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Bataillé L, Lebreton G, Boukhatmi H, Vincent A. Insights and perspectives on the enigmatic alary muscles of arthropods. Front Cell Dev Biol 2024; 11:1337708. [PMID: 38288343 PMCID: PMC10822924 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1337708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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Three types of muscles, cardiac, smooth and skeletal muscles are classically distinguished in eubilaterian animals. The skeletal, striated muscles are innervated multinucleated syncytia, which, together with bones and tendons, carry out voluntary and reflex body movements. Alary muscles (AMs) are another type of striated syncytial muscles, which connect the exoskeleton to the heart in adult arthropods and were proposed to control hemolymph flux. Developmental studies in Drosophila showed that larval AMs are specified in embryos under control of conserved myogenic transcription factors and interact with excretory, respiratory and hematopoietic tissues in addition to the heart. They also revealed the existence of thoracic AMs (TARMs) connecting to specific gut regions. Their asymmetric attachment sites, deformation properties in crawling larvae and ablation-induced phenotypes, suggest that AMs and TARMs could play both architectural and signalling functions. During metamorphosis, and heart remodelling, some AMs trans-differentiate into another type of muscles. Remaining critical questions include the enigmatic modes and roles of AM innervation, mechanical properties of AMs and TARMS and their evolutionary origin. The purpose of this review is to consolidate facts and hypotheses surrounding AMs/TARMs and underscore the need for further detailed investigation into these atypical muscles.
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Bileckyj C, Blotz B, Cripps RM. Drosophila as a Model to Understand Second Heart Field Development. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2023; 10:494. [PMID: 38132661 PMCID: PMC10744189 DOI: 10.3390/jcdd10120494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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The genetic model system Drosophila has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of mammalian heart specification, development, and congenital heart disease. The relatively simple Drosophila heart is a linear muscular tube that is specified and develops in the embryo and persists throughout the life of the animal. It functions at all stages to circulate hemolymph within the open circulatory system of the body. During Drosophila metamorphosis, the cardiac tube is remodeled, and a new layer of muscle fibers spreads over the ventral surface of the heart to form the ventral longitudinal muscles. The formation of these fibers depends critically upon genes known to be necessary for mammalian second heart field (SHF) formation. Here, we review the prior contributions of the Drosophila system to the understanding of heart development and disease, discuss the importance of the SHF to mammalian heart development and disease, and then discuss how the ventral longitudinal adult cardiac muscles can serve as a novel model for understanding SHF development and disease.
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- Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
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Meyer C, Bataillé L, Drechsler M, Paululat A. Tailup expression in Drosophila larval and adult cardiac valve cells. Genesis 2023; 61:e23506. [PMID: 36546531 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.23506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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In Drosophila larvae, the direction of blood flow within the heart tube, as well as the diastolic filling of the posterior heart chamber, is regulated by a single cardiac valve. This valve is sufficient to close the heart tube at the junction of the ventricle and the aorta and is formed by only two cells; both are integral parts of the heart tube. The valve cells regulate hemolymph flow by oscillating between a spherical and a flattened cell shape during heartbeats. At the spherical stage, the opposing valve cells close the heart lumen. The dynamic cell shape changes of valve cells are supported by a dense, criss-cross orientation of myofibrils and the presence of the valvosomal compartment, a large intracellular cavity. Both structures are essential for the valve cells' function. In a screen for factors specifically expressed in cardiac valve cells, we identified the transcription factor Tailup. Knockdown of tailup causes abnormal orientation and differentiation of cardiac muscle fibers in the larval aorta and inhibits the formation of the ventral longitudinal muscle layer located underneath the heart tube in the adult fly and affects myofibrillar orientation of valve cells. Furthermore, we have identified regulatory sequences of tup that control the expression of tailup in the larval and adult valve cells.
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- Christian Meyer
- Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Zoology and Developmental Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Unité de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire et du Développement (MCD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse UMR 5077/CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Zoology and Developmental Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Zoology and Developmental Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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Secchia S, Forneris M, Heinen T, Stegle O, Furlong EEM. Simultaneous cellular and molecular phenotyping of embryonic mutants using single-cell regulatory trajectories. Dev Cell 2022; 57:496-511.e8. [PMID: 35176234 PMCID: PMC8893321 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Developmental progression and cellular diversity are largely driven by transcription factors (TFs); yet, characterizing their loss-of-function phenotypes remains challenging and often disconnected from their underlying molecular mechanisms. Here, we combine single-cell regulatory genomics with loss-of-function mutants to jointly assess both cellular and molecular phenotypes. Performing sci-ATAC-seq at eight overlapping time points during Drosophila mesoderm development could reconstruct the developmental trajectories of all major muscle types and reveal the TFs and enhancers involved. To systematically assess mutant phenotypes, we developed a single-nucleus genotyping strategy to process embryo pools of mixed genotypes. Applying this to four TF mutants could identify and quantify their characterized phenotypes de novo and discover new ones, while simultaneously revealing their regulatory input and mode of action. Our approach is a general framework to dissect the functional input of TFs in a systematic, unbiased manner, identifying both cellular and molecular phenotypes at a scale and resolution that has not been feasible before. scATAC time course constructs regulatory trajectories of Drosophila muscle lineages Combining a wild-type trajectory with mutants identifies and quantifies phenotypes de novo Digital nuclear genotyping enables the processing of pooled embryos of mixed genotypes This framework simultaneously uncovers cellular and molecular phenotypes in embryos
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- Stefano Secchia
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Collaboration for Joint PhD Degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- Division of Computational Genomics and Systems Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Heidelberg University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 69120 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Division of Computational Genomics and Systems Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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She M, Tang M, Jiang T, Zeng Q. The Roles of the LIM Domain Proteins in Drosophila Cardiac and Hematopoietic Morphogenesis. Front Cardiovasc Med 2021; 8:616851. [PMID: 33681304 PMCID: PMC7928361 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.616851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster has been used as a model organism for study on development and pathophysiology of the heart. LIM domain proteins act as adaptors or scaffolds to promote the assembly of multimeric protein complexes. We found a total of 75 proteins encoded by 36 genes have LIM domain in Drosophila melanogaster by the tools of SMART, FLY-FISH, and FlyExpress, and around 41.7% proteins with LIM domain locate in lymph glands, muscles system, and circulatory system. Furthermore, we summarized functions of different LIM domain proteins in the development and physiology of fly heart and hematopoietic systems. It would be attractive to determine whether it exists a probable "LIM code" for the cycle of different cell fates in cardiac and hematopoietic tissues. Next, we aspired to propose a new research direction that the LIM domain proteins may play an important role in fly cardiac and hematopoietic morphogenesis.
