Benoit Bruneau, PhD

The main focus of our lab is to understand how a heart becomes a heart: what cell lineage decisions take place to direct cardiac differentiation, and what morphogenetic and patterning processes occur to assemble all of the heart's components into a functional organ. We are primarily interested in regulation of these processes by transcriptional regulatory mechanisms that include DNA-binding transcription factors, chromatin remodeling complexes, and histone modifications. We have used this knowledge to understand disease mechanisms, but also to devise strategies for cardiac regeneration.

Why study heart development? We believe that primary defects in patterning in early heart development are at the root of congenital heart defects, which affect approximately 1% of live-born children, and we want to understand how these defects occur, to perhaps be able to uncover new and improved diagnostic or even therapeutic options. Also, by understanding how cardiac lineage specification occurs, we can better design stem cell-based interventions of cardiac repair, based on the knowledge of what drives an uncommitted cell towards a specific cardiac fate. We have recently focused our efforts on cardiac chromatin remodeling and modification factors, enzymes that unwind DNA or modify histones to turn genes on or off. We are particularly interested in how these factors control cardiac cell lineage decisions. These chromatin remodeling factors may also be key to pushing a stem cell into becoming a heart cell, perhaps opening up new avenues for cardiac regenerative medicine.

  1. Bulger EA, McDevitt TC, Bruneau BG. CDX2 dose-dependently influences the gene regulatory network underlying human extraembryonic mesoderm development. Biology open 2024. PMID: 38451093


  2. Bulger EA, Muncie-Vasic I, Libby ARG, McDevitt TC, Bruneau BG. TBXT dose sensitivity and the decoupling of nascent mesoderm specification from EMT progression in 2D human gastruloids. Development (Cambridge, England) 2024. PMID: 38411343


  3. Kathiriya IS, Dominguez MH, Rao KS, Muncie-Vasic JM, Patrick Devine W, Hu KM, Hota SK, Garay BI, Quintero D, Goyal P, Matthews MN, Thomas R, Sukonnik T, Miguel-Perez D, Winchester S, Brower EF, Forjaz A, Wu PH, Wirtz D, Kiemen AL, Bruneau BG. A TBX5-dependent compartment boundary patterns the cardiac interventricular septum. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024. PMID: 38370632


  4. Bulger EA, McDevitt TC, Bruneau BG. CDX2 dose-dependently influences the gene regulatory network underlying human extraembryonic mesoderm development. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024. PMID: 38328098


  5. Bulger EA, Muncie-Vasic I, Libby ARG, McDevitt TC, Bruneau BG. TBXT dose sensitivity and the decoupling of nascent mesoderm specification from EMT progression in 2D human gastruloids. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023. PMID: 37986746


  6. Dekker J, Alber F, Aufmkolk S, Beliveau BJ, Bruneau BG, Belmont AS, Bintu L, Boettiger A, Calandrelli R, Disteche CM, Gilbert DM, Gregor T, Hansen AS, Huang B, Huangfu D, Kalhor R, Leslie CS, Li W, Li Y, Ma J, Noble WS, Park PJ, Phillips-Cremins JE, Pollard KS, Rafelski SM, Ren B, Ruan Y, Shav-Tal Y, Shen Y, Shendure J, Shu X, Strambio-De-Castillia C, Vertii A, Zhang H, Zhong S. Spatial and temporal organization of the genome: Current state and future aims of the 4D nucleome project. Molecular cell 2023. PMID: 37419111


  7. Krup AL, Winchester SAB, Ranade SS, Agrawal A, Devine WP, Sinha T, Choudhary K, Dominguez MH, Thomas R, Black BL, Srivastava D, Bruneau BG. A Mesp1-dependent developmental breakpoint in transcriptional and epigenomic specification of early cardiac precursors. Development (Cambridge, England) 2023. PMID: 36994838


  8. Dominguez MH, Krup AL, Muncie JM, Bruneau BG. Graded mesoderm assembly governs cell fate and morphogenesis of the early mammalian heart. Cell 2023. PMID: 36736300


  9. Ferguson LP, Gatchalian J, McDermott ML, Nakamura M, Chambers K, Rajbhandari N, Lytle NK, Rosenthal SB, Hamilton M, Albini S, Wartenberg M, Zlobec I, Galván JA, Karamitopoulou E, Vavinskaya V, Wascher A, Lowy AM, Schürch CM, Puri PL, Bruneau BG, Hargreaves DC, Reya T. Smarcd3 is an epigenetic modulator of the metabolic landscape in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Nature communications 2023. PMID: 36653361


  10. Zhu L, Choudhary K, Gonzalez-Teran B, Ang YS, Thomas R, Stone NR, Liu L, Zhou P, Zhu C, Ruan H, Huang Y, Jin S, Pelonero A, Koback F, Padmanabhan A, Sadagopan N, Hsu A, Costa MW, Gifford CA, van Bemmel JG, Hüttenhain R, Vedantham V, Conklin BR, Black BL, Bruneau BG, Steinmetz L, Krogan NJ, Pollard KS, Srivastava D. Transcription Factor GATA4 Regulates Cell Type-Specific Splicing Through Direct Interaction With RNA in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Progenitors. Circulation 2022. PMID: 35938400


  11. Blair AP, Hu RK, Farah EN, Chi NC, Pollard KS, Przytycki PF, Kathiriya IS, Bruneau BG. Cell Layers: uncovering clustering structure in unsupervised single-cell transcriptomic analysis. Bioinformatics advances 2022. PMID: 35967929


