PUBLICATION
Morphogenetic control of zebrafish cardiac looping by Bmp signaling
- Authors
- Lombardo, V.A., Heise, M., Moghtadaei, M., Bornhorst, D., Männer, J., Abdelilah-Seyfried, S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-191022-23
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 146(22): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Abdelilah-Seyfried, Salim
- Keywords
- BMP, Cardiac looping, Hemodynamics, Wnt, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Anisotropy
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/metabolism*
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
- Embryonic Development
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Heart/embryology*
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Morphogenesis
- Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism*
- Organogenesis
- Signal Transduction*
- Torque
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Wnt Proteins/metabolism
- Wnt Signaling Pathway
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 31628109 Full text @ Development
Citation
Lombardo, V.A., Heise, M., Moghtadaei, M., Bornhorst, D., Männer, J., Abdelilah-Seyfried, S. (2019) Morphogenetic control of zebrafish cardiac looping by Bmp signaling. Development (Cambridge, England). 146(22):.
Abstract
Cardiac looping is an essential and highly conserved morphogenetic process that places the different regions of the developing vertebrate heart tube into proximity of their final topographical positions. High-resolution 4D live imaging of mosaically-labelled cardiomyocytes reveals distinct cardiomyocyte behaviors that contribute to the deformation of the entire heart tube. Cardiomyocytes acquire conical cell shapes, which is most pronounced at the superior wall of the atrioventricular canal and contributes to S-shaped bending. Torsional deformation close to the outflow tract contributes to a torque-like winding of the entire heart tube between its two poles. Anisotropic growth of cardiomyocytes based on their positions reinforces S-shaping of the heart. During cardiac looping, Bone morphogenetic protein pathway signaling is strongest at the future superior wall of the atrioventricular canal. Upon pharmacological or genetic inhibition of Bone morphogenetic protein signalling, myocardial cells at the superior wall of the atrioventricular canal maintain cuboidal cell shapes and S-shaped bending is impaired. This inventory of cellular rearrangements and cardiac looping regulation may also be relevant for understanding the etiology of human congenital heart defects.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping