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Cardiac mesoderm induction by Tbx6 without exogenous factors

ABSTRACT: Cardiac mesoderm, a precursor for all cardiovascular lineages, is a promising cell source for basic research and clinical applications. BMP/Nodal/Wnt signaling induces cardiac mesoderm in embryonic stem cells (ESCs); however the molecular mechanism is unclear and the differentiation protocols are labor-intensive. Identification of a master regulator that induces cardiac mesoderm is needed. Here we found that Tbx6 directly reprogrammed mouse fibroblasts into cardiac mesoderm-like cells, which differentiated into cardiomyocytes and smooth muscle cells with addition of lineage-specific transcription factors. In mouse ESCs, BMP/Activin (Nodal) induced Tbx6 in cardiac mesoderm, while inhibition of Tbx6 blocked differentiation into cardiac mesoderm and cardiomyocytes. Conversely, transient expression of Tbx6 induced cardiac mesoderm in ESCs without exogenous factors, and generated all cardiovascular lineages. Mechanistically, Tbx6 directly upregulated Mesp1, inhibited Sox2, and activated BMP/Nodal/Wnt signaling to induce cardiac mesoderm. Thus, Tbx6 acts as a key regulator for cardiac mesoderm induction, and our findings provide new insights into the mechanism of cardiovascular differentiation.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE89820 | GEO | 2018/10/19

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of life-threatening burden around the world. The heart has a very low regeneration capacity and donor organs for transplantation are scarce. Therefore regeneration of lost myocardium with stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) provides an attractive strategy for heart repair. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can be efficiently differentiated in vitro into CMs but the molecular mechanisms behind this process are still not fully understood. In particular identification of secreted autocrine and/or paracrine factors that function as important extrinsic signals remained elusive because the mass spectrometry (MS)-based identification of secreted proteins from cell culture supernatants is impeded by high levels of albumin present in common differentiation media. Thus we established an albumin-free cardiomyogenic differentiation medium and performed secretomics at seven different time points during in vitro differentiation. This analysis led to the identification of 4832 proteins with 1802 being significantly altered during differentiation and 431 of these were annotated as secreted according to gene ontology. Bioinformatics revealed enrichment of extrinsic Wnt pathway-related proteins 3 days upon induction of differentiation and of extracellular matrix proteins in the resulting CMs. Numerous extrinsic components of Wnt, Activin A, Nodal, TGFβ, BMP or FGF signaling pathways were quantitatively assessed during differentiation. Notably, the abundance of pathway agonists was generally lower compared to the respective antagonists but their curves of progression over timer were rather similar. We hypothesize that Activin A, Nodal and TGFβ signaling are turned down shortly upon initiation of cardiac differentiation whereas BMP signaling is switched on. Wnt and FGF signaling peaks between d0 and d3 of differentiation and interestingly, Activin A and TGFβ signaling seem to be reactivated at the cardiac progenitor stages and/or in early CMs.

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Cardiac mesoderm induction by Tbx6 without exogenous factors

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