  12. Hsu A, Duan Q, Day DS, Luo X, McMahon S, Huang Y, Feldman ZB, Jiang Z, Zhang T, Liang Y, Alexanian M, Padmanabhan A, Brown JD, Lin CY, Gray NS, Young RA, Bruneau BG, Haldar SM. Targeting transcription in heart failure via CDK7/12/13 inhibition. Nature communications 2022. PMID: 35896549


  13. Rao KS, Kameswaran V, Bruneau BG. Modeling congenital heart disease: lessons from mice, hPSC-based models, and organoids. Genes & development 2022. PMID: 35835508


  14. Gonzalez-Teran B, Pittman M, Felix F, Thomas R, Richmond-Buccola D, Hüttenhain R, Choudhary K, Moroni E, Costa MW, Huang Y, Padmanabhan A, Alexanian M, Lee CY, Maven BEJ, Samse-Knapp K, Morton SU, McGregor M, Gifford CA, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Gelb BD, Colombo G, Conklin BR, Black BL, Bruneau BG, Krogan NJ, Pollard KS, Srivastava D. Transcription factor protein interactomes reveal genetic determinants in heart disease. 2022. PMID: 35182466


  15. Hota SK, Rao KS, Blair AP, Khalilimeybodi A, Hu KM, Thomas R, So K, Kameswaran V, Xu J, Polacco BJ, Desai RV, Chatterjee N, Hsu A, Muncie JM, Blotnick AM, Winchester SAB, Weinberger LS, Hüttenhain R, Kathiriya IS, Krogan NJ, Saucerman JJ, Bruneau BG. Brahma safeguards canalization of cardiac mesoderm differentiation. 2022. PMID: 35082446


  16. Silva AC, Matthys OB, Joy DA, Kauss MA, Natarajan V, Lai MH, Turaga D, Blair AP, Alexanian M, Bruneau BG, McDevitt TC. Co-emergence of cardiac and gut tissues promotes cardiomyocyte maturation within human iPSC-derived organoids. 2021. PMID: 34861147


  17. Bruneau BG. Dissecting CTCF site function in a tense HoxD locus. 2021. PMID: 34725128


  18. Ward T, Tai W, Morton S, Impens F, Van Damme P, Van Haver D, Timmerman E, Venturini G, Zhang K, Jang MY, Willcox JAL, Haghighi A, Gelb BD, Chung WK, Goldmuntz E, Porter GA, Lifton RP, Brueckner M, Yost HJ, Bruneau BG, Gorham J, Kim Y, Pereira A, Homsy J, Benson CC, DePalma SR, Varland S, Chen CS, Arnesen T, Gevaert K, Seidman C, Seidman JG. Mechanisms of Congenital Heart Disease Caused by NAA15 Haploinsufficiency. 2021. PMID: 33557580


  19. Kathiriya IS, Rao KS, Iacono G, Devine WP, Blair AP, Hota SK, Lai MH, Garay BI, Thomas R, Gong HZ, Wasson LK, Goyal P, Sukonnik T, Hu KM, Akgun GA, Bernard LD, Akerberg BN, Gu F, Li K, Speir ML, Haeussler M, Pu WT, Stuart JM, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Heyn H, Bruneau BG. Modeling Human TBX5 Haploinsufficiency Predicts Regulatory Networks for Congenital Heart Disease. 2020. PMID: 33321106


  20. Liu NQ, Maresca M, van den Brand T, Braccioli L, Schijns MMGA, Teunissen H, Bruneau BG, Nora EP, de Wit E. WAPL maintains a cohesin loading cycle to preserve cell-type-specific distal gene regulation. 2020. PMID: 33318687


  21. Nora EP, Caccianini L, Fudenberg G, So K, Kameswaran V, Nagle A, Uebersohn A, Hajj B, Saux AL, Coulon A, Mirny LA, Pollard KS, Dahan M, Bruneau BG. Molecular basis of CTCF binding polarity in genome folding. 2020. PMID: 33154377


  22. Bruneau BG. The developing heart: from The Wizard of Oz to congenital heart disease. 2020. PMID: 33087326


  23. Szabo Q, Donjon A, Jerkovic I, Papadopoulos GL, Cheutin T, Bonev B, Nora EP, Bruneau BG, Bantignies F, Cavalli G. Regulation of single-cell genome organization into TADs and chromatin nanodomains. 2020. PMID: 33077913


  24. Mendiola AS, Ryu JK, Bardehle S, Meyer-Franke A, Ang KK, Wilson C, Baeten KM, Hanspers K, Merlini M, Thomas S, Petersen MA, Williams A, Thomas R, Rafalski VA, Meza-Acevedo R, Tognatta R, Yan Z, Pfaff SJ, Machado MR, Bedard C, Coronado PER, Jiang X, Wang J, Pleiss MA, Green AJ, Zamvil SS, Pico AR, Bruneau BG, Arkin MR, Akassoglou K. Author Correction: Transcriptional profiling and therapeutic targeting of oxidative stress in neuroinflammation. Nature immunology 2020. PMID: 32661365


  25. Nishana M, Ha C, Rodriguez-Hernaez J, Ranjbaran A, Chio E, Nora EP, Badri SB, Kloetgen A, Bruneau BG, Tsirigos A, Skok JA. Author Correction: Defining the relative and combined contribution of CTCF and CTCFL to genomic regulation. 2020. PMID: 32487268


  26. Hsu A, Duan Q, McMahon S, Huang Y, Wood SA, Gray NS, Wang B, Bruneau BG, Haldar SM. Salt-inducible kinase 1 maintains HDAC7 stability to promote pathologic cardiac remodeling. 2020. PMID: 32106109


