TY - JOUR
T1 - A constitutive mutation of ALK5 disrupts cardiac looping and morphogenesis in mice
AU - Charng, Min Ji
AU - Frenkel, Peter A.
AU - Lin, Qing
AU - Yumada, Miho
AU - Schwartz, Robert J.
AU - Olson, Eric N.
AU - Overbeek, Paul
AU - Schneider, Michael D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge H. Lodish and J. Robbins for gifts of reagents, M. Abdellatif and R. MacLellan for comments on the manuscript, and R. Roberts for encouragement and support. This work was supported by grants from the NIH. P.A.F. was funded by the NHLBI Training Center for Molecular Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine.
PY - 1998/7/1
Y1 - 1998/7/1
N2 - TGFβ family members are implicated in cardiac organogenesis, growth control, and positional information, including the direction of cardiac 1ooping. However, genetic analysis of TGFβ signaling in mice has been confounded, in some cases, by noncardiac and generalized defects. Hence, deciphering TGFβ function in myocardium would benefit from cardiacrestricted mutations. We developed a constitutively activated type I receptor, ALK5(L193A, P194A, T204D), and directed it to embryonic myocardium in transgenic mice. Expression of the activated ALK5 gene arrests 1ooping morphogenesis and causes a linear, dilated, hypoplastic heart tube, despite normal expression of Nkx2.5 and dHAND, cardiogenic transcription factors whose absence provokes a similar phenotype. Ventricular hypoplasia was associated with precocious induction of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, p21. Thus, an ALK5-sensitive pathway mediates 1ooping, perhaps through control of cardiac myocyte proliferation.
AB - TGFβ family members are implicated in cardiac organogenesis, growth control, and positional information, including the direction of cardiac 1ooping. However, genetic analysis of TGFβ signaling in mice has been confounded, in some cases, by noncardiac and generalized defects. Hence, deciphering TGFβ function in myocardium would benefit from cardiacrestricted mutations. We developed a constitutively activated type I receptor, ALK5(L193A, P194A, T204D), and directed it to embryonic myocardium in transgenic mice. Expression of the activated ALK5 gene arrests 1ooping morphogenesis and causes a linear, dilated, hypoplastic heart tube, despite normal expression of Nkx2.5 and dHAND, cardiogenic transcription factors whose absence provokes a similar phenotype. Ventricular hypoplasia was associated with precocious induction of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, p21. Thus, an ALK5-sensitive pathway mediates 1ooping, perhaps through control of cardiac myocyte proliferation.
KW - ALK5
KW - Cardiac development
KW - Looping
KW - P21
KW - TGFβ
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U2 - 10.1006/dbio.1998.8905
DO - 10.1006/dbio.1998.8905
M3 - Article
C2 - 9676193
AN - SCOPUS:0032126748
SN - 0012-1606
VL - 199
SP - 72
EP - 79
JO - Developmental Biology
JF - Developmental Biology
IS - 1
ER -