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Retinoic acid signaling restricts the size of the first heart field within the anterior lateral plate mesoderm

Authors
Duong, T.B., Holowiecki, A., Waxman, J.S.
ID
ZDB-PUB-210220-49
Date
2021
Source
Developmental Biology   473: 119-129 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Waxman, Joshua
Keywords
Atrium, Cardiomyocyte progenitors, First heart field, Heart development, Outflow tract, Retinoic acid signaling, Second Heart field, Sinoatrial node, Ventricle, Zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Heart/embryology*
  • Heart/physiology
  • Mesoderm/metabolism*
  • Mesoderm/physiology
  • Tretinoin/metabolism*
  • Tretinoin/physiology
  • Heart Ventricles/metabolism
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
  • Signal Transduction/genetics
  • Cell Lineage/genetics
  • Myocardium/metabolism
  • Cell Differentiation/genetics
  • Zebrafish/metabolism
  • Organogenesis/genetics
  • Animals
  • Transcription Factors/metabolism
  • Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics
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PubMed
33607112 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Abstract
Retinoic acid (RA) signaling is required to restrict heart size through limiting the posterior boundary of the vertebrate cardiac progenitor field within the anterior lateral plate mesoderm (ALPM). However, we still do not fully understand how different cardiac progenitor populations that contribute to the developing heart, including earlier-differentiating first heart field (FHF), later-differentiating second heart field (SHF), and neural crest-derived progenitors, are each affected in RA-deficient embryos. Here, we quantified the number of cardiac progenitors and differentiating cardiomyocytes (CMs) in RA-deficient zebrafish embryos. While Nkx2.5+ cells were increased overall in the nascent hearts of RA-deficient embryos, unexpectedly, we found that the major effect within this population was a significant expansion in the number of differentiating FHF CMs. In contrast to the expansion of the FHF, there was a progressive decrease in SHF progenitors at the arterial pole as the heart tube elongated. Temporal differentiation assays and immunostaining in RA-deficient embryos showed that the outflow tracts (OFTs) of the hearts were significantly smaller, containing fewer differentiated SHF-derived ventricular CMs and a complete absence of SHF-derived smooth muscle at later stages. At the venous pole of the heart, pacemaker cells of the sinoatrial node also failed to differentiate in RA-deficient embryos. Interestingly, genetic lineage tracing showed that the number of neural-crest derived CMs was not altered within the enlarged hearts of RA-deficient zebrafish embryos. Altogether, our data show that the enlarged hearts in RA-deficient zebrafish embryos are comprised of an expansion in earlier differentiating FHF-derived CMs coupled with a progressive depletion of the SHF, suggesting RA signaling determines the relative ratios of earlier- and later-differentiation cardiac progenitors within an expanded cardiac progenitor pool.
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cz1701TgTransgenic Insertion
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      fb9TgTransgenic Insertion
        hsc6TgTransgenic Insertion
          i26
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            la2326TgTransgenic Insertion
              sqet33mi59BEtTransgenic Insertion
                twu34TgTransgenic Insertion
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                  mCherryEFGmCherry
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