ZFIN ID: ZDB-GENE-990415-163
CITATIONS (74 total)
Gene Name: myocyte enhancer factor 2aa
Gene Symbol: mef2aa
Zebrafish Nomenclature Committee (2025) Nomenclature Data Curation (2025). Nomenclature Committee Submission.
Medkova, D., Hollerova, A., Blahova, J., Marsalek, P., Mares, J., Hodkovicova, N., Doubkova, V., Hesova, R., Tichy, F., Faldyna, M., Taştan, Y., Kotoucek, J., Svobodova, Z., Lakdawala, P. (2023) Medicine designed to combat diseases of affluence affects the early development of fish. How do plastic microparticles contribute?. The Science of the total environment. 904:166378
Park, K.H., Makki, H.M.M., Kim, S.H., Chung, H.J., Jung, J. (2023) Narirutin ameliorates alcohol-induced liver injury by targeting MAPK14 in zebrafish larvae. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie. 166:115350115350
Bailon-Zambrano, R., Sucharov, J., Mumme-Monheit, A., Murry, M., Stenzel, A., Pulvino, A.T., Mitchell, J.M., Colborn, K.L., Nichols, J. (2022) Variable paralog expression underlies phenotype variation. eLIFE. 11:
Luo, H., Zhang, Y., Deng, Y., Li, L., Sheng, Z., Yu, Y., Lin, Y., Chen, X., Feng, P. (2021) Nxhl Controls Angiogenesis by Targeting VE-PTP Through Interaction With Nucleolin. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 9:728821
Ruggiero, G., Ben-Moshe Livne, Z., Wexler, Y., Geyer, N., Vallone, D., Gothilf, Y., Foulkes, N.S. (2021) Period 2: A Regulator of Multiple Tissue-Specific Circadian Functions. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience. 14:718387
Kula-Alwar, D., Marber, M.S., Hughes, S.M., Hinits, Y. (2020) Mef2c factors are required for early but not late addition of cardiomyocytes to the ventricle. Developmental Biology. 470:95-107
Lee, H.J., Hou, Y., Chen, Y., Dailey, Z.Z., Riddihough, A., Jang, H.S., Wang, T., Johnson, S.L. (2020) Regenerating zebrafish fin epigenome is characterized by stable lineage-specific DNA methylation and dynamic chromatin accessibility. Genome biology. 21:52
Sucharov, J., Ray, K., Brooks, E.P., Nichols, J.T. (2019) Selective breeding modifies mef2ca mutant incomplete penetrance by tuning the opposing Notch pathway. PLoS Genetics. 15:e1008507
Yang, Y., Li, B., Zhang, X., Zhao, Q., Lou, X. (2019) The zinc finger protein Zfpm1 modulates ventricular trabeculation through Neuregulin-ErbB signalling. Developmental Biology. 446(2):142-150
Guzzolino, E., Chiavacci, E., Ahuja, N., Mariani, L., Evangelista, M., Ippolito, C., Rizzo, M., Garrity, D., Cremisi, F., Pitto, L. (2018) Post-transcriptional Modulation of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1 by miR-19a Affects Cardiovascular Development in Zebrafish. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 6:58
Shakur Ahammad, A.K., Asaduzzaman, M., Ceyhun, S., Ceylan, H., Asakawa, S., Watabe, S., Kinoshita, S. (2018) Multiple transcription factors mediating the expressional regulation of myosin heavy chain gene involved in the indeterminate muscle growth of fish. Gene. 687:308-318
Lv, F., Zhu, C., Yan, X., Wang, X., Liu, D. (2017) Generation of a mef2aa:EGFP transgenic zebrafish line that expresses EGFP in muscle cells. Fish physiology and biochemistry. 43(1):287-294
Ratanayotha, A., Kawai, T., Higashijima, S.I., Okamura, Y. (2017) Molecular and functional characterization of the voltage-gated proton channel in zebrafish neutrophils. Physiological Reports. 5(15)
Braasch, I., Gehrke, A.R., Smith, J.J., Kawasaki, K., Manousaki, T., Pasquier, J., Amores, A., Desvignes, T., Batzel, P., Catchen, J., Berlin, A.M., Campbell, M.S., Barrell, D., Martin, K.J., Mulley, J.F., Ravi, V., Lee, A.P., Nakamura, T., Chalopin, D., Fan, S., Wcisel, D., Cañestro, C., Sydes, J., Beaudry, F.E., Sun, Y., Hertel, J., Beam, M.J., Fasold, M., Ishiyama, M., Johnson, J., Kehr, S., Lara, M., Letaw, J.H., Litman, G.W., Litman, R.T., Mikami, M., Ota, T., Saha, N.R., Williams, L., Stadler, P.F., Wang, H., Taylor, J.S., Fontenot, Q., Ferrara, A., Searle, S.M., Aken, B., Yandell, M., Schneider, I., Yoder, J.A., Volff, J.N., Meyer, A., Amemiya, C.T., Venkatesh, B., Holland, P.W., Guiguen, Y., Bobe, J., Shubin, N.H., Di Palma, F., Alföldi, J., Lindblad-Toh, K., Postlethwait, J.H. (2016) The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons. Nature Genetics. 48(4):427-37
