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Wilson KD, Ameen M, Guo H, Abilez OJ, Tian L, Mumbach MR, Diecke S, Qin X, Liu Y, Yang H, Ma N, Gaddam S, Cunningham NJ, Gu M, Neofytou E, Prado M, Hildebrandt TB, Karakikes I, Chang HY, Wu JC. Endogenous Retrovirus-Derived lncRNA BANCR Promotes Cardiomyocyte Migration in Humans and Non-human Primates. Dev Cell 2020; 54:694-709.e9. [PMID: 32763147 PMCID: PMC7529962 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of the human genome and are often transcribed or exhibit cis-regulatory properties with unknown function in specific processes such as heart development. In the case of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), a TE subclass, experimental interrogation is constrained as many are primate-specific or human-specific. Here, we use primate pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes that mimic fetal cardiomyocytes in vitro to discover hundreds of ERV transcripts from the primate-specific MER41 family, some of which are regulated by the cardiogenic transcription factor TBX5. The most significant of these are located within BANCR, a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) exclusively expressed in primate fetal cardiomyocytes. Functional studies reveal that BANCR promotes cardiomyocyte migration in vitro and ventricular enlargement in vivo. We conclude that recently evolved TE loci such as BANCR may represent potent de novo developmental regulatory elements that can be interrogated with species-matching pluripotent stem cell models.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kitchener D Wilson
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Oscar J Abilez
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Lei Tian
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Maxwell R Mumbach
- Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes and Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Sebastian Diecke
- Berlin Institute of Health, Max Delbrück Center, and DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Yonggang Liu
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Huaxiao Yang
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Ning Ma
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Sadhana Gaddam
- Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes and Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Evgenios Neofytou
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Maricela Prado
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Wildlife Reproduction Medicine, Freie University and Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Howard Y Chang
- Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes and Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Joseph C Wu
- Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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