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Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network
Lineage specification is governed by gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that integrate the activity of signaling effectors and transcription factors (TFs) on enhancers. Sox17 is a key transcriptional regulator of definitive endoderm development, and yet, its genomic targets remain largely uncharacteriz...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894225 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58029 |
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author | Mukherjee, Shreyasi Chaturvedi, Praneet Rankin, Scott A Fish, Margaret B Wlizla, Marcin Paraiso, Kitt D MacDonald, Melissa Chen, Xiaoting Weirauch, Matthew T Blitz, Ira L Cho, Ken WY Zorn, Aaron M |
author_facet | Mukherjee, Shreyasi Chaturvedi, Praneet Rankin, Scott A Fish, Margaret B Wlizla, Marcin Paraiso, Kitt D MacDonald, Melissa Chen, Xiaoting Weirauch, Matthew T Blitz, Ira L Cho, Ken WY Zorn, Aaron M |
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description | Lineage specification is governed by gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that integrate the activity of signaling effectors and transcription factors (TFs) on enhancers. Sox17 is a key transcriptional regulator of definitive endoderm development, and yet, its genomic targets remain largely uncharacterized. Here, using genomic approaches and epistasis experiments, we define the Sox17-governed endoderm GRN in Xenopus gastrulae. We show that Sox17 functionally interacts with the canonical Wnt pathway to specify and pattern the endoderm while repressing alternative mesectoderm fates. Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy hundreds of key enhancers. In some cases, Sox17 and β-catenin synergistically activate transcription apparently independent of Tcfs, whereas on other enhancers, Sox17 represses β-catenin/Tcf-mediated transcription to spatially restrict gene expression domains. Our findings establish Sox17 as a tissue-specific modifier of Wnt responses and point to a novel paradigm where genomic specificity of Wnt/β-catenin transcription is determined through functional interactions between lineage-specific Sox TFs and β-catenin/Tcf transcriptional complexes. Given the ubiquitous nature of Sox TFs and Wnt signaling, this mechanism has important implications across a diverse range of developmental and disease contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-74982622020-09-21 Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network Mukherjee, Shreyasi Chaturvedi, Praneet Rankin, Scott A Fish, Margaret B Wlizla, Marcin Paraiso, Kitt D MacDonald, Melissa Chen, Xiaoting Weirauch, Matthew T Blitz, Ira L Cho, Ken WY Zorn, Aaron M eLife Developmental Biology Lineage specification is governed by gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that integrate the activity of signaling effectors and transcription factors (TFs) on enhancers. Sox17 is a key transcriptional regulator of definitive endoderm development, and yet, its genomic targets remain largely uncharacterized. Here, using genomic approaches and epistasis experiments, we define the Sox17-governed endoderm GRN in Xenopus gastrulae. We show that Sox17 functionally interacts with the canonical Wnt pathway to specify and pattern the endoderm while repressing alternative mesectoderm fates. Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy hundreds of key enhancers. In some cases, Sox17 and β-catenin synergistically activate transcription apparently independent of Tcfs, whereas on other enhancers, Sox17 represses β-catenin/Tcf-mediated transcription to spatially restrict gene expression domains. Our findings establish Sox17 as a tissue-specific modifier of Wnt responses and point to a novel paradigm where genomic specificity of Wnt/β-catenin transcription is determined through functional interactions between lineage-specific Sox TFs and β-catenin/Tcf transcriptional complexes. Given the ubiquitous nature of Sox TFs and Wnt signaling, this mechanism has important implications across a diverse range of developmental and disease contexts. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7498262/ /pubmed/32894225 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58029 Text en © 2020, Mukherjee et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Developmental Biology Mukherjee, Shreyasi Chaturvedi, Praneet Rankin, Scott A Fish, Margaret B Wlizla, Marcin Paraiso, Kitt D MacDonald, Melissa Chen, Xiaoting Weirauch, Matthew T Blitz, Ira L Cho, Ken WY Zorn, Aaron M Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
title | Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
title_full | Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
title_fullStr | Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
title_full_unstemmed | Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
title_short | Sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy Wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
title_sort | sox17 and β-catenin co-occupy wnt-responsive enhancers to govern the endoderm gene regulatory network |
topic | Developmental Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894225 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58029 |
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