Constarium
← Search

Omics · study · 2026

Endocardial HAND2 orchestrates hypoxic and TGFbeta signaling to modulate coronary artery formation [RNA-Seq]

Listed in NCBI GEO

The endocardium is a major source of coronary angiogenesis and arterialization, through coordinated cell fate transition and migration.

Description

However, the transcriptional regulatory network synchronizing cell fate determination and movement remains unclear. Here, we identified transcription factor HAND2 as a key candidate for coronary vascular formation.

Endocardial deletion of Hand2 in mice disrupted arterial-venous networks and stunted coronary arteries, paralleling a ventricular noncompaction phenotype. Moreover, deletion of Hand2 produced excessive tip cells with defective movement. RNA-seq analysis revealed enhanced hypoxic metabolic activation but declined TGF-β/p38MAPK-dependent Endo-MT.

Read the rest (1 more)

In consistence, genetic inhibition of the core hypoxic regulators or pharmaceutical administration of TGFβ2 partially recovered the coronary arterial defects in Hand2 mutants. Furthermore, HAND2 was found directly bound to promoters of the target genes, harmonizing cell migration and cell fate transition. These findings pinpoint HAND2 as an essential regulator to regulate endocardial transcriptional regulatory network for coronary arterialization and provide potential therapeutic targets for coronary artery diseases.

Links

Where it is published

Documentation and papers

Topics

From keywords
Life Sciences
Inferred from text
RNA sequencing 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NCBI GEOGSE31198213 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:life-sciencesmapping · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0
concepts[method].geo_series_type:expression-profiling-by-high-throughput-sequencingsource · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0/gdstype
concepts[modality].local:modality:rna-seqenrichment · NCBI GEOkeyword-concept-rules@1.0.0title+description (65%)
concepts[organism].NCBITaxon:10090source · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0/taxon
descriptionsource · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0/summary
publication_datesource · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0
titlesource · NCBI GEOconnector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0/title