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- Meihua She
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Hengyang Medical, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Hengyang Medical, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Hengyang Medical, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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Bataillé L, Colombié N, Pelletier A, Paululat A, Lebreton G, Carrier Y, Frendo JL, Vincent A. Alary muscles and thoracic alary-related muscles are atypical striated muscles involved in maintaining the position of internal organs. Development 2020; 147:dev.185645. [PMID: 32188630 DOI: 10.1242/dev.185645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Alary muscles (AMs) have been described as a component of the cardiac system in various arthropods. Lineage-related thoracic muscles (TARMs), linking the exoskeleton to specific gut regions, have recently been discovered in Drosophila Asymmetrical attachments of AMs and TARMs, to the exoskeleton on one side and internal organs on the other, suggested an architectural function in moving larvae. Here, we analysed the shape and sarcomeric organisation of AMs and TARMs, and imaged their atypical deformability in crawling larvae. We then selectively eliminated AMs and TARMs by targeted apoptosis. Elimination of AMs revealed that AMs are required for suspending the heart in proper intra-haemocelic position and for opening of the heart lumen, and that AMs constrain the curvature of the respiratory tracheal system during crawling; TARMs are required for proper positioning of visceral organs and efficient food transit. AM/TARM cardiac versus visceral attachment depends on Hox control, with visceral attachment being the ground state. TARMs and AMs are the first example of multinucleate striated muscles connecting the skeleton to the cardiac and visceral systems in bilaterians, with multiple physiological functions.
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- Laetitia Bataillé
- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- University of Osnabrück, Department of Biology/Chemistry, Zoology and Developmental Biology, Barbarastraße 11, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Centre de Biologie du Développement (CBD), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse 3, CNRS, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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Cui C, Han S, Tang S, He H, Shen X, Zhao J, Chen Y, Wei Y, Wang Y, Zhu Q, Li D, Yin H. The Autophagy Regulatory Molecule CSRP3 Interacts with LC3 and Protects Against Muscular Dystrophy. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21030749. [PMID: 31979369 PMCID: PMC7037376 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21030749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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CSRP3/MLP (cysteine-rich protein 3/muscle Lim protein), a member of the cysteine-rich protein family, is a muscle-specific LIM-only factor specifically expressed in skeletal muscle. CSRP3 is critical in maintaining the structure and function of normal muscle. To investigate the mechanism of disease in CSRP3 myopathy, we performed siRNA-mediated CSRP3 knockdown in chicken primary myoblasts. CSRP3 silencing resulted in the down-regulation of the expression of myogenic genes and the up-regulation of atrophy-related gene expressions. We found that CSRP3 interacted with LC3 protein to promote the formation of autophagosomes during autophagy. CSRP3-silencing impaired myoblast autophagy, as evidenced by inhibited autophagy-related ATG5 and ATG7 mRNA expression levels, and inhibited LC3II and Beclin-1 protein accumulation. In addition, impaired autophagy in CSRP3-silenced cells resulted in increased sensitivity to apoptosis cell death. CSRP3-silenced cells also showed increased caspase-3 and caspase-9 cleavage. Moreover, apoptosis induced by CSRP3 silencing was alleviated after autophagy activation. Together, these results indicate that CSRP3 promotes the correct formation of autophagosomes through its interaction with LC3 protein, which has an important role in skeletal muscle remodeling and maintenance.
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Ahmad SM. Conserved signaling mechanisms in Drosophila heart development. Dev Dyn 2017; 246:641-656. [PMID: 28598558 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2016] [Revised: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Signal transduction through multiple distinct pathways regulates and orchestrates the numerous biological processes comprising heart development. This review outlines the roles of the FGFR, EGFR, Wnt, BMP, Notch, Hedgehog, Slit/Robo, and other signaling pathways during four sequential phases of Drosophila cardiogenesis-mesoderm migration, cardiac mesoderm establishment, differentiation of the cardiac mesoderm into distinct cardiac cell types, and morphogenesis of the heart and its lumen based on the proper positioning and cell shape changes of these differentiated cardiac cells-and illustrates how these same cardiogenic roles are conserved in vertebrates. Mechanisms bringing about the regulation and combinatorial integration of these diverse signaling pathways in Drosophila are also described. This synopsis of our present state of knowledge of conserved signaling pathways in Drosophila cardiogenesis and the means by which it was acquired should facilitate our understanding of and investigations into related processes in vertebrates. Developmental Dynamics 246:641-656, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Shaad M Ahmad
- Department of Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.,The Center for Genomic Advocacy, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
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Samson N, Paulin R. Epigenetics, inflammation and metabolism in right heart failure associated with pulmonary hypertension. Pulm Circ 2017; 7:572-587. [PMID: 28628000 PMCID: PMC5841893 DOI: 10.1177/2045893217714463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Right ventricular failure (RVF) is the most important prognostic factor for both morbidity and mortality in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but also occurs in numerous other common diseases and conditions, including left ventricle dysfunction. RVF remains understudied compared with left ventricular failure (LVF). However, right and left ventricles have many differences at the morphological level or the embryologic origin, and respond differently to pressure overload. Therefore, knowledge from the left ventricle cannot be extrapolated to the right ventricle. Few studies have focused on the right ventricle and have permitted to increase our knowledge on the right ventricular-specific mechanisms driving decompensation. Here we review basic principles such as mechanisms accounting for right ventricle hypertrophy, dysfunction, and transition toward failure, with a focus on epigenetics, inflammatory, and metabolic processes.
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- Nolwenn Samson
- Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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Werner K, Donow C, Pandur P. Chip/Ldb1 interacts with Tailup/islet1 to regulate cardiac gene expression inDrosophila. Genesis 2017; 55. [DOI: 10.1002/dvg.23030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Revised: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Kathrin Werner
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Biologie; Albert-Einstein-Allee 11; 89081 Ulm Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Biologie; Albert-Einstein-Allee 11; 89081 Ulm Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Biologie; Albert-Einstein-Allee 11; 89081 Ulm Germany
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The development of the dorsal vessel in Drosophila is one of the first systems in which key mechanisms regulating cardiogenesis have been defined in great detail at the genetic and molecular level. Due to evolutionary conservation, these findings have also provided major inputs into studies of cardiogenesis in vertebrates. Many of the major components that control Drosophila cardiogenesis were discovered based on candidate gene approaches and their functions were defined by employing the outstanding genetic tools and molecular techniques available in this system. More recently, approaches have been taken that aim to interrogate the entire genome in order to identify novel components and describe genomic features that are pertinent to the regulation of heart development. Apart from classical forward genetic screens, the availability of the thoroughly annotated Drosophila genome sequence made new genome-wide approaches possible, which include the generation of massive numbers of RNA interference (RNAi) reagents that were used in forward genetic screens, as well as studies of the transcriptomes and proteomes of the developing heart under normal and experimentally manipulated conditions. Moreover, genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments have been performed with the aim to define the full set of genomic binding sites of the major cardiogenic transcription factors, their relevant target genes, and a more complete picture of the regulatory network that drives cardiogenesis. This review will give an overview on these genome-wide approaches to Drosophila heart development and on computational analyses of the obtained information that ultimately aim to provide a description of this process at the systems level.