D'Aurizio, R., Russo, F., Chiavacci, E., Baumgart, M., Groth, M., D'Onofrio, M., Arisi, I., Rainaldi, G., Pitto, L., Pellegrini, M. (2016) Discovering miRNA Regulatory Networks in Holt-Oram Syndrome Using a Zebrafish Model. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology. 4:60
Gao, C., Ren, S., Lee, J.H., Qiu, J., Chapski, D.J., Rau, C.D., Zhou, Y., Abdellatif, M., Nakano, A., Vondriska, T.M., Xiao, X., Fu, X.D., Chen, J.N., Wang, Y. (2016) RBFox1-mediated RNA splicing regulates cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 126(1):195-206
Wu, M., Wu, D., Wang, C., Guo, Z., Li, B., Zuo, Z. (2016) Hexabromocyclododecane exposure induces cardiac hypertrophy and arrhythmia by inhibiting miR-1 expression via up-regulation of the homeobox gene Nkx2.5. Journal of hazardous materials. 302:304-313
Diotel, N., Viales, R.R., Armant, O., März, M., Ferg, M., Rastegar, S., Strähle, U. (2015) Comprehensive expression map of transcription regulators in the adult zebrafish telencephalon reveals distinct neurogenic niches. The Journal of comparative neurology. 523(8):1202-21
Elkon, R., Milon, B., Morrison, L., Shah, M., Vijayakumar, S., Racherla, M., Leitch, C.C., Silipino, L., Hadi, S., Weiss-Gayet, M., Barras, E., Schmid, C.D., Ait-Lounis, A., Barnes, A., Song, Y., Eisenman, D.J., Eliyahu, E., Frolenkov, G.I., Strome, S.E., Durand, B., Zaghloul, N.A., Jones, S.M., Reith, W., Hertzano, R. (2015) RFX transcription factors are essential for hearing in mice. Nature communications. 6:8549
Etard, C., Armant, O., Roostalu, U., Gourain, V., Ferg, M., Strähle, U. (2015) Loss of function of myosin chaperones triggers Hsf1-mediated transcriptional response in skeletal muscle cells. Genome biology. 16:267
See, K., Yadav, P., Giegerich, M., Cheong, P.S., Graf, M., Vyas, H., Lee, S.G., Mathavan, S., Fischer, U., Sendtner, M., and Winkler, C. (2014) SMN deficiency alters Nrxn2 expression and splicing in zebrafish and mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy. Human molecular genetics. 23(7):1754-70
Johnson, A.N., Mokalled, M.H., Valera, J.M., Poss, K.D., and Olson, E.N. (2013) Post-transcriptional regulation of myotube elongation and myogenesis by Hoi Polloi. Development (Cambridge, England). 140(17):3645-3656
Li, Y., Li, G., Wang, H., Du, J., and Yan, J. (2013) Analysis of a gene regulatory cascade mediating circadian rhythm in zebrafish. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(2):e1002940
Varshney, G.K., Lu, J., Gildea, D., Huang, H., Pei, W., Yang, Z., Huang, S.C., Schoenfeld, D.S., Pho, N., Casero, D., Hirase, T., Mosbrook-Davis, D.M., Zhang, S., Jao, L.E., Zhang, B., Woods, I.G., Zimmerman, S., Schier, A.F., Wolfsberg, T., Pellegrini, M., Burgess, S.M., and Lin, S. (2013) A large-scale zebrafish gene knockout resource for the genome-wide study of gene function. Genome research. 23(4):727-735
Yogev, O., Williams, V.C., Hinits, Y., and Hughes, S.M. (2013) eIF4EBP3L acts as a gatekeeper of TORC1 in activity-dependent muscle growth by specifically regulating Mef2ca translational initiation. PLoS Biology. 11(10):e1001679
Hinits, Y., Pan, L., Walker, C., Dowd, J., Moens, C.B., and Hughes, S.M. (2012) Zebrafish Mef2ca and Mef2cb are essential for both first and second heart field cardiomyocyte differentiation. Developmental Biology. 369(2):199-210
Zhu, K., Wang, H., Gul, Y., Zhao, Y., Wang, W., Liu, S., and Wang, M. (2012) Expression characterization and the promoter activity analysis of zebrafish hdac4. Fish physiology and biochemistry. 38(2):585-593
Palencia-Desai, S., Kohli, V., Kang, J., Chi, N.C., Black, B.L., and Sumanas, S. (2011) Vascular endothelial and endocardial progenitors differentiate as cardiomyocytes in the absence of Etsrp/Etv2 function. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(21):4721-4732
Hammond, D.R., and Udvadia, A.J. (2010) Cabin1 expression suggests roles in neuronal development. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 239(9):2443-2451
