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ArticleDevelopmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists2024

Identification and characterization of Hand2 upstream genomic enhancers active in developing stomach and limbs.

Chloe A Ferguson, Beth A Firulli, Matteo Zoia, Marco Osterwalder, Anthony B Firulli

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Article in Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Lineage labeling with zebrafish hand2 Cre and CreERT2 recombinase CRISPR knock-ins.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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  5. Lineage labeling with zebrafishbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chloe A FergusonHerman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Beth A FirulliHerman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Matteo ZoiaDepartment for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Marco OsterwalderDepartment for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1969-2313
Anthony B FirulliHerman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6687-8949
Indiana University School of MedicineUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

Transcriptional regulation of cardiac morphogenesisP01HL134599 · NHLBI · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI Anthony B. Firulli · 2017 to 2026
$25.7M
Transcriptional regulation of cardiac conduction system morphogenesisR01HL145060 · NHLBI · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI FIRULLI, ANTHONY B., SHOU, WEINIAN · 2019 to 2022
$2.8M
Endocardial mechanisms of cardiac trabeculation and septationR01HL120920 · NHLBI · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI FIRULLI, ANTHONY B. · 2014 to 2017
$1.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL134599NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL120920NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145060NIH HHS 1R01DE02909NIH HHS 2P01HL134599NIH HHS R01HL120920NIH HHS R01HL145060Swiss National Science Foundation PCEFP3_186993
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe bHLH transcription factor HAND2 plays important roles in the development of the embryonic heart, face, limbs, and sympathetic and enteric nervous systems. To define how and when HAND2 regulates these developmental systems, requires understanding the transcriptional regulation of Hand2.

resultsRemarkably, Hand2 is flanked by an extensive upstream gene desert containing a potentially diverse enhancer landscape. Here, we screened the regulatory interval 200 kb proximal to Hand2 for putative enhancers using evolutionary conservation and histone marks in Hand2-expressing tissues. H3K27ac signatures across embryonic tissues pointed to only two putative enhancer regions showing deep sequence conservation. Assessment of the transcriptional enhancer potential of these elements using transgenic reporter lines uncovered distinct in vivo enhancer activities in embryonic stomach and limb mesenchyme, respectively. Activity of the identified stomach enhancer was restricted to the developing antrum and showed expression within the smooth muscle and enteric neurons. Surprisingly, the activity pattern of the limb enhancer did not overlap Hand2 mRNA but consistently yielded a defined subectodermal anterior expression pattern within multiple transgenic lines.

conclusionsTogether, these results start to uncover the diverse regulatory potential inherent to the Hand2 upstream regulatory interval.

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Basic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsTranscription FactorsAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression RegulationGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenomicsStomachBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsTranscription Factorsembryonic developmenthand factorstranscription

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PMID37551791
PMCPMC11365009
OpenAlexW4385659493

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