GATA transcription factors integrate Wnt signalling during heart development

Author:

Afouda Boni A.1,Martin Jennifer1,Liu Fei1,Ciau-Uitz Aldo2,Patient Roger2,Hoppler Stefan1

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Medical Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Research Programme, School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK.

2. MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS,UK.

Abstract

Cardiogenesis is inhibited by canonical Wnt/β-catenin signalling and stimulated by non-canonical Wnt11/JNK signalling, but how these two signalling pathways crosstalk is currently unknown. Here, we show that Wnt/β-catenin signalling restricts cardiogenesis via inhibition of GATA gene expression, as experimentally reinstating GATA function overrides β-catenin-mediated inhibition and restores cardiogenesis. Furthermore, we show that GATA transcription factors in turn directly regulate Wnt11 gene expression, and that Wnt11 is required to a significant degree for mediating the cardiogenesis-promoting function of GATA transcription factors. These results demonstrate that GATA factors occupy a central position between canonical and non-canonical Wnt signalling in regulating heart muscle formation.

Publisher

The Company of Biologists

Subject

Developmental Biology,Molecular Biology

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