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Development, Vol 126, Issue 23 5195-5205, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists
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AF Ramsdell and HJ Yost
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Center for Children, Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5550, USA.
The rightward looping of the primary heart tube is dependent upon upstream patterning events that establish the vertebrate left-right axis. In Xenopus, a left-sided Vg1 signaling pathway has been implicated in instructing cells to adopt a 'left-sided identity'; however, it is not known whether 'right-sided identity' is acquired by a default pathway or by antagonism of Vg1 signaling. Here, we propose that an antagonistic, BMP/ALK2/Smad-mediated signaling pathway is active on the right side of the Xenopus embryo. Truncated ALK2 receptor expression on the right side of the blastula elicits heart reversals and altered nodal expression. Consistent with these findings, constitutively active ALK2 (CA-ALK2) receptor expression on the left side of the blastula also elicits heart reversals and altered nodal expression. Coexpression of CA-ALK2 with mature Vg1 ligand results in predominantly left-sided nodal expression patterns and normal heart looping, demonstrating that the ALK2 pathway can 'rescue' left-right reversals that otherwise occur following right-sided misexpression of mature Vg1 ligand alone. Results with chimeric precursor proteins indicate that the mature domain of BMP ligands can mimic the ability of the ALK2 signaling pathway to antagonize the Vg1 pathway. Consistent with the observed antagonism between BMP and Vg1 ligands, left-sided ectopic expression of Xolloid results in heart reversals. Moreover, ectopic expression of Smad1 or Smad7 identified two downstream modulators of the BMP/ALK2 signaling pathway that also can regulate cardiac orientation. Collectively, these results define a BMP/ALK2-mediated pathway on the right side of the Xenopus embryo and, moreover, suggest that left-right patterning preceding cardiac morphogenesis involves the activation of two distinct and antagonistic, left- and right-sided TGF(beta)-related signaling pathways.
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