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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2010

Ets1 is required for proper migration and differentiation of the cardiac neural crest.

Zhiguang Gao, Gene H Kim, Alexander C Mackinnon, Alleda E Flagg, Brett Bassett, Judy U Earley, Eric C Svensson

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhiguang GaoDepartment of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Gene H Kim
Alexander C Mackinnon
Alleda E Flagg
Brett Bassett
Judy U Earley
Eric C Svensson
University of Chicago · US

Funding

Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac DevelopmentR01HL071063 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SVENSSON, ERIC C · 2002 to 2010
$3.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071063NHLBI NIH HHS R01-HL071063
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Defects in cardiac neural crest lead to congenital heart disease through failure of cardiac outflow tract and ventricular septation. In this report, we demonstrate a previously unappreciated role for the transcription factor Ets1 in the regulation of cardiac neural crest development. When bred onto a C57BL/6 genetic background, Ets1(-/-) mice have a nearly complete perinatal lethality. Histologic examination of Ets1(-/-) embryos revealed a membranous ventricular septal defect and an abnormal nodule of cartilage within the heart. Lineage-tracing experiments in Ets1(-/-) mice demonstrated that cells of the neural crest lineage form this cartilage nodule and do not complete their migration to the proximal aspects of the outflow tract endocardial cushions, resulting in the failure of membranous interventricular septum formation. Given previous studies demonstrating that the MEK/ERK pathway directly regulates Ets1 activity, we cultured embryonic hearts in the presence of the MEK inhibitor U0126 and found that U0126 induced intra-cardiac cartilage formation, suggesting the involvement of a MEK/ERK/Ets1 pathway in blocking chondrocyte differentiation of cardiac neural crest. Taken together, these results demonstrate that Ets1 is required to direct the proper migration and differentiation of cardiac neural crest in the formation of the interventricular septum, and therefore could play a role in the etiology of human congenital heart disease.

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AggrecansAnimalsBlotting, WesternButadienesCartilageCell DifferentiationCell MovementChondrocytesEnzyme InhibitorsFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHeartHeart Defects, CongenitalIn Situ HybridizationMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Mutant StrainsAggrecansButadienesEnzyme InhibitorsEts1 protein, mouseNitrilesProto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1SOX9 Transcription FactorSOXD Transcription FactorsU 0126

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PMID20356956
PMCPMC2853851
OpenAlexW2118606244

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