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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2020

The transcription factor E2A drives neural differentiation in pluripotent cells.

Chandrika Rao, Mattias Malaguti, John O Mason, Sally Lowell

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chandrika RaoMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 5 Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5772-6772
Mattias MalagutiMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 5 Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4392-7183
John O MasonCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0489-2400
Sally LowellMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 5 Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, UK sally.lowell@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-4018-9480
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K501293/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 108906/Z/15/ZWellcome Trust WT103789AIA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intrinsic mechanisms that link extracellular signalling to the onset of neural differentiation are not well understood. In pluripotent mouse cells, BMP blocks entry into the neural lineage via transcriptional upregulation of inhibitor of differentiation (Id) factors. We have previously identified the major binding partner of Id proteins in pluripotent cells as the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor (TF) E2A. Id1 can prevent E2A from forming heterodimers with bHLH TFs or from forming homodimers. Here, we show that overexpression of a forced E2A homodimer is sufficient to drive robust neural commitment in pluripotent cells, even under non-permissive conditions. Conversely, we find that E2A null cells display a defect in their neural differentiation capacity. E2A acts as an upstream activator of neural lineage genes, including

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Cell Differentiation3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCell LineageCell Self RenewalCRISPR-Cas SystemsDimerizationMiceMouse Embryonic Stem CellsNeuronsOctamer Transcription Factor-3RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsSOXB1 Transcription FactorsTranscriptomeUp-Regulation3' Untranslated RegionsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsOctamer Transcription Factor-3Pou5f1 protein, mouseRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsSox2 protein, mouseSOXB1 Transcription FactorsTcf12 protein, mouseTcf3 protein, mouseBHLHE2ANeural developmentPluripotent

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PMID32487737
PMCPMC7328008
OpenAlexW3030849369

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