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CIRCULATION RESEARCH
卷 105, 期 3, 页码 231-U65出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.201186
关键词
embryonic stem cells; cardiomyogenesis; cripto; apelin; APJ/msr1
资金
- Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro
Rationale: Pluripotent stem cells represent a powerful model system to study the early steps of cardiac specification for which the molecular control is largely unknown. The EGF-CFC (epidermal growth factor-Cripto/FRL-1/Cryptic) Cripto protein is essential for cardiac myogenesis in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Objective: Here, we study the role of apelin and its G protein-coupled receptor, APJ, as downstream targets of Cripto both in vivo and in ESC differentiation. Methods and Results: Gain-of-function experiments show that APJ suppresses neuronal differentiation and restores the cardiac program in Cripto(-/-) ESCs. Loss-of-function experiments point for a central role for APJ/apelin in the gene regulatory cascade promoting cardiac specification and differentiation in ESCs. Remarkably, we show for the first time that apelin promotes mammalian cardiomyogenesis via activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase/p70S6 through coupling to a Go/Gi protein. Conclusions: Together our data provide evidence for a previously unrecognized function of APJ/apelin in the Cripto signaling pathway governing mesoderm patterning and cardiac specification in mammals. (Circ Res. 2009; 105: 231-238.)
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