Targeted Inactivation of Serum Response Factor in the Developing Heart Results in Myocardial Defects and Embryonic Lethality
AUTOR(ES)
Parlakian, Ara
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Serum response factor (SRF) is at the confluence of multiple signaling pathways controlling the transcription of immediate-early response genes and muscle-specific genes. There are active SRF target sequences in more than 50 genes expressed in the three muscle lineages including normal and diseased hearts. However, the role of SRF in heart formation has not been addressed in vivo thus far due to the early requirement of SRF for mesoderm formation. We have generated a conditional mutant of SRF by using Cre-LoxP strategy that will be extremely useful to study the role of SRF in embryonic and postnatal cardiac functions, as well as in other tissues. This report shows that heart-specific deletion of SRF in the embryo by using a new βMHC-Cre transgenic mouse line results in lethal cardiac defects between embryonic day 10.5 (E10.5) and E13.5, as evidenced by abnormally thin myocardium, dilated cardiac chambers, poor trabeculation, and a disorganized interventricular septum. At E9.5, we found a marked reduction in the expression of essential regulators of heart development, including Nkx2.5, GATA4, myocardin, and the SRF target gene c-fos prior to overt maldevelopment. We conclude that SRF is crucial for cardiac differentiation and maturation, acting as a global regulator of multiple developmental genes.
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