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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-5-29
pubmed:abstractText
The zinc finger transcription factor GATA4 has been implicated in heart development based on its early expression in precardiogenic splanchnic mesoderm and its ability to activate the expression of a number of cardiac-specific genes. To determine the role of GATA4 in embryogenesis, we generated mice homozygous for a GATA4 null allele. Homozygous GATA4 null mice arrested in development between E7.0 and E9.5 because of severe developmental abnormalities. Mutant embryos most notably lacked a primitive heart tube and foregut and developed partially outside the yolk sac. In the mutants, the two bilaterally symmetric promyocardial primordia failed to migrate ventrally but instead remained lateral and generated two independent heart tubes that contained differentiated cardiomyocytes. We show that these deformities resulted from a general loss in lateral to ventral folding throughout the embryo. GATA4 is most highly expressed within the precardiogenic splanchnic mesoderm at the posterior lip of the anterior intestinal portal, corresponding to the region of the embryo that undergoes ventral fusion. We propose that GATA4 is required for the migration or folding morphogenesis of the precardiogenic splanchnic mesodermal cells at the level of the AIP.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0890-9369
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1061-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Body Patterning, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Digestive System, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Embryonic and Fetal Development, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-GATA4 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-GATA5 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-GATA6 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Gastrula, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Heart, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Mice, Mutant Strains, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Morphogenesis, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:9136933-Yolk Sac
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Requirement of the transcription factor GATA4 for heart tube formation and ventral morphogenesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75235-9148, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't