PUBLICATION
Muscarinic receptors promote pacemaker fate at the expense of secondary conduction system tissue in zebrafish
- Authors
- Burczyk, M.S., Burkhalter, M.D., Tena, T.C., Grisanti, L.A., Kauk, M., Matysik, S., Donow, C., Kustermann, M., Rothe, M., Cui, Y., Raad, F., Laue, S., Moretti, A., Zimmermann, W.H., Wess, J., Kühl, M., Hoffmann, C., Tilley, D.G., Philipp, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-191022-5
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- JCI insight 4(20): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Philipp, Melanie
- Keywords
- Arrhythmias, Cardiology, Development, Embryonic development, G-protein coupled receptors
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/drug therapy*
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/physiopathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- HEK293 Cells
- Heart Conduction System/drug effects
- Heart Conduction System/embryology*
- Heart Conduction System/physiopathology
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Muscarinic Antagonists/pharmacology*
- Muscarinic Antagonists/therapeutic use
- Myocytes, Cardiac
- Organogenesis/drug effects*
- Receptor, Muscarinic M3/genetics
- Receptor, Muscarinic M3/metabolism*
- Tolterodine Tartrate/pharmacology*
- Tolterodine Tartrate/therapeutic use
- Xenopus laevis
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 31619590 Full text @ JCI Insight
Citation
Burczyk, M.S., Burkhalter, M.D., Tena, T.C., Grisanti, L.A., Kauk, M., Matysik, S., Donow, C., Kustermann, M., Rothe, M., Cui, Y., Raad, F., Laue, S., Moretti, A., Zimmermann, W.H., Wess, J., Kühl, M., Hoffmann, C., Tilley, D.G., Philipp, M. (2019) Muscarinic receptors promote pacemaker fate at the expense of secondary conduction system tissue in zebrafish. JCI insight. 4(20):.
Abstract
Deterioration or inborn malformations of the cardiac conduction system (CCS) interfere with proper impulse propagation in the heart and may lead to sudden cardiac death or heart failure. Patients afflicted with arrhythmia depend on antiarrhythmic medication or invasive therapy, such as pacemaker implantation. An ideal way to treat these patients would be CCS tissue restoration. This, however, requires precise knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms underlying CCS development. Here, we aimed to identify regulators of CCS development. We performed a compound screen in zebrafish embryos and identified tolterodine, a muscarinic receptor antagonist, as a modifier of CCS development. Tolterodine provoked a lower heart rate, pericardiac edema, and arrhythmia. Blockade of muscarinic M3, but not M2, receptors induced transcriptional changes leading to amplification of sinoatrial cells and loss of atrioventricular identity. Transcriptome data from an engineered human heart muscle model provided additional evidence for the contribution of muscarinic M3 receptors during cardiac progenitor specification and differentiation. Taken together, we found that muscarinic M3 receptors control the CCS already before the heart becomes innervated. Our data indicate that muscarinic receptors maintain a delicate balance between the developing sinoatrial node and the atrioventricular canal, which is probably required to prevent the development of arrhythmia.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping