Nature Biotechnology
23, 607 - 611 (2005)
Published online: 1 May 2005; | doi:10.1038/nbt1093
There is a Corrigenda (July 2005) associated with this Letters.
Transient inhibition of BMP signaling by Noggin induces cardiomyocyte differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cellsShinsuke Yuasa1, 2, Yuji Itabashi1, Uichi Koshimizu4, Tomofumi Tanaka4, Keijiro Sugimura4, Masayoshi Kinoshita1, Fumiyuki Hattori2, 4, Shin-ichi Fukami3, Takuya Shimazaki3, Hideyuki Okano3, 5, Satoshi Ogawa1
& Keiichi Fukuda21
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. 2
Department of Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. 3
Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. 4
Daiichi Suntory Biomedical Research Co. Ltd., 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka 618−8513, Japan. 5
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
Correspondence should be addressed to Keiichi Fukuda kfukuda@sc.itc.keio.ac.jpEmbryonic stem (ES) cells are a promising source of cardiomyocytes, but clinical application of ES cells has been hindered by the lack of reliable selective differentiation methods. Differentiation into any lineage is partly dependent on the regulatory mechanisms of normal early development. Although several signals, including bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)1,
2, Wnt3 and FGF4, are involved in heart development, scarce evidence is available about the exact signals that mediate cardiomyocyte differentiation. While investigating the involvement of BMP signaling in early heart formation in the mouse, we found that the BMP antagonist Noggin is transiently but strongly expressed in the heart-forming region during gastrulation and acts at the level of induction of mesendoderm to establish conditions conducive to cardiogenesis. We applied this finding to develop an effective protocol for obtaining cardiomyocytes from mouse ES cells by inhibition of BMP signaling.
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