Author(s)

  • Inmaculada Jorge1 (Presenting Author) | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • José Manuel Rodríguez | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Víctor Manuel Guerrero-Sánchez | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, France
  • Cristina Amparo Devesa | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Carlos Galán | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Anabel Díaz-Guerra | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Laura Cádiz | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Borja Ibánez | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Emilio Camafeita | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
  • Jesús Vázquez | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) | Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Anthracyclines remain the first-line treatment for many cancer types. However, anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity (AIC) leads to irreversible cardiac injury in a significant proportion of patients. Despite being recognized for years, the mechanisms underlying AIC-triggered cardiac damage are still not fully understood, leaving a gap in effective therapies to prevent or reverse this harmful side effect. To shed light on the molecular events underlying AIC, we have carried out the first systematic, hypothesis-free study of the protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) induced by doxorubicin administration in pig and mouse myocardial tissue. For that, we have used a novel integrative workflow that automatically captures multiple layers of PTM-related information, leveraging the publicly available applications PTM-Compass and iSanXoT.
In both pigs and mice, results highlight the accumulation of oxidative PTMs in specific protein regions upon parenteral doxorubicin administration. These hypermodified regions were enriched in several oxidative modifications affecting mainly Met, Trp, and Cys, which were thus regarded as hyperoxidized residues. Cardiac muscle contraction proteins were the main target of these AIC-triggered oxidative PTMs. We plan to use this first detailed map of the PTM changes that take place in the heart upon anthracycline administration as an indicator of the oxidative damage level caused by AIC.