Zhang, L.F., Gui, Y.H., Wang, Y.X., Jiang, Q., and Song, H.Y. (2010) Effect of Tbx1 knock-down on cardiac performance in zebrafish. Chinese Medical Journal. 123(9):1182-1189
Cañestro, C., Catchen, J.M., Rodriguez-Mari, A., Yokoi, H., and Postlethwait, J.H. (2009) Consequences of lineage-specific gene loss on functional evolution of surviving paralogs: ALDH1A and retinoic acid signaling in vertebrate genomes. PLoS Genetics. 5(5):e1000496
Jin, D., Ni, T.T., Hou, J., Rellinger, E., and Zhong, T.P. (2009) Promoter analysis of ventricular myosin heavy chain (vmhc) in zebrafish embryos. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 238(7):1760-1767
Sun, S., Gui, Y., Wang, Y., Qian, L., Liu, X., Jiang, Q., and Song, H. (2009) Effects of methotrexate on the developments of heart and vessel in zebrafish. Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica. 41(1):86-96
Wong, K.S., Proulx, K., Rost, M.S., and Sumanas, S. (2009) Identification of vasculature-specific genes by microarray analysis of etsrp/etv2 overexpressing zebrafish embryos. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 238(7):1836-1850
Lange, M., Kaynak, B., Forster, U.B., Tönjes, M., Fischer, J.J., Grimm, C., Schlesinger, J., Just, S., Dunkel, I., Krueger, T., Mebus, S., Lehrach, H., Lurz, R., Gobom, J., Rottbauer, W., Abdelilah-Seyfried, S., and Sperling, S. (2008) Regulation of muscle development by DPF3, a novel histone acetylation and methylation reader of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex. Genes & Development. 22(17):2370-2384
Langenau, D.M., Keefe, M.D., Storer, N.Y., Guyon, J.R., Kutok, J.L., Le, X., Goessling, W., Neuberg, D.S., Kunkel, L.M., and Zon, L.I. (2007) Effects of RAS on the genesis of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. Genes & Development. 21(11):1382-1395
Wang, D., Jao, L.E., Zheng, N., Dolan, K., Ivey, J., Zonies, S., Wu, X., Wu, K., Yang, H., Meng, Q., Zhu, Z., Zhang, B., Lin, S., and Burgess, S.M. (2007) Efficient genome-wide mutagenesis of zebrafish genes by retroviral insertions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104(30):12428-12433
Wang, Y.X., Qian, L.X., Liu, D., Yao, L.L., Jiang, Q., Yu, Z., Gui, Y.H., Zhong, T.P., and Song, H.Y. (2007) Bone morphogenetic protein-2 acts upstream of myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2a to control embryonic cardiac contractility. Cardiovascular research. 74(2):290-303
Schlueter, P.J., Royer, T., Farah, M.H., Laser, B., Chan, S.J., Steiner, D.F., and Duan, C. (2006) Gene duplication and functional divergence of the zebrafish insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 20(8):1230-1232
Wang, Y., Qian, L., Dong, Y., Jiang, Q., Gui, Y., Zhong, T.P., and Song, H. (2006) Myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2A is essential for zebrafish posterior somite development. Mechanisms of Development. 123(10):783-791
Wang, Y.X., Qian, L.X., Yu, Z., Jiang, Q., Dong, Y.X., Liu, X.F., Xin-Ying, Y., Zhong, T.P., and Song, H.Y. (2005) Requirements of myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2A in zebrafish cardiac contractility. FEBS letters. 579(21):4843-4850
Woods, I.G., Wilson, C., Friedlander, B., Chang, P., Reyes, D.K., Nix, R., Kelly, P.D., Chu, F., Postlethwait, J.H., and Talbot, W.S. (2005) The zebrafish gene map defines ancestral vertebrate chromosomes. Genome research. 15(9):1307-1314
Strausberg,R.L., Feingold,E.A., Grouse,L.H., Derge,J.G., Klausner,R.D., Collins,F.S., Wagner,L., Shenmen,C.M., Schuler,G.D., Altschul,S.F., Zeeberg,B., Buetow,K.H., Schaefer,C.F., Bhat,N.K., Hopkins,R.F., Jordan,H., Moore,T., Max,S.I., Wang,J., Hsieh,F., Diatchenko,L., Marusina,K., Farmer,A.A., Rubin,G.M., Hong,L., Stapleton,M., Soares,M.B., Bonaldo,M.F., Casavant,T.L., Scheetz,T.E., Brownstein,M.J., Usdin,T.B., Toshiyuki,S., Carninci,P., Prange,C., Raha,S.S., Loquellano,N.A., Peters,G.J., Abramson,R.D., Mullahy,S.J., Bosak,S.A., McEwan,P.J., McKernan,K.J., Malek,J.A., Gunaratne,P.H., Richards,S., Worley,K.C., Hale,S., Garcia,A.M., Gay,L.J., Hulyk,S.W., Villalon,D.K., Muzny,D.M., Sodergren,E.J., Lu,X., Gibbs,R.A., Fahey,J., Helton,E., Ketteman,M., Madan,A., Rodrigues,S., Sanchez,A., Whiting,M., Madan,A., Young,A.C., Shevchenko,Y., Bouffard,G.G., Blakesley,R.W., Touchman,J.W., Green,E.D., Dickson,M.C., Rodriguez,A.C., Grimwood,J., Schmutz,J., Myers,R.M., Butterfield,Y.S., Krzywinski,M.I., Skalska,U., Smailus,D.E., Schnerch,A., Schein,J.E., Jones,S.J., and Marra,M.A. (2002) Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99(26):16899-903
