Abstract:Reduced contractility, caused either by dysfunction or loss of cardiomyocytes, is the leading cause of systolic heart failure (HF). We have demonstrated that deoxy-ATP (dATP) improves systolic cardiac contractility by activating myosin without affecting the diastolic function, suggesting a promising candidate to mitigate cardiac dysfunction. Endogenously, Ribonucleotide Reductase (RNR), a rate-limiting enzyme for de novo synthesis of deoxynucleotides, produces dATP. The goal is to overexpress RNR in human-indu… Show more
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