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Notch Activation Commits Mesoderm Cells to the Cardiac Lineage [cardiomyocytes]

ABSTRACT: During early development multiple progenitor populations contribute to the formation of the four-chambered heart and its diverse lineages. However, the underlying mechanisms that result in the specification of these progenitor populations are not yet fully understood. We have recently identified a population of cells that gives rise selectively to cardiovascular cells of the heart ventricles. Here, we have used this knowledge to isolate and profile subsets of cardiac mesoderm cells from the mouse embryo and have identified an enrichment for the Notch signaling pathway in ventricular cardiac mesoderm. Using the pluripotent stem cell differentiation system to investigate the role of Notch in a temporally controlled manner, we show that Notch induction increases cardiomyocyte differentiation efficiency. This is due to the enhanced specification of mesoderm to the cardiac lineage. Finally, our data suggests that Notch interacts with WNT signaling to enhance commitment to the cardiac lineage. Overall, our findings support the notion that key signaling events during early heart development are critical for proper lineage specification and segregation and provide additional detail into these processes in mouse and human cardiogenesis.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE143227 | GEO | 2023/01/07

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:In vertebrates, pluripotent pharyngeal mesoderm progenitors produce the cardiac precursors of the second heart field as well as the branchiomeric head muscles and associated stem cells. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the transition from multipotent progenitors to distinct heart and muscle precursors remain obscured by the complexity of vertebrate embryos. Here, using the ascidian Ciona intestinalis as a simple chordate model for cardiopharyngeal development, we show that bipotent progenitors are transcriptionally primed to activate both heart and pharyngeal muscle regulatory programs, which become restricted to the corresponding precursors following a conserved pattern of asymmetric divisions. Localized expression of COE (Collier/OLF1/EBF) then orchestrates the transition to a pharyngeal muscle fate both by promoting an MRF (Myogenic Regulatory Factor)-associated core myogenic program in myoblasts and by maintaining an undifferentiated state in their sister precursors through Notch-mediated lateral inhibition. Using single cell lineage tracing, we show that the latter are stem-like muscle precursors, which form most of the juvenile body wall muscles following proliferation, self-renewal, re-activation of MRF, and migration. We discuss the implications of our findings for the development and evolution of the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm in chordates. We combined fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and whole genome transcription profiling following perturbations of COE function to characterize the transcriptional dynamics underlying the specification of heart and ASM precursors in the ascidian cardiopharyngeal lineage. We used whole genome transcription profiling of FACS-purified cell populations isolated from 21 hpf larvae expressing FoxF>COE, FoxF>COE::WRPW or the FoxF>NLS::lacZ control. To gain insights into the transcriptional dynamics underlying fate specification in the cardiopharyngeal lineage, we also purified B7.5-lineage cells from control embryos and larvae collected every two hours from 8 to 28 hpf. This time window encompasses all developmental transitions from early TVC specification till ASM ring formation and initial differentiation.

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Notch Activation Commits Mesoderm Cells to the Cardiac Lineage [cardiomyocytes]

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