGaP: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000424.v6.p1 and are assessed bu a Data Access Committee (National Human Genome Research Institute; nhgridac@mail.nih.gov). The summary statistics results for eQTL data (v6p) are available through the GTEx portal: https://gtexportal.org/home/datasets.Investigators may obtain access to UK Biobank data through an application process: http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/register-apply/. The registration is then reviewed by the Access Management Team of the UK Biobank. Genome-wide association studies summary statistics results are publicly available: http://www.nealelab.is/blog/2017/7/19/rapid-gwas-of-thousands-of-phenotypes-for-337000-samples-in-the-uk-biobankModel definition files are described in Gamazon et al. 2015. Code for the following analyses is publicly available: PrediXcan: https://github.com/hakyimlab/PrediXcan S-PrediXcan: https://github.com/hakyimlab/MetaXcan
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1R01HL088347)
- Sandra S Zinkel
National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH090937)
- Eric Gamazon
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (1I01BX002250)
- Sandra S Zinkel
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (2P01 GM015431)
- L Jackson Roberts II
National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH101820)
- Eric Gamazon
American Heart Association (16POST299100001)
- Daniel S Lark
Francis Family Foundation
- Josh Fessel
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (GRU2558)
- Daniel S Lark
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K08HL121174)
- Josh Fessel
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1 R01HL133559)
- Sandra S Zinkel
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All mice were housed and experiments performed with approval by the IACUC Protocol # M1600037, M1600220, M/14/231, and # V-17-001 of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Valley VA in compliance with NIH guidelines.
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© 2018, Salisbury-Ruf et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Bid maintains mitochondrial cristae structure and protects against cardiac disease in an integrative genomics study
eLife 7:e40907.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40907
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