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Lovato TL, Cripps RM. Regulatory Networks that Direct the Development of Specialized Cell Types in the Drosophila Heart. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2016; 3. [PMID: 27695700 PMCID: PMC5044875 DOI: 10.3390/jcdd3020018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The Drosophila cardiac tube was once thought to be a simple linear structure, however research over the past 15 years has revealed significant cellular and molecular complexity to this organ. Prior reviews have focused upon the gene regulatory networks responsible for the specification of the cardiac field and the activation of cardiac muscle structural genes. Here we focus upon highlighting the existence, function, and development of unique cell types within the dorsal vessel, and discuss their correspondence to analogous structures in the vertebrate heart.
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Functional Conservation of the Glide/Gcm Regulatory Network Controlling Glia, Hemocyte, and Tendon Cell Differentiation in Drosophila. Genetics 2015; 202:191-219. [PMID: 26567182 PMCID: PMC4701085 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.182154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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High-throughput screens allow us to understand how transcription factors trigger developmental processes, including cell specification. A major challenge is identification of their binding sites because feedback loops and homeostatic interactions may mask the direct impact of those factors in transcriptome analyses. Moreover, this approach dissects the downstream signaling cascades and facilitates identification of conserved transcriptional programs. Here we show the results and the validation of a DNA adenine methyltransferase identification (DamID) genome-wide screen that identifies the direct targets of Glide/Gcm, a potent transcription factor that controls glia, hemocyte, and tendon cell differentiation in Drosophila. The screen identifies many genes that had not been previously associated with Glide/Gcm and highlights three major signaling pathways interacting with Glide/Gcm: Notch, Hedgehog, and JAK/STAT, which all involve feedback loops. Furthermore, the screen identifies effector molecules that are necessary for cell-cell interactions during late developmental processes and/or in ontogeny. Typically, immunoglobulin (Ig) domain-containing proteins control cell adhesion and axonal navigation. This shows that early and transiently expressed fate determinants not only control other transcription factors that, in turn, implement a specific developmental program but also directly affect late developmental events and cell function. Finally, while the mammalian genome contains two orthologous Gcm genes, their function has been demonstrated in vertebrate-specific tissues, placenta, and parathyroid glands, begging questions on the evolutionary conservation of the Gcm cascade in higher organisms. Here we provide the first evidence for the conservation of Gcm direct targets in humans. In sum, this work uncovers novel aspects of cell specification and sets the basis for further understanding of the role of conserved Gcm gene regulatory cascades.
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Bataillé L, Frendo JL, Vincent A. Hox control of Drosophila larval anatomy; The Alary and Thoracic Alary-Related Muscles. Mech Dev 2015. [PMID: 26219857 DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2015.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The body plan of arthropods and vertebrates involves the formation of repetitive segments, which subsequently diversify to give rise to different body parts along the antero-posterior/rostro-caudal body axis. Anatomical variations between body segments are crucial for organ function and organismal fitness. Pioneering work in Drosophila has established that Hox transcription factors play key roles both in endowing initially identical segments with distinct identities and organogenesis. The focus of this review is on Alary Muscles (AMs) and the newly discovered Thoracic Alary-Related Muscles (TARMs). AMs and TARMs are thin muscles which together connect the circulatory system and different midgut regions to the exoskeleton, while intertwining with the respiratory tubular network. They were hypothesized to represent a new type of muscles with spring-like properties, maintaining internal organs in proper anatomical positions during larval locomotion. Both the morphology of TARMs relative to AMs, and morphogenesis of connected tissues is under Hox control, emphasizing the key role of Hox proteins in coordinating the anatomical development of the larva.
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- Laetitia Bataillé
- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 09, France.
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 09, France.
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Many of the major discoveries in the fields of genetics and developmental biology have been made using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. With regard to heart development, the conserved network of core cardiac transcription factors that underlies cardiogenesis has been studied in great detail in the fly, and the importance of several signaling pathways that regulate heart morphogenesis, such as Slit/Robo, was first shown in the fly model. Recent technological advances have led to a large increase in the genomic data available from patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). This has highlighted a number of candidate genes and gene networks that are potentially involved in CHD. To validate genes and genetic interactions among candidate CHD-causing alleles and to better understand heart formation in general are major tasks. The specific limitations of the various cardiac model systems currently employed (mammalian and fish models) provide a niche for the fly model, despite its evolutionary distance to vertebrates and humans. Here, we review recent advances made using the Drosophila embryo that identify factors relevant for heart formation. These underline how this model organism still is invaluable for a better understanding of CHD.
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Org-1-dependent lineage reprogramming generates the ventral longitudinal musculature of the Drosophila heart. Curr Biol 2015; 25:488-94. [PMID: 25660543 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Revised: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Only few examples of transdifferentiation, which denotes the conversion of one differentiated cell type to another, are known to occur during normal development, and more often, it is associated with regeneration processes. With respect to muscles, dedifferentiation/redifferentiation processes have been documented during post-traumatic muscle regeneration in blastema of newts as well as during myocardial regeneration. As shown herein, the ventral longitudinal muscles of the adult Drosophila heart arise from specific larval alary muscles in a process that represents the first known example of syncytial muscle transdifferentiation via dedifferentiation into mononucleate myoblasts during normal development. We demonstrate that this unique process depends on the reinitiation of a transcriptional program previously employed for embryonic alary muscle development, in which the factors Org-1 (Drosophila Tbx1) and Tailup (Drosophila Islet1) are key components. During metamorphosis, the action of these factors is combined with cell-autonomous inputs from the ecdysone steroid and the Hox gene Ultrabithorax, which provide temporal and spatial specificity to the transdifferentiation events. Following muscle dedifferentiation, inductive cues, particularly from the remodeling heart tube, are required for the redifferentiation of myoblasts into ventral longitudinal muscles. Our results provide new insights into mechanisms of lineage commitment and cell-fate plasticity during development.
