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Downstream genes of signaling pathways implicated in human cardiovascular diseases: in vivo significance and regulatory mechanisms

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21H02890
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 52050:Embryonic medicine and pediatrics-related
Research InstitutionNational Cardiovascular Center Research Institute

Principal Investigator

NAKAGAWA Osamu  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 研究所, 非常勤研究員 (40283593)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 原田 恭弘  立命館大学, 生命科学部, 助教 (70911402)
川村 晃久  立命館大学, 生命科学部, 教授 (90393199)
渡邉 裕介  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 研究所, 室長 (20562333)
浦崎 明宏  神戸大学, 先端バイオ工学研究センター, 特命准教授 (40550083)
橋本 大輝  和歌山県立医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (40911342)
岩朝 徹  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 病院, 医長 (80712843)
白石 公  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 病院, 客員研究員 (80295659)
LAMRI LYNDA  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 研究所, リサーチフェロー (90883984)
垣花 優希  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 研究所, リサーチフェロー (40910534)
能丸 寛子  国立研究開発法人国立循環器病研究センター, 研究所, 上級研究員 (30885538)
Project Period (FY) 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥7,020,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,620,000)
Keywords先天性心血管疾患 / 遺伝性血管病 / シグナル伝達 / 遺伝子発現調節 / 遺伝子組換えマウス / 心血管発生 / 血管病 / 先天性心疾患 / 内皮細胞 / 心筋細胞
Outline of Research at the Start

心血管系のシグナル伝達異常は遺伝性血管病や先天性心血管疾患の原因となり、生後に生ずる脳血管障害・網膜症・癌などにおいても重要である。私達はこれまでに、ヒト心血管疾患に重要な意義を有するシグナル伝達系の下流ターゲットとして遺伝子発現制御や細胞間・細胞内分子相互作用に働く機能因子を同定してきた。本研究では、これら機能因子の生体における意義・分子機能メカニズム・発現制御機構・心血管疾患における意義を明らかにすることを試みる。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Problems in the signal communication between and within cells can cause heart and vascular diseases that are present from birth or that run in families. In this research project, we aimed to learn how certain cell signals affect formation of the heart and blood vessels. We mainly focused on the genes that are controlled downstream of these signals. We looked for genomic DNA regions that are used to turn these genes on or off, called "enhancers". We then studied upstream regulator proteins and abnormalities in the mice that lost these enhancers. We can also use the enhancers as a tool to express artificial genes in specific tissues of mouse embryos, which enabled us to understand more about the origin and diversity of cardiovascular cells. These results help clarify how the heart and blood vessels normally develop and what causes related diseases in humans.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

出生前の心血管発生異常に起因する先天性心疾患は新生児の主な死因として重要であり、遺伝子変異による血管病も生涯にわたって治療に反応しない重篤な症状をもたらすことより、その病因・病態メカニズムの解明が待たれている。発生期の心臓・血管系において細胞間・細胞内シグナル伝達系の下流において発現制御を受けて細胞機能調節に働く因子について研究を行うことは、先天性心疾患および遺伝性・難治性血管病の病因および病態の解明のみならず、シグナル伝達傷害による細胞機能異常を正常化する新しい治療ストラテジーの開発につながる基盤となると期待される。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2024 Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2023 Annual Research Report
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (24 results)

All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021

All Journal Article (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 10 results,  Open Access: 8 results) Presentation (14 results) (of which Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Embryological cellular origins and hypoxia-mediated mechanisms in PIK3CA-driven refractory vascular malformations.2025

    • Author(s)
      Torii S, Nagaharu K, Nakanishi N, Usui H, Hori Y, Hirose K, Toyosawa S, Morii E, Narushima M, Kubota Y, Nakagawa O, Imanaka-Yoshida K, Maruyama K.
    • Journal Title

      EMBO Mol Med

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Digenic inheritance involving a muscle-specific protein kinase and the giant titin protein causes a skeletal muscle myopathy2024

    • Author(s)
      Toepf A, Cox D, Zaharieva IT, et al.
    • Journal Title

      Nat Genet

      Volume: 56 Issue: 3 Pages: 395-407

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41588-023-01651-0

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Hey2 enhancer activity defines unipotent progenitors for left ventricular cardiomyocytes in juxta-cardiac field of early mouse embryo2023

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe Yusuke、Wang Yunce、Tanaka Yuki、Iwase Akiyasu、Kawamura Teruhisa、Saga Yumiko、Yashiro Kenta、Kurihara Hiroki、Nakagawa Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

      Volume: 120 Issue: 37 Pages: 1-10

    • DOI

      10.1073/pnas.2307658120

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Computational and Experimental Analyses for Pathogenicity Prediction of ACVRL1 Missense Variants in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia2023

    • Author(s)
      Iwasa Toru、Urasaki Akihiro、Kakihana Yuki、Nagata-Akaho Nami、Harada Yukihiro、Takeda Soichi、Kawamura Teruhisa、Shiraishi Isao、Kurosaki Kenichi、Morisaki Hiroko、Yamada Osamu、Nakagawa Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Clinical Medicine

      Volume: 12 Issue: 15 Pages: 5002-5002

    • DOI

      10.3390/jcm12155002

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A genetic and developmental biological approach for a family with complex congenital heart diseases?evidence of digenic inheritance2023

    • Author(s)
      Yoshida Yu、Uchida Keiko、Kodo Kazuki、Ishizaki-Asami Reina、Maeda Jun、Katsumata Yoshinori、Yuasa Shinsuke、Fukuda Keiichi、Kosaki Kenjiro、Watanabe Yusuke、Nakagawa Osamu、Yamagishi Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

      Volume: 10 Pages: 1135141-1135141

    • DOI

      10.3389/fcvm.2023.1135141

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Canonical Wnt signaling activation by chimeric antigen receptors for efficient cardiac differentiation from mouse embryonic stem cells2023

    • Author(s)
      Sogo T, Nakao S, Tsukamoto T, Ueyama T, Harada Y, Ihara D, Ishida T, Nakahara M, Hasegawa K, Akagi Y, Kida Y, Nakagawa O, Nagamune T, Kawahara M, Kawamura T
    • Journal Title

      Inflamm Regen

      Volume: 43 Issue: 1 Pages: 11-11

    • DOI

      10.1186/s41232-023-00258-6

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Sample Preparation for Computed Tomography-based Three-dimensional Visualization of Murine Hind-limb Vessels2021

    • Author(s)
      Seya Daiki、Xu Yuqing、Mukunoki Toshifumi、Tsujita Kenichi、Nakagawa Osamu、Arima Yuichiro
    • Journal Title

      Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE

      Volume: - Issue: 176

    • DOI

      10.3791/63009

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] ETS‐dependent enhancers for endothelial‐specific expression of serum/glucocorticoid‐regulated kinase 1 during mouse embryo development2021

    • Author(s)
      Harada Yukihiro, Tanaka Toru, Arai Yuji, Isomoto Yoshie, Nakano Atsushi, Nakao Shu, Urasaki Akihiro, Watanabe Yusuke, Kawamura Teruhisa, Nakagawa Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Genes to Cells

      Volume: 26 Issue: 8 Pages: 611-626

    • DOI

      10.1111/gtc.12874

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Tmem100-BAC-EGFP mice to selectively mark and purify embryonic endothelial cells of large caliber arteries in mid-gestational vascular formation2021

    • Author(s)
      Yumi Kinugasa-Katayama, Yusuke Watanabe, Takashi Hisamitsu, Yuichiro Arima, Norika M Liu, Ayaka Tomimatsu, Yukihiro Harada, Yuji Arai, Akihiro Urasaki, Teruhisa Kawamura, Yoshihiko Saito, Osamu Nakagawa
    • Journal Title

      genesis

      Volume: 59 Issue: 4

    • DOI

      10.1002/dvg.23416

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] A role of Hey2 transcription factor for right ventricle development through regulation of Tbx2-Mycn pathway during cardiac morphogenesis2021

    • Author(s)
      Seya Daiki、Ihara Dai、Shirai Manabu、Kawamura Teruhisa、Watanabe Yusuke、Nakagawa Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Development, Growth & Differentiation

      Volume: 63 Issue: 1 Pages: 82-92

    • DOI

      10.1111/dgd.12707

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Etsファミリー転写因子Ets2は内皮間葉移行(EndoMT)を抑制し、脈管のインテグリティの維持に寄与する2025

    • Author(s)
      吉松康裕、前田健太郎、渡邉裕介、椎谷友博、紀室志織、杉本博之、伊川正人、Robert G. Oshima、中川修、渡部徹郎、平島正則
    • Organizer
      日本血管生物医学会特別集会
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 発生期心臓内領域特異的エンハンサー探索と欠失モデルマウス表現型解析2024

    • Author(s)
      有本瑞季、原田恭弘、王韵策、久安由騎、阿部真乃、植山萌恵、中川修、川村晃久
    • Organizer
      第9回日本心血管協会学術集会
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 心臓流出路特異的エンハンサーを介した転写制御メカニズムの解析2024

    • Author(s)
      久安由騎、原田恭弘、王韵策、有本瑞季、阿部真乃、植山萌恵、中川修、川村晃久
    • Organizer
      第9回日本心血管協会学術集会
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 発生期の心臓内領域特異的な遺伝子発現を制御するエンハンサーの探索2023

    • Author(s)
      原田恭弘、王韵策、岩瀬晃康、白井学、渡邉裕介、栗原裕基、中川修、川村晃久
    • Organizer
      第46回日本分子生物学会年会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Vascular connection between newly formed intestinal and pre-existing circulatory systems during embryonic development2022

    • Author(s)
      Akihiro URASAKI, Osamu NAKAGAWA
    • Organizer
      第30回日本血管生物医学会学術集会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Physiological importance of ALK1 signaling for organotypic vascular formation2022

    • Author(s)
      Akihiro URASAKI, Yuki KAKIHANA, Nami NAGATA-AKAHO, Yukihiro HARADA, Osamu NAKAGAWA
    • Organizer
      第6回日本循環器学会基礎研究フォーラム
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] マウス胚におけるHey2エンハンサー活性による左心室筋特異的な心筋前駆細胞集団の同定2022

    • Author(s)
      Yunce WANG、渡邉裕介、田中裕樹、岩瀬晃康、栗原裕基、八代健太、川村晃久、中川修
    • Organizer
      第45回日本分子生物学会年会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] A role of Hey2 transcription factor for right ventricle development through regulation of Tbx2-Mycn pathway during cardiac morphogenesis2022

    • Author(s)
      瀬谷大貴、井原大、白井学、川村晃久、南沢享、渡邉裕介、中川修
    • Organizer
      第26回日本心血管内分泌代謝学会学術総会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Mechanisms of fate determination to ventricular cardiomyocytes in developing embryos2021

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke WATANABE, Yuki TANAKA, Yunce WANG, Dai IHARA, Teruhisa KAWAMURA, Osamu NAKAGAWA
    • Organizer
      第44回日本分子生物学会年会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SGK1リン酸化酵素の胎生期血管内皮特異的エンハンサー探索と活性制御機構解析2021

    • Author(s)
      原田恭弘、田中亨、荒井勇二、浦﨑明宏、渡邉裕介、川村晃久、中川修
    • Organizer
      第44回日本分子生物学会年会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SGK1リン酸化酵素の胎生期血管内皮特異的エンハンサー探索と活性制御機構解析2021

    • Author(s)
      原田恭弘、田中亨、荒井勇二、浦﨑明宏、渡邉裕介、川村晃久、中川修
    • Organizer
      第25回日本心血管内分泌代謝学会学術総会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Physiological significance of ALK1 signaling in zebrafish organotypic vascular formation2021

    • Author(s)
      Akihiro URASAKI, Nami NAGATA-AKAHO, Yuki KAKIHANA, Yukihiro HARADA, Osamu NAKAGAWA
    • Organizer
      第5回日本循環器学会基礎研究フォーラム
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Function and transcriptional regulation of Hey transcription factors during cardiovascular development2021

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke WATANABE, Dai IHARA, Daiki SEYA, Yuki TANAKA, Yunce WANG, Teruhisa KAWAMURA, Osamu NAKAGAWA
    • Organizer
      第5回日本循環器学会基礎研究フォーラム
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 心血管発生・機能制御と先天性心血管疾患におけるシグナル伝達・転写調節機構の意義2021

    • Author(s)
      中川修
    • Organizer
      第39回日本内分泌学会内分泌代謝学サマーセミナー
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited

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