  27. Goetze JP, Bruneau BG, Ramos HR, Ogawa T, de Bold MK, de Bold AJ. Cardiac natriuretic peptides. 2020. PMID: 32444692


  28. Nishana M, Ha C, Rodriguez-Hernaez J, Ranjbaran A, Chio E, Nora EP, Badri SB, Kloetgen A, Bruneau BG, Tsirigos A, Skok JA. Defining the relative and combined contribution of CTCF and CTCFL to genomic regulation. 2020. PMID: 32393311


  29. Mendiola AS, Ryu JK, Bardehle S, Meyer-Franke A, Ang KK, Wilson C, Baeten KM, Hanspers K, Merlini M, Thomas S, Petersen MA, Williams A, Thomas R, Rafalski VA, Meza-Acevedo R, Tognatta R, Yan Z, Pfaff SJ, Machado MR, Bedard C, Rios Coronado PE, Jiang X, Wang J, Pleiss MA, Green AJ, Zamvil SS, Pico AR, Bruneau BG, Arkin MR, Akassoglou K. Transcriptional profiling and therapeutic targeting of oxidative stress in neuroinflammation. Nature immunology 2020. PMID: 32284594


  30. George MR, Duan Q, Nagle A, Kathiriya IS, Huang Y, Rao K, Haldar SM, Bruneau BG. Minimal in vivo requirements for developmentally regulated cardiac long intergenic non-coding RNAs. 2019. PMID: 31784461


  31. Owens N, Papadopoulou T, Festuccia N, Tachtsidi A, Gonzalez I, Dubois A, Vandormael-Pournin S, Nora EP, Bruneau BG, Cohen-Tannoudji M, Navarro P. CTCF confers local nucleosome resiliency after DNA replication and during mitosis. 2019. PMID: 31599722


  32. Bruneau BG, Koseki H, Strome S, Torres-Padilla ME. Chromatin and epigenetics in development: a Special Issue. 2019. PMID: 31601561


  33. Saldaña-Meyer R, Rodriguez-Hernaez J, Escobar T, Nishana M, Jácome-López K, Nora EP, Bruneau BG, Tsirigos A, Furlan-Magaril M, Skok J, Reinberg D. RNA Interactions Are Essential for CTCF-Mediated Genome Organization. 2019. PMID: 31522988


  34. Lind AL, Lai YYY, Mostovoy Y, Holloway AK, Iannucci A, Mak ACY, Fondi M, Orlandini V, Eckalbar WL, Milan M, Rovatsos M, Kichigin IG, Makunin AI, Johnson Pokorná M, Altmanová M, Trifonov VA, Schijlen E, Kratochvíl L, Fani R, Velenský P, Rehák I, Patarnello T, Jessop TS, Hicks JW, Ryder OA, Mendelson JR, Ciofi C, Kwok PY, Pollard KS, Bruneau BG. Genome of the Komodo dragon reveals adaptations in the cardiovascular and chemosensory systems of monitor lizards. 2019. PMID: 31358948


  35. Hota SK, Johnson JR, Verschueren E, Thomas R, Blotnick AM, Zhu Y, Sun X, Pennacchio LA, Krogan NJ, Bruneau BG. Dynamic BAF chromatin remodeling complex subunit inclusion promotes temporally distinct gene expression programs in cardiogenesis. 2019. PMID: 30814119


  36. Samee MAH, Bruneau BG, Pollard KS. A De Novo Shape Motif Discovery Algorithm Reveals Preferences of Transcription Factors for DNA Shape Beyond Sequence Motifs. 2019. PMID: 30660610


  37. Sima J, Chakraborty A, Dileep V, Michalski M, Klein KN, Holcomb NP, Turner JL, Paulsen MT, Rivera-Mulia JC, Trevilla-Garcia C, Bartlett DA, Zhao PA, Washburn BK, Nora EP, Kraft K, Mundlos S, Bruneau BG, Ljungman M, Fraser P, Ay F, Gilbert DM. Identifying cis Elements for Spatiotemporal Control of Mammalian DNA Replication. 2018. PMID: 30595451


  38. Yuan X, Song M, Devine P, Bruneau BG, Scott IC, Wilson MD. Heart enhancers with deeply conserved regulatory activity are established early in zebrafish development. 2018. PMID: 30478328


  39. Bruneau BG, Nora EP. Chromatin Domains Go on Repeat in Disease. 2018. PMID: 30241613


  40. Herman AM, Rhyner AM, Devine WP, Marrelli SP, Bruneau BG, Wythe JD. A novel reporter allele for monitoring Dll4 expression within the embryonic and adult mouse. 2018. PMID: 29437553


  41. Sun X, Hota SK, Zhou YQ, Novak S, Miguel-Perez D, Christodoulou D, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Gregorio CC, Henkelman RM, Rossant J, Bruneau BG. Cardiac-enriched BAF chromatin-remodeling complex subunit Baf60c regulates gene expression programs essential for heart development and function. 2018. PMID: 29183906


  42. Nora EP, Goloborodko A, Valton AL, Gibcus JH, Uebersohn A, Abdennur N, Dekker J, Mirny LA, Bruneau BG. Targeted Degradation of CTCF Decouples Local Insulation of Chromosome Domains from Genomic Compartmentalization. 2017. PMID: 28525758


  43. Anderson CM, Hu J, Thomas R, Gainous TB, Celona B, Sinha T, Dickel DE, Heidt AB, Xu SM, Bruneau BG, Pollard KS, Pennacchio LA, Black BL. Cooperative activation of cardiac transcription through myocardin bridging of paired MEF2 sites. 2017. PMID: 28351867


