Precardiac deletion of Numb and Numblike reveals renewal of cardiac progenitors.

Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) must control their number and fate to sustain the rapid heart growth during development, yet the intrinsic factors and environment governing these processes remain unclear. Here, we show that deletion of the ancient cell-fate regulator Numb (Nb) and its homologue Numblike (Nbl) depletes CPCs in second pharyngeal arches (PA2s) and is associated with an atrophic heart. With histological, flow cytometric and functional analyses, we find that CPCs remain undifferentiated and expansive in the PA2, but differentiate into cardiac cells as they exit the arch. Tracing of Nb- and Nbl-deficient CPCs by lineage-specific mosaicism reveals that the CPCs normally populate in the PA2, but lose their expansion potential in the PA2. These findings demonstrate that Nb and Nbl are intrinsic factors crucial for the renewal of CPCs in the PA2 and that the PA2 serves as a microenvironment for their expansion.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02164.001. Copyright © 2014, Shenje et al.

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Lincoln T Shenje, Peter Andersen, Hideki Uosaki, Laviel Fernandez, Peter P Rainer, Gun-Sik Cho, Dong-Ik Lee, Weimin Zhong, Richard P Harvey, David A Kass, Chulan Kwon. Precardiac deletion of Numb and Numblike reveals renewal of cardiac progenitors. eLife. 2014 Apr 24;3:e02164

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