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ArticleDevelopmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists2012

Transactivation in Drosophila of human enhancers by human transcription factors involved in congenital heart diseases.

Vincenzo Amodio, Maria Florencia Tevy, Concetta Traina, Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Maria Capovilla

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Article in Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Vincenzo AmodioDulbecco Telethon Institute, Department of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Maria Florencia Tevy
Concetta Traina
Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Maria Capovilla
University of Ferrara · ITQueen's Medical Centre · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/07/010/23676Telethon TCR08001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe human transcription factors (TFs) GATA4, NKX2.5 and TBX5 form part of the core network necessary to build a human heart and are involved in Congenital Heart Diseases (CHDs). The human natriuretic peptide precursor A (NPPA) and α-myosin heavy chain 6 (MYH6) genes are downstream effectors involved in cardiogenesis that have been demonstrated to be in vitro targets of such TFs.

resultsTo study the interactions between these human TFs and their target enhancers in vivo, we overexpressed them in the whole Drosophila cardiac tube using the UAS/GAL4 system. We observed that all three TFs up-regulate their natural target enhancers in Drosophila and cause developmental defects when overexpressed in eyes and wings.

conclusionsA strong potential of the present model might be the development of combinatorial and mutational assays to study the interactions between human TFs and their natural target promoters, which are not easily undertaken in tissue culture cells because of the variability in transfection efficiency, especially when multiple constructs are used. Thus, this novel system could be used to determine in vivo the genetic nature of the human mutant forms of these TFs, setting up a powerful tool to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that lead to CHDs.

Indexed as

Transcriptional ActivationAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedDrosophila melanogasterEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHeartHeart Defects, CongenitalHumansOrganogenesisRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTranscription FactorsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMID21990232
PMCPMC3326377
OpenAlexW1879716221

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