Journal article
Meis1 regulates postnatal cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest
AI Mahmoud, F Kocabas, SA Muralidhar, W Kimura, AS Koura, S Thet, ER Porrello, HA Sadek
Nature | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1038/nature12054
Abstract
The neonatal mammalian heart is capable of substantial regeneration following injury through cardiomyocyte proliferation. However, this regenerative capacity is lost by postnatal day 7 and the mechanisms of cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest remain unclear. The homeodomain transcription factor Meis1 is required for normal cardiac development but its role in cardiomyocytes is unknown. Here we identify Meis1 as a critical regulator of the cardiomyocyte cell cycle. Meis1 deletion in mouse cardiomyocytes was sufficient for extension of the postnatal proliferative window of cardiomyocytes, and for re-activation of cardiomyocyte mitosis in the adult heart with no deleterious effect on cardiac functio..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank J. Shelton for help with histology, J. Cabrera for help with figures, N. Copeland and N. Jenkins for providing the Meis1 KO mice, S. Das for statistics consultation, K. Luby-Phelps for help with microscopy, A. Bugde for confocal assistance, D. Farrar for discussions, H. Nguyen for help with echocardiography, as well as K. Sheth, A. Mercadel and Z. Sadek for technical assistance. This work is supported by grants from the American Heart Association (Grant in Aid) (H. A. S.), the Gilead Research Scholars Program in Cardiovascular Disease (H. A. S.), the Foundation for Heart Failure Research, NY, and the National Institutes of Health (1R01HL115275-01) (H.A.S.).