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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 286, Issue 13, Pages 11803-11813Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.222331
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon
- Genome Canada
- Genome British Columbia
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
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Notch is a critical mediator of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) during cardiac cushion development. Slug, a transcriptional repressor that is a Notch target, is an important Notch effector of EndMT in the cardiac cushion. Here, we report that the runt-related transcription factor RUNX3 is a novel direct Notch target in the endothelium. Ectopic expression of RUNX3 in endothelium induces Slug expression and EndMT independent of Notch activation. Interestingly, RUNX3 physically interacts with CSL, the Notch-interacting partner in the nucleus, and induces Slug in a CSL-dependent, but Notch-independent manner. Although RUNX3 may not be required for the initial induction of Slug and EndMT by Notch, because RUNX3 has a much longer half-life than Slug, it sustains the expression of Slug thereby maintaining the mesenchymal phenotype. CSL binds to the Runx3 promoter in the atrioventricular canal in vivo, and inhibition of Notch reduces RUNX3 expression in the cardiac cushion of embryonic hearts. Taken together, our results suggest that induction of RUNX3 may be a mechanism to maintain Notch-transformed mesenchymal cells during heart development.
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