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Boukhatmi H, Schaub C, Bataillé L, Reim I, Frendo JL, Frasch M, Vincent A. An Org-1-Tup transcriptional cascade reveals different types of alary muscles connecting internal organs in Drosophila. Development 2014; 141:3761-71. [PMID: 25209244 DOI: 10.1242/dev.111005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The T-box transcription factor Tbx1 and the LIM-homeodomain transcription factor Islet1 are key components in regulatory circuits that generate myogenic and cardiogenic lineage diversity in chordates. We show here that Org-1 and Tup, the Drosophila orthologs of Tbx1 and Islet1, are co-expressed and required for formation of the heart-associated alary muscles (AMs) in the abdomen. The same holds true for lineage-related muscles in the thorax that have not been described previously, which we name thoracic alary-related muscles (TARMs). Lineage analyses identified the progenitor cell for each AM and TARM. Three-dimensional high-resolution analyses indicate that AMs and TARMs connect the exoskeleton to the aorta/heart and to different regions of the midgut, respectively, and surround-specific tracheal branches, pointing to an architectural role in the internal anatomy of the larva. Org-1 controls tup expression in the AM/TARM lineage by direct binding to two regulatory sites within an AM/TARM-specific cis-regulatory module, tupAME. The contributions of Org-1 and Tup to the specification of Drosophila AMs and TARMs provide new insights into the transcriptional control of Drosophila larval muscle diversification and highlight new parallels with gene regulatory networks involved in the specification of cardiopharyngeal mesodermal derivatives in chordates.
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- Hadi Boukhatmi
- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse F-31062, Cedex 09, France
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- Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Biology, Division of Developmental Biology, Staudtstraβe 5, Erlangen 91058, Germany
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse F-31062, Cedex 09, France
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- Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Biology, Division of Developmental Biology, Staudtstraβe 5, Erlangen 91058, Germany
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse F-31062, Cedex 09, France
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- Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Biology, Division of Developmental Biology, Staudtstraβe 5, Erlangen 91058, Germany
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse F-31062, Cedex 09, France
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Zmojdzian M, Jagla K. Tailup plays multiple roles during cardiac outflow assembly in Drosophila. Cell Tissue Res 2014; 354:639-45. [PMID: 23797334 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-013-1644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The Drosophila LIM-homeodomain transcription factor Tailup and its vertebrate counterpart Islet1 are expressed in cardiac progenitor cells where they play a specification role. Loss of function of Islet1 leads to a complete absence of the right ventricle and affects the development of the cardiac outflow tract in mouse embryos. Similarly, tailup mutant embryos display a reduced number of cardiac cells but the role of tailup in cardiac outflow formation in Drosophila remains unknown. Here, we show that tailup is expressed in the main Drosophila cardiac outflow components, i.e., heart anchoring cells (HANC) and cardiac outflow muscles (COM) and that loss of its function and/or tissue-specific knockdowns dramatically affect cardiac outflow morphogenesis. Our data demonstrate that tailup plays many roles and is required for the acquisition of HANC and COM properties. We also show that tailup regulates HANC motility, COM shapes and their attachment to the heart tip and genetically interacts with ladybird, shotgun and slit, which are known to be involved in cardiac outflow assembly. Furthemore, using tissue-specific overexpression of dominant negative tailup constructs lacking sequences encoding either the homeodomain or the LIM domain, we demonstrate that tailup can exert its function not only in transcription factor mode but also via its protein-protein interaction domain. We identify Tailup as an evolutionarily-conserved regulator of cardiac outflow formation and provide further evidence for its conserved role in heart development.
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Yoon TD, Lee HW, Kim YS, Choi HJ, Moon JO, Yoon S. Identification and analysis of expressed genes using a cDNA library from rat thymus during regeneration following cyclophosphamide-induced T cell depletion. Int J Mol Med 2013; 31:731-9. [PMID: 23314113 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2013.1238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Understanding the mechanisms of thymus regeneration is necessary for designing strategies to enhance host immunity when immune function is suppressed due to T cell depletion. In this study, expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis was performed following generation of a regenerating thymus cDNA library to identify genes expressed in thymus regeneration. A total of 1,000 ESTs were analyzed, of which 770 (77%) matched to known genes, 178 matched to unknown genes (17.8%) and 52 (5.2%) did not match any known sequences. The ESTs matched to known genes were grouped into eight functional categories: gene/protein synthesis (28%), metabolism (24%), cell signaling and communication (17%), cell structure and motility (6%), cell/organism defense and homeostasis (6%), cell division (3%), cell death/apoptosis (2%), and unclassified genes (14%). Based on the data of RT-PCR analysis, the expression of TLP, E2IG2, pincher, Paip2, TGF-β1, 4-1BB and laminin α3 genes was increased during thymus regeneration. These results provide extensive molecular information, for the first time, on thymus regeneration indicating that the regenerating thymus cDNA library may be a useful source for identifying various genes expressed during thymus regeneration.
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- Tae-Deuk Yoon
- Department of Anatomy, Pusan National University, School of Medicine, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do 626-870, Republic of Korea
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Boukhatmi H, Frendo JL, Enriquez J, Crozatier M, Dubois L, Vincent A. Tup/Islet1 integrates time and position to specify muscle identity in Drosophila. Development 2012; 139:3572-82. [DOI: 10.1242/dev.083410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The LIM-homeodomain transcription factor Tailup/Islet1 (Tup) is a key component of cardiogenesis in Drosophila and vertebrates. We report here an additional major role for Drosophila Tup in specifying dorsal muscles. Tup is expressed in the four dorsal muscle progenitors (PCs) and tup-null embryos display a severely disorganized dorsal musculature, including a transformation of the dorsal DA2 into dorsolateral DA3 muscle. This transformation is reciprocal to the DA3 to DA2 transformation observed in collier (col) mutants. The DA2 PC, which gives rise to the DA2 muscle and to an adult muscle precursor, is selected from a cluster of myoblasts transiently expressing both Tinman (Tin) and Col. The activation of tup by Tin in the DA2 PC is required to repress col transcription and establish DA2 identity. The transient, partial overlap between Tin and Col expression provides a window of opportunity to distinguish between DA2 and DA3 muscle identities. The function of Tup in the DA2 PC illustrates how single cell precision can be reached in cell specification when temporal dynamics are combined with positional information. The contributions of Tin, Tup and Col to patterning Drosophila dorsal muscles bring novel parallels with chordate pharyngeal muscle development.
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- Hadi Boukhatmi
- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France
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- Université de Toulouse 3, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR 5547 CNRS and FRBT, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 09, France
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Seyres D, Röder L, Perrin L. Genes and networks regulating cardiac development and function in flies: genetic and functional genomic approaches. Brief Funct Genomics 2012; 11:366-74. [PMID: 22908209 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/els028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The Drosophila heart has emerged as a powerful model system for cardiovascular research. This simple organ, composed of only 104 cardiomyocytes and associated pericardiac cells, has been the focus of numerous candidate gene approaches in the last 2 decades, which have unraveled a number of transcription factors and signaling pathways involved in the regulation of early cardiac development. Importantly, these regulators seem to have largely conserved functions in mammals. Recent studies also demonstrated the usefulness of the fly circulatory system to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in the control of the establishment and maintenance of the cardiac function. In this review, we have focused on how new technological and conceptual advances in the field of functional genomics have impacted research on the cardiovascular system in Drosophila. Genome-scale genetic screens were conducted taking advantage of recently developed ribonucleic acid interference transgenic lines and molecularly defined genetic deficiencies, which have provided new insights into the genetics of both the developmental control of heart formation and cardiac function. In addition, a comprehensive picture of the transcriptional network controlling heart formation is emerging, thanks to newly developed genomic approaches which allow global and unbiased identification of the underlying components of gene regulatory circuits.
