Jianyong Du, Lixia Zheng, Peng Gao, Hang Yang, Wan-Jie Yang, Fusheng Guo, Ruqi Liang, Mengying Feng, Zihao Wang, Zongwang Zhang, Linlu Bai, Ye Bu, Shijia Xing, Wen Zheng, Xuelian Wang, Li Quan, Xinli Hu, Haosen Wu, Zhixing Chen, Liangyi Chen, Ke Wei, Zhe Zhang, Xiaojun Zhu, Xiaolin Zhang, Qiang Tu, Shi-Min Zhao, Xiaoguang Lei, Jing-Wei Xiong
Zebrafish and mammalian neonates possess robust cardiac regeneration via the induction of endogenous cardiomyocyte (CM) proliferation, but adult mammalian hearts have very limited regenerative potential. Developing small molecules for inducing adult mammalian heart regeneration has had limited success. We report a chemical cocktail of five small molecules (5SM) that promote adult CM proliferation and heart regeneration. A high-content chemical screen, along with an algorithm-aided prediction of small-molecule interactions, identified 5SM that efficiently induced CM cell cycle re-entry and cytokinesis...
April 7, 2022: Cell Stem Cell