A mammalian myocardial cell-free system to study cell cycle reentry in terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes.

Cardiomyocytes withdraw from the cell cycle in the early neonatal period, rendering the adult heart incapable to regenerate after injury. In the present study, we report the establishment of a cell-free system to investigate the control of cell cycle reentry in mammalian ventricular cardiomyocyte nuclei and to specifically address the question of whether nuclei from terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes can be stimulated to reenter S phase when incubated with extracts from S-phase cells. Immobilized cardiomyocyte nuclei were incubated with nuclei and cytoplasmic extract of synchronized H9c2 muscle cells or cardiac nonmyocytes. Ongoing DNA synthesis was monitored by biotin-16-dUTP incorporation as well as proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression and localization. Nuclei and cytoplasmic extract from S-phase H9c2 cells but not from H9c2 myotubes induced DNA synthesis in 92% of neonatal cardiomyocyte nuclei. Coincubation in the presence of cycloheximide indicated that de novo translation is required for the reinduction of S phase. Similar results were obtained with adult cardiomyocyte nuclei. When coincubated with both cytoplasmic extract and nuclei or nuclear extracts of S-phase cells, >70% of adult cardiomyocyte nuclei underwent DNA synthesis. In conclusion, these results demonstrate that postmitotic ventricular myocyte nuclei are responsive to stimuli derived from S-phase cells and can thus bypass the cell cycle block. This cell-free system now makes it feasible to analyze the molecular requirements for the release of the cell cycle block and will help to engineer strategies for regenerative growth in cardiac muscle.

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