Identification of a hybrid myocardial zone in the mammalian heart after birth

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00118-1
• Publication Date: 2017-07-13T21:03:10Z
• Authors: Xueying Tian; Yan Li; Lingjuan He; Hui Zhang; Xiuzhen Huang; Qiaozhen Liu; Wenjuan Pu; Libo Zhang; Yi Li; Huan Zhao; Zhifu Wang; Jianhong Zhu; Yu Nie; Shengshou Hu; David Sedmera; Tao P. Zhong; Ying Yu; Li Zhang; Yan Yan; Zengyong Qiao; Qing-Dong Wang; Sean M. Wu; William T. Pu; Robert H. Anderson; Bin Zhou
• Keywords: Heart Defects, Congenital; 0301 basic medicine; Science; Heart Ventricles; Myocardium; Organogenesis; Q; Heart; Natriuretic Peptide, C-Type; Article; 3. Good health; Repressor Proteins; Mice; 03 medical and health sciences; Animals, Newborn; Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors; Animals; Cell Lineage; Myocytes, Cardiac; Protein Precursors; Cardiomyopathies; Atrial Natriuretic Factor

AbstractNoncompaction cardiomyopathy is characterized by the presence of extensive trabeculations, which could lead to heart failure and malignant arrhythmias. How trabeculations resolve to form compact myocardium is poorly understood. Elucidation of this process is critical to understanding the pathophysiology of noncompaction disease. Here we use genetic lineage tracing to mark the Nppa+or Hey2+cardiomyocytes as trabecular and compact components of the ventricular wall. We find that Nppa+and Hey2+cardiomyocytes, respectively, from the endocardial and epicardial zones of the ventricular wall postnatally. Interposed between these two postnatal layers is a hybrid zone, which is composed of cells derived from both the Nppa+and Hey2+populations. Inhibition of the fetal Hey2+cell contribution to the hybrid zone results in persistence of excessive trabeculations in postnatal heart. Our findings indicate that the expansion of Hey2+fetal compact component, and its contribution to the hybrid myocardial zone, are essential for normal formation of the ventricular walls.