Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 317, Issue 2, Pages 686-694Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.02.016
Keywords
Msx1 gene; comparative genomics; Transfac; enhancer element; transgenic mouse; embryo; cardiac neural crest; outflow tract; transcription; PKA
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- MRC [G0701003] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0701003] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0701003] Funding Source: Medline
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Double knockouts of the Msx1 and Msx2 genes in the mouse result in severe cardiac outflow tract malformations similar to those frequently found in newborn infants. Despite the known role of the Msx genes in cardiac formation little is known of the regulatory systems (ligand receptor, signal transduction and protein-DNA interactions) that regulate the tissue-specific expression of the Msx genes in mammals during the formation of the outflow tract. In the present study we have used a combination of multi-species comparative genomics, mouse transgenic analysis and in-situ hybridisation to predict and validate the existence of a remote ultra-conserved enhancer that supports the expression of the Msx1 gene in migrating mouse cardiac neural crest and the outflow tract primordia. Furthermore, culturing of embryonic explants derived from transgenic lines with agonists of the PKC and PKA signal transduction systems demonstrates that this remote enhancer is influenced by PKA but not PKC dependent gene regulatory systems. These studies demonstrate the efficacy of combining comparative genomics and transgenic analyses and provide a platform for the study of the possible roles of Msx gene mis-regulation in the aetiology of congenital heart malformation. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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