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Blood flow plays crucial roles in vascular development, remodeling and homeostasis, but the molecular pathways required for transducing flow signals are not well understood. In zebrafish embryos, arterial expression of activin receptor-like kinase 1 (alk1), which encodes a TGFß family type I receptor, is dependent on blood flow, and loss of alk1 mimics lack of blood flow in terms of dysregulation of a subset of flow-responsive arterial genes and increased arterial endothelial cell number. These data suggest that blood flow activates Alk1 signaling to promote a flow-responsive gene expression program that limits nascent arterial caliber. Here, we demonstrate that restoration of endothelial alk1 expression to flow-deprived arteries fails to rescue Alk1 activity or normalize arterial endothelial cell gene expression or number, implying that blood flow may play an additional role in Alk1 signaling independent of alk1 induction. To this end, we define cardiac-derived Bmp10 as the crucial ligand for endothelial Alk1 in embryonic vascular development, and provide evidence that circulating Bmp10 acts through endothelial Alk1 to limit endothelial cell number in and thereby stabilize the caliber of nascent arteries. Thus, blood flow promotes Alk1 activity by concomitantly inducing alk1 expression and distributing Bmp10, thereby reinforcing this signaling pathway, which functions to limit arterial caliber at the onset of flow. Because mutations in ALK1 cause arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), our findings suggest that an impaired flow response initiates AVM development.
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Receptores de Activinas/metabolismo , Proteínas Morfogenéticas Óseas/metabolismo , Arterias Carótidas/enzimología , Embrión no Mamífero/irrigación sanguínea , Endotelio Vascular/enzimología , Receptores de Activinas/genética , Animales , Malformaciones Arteriovenosas/enzimología , Malformaciones Arteriovenosas/patología , Proteínas Morfogenéticas Óseas/genética , Recuento de Células , Embrión no Mamífero/metabolismo , Endotelina-1/genética , Endotelina-1/metabolismo , Activación Enzimática , Regulación del Desarrollo de la Expresión Génica , Regulación Enzimológica de la Expresión Génica , Técnicas de Silenciamiento del Gen , Miocardio/enzimología , Miocardio/patología , Fosforilación , Transporte de Proteínas , Receptores CXCR4/genética , Receptores CXCR4/metabolismo , Transducción de Señal , Pez Cebra/metabolismo , Proteínas de Pez Cebra/genética , Proteínas de Pez Cebra/metabolismoRESUMEN
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are critical players in development and disease, regulating such diverse processes as dorsoventral patterning, palate formation, and ossification. These ligands are classically considered to signal via BMP receptor-specific Smad proteins 1, 5, and 8. To determine the spatiotemporal pattern of Smad1/5/8 activity and thus canonical BMP signaling in the developing zebrafish embryo, we generated a transgenic line expressing EGFP under the control of a BMP-responsive element. EGFP is expressed in many established BMP signaling domains and is responsive to alterations in BMP type I receptor activity and smad1 and smad5 expression. This transgenic Smad1/5/8 reporter line will be useful for determining ligand and receptor requirements for specific domains of BMP activity, as well as for genetic and pharmacological screens aimed at identifying enhancers or suppressors of canonical BMP signaling.
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Proteínas Morfogenéticas Óseas/metabolismo , Embrión no Mamífero/metabolismo , Proteínas Smad/metabolismo , Proteínas de Pez Cebra/metabolismo , Pez Cebra/metabolismo , Animales , Receptores de Proteínas Morfogenéticas Óseas de Tipo 1/genética , Receptores de Proteínas Morfogenéticas Óseas de Tipo 1/metabolismo , Proteínas Morfogenéticas Óseas/genética , Embrión no Mamífero/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes/genética , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes/metabolismo , Inmunohistoquímica , Hibridación in Situ , Proteínas Smad/genética , Proteína Smad1/genética , Proteína Smad1/metabolismo , Proteína Smad5/genética , Proteína Smad5/metabolismo , Proteína Smad8/genética , Proteína Smad8/metabolismo , Pez Cebra/embriología , Pez Cebra/genética , Proteínas de Pez Cebra/genéticaRESUMEN
Here we describe a method to conditionally induce epithelial cell transformation by the use of the 4-Hydroxytamoxifen (4-OHT) inducible KalTA4-ERT2/UAS expression system(1) in zebrafish larvae, and the subsequent live imaging of innate immune cell interaction with HRASG12V expressing skin cells. The KalTA4-ERT2/UAS system is both inducible and reversible which allows us to induce cell transformation with precise temporal/spatial resolution in vivo. This provides us with a unique opportunity to live image how individual preneoplastic cells interact with host tissues as soon as they emerge, then follow their progression as well as regression. Recent studies in zebrafish larvae have shown a trophic function of innate immunity in the earliest stages of tumorigenesis(2,3). Our inducible system would allow us to live image the onset of cellular transformation and the subsequent host response, which may lead to important insights on the underlying mechanisms for the regulation of oncogenic trophic inflammatory responses. We also discuss how one might adapt our protocol to achieve temporal and spatial control of ectopic gene expression in any tissue of interest.