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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-2
pubmed:abstractText
The cardiac conduction system is an anatomically discrete segment of specialized myocardium that initiates and propagates electrical impulses to coordinate myocardial contraction. To define the molecular composition of the mouse ventricular conduction system we used microdissection and transcriptional profiling by serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE). Conduction-system-specific expression for Id2, a member of the Id gene family of transcriptional repressors, was identified. Analyses of Id2-deficient mice demonstrated structural and functional conduction system abnormalities, including left bundle branch block. A 1.2 kb fragment of the Id2 promoter proved sufficient for cooperative regulation by Nkx2-5 and Tbx5 in vitro and for conduction-system-specific gene expression in vivo. Furthermore, compound haploinsufficiency of Tbx5 and Nkx2-5 or Tbx5 and Id2 prevented embryonic specification of the ventricular conduction system. We conclude that a molecular pathway including Tbx5, Nkx2-5, and Id2 coordinates specification of ventricular myocytes into the ventricular conduction system lineage.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0092-8674
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
129
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1365-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Heart Conduction System, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Heart Defects, Congenital, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Heart Ventricles, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Homeodomain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Inhibitor of Differentiation Protein 2, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-T-Box Domain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17604724-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
A molecular pathway including Id2, Tbx5, and Nkx2-5 required for cardiac conduction system development.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural