Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Dev Cell. 2021 Feb 8;56(3):292-309.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.11.020. Epub 2020 Dec 14.
Haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators causes human congenital heart disease (CHD); however, the underlying CHD gene regulatory network (GRN) imbalances are unknown. Here, we define transcriptional consequences of reduced dosage of the CHD transcription factor, TBX5, in individual cells during cardiomyocyte differentiation from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). We discovered highly sensitive dysregulation of TBX5-dependent pathways-including lineage decisions and genes associated with heart development, cardiomyocyte function, and CHD genetics-in discrete subpopulations of cardiomyocytes. Spatial transcriptomic mapping revealed chamber-restricted expression for many TBX5-sensitive transcripts. GRN analysis indicated that cardiac network stability, including vulnerable CHD-linked nodes, is sensitive to TBX5 dosage. A GRN-predicted genetic interaction between Tbx5 and Mef2c, manifesting as ventricular septation defects, was validated in mice. These results demonstrate exquisite and diverse sensitivity to TBX5 dosage in heterogeneous subsets of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and predicts candidate GRNs for human CHDs, with implications for quantitative transcriptional regulation in disease.
转录调控因子的单倍不足会导致人类先天性心脏病(CHD);然而,潜在的 CHD 基因调控网络(GRN)失衡尚不清楚。在这里,我们定义了在人诱导多能干细胞(iPSC)向心肌细胞分化过程中,单个细胞中 CHD 转录因子 TBX5 剂量减少的转录后果。我们发现,TBX5 依赖性途径的高度敏感失调——包括谱系决定和与心脏发育、心肌细胞功能和 CHD 遗传学相关的基因——在心肌细胞的离散亚群中发生。空间转录组图谱揭示了许多 TBX5 敏感转录物的室限制表达。GRN 分析表明,包括易发生 CHD 相关节点在内的心脏网络稳定性对 TBX5 剂量敏感。在小鼠中验证了 Tbx5 和 Mef2c 之间 GRN 预测的遗传相互作用,表现为室间隔缺损。这些结果表明,在源自 iPSC 的心肌细胞的异质亚群中对 TBX5 剂量具有高度敏感和多样化的敏感性,并预测了人类 CHD 的候选 GRN,这对疾病中的定量转录调控具有重要意义。
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