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ArticlePloS one2011

Synergistic activation of cardiac genes by myocardin and Tbx5.

Chunbo Wang, Dongsun Cao, Qing Wang, Da-Zhi Wang

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Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Induction of human cardiomyocyte-like cells from fibroblasts by defined factors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  10. TBX5: A Key Regulator of Heart Development.Current topics in developmental biology · 2017
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  15. Myocardin in biology and disease.Journal of biomedical research · 2015
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  17. Reprogramming of human fibroblasts toward a cardiac fate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  18. Heavy and light roles: myosin in the morphogenesis of the heart.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chunbo WangUNC McAllister Heart Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
Dongsun Cao
Qing Wang
Da-Zhi Wang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USCleveland Clinic · US

Funding

MicroRNAs, cardiac development and functionR01HL085635 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WANG, DA-ZHI · 2007 to 2015
$3.2M
Transcriptional control of cardiac developmentR01HL075251 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WANG, DA-ZHI · 2004 to 2007
$1.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL075251NHLBI NIH HHS HL085635NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL075251NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL085635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myocardial differentiation is associated with the activation and expression of an array of cardiac specific genes. However, the transcriptional networks that control cardiac gene expression are not completely understood. Myocardin is a cardiac and smooth muscle-specific expressed transcriptional coactivator of Serum Response Factor (SRF) and is able to potently activate cardiac and smooth muscle gene expression during development. We hypothesize that myocardin discriminates between cardiac and smooth muscle specific genes by associating with distinct co-factors. Here, we show that myocardin directly interacts with Tbx5, a member of the T-box family of transcription factors involved in the Holt-Oram syndrome. Tbx5 synergizes with myocardin to activate expression of the cardiac specific genes atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and alpha myosin heavy chain (α-MHC), but not that of smooth muscle specific genes SM22 or smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC). We found that this synergistic activation of shared target genes is dependent on the binding sites for Tbx5, T-box factor-Binding Elements (TBEs). Myocardin and Tbx5 physically interact and their interaction domains were mapped to the basic domain and the coil domain of myocardin and Tbx5, respectively. Our analysis demonstrates that the Tbx5G80R mutation, which leads to the Holt-Oram syndrome in humans, failed to synergize with myocardin to activate cardiac gene expression. These data uncover a key role for Tbx5 and myocardin in establishing the transcriptional foundation for cardiac gene activation and suggest that the interaction of myocardin and Tbx5 maybe involved in cardiac development and diseases.

Indexed as

Transcriptional ActivationAnimalsAtrial Natriuretic FactorChlorocebus aethiopsCOS CellsGenes, ReporterHumansMiceMutationMyocardinMyocardiumNuclear ProteinsPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiaryT-Box Domain ProteinsAtrial Natriuretic FactorMyocardinNuclear ProteinsT-Box Domain ProteinsT-box transcription factor 5Trans-Activators

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PMID21897873
PMCPMC3163680
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