Coronary arterial development is regulated by a Dll4-Jag1-EphrinB2 signaling cascade
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Spain
Abstract
Coronaries are essential for myocardial growth and heart function. Notch is crucial for mouse embryonic angiogenesis, but its role in coronary development remains uncertain. We show Jag1, Dll4 and activated Notch1 receptor expression in sinus venosus (SV) endocardium. Endocardial Jag1 removal blocks SV capillary sprouting, while Dll4 inactivation stimulates excessive capillary growth, suggesting that ligand antagonism regulates coronary primary plexus formation. Later endothelial ligand removal, or forced expression of Dll4 or the glycosyltransferase Mfng, blocks coronary plexus remodeling, arterial differentiation, and perivascular cell maturation. Endocardial deletion of Efnb2 phenocopies the coronary arterial defects of Notch mutants. Angiogenic rescue experiments in ventricular explants, or in primary human endothelial cells, indicate that EphrinB2 is a critical effector of antagonistic Dll4 and Jag1 functions in arterial morphogenesis. Thus, coronary arterial precursors are specified in the SV prior to primary coronary plexus formation and subsequent arterial differentiation depends on a Dll4-Jag1-EphrinB2 signaling cascade.
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Sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under accession codes GSE110614
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Coronary arterial development is regulated by a Dll4-Jag1-EphrinB2 signaling cascadeNCBI Gene Expression Omnibus,GSE110614.
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Joaquim Grego-Bessa
José Luis de la Pompa
Funding
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (SAF2016-78370-R)
- José Luis de la Pompa
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (CB16/11/00399)
- José Luis de la Pompa
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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Animal experimentation: Animal studies were approved by the CNIC Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee and by the Madrid regional government (Ref. PROEX 118/15). All animal procedures conformed to EU Directive 2010/63EU and Recommendation 2007/526/EC regarding the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes, enforced in Spanish law under Real Decreto 1201/2005.
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© 2019, Travisano et al.
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Coronary arterial development is regulated by a Dll4-Jag1-EphrinB2 signaling cascade
eLife 8:e49977.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49977
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