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ArticleiScience2020

Foxh1/Nodal Defines Context-Specific Direct Maternal Wnt/β-Catenin Target Gene Regulation in Early Development.

Boni A Afouda, Yukio Nakamura, Sophie Shaw, Rebekah M Charney, Kitt D Paraiso, Ira L Blitz, Ken W Y Cho, Stefan Hoppler

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Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Boni A AfoudaInstitute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill Health Campus, University of Aberdeen, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD Scotland, UK.
Yukio NakamuraInstitute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill Health Campus, University of Aberdeen, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD Scotland, UK.
Sophie ShawCentre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine, Old Aberdeen Campus, University of Aberdeen, ABERDEEN AB24 2FX Scotland, UK.
Rebekah M CharneyDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Kitt D ParaisoDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Ira L BlitzDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Ken W Y ChoDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Stefan HopplerInstitute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill Health Campus, University of Aberdeen, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD Scotland, UK. Electronic address: s.p.hoppler@abdn.ac.uk.
University of Aberdeen · GBUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Zygotic Genome Activation by Maternal Transcription Factors and Epigenetic ModifiersR35GM139617 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Ken W.Y. Cho · 2021 to 2026
$2.6M
Mechanisms of Foxh1 pioneer factor action during mesendoderm developmentR01GM126395 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI CHO, KEN W.Y. · 2017 to 2020
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126395NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM139617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Wnt/β-catenin signaling is generally conserved and well understood, the regulatory mechanisms controlling context-specific direct Wnt target gene expression in development and disease are still unclear. The onset of zygotic gene transcription in early embryogenesis represents an ideal, accessible experimental system to investigate context-specific direct Wnt target gene regulation. We combine transcriptomics using RNA-seq with genome-wide β-catenin association using ChIP-seq to identify stage-specific direct Wnt target genes. We propose coherent feedforward regulation involving two distinct classes of direct maternal Wnt target genes, which differ both in expression and persistence of β-catenin association. We discover that genomic β-catenin association overlaps with Foxh1-associated regulatory sequences and demonstrate that direct maternal Wnt target gene expression requires Foxh1 function and Nodal/Tgfβ signaling. Our results support a new paradigm for direct Wnt target gene co-regulation with context-specific mechanisms that will inform future studies of embryonic development and more widely stem cell-mediated homeostasis and human disease.

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PMID32650116
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