Zebrafish miR-462-731 regulates hematopoietic specification and pu.1-dependent primitive myelopoiesis
Zebrafish miR-462-731 regulates hematopoietic specification and pu.1-dependent primitive myelopoiesis
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斑马鱼 miR-462-731 调节造血规范和 pu.1 依赖性原始骨髓生成
DOI:
10.1038/s41418-018-0234-0
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发表时间:
2019-08-01
影响因子:
12.4
通讯作者:
Wang, Huan-Ling
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作者:
Huang, Chun-Xiao;Huang, Yan;Wang, Huan-Ling
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play significant roles in both embryonic hematopoiesis and hematological malignancy. Zebrafish miR-462-731 cluster is orthologous of miR-191-425 in human which regulates proliferation and tumorigenesis. In our previous work, miR-462-731 was found highly and ubiquitously expressed during early embryogenesis. In this study, by loss-of-function analysis (morpholino knockdown combined with CRISRP/Cas9 knockout) and mRNA profiling, we suggest that miR-462-731 is required for normal embryonic development by regulating cell survival. We found that loss of miR-462/miR-731 caused a remarkable decrease in the number of erythroid cells as well as an ectopic myeloid cell expansion at 48 hpf, suggesting a skewing of myeloid-erythroid lineage differentiation. Mechanistically, miR-462-731 provides an instructive input for pu./-dependent primitive myelopoiesis through regulating etsrp/scl signaling combined with a novel pu. 1/miR-462-731 feedback loop. On the other hand, morpholino (MO) knockdown of miR-462/miR-731 resulted in an expansion of posterior blood islands at 24 hpf, which is a mild ventralization phenotype resulted from elevation of BMP signaling. Rescue experiments with both BMP type I receptor inhibitor dorsomorphin and alk8 MO indicate that miR-462-731 acts upstream of alk8 within the BMP/Smad signaling pathway and functions as a novel endogenous BMP antagonist. Besides, an impairment of angiogenesis was observed in miR-462/miR-731 morphants. The specification of arteries and veins was also perturbed, as characterized by the irregular patterning of efnb2a and flt4 expression. Our study unveils a previously unrecognized role of miR-462-731 in BMP/Smad signaling mediated hematopoietic specification of mesodermal progenitors and demonstrates a miR-462-731 mediated regulatory mechanism driving primitive myelopoiesis in the ALPM. We also show a requirement for miR-462-731 in regulating arterial-venous specification and definitive hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) production. The current findings might provide further insights into the molecular mechanistic basis of miRNA regulation of embryonic hematopoiesis and hematological malignancy.