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Foxh1 is essential for development of the anterior heart field.
Dev. Cell 7, 331-345 (2004)
The anterior heart field (AHF) mediates formation of the outflow tract (OFT) and right ventricle (RV) during looping morphogenesis of the heart. Foxh1 is a forkhead DNA binding transcription factor in the TGFbeta-Smad pathway. Here we demonstrate that Foxh1-/- mutant mouse embryos form a primitive heart tube, but fail to form OFT and RV and display loss of outer curvature markers of the future working myocardium, similar to the phenotype of Mef2c-/- mutant hearts. Further, we show that Mef2c is a direct target of Foxh1, which physically and functionally interacts with Nkx2-5 to mediate strong Smad-dependent activation of a TGFbeta response element in the Mef2c gene. This element directs transgene expression to the presumptive AHF, as well as the RV and OFT, a pattern that closely parallels endogenous Mef2c expression in the heart. Thus, Foxh1 and Nkx2-5 functionally interact and are essential for development of the AHF and its derivatives, the RV and OFT, in response to TGFbeta-like signals.
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Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2004
HGF-Berichtsjahr
0
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1534-5807
e-ISSN
1878-1551
Zeitschrift
Developmental Cell
Quellenangaben
Band: 7,
Heft: 3,
Seiten: 331-345
Verlag
Elsevier
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
PubMed ID
15363409
Erfassungsdatum
2004-12-31