Development. 2023 Mar 15;150(6). doi: 10.1242/dev.201740. Epub 2023 Mar 27.
Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) is a transcription factor known to be expressed in the epicardium and required for heart development, but the role of WT1 outside of the epicardium is less clear. In a new paper in Development, Marina Ramiro-Pareta and colleagues generate an inducible, tissue-specific loss-of-function mouse model to investigate the role of WT1 in coronary endothelial cells (ECs). We caught up with first author Marina Ramiro-Pareta and corresponding author Ofelia Martinez-Estrada (Principal Investigator at the Institute of Biomedicine in Barcelona, Spain) to learn more about their research.
肾母细胞瘤1(WT1)是一种已知在心外膜表达且对心脏发育至关重要的转录因子,但WT1在心外膜之外的作用尚不清楚。在《发育》杂志上发表的一篇新论文中,玛丽娜·拉米罗 - 帕雷塔及其同事构建了一种可诱导的、组织特异性功能丧失的小鼠模型,以研究WT1在冠状动脉内皮细胞(ECs)中的作用。我们采访了第一作者玛丽娜·拉米罗 - 帕雷塔和通讯作者奥费利亚·马丁内斯 - 埃斯特拉达(西班牙巴塞罗那生物医学研究所首席研究员),以了解更多关于他们研究的信息。