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Interplay of cell-cell contacts and RhoA/MRTF-A signaling regulates cardiomyocyte identity.

ABSTRACT: Cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions guide organ development and homeostasis by controlling lineage specification and maintenance, but the underlying molecular principles are largely unknown. Here, we show that in human developing cardiomyocytes cell-cell contacts at the intercalated disk connect to remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton by regulating the RhoA-ROCK signaling to maintain an active MRTF/SRF transcriptional program essential for cardiomyocyte identity. Genetic perturbation of this mechanosensory pathway activates an ectopic fat gene program during cardiomyocyte differentiation, which ultimately primes the cells to switch to the brown/beige adipocyte lineage in response to adipogenesis-inducing signals. We also demonstrate by in vivo fate mapping and clonal analysis of cardiac progenitors that cardiac fat and a subset of cardiac muscle arise from a common precursor expressing Isl1 and Wt1 during heart development, suggesting related mechanisms of determination between the two lineages.

SUBMITTER: Dorn T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6003642 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interplay of cell-cell contacts and RhoA/MRTF-A signaling regulates cardiomyocyte identity.

Dorn Tatjana T Kornherr Jessica J Parrotta Elvira I EI Zawada Dorota D Ayetey Harold H Santamaria Gianluca G Iop Laura L Mastantuono Elisa E Sinnecker Daniel D Goedel Alexander A Dirschinger Ralf J RJ My Ilaria I Laue Svenja S Bozoglu Tarik T Baarlink Christian C Ziegler Tilman T Graf Elisabeth E Hinkel Rabea R Cuda Giovanni G Kääb Stefan S Grace Andrew A AA Grosse Robert R Kupatt Christian C Kupatt Christian C Meitinger Thomas T Smith Austin G AG Laugwitz Karl-Ludwig KL Moretti Alessandra A

The EMBO journal 20180515 12

Cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions guide organ development and homeostasis by controlling lineage specification and maintenance, but the underlying molecular principles are largely unknown. Here, we show that in human developing cardiomyocytes cell-cell contacts at the intercalated disk connect to remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton by regulating the RhoA-ROCK signaling to maintain an active MRTF/SRF transcriptional program essential for cardiomyocyte identity. Genetic perturbation of this ...[more]

PMID: 29764980

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Interplay of cell-cell contacts and RhoA/MRTF-A signaling regulates cardiomyocyte identity.

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Interplay of cell-cell contacts and RhoA/MRTF-A signaling regulates cardiomyocyte identity.

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