Notch signaling respecifies the hemangioblast to a cardiac fate.
Chen VC, Stull R, Joo D, Cheng X, Keller G.
Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Sep 28.
Toujours intéressant de voir comment le physical phenotype [par Stuart Newman] est affecté par l’expression différentielle du génome.
extrait de la figure 4 du papier.
To efficiently generate cardiomyocytes from embryonic stem (ES) cells in culture it is essential to identify key regulators of the cardiac lineage and to develop methods to control them. Using a tet-inducible mouse ES cell line to enforce expression of a constitutively activated form of the Notch 4 receptor, we show that signaling through the Notch pathway can efficiently respecify hemangioblasts to a cardiac fate, resulting in the generation of populations consisting of >60% cardiomyocytes. Microarray analyses reveal that this respecification is mediated in part through the coordinated regulation of the BMP and Wnt pathways by Notch signaling. Together, these findings have uncovered a potential role for the Notch pathway in cardiac development and provide an approach for generating large numbers of cardiac progenitors from ES cells.
