期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 102, 期 51, 页码 18455-18460出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0504343102
关键词
coronary vessels; epicardium; retinoids; wnt; FGF
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL063714-04, R01 HL063714] Funding Source: Medline
Vitamin A signals play critical roles during embryonic development. in particular, heart morphogenesis depends on vitamin A signals mediated by the retinoid X receptor alpha (RXR alpha), as the systemic mutation of this receptor results in thinning of the myocardium and embryonic lethality. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms controlled by RXR alpha signaling in this process are unclear, because a myocardium-restricted RXR alpha mutation does not perturb heart morphogenesis. Here, we analyze a series of tissue-restricted mutations of the RXR alpha gene in the cardiac neural crest, endothelial, and epicardial lineages, and we show that RXR alpha signaling in the epicardium is required for proper cardiac morphogenesis. Moreover, we detect an additional phenotype of defective coronary arteriogenesis associated with RXR alpha deficiency and identify a retinoid-dependent Wnt signaling pathway that cooperates in epicardial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transformation.
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