  44. DeLaughter DM, Bick AG, Wakimoto H, McKean D, Gorham JM, Kathiriya IS, Hinson JT, Homsy J, Gray J, Pu W, Bruneau BG, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Single-Cell Resolution of Temporal Gene Expression during Heart Development. 2016. PMID: 27840107


  45. Hota SK, Bruneau BG. ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling during mammalian development. 2016. PMID: 27531948


  46. Cain CJ, Gaborit N, Lwin W, Barruet E, Ho S, Bonnard C, Hamamy H, Shboul M, Reversade B, Kayserili H, Bruneau BG, Hsiao EC. Loss of Iroquois homeobox transcription factors 3 and 5 in osteoblasts disrupts cranial mineralization. 2016. PMID: 27453922


  47. Zhang Y, Cao N, Huang Y, Spencer CI, Fu JD, Yu C, Liu K, Nie B, Xu T, Li K, Xu S, Bruneau BG, Srivastava D, Ding S. Expandable Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells Reprogrammed from Fibroblasts. Cell stem cell 2016. PMID: 26942852


  48. Ang SY, Uebersohn A, Spencer CI, Huang Y, Lee JE, Ge K, Bruneau BG. KMT2D regulates specific programs in heart development via histone H3 lysine 4 di-methylation. 2016. PMID: 26932671


  49. Luna-Zurita L, Stirnimann CU, Glatt S, Kaynak BL, Thomas S, Baudin F, Samee MA, He D, Small EM, Mileikovsky M, Nagy A, Holloway AK, Pollard KS, Müller CW, Bruneau BG. Complex Interdependence Regulates Heterotypic Transcription Factor Distribution and Coordinates Cardiogenesis. 2016. PMID: 26875865


  50. Holloway AK, Bruneau BG, Sukonnik T, Rubenstein JL, Pollard KS. Accelerated Evolution of Enhancer Hotspots in the Mammal Ancestor. 2015. PMID: 26715627


  51. Morey L, Santanach A, Blanco E, Aloia L, Nora EP, Bruneau BG, Di Croce L. Polycomb Regulates Mesoderm Cell Fate-Specification in Embryonic Stem Cells through Activation and Repression Mechanisms. 2015. PMID: 26340528


  52. Alexander JM, Hota SK, He D, Thomas S, Ho L, Pennacchio LA, Bruneau BG. Brg1 modulates enhancer activation in mesoderm lineage commitment. 2015. PMID: 25813539


  53. Theodoris CV, Li M, White MP, Liu L, He D, Pollard KS, Bruneau BG, Srivastava D. Human disease modeling reveals integrated transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of NOTCH1 haploinsufficiency. Cell 2015. PMID: 25768904


  54. Simonti CN, Pollard KS, Schröder S, He D, Bruneau BG, Ott M, Capra JA. Evolution of lysine acetylation in the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain. 2015. PMID: 25887984


  55. Kathiriya IS, Nora EP, Bruneau BG. Investigating the transcriptional control of cardiovascular development. 2015. PMID: 25677518


  56. Pourquié O, Bruneau B, Keller G, Smith A. Looking inwards: opening a window onto human development. 2015. PMID: 25516961


  57. Delgado-Olguín P, Dang LT, He D, Thomas S, Chi L, Sukonnik T, Khyzha N, Dobenecker MW, Fish JE, Bruneau BG. Ezh2-mediated repression of a transcriptional pathway upstream of Mmp9 maintains integrity of the developing vasculature. 2014. PMID: 25359725


  58. Devine WP, Wythe JD, George M, Koshiba-Takeuchi K, Bruneau BG. Early patterning and specification of cardiac progenitors in gastrulating mesoderm. 2014. PMID: 25296024


  59. Bruneau BG. Finding a niche for cardiac precursors. 2014. PMID: 24843033


  60. Saccone V, Consalvi S, Giordani L, Mozzetta C, Barozzi I, Sandoná M, Ryan T, Rojas-Muñoz A, Madaro L, Fasanaro P, Borsellino G, De Bardi M, Frigè G, Termanini A, Sun X, Rossant J, Bruneau BG, Mercola M, Minucci S, Puri PL. HDAC-regulated myomiRs control BAF60 variant exchange and direct the functional phenotype of fibro-adipogenic progenitors in dystrophic muscles. 2014. PMID: 24682306


  61. Dickel DE, Zhu Y, Nord AS, Wylie JN, Akiyama JA, Afzal V, Plajzer-Frick I, Kirkpatrick A, Göttgens B, Bruneau BG, Visel A, Pennacchio LA. Function-based identification of mammalian enhancers using site-specific integration. 2014. PMID: 24658141


  62. Bruneau BG, Srivastava D. Congenital heart disease: entering a new era of human genetics. Circulation research 2014. PMID: 24526674


  63. Schröder S, Herker E, Itzen F, He D, Thomas S, Gilchrist DA, Kaehlcke K, Cho S, Pollard KS, Capra JA, Schnölzer M, Cole PA, Geyer M, Bruneau BG, Adelman K, Ott M. Acetylation of RNA polymerase II regulates growth-factor-induced gene transcription in mammalian cells. 2013. PMID: 24207025


  64. Bruneau B. An interview with Benoit Bruneau. 2013. PMID: 24194468


  65. Luna-Zurita L, Bruneau BG. Chromatin modulators as facilitating factors in cellular reprogramming. 2013. PMID: 23993229


  66. Fu JD, Stone NR, Liu L, Spencer CI, Qian L, Hayashi Y, Delgado-Olguin P, Ding S, Bruneau BG, Srivastava D. Direct reprogramming of human fibroblasts toward a cardiomyocyte-like state. Stem cell reports 2013. PMID: 24319660