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- Denis Seyres
- Life and Health Science Doctoral Program, Université d' Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
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Chin AJ, Saint-Jeannet JP, Lo CW. How insights from cardiovascular developmental biology have impacted the care of infants and children with congenital heart disease. Mech Dev 2012; 129:75-97. [PMID: 22640994 PMCID: PMC3409324 DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2012.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2012] [Revised: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 05/18/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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To illustrate the impact developmental biology and genetics have already had on the clinical management of the million infants born worldwide each year with CHD, we have chosen three stories which have had particular relevance for pediatric cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists, and cardiac nurses. First, we show how Margaret Kirby's finding of the unexpected contribution of an ectodermal cell population - the cranial neural crest - to the aortic arch arteries and arterial pole of the embryonic avian heart provided a key impetus to the field of cardiovascular patterning. Recognition that a majority of patients affected by the neurocristopathy DiGeorge syndrome have a chromosome 22q11 deletion, have also spurred tremendous efforts to characterize the molecular mechanisms contributing to this pathology, assigning a major role to the transcription factor Tbx1. Second, synthesizing the work of the last two decades by many laboratories on a wide gamut of metazoans (invertebrates, tunicates, agnathans, teleosts, lungfish, amphibians, and amniotes), we review the >20 major modifications and additions to the ancient circulatory arrangement composed solely of a unicameral (one-chambered), contractile myocardial tube and a short proximal aorta. Two changes will be discussed in detail - the interposition of a second cardiac chamber in the circulation and the septation of the cardiac ventricle. By comparing the developmental genetic data of several model organisms, we can better understand the origin of the various components of the multicameral (multi-chambered) heart seen in humans. Third, Martina Brueckner's discovery that a faulty axonemal dynein was responsible for the phenotype of the iv/iv mouse (the first mammalian model of human heterotaxy) focused attention on the biology of cilia. We discuss how even the care of the complex cardiac and non-cardiac anomalies seen in heterotaxy syndrome, which have long seemed impervious to advancements in surgical and medical intensive care, may yet yield to strategies grounded in a better understanding of the cilium. The fact that all cardiac defects seen in patients with full-blown heterotaxy can also be seen in patients without obvious laterality defects hints at important roles for ciliary function not only in left-right axis specification but also in cardiovascular morphogenesis. These three developmental biology stories illustrate how the remaining unexplained mortality and morbidity of congenital heart disease can be solved.
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- Alvin J Chin
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, United States.
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Islet1-expressing cardiac progenitor cells: a comparison across species. Dev Genes Evol 2012; 223:117-29. [PMID: 22526874 PMCID: PMC3552366 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-012-0400-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2012] [Accepted: 04/03/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Adult mammalian cardiac stem cells express the LIM-homeodomain transcription factor Islet1 (Isl1). They are considered remnants of Isl1-positive embryonic cardiac progenitor cells. During amniote heart development, Isl1-positive progenitor cells give rise mainly to the outflow tract, the right ventricle, and parts of the atria. This led to the hypothesis that the development of the right ventricle of the amniote heart depends on the recruitment of additional cells to the primary heart tube. The region from which these additional, Isl1-positive cells originate is called second heart field, as opposed to the first heart field whose cells form the primary heart tube. Here, we review the available data about Isl1 in different species, demonstrating that Isl1 is an important component of the core transcription factor network driving early cardiogenesis in animals of the two clades, deuterostomes, and protostomes. The data support the view of a single cardiac progenitor cell population that includes Isl1-expressing cells and which differentiates into the various cardiac lineages during embryonic development in vertebrates but not in other phyla of the animal kingdom.
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Zhu X, Ahmad SM, Aboukhalil A, Busser BW, Kim Y, Tansey TR, Haimovich A, Jeffries N, Bulyk ML, Michelson AM. Differential regulation of mesodermal gene expression by Drosophila cell type-specific Forkhead transcription factors. Development 2012; 139:1457-66. [PMID: 22378636 PMCID: PMC3308180 DOI: 10.1242/dev.069005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A common theme in developmental biology is the repeated use of the same gene in diverse spatial and temporal domains, a process that generally involves transcriptional regulation mediated by multiple separate enhancers, each with its own arrangement of transcription factor (TF)-binding sites and associated activities. Here, by contrast, we show that the expression of the Drosophila Nidogen (Ndg) gene at different embryonic stages and in four mesodermal cell types is governed by the binding of multiple cell-specific Forkhead (Fkh) TFs – including Biniou (Bin), Checkpoint suppressor homologue (CHES-1-like) and Jumeau (Jumu) – to three functionally distinguishable Fkh-binding sites in the same enhancer. Whereas Bin activates the Ndg enhancer in the late visceral musculature, CHES-1-like cooperates with Jumu to repress this enhancer in the heart. CHES-1-like also represses the Ndg enhancer in a subset of somatic myoblasts prior to their fusion to form multinucleated myotubes. Moreover, different combinations of Fkh sites, corresponding to two different sequence specificities, mediate the particular functions of each TF. A genome-wide scan for the occurrence of both classes of Fkh domain recognition sites in association with binding sites for known cardiac TFs showed an enrichment of combinations containing the two Fkh motifs in putative enhancers found within the noncoding regions of genes having heart expression. Collectively, our results establish that different cell-specific members of a TF family regulate the activity of a single enhancer in distinct spatiotemporal domains, and demonstrate how individual binding motifs for a TF class can differentially influence gene expression.