Blake, T., Adya, N., Kim, C.H., Oates, A.C., Zon, L., Chitnis, A., Weinstein, B.M., and Liu, P.P. (2000) Zebrafish homolog of the leukemia gene CBFB: its expression during embryogenesis and its relationship to scl and gata-1 in hematopoiesis. Blood. 96(13):4178-4184
Ticho, B.S., Stainier, D.Y.R., Fishman, M.C., and Breitbart, R.E. (1996) Three zebrafish MEF2 genes delineate somitic and cardiac muscle development in wild-type and mutant embryos. Mechanisms of Development. 59(2):205-218
Additional Citations (28):
ZFIN Staff (2024) Association of Ensembl transcripts with ZFIN genes. Semi-automated Curation.
ZFIN Staff (2023) Automated Curation of UniProt Database Links. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2022) Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by ARBA machine learning models. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2020) Addition of links from ZFIN to Expression Atlas. Semi-automated Curation.
ZFIN Staff (2017) Curation of PANTHER Gene IDs. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2017) Curation of Alliance of Genome Resources Database Links. Automated Data Submission.
UniProt curators (2015) Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by transferring manual GO annotations between related proteins based on shared sequence features.. Automated Data Submission.
Busch-Nentwich, E., Kettleborough, R., Dooley, C. M., Scahill, C., Sealy, I., White, R., Herd, C., Mehroke, S., Wali, N., Carruthers, S., Hall, A., Collins, J., Gibbons, R., Pusztai, Z., Clark, R., and Stemple, D.L. (2013) Sanger Institute Zebrafish Mutation Project mutant data submission. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2013) Semi-automated association of ENSDARG identifiers with ZFIN genes for the ZMP project. Semi-automated Curation.
Burgess, S., and Lin, S. (2012) Viral Insertion Mutants Overwrite Data. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.
Burgess, S., and Lin, S. (2011) Viral Insertion Mutants. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.
UniProt-GOA (2011) Gene Ontology annotation based on the automatic assignment of UniProtKB Subcellular Location terms in UniProtKB/TrEMBL entries. Manually curated data.
Gaudet, P., Livstone, M., Thomas, P., The Reference Genome Project (2010) Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2008) Antibody information from supplier. Manually curated data.
GOA curators, UniProt curators (2007) Gene Ontology annotation based on Swiss-Prot Subcellular Location vocabulary mapping. Manually curated data.
ZFIN Staff (2007) Microarray Expression to Gene Association in ZFIN. Semi-automated Curation.
ZFIN Staff (2006) Curation of Ensembl Database Links. Automated Data Submission.
Thisse, B., Thisse, C. (2004) Fast Release Clones: A High Throughput Expression Analysis. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2004) ZGC Data Curation and Association in ZFIN by ZFIN Staff. Semi-automated Curation.
ZFIN Staff (2004) Temporary Manual Curation. Manually curated data.
ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of VEGA Database Links. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of FPC Database Links. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2003) Curation of orthology data. Manually curated data.
ZFIN Staff (2002) Gene Ontology Annotation Through Association of UniProt Keywords with GO Terms. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2002) Curation of NCBI Gene Data Via Shared RNA Sequence IDs. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2002) Scientific Curation. Manually curated data.
ZFIN Staff (2002) Gene Ontology Annotation Through Association of InterPro Records with GO Terms. Automated Data Submission.
ZFIN Staff (2002) Curation of EMBL records. Automated Data Submission.
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