Gabriella Captur, Carolyn Y Ho, Saskia Schlossarek, Janet Kerwin, Mariana Mirabel, Robert Wilson, Stefania Rosmini, Chinwe Obianyo, Patricia Reant, Paul Bassett, Andrew C Cook, Susan Lindsay, William J McKenna, Kevin Mills, Perry M Elliott, Timothy J Mohun, Lucie Carrier, James C Moon
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is caused by mutations in sarcomeric proteins, the commonest being MYBPC3 encoding myosin-binding protein C. It is characterised by left ventricular hypertrophy but there is an important pre-hypertrophic phenotype with features including crypts, abnormal mitral leaflets and trabeculae. We investigated these during mouse cardiac development using high-resolution episcopic microscopy. In embryonic hearts from wildtype, homozygous (HO) and heterozygous (HET) Mybpc3-targeted knock-out (KO) mice we show that crypts (one or two) are a normal part of wildtype development but they almost all resolve by birth...
June 21, 2016: Scientific Reports