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- Xianmin Zhu
- Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Xu P, Johnson TL, Stoller-Conrad JR, Schulz RA. Spire, an actin nucleation factor, regulates cell division during Drosophila heart development. PLoS One 2012; 7:e30565. [PMID: 22276214 PMCID: PMC3262839 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2011] [Accepted: 12/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Drosophila dorsal vessel is a beneficial model system for studying the regulation of early heart development. Spire (Spir), an actin-nucleation factor, regulates actin dynamics in many developmental processes, such as cell shape determination, intracellular transport, and locomotion. Through protein expression pattern analysis, we demonstrate that the absence of spir function affects cell division in Myocyte enhancer factor 2-, Tinman (Tin)-, Even-skipped- and Seven up (Svp)-positive heart cells. In addition, genetic interaction analysis shows that spir functionally interacts with Dorsocross, tin, and pannier to properly specify the cardiac fate. Furthermore, through visualization of double heterozygous embryos, we determines that spir cooperates with CycA for heart cell specification and division. Finally, when comparing the spir mutant phenotype with that of a CycA mutant, the results suggest that most Svp-positive progenitors in spir mutant embryos cannot undergo full cell division at cell cycle 15, and that Tin-positive progenitors are arrested at cell cycle 16 as double-nucleated cells. We conclude that Spir plays a crucial role in controlling dorsal vessel formation and has a function in cell division during heart tube morphogenesis.
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- Peng Xu
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America.
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Bryantsev AL, Cripps RM. Purification of cardiac cells from Drosophila embryos. Methods 2011; 56:44-9. [PMID: 22119843 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2011.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2011] [Revised: 11/07/2011] [Accepted: 11/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Recent genome-level innovations have enabled the identification of the entire cadre of genes that are expressed in specific tissues at particular developmental times. However, to be informative as to how individual cell types develop, this process relies upon the successful and efficient purification of cells for a particular tissue. Here, we describe a method to isolate cardiac cells from Drosophila embryos. We generated transgenic embryos in which a cardiac-specific enhancer of the Sulphonylurea receptor (Sur) gene drove expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene. Homogenized embryos were subjected to fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), resulting in approximately 50,000 cardiac cells purified. The prevalence of cardiac cells in the purified population was high, based upon a significant enrichment for cardiac-specific marker genes, including Sur and Toll. This enrichment also enabled the identification of cardiac-specific alternatively spliced isoforms of the Zasp66 gene. In the future, this approach can be used to describe the cardiac transcriptome of Drosophila at distinct stages of embryonic development.
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- Anton L Bryantsev
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA.
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Parisot P, Mesbah K, Théveniau-Ruissy M, Kelly RG. Tbx1, subpulmonary myocardium and conotruncal congenital heart defects. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 91:477-84. [PMID: 21591244 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2010] [Revised: 01/25/2011] [Accepted: 02/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Conotruncal congenital heart defects, including defects in septation and alignment of the ventricular outlets, account for approximately a third of all congenital heart defects. Failure of the left ventricle to obtain an independent outlet results in incomplete separation of systemic and pulmonary circulation at birth. The embryonic outflow tract, a transient cylinder of myocardium connecting the embryonic ventricles to the aortic sac, plays a critical role in this process during normal development. The outflow tract (OFT) is derived from a population of cardiac progenitor cells called the second heart field that contributes to the arterial pole of the heart tube during cardiac looping. During septation, the OFT is remodeled to form the base of the ascending aorta and pulmonary trunk. Tbx1, the major candidate gene for DiGeorge syndrome, is a critical transcriptional regulator of second heart field development. DiGeorge syndrome patients are haploinsufficient for Tbx1 and present a spectrum of conotruncal anomalies including tetralogy of Fallot, pulmonary atresia, and common arterial trunk. In this review, we focus on the role of Tbx1 in the regulation of second heart field deployment and, in particular, in the development of a specific population of myocardial cells at the base of the pulmonary trunk. Recent data characterizing additional properties and regulators of development of this region of the heart, including the retinoic acid, hedgehog, and semaphorin signaling pathways, are discussed. These findings identify future subpulmonary myocardium as the clinically relevant component of the second heart field and provide new mechanistic insight into a spectrum of common conotruncal congenital heart defects.
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- Pauline Parisot
- Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles-Luminy, UMR 6216/CNRS, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseilles, France
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Ryu JR, Najand N, Brook WJ. Tinman is a direct activator of midline in the drosophila dorsal vessel. Dev Dyn 2010; 240:86-95. [DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Tokusumi Y, Tokusumi T, Stoller-Conrad J, Schulz RA. Serpent, suppressor of hairless and U-shaped are crucial regulators of hedgehog niche expression and prohemocyte maintenance during Drosophila larval hematopoiesis. Development 2010; 137:3561-8. [PMID: 20876645 DOI: 10.1242/dev.053728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The lymph gland is a specialized organ for hematopoiesis, utilized during larval development in Drosophila. This tissue is composed of distinct cellular domains populated by blood cell progenitors (the medullary zone), niche cells that regulate the choice between progenitor quiescence and hemocyte differentiation [the posterior signaling center (PSC)], and mature blood cells of distinct lineages (the cortical zone). Cells of the PSC express the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling molecule, which instructs cells within the neighboring medullary zone to maintain a hematopoietic precursor state while preventing hemocyte differentiation. As a means to understand the regulatory mechanisms controlling Hh production, we characterized a PSC-active transcriptional enhancer that drives hh expression in supportive niche cells. Our findings indicate that a combination of positive and negative transcriptional inputs program the precise PSC expression of the instructive Hh signal. The GATA factor Serpent (Srp) is essential for hh activation in niche cells, whereas the Suppressor of Hairless [Su(H)] and U-shaped (Ush) transcriptional regulators prevent hh expression in blood cell progenitors and differentiated hemocytes. Furthermore, Srp function is required for the proper differentiation of niche cells. Phenotypic analyses also indicated that the normal activity of all three transcriptional regulators is essential for maintaining the progenitor population and preventing premature hemocyte differentiation. Together, these studies provide mechanistic insights into hh transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic progenitor niche cells, and demonstrate the requirement of the Srp, Su(H) and Ush proteins in the control of niche cell differentiation and blood cell precursor maintenance.
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- Yumiko Tokusumi
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 147 Galvin Life Sciences Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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Chin AJ, Whitehead KK, Watrous RL. Insights After 40 Years of the Fontan Operation. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2010; 1:328-43. [DOI: 10.1177/2150135110379623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fontan’s visionary operation and its modifications over the ensuing decades have re-established nonturbulent flow and substantially reduced cyanosis for patients with severe hypoplasia of one ventricle. However, a long list of largely unexpected sequelae has emerged over the last 40 years. Although it is not difficult to understand how care providers could become discouraged, a number of myths have arisen, which we will attempt to dispel with real-world counterexamples as well as with lessons learned from other disciplines: evolutionary, developmental, and computational biology. We argue that distinctive biochemical abnormalities pointing to dysfunction in multiple organs, including the largest organ system in the body, the endothelium, occur long before grossly observable changes in cardiac imaging can be recognized. With a rational redesign of both our surveillance scheme and our wellness strategies, we hope that Fontan survivors and their families, as well as physicians, nurses, and therapists, will see why Fontan’s principle remains just as vibrant today as it was in 1971.
