PUBLICATION
Nodal signaling promotes the speed and directional movement of cardiomyocytes in zebrafish
- Authors
- de Campos-Baptista, M.I., Holtzman, N.G., Yelon, D., and Schier, A.F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-081110-4
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 237(12): 3624-3633 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Holtzman, Nathalia Glickman, Schier, Alexander, Yelon, Deborah
- Keywords
- Nodal, heart, zebrafish, morphogenesis, left-right
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Movement
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Heart/embryology*
- Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology*
- Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism*
- Nodal Protein/genetics
- Nodal Protein/metabolism*
- Signal Transduction*
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 18985714 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
de Campos-Baptista, M.I., Holtzman, N.G., Yelon, D., and Schier, A.F. (2008) Nodal signaling promotes the speed and directional movement of cardiomyocytes in zebrafish. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 237(12):3624-3633.
Abstract
Members of the Nodal family regulate left-right asymmetry during vertebrate organogenesis, but it is unclear how Nodal signaling controls asymmetric morphogenesis at the cellular level. We used high-resolution time-lapse imaging in zebrafish to compare the movements of cardiomyocytes in the presence or absence of Nodal signaling. Loss of Nodal signaling in late-zygotic mutants for the Nodal co-receptor one-eyed pinhead (LZoep) abolished the leftward movement of cardiomyocytes. Global heart rotation was blocked but cardiomyocyte neighbor relationships were maintained as in wild type. Cardiomyocytes in LZoep mutants moved more slowly and less directionally than their wild-type counterparts. The phenotypes observed in the absence of Nodal signaling strongly resemble abnormalities found in BMP signaling mutants. These results indicate that a Nodal-BMP signaling cascade drives left-right heart morphogenesis by regulating the speed and direction of cardiomyocyte movement.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping