Targeting cardiac hypertrophy through a nuclear co‐repressor

Heart failure entails the inability of the heart to pump blood to vital organs. One of the main risk factors for heart failure is the development of pathological hypertrophy. In this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Li and coworkers show that NCoR1, a co‐repressor of transcription factors, inhibits...

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Main Authors: Andrea Grund, Joerg Heineke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-11-01
Series:EMBO Molecular Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201911297
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Summary:Heart failure entails the inability of the heart to pump blood to vital organs. One of the main risk factors for heart failure is the development of pathological hypertrophy. In this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, Li and coworkers show that NCoR1, a co‐repressor of transcription factors, inhibits the transcriptional activity of MEF2 by stabilizing its complex with class II HDACs. By this mechanism, NCoR1 was identified as potent inhibitor of pathological cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction.
ISSN:1757-4676
1757-4684