  67. Kelsey L, Flenniken AM, Qu D, Funnell AP, Pearson R, Zhou YQ, Voronina I, Berberovic Z, Wood G, Newbigging S, Weiss ES, Wong M, Quach I, Yeh SY, Deshwar AR, Scott IC, McKerlie C, Henkelman M, Backx P, Simpson J, Osborne L, Rossant J, Crossley M, Bruneau B, Adamson SL. ENU-induced mutation in the DNA-binding domain of KLF3 reveals important roles for KLF3 in cardiovascular development and function in mice. 2013. PMID: 23874215


  68. Wythe JD, Dang LT, Devine WP, Boudreau E, Artap ST, He D, Schachterle W, Stainier DY, Oettgen P, Black BL, Bruneau BG, Fish JE. ETS factors regulate Vegf-dependent arterial specification. 2013. PMID: 23830865


  69. Pourquié O, Bruneau B, Götz M, Keller G, Smith A. Stem cells and regeneration: a special issue. 2013. PMID: 23715535


  70. Shaffer HB, Minx P, Warren DE, Shedlock AM, Thomson RC, Valenzuela N, Abramyan J, Amemiya CT, Badenhorst D, Biggar KK, Borchert GM, Botka CW, Bowden RM, Braun EL, Bronikowski AM, Bruneau BG, Buck LT, Capel B, Castoe TA, Czerwinski M, Delehaunty KD, Edwards SV, Fronick CC, Fujita MK, Fulton L, Graves TA, Green RE, Haerty W, Hariharan R, Hernandez O, Hillier LW, Holloway AK, Janes D, Janzen FJ, Kandoth C, Kong L, de Koning AP, Li Y, Literman R, McGaugh SE, Mork L, O'Laughlin M, Paitz RT, Pollock DD, Ponting CP, Radhakrishnan S, Raney BJ, Richman JM, St John J, Schwartz T, Sethuraman A, Spinks PQ, Storey KB, Thane N, Vinar T, Zimmerman LM, Warren WC, Mardis ER, Wilson RK. The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. 2013. PMID: 23537068


  71. Bruneau BG. Signaling and transcriptional networks in heart development and regeneration. 2013. PMID: 23457256


  72. Star EN, Zhu M, Shi Z, Liu H, Pashmforoush M, Sauve Y, Bruneau BG, Chow RL. Regulation of retinal interneuron subtype identity by the Iroquois homeobox gene Irx6. 2012. PMID: 23172916


  73. Gaborit N, Sakuma R, Wylie JN, Kim KH, Zhang SS, Hui CC, Bruneau BG. Cooperative and antagonistic roles for Irx3 and Irx5 in cardiac morphogenesis and postnatal physiology. 2012. PMID: 22992950


  74. Wamstad JA, Alexander JM, Truty RM, Shrikumar A, Li F, Eilertson KE, Ding H, Wylie JN, Pico AR, Capra JA, Erwin G, Kattman SJ, Keller GM, Srivastava D, Levine SS, Pollard KS, Holloway AK, Boyer LA, Bruneau BG. Dynamic and coordinated epigenetic regulation of developmental transitions in the cardiac lineage. Cell 2012. PMID: 22981692


  75. Kim KH, Rosen A, Bruneau BG, Hui CC, Backx PH. Iroquois homeodomain transcription factors in heart development and function. 2012. PMID: 22628575


  76. Delgado-Olguín P, Huang Y, Li X, Christodoulou D, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Tarakhovsky A, Bruneau BG. Epigenetic repression of cardiac progenitor gene expression by Ezh2 is required for postnatal cardiac homeostasis. 2012. PMID: 22267199


  77. Chang CP, Bruneau BG. Epigenetics and cardiovascular development. 2011. PMID: 22035349


  78. Zhang SS, Kim KH, Rosen A, Smyth JW, Sakuma R, Delgado-Olguín P, Davis M, Chi NC, Puviindran V, Gaborit N, Sukonnik T, Wylie JN, Brand-Arzamendi K, Farman GP, Kim J, Rose RA, Marsden PA, Zhu Y, Zhou YQ, Miquerol L, Henkelman RM, Stainier DY, Shaw RM, Hui CC, Bruneau BG, Backx PH. Iroquois homeobox gene 3 establishes fast conduction in the cardiac His-Purkinje network. 2011. PMID: 21825130


  79. Bruneau BG. Atrial natriuretic factor in the developing heart: a signpost for cardiac morphogenesis. 2011. PMID: 21806510


  80. Wyngaarden LA, Delgado-Olguin P, Su IH, Bruneau BG, Hopyan S. Ezh2 regulates anteroposterior axis specification and proximodistal axis elongation in the developing limb. 2011. PMID: 21795281


  81. Qian L, Wythe JD, Liu J, Cartry J, Vogler G, Mohapatra B, Otway RT, Huang Y, King IN, Maillet M, Zheng Y, Crawley T, Taghli-Lamallem O, Semsarian C, Dunwoodie S, Winlaw D, Harvey RP, Fatkin D, Towbin JA, Molkentin JD, Srivastava D, Ocorr K, Bruneau BG, Bodmer R. Tinman/Nkx2-5 acts via miR-1 and upstream of Cdc42 to regulate heart function across species. The Journal of cell biology 2011. PMID: 21690310


  82. Fish JE, Wythe JD, Xiao T, Bruneau BG, Stainier DY, Srivastava D, Woo S. A Slit/miR-218/Robo regulatory loop is required during heart tube formation in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England) 2011. PMID: 21385766


