| Literature DB >> 24848765 |
Yan Liu1, Fengyu Wang2, Yuan Wu3, Sainan Tan4, Qiaolian Wen1, Jing Wang5, Xiaomei Zhu1, Xi Wang1, Congmin Li2, Xu Ma6, Hong Pan1.
Abstract
CITED2 was identified as a cardiac transcription factor which is essential to the heart development. Cited2-deficient mice showed cardiac malformations, adrenal agenesis and neural crest defects. To explore the potential impact of mutations in CITED2 on congenital heart disease (CHD) in humans, we screened the coding region of CITED2 in a total of 700 Chinese people with congenital heart disease and 250 healthy individuals as controls. We found five potential disease-causing mutations, p.P140S, p.S183L, p.S196G, p.Ser161delAGC and p. Ser192_Gly193delAGCGGC. Two mammalian two-hybrid assays showed that the last four mutations significantly affected the interaction between p300CH1 and CITED2 or HIF1A. Further studies showed that four CITED2 mutations recovered the promoter activity of VEGF by decreasing its competitiveness with HIF1A for binding to p300CH1 and three mutations decreased the consociation of TFAP2C and CITED2 in the transactivation of PITX2C. Both VEGF and PITX2C play very important roles in cardiac development. In conclusion, we demonstrated that CITED2 has a potential causative impact on congenital heart disease.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24848765 PMCID: PMC4029912 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098157
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Patients with congenital heart disease included in the study.
| Phenotype | Total(n = 700) |
| Ventricular septal defect(VSD) | 306 |
| Tetralogy of Fallot(TOF) | 59 |
| Atrial septal defect(ASD) | 84 |
| Patent ductus arteriosus(PDA) | 21 |
| Pulmonal atresia or stenosis(PS) | 21 |
| double outlet right ventricle(DORV) | 11 |
| Aortic coarctation(COA) | 4 |
| Pulmonary hypertension(PH) | 2 |
| Other complex cardiac malformations | 192 |
Primers used for PCR.
| Name | Primer pair |
| Primers for | F |
| R | |
| Middle Primer for |
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| Primers for P140S | F |
| R | |
| Primers for S183L | F |
| R | |
| Primers for S196G | F |
| R | |
| Primers for Ser161delAGCAGC | F |
| R | |
| Primers for Ser192_Gly193delAGCGGC | F |
| R | |
| pEGFP- | F |
| R | |
| pCDNA3.1(+)- | F |
| R | |
| pCMX-GAL4- | F |
| R | |
| pCMX-GAL4- | F |
| R | |
| pCMX-VP16- | F |
| R | |
| pCDNA3.1(+)- | F |
| R | |
| pCDNA3.1(+)- | F |
| R | |
| PGL3basic- | F |
| R | |
| PGL3basic- | F |
| R |
Figure 1Structure of CITED2.
A: Sequence alignment of CITED2 proteins among several species. The figure showed that three acid substitutions were located at highly conserved regions among many species (human, chimpanzee, mice, dog, cattle, rat, chicken and zebrafish). B: Position of mutations in the CITED2 protein identified in CHD patients. CITED2 has three conserved regions CR1-3 and serine-glycine rich junction (SRJ). All other mutations were located in SRJ except p.P140S.
Figure 2Effect of CITED2 mutations on the transcriptional activation of HIF1A to its target gene VEGF.
A: Effect of mutations on CITED2-p300CH1 interactions. We cotransfected 293T cells with pCMX-VP16-p300CH1, TK promoter reporter plasmid, and the Renilla luciferase internal control plasmid, as well as empty vector pCMX-GAL4, GAL4-CITED2 wild-type, and the mutants. The significance of differences was calculated using the independent-samples t test. (*p<0.05, **p<0.01 versus. wt-type, #p<0.05, ##p<0.01 versus.empty vector pCMX-GAL4.) B: Effect of mutations on HIF1A-p300CH1 interactions. Cotransfection of pCMX-VP16-p300CH1, pCMX-GAL4-HIF1A, TK promoter reporter plasmid, and the Renilla luciferase internal control plasmid, as well as empty vector pcDNA3.1 (+), pcDNA3.1 (+)-CITED2 wild-type, and the mutant. (* p<0.05, ** p<0.01 versus wt-type, # p<0.05, ## p<0.01 versus. empty vector pcDNA3.1 (+)) C: Effect of wt-type on the transcriptional activation of VEGF. Transfected the VEGF reporter plasmid and the expression vector for HIF1A, CITED2 or pcDNA3.1 were transfected together in 293 T cells. The luciferase activity was normalized to Renilla activity.* p<0.05, **p<0.01 versus the untreated group (n = 3). D: Effect of CITED2 mutants on transcription activation of VEGF compared with CITED2-wt. The rest report plasmids were same as above. (*p<0.05, **p<0.01 versus wt-type, #p<0.05, ##p<0.01 versus empty vector pcDNA3.1(+)). The results represent the means of 3 independent experiments performed in triplicate and the significance of differences was calculated using independent-samples t test.(CITED2 = Cbp/p300-interacting transactivator, with Glu/Asp-rich carboxy-terminal domain, 2, HIF1A = Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1, VEGF = vascular endothelial growth factor)
Figure 3Effect of CITED2 variants on the cooperation between CITED2 and TFAP2C in the transactivation of the PITX2C.
A: Effect of CITED2 mutations on the transcription activation of PITX2C. (*p<0.05, **p<0.01 versus wt-type, #p<0.05, ##p<0.01 versus.empty vector pcDNA3.1(+)). B: CITED2-wt and TFAP2C working on the transcriptional activation of PITX2C. PITX2C reporter plasmid and the expression vector for TFAP2C, CITED2, or pcDNA3.1 alone were transfected respectively in 293 T cells. The luciferase activity was normalized to Renilla activity.(* p<0.05, **p<0.01 versus the untreated group (n = 3)).
Position of variations
| Coding position | Amino acid position | Phenotype of mutation carrier |
| c.C418T | p. P140S,Pro-Ser | F4 |
| c.C548T | p. S183L,Ser-Leu | VSD |
| c.A586G | p. S196G,Ser-Gly | VSD |
| c.481–483delAGC | p.Ser161delAGC | ASD |
| c.574–579delAGCGGC | p.Ser192_Gly193delAGCGGC | VSD |