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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-9-17
pubmed:abstractText
Forward genetic screens in zebrafish have been used to identify mutations in genes with important roles in organogenesis. One of these mutants, small heart, develops a diminutive and severely malformed heart and multiple developmental defects of the brain, ears, eyes, and kidneys. Using a positional cloning approach, we identify that the mutant gene encodes the zebrafish Na+/K+-ATPase alpha1B1 protein. Disruption of Na+/K+-ATPase alpha1B1 function via morpholino "knockdown" or pharmacological inhibition with ouabain phenocopies the mutant phenotype, in a dose-dependent manner. Heterozygosity for the mutation sensitizes embryos to ouabain treatment. Our findings present novel genetic and morphological details on the function of the Na+/K+-ATPase alpha1B1 in early cardiac morphogenesis and the pathogenesis of the small heart malformation. We demonstrate that the reduced size of the mutant heart is caused by dysmorphic ventricular cardiomyocytes and an increase in ventricular cardiomyocyte apoptosis. This study provides a new insight that Na+/K+-ATPase alpha1B1 is required for maintaining ventricular cardiomyocyte morphology and viability.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1524-4571
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
595-603
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Abnormalities, Drug-Induced, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Abnormalities, Multiple, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Crosses, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Eye Abnormalities, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Genes, Lethal, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Heart, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Heart Defects, Congenital, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Morphogenesis, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Morpholines, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Antisense, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Otolithic Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Ouabain, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Tail, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Zebrafish, pubmed-meshheading:15297381-Zebrafish Proteins
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
The small heart mutation reveals novel roles of Na+/K+-ATPase in maintaining ventricular cardiomyocyte morphology and viability in zebrafish.
pubmed:affiliation
Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St, Charlestown, Mass 02129, USA. yuan@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't