Table 2 Mechanistic insight into HMGB1 in ischaemic heart disease (beneficial effects)

From: Scoping review of preclinical and clinical studies on the role of HMGB1 in heart disease

Authors (Year)

Study population (Model)

Agonist HMGB1 (Supplier)

Antagonist of HMGB1

Receptors and pathways

Abarbanell et al. (2011)67

SD rats (Langendorff)

rHMGB1 (Sigma-Aldrich)

Bauzá et al. (2019)47

Corriedale sheep (PL)

rHMGB1 (HMGBiotech)#

Di Maggio et al. (2017)21

Human cardiac fibroblasts (Hypoxia); C57Bl/6mice (PL)

frHMGB1 (In-house production)

CXCL12/CXCR4

Foglio et al. (2017)73

C57Bl/6mice (PL)

rHMGB1 (In-house production)

TLR-9/RAGE; AMPK/Akt/mTOR

He et al. (2013)46

SD rats (PL)

rHMGB1 (not-specified)

Kitahara et al. (2008)31

WT&HMGB1-TG mice (PL)

Cardiomyocyte-specific HMGB1 overexpression (α-MHC promoter)

Kohno et al. (2009)30

Human (STEMI); Wistar rats (PL)

Anti-HMGB1

Limana et al. (2005)45

C57Bl/6mice (PL)

rHMGB1 (In-house production)

Box A

c-kit+ cardiac stem cells

Limana et al. (2010)130

Human (MI); C57Bl/6mice (PL)

c-kit+ cardiac stem cells

Limana et al. (2013)74

C57Bl/6mice (PL)

rHMGB1 (In-house production)

Notch

Liu et al. (2019)72

Human (DCM); C57Bl/6WT&TLR-9-/- mice (PL)

rHMBG1 (R&D)

TLR-9

Liu et al. (2024)137

Cardiac endothelial cells (Hypoxia)

siRNA

YAP1

Lozano et al. (2022)138

hiPSCs, CMs, HUVECs, hCFs (Hypoxia)

HMGB1 (Stem-cell derived EVs)

Nakamura et al. (2015)48

C57Bl/6WT & HMGB1-TG mice (PL)

Cardiomyocyte-specific HMGB1 overexpression (α-MHC promoter)

Oozawa et al. (2008)44

Wistar Rats (IR)

anti-HMGB1

Norepinephrine

Rossini et al. (2008)139

hCFs and mouse CSCs (Hypoxia)

HMGB1(HMGBiotech)#

RAGE

Yao et al. (2016)71

Wistar rats (IR)

rHMGB1 (R&D)

HIF-1α/PI3K/AKT

Zhou et al. (2012)68

SD rats (PL)

rHMGB1 (not-specified)

β-catenin/Dishevelled-1

Zhou et al. (2017)70

Wistar Rats (IR)

rHMGB1 (Sino Biological Inc.)

HIF-1α/p38 MAPK

Zhou et al. (2020)69

Wistar rats (IR)

rHMGB1 (not-specified)

PI3K/Akt

  1. #HMGBiotech specifies the redox forms of HMGB1 on their website. However, these studies did not include the catalogue number or specify the redox forms used.
  2. PL permanent ligation, HMGB1-TG transgenic mice with cardiac-specific overexpression of HMGB1, DCM dilated cardiomyopathy, hiPSCs human induced pluripotent stem cells, CMs cardiomyocytes, HUVECs human umbilical vein endothelial cells, hCF human cardiac fibroblasts, MI myocardial injury, IR ischaemia-reperfusion, EVs extracellular vesicles, CSCs cardiac stem cells, frHMGB1 fully-reduced HMGB1, 3SHMGB1 3-serine HMGB1, STEMI ST-elevation myocardial infarction, H/R hypoxia/reoxygenation, CME coronary microembolisation, NMCM neonatal mouse cardiomyocyte, A/R anoxia-reoxygenation, NRCM neonatal rat cardiomyocyte, WT wild-type, ISO isoproterenol.