Abstract:
To clarify the targeted regulation mechanism and binding sites of PPARγ
2(peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ
2) on the MYH7 gene encoding β-myosin heavy chain(β-MHC). In this study, the pTT5 basic vector and pTT5-3 flag-PPARγ
2 plasmid were transfected into mouse cardiac myocytes(MCM), respectively, and the expression of MYH7 and PPARγ
2 was detected by RT-qPCR and Western blot. Chromatin immunoprecipitation(ChIP) was used to specifically enrich and purify DNA fragments binding to PPARγ
2 in the MCM, and high-throughput sequencing(HiSeq) was used to detect and analyze genes that can directly bind to PPARγ
2. Relevant bioinformatics software was used to predict PPARγ
2 binding to the promoter of the MYH7 gene, and inserted the predicted transcription factor binding site and corresponding mutation site into the upstream of the luciferase gene in the pgl3-basic vector, respectively. Wild and mutant types of dual-luciferase reporter plasmid were constructed. Meanwhile, they were co-transfected into 293 T cells with pcDNA3.1 vector, pcDNA3.1-PPARγ
2 plasmid and renilla luciferase gene vector pRL-TK. Afterwards, the relative luciferase activity was detected. The results showed that ChIP-seq preliminarily verified that MYH7 was a possible target gene directly regulated by PPARγ
2. The wild and mutant types of dual-luciferase reporter plasmids(pgl3-basic-MYH7-WT and pgl3-basic-MYH7-mut) were successfully built that identified by gene sequencing. Double fluorescence detection results showed that the relative luciferase activity of MYH7-WT+pcDNA3.1-PPARγ
2(2.477±0.212) was higher than that of MYH7-WT+pcDNA3.1(0.366±0.021), and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.001). There was no difference in the relative luciferase activity between groups MYH7-WT+pcDNA3.1-PPARγ
2(2.477±0.212)and MYH7-mut+pcDNA3.1-PPARγ
2(2.677±0.201)(P>0.05). In this study, ChIP-seq and dual-luciferase assay technique preliminarily confirm that PPARγ
2 can directly bind to the promoter region of MYH7 and have a regulatory positive effect on the MYH7 gene.