Scl represses cardiomyogenesis in prospective hemogenic endothelium and endocardium.
Cell, 2012/8/03;150(3):590-605.
Van Handel B[1], Montel-Hagen A, Sasidharan R, Nakano H, Ferrari R, Boogerd CJ, Schredelseker J, Wang Y, Hunter S, Org T, Zhou J, Li X, Pellegrini M, Chen JN, Orkin SH, Kurdistani SK, Evans SM, Nakano A, Mikkola HK
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PMID: 22863011DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.026
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Abstract
Endothelium in embryonic hematopoietic tissues generates hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells; however, it is unknown how its unique potential is specified. We show that transcription factor Scl/Tal1 is essential for both establishing the hematopoietic transcriptional program in hemogenic endothelium and preventing its misspecification to a cardiomyogenic fate. Scl(-/-) embryos activated a cardiac transcriptional program in yolk sac endothelium, leading to the emergence of CD31+Pdgfrα+ cardiogenic precursors that generated spontaneously beating cardiomyocytes. Ectopic cardiogenesis was also observed in Scl(-/-) hearts, where the disorganized endocardium precociously differentiated into cardiomyocytes. Induction of mosaic deletion of Scl in Scl(fl/fl)Rosa26Cre-ER(T2) embryos revealed a cell-intrinsic, temporal requirement for Scl to prevent cardiomyogenesis from endothelium. Scl(-/-) endothelium also upregulated the expression of Wnt antagonists, which promoted rapid cardiomyocyte differentiation of ectopic cardiogenic cells. These results reveal unexpected plasticity in embryonic endothelium such that loss of a single master regulator can induce ectopic cardiomyogenesis from endothelial cells.
MeSH terms
Animals; Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors; Cadherins; Core Binding Factor Alpha 2 Subunit; Endothelium, Vascular; Female; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; Heart; Hemangioblasts; Hematopoietic Stem Cells; LIM-Homeodomain Proteins; Mesoderm; Mice; Myocytes, Cardiac; Placenta; Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1; Pregnancy; Proto-Oncogene Proteins; Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha; T-Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Protein 1; Transcription Factors; Yolk Sac
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