PUBLICATION

Reptin and pontin antagonistically regulate heart growth in zebrafish embryos

Authors
Rottbauer, W., Saurin, A.J., Lickert, H., Shen, X., Burns, C.G., Wo, Z.G., Kemler, R., Kingston, R., Wu, C., and Fishman, M.
ID
ZDB-PUB-021204-1
Date
2002
Source
Cell   111(5): 661-672 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Fishman, Mark C., Rottbauer, Wolfgang
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Heat-Shock Proteins/physiology
  • Base Sequence
  • Zebrafish
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Trans-Activators/physiology
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins/physiology
  • Conserved Sequence
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
  • Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/physiology*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Myocardium/cytology
  • Myocardium/ultrastructure
  • Point Mutation
  • Heart/embryology*
  • Nuclear Proteins/genetics
  • Nuclear Proteins/physiology*
  • Cardiomegaly/embryology
  • Cardiomegaly/etiology
  • Cardiomegaly/genetics
  • Cell Division
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases/chemistry
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases/physiology
  • Serine Endopeptidases/physiology
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • beta Catenin
  • Carrier Proteins
  • ATP-Dependent Proteases
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian
  • Animals
  • Molecular Sequence Data
PubMed
12464178 Full text @ Cell
Abstract
Organ size is precisely regulated during development, but the control mechanisms remain obscure. We have isolated a mutation in zebrafish, liebeskummer (lik), which causes development of hyperplastic embryonic hearts. lik encodes Reptin, a component of a DNA-stimulated ATPase complex. The mutation activates ATPase activity of Reptin complexes and causes a cell-autonomous proliferation of cardiomyocytes to begin well after progenitors have fashioned the primitive heart tube. With regard to heart growth, beta-catenin and Pontin, a DNA-stimulated ATPase that is often part of complexes with Reptin, are in the same genetic pathways. Pontin reduction phenocopies the cardiac hyperplasia of the lik mutation. Thus, the Reptin/Pontin ratio serves to regulate heart growth during development, at least in part via the beta-catenin pathway.
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