Probing chromatin landscape reveals roles of endocardial TBX20 in septation.

ABSTRACT: Mutations in the T-box transcription factor TBX20 are associated with multiple forms of congenital heart defects, including cardiac septal abnormalities, but our understanding of the contributions of endocardial TBX20 to heart development remains incomplete. Here, we investigated how TBX20 interacts with endocardial gene networks to drive the mesenchymal and myocardial movements that are essential for outflow tract and atrioventricular septation. Selective ablation of Tbx20 in murine endocardial lineages reduced the expression of extracellular matrix and cell migration genes that are critical for septation. Using the assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq), we identified accessible chromatin within endocardial lineages and intersected these dat

SUBMITTER: Boogerd CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4966318 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature