Cyp26 Enzymes Facilitate Second Heart Field Progenitor Addition and Maintenance of Ventricular Integrity.
Cyp26 Enzymes Facilitate Second Heart Field Progenitor Addition and Maintenance of Ventricular Integrity.
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.2000504
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发表时间:
2016-11
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影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Waxman JS
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作者:
Rydeen AB;Waxman JS
Although retinoic acid (RA) teratogenicity has been investigated for decades, the mechanisms underlying RA-induced outflow tract (OFT) malformations are not understood. Here, we show zebrafish embryos deficient for Cyp26a1 and Cyp26c1 enzymes, which promote RA degradation, have OFT defects resulting from two mechanisms: first, a failure of second heart field (SHF) progenitors to join the OFT, instead contributing to the pharyngeal arch arteries (PAAs), and second, a loss of first heart field (FHF) ventricular cardiomyocytes due to disrupted cell polarity and extrusion from the heart tube. Molecularly, excess RA signaling negatively regulates fibroblast growth factor 8a (fgf8a) expression and positively regulates matrix metalloproteinase 9 (mmp9) expression. Although restoring Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling can partially rescue SHF addition in Cyp26 deficient embryos, attenuating matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) function can rescue both ventricular SHF addition and FHF integrity. These novel findings indicate a primary effect of RA-induced OFT defects is disruption of the extracellular environment, which compromises both SHF recruitment and FHF ventricular integrity. Retinoic acid (RA) is the most active metabolic product of vitamin A. The embryonic heart is particularly sensitive to inappropriate RA levels, with cardiac outflow tract (OFT) defects among the most common RA-induced malformations. However, the mechanisms underlying these RA-induced defects are not understood. Cyp26 enzymes facilitate degradation of RA and thus are required to limit RA levels in early development. Here, we present evidence that loss of Cyp26 enzymes induces cardiac OFT defects through two mechanisms. First, we find that Cyp26-deficient zebrafish embryos fail to add later-differentiating ventricular cardiac progenitors to the OFT, with some of these progenitors instead contributing to the nearby arch arteries. Second, Cyp26-deficient embryos cannot maintain the integrity of the nascent heart tube, with ventricular cells within the heart tube losing their polarity and being extruded. Our data indicate that excess expression of matrix metalloproteinase 9, an enzyme that degrades the extracellular matrix, underlies both the cardiac progenitor addition and heart tube integrity defects seen in Cyp26-deficient embryos. Our findings highlight perturbation of the extracellular matrix as a major cause of RA-induced cardiac OFT defects that specifically disrupt ventricular development at later stages than previously appreciated.
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