Attribution of vascular phenotypes of the murine Egfl7 locus to the microRNA miR-126
- 15 December 2008
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Development
- Vol. 135 (24) , 3989-3993
- https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.029736
Abstract
Intronic microRNAs have been proposed to complicate the design and interpretation of mouse knockout studies. The endothelial-expressed Egfl7/miR-126 locus contains miR-126 within Egfl7 intron 7, and angiogenesis deficits have been previously ascribed to Egfl7 gene-trap and lacZ knock-in mice. Surprisingly, selectively floxed Egfl7Δ and miR-126Δ alleles revealed that Egfl7Δ/Δ mice were phenotypically normal, whereas miR-126Δ/Δ mice bearing a 289-nt microdeletion recapitulated previously described Egfl7 embryonic and postnatal retinal vascular phenotypes. Regulation of angiogenesis by miR-126 was confirmed by endothelial-specific deletion and in the adult cornea micropocket assay. Furthermore, miR-126 deletion inhibited VEGF-dependent Akt and Erk signaling by derepression of the p85β subunit of PI3 kinase and of Spred1, respectively. These studies demonstrate the regulation of angiogenesis by an endothelial miRNA, attribute previously described Egfl7 vascular phenotypes to miR-126, and document inadvertent miRNA dysregulation as a complication of mouse knockout strategies.Keywords
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