Requirement of the transcription factor GATA4 for heart tube formation and ventral morphogenesis

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作者
Molkentin, JD
Lin, Q
Duncan, SA
Olson, EN
机构
[1] UNIV TEXAS,SW MED CTR,DEPT MOL BIOL & ONCOL,DALLAS,TX 75235
[2] ROCKEFELLER UNIV,MOL CELL BIOL LAB,NEW YORK,NY 10021
关键词
GATA4; cardiac morphogenesis; cardia bifida; anterior intestinal portal; foregut; transcription;
D O I
10.1101/gad.11.8.1061
中图分类号
Q2 [细胞生物学];
学科分类号
071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The zinc finger transcription factor GATA4 has been implicated in heart development based on its early expression in precardiogenic splanchnic mesoderm and its ability to activate the expression of a number of cardiac-specific genes. To determine the role of GATA4 in embryogenesis, we generated mice homozygous for a GATA4 null allele. Homozygous GATA4 null mice arrested in development between E7.0 and E9.5 because of severe developmental abnormalities. Mutant embryos most notably lacked a primitive heart tube and foregut and developed partially outside the yolk sac. In the mutants, the two bilaterally symmetric promyocardial primordia failed to migrate ventrally but instead remained lateral and generated two independent heart tubes that contained differentiated cardiomyocytes. We show that these deformities resulted from a general loss in lateral to ventral folding throughout the embryo. GATA$ is most highly expressed within the precardiogenic splanchnic mesoderm at the posterior lip of the anterior intestinal portal, corresponding to the region of the embryo that undergoes ventral fusion. We propose that GATA4 is required for the migration or folding morphogenesis of the precardiogenic splanchnic mesodermal cells at the level of the AIP.
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页码:1061 / 1072
页数:12
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