Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Venous identity requires BMP signalling through ALK3

  • Alice Neal,
  • Svanhild Nornes,
  • Sophie Payne,
  • Marsha D. Wallace,
  • Martin Fritzsche,
  • Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol,
  • Robert N. Wilkinson,
  • Kira M. Chouliaras,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Karen Plant,
  • Radhika Sholapurkar,
  • Indrika Ratnayaka,
  • Wiebke Herzog,
  • Gareth Bond,
  • Tim Chico,
  • George Bou-Gharios,
  • Sarah De Val

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08315-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The establishment of functional vasculatures requires the specification of newly formed vessels into veins and arteries. Here, Neal et al. use a combination of genetic approaches in mice and zebrafish to show that BMP signalling, via ALK3 and SMAD1/5, is required for venous specification during blood vessel development.