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- Alvin J. Chin
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Division of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Division of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The pronotum LIM-HD gene tailup is both a positive and a negative regulator of the proneural genes achaete and scute of Drosophila. Mech Dev 2010; 127:393-406. [PMID: 20580820 DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2010.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2010] [Revised: 05/10/2010] [Accepted: 05/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Early in the development of the imaginal wing disc of Drosophila, the LIM-HD gene tailup (islet), together with the HD genes of the iroquois complex, specify the notum territory of the disc. Later, tailup has been shown to act as a prepattern gene that antagonizes formation of sensory bristles on the notum of this fly. It has been proposed that Tailup downregulates the expression of the proneural genes achaete and scute by interfering with factors needed to activate these genes in the dorsocentral and scutellar regions of the disc. By means of a clonal analysis performed with tailup null alleles, here we show that, on the one hand, tailup is necessary to prevent formation of extra macrochaetae on most of the 11 sites where these landmark bristles arise on the fly notum. On the other hand, tailup is required to activate achaete and scute at the dorsocentral region, probably by acting as an hexameric complex with the cofactor Chip and the transcriptional activator Sspd on the dorsocentral enhancer of the achaete-scute complex. In contrast, in the scutellar region Tailup acts downstream of achaete-scute, antagonizing the proneural function of these genes probably in cooperation with Chip. We conclude that tailup acts on bristle development by several, even antagonistic, mechanisms.
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Reim I, Frasch M. Genetic and genomic dissection of cardiogenesis in the Drosophila model. Pediatr Cardiol 2010; 31:325-34. [PMID: 20033682 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-009-9612-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2009] [Accepted: 12/07/2009] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The linear heart tube of the fruit fly Drosophila has served as a very valuable model for studying the regulation of early heart development. In the past, regulatory genes of Drosophila cardiogenesis have been identified largely through candidate approaches. The vast genetic toolkit available in this organism has made it possible to determine their functions and build regulatory networks of transcription factors and signaling inputs that control heart development. In this review, we summarize the major findings from this study and present current approaches aiming to identify additional players in the specification, morphogenesis, and differentiation of the heart by forward genetic screens. We also discuss various genomic and bioinformatic approaches that are currently being developed to extend the known transcriptional networks more globally which, in combination with the genetic approaches, will provide a comprehensive picture of the regulatory circuits during cardiogenesis.
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- Ingolf Reim
- Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Staudtstr. 5, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
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de Pater E, Clijsters L, Marques SR, Lin YF, Garavito-Aguilar ZV, Yelon D, Bakkers J. Distinct phases of cardiomyocyte differentiation regulate growth of the zebrafish heart. Development 2009; 136:1633-41. [PMID: 19395641 DOI: 10.1242/dev.030924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Amongst animal species, there is enormous variation in the size and complexity of the heart, ranging from the simple one-chambered heart of Ciona intestinalis to the complex four-chambered heart of lunged animals. To address possible mechanisms for the evolutionary adaptation of heart size, we studied how growth of the simple two-chambered heart in zebrafish is regulated. Our data show that the embryonic zebrafish heart tube grows by a substantial increase in cardiomyocyte number. Augmented cardiomyocyte differentiation, as opposed to proliferation, is responsible for the observed growth. By using transgenic assays to monitor developmental timing, we visualized for the first time the dynamics of cardiomyocyte differentiation in a vertebrate embryo. Our data identify two previously unrecognized phases of cardiomyocyte differentiation separated in time, space and regulation. During the initial phase, a continuous wave of cardiomyocyte differentiation begins in the ventricle, ends in the atrium, and requires Islet1 for its completion. In the later phase, new cardiomyocytes are added to the arterial pole, and this process requires Fgf signaling. Thus, two separate processes of cardiomyocyte differentiation independently regulate growth of the zebrafish heart. Together, our data support a model in which modified regulation of these distinct phases of cardiomyocyte differentiation has been responsible for the changes in heart size and morphology among vertebrate species.
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- Emma de Pater
- Hubrecht Institute and University Medical Centre Utrecht, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Heart and craniofacial muscle development: a new developmental theme of distinct myogenic fields. Dev Biol 2009; 327:273-9. [PMID: 19162003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.12.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2008] [Revised: 12/24/2008] [Accepted: 12/29/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Head muscle development has been studied less intensively than myogenesis in the trunk, although this situation is gradually changing, as embryological and genetic insights accumulate. This review focuses on novel studies of the origins, composition and evolution of distinct craniofacial muscles. Cellular and molecular parallels are drawn between cardiac and branchiomeric muscle developmental programs, both of which utilize multiple lineages with distinct developmental histories, and argue for the tissues' common evolutionary origin. In addition, there is increasing evidence that the specification of skeletal muscles in the head appears to be distinct from that operating in the trunk: considerable variation among the different craniofacial muscle groups is seen, in a manner resembling myogenic specification in lower organisms.
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Voutev R, Keating R, Hubbard EJA, Vallier LG. Characterization of the Caenorhabditis elegans Islet LIM-homeodomain ortholog, lim-7. FEBS Lett 2008; 583:456-64. [PMID: 19116151 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.12.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2008] [Accepted: 12/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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lim-7 is one of seven Caenorhabditis elegans LIM-homeodomain (LIM-HD)-encoding genes and the sole Islet ortholog. LIM-HD transcription factors, including Islets, function in neuronal and non-neuronal development across diverse phyla. Our results show that a lim-7 deletion allele causes early larval lethality with terminal phenotypes including uncoordination, detached pharynx, constipation and morphological defects. A lim-7(+) transgene rescues lethality but not adult sterility. A lim-7(+) reporter in the full genomic context is expressed in all gonadal sheath cells, URA neurons, and additional cells in the pharyngeal region. Finally, we identify a 45-bp regulatory element in the first intron that is necessary and sufficient for lim-7 gonadal sheath expression.
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- Roumen Voutev
- Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, United States
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Mann T, Bodmer R, Pandur P. The Drosophila homolog of vertebrate Islet1 is a key component in early cardiogenesis. Development 2008; 136:317-26. [PMID: 19088091 DOI: 10.1242/dev.022533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In mouse, the LIM-homeodomain transcription factor Islet1 (Isl1) has been shown to demarcate a separate cardiac cell population that is essential for the formation of the right ventricle and the outflow tract of the heart. Whether Isl1 plays a crucial role in the early regulatory network of transcription factors that establishes a cardiac fate in mesodermal cells has not been fully resolved. We have analyzed the role of the Drosophila homolog of Isl1, tailup (tup), in cardiac specification and formation of the dorsal vessel. The early expression of Tup in the cardiac mesoderm suggests that Tup functions in cardiac specification. Indeed, tup mutants are characterized by a reduction of the essential early cardiac transcription factors Tin, Pnr and Dorsocross1-3 (Doc). Conversely, Tup expression depends on each of these cardiac factors, as well as on the early inductive signals Dpp and Wg. Genetic interactions show that tup cooperates with tin, pnr and Doc in heart cell specification. Germ layer-specific loss-of-function and rescue experiments reveal that Tup also functions in the ectoderm to regulate cardiogenesis and implicate the involvement of different LIM-domain-interacting proteins in the mesoderm and ectoderm. Gain-of-function analyses for tup and pnr suggest that a proper balance of these factors is also required for the specification of Eve-expressing pericardial cells. Since tup is required for proper cardiogenesis in an invertebrate organism, we believe it is appropriate to include tup/Isl1 in the core set of ancestral cardiac transcription factors that govern a cardiac fate.
