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Wnt-11 activation of a non-canonical Wnt signalling pathway is required for cardiogenesis

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Pandur, Petra, Läsche, Matthias, Eisenberg, Leonard M., Kühl, Michael·2002·Nature

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Formation of the vertebrate heart requires a complex interplay of several temporally regulated signalling cascades. In Xenopus laevis, cardiac specification occurs during gastrulation and requires signals from the dorsal lip and underlying endoderm. Among known Xenopus Wnt genes, only Wnt-11 shows a spatiotemporal pattern of expression that correlates with cardiac specification, which indicates that Wnt-11 may be involved in heart development. Here we show, through loss- and gain-of-function experiments, that XWnt-11 is required for heart formation in Xenopus embryos and is sufficient to induce a contractile phenotype in embryonic explants. Treating the mouse embryonic carcinoma stem cell line P19 with murine Wnt-11 conditioned medium triggers cardiogenesis, which indicates that the function of Wnt-11 in heart development has been conserved in higher vertebrates. XWnt-11 mediates this effect by non-canonical Wnt signalling, which is independent of β-catenin and involves protein kinase C and Jun amino-terminal kinase. Our results indicate that the cardiac developmental program requires non-canonical Wnt signal transduction.

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Authors
Pandur, P., Läsche, M., Eisenberg, L. M., & Kühl, M.
Venue
Nature
Published
2002-08
Volume
418
Issue
6898
Pages
636-641
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
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W2092664596
Cited by
539
References
4
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12.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
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