title: Histone deacetylases and cardiovascular cell lineage commitment.
abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), which include all diseases of the heart and circulation system, are the leading cause of deaths on the globally. During the development of CVDs, choric inflammatory, lipid metabolism disorder and endothelial dysfunction are widely recognized risk factors. Recently, the new treatment for CVDs that designed to regenerate the damaged myocardium and injured vascular endothelium and improve recovery by the use of stem cells, attracts more and more public attention. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are a family of enzymes that remove acetyl groups from lysine residues of histone proteins allowing the histones to wrap the DNA more tightly and commonly known as epigenetic regulators of gene transcription. HDACs play indispensable roles in nearly all biological processes, such as transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events, and have originally shown to be involved in cancer and neurological diseases. HDACs are also found to play crucial roles in cardiovascular diseases by modulating vascular cell homeostasis (e.g., proliferation, migration, and apoptosis of both ECs and SMCs). This review focuses on the roles of different members of HDACs and HDAC inhibitor on stem cell/ progenitor cell differentiation toward vascular cell lineages (endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and Cardiomyocytes) and its potential therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: Jun-Yao Yang, Qian Wang, Laboratory Medicine Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Jun-Yao
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Jun-Yao Yang, Qian Wang, Laboratory Medicine Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Jun-Yao Yang, Qian Wang, Laboratory Medicine Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Jun-Yao Yang, Qian Wang, Laboratory Medicine Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Ling-Fang
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Zeng
keywords: Cardiovascular diseases; Endothelial cell; Histone deacetylases; Smooth muscle cell; Stem cell