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- Tabea Mann
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Bryantsev AL, Cripps RM. Cardiac gene regulatory networks in Drosophila. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2008; 1789:343-53. [PMID: 18849017 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 08/09/2008] [Accepted: 09/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The Drosophila system has proven a powerful tool to help unlock the regulatory processes that occur during specification and differentiation of the embryonic heart. In this review, we focus upon a temporal analysis of the molecular events that result in heart formation in Drosophila, with a particular emphasis upon how genomic and other cutting-edge approaches are being brought to bear upon the subject. We anticipate that systems-level approaches will contribute greatly to our comprehension of heart development and disease in the animal kingdom.
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- Anton L Bryantsev
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
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Tao Y, Christiansen AE, Schulz RA. Second chromosome genes required for heart development inDrosophila melanogaster. Genesis 2007; 45:607-17. [DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Lo PC, Zaffran S, Sénatore S, Frasch M. The Drosophila Hand gene is required for remodeling of the developing adult heart and midgut during metamorphosis. Dev Biol 2007; 311:287-96. [PMID: 17904115 PMCID: PMC2128039 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2007] [Accepted: 08/01/2007] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The Hand proteins of the bHLH family of transcriptional factors play critical roles in vertebrate cardiogenesis. In Drosophila, the single orthologous Hand gene is expressed in the developing embryonic dorsal vessel (heart), lymph glands, circular visceral musculature, and a subset of CNS cells. We demonstrate that the absence of Hand activity causes semilethality during the early larval instars. The dorsal vessel and midgut musculature are unaffected in null mutant embryos, but in a large fraction the lymph glands are missing. However, homozygous adult flies lacking Hand possess morphologically abnormal dorsal vessels characterized by a disorganized myofibrillar structure, reduced systolic and diastolic diameter, and abnormal heartbeat contractions, and suffer from premature lethality. In addition, their midguts are highly deformed; in the most severe cases, there is midgut blockage and a massive excess of ectopic peritrophic membrane tubules exiting a rupture in an anterior midgut bulge. Nevertheless, the visceral musculature appears to be relatively normal. Based on these phenotypes, we conclude that the expression of the Drosophila Hand gene in the dorsal vessel and circular visceral muscles is mainly required during pupal stages, when Hand participates in the proper hormone-dependent remodeling of the larval aorta into the adult heart and in the normal morphogenesis of the adult midgut endoderm during metamorphosis.
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- Patrick C.H. Lo
- Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Box 1020, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille-Luminy, CNRS URM 6216, Campus de Luminy, Case 907, 13009 Marseille, FRANCE
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- Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille-Luminy, CNRS URM 6216, Campus de Luminy, Case 907, 13009 Marseille, FRANCE
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- Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Box 1020, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
- * Author for correspondence. Present address: Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Inst. of Biology, Dept. of Developmental Biology, 91054 Erlangen, Germany), e-mail , tel ++49 9131 8528061, fax ++49 9131 8528040
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The Friend of GATA protein U-shaped functions as a hematopoietic tumor suppressor in Drosophila. Dev Biol 2007; 311:311-23. [PMID: 17936744 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2007] [Revised: 07/20/2007] [Accepted: 08/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Drosophila has emerged as an important model system to discover and analyze genes controlling hematopoiesis. One regulatory network known to control hemocyte differentiation is the Janus kinase (JAK)/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT) signal-transduction pathway. A constitutive activation mutation of the Janus kinase Hopscotch (hopscotch(Tumorous-lethal); hop(Tum-l)) results in a leukemia-like over-proliferation of hemocytes and copious differentiation of lamellocytes during larval stages. Here we show that the Friend of GATA (FOG) protein U-shaped (Ush) is expressed in circulating and lymph gland hemocytes, where it plays a critical role in controlling blood cell proliferation and differentiation. Our findings demonstrate that a reduction in ush function results in hematopoietic phenotypes strikingly similar to those observed in hop(Tum-l) animals. These include lymph gland hypertrophy, increased circulating hemocyte concentration, and abundant production of lamellocytes. Forced expression of N-terminal truncated versions of Ush likewise leads to larvae with severe hematopoietic anomalies. In contrast, expression of wild-type Ush results in a strong suppression of hop(Tum-l) phenotypes. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that U-shaped acts to control larval hemocyte proliferation and suppress lamellocyte differentiation, likely regulating hematopoietic events downstream of Hop kinase activity. Such functions appear to be facilitated through Ush interaction with the hematopoietic GATA factor Serpent (Srp).
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Brade T, Gessert S, Kühl M, Pandur P. The amphibian second heart field: Xenopus islet-1 is required for cardiovascular development. Dev Biol 2007; 311:297-310. [PMID: 17900553 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2007] [Revised: 07/30/2007] [Accepted: 08/01/2007] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Islet-1 is a LIM-homeodomain transcription factor that has been defined to label cardiac progenitor cells of the second heart field. Here we provide the first analysis of the expression pattern of Xenopus islet-1 (Xisl-1) in the context of cardiovascular development. During early stages of heart development Xisl-1 is co-expressed with Nkx2.5 in the cardiac crescent in Xenopus supporting the notion of an initially single heart field. At subsequent stages of cardiogenesis the expression domains of Xisl-1 and Nkx2.5 become more distinct with Xisl-1 being detected more anterior to Nkx2.5, however both factors continue to be co-expressed in the dorsal mesocardium and pericardial roof of the linear heart tube. The presence of a cardiac Xisl-1 progenitor pool in an amphibian whose heart lacks an anatomically separated right ventricle is intriguing. Functional analyses show that Xisl-1 is required for normal heart development. Inhibition of Xisl-1 results in defects in heart morphogenesis and in the downregulation of early cardiac markers implicating a role for Xisl-1 in cardiac specification. Additionally, Xisl-1 loss-of-function affects the expression of several vascular markers demonstrating the involvement of Xisl-1 in vasculogenesis.
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- Thomas Brade
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
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