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  3. Cytoglobin regulates NO-dependent cilia motility and organ laterality during development

Cytoglobin regulates NO-dependent cilia motility and organ laterality during development

  • Nat Commun. 2023 Dec 14;14(1):8333. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43544-0.
Elizabeth R Rochon 1,  Jianmin Xue 2,  Manush Sayd Mohammed 3,  Caroline Smith 2,  Anders Hay-Schmidt 4,  Anthony W DeMartino 1,  Adam Clark 1,  Qinzi Xu 1,  Cecilia W Lo 5,  Michael Tsang 3,  Jesus Tejero 2 6 7 8,  Mark T Gladwin 9,  Paola Corti 10
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
  • 2 Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
  • 3 Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.
  • 4 Department of Odontology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 5 Department of Developmental Biology, Rangos Research Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, USA.
  • 6 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA.
  • 7 Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.
  • 8 Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA.
  • 9 Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA. [email protected].
  • 10 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA. [email protected].
PMID: 38097556 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43544-0
Abstract

Cytoglobin is a heme protein with unresolved physiological function. Genetic deletion of zebrafish cytoglobin (cygb2) causes developmental defects in left-right cardiac determination, which in humans is associated with defects in ciliary function and low airway epithelial nitric oxide production. Here we show that Cygb2 co-localizes with cilia and with the nitric oxide synthase Nos2b in the zebrafish Kupffer's vesicle, and that cilia structure and function are disrupted in cygb2 mutants. Abnormal ciliary function and organ laterality defects are phenocopied by depletion of nos2b and of gucy1a, the soluble Guanylate Cyclase homolog in fish. The defects are rescued by exposing cygb2 mutant embryos to a nitric oxide donor or a soluble Guanylate Cyclase stimulator, or with over-expression of nos2b. Cytoglobin knockout mice also show impaired airway epithelial cilia structure and reduced nitric oxide levels. Altogether, our data suggest that cytoglobin is a positive regulator of a signaling axis composed of nitric oxide synthase-soluble guanylate cyclase-cyclic GMP that is necessary for normal cilia motility and left-right patterning.

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