Epigenetic control of cardiomyocyte production in response to a stress during the medaka heart development
| Autor: | Keiichi Fukuda, Sayaka Konno, Yoshiyuki Imai, Mai Morioka, Akira Kudo, Yusuke Taneda, Atsushi Kawakami, Shinji Makino |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Nonmammalian Heart Ventricles Morphogenesis Oryzias Biology Heart development Transgenic Epigenetic regulation Epigenesis Genetic Animals Genetically Modified Myosin Myocyte Animals Myocytes Cardiac Epigenetics Heart formation Molecular Biology Body Patterning Genetics Regulation of gene expression Myosin Heavy Chains Myocardium Mutant Gene Expression Regulation Developmental Cell Biology Medaka Cell biology Blood pressure Mutation Myosin heavy chain Cardiac Myosins Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental biology. 340(1) |
| ISSN: | 1095-564X |
| Popis: | The size and morphology of organs are largely determined by a genetic program. However in some cases, an epigenetic mechanism influences the process of organ development. Particularly, epigenetic factors such as hemodynamic stress and blood pressure affect the morphogenesis of cardiac chambers and valves. Here, we report that the epigenetic influences affect the cardiomyocyte production. Taking advantage of longer developmental period of medaka fish, we could examine the later emerging tissue responses to the defect of ventricular beating, which occurred in the hozuki (hoz) mutant that harbors the mutated ventricular myosin heavy chain (vmhc) gene. The mutant showed a remarkable ventricular enlargement, and we showed that this enlargement was due to an excess production of ventricular cardiomyocytes in addition to the lack of concentric chamber growth. By experimental blockade of blood flow, we demonstrated that an elevated cardiac pressure was responsible for the aberrant cardiomyocyte production. From these data, we propose that the epigenetic tissue response to a stressed situation controls the production of cardiomyocytes to attain a fine tuning of heart formation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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