  83. Takeuchi JK, Lou X, Alexander JM, Sugizaki H, Delgado-Olguín P, Holloway AK, Mori AD, Wylie JN, Munson C, Zhu Y, Zhou YQ, Yeh RF, Henkelman RM, Harvey RP, Metzger D, Chambon P, Stainier DY, Pollard KS, Scott IC, Bruneau BG. Chromatin remodelling complex dosage modulates transcription factor function in heart development. 2011. PMID: 21304516


  84. Delgado-Olguín P, Brand-Arzamendi K, Scott IC, Jungblut B, Stainier DY, Bruneau BG, Recillas-Targa F. CTCF promotes muscle differentiation by modulating the activity of myogenic regulatory factors. 2011. PMID: 21288905


  85. Nadeau M, Georges RO, Laforest B, Yamak A, Lefebvre C, Beauregard J, Paradis P, Bruneau BG, Andelfinger G, Nemer M. An endocardial pathway involving Tbx5, Gata4, and Nos3 required for atrial septum formation. 2010. PMID: 20974940


  86. Puskaric S, Schmitteckert S, Mori AD, Glaser A, Schneider KU, Bruneau BG, Blaschke RJ, Steinbeisser H, Rappold G. Shox2 mediates Tbx5 activity by regulating Bmp4 in the pacemaker region of the developing heart. 2010. PMID: 20858598


  87. Bruneau BG. Chromatin remodeling in heart development. 2010. PMID: 20702085


  88. Ieda M, Fu JD, Delgado-Olguin P, Vedantham V, Hayashi Y, Bruneau BG, Srivastava D. Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into functional cardiomyocytes by defined factors. Cell 2010. PMID: 20691899


  89. Bruneau BG. Epigenetic regulation of the cardiovascular system: introduction to a review series. 2010. PMID: 20689071


  90. Alexander JM, Bruneau BG. Lessons for cardiac regeneration and repair through development. 2010. PMID: 20692205


  91. Kuo YM, Li Z, Jiao Y, Gaborit N, Pani AK, Orrison BM, Bruneau BG, Giasson BI, Smeyne RJ, Gershon MD, Nussbaum RL. Extensive enteric nervous system abnormalities in mice transgenic for artificial chromosomes containing Parkinson disease-associated alpha-synuclein gene mutations precede central nervous system changes. 2010. PMID: 20106867


  92. Fouladkou F, Lu C, Jiang C, Zhou L, She Y, Walls JR, Kawabe H, Brose N, Henkelman RM, Huang A, Bruneau BG, Rotin D. The ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-1 is required for heart development and is a suppressor of thrombospondin-1. 2009. PMID: 20026598


  93. Koshiba-Takeuchi K, Mori AD, Kaynak BL, Cebra-Thomas J, Sukonnik T, Georges RO, Latham S, Beck L, Beck L, Henkelman RM, Black BL, Olson EN, Wade J, Takeuchi JK, Nemer M, Gilbert SF, Bruneau BG. Reptilian heart development and the molecular basis of cardiac chamber evolution. 2009. PMID: 19727199


  94. Riazi AM, Takeuchi JK, Hornberger LK, Zaidi SH, Amini F, Coles J, Bruneau BG, Van Arsdell GS. NKX2-5 regulates the expression of beta-catenin and GATA4 in ventricular myocytes. 2009. PMID: 19479054


  95. Takeuchi JK, Bruneau BG. Directed transdifferentiation of mouse mesoderm to heart tissue by defined factors. 2009. PMID: 19396158


  96. Ellis J, Bruneau BG, Keller G, Lemischka IR, Nagy A, Rossant J, Srivastava D, Zandstra PW, Stanford WL. Alternative induced pluripotent stem cell characterization criteria for in vitro applications. Cell stem cell 2009. PMID: 19265656


  97. Deleuze S, Dubois CS, Caillaud M, Bruneau B, Goudet G, Duchamp G. Influence of cysteamine on in vitro maturation, in vitro and in vivo fertilization of equine oocytes. 2008. PMID: 18992121


  98. Fish JE, Santoro MM, Morton SU, Yu S, Yeh RF, Wythe JD, Ivey KN, Bruneau BG, Stainier DY, Srivastava D. miR-126 regulates angiogenic signaling and vascular integrity. Developmental cell 2008. PMID: 18694566


  99. Zhu Y, Gramolini AO, Walsh MA, Zhou YQ, Slorach C, Friedberg MK, Takeuchi JK, Sun H, Henkelman RM, Backx PH, Redington AN, Maclennan DH, Bruneau BG. Tbx5-dependent pathway regulating diastolic function in congenital heart disease. 2008. PMID: 18378906


  100. Bruneau BG. The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease. 2008. PMID: 18288184


  101. Feintuch A, Zhu Y, Bishop J, Davidson L, Dazai J, Bruneau BG, Henkelman RM. 4D cardiac MRI in the mouse. 2007. PMID: 17451168


  102. Bruneau BG, Black BL. The heart's Da Vinci code: a Renaissance at Keystone. 2007. PMID: 17395645


  103. Takeuchi JK, Lickert H, Bisgrove BW, Sun X, Yamamoto M, Chawengsaksophak K, Hamada H, Yost HJ, Rossant J, Bruneau BG. Baf60c is a nuclear Notch signaling component required for the establishment of left-right asymmetry. 2007. PMID: 17210915


  104. Takeuchi JK, Bruneau BG. Irxl1, a divergent Iroquois homeobox family transcription factor gene. 2006. PMID: 16824806


  105. Mori AD, Zhu Y, Vahora I, Nieman B, Koshiba-Takeuchi K, Davidson L, Pizard A, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Chen XJ, Henkelman RM, Bruneau BG. Tbx5-dependent rheostatic control of cardiac gene expression and morphogenesis. 2006. PMID: 16870172


  106. Delgado-Olguín P, Takeuchi JK, Bruneau BG. Chromatin modification and remodeling in heart development. 2006. PMID: 17205192


  107. Bruneau BG. [Irx5: a transcription factor that regulates the cardiac repolarization gradient]. 2006. PMID: 16527195


  108. Koshiba-Takeuchi K, Takeuchi JK, Arruda EP, Kathiriya IS, Mo R, Hui CC, Srivastava D, Bruneau BG. Cooperative and antagonistic interactions between Sall4 and Tbx5 pattern the mouse limb and heart. Nature genetics 2005. PMID: 16380715


  109. Costantini DL, Arruda EP, Agarwal P, Kim KH, Zhu Y, Zhu W, Lebel M, Cheng CW, Park CY, Pierce SA, Guerchicoff A, Pollevick GD, Chan TY, Kabir MG, Cheng SH, Husain M, Antzelevitch C, Srivastava D, Gross GJ, Hui CC, Backx PH, Bruneau BG. The homeodomain transcription factor Irx5 establishes the mouse cardiac ventricular repolarization gradient. Cell 2005. PMID: 16239150


  110. Flenniken AM, Osborne LR, Anderson N, Ciliberti N, Fleming C, Gittens JE, Gong XQ, Kelsey LB, Lounsbury C, Moreno L, Nieman BJ, Peterson K, Qu D, Roscoe W, Shao Q, Tong D, Veitch GI, Voronina I, Vukobradovic I, Wood GA, Zhu Y, Zirngibl RA, Aubin JE, Bai D, Bruneau BG, Grynpas M, Henderson JE, Henkelman RM, McKerlie C, Sled JG, Stanford WL, Laird DW, Kidder GM, Adamson SL, Rossant J. A Gja1 missense mutation in a mouse model of oculodentodigital dysplasia. 2005. PMID: 16155213


  111. Cheng CW, Chow RL, Lebel M, Sakuma R, Cheung HO, Thanabalasingham V, Zhang X, Bruneau BG, Birch DG, Hui CC, McInnes RR, Cheng SH. The Iroquois homeobox gene, Irx5, is required for retinal cone bipolar cell development. 2005. PMID: 16182275


  112. Frey BJ, Mohammad N, Morris QD, Zhang W, Robinson MD, Mnaimneh S, Chang R, Pan Q, Sat E, Rossant J, Bruneau BG, Aubin JE, Blencowe BJ, Hughes TR. Genome-wide analysis of mouse transcripts using exon microarrays and factor graphs. 2005. PMID: 16127451


  113. Bruneau BG. Developmental biology: tiny brakes for a growing heart. 2005. PMID: 16015310


  114. Pizard A, Burgon PG, Paul DL, Bruneau BG, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Connexin 40, a target of transcription factor Tbx5, patterns wrist, digits, and sternum. 2005. PMID: 15923624


  115. Zhou YQ, Zhu Y, Bishop J, Davidson L, Henkelman RM, Bruneau BG, Foster FS. Abnormal cardiac inflow patterns during postnatal development in a mouse model of Holt-Oram syndrome. 2005. PMID: 15849237


  116. Takeuchi JK, Mileikovskaia M, Koshiba-Takeuchi K, Heidt AB, Mori AD, Arruda EP, Gertsenstein M, Georges R, Davidson L, Mo R, Hui CC, Henkelman RM, Nemer M, Black BL, Nagy A, Bruneau BG. Tbx20 dose-dependently regulates transcription factor networks required for mouse heart and motoneuron development. 2005. PMID: 15843409


  117. Barron MR, Belaguli NS, Zhang SX, Trinh M, Iyer D, Merlo X, Lough JW, Parmacek MS, Bruneau BG, Schwartz RJ. Serum response factor, an enriched cardiac mesoderm obligatory factor, is a downstream gene target for Tbx genes. 2004. PMID: 15591049


  118. Zhang W, Morris QD, Chang R, Shai O, Bakowski MA, Mitsakakis N, Mohammad N, Robinson MD, Zirngibl R, Somogyi E, Laurin N, Eftekharpour E, Sat E, Grigull J, Pan Q, Peng WT, Krogan N, Greenblatt J, Fehlings M, van der Kooy D, Aubin J, Bruneau BG, Rossant J, Blencowe BJ, Frey BJ, Hughes TR. The functional landscape of mouse gene expression. 2004. PMID: 15588312


  119. Lickert H, Takeuchi JK, Von Both I, Walls JR, McAuliffe F, Adamson SL, Henkelman RM, Wrana JL, Rossant J, Bruneau BG. Baf60c is essential for function of BAF chromatin remodelling complexes in heart development. 2004. PMID: 15525990


  120. McPherson JP, Tamblyn L, Elia A, Migon E, Shehabeldin A, Matysiak-Zablocki E, Lemmers B, Salmena L, Hakem A, Fish J, Kassam F, Squire J, Bruneau BG, Hande MP, Hakem R. Lats2/Kpm is required for embryonic development, proliferation control and genomic integrity. 2004. PMID: 15343267


  121. Moskowitz IP, Pizard A, Patel VV, Bruneau BG, Kim JB, Kupershmidt S, Roden D, Berul CI, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. The T-Box transcription factor Tbx5 is required for the patterning and maturation of the murine cardiac conduction system. 2004. PMID: 15289437


  122. Xu H, Morishima M, Wylie JN, Schwartz RJ, Bruneau BG, Lindsay EA, Baldini A. Tbx1 has a dual role in the morphogenesis of the cardiac outflow tract. 2004. PMID: 15175244


  123. Mori AD, Bruneau BG. TBX5 mutations and congenital heart disease: Holt-Oram syndrome revealed. 2004. PMID: 15096952


  124. Lebel M, Agarwal P, Cheng CW, Kabir MG, Chan TY, Thanabalasingham V, Zhang X, Cohen DR, Husain M, Cheng SH, Bruneau BG, Hui CC. The Iroquois homeobox gene Irx2 is not essential for normal development of the heart and midbrain-hindbrain boundary in mice. 2003. PMID: 14585979


  125. Stennard FA, Costa MW, Elliott DA, Rankin S, Haast SJ, Lai D, McDonald LP, Niederreither K, Dolle P, Bruneau BG, Zorn AM, Harvey RP. Cardiac T-box factor Tbx20 directly interacts with Nkx2-5, GATA4, and GATA5 in regulation of gene expression in the developing heart. 2003. PMID: 14550786


  126. Rallis C, Bruneau BG, Del Buono J, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Nissim S, Tabin CJ, Logan MP. Tbx5 is required for forelimb bud formation and continued outgrowth. 2003. PMID: 12736217


  127. Bruneau BG. The developing heart and congenital heart defects: a make or break situation. 2003. PMID: 12702154


  128. Agarwal P, Wylie JN, Galceran J, Arkhitko O, Li C, Deng C, Grosschedl R, Bruneau BG. Tbx5 is essential for forelimb bud initiation following patterning of the limb field in the mouse embryo. 2003. PMID: 12490567


  129. Bruneau BG. Transcriptional regulation of vertebrate cardiac morphogenesis. 2002. PMID: 11909814


  130. Bruneau BG, Nemer G, Schmitt JP, Charron F, Robitaille L, Caron S, Conner DA, Gessler M, Nemer M, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. A murine model of Holt-Oram syndrome defines roles of the T-box transcription factor Tbx5 in cardiogenesis and disease. Cell 2001. PMID: 11572777


  131. Bruneau BG, Bao ZZ, Fatkin D, Xavier-Neto J, Georgakopoulos D, Maguire CT, Berul CI, Kass DA, Kuroski-de Bold ML, de Bold AJ, Conner DA, Rosenthal N, Cepko CL, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Cardiomyopathy in Irx4-deficient mice is preceded by abnormal ventricular gene expression. 2001. PMID: 11238910


  132. Bruneau BG, Bao ZZ, Tanaka M, Schott JJ, Izumo S, Cepko CL, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Cardiac expression of the ventricle-specific homeobox gene Irx4 is modulated by Nkx2-5 and dHand. 2000. PMID: 10625552


  133. Bruneau BG, Logan M, Davis N, Levi T, Tabin CJ, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Chamber-specific cardiac expression of Tbx5 and heart defects in Holt-Oram syndrome. 1999. PMID: 10373308


  134. Ogawa T, Vatta M, Bruneau BG, de Bold AJ. Characterization of natriuretic peptide production by adult heart atria. 1999. PMID: 10362678


  135. Bao ZZ, Bruneau BG, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Cepko CL. Regulation of chamber-specific gene expression in the developing heart by Irx4. 1999. PMID: 10024241


  136. Bruneau BG, Piazza LA, de Bold AJ. BNP gene expression is specifically modulated by stretch and ET-1 in a new model of isolated rat atria. 1997. PMID: 9435604


  137. Ogawa T, Bruneau BG, Yokota N, de Bold ML, de Bold AJ. Tissue-specific regulation of renal and cardiac atrial natriuretic factor gene expression in deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt rats. 1997. PMID: 9403551


  138. Bamshad M, Lin RC, Law DJ, Watkins WC, Krakowiak PA, Moore ME, Franceschini P, Lala R, Holmes LB, Gebuhr TC, Bruneau BG, Schinzel A, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Jorde LB. Mutations in human TBX3 alter limb, apocrine and genital development in ulnar-mammary syndrome. 1997. PMID: 9207801


  139. Ogawa T, Linz W, Stevenson M, Bruneau BG, Kuroski de Bold ML, Chen JH, Eid H, Schölkens BA, de Bold AJ. Evidence for load-dependent and load-independent determinants of cardiac natriuretic peptide production. 1996. PMID: 8640983


  140. Bruneau BG, Piazza LA, de Bold AJ. Alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation of isolated rat atria results in discoordinate increases in natriuretic peptide secretion and gene expression and enhances Egr-1 and c-Myc expression. 1996. PMID: 8536605


  141. de Bold AJ, Bruneau BG, Kuroski de Bold ML. Mechanical and neuroendocrine regulation of the endocrine heart. 1996. PMID: 8849584


  142. Yokota N, Bruneau BG, Fernandez BE, de Bold ML, Piazza LA, Eid H, de Bold AJ. Dissociation of cardiac hypertrophy, myosin heavy chain isoform expression, and natriuretic peptide production in DOCA-salt rats. 1995. PMID: 7540847


  143. Yokota N, Bruneau BG, Kuroski de Bold ML, de Bold AJ. Atrial natriuretic factor significantly contributes to the mineralocorticoid escape phenomenon. Evidence for a guanylate cyclase-mediated pathway. 1994. PMID: 7962539


  144. Bruneau BG, de Bold AJ. Selective changes in natriuretic peptide and early response gene expression in isolated rat atria following stimulation by stretch or endothelin-1. 1994. PMID: 8001040