Journal
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 130, Issue 7, Pages 1321-1332Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.196618
Keywords
ErbB; HB-EGF; Mouse; Valvulogenesis
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [JP20570183, JP24570212, JP15K07046, JP26250033]
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Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) plays an indispensable role in suppression of cell proliferation during mouse valvulogenesis. However, ligands of the EGF receptor (EGFR/ErbB1), including HB-EGF, are generally considered as growth-promoting factors, as shown in cancers. HB-EGF binds to and activates ErbB1 and ErbB4. We investigated the role of ErbB receptors in valvulogenesis in vivo using ErbB1-and ErbB4-deficient mice, and an ex vivo model of endocardial cushion explants. We show that HB-EGF suppresses valve mesenchymal cell proliferation through a heterodimer of ErbB1 and ErbB4, and an ErbB1 ligand (or ligands) promotes cell proliferation through a homodimer of ErbB1. Moreover, a rescue experiment with cleavable or uncleavable isoforms of ErbB4 in ERBB4-null cells indicates that the cleavable JM-A, but not the uncleavable JM-B, splice variant ofErbB4 rescues the defect of the null cells. These data suggest that the cytoplasmic intracellular domain of ErbB4, rather than the membrane-anchored tyrosine kinase, achieves this suppression. Our study demonstrates that opposing signals generated by different ErbB dimer combinations function in the same cardiac cushion mesenchymal cells for proper cardiac valve formation.
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