Project description:Growth and expansion of ventricular chambers is essential during cardiogenesis and is achieved by proliferation of cardiac progenitors that are not fully differentiated. Disruption of this process can lead to prenatal lethality. In contrast, adult cardiomyocytes achieve growth through hypertrophy rather than hyperplasia. Although epicardial-derived signals may contribute to the proliferative process in myocytes, the factors and cell types responsible for development of the ventricular myocardial thickness are unclear. Moreover, the function of embryonic cardiac fibroblasts, derived from epicardium, and their secreted factors are largely unknown. Using a novel co-culture system, we found that embryonic cardiac fibroblasts induced proliferation of cardiomyocytes, in contrast to adult cardiac fibroblasts that promoted myocyte hypertrophy. We identified fibronectin, collagen and heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor as embryonic cardiac fibroblast-specific signals that collaboratively promoted cardiomyocyte proliferation in a paracrine fashion. b1 integrin was required for this proliferative response, and ventricular cardiomyocyte-specific deletion of b1 integrin in mice resulted in reduced myocardial proliferation and impaired ventricular compaction. These findings reveal a previously unrecognized paracrine function of embryonic cardiac fibroblasts in regulating cardiomyocyte proliferation. To identify candidate fibroblast-derived factors that promote myocyte proliferation, we isolated RNA from Nkx-YFP+ cardiomyocytes, embryonic cardiac fibroblasts, and adult cardiac fibroblasts and profiled mRNA expressions by microarray analyses. Arrays were performed using Affymetrix mouse Gene 1.0 ST arrays. Analysis was performed on three biological replicates of mouse embyonic cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts and adult cardiac fibroblasts.
Project description:Here, we characterize the transcriptome of the mouse embryonic stem cell line CM7-1 during differentiation into beating cardiomyocytes and compared the gene expression profiles with those from primary adult murine cardiomyocytes and left ventricular myocardium.
Project description:We addressed the question of which protein kinases are expressed in cardiomyocytes. We assessed the changes during postnatal development, comparing profiles in rat neonatal ventricular cardiomyocytes (NVMs) with adult ventricular cardiomyocytes (AVMs). Neonatal and adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes prepared according to established procedures (Marshall et al. PLoS ONE 2010 5(4):e10027; Fuller and Sugden, FEBs Lett. 1989 247:209-12; Rodrigues and Severson In Biochemical Techniques in the Heart (McNeill, J. H., Ed.) pp 101-115, CRC Press, New York.). mRNA expression profiles compared using Affymetrix rat genome 230 2.0 arrays.
Project description:Profiling global gene expression of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells, artificially derived cardiomyocytes, fetal ventricular cardiomyocytes, and adult ventricular cardiomyocytes to determine transcriptomic variation between these cell types. Total RNA extracted from 10 human samples representing four stages of cardiac development from undifferentiated stem cells to mature adult cardiac tissue.
Project description:Profiling global gene expression of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells, artificially derived cardiomyocytes, fetal ventricular cardiomyocytes, and adult ventricular cardiomyocytes to determine transcriptomic variation between these cell types.
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression analysis at different stages of cardiomyocyte differentiation (undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells, neonatal mouse cardiomyocytes and adult mouse cardiomyocytes). Results provide important information on the differential expressed genes between undifferentiated mouse embrionic stem cells (mES) and mouse cardiomyocytes (CM) and also between cardiomyocytes from neonatal (CMp) and adult stages (CMa). This dataset allowed us to compare the expression profile of mES, CMp and CMa with the epigenetic profile of histone methylation generated with ChIP-seq experiments. Total RNA was obtained from biological triplicate of undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells (mES), neonatal mouse cardiomyocytes (CMp) and adult mouse cardiomyocytes (CMa)
Project description:Central questions like cardiomyocyte subtype emergence during cardiogenesis or availability of cardiomyocyte subtypes for cell replacement therapy require selective identification and purification of atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes. However, characterization and implementation of pure cardiomyocyte subtypes is still challenging due to technical limitations. Our aim was to identify surface markers enabling the selective detection and purification of atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes from mouse hearts. In a surface marker screen we found differential expression of CD49f in atrial and ventricular embryonic cardiomyocytes (E13.5). By flow cytometry we could correlate a high CD49f expression with MLC-2a on the single cell level; a low CD49f expression corresponded to MLC-2v. Based on the persisting differential CD49f expression we developed purification protocols for cardiomyocytes subtypes from the developing mouse heart. Flow sorting of E15.5 hearts into ErbB-2+/CD49flow and ErbB-2+/CD49fhigh cells led to a selective depletion (CD49flow) or enrichment of MLC-2a+ cells (CD49fhigh). We found a corresponding CD49f-dependent distribution of MLC-2a when pre-enriched neonatal cardiomyocytes (P2) were flow-sorted into CD49flow and CD49fhigh. Atrial and ventricular identity was confirmed by expression profiling and patch clamp analysis of sorted embryonic hearts, which unequivocally demonstrated that the sorted cells were viable and functional. For the first time, we introduce a non-genetic, antibody-based approach to specifically isolate atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes from mouse hearts of various developmental stages. This newly gained capability of obtaining highly pure, viable cells will facilitate in-depths characterization of the individual cellular subsets and will aid translational research and therapeutic applications. The dataset comprises four different cardiomyocytes subtypes from the developing mouse heart. Embryonic (E15.5) hearts were dissociated and flow-sorted into ErbB-2+/CD49flow and ErbB-2+/CD49fhigh cardiomyocytes. Neonatal (P2) hearts were dissociated, contaminating non-myocytes were removed by MACS depletion, and the purified cardiomyocytes were flow-sorted into CD49flow and CD49fhigh cardiomyocytes. Four biological replicates were available for each sample groups. Microarray analysis was conducted on the Agilent Whole Mouse Genome Oligo